Sleepwalking towards Canada’s next major health crisis

Canadians deserve better than all levels of government dishing blame at each other while nothing gets done about antimicrobial resistance.

Canada must employ a ‘whole-of-government’ approach to work towards a solution for the overuse of antibiotics and their unintended consequences to the entire eco-environment writes Sen. Judith G. Seidman. Unsplash photograph by Towfiqu Barbhuiya

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE SENATOR JUDITH G. SEIDMAN

March 20, 2024

Experts have sounded the alarm for decades. Antimicrobial resistance is likely to be Canada’s next major health crisis, and it is time for the federal government to take sufficient action to address it.

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