Health committee  If it's an antibiotic, it's acting against the proliferation of bacteria. You have various mechanisms that are used to kill bacteria. If it affects bacteria in the livestock, it will affect other bacteria as well.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  From a research perspective, first of all, as you know, there are still a lot of questions regarding the passage of resistant genes from bacteria that infect animals and the bacteria that infect man, the relationship between the agricultural use and the medical use of antibiotics

Health committee  There is no question that this is part of the problem. It is not the only thing, as you well know, but it's certainly part of the problem. I think over-prescription is another huge problem, not being able to rapidly diagnose at point of care whether it's a viral antimicrobial inf

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, or CIHR for short, it is my pleasure to address this committee and apprise the committee of some of our recent activities that are helping drive innovations in health care. As I am sure you are aw

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can't really answer that. As I said earlier, the government took a slew of preventative measures, including improving access to mental health care, creating suicide prevention centres, and, even, erecting barriers along railways to stop people from throwing themselves in front

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may add, scaling up is not easy. We are realizing it is a problem we are facing worldwide. The World Bank is coming to us to ask how to scale up projects in western Africa, and how to deal with different cultural backgrounds and the scale of a project. We're dealing with a s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The answer is no, not to the 600 communities. We are funding research, so our role is to demonstrate that an intervention is effective. Then our role is to work with our colleagues to ensure that the effective interventions are scaled up in a way that is appropriate for the vari

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It depends on the program, but I am thinking about one where there are—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —12 communities in one program, the same number. There are relatively small numbers of communities where the research is carried out. Don't forget that, again, we support the research so we cannot support care, which often goes with implementation science to a very large scale.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Is that question for me?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is, absolutely—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The situation was alarming because the suicide rate was one of the highest in the world not that long ago. Today, that is still true in Canada, but for Inuit populations, as you know. Unfortunately, we still hold the sad distinction of having the world's highest suicide rate amon

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can give you some details on that. It's a program-based government approach that relies on structured prevention policies. As is always the case when it comes to research, we are in the situation your colleague referred to earlier. We want to find out which policies had an imp

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I could go on and on. We've also set up partners for engagement and knowledge exchange in the community to help us get the research evidence and the research results into the community to work more closely with them and to learn how to actually work more closely with the communi