Yes.
One very specific one is a great Canadian success story called the digital supercluster. There was a huge announcement in December 2022 by then-minister Champagne about a collaboration with the digital supercluster. If you remember, it involved a significant amount of funding and a Canadian company, Firstline, in the development of a stewardship app that has gone global with respect to the WHO “AWaRe” categorization—access, watch, reserve. It is now on a server. This is a major Canadian contribution to global efforts against AMR.
It has not been advertised well. With some directed funding, this stewardship app looks at the essential medicines that were done by McMaster University for the use of simple agents such as penicillin and others that are less likely to create resistance. In the digital world, some additional contributions of small amounts of money would go a long way. There are more cell phones in the world than there are flush toilets. This would go a long way towards educating the masses and would be a great Canadian G7 contribution.
If there were one thing I could focus on, it would be this “AWaRe” categorization that would be a benefit not only to Canada but to the world, as well as the stewardship app that's been developed for veterinary practice. My key takeaway message would be to go digital.
