Stop Bill C-51

Target:

The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health

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Go to http://www.inspiredlife.ca/announcements/stop_bill_c51_rally_video to watch the rally from May 10, 2008 at Queen's Park.

On April 8th, 2008, the Canadian Minister of Health introduced Bill C-51 into the House of Commons. This Bill proposes significant changes to the current Food and Drugs Act that will have wide-ranging negative implications for all Canadians. This bill has already passed second reading. It appears that our Government is trying to fast track this bill before anyone has a chance to challenge it. Bills normally take months to pass not weeks.

Currently, many of our councilors and MPPs are unaware of the details to Bill C-51. How can we, as Canadian citizens, be informed when our government representatives are not even aware?

April 9, 2008 UPDATE: Bill C-51 has passed it's first reading
Bill C-51 will go to second reading soon - it is believed to be scheduled on May 8 or soon after.

Visit www.inspiredlife.ca for more information and to download some posters and handouts that you can personally distribute as well as several template letters that you can sign and deliver POSTAGE FREE to the Canadian Health Minister.

Bill C-51 Will:

Remove democratic oversight, bypassing elected officials to vote in laws and allow bureaucrats to adopt laws from other countries without our consent.
Remove 60-70% of all Natural Health Products from Canadian stores. Many others will be available by prescription only.
Restrict research and development of safe and natural alternatives in favour of high risk drugs.
Punish Canadians with little or no opportunity for protection or recourse for simply speaking about or giving a natural product without the approval of government. More than 70% of people in Canada use a Natural Health Product. The new law goes so far as to warrant action against a person who would give another person an "unapproved" amount of garlic on the recommendation that it would improve that person's health.
Allow inspectors to enter private property without consent, take your property at their discretion, dispose of your property at will, not reimburse you for your losses, seize your bank accounts, charge owners shipping and storage charges for seized property, be empowered to store your property indefinitely, and levy fines up to $5,000,000 and/or 2 years in jail per incident.

Here's what you can do to protect your rights:

Go to www.inspiredlife.ca and find out more information about Bill C-51, download and print off template letters that you can sign and send POSTAGE FREE to the Canadian Health Minister
Talk to your local press
Contact your local MP (visit www.snipurl.com/localmp to find yours)
Ask the leaders in your community to get involved
Contact your MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly)
Tell your Friends, Family, Neighbours & Coworkers
Download a flyer at www.inspiredlife.ca, print if off and hand it out to everyone and everywhere

April 9, 2008 UPDATE: Bill C-51 has passed it's first reading
Bill C-51 will go to second reading soon - it is believed to be scheduled on May 8 or soon after.

Remove democratic oversight, bypassing elected officials to vote in laws and allow bureaucrats to adopt laws from other countries without our consent.
Remove 60-70% of all Natural Health Products from Canadian stores. Many others will be available by prescription only.
Restrict research and development of safe and natural alternatives in favour of high risk drugs.
Punish Canadians with little or no opportunity for protection or recourse for simply speaking about or giving a natural product without the approval of government. More than 70% of people in Canada use a Natural Health Product. The new law goes so far as to warrant action against a person who would give another person an "unapproved" amount of garlic on the recommendation that it would improve that person's health.
Allow inspectors to enter private property without consent, take your property at their discretion, dispose of your property at will, not reimburse you for your losses, seize your bank accounts, charge owners shipping and storage charges for seized property, be empowered to store your property indefinitely, and levy fines up to $5,000,000 and/or 2 years in jail per incident.

Here's what you can do to protect your rights:

Go to www.inspiredlife.ca and find out more information about Bill C-51, download and print off template letters that you can sign and send POSTAGE FREE to the Canadian Health Minister
Talk to your local press
Contact your local MP (visit www.snipurl.com/localmp to find yours)
Ask the leaders in your community to get involved
Contact your MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly)
Tell your Friends, Family, Neighbours & Coworkers
Download a flyer at www.inspiredlife.ca, print if off and hand it out to everyone and everywhere

The Honourable Tony Clement
Minister of Health
Minister's Office - Health Canada
Brooke Claxton Building, Tunney's Pasture
Postal Locator: 0906C
Ottawa, Ontario Canada
K1A 0K9

We, the undersigned, are very concerned about the ongoing debate on Bill C-51 (amendments to the Food & Drug Act) and the impact on natural health products.

