I appreciate the question. It's absolutely essential that, when we look at prevention in particular, everything runs through a one health lens. This is not my idea. This is an idea that, as I said, is already residing at Health Canada and Agriculture Canada by way of antimicrobial resistance.
I remember sitting through a World Bank briefing many years ago when Minister Philpott was still in that role. The risk of a superbug was highlighted even at that time. It wasn't just the human toll of a superbug but also the economic toll. We've seen first-hand now, having lived through a pandemic, the risk of these spillover events.
I can use a couple of examples. You can look at antimicrobial resistance. The risk of superbugs is brought on by the poor health of animals and the need for an overreliance on antibiotics. Resistance builds, and then there's a huge risk to humans as a result of initially poor animal health. When you look at the spillover risks that we increasingly face as a matter of climate change and deforestation, or when you look at deforestation, you look at the loss of habitat and the increased interaction, as a result, between animals and humans. There is a major spillover risk. Poor environmental health leads to poor human health and great risks to human health.
All of these things are interconnected. That's the primary focus that we have to hold onto here. Human health, animal health and environmental health are interconnected. To prevent the next pandemic, we have to take one health very seriously.