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Canada’s C-51 Law To Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products
Don’t Let Big Pharma Do This To Canada
Global Research, April 30, 2008
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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 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
thugs enforcement agents who claim to be “protecting” the public
from dangerous unapproved “therapeutic agents” like, say, dandelion
greens. As explained on the
http://www.Educate-Yourself.orgwebsite
((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would
allow the Canadian government’s thugs 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:
www.stopc51.com
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Wow! Canada's corporate thugs are trying to outdo US corporate thugs