As customers and users of natural health products, we are concerned that natural health products will be pushed further into the same laws that govern prescription drugs. The details in Bill C-51 seem to be left up to regulations. The forfeiture and seizure provisions for natural health products under Bill C-51 could be made without a warrant or judge's approval. Can you please tell us why we would want this as Canadians?

The debate surrounding Bill C-51 is an excellent opportunity for the Government to make good on previous commitments to create a third category for natural health products, which are low risk and have demonstrated benefits for the health and well-being of Canadians.

We do not oppose legislation that ensures safe and effective products for Canadians, but we do oppose legislation that treats natural health products like pharmaceuticals.

Thank you for considering our concerns.

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# 9,277:

5:07 am PST, Nov 20, BRUCE GILBERT, Canada
THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT ANY NATURAL MEDICINES THAT ANYONE WISHES TO USE-PERIOD.

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6:07 am PST, Nov 18, Harj Baumann, Canada

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3:54 am PST, Nov 18, Jake Franklin, Canada
after reading the complete bill i do believe the canadian government should not have the ability to tell the canadian tax payers what natural medicines and or substinces they are allowed to poses. they are natural and should not be classifyed as restricted or controlled substances. you have no right to enter my home without a warrant and should be ashamed of yourselves for trying to implament such a clear violation of the privicy act and my freedom to choose. my question to you sir is this, Do you not find it odd that this bill is being created while wide spread panic and fear over a flu pandemic is eating away at our tv and radio airwaves??. Do you not find it odd this bill has passed second reading and did so during this pandemic?? Do you not find it odd that while the media sensationalises this pandemic you the canadian government are trying to pass a bill to make sure that every dollar spent by the panic stricken public goes straight into your pockets.. this is no time to betray your country men to american ideals.. we are not americans so please stop acting like them.

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5:35 pm PST, Nov 17, Jordan Harper, Canada
Remember that thing we used to call "common sense"? what ever happened to that? I mean really, this is what we're leaving for the next generation to work with?. Why?, why as a race are we so damn determined to make life harder than it has to be?, not only for ourselves bur for everyone else and those who are yet to come. I fear bills like this one will never stop coming until those in power have succeeded in milking this machine for everything they can until it completely collapses around us and there's no longer any choice for the masses but to get organized and take action, then maybe something significant might actually change in this country.

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5:03 pm PST, Nov 17, Justin Harper, Canada
Unbelievable.

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9:30 pm PST, Nov 14, Randy Bullock, Canada
Prescription drugs are poison! I almost died a few months ago from slow poisoning by my former doctor over a three year period from 1. contraindicated drugs. 2. excessive synthetic Azo dyes from the sheer volume of pills. Had I not been taking supplements for the past few decades, I am convinced that I never would have made it through this ordeal. It is no secret that GMO's permeate our current food supply and more and more people are coming down with severe illnesses from the poisons in the food and drugs. There is very little nutrition in today's foods, filled with GMO corn, soy and canola as well as MSG, hydrogenated fats, mono and diglycerides, artificial sweeteners and hundreds of other dangerous poisons. Diseases such as diabetes type II and heart disease are on the rise (in young people) and it's all due to the poisons in the food - which the medical profession simply refuses to admit. We are a democracy and we demand a CHOICE of what we put into our bodies. We have little choice, as it is. Bill C-51 will remove it completely!

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9:20 pm PST, Nov 14, Name not displayed, Canada

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6:43 pm PST, Nov 10, Sara Davey, Canada

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12:13 pm PST, Nov 7, Cynthia Humphreys, Texas

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11:45 pm PDT, Oct 28, Chris Esslinger, Canada

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9:12 am PDT, Oct 26, Andrew Jones, Canada
We are all voters and next election we are going to look very carefully at any politicians who vote for this bill. CANADIANS WILL NOT BE CONTROLLED BY AMERICAN STYLE POLITICIANS!

