Thank you, Chair, and I'd like to thank our witnesses as well for taking the time to be with us today.
I'm going to start with a question for Dr. Rau.
I was very interested when you detailed where we are seeing this kind of resistance in Canada: in ICU burn units, in cystic fibrosis, in oncology. It's mainly in hospital environments.
You also outlined a concern about foreign travel and new Canadians and that maybe there's a risk there. The reason that's interesting to me is that I've heard a lot of criticism that says that the reason we're having antimicrobial resistance has to do with agriculture and farming in Canada. Some farms are organic and aren't giving antibiotics. Other farmers give antibiotics when the animals are sick, and sometimes they give them preventatively.
Can you comment? Is there any truth to the link between farms and agriculture and the AMR that we see now?