Stop Bill C-51
Target:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
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Do you like your greens and vitamins?
The Canadian government, afraid of the public reaction once people find out what they are trying to pull, is currently fast-tracking a Bill which threatens to strip you of your rights to access a wide range of natural health products. If it passes, and you buy/sell/share/collect/dry/eat/feed to your family any of the restricted stuff, you become a criminal subject to fines 1000X bigger than those currently in effect.
Please take action to protect your current right to use the foods, herbs, supplements, and therapies:
1. visit: http://www.stopc51.com and read Bill C-51 and/or the analysis
to form your own opinion about whether this law is good for you
or for your country
2. sign this petition and pass the word to your friends, family, anyone
who cares. It is important to put your name. If you leave it blank,
it won't count in the end.
3. write paper letters, phone, email your MP
4. http://www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp
The government is putting out misleading information that this Bill
is OK, that it has none of the nasties that the opponents are claiming.
Let's take it as a sign that the pressure of opposition is having an effect,
and rather than backing down, let's keep the pressure steady.
(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
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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.
The Canadian government, afraid of the public reaction once people find out what they are trying to pull, is currently fast-tracking a Bill which threatens to strip you of your rights to access a wide range of natural health products. If it passes, and you buy/sell/share/collect/dry/eat/feed to your family any of the restricted stuff, you become a criminal subject to fines 1000X bigger than those currently in effect.
Please take action to protect your current right to use the foods, herbs, supplements, and therapies:
1. visit: http://www.stopc51.com and read Bill C-51 and/or the analysis
to form your own opinion about whether this law is good for you
or for your country
2. sign this petition and pass the word to your friends, family, anyone
who cares. It is important to put your name. If you leave it blank,
it won't count in the end.
3. write paper letters, phone, email your MP
4. http://www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp
The government is putting out misleading information that this Bill
is OK, that it has none of the nasties that the opponents are claiming.
Let's take it as a sign that the pressure of opposition is having an effect,
and rather than backing down, let's keep the pressure steady.
(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
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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.
Do you like your greens and vitamins?
The Canadian government, afraid of the public reaction once people find out what they are trying to pull, is currently fast-tracking a Bill which threatens to strip you of your rights to access a wide range of natural health products. If it passes, and you buy/sell/share/collect/dry/eat/feed to your family any of the restricted stuff, you become a criminal subject to fines 1000X bigger than those currently in effect.
Please take action to protect your current right to use the foods, herbs, supplements, and therapies:
1. visit: http://www.stopc51.com and read Bill C-51 and/or the analysis
to form your own opinion about whether this law is good for you
or for your country
2. sign this petition and pass the word to your friends, family, anyone
who cares. It is important to put your name. If you leave it blank,
it won't count in the end.
3. write paper letters, phone, email your MP
4. http://www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp
The government is putting out misleading information that this Bill
is OK, that it has none of the nasties that the opponents are claiming.
Let's take it as a sign that the pressure of opposition is having an effect,
and rather than backing down, let's keep the pressure steady.
(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
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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.
The Canadian government, afraid of the public reaction once people find out what they are trying to pull, is currently fast-tracking a Bill which threatens to strip you of your rights to access a wide range of natural health products. If it passes, and you buy/sell/share/collect/dry/eat/feed to your family any of the restricted stuff, you become a criminal subject to fines 1000X bigger than those currently in effect.
Please take action to protect your current right to use the foods, herbs, supplements, and therapies:
1. visit: http://www.stopc51.com and read Bill C-51 and/or the analysis
to form your own opinion about whether this law is good for you
or for your country
2. sign this petition and pass the word to your friends, family, anyone
who cares. It is important to put your name. If you leave it blank,
it won't count in the end.
3. write paper letters, phone, email your MP
4. http://www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp
The government is putting out misleading information that this Bill
is OK, that it has none of the nasties that the opponents are claiming.
Let's take it as a sign that the pressure of opposition is having an effect,
and rather than backing down, let's keep the pressure steady.
(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
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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.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
We the undersigned wish to express our opposition to Bill C-51 and ask that you abandon this unacceptable law immediately.
We call on you, as head of our democratically elected minority government to respect our rights and freedoms to use natural health products to maintain and protect our health.
While we accept the role of the pharmaceutical industry in providing the substances they do, we reject any preferential treatment of this industry, or any anticompetitive or restrictive of the natural health products industry.
We reject the merging together of "drugs" and natural health products into a new "therapeutic product" category subject to the same degree of regulatory oversight. This is completely inappropriate, and is not in our best interest.
