if you care about your freedom, natural foods, herbs, and like that Stop Bill C-51

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.
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
--------

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.
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OK, it's been a while since you,
along with 24435 other people,
signed the online petition opposing Bill C-51
on thepetitionsite.com,

Thank you for your action in the past,
and for your renewed action NOW.

I knew that after the election, Harper's gang would resume their conspiracy to undermine the freedom of Canadians to access natural health products, and also
to undermine the sovereignty of Canada's parliament.

The new C51 just kicked in...

It's called C-6...

I call upon you all to go to
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/StopC6
and sign the new petition, and once again
call and write to your MPs telling them
you reject this bad bill and want it defeated.

Recent example of pharmaceutical industry
corruption of academics...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/harvard-medics-concealed-drug-firm-cash-842792.html

Blessings to you
May you be free to be healthy

kurt klingbeil

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We signed the "Stop Bill C-51" petition!
# 24,439:
8:44 am PDT, Sep 30, André Sactouris, Canada
# 24,438:
7:41 am PDT, Sep 30, Name not displayed, Canada
# 24,437:
5:08 am PDT, Sep 30, Jeannette Reed, Canada
Individuals need the right to make healthy choices for themselves and their families. Doctors, unfortunately, are not educated in the uses and the value of vitamins and other natural remedies and can therefore not be entrusted with the power this bill would give them.
# 24,436:
7:35 pm PDT, Sep 29, Jaime Cammarata, RD, Pennsylvania
# 24,435:
1:53 pm PDT, Sep 29, Omar Lundie, Canada
Seems to be more Facist than Democratic? State and Corporate rule of the people. NO to C-51!!!
# 24,434:
11:31 am PDT, Sep 29, Name not displayed, Canada
# 24,433:
9:45 am PDT, Sep 29, Sharon Kawano, Canada
I praise all the efforts being done to stop this bill from passing!! Great job guys:)

The Government is no better than the Mafia.

# 24,432:
11:54 pm PDT, Sep 28, P Milsom, United Kingdom
Oh, so it's now becoming clear just how corrupt the government really is...must have been some contribution to party funds to get this one in... or is it just the minister of health that needs investigation?...anyway, if this gets in, the next step will be it will be illegal to have anything in your yard but state approved grass, and you will be obliged to have it sprayed with herbicide for a fee, and should a dandelion pop up. you will have to report it and have it removed by the crew in white suits and masks, and should you pick it for your salad, you will go to jail.... looks like time to change the government, eh?

How do you feel about law which proposes to create a backdoor which would allow foreign laws to be incorporated into Canadian law without even a vote ? you mean there isn't one already?

# 24,431:
12:32 pm PDT, Sep 28, Constance Miles, California
Denying us access to nutritional supplements without a doctor's prescription denies us of our autonomy and is undemocratic. Nutrients are NOT toxins. Who serves to profit by such restrictions?
# 24,430:
10:27 am PDT, Sep 28, Name not displayed, Canada
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8:41 am PDT, Sep 28, Oliver Tan, Canada
# 24,428:
7:12 am PDT, Sep 28, Monica Vitale, Canada
# 24,427:
10:06 pm PDT, Sep 27, Arnaud Brossard, Canada
Its a shame if the government of Canada choose to accept this kind of "regulation" under false reasons like health... herbs have always been used to heal living creatures, human, animals, its part of the earth and whats god gave us... more the use of chemical products molecules have more consequences on the vital systems, with reactions appearing many years later sometimes.....its just gonna give more money to laboratories and make us Guinea pigs.. here to test the experiences of scientists... and for some of us using herbs is part of our religion, and if you suppress our right to use, grow and cultivate herbs, you suppress our right to practice our religion, and this is not what is Canada... Canada is a great country of freedom and wild nature, what you gonna do ??? suppress all the herbs growing free in Canada too? for people can't find them and use them as medicinal resource or religious elements? and this way make the creation of god illegal, and use of sacramental compositions made to fumigate the churches forbidden? please be realistic and concentrate your effort to violence and drugs and murders, and let the herbs grow free....

a mention like this one should be discussed with the peoples of Canada, the natives, sons and daughters of immigrants, its not something the government should decide alone... its directly interfering with the people rights and privacy..

# 24,426:
5:55 pm PDT, Sep 27, Susan Vigh, Canada
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7:14 am PDT, Sep 27, Jessika Eldridge, Canada
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6:46 am PDT, Sep 27, Kirsti Oikarinen, Finland
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5:40 am PDT, Sep 27, Vanda Yazedjian, Canada
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6:48 pm PDT, Sep 26, Alain Ouellet, Canada
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4:35 pm PDT, Sep 26, Christine Juillard, Canada
# 24,420:
1:47 pm PDT, Sep 26, Cheryl Diamond, Indiana
# 24,419:
1:07 pm PDT, Sep 26, Cleo Paries, Canada
I believe we should have free access to health supplements. Big Pharmacy companies are putting the bite on government, don't let this happen!
# 24,418:
11:22 am PDT, Sep 26, Lacouture Marie-noelle, Canada
# 24,417:
9:46 pm PDT, Sep 25, Patrick York, North Carolina
it's not right and it must be a population control program at its core. these companies have the intention of harming as many humans as possible with all of their artificial crap that isn''t proven to work
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2:12 pm PDT, Sep 25, Name not displayed, Canada
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7:31 am PDT, Sep 25, Yannick Brien, Canada
# 24,414:
6:22 am PDT, Sep 25, Alan M Roberts, United Kingdom
I believe that we should all be free to chose the type of medication we fell wood be best, as long as we made informed decisions. I am 70 years old and have prostrate cancer. I wont to use intravenous vitamin ‘c’ (IVC) but our National Health Service will not allow it, even when there is many cases it has been successful used. Is this because they are linked with the pharmaceutical Companies, whose motto is; there is no profit in cures. I also believe that the pharmaceutical companies are trying to destroy the alternative medicine companies as they are now become so successful they are affecting there profits, which are already extortionate

All Countries should have the right to keep there Culture, Customs, Language and laws. Also to trade freely with any country as long as they don take advantage of or harm any country. I am a Welsh man, and prod to be, but I also respect all other Countries.

# 24,413:
4:20 am PDT, Sep 25, Claudie Perron, Canada
# 24,412:
2:33 am PDT, Sep 25, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece
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 pharma

How do you feel about law which proposes to create a backdoor which would allow foreign laws to be incorporated into Canadian law without even a vote ?

# 24,411:
9:46 pm PDT, Sep 24, Eve Larose-Pelletier, Canada
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8:30 pm PDT, Sep 24, Jérémie Lacasse, Canada
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7:51 pm PDT, Sep 24, Matthieu Lesage, Canada
# 24,408:
7:21 pm PDT, Sep 24, Vincent Comtois, Canada
# 24,407:
4:41 pm PDT, Sep 24, Linda Leavey, Canada
Stop Bill C-51. This is ridiculous. What's next?
# 24,406:
11:55 am PDT, Sep 24, Meg Dolan, Minnesota
vitamin c is so much healthier for you when you have a minor illness than any type of anti-biotic or benadryl, or aspirin.

that's sneaky and underhanded

# 24,405:
7:37 am PDT, Sep 24, Name not displayed, Washington
# 24,404:
11:26 pm PDT, Sep 23, Name not displayed, Canada
I am completely opposed to this bill and am considering changing parties and not voting for the Conservatives this bill is terrible and Prime Minister Harper should be ashamed of himselves for trying to pass this bill, as it appears to give more powers to the pharmaceutical companies and health Canada inspectors than even the police have
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