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Bill C-51: Suppression Of Supplements In CanadaBill C-51 is a Canadian bill before the legislature. The bill proposes significant changes to the Food and Drug Act and 16 other Acts was well. Click here to share your view of Bill C-51 with visitors to this page. Here, I am providing a link so that you can read an online version...
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3398126
"An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts" Currently I am hearing government radio ads promoting how they are going to have greater powers in product safety and to force recalls. Oh yes, they most definitely are going to have more powers! But have they gone too far for a free country? I took a look and found... Bill C-51, as I said earlier, makes significant changes to the Food and Drug Act. This includes changes in definitions. Drugs would be referred to as "therapeutic devices". Now, therapeutic is a term we have come to consider used in natural health products. So if we now call drugs therapeutic, then there is no distinction between those chemicals that alter body chemistry and those substances that enhance the body's function. Yet in reality these are two widely differing effects. Just imagine the confusion this would cause. As a free society, we have elected officials that vote bills into effect after debate. It is how we practice democracy and have our say. This bill will eliminate this democratic process by granting bureaucrats the authority to adopt policies and laws from other nations as regulations. Please understand this point. Bill C-51 permits bureaucrats to by-pass the House and just decide that they will make another country's laws or regulations Canadian regulations. All without ever going to the House. This is your elected officials job being bypassed. Something that would be representative of an authoritarian government, not something to be found in a democracy. So ask yourself, "Who would benefit from this bureaucratic power?" Click here to share your view of Bill C-51 with visitors to this page. This legislation would effectively remove 70 percent of the Natural Health Products from your use and choice. And the other 30 percent, well that would need a prescription. Can you imagine needing a prescription for your supplements. And that is, if you can still get them. What if you are one of the many Canadians without a family physician, then just who will write the prescription for you? And the cost of filling the prescription would then be added to the product as well. Oh, you may be thinking that you'll just go ahead and get them from the US or overseas? Well, importing is tightened up as well. The bureaucratic red tape may just be too much for a foreign supplement manufacturer to bother with Canada. Of course, I am sure that the pharmaceutical companies would be willing to supply their version or a drug in it's stead. Further, this bill will restrict research and development of safe alternatives in favor of high risk drugs. This, at a time when more and more evidence worldwide is available demonstrating the effectiveness of natural products the Canadian government proposes to restrict this type of research and development on Canadian soil. Instead we will get the high risk drugs. One could hardly consider that to be a viable trade off for Canadians. Pharmaceutical companies cannot patent vitamins. They are naturally occurring. But what if you couldn't have your natural products? Would you then be forced to use a drug to aid you. Have you ever given your child vitamins? No, you can't do that. To do that you need a license or face prosecution. To enforce this massive legislation requires inspectors. Here is a partial list of their proposed powers... - inspectors can enter private property without a warrant You know, I enjoy having a cup of Chamomile tea sometimes. And I have even told a friend how Vitamin C will shorten the life of a cold bug. I go to the Health Food Store, where I pick up my supplements. That is now. Each of these simple actions would not be permitted under this legislation. You can let Bill C-51 pass without a hint of objection. Or you can make your opinion known and your voice heard. Click here to share your concerns about this Bill with visitors to this page.
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