Stop Canadian Bill C-51

'(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.

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%u2026), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government's thugs enforcement agents to:

%u2022 Raid your home or business without a warrant
%u2022 Seize your bank accounts
%u2022 Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
%u2022 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%u2026)"

http://www.naturalnews.com/023121.html

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

Federal Court Rally Information
Where: 635 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB, Canada Federal Court
When: 11:45 AM Friday May 9th

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It's a fact that Tony Clement is a very rich and powerful prohibitionist pharmaceutical mogul.

He owns one-quarter equity position of Prudential Chem Inc., a Toronto manufacturer of pharmaceutical chemicals.

Please see:

Clement under fire
(Toronto Sun, Tue, June 20, 2006)
http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/06/20/1642898-sun.html

QC: Editorial: Clement should know better
(The Montreal Gazette, Published: Monday, June 12, 2006)
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=26c86ac7-da26-4537-9a67-bc1d151f9ee7

Since Clement is federal health minister, it takes as little as 6 months for new drugs to be approved by Health Canada - when it used to take an average of 5 years of clinical research until new medications were approved in Canada.

Tony Clement surely knew that he wouldn't be federal health minister for 5 years, so it surely looks like he is abusing of his pharmaceutical interests and powers, and that he's going to make it the most profitable for him.

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For Letters/Calls:
Stephan Harper
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 (no postage needed)
613-992-4211
403-253-7990

Tom Clements (Health Minister)
613-944-7740
705-746-9053

http://www.stopc51.com

Lethbridge, AB Rally
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=25592629488&ref=mf
When: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: West Side of Henderson Park, in front of Japanese Gardens. Please try to bring a red umbrella.

Edmonton Alberta Rally
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16513353775
Saturday, May 10th at Noon. In Gazebo Park 103 St 84th Ave NW- outside of Strathcona Farmers Market. Please anyone who goes to the Rally try to bring a Red Umbrella, Its symbolic of the Health Freedom Fight World Wide.

Calgary Alberta Rally
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16366603218
Friday, May 9th at 11:45 am
Canada Federal Court 635 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Anyone living in the Raymond, Cardston, Magrath, Lethbridge Area can call 1-888-878-3467 and book for a free greyhound bus ride to and from Calgary that morning.
Please try to bring a red umbrella.

Vancouver BC Rally
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12093114356&ref=mf
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 10:00am - 11:00pm
Robson Square
Please try to bring a red umbrella.

If you agree with this cause, please take a moment to sign our petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/StopC51

http://www.healthcanadaexposed.com/c51backups/Canadian%20Rights%20Facts.htm This is an handout you can print or email.

http://www.naturalnews.com/023121.html

http://www.jasonfrovich.com/health-lifestyle/stop-canadian-bill-c-51/