Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for being here today.
Dr. Njoo, when you opened, you said that AMR is one of the most serious global health threats facing the world today. I find that the more I read about it, the more scared I become. It almost seems that we've had a few decades of effectiveness with antibiotics and that if we don't do something, we may be losing that for future generations being brought up. This is extremely important work that you're doing, and I commend Health Canada and the Public Health Agency and CIHR and everyone here.
I wonder whether I could get an idea of a timeline. I'm a little confused on this framework thing. The Government of Canada released a framework in 2014 and then an action plan in 2015, but my understanding is that there is going to be a pan-Canadian framework on AMR and antimicrobial use by 2017.
Dr. Njoo, do you want to take the lead on this? It's a framework, an action plan, and now we have another framework. What's up there?