We reject the proposed increasing of the size of government through its expansion into regulating all herbs, vitamins, supplements, bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens. Your stated commitment is to smaller government and expanded freedom. Please constrain yourself to this commitment.
We specifically reject the backdoor provisions of this bill which would allow future changes to Canadian law to circumvent a vote in parliament. We don't accept that US law, CODEX Alimentarius, UN documents, or other foreign laws could be injected into Canadian law, like a virus, by regulatory reference.
We are prepared to accept this as a momentary lapse in judgement which can easily be corrected by abandoning this bill and issuing an apology to the Canadian people (but hey, we'll settle for the Bill-Kill).
We are proud, free, responsible people who have taken care of our health through our own personal choices, partly by using natural products with a long history of effectiveness and insist that your government protect and enhance these rights and freedoms.
We the undersigned wish to express our opposition to Bill C-51 and ask that you abandon this unacceptable law immediately.
We call on you, as head of our democratically elected minority government to respect our rights and freedoms to use natural health products to maintain and protect our health.
While we accept the role of the pharmaceutical industry in providing the substances they do, we reject any preferential treatment of this industry, or any anticompetitive or restrictive of the natural health products industry.
We reject the merging together of "drugs" and natural health products into a new "therapeutic product" category subject to the same degree of regulatory oversight. This is completely inappropriate, and is not in our best interest.
We reject the proposed increasing of the size of government through its expansion into regulating all herbs, vitamins, supplements, bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens. Your stated commitment is to smaller government and expanded freedom. Please constrain yourself to this commitment.
We specifically reject the backdoor provisions of this bill which would allow future changes to Canadian law to circumvent a vote in parliament. We don't accept that US law, CODEX Alimentarius, UN documents, or other foreign laws could be injected into Canadian law, like a virus, by regulatory reference.
We are prepared to accept this as a momentary lapse in judgement which can easily be corrected by abandoning this bill and issuing an apology to the Canadian people (but hey, we'll settle for the Bill-Kill).
We are proud, free, responsible people who have taken care of our health through our own personal choices, partly by using natural products with a long history of effectiveness and insist that your government protect and enhance these rights and freedoms.
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# 21,820:
There can be too much government interference. This seems more for the sake of multinationals and less for the sake of Canadians. Stop the Bill!
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# 21,817:
Any Bill that restricts the use of natural foods and supplements is against all logic and common sense ..stop this bill for Canadian's sake.
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# 21,812:
I believe that natural nutritional supplements are absolutely essential to our health. Without the freedom to control our own health with the use of natural God-made health supplements, there is no doubt our health care costs will escalate even more dramatically! Please give people the freedom to make their own health care choices!!!
That sounds really scary!!
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# 21,809:
This is ridiculous. Using these products increases our quality of life, and have not harmed if anyone, not many people compared to pharmaceutical drugs. Why aren't those going to be banned, all they do is mask the symptoms of a problem, they certainly do not help to stop or cure the problem. A lot of times natural products help stop problems at the source.
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# 21,802:
Dear Sir, Having studied and practised as a holistic therapist, and an environmentalist campaigner, I am forced to accept theories that plants and the natural world sustain the human body. Big Pharma will, with it's GM proposals and now, with allegations that garlic or ginkgo balboa could be harmful, are merely attempting to pervert the natural into a system where some get rich and others get gulled into buying or 'needing' these chemically synthesised drugs which big Pharma allege would do a better job for health that their natural equivalents. Please do not let the Government of Canada become a laughing-stock around the world as thousands of Complementary, traditional and Alternative practitioners and many healthy-eating members of the public would be only too happy to offer alternative research than that offered by big Pharma - often know and fined for 'economies of the truth' in their self-funded research. May I suggest you consult www.mercola.com and investigate the rates of harmful side effects, deaths or injury caused by 'drugs' from big Pharma, before going on a rampage against the natural use of plants to heal, with the wealth of traditional uses and now scientific support to back their positive results. I do hope that you fully appreciate the effects this Bill would have, not just in Canada but also around the world, where people are affirming their independence and refusing to be seduced by the personal profits or dubious claims of Big Pharma - surely the Canadian Government can do the same. with kindest regards, Roisin Robertson MICHT VTCT
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I trust and respect the opinion of people who have studied this bill and arrived at these allegations. I invite you to read the bill and/or the analysis at stopc51.com and draw your own conclusions. Ask yourself whether it is appropriate that pharmaceutical companies take away that which does not rightfully belong to them.
