Monday, April 28, 2008 by: Mike Adams
(NaturalNews) 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 businessAt 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 www.Educate-Yourself.org website ((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
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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-51On 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
NaturalNews
is looking to hire someone with a good video camera to film the event.
We'll gladly pay you to video tape this and send us the resulting file,
which we will edit and then post for NaturalNews readers. If you have a
video camera (with good audio, hopefully) and can attend the May 9th
rally, please contact us at (U.S.) 520-232-9300 for details. If you do
film there, be sure to use the camera buddy system, where you
have somebody in the distance filming YOU with the camera, so that if
Canadian law enforcement thugs decide to assault you and steal your
video camera in order to censor the event, then somebody else in the
distance has THAT on video! You got that? So there are two cameras
working, camera A is filming the rally, and it's very close to the
action. Camera B is set back farther from the scene, and it's filming
the person holding camera A. This is standard operating practice for
filming such events, and it makes it very difficult for government
thugs to shut down the video. Often, the person filming with camera B
is in a car somewhere, or filming covertly so that they don't attract
attention. Zoom lenses help a lot.
In any case, if you manage to
get some video of this event, then we'd be thrilled to share it with
NaturalNews readers. And like I said, we'll pay for footage, so call us
for details. Together, we can help spread the word about this important
rally for health freedom in Canada.
Learn more: http://www.stopC51.com
Email address for the MP for the Heart of Alberta region:
Kevin Sorenson (Crowfoot)
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About the author:
Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author with a mission to
teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored and
published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and
books on topics like health and the environment, reaching millions of
readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal
health around the world. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who
receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other
companies' products. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a maker of energy efficient LED lights that greatly reduce CO2 emissions. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products
(BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund
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as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center,
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Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening.
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