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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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