Thank you for that.
I have the study here. They collected all kinds of information, including the genetic variations in the bug. That sounds like research to me. So saying that it's not set up for research.... I think it shouldn't be that hard to collect the data; it's already in the hospital records. It's costing us a lot of money—hundreds of millions of dollars. We're talking about innovation. There ought to be some way of moving forward there.
Dr. Beaudet, there was a change in the mandate of CIHR to reserve some funding for priorities, including those of the Government of Canada. Might this be a place where CIHR might be useful in doing a study to investigate not only that but what the hospital in Quebec's been doing for nine years, giving a potent probiotic 24 hours after they start antibiotic therapy and eliminating C. difficile infections with probiotics? Might that be something CIHR could help with?