Any law which does not protect the citizens is obviously protecting only those who are interested in creating profits and at the expense of the lives of many. Bill C-51 is, by far, a violation of more than one existing laws that are in place to protect each and everyone of us; The People - Canada's Charter of Rights & Freedoms. By The Power of God - Forbid This Bill!
# 21,796:
I highly suggest you reevaluate this law/bill; by passing it, you will negatively affect millions of Americans, and their health. We are a country that prides itself on freedom, however this is striping all our freedom away. Nutrients cannot, and must not, be considered, drugs, or in the same classification as pharmaceutical drugs. Nutrients are obtained from food (FOOD - not chemical-laden, lab-created DRUGS), and by extracting them and making it convenient for the typical American who is in 'the grind' - overworking, while being extremely underpaid, just to go from one paycheck to the next, is something we should not be deprived of. Rethink your intentions, and if they are not good, and you are making this choice based upon financial or political pressure, then you must not understand what we all care about - OUR HEALTH, because without it, we are nothing - and that means WE, as in AMERICANS, are NOTHING.
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# 21,794:
I am appalled that such a thing could ever happend in Canada. I totally oppose it.
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# 21,791:
I am completely in disgust with even the IDEA that this bill has even been allowed to get this far in our "democratic" system. The benefits of Natural Health Products far outweigh the negatives (as compared to the litany of warnings with prescribed pharmaceuticals) - and the NHP industry in itself has made many improvements over the years to ensure the publics safety. The world is finally waking up again to a more natural, healthy, and self-sufficient lifestyle, and a bill like this threatens not only our individual freedom, but the freedom and health of the world community. It HAS to be stopped!
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# 21,789:
I am concerned that Bill C-51 will restrict the rights and freedoms of Canadians to make a personal decision about the health care products they choose to use. People choosing alternative health care are thoughtful and serious about maintaining their health and well being and reducing their reliance on an overburdened health care system and pharmaceutical drugs. Much like the agro-industry's attempt to gain control of the rapidly growing organic market a few years ago, this is clearly a maneuver by big Pharma to economically benefit from the lucrative alternative health industry. Bill C-51 seems to me to be in direct contravention of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I would think that all politicians seriously take this into consideration when voting on the bill. I will be watching closely the way the MP for my riding votes and would trust that he support an individual's right to decide his/her own form of health care and not be restricted in choice by the government.
We should not let Stephen Harper and his neo-conservative, pro-corporation government decide the course of our health care or not only will we not be able to take our morning vitamins without a doctor's prescription we will be paying more for our health care, both preventative and curative. Stop Bill C-51 before it begins!
# 21,788:
People lived for years without all the pharmacutical prescriptions, now there is a pill for the side effects that one pill causes, and another pill for the new side effects from the last pill. And the new warnings on the pills give possible side effects that are worse than the original condition. Leave my health care judgements to me.
This would be absurd. Government should be of the people, by the people and for the people, not the other way around. Government is getting too big, and too dominating.
# 21,787:
This is clearly another attempt to keep people sick by controlling the neutrients that keep people alive and healthy. Along with poisoning the masses with anti-biotics, growth hormoes, nitrates, hermacides, pesticides, and a host of other chemicals that are constantly funneled into the food we eat everyday in order to keep us sick they are now trying to take away the things that make us healthy. The bill stinks of corruption and needs to be stoped. Vitamins, and supplements keep people alive and healthy. Anyone who says otherwise wants you sick and hooked on 5+ different drugs for the rest of your life.
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There are many ambiguous definitions in this bill. Of course, NHPs need better evaluation, but a lot of the bill has nothing to do with it and rather opens the door to adopting laws without the ususal democratic examination.
# 21,782:
Bill C-51 is likely in violation of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and our criminal code, as well as the rules governing scientific research and ignores some of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the last 20 years. Where is the democracy if new laws and policies can be passed without the normal parliamentary debate and governmental input and approval? Bill C-51 has Draconian elements and if passed would set a very frightening precedence for our taken for granted rights and freedoms.
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I feel that by lobbying to pass this law, the Canadian government is doing a grave injustice to the Canadian people. Our pride in the quality of our health care system is dwindling with each passing year, and with Bill C-51 in the works, well, our country will most definitely hang it's head in shame. I can't even comprehend how this bill was even conceived, as there is absolutely no advantage to any of the propositions set forth. If this bill is passed, I will no longer be proud to be Canadian. Shame.
