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> Canada’s C-51 Law To Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products
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> Don’t Let Big Pharma Do This To Canada
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> Global Research, April 30, 2008
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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-squa****ng
> 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
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> 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 http://www.Educate-Yourself.orgwebsite
> ((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...),
the C-51 law would
> allow the Canadian government’s thugs enforcement agents to:
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> • 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
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> 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...)
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> 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.
> Join the rally to protest C-51
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> 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: www.stopc51.com
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Wow! Canada's cor****ate thugs are trying to outdo
US cor****ate thugs :-(
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