"In 2003 Health Canada launched an attack on a group of mentally ill
patients and the company who supported them naturally. They seized
shipments of a safe natural therapy required by the patients and
stormed the support center with 17 armed officers and agents. The
company (Truehope) reported that they lost contact with more than 300
of their Canadian participants. The Canadian Mental Health Association
told of suicides as a result of government action.

Health Canada then charged the not for profit company, burdening them
with heavy legal costs. Health Canada lost this case. Although the
agents admitted knowing they were injuring people through their
actions, they continued to enforce policy at the cost of life. And what
happened to the more than 300 mentally ill Canadians that became
unreachable? In the months and years following, reports of
hospitalizations and suicides during the seizures have surfaced. No
Health Canada agent has ever been charged."

There is blood on Health Canada's hands and this latest outrage is
another attack on Canadians in favour of Big Pharma.

http://www.stopc51.com/

What the Act does:
the Act gives broad power and responsibility to Health Canada inspectors
to force “regulated persons” to take whatever measures the inspectors
deem
necessary to ensure safety. For example, see section 23.8 of the Bill.
I am troubled by this due to the following scenario developing:
1) currently roughly 60% of natural health product license applications
are
failing. The majority of these license applications are for single
ingredient
products which are easier to licence then multi-ingredient products. The
percentage of failed license applications is expected to increase as
more
multi-ingredient product license applications are considered. My
estimate
is an overall failure rate of 70%. This means that over 60%of the
natural health products on the market will fail the licensing process
and will become illegal. At that point the manufacturer can wilfully
withdraw them from the market or Health Canada can take enforcement
action;
2) the NHPD has been given more resources to process license
applications
which means that the majority of the products will become illegal sooner
rather than later;
3) Health Canada is currently going to universities to recruit
university
graduates as inspectors because Health Canada anticipates an increased
need for enforcement, and
4) Bill C-51 gives inspectors new powers to force products off of the
market.
I am not aware of Health Canada having enforcement problems with
chemical
drug pharmaceutical companies. My belief is that when Health Canada
asks a
pharmaceutical company to take a product off of the market, the
pharmaceutical
company does. I expect that this occurs because pharmaceutical
companies would
face huge liability issues if they failed to comply with a Health
Canada request and
then someone was injured. If I am incorrect in this I am inviting
correction as
it is important for us to determine “who” the new enforcement powers are
directed to.