Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have questions today for the Minister of Health and Social Services. It gets to a health hazard alert that was issued on the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency’s website yesterday that included a retail outlet here, the Yellowknife Direct Charge Co-op in Yellowknife, on range fed ground beef.

Mr. Speaker, when I was alerted of this warning this morning -- and there are other Members as well that were alerted to the warning -- the first thing that crossed my mind is not just my family but many other families in Yellowknife have consumed ground beef from the Co-op over the past five

weeks. Mr. Speaker, we sent some questions to the Minister and the Minister subsequently issued a public health advisory. But in the interim, Mr. Speaker, I did phone the Yellowknife Direct Charge Co-op just to get the facts on what range fed lean ground beef was. It is a different product altogether than ground beef. I was surprised when we see this public health advisory on an E. coli warning issued by the office of the chief medical health officer that states to the public, do not consume ground beef products purchased at the Yellowknife Co-op between February 8th and March 10th inclusive as

these products may contain E. coli. Mr. Speaker, this is not entirely true. I would like to ask the Minister of Health if they contacted the Yellowknife Direct Charge Co-op prior to issuing this public health advisory. Thank you.