The Public Health Agency of Canada has a website also about vaccine myths and it answers questions about that the vaccines don’t work, that there are many serious side effects from vaccines, that because the H1N1 flu vaccine is new it is untested and unsafe, myths that taking the regular flu shot could mean a risk of becoming very ill with H1N1, that another myth is the influenza vaccine can give you influenza, another myth is getting an influenza every year overwhelms and weakens the immune system and there is an answer to the question about the fact that the influenza vaccine contains Thimerosal, which is also known as mercury, which is harmful especially for young children, and that is found not to be the case. I would like to invite the residents to go to that. Another myth is that pregnant women should not get the influenza vaccine and the number nine

myth is my child got the influenza vaccine last year so there’s no need to give it again.

So, Mr. Speaker, all of the Ministers across the country and all of the public health officers across the country are aware that there is a lot of misinformation going on and we need to make sure that we get the information out rather than half information. I think the ingredients are not the most important thing always, it’s how much is in it, because I understand on any given day all around us there’s mercury, but the dose that is in the vaccine is very, very low and it’s found not to be harmful. I need to disagree with the Member, because I keep telling the Member that this has been tested. I’m telling him it has been tested on people. So I’d like to make sure that the people know that I have information and we have information that comes out from clinical trials on people that says this vaccine is safe.