The Premier says he has faith in provincial and federal regulators as the Cargill plant re-opens.

Jason Kenney says AHS, Public Health, Labour and Immigration, Occupational Health and Safety and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be watching what happens at the plant.

But steps have also been taken outside the plant.

"As Dr. (Deena) Hinshaw has pointed out in the past, much of the spread associated with Cargill and High River, actually occurred outside of the plant through practices such as car pooling and other vectors of transmission that were not necessarily related to the operation of the facility," he says.

He says measures have been taken so that no more than two people car pool together with one in the front and one in the back seat and buses have been provided with shields between seats to prevent spread.

Kenney says some people would like the government to just shut everything down, but that would imperil our food security.

"Food security and our food supply chains constitute an essential service, Cargill and JBS together, I understand, 75 per cent of Canada's beef consumption comes from those two plants alone," the Premier says. "We've small outbreaks in other kinds of food processing plants."

Dr. Deena Hinshaw has said supports will be in place for any workers that may become ill.