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Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health
Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
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 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
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
• 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
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
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About the author: Mike
Adams is a consumer health advocate with a strong
interest in personal health, the environment and the
power of nature to help us all heal He is a prolific
writer and has published thousands of articles,
interviews, reports and consumer guides, impacting the
lives of millions of readers around the world who are
experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his
articles. 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
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that greatly reduce CO2 emissions. He also launched an
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Adams is currently the executive director of the
Consumer Wellness Center,
a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly pursues cycling,
nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as the
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