Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Cohen, you talked about the capacity of the public or individuals in relation to the private sector and, ultimately, the investment in people on the ground, their skills, their education, their reaction to these things and how that can actually benefit an employer in that relationship.
Could you expand in terms of that model coming out of Germany? Ultimately, people will want to serve their country and serve their communities. That's an incentive on its own, but it cannot be the only incentive. I'll just give a brief example. In my riding, there's a gentleman, a constituent, who wanted to provide service in terms of one of the NGOs. He was unemployed at the time. He could not get EI to cover that leave because EI stipulates in Canada that you have to constantly be looking for work and you have to verify that. That's part of that system. However, he couldn't afford to go without that kind of compensation.
Could you explain how Germany handles that in terms of the model?