# 9,266:

11:37 am PDT, Oct 21, Name not displayed, Canada

# 9,265:

10:21 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, Canada
To The Minister of Health, The Honorable Tony Clement, I completely oppose Bill C-51. Bill C-51 impinges on our freedom of choice. It is a total violation of human rights if you take away our right of what kind of medical treatment we use. As Canadians we should have the right to choose how we are medical treated. We should have the freedom to choose whether or not we buy our vitamins from a pharmacy or a heath store. Are you going to make it illegal to grow our own gardens, or our own farm animals for food, if we do not like buying tortured chicken and hormonal beef and pork from the supermarket. What you are doing is unethical and it is only designed to line the pocket of the rich pharmaceuticals. Bill C- 51 is limits us in big ways. Our health is important to us, what C- 51 will do is make it so the average human will not be able to maintain their health, it will drive prices up so high only the wealthy will be able to afford to by what they need to stay healthy. I happen to like the fact that I can pick and choose. Quit trying to take away my freedom of choice. What you are doing is wrong. What's next genocide?

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8:14 pm PDT, Oct 15, Jim Schultz, Canada
Who do these people think they are? Enough already!

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9:24 pm PDT, Oct 12, Xilo Lopez, Virginia

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12:46 pm PDT, Sep 29, Margaret Lazzarotto, Canada
I Ask you to stop trying to take away my right to look after myself n the way that my body wants. I do not need a professional Homopthy or other other professional to tell me what my body needs, nor do I have the money to pay one. Kindly mind your own business and stay out of mine.

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10:35 am PDT, Sep 28, Josée Martel, Canada

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8:16 am PDT, Sep 28, Jen Gilbert, Canada
My family and I have always used natural health products and services. We have only ever eaten Canadian grown foods and support local farmers. Our family was very low illness rates. This bill would be against our rights, lifestyle and beliefs. We have used MD's as well but we have always encountered less than satisfactory results. They usually give a presciption with horrible side effects. Once, I was given a presicription that had 80 potential side effects. The Pharmaceutical industry owns the Ministry of Health and directs it's laws and people. This industry and Health Canada have for the last 100 years have been polluting our bodies with MGO Foods, prescriptions, fast foods, poor access to proper health care and proper drinking water and they are dumping chemical wastes into our bodies by creating cancers and vaccines. Chemo is bio weapon left overs and vaccines are left over wastes containing mercury, antifreeze, alumininum, phenol, methanol, msg, sulfate, animal organ tissue, Aborted human foetal tissue and human albumin, latex, animal viruses, human viruses and yeast are just to name a few. It's not helping our immune systems and it's breaking them down to bring down world population and to dump chemical wastes in our bodies and to dump down our society. Just ask your local nurse for a list of vaccine ingredients before you get your next shot or anyone else you know of. THE GOV'T OF CANADA IS ALSO TRYING TO QUIETLY BRING IN BILL C-6 TO MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR ALL CANADIANS TO GET THE H1N1 VACCINE. It will be a criminal law not to take one. VISIT: WWW.FLASHFLUFLAGS.COM FOR FURTHER INFORMATION!

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4:47 pm PDT, Sep 25, Dustin Bilinsky, Canada

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3:52 pm PDT, Sep 24, Name not displayed, Canada

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9:41 am PDT, Sep 13, Julie Martineau, France
Everything that's against Health Freedom is against the people and their well-being: we want real health and its efficient and free of adverse effects solutions

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9:00 am PDT, Sep 13, Name not displayed, Canada
STOP this nonsense ... why are people getting sicker and sicker? why are children's hospitals getting bigger and bigger? why is cancer being diagnosed so early in life? Instead of targeting the natural health products field, target the industrialization of our food and target the spurting out of a drug for every ailment ... do we really need a drug to quell our stomach gas? Something really stinks here!!!

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11:59 pm PDT, Sep 10, Name not displayed, Canada
The best defence is a good Offence. The government is continually wearing out the resolve of the electorate. In 2009 They released Bill C-6, entitled "Consumer Product Protection Act" which will strip away many rights and freedoms we have assumed were protected. Bill C-51 is destined to be reintroduced, putting the final nail in the coffin on our Fundemental Rights and Freedoms and with the freedom of choice in healthcare. On my causes page http://www.causes.com/hans/ you'll find a link to a Live Webinar on September 12, 2009, this Saturday. Please join our cause and help out!

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6:38 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Canada

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8:29 pm PDT, Sep 4, Melissa Martell, Canada
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2:51 pm PDT, Aug 5, Mark Letourneau, Canada
Dirty money hungry slime balls ! You go wipe some tush for your elders! Then get your cash! You'll probably implement the system before you wipe another!.

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