My question is for you, Herman, but I'll open up the floor to anyone who might be able to support the data part of what I'm going to ask.
Herman, you mentioned that there's an environmental factor to infectious disease, that we need to monitor our waste water and that it will lead to food insecurity as well. We do know that the homeless population is more at risk for infectious disease. That includes those who are struggling with addiction.
In my riding in Kitchener, I was driving by one of our encampments over the summer. Someone had passed in the encampment. I was deeply saddened by their passing, but I was even more saddened by the fact that those cleaning up his area were dressed in full haz-mat. In another story from my riding, a lady lost her son because he injected with water from our Grand River. He got an infectious disease straight from our river when he injected with that water.
We've lost 53,000 people to this opioid crisis that we're facing right now. That's more people than we lost in World War II. It just seems that these failed social experiment policies are leading to more deaths in our country. I have two questions: How is this drug crisis today contributing to the infectious disease increase in Canada, and do you have any data on the actual AMR deaths contributing to what we're facing in Canada today?
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