I appreciate your question. I actually participated in the World Health Organization vaccine discovery a few years ago, so I'm very familiar with the vaccine development.
What we're asking for is the support that the Public Health Agency has requested from the government, to increase their budget an additional $25 million for their stewardship program. We are supporting the request from the Public Health Agency. As a public health...they can't actually make the request.
Clearly, for the whole field of antimicrobial resistance, it's much, much larger than $25 million. In terms of the federal government, which I started on, with the funding for research, if you look at, from the Canadian research institutes of health, how much of that is for research on antimicrobial resistance, that would be much larger money. So the requests are related, because if you request back to the fundamental review of science, a piece of that will be supporting antimicrobial resistance. It would be interesting to find out how much money currently is being spent on that research and the stewardship.
Totally, the request is to support the Public Health Agency, but antimicrobial resistance is a huge international endeavour.