At the risk of flattering you too much, it's because I think, culturally, there is a special quality about Canada. As I mentioned, I think you're a leader in social responsibility. I think you have intellectual, scientific qualities. You clearly have the commitment to embrace this issue, this problem. You're spending a lot of time on this right now. You're reaching out to different resources now.
I think what's needed to address this is a public-private partnership among the academic community, the scientific community, the commercial enterprises that are involved in this, the food production community, the agricultural community, because it truly is.... This is a very complex issue. Our founder, Dr. Stuart Levy, who I'm sure Dr. Wright must know, wrote a book called The Antibiotic Paradox. This problem is a paradox. Antibiotics are a miracle, but they have caused a crisis. This is a crisis that we're talking about here, and if it's not addressed, it's going to kill us. We'll be in a post-antibiotic era.
One of the problems I'm sure you're all aware of now is that if we solve the problem in North America, we still have to deal with the rest of the world. I mentioned CARB-X earlier. CARB-X is a global initiative. It's not U.S.-centric. It's global. Organizations and companies around the world can participate if they have the right inventions.
With regard to your question, I think Canada is small enough and large enough at the same time to address this effectively. I mentioned Portugal because Portugal is tiny, but it has the equivalent to Health Canada. It has a small, nationalized health system where it's able to identify every single patient in the country, where it can solve HCV—hepatitis C—and eliminate it, effectively.
I know that you all know about its decriminalization of its drug abuse problem, and that's why it essentially doesn't have any addicts anymore. It can take on certain health problems that other countries can't because it has health registries there. Canada is much bigger than Portugal is, but Canada can take on somewhat bigger problems and be a model in a way that other countries can't because the truth is that Canada is more sophisticated than other countries are. Also, I think Canada has a bigger conscience than other countries do, and as I said, Canada is diverse. That diversity doesn't exist in a lot of countries. It's a blessing. It's wonderful. It's magnificent.