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# 21,778:
god forbid canadians stay healthy and natural. stop this insanity please
i thought canada was suppose to be a nice place to live
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# 21,776:
LEAVE THE VITAMINS ALONE ALLOW THE PEOPLE TO MAKE THERE OWNS DECISIONS ABOUT VITAMINS. I KNOW YOU JUST WANT TO CONTROL THEM AND MAKE MONEY ON THEM BECAUSE IT IT HURTING THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY. I WOULD BE DEAD WITHOUT THE NATURAL WAYS. DR's would have killed meby now with all the synthetic meds.
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Every Canadian citizen has the right to decide what laws are in place for Canadians.
# 21,770:
I joined the petition for many reasons: I'm doing research on NWO for more than 20 years and C51, really made me furious. Also, although I live in Greece, I know that the danger is bigger than it seems to be for my country which has more than 100,000 herms... Also; chemical products can only bring suffering and not healing. Nature provided us with all the things that can make our life easier and healthier, why ignore it? Money isn't the issue here. It's all about mass control. Not only because they oblige people to use chemical products, but also because what they put inside can also be used for mind control and reduction of mind reactions to outer impulses.
It's -at least- dictatorship!
# 21,769:
our govt thinks they are protecting us by doing this,yet our healthcare system doesnt seem to be improving and/or they want it to be privatized,in which case leave it up to us where we buy our remedies, especially if they are working for us.
# 21,768:
I believe my right to choose natural health products is being violated! I don't trust my government to look after me.If this Bill gets through, the Canadian people who are against this Bill will certainly not vote for the M.P.'s that voted to push it through!!
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The nature of this bill takes regulating basic foods and herbs to a ridiculous end. Our forefathers didn't bring us to this free land so that within a few generations the freedom to buy and sell basic foods and herbs would get quietly snuffed out. I am dead against this bill!
Unthinkable! Out of hand!
# 21,763:
Prohibition never works, and C-51 is a bad bill. Just like drugs, herbs can be dangerous so those belong in the hands of people who are properly trained to handle and prescribe them safely - people like Doctors of Traditional Chinese medicine, and registered herbalists who have established professional colleges and standards of practice plus the education to use herbal medicines safely. Will Health Canada officials be raiding your kitchens as well as our clinics? Grocery stores? Our gardens? Bill C-51 would make these raids possible. Tell your MP to vote NO!" to C-51!
# 21,762:
I was born free - I am Canadian! It is my right to choose!
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# 21,759:
No one has the right to decide what I should or not ingest for what I consider to be my health. What are we becoming - a fascist/nazi-like state or one where only one opinion rules. Mr. Harper get out of my personal space.
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# 21,757:
This idea is absolutely absurd, natural medicine has been around and been prefered by many as opposed to pharmasuticles with less side affects. we should have the choice between wether they want drugs or natural remedies. what makes this an issue now? watch a commericial for a drug and to 'cure' one ailment, comes along with 2-9 other side affects. some people are lazy and don't care, others dont want that...thats why we have natural remedies...we should be able to pick and chose...not be forced.
# 21,756:
I feel this bill will have a large negative impact on the natural health product industry resulting in many job losses. Also our personal freedoms are at risk
I believe that all new laws and policies should be put through legislation and not allowed to be passed without government input and approval.
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The right to choose nutritional products is an unalienable right. Large drug corporations are insisting on this law as an insidious way to instil a monopoly. We censure large corporations when they form monopolies and we should likewise censure drug companies when they attempt to pass ominous bills like C-51 that has hidden repercussions restricting free choice. I for one, will not stop taking nutritional supplements nor will I stop recommending them and supplying them to my patients if this bill passes. Medical doctors know next to nothing about nutrition. They are trained in drugs. Drugs is what they do. That is why they are called MEDICAL doctors. The logistics of enforcing this bill are horrendous. Is the government really going to start putting people in jail for selling food? To put nutrition in the hands of already overworked medical doctors is absurd. It would seem that Peter’s Principles has caught up with somebody in the legislature. We must ask who it is that benefits from such a poorly constructed bill? Who is it that is being paid off to rush a bill that plainly hurts all Canadians?
On the issue of foreign laws, why would Canada give up sovereignty on such an important issue as food? Are all spices ging to be regulated? Ginger? Tumeric? Curry? Capiscan? When it is so clear that some herbs work as well as some drugs, it is clear why the big drug companies want this bill passed. What on Earth are these Conservatives thinking?
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