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Health Canada Resorting To American Tactics
To Outlaw Natural Health Products
A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw
up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in
Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements
to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the
Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes
sweeping changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act that could
have devastating consequences on the health products industry.
Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations
to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic
product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government
broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins,
supplements and other items. With this single language change,
anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food
and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion
greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.
The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include
anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So
a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language,
could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved
"therapeutic substances." Learn about more of these freedom-squashing
changes to the law at the Stop51.com website: http://www.stopc51.com
New Enforcement Powers Allow The Canadian
Government To Seize Your Home Or Business
At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs,
supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new "enforcement"
powers to the enforcement agents who claim to be "protecting" the
public from dangerous unapproved "therapeutic agents" like, say,
dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org
website ((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...),
the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government's enforcement agents
to:
• Raid your home or business without a warrant
• Seize your bank accounts
• Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years
for merely selling an herb
• Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for
the expense involved in storing all the products they stole from
you
C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen
to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized
as a "controlled activity," and anyone caught engaging in such "controlled
activities" would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other
"controlled activities" include labeling bottles, harvesting plants
on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing
herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving
herbs or supplements would be criminalized...)
There's more, too. C-51 is the Canadian government's "final solution"
for the health
products industry. It's a desperate effort to destroy this industry
that's threatening the profits and viability of conventional medicine.
Natural medicine works so well -- and is becoming so widely used
-- that both the Canadian and American governments have decided
to "nuke" the industries by passing new laws that effectively criminalize
anyone selling such products. They simply cannot tolerate allowing
consumers to have continued access to natural products. To do so
will ultimately spell the destruction of Big
Pharma and the outdated, corrupt and criminally-operated pharmaceutical
industry that these criminally-operated governments are trying to
protect.
Join The Rally To Protest C-51
On May 9th, 2008, Canadian citizens will be gathering at the Calgary
Federal Court to protest C-51 and help protect their access to natural
health products. Call 1-888-878-3467 to learn more, or visit the
action page of Health Canada Exposed at: http://www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp
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