April 21, 2009...9:19 am Canadian zombie legislation — Bills C51, C52 rise from the dead as C6, C10 to threaten our constitutional rights _http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/canadian-zombie-legislation-bills -c51-c52-return-from-the-dead-as-c6-c10-threaten-constitutional-rights/_ (http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/canadian-zombie-legislation-bills-c5 1-c52-return-from-the-dead-as-c6-c10-threaten-constitutional-rights/) We’ve been foaming at the mouth for a while here about HR875, NAIS, and Premises ID down south in the States, and how they’re threatening to give control of agriculture to industry and undermine organic small farms. Meanwhile, closer to home, the much-reviled food-supplement “regulation” bills C-51 and C-52 are being re-incarnated under new numbers and re-introduced into Parliament. In spite of the greatest citizen outrage in Canadian history (over C-51 and C-52), someone in Ottawa seems to still have not gotten the message. Here’s a summary of the situation from David Rowland, of the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom. Hat tip to Judith for sending this our way. “We need your help to stop the Canadian federal government persisting in classifying our Dietary Food Supplements and other plant based medicinal concentrates, extracts and other products as Drugs. Do you realize that since January 1st 2004 the federal government has been forcing all healthy foods such as carrot juice, greens powders, vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc. to be regulated as drugs? April 2009 Safer than Foods Dietary food supplements are among the safest substances on the planet. There have been exactly zero fatalities caused by the Canadian health food industry during its entire 50-year history. In 2004, an independent study of the causes of death was conducted (by R. Law), using Canadian Government data, quasi government and NGO websites, documents, databases and research outputs. This study assigned units of risk for 59 documented causes of death, such as the following: - Adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals 756 - Food 19 - Lightning 0.25 - Bee/wasp/hornet sting 0.06 - Natural healthcare/therapeutic products 0.014 Compared to your risk of dying from taking a food supplement, you are thus
- 54,000 times more likely to die from taking pharmaceutical drugs - 1,357 times more likely to be killed by food (poisoning/allergy) - 18 times more likely to be killed by lightning, and - 4 times more likely to die from an insect bite. Drug Raids Under the guise of protecting the public from harm, Health Canada is systematically destroying businesses which provide eminently safe (and necessary) dietary food supplements. Aided by the RCMP (with guns drawn), Health Canada officials have staged four raids so far this year on supplement suppliers – breaking doors in, keeping families hostage in their own homes for up to 10 hours – and confiscating products, records, computers, and personal property unrelated to their supplement businesses. Costs of Compliance Five years ago there were an estimated 60,000 dietary food supplements on the market. Now there are only about 20,000. Two thirds of these entirely safe products have disappeared because Health Canada either refuses to grant licences for them, and/or because suppliers cannot afford the exorbitant costs of complying with oppressive regulations (which have never been sanctioned by Parliament). We have had to discontinue the following seven safe (and effective) products because their suppliers cannot afford the costs of complying with Health Canada’s insane dictates: Fish Oil & Garlic, Caisse, Lymco, Purseng, Prana, KPH-1, and Electra. We have also had to discontinue the following products because we don’t sell enough of them to pay for the costs of keeping them on the market: Proanthocyanidins, Niacin, Estro-Mend, Progesto-Mend, Male-X Booster. We intend to keep all of our best selling products on the market; however, their prices will increase to the extent that we are forced to comply with Health Canada’s bureaucratic dictates. It now costs us an average of $2,000 per product to prepare the documentation to apply for an NPN product “licence” (even for products that we have sold for many years with approved DIN registrations). That means a total of $70,000 in product applications, with no guarantee that all of the licences will be granted. [Fortunately, we have thus far received “licences” for most of our best selling products.] It also will now cost us approximately $90,000 per year to do the drug testing that Health Canada insists be performed on all of our dietary food supplements. None of this testing does anything to protect the public from harm. Our industry has an impeccable safety record (zero deaths in 50+ years). Vitamost® products themselves also have an impeccable safety record: zero reports of adverse effects over our entire 25+ year history. Clearly, safety is only a smoke screen and not the real issue. Health Canada has a hidden agenda. Constitutional Bypass Having lost a number of cases in court, Health Canada wishes to place itself above the law. Bill C-6 (introduced by the Health Minister) is in apparent violation of the Constitution Act, 1867, the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, the Canadian Bill of Rights, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (included in the Constitution Act, 1982). The freedom and security of every Canadian is in jeopardy. Specifically, C-6 would: · -- Criminalize those who do not comply with bureaucratic edicts. -- Deny Canadians protection and recourse from illegal or unwarranted actions by government agencies -- Enable these agencies to seize property and bank accounts - without warning – and without a warrant. -- Deny our right to have a judge review and approve actions taken against us, before we have been charged with any offence or wrongdoing. -- Empower bureaucrats to pronounce us guilty without evidence, without proof, without courtroom hearing, and with no defence allowed. -- Subject us to fines in the millions of dollars. -- Allow bureaucracies to bypass Parliamentary approval to create new laws of their own. -- Deny Parliament the ability to protect Canadians’ rights and freedoms. -- Pre-supposes that the January 1st 2004 drug class change Natural Health Product Regulations are lawful and will stay in place. Parliament does not have the mandate or jurisdiction to deny our innate rights and charter freedoms. Bill C-6 should never have been presented and the drug class Natural Health Product Regulations have become another Gun Registry Scandal and need to be cancelled immediately. The proper role of government is to protect our rights, not violate them. That’s why we have a Written and Unwritten Constitution including the Bill of Rights. If neither the Prime Minister nor the Health Minister withdraw Bill C-6, then it is the moral and fiduciary responsibility of every Member of Parliament to vote against C-6 and all similar bills. [Note: Bill C-6 is a re-incarnation of Bill C-52 from the last parliament, just as C-10 is a reintroduction of C-51. C-51 and C-52 were the most protested pieces of legislation in the entire history of Canada.] Don’t assume that your MP has even read Bill C-6. Each of the established political parties has a Party Whip who tells its MPs how to vote on various issues. Few dare to go against the Whip, for fear of committing career suicide. Now is the Time For over 22 years I have been doing everything I could to encourage constructive change to the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations (including suing Health Minister Allan Rock, in 1997). During all those years, Health Ministers have come and gone; and we have never had one who was willing to listen to us. Now we do. The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq is a politician from a culture in which there are no political parties. She is used to making decisions by consensus, and wishes to continue to do so in her new office. Now is the time for all of us (individually) to write to the Health Minister to tell her what our concerns are. Just tell her, in your own words, what the Health Ministry she has inherited is doing to the availability of products that you depend on for your health (and/or income). If you can, give examples of how you and your family may have been adversely affected (or are about to be). Give Minister Aglukkaq any suggestions you may have as to how she can restore health freedom to Canadians. It is important that we all write individual, personal letters to the Health Minister. These are the ones that receive the most attention. Send a copy of your letter to your own MP. Also arrange for a meeting with your MP in his/her constituency office, if you feel so moved. Send your letters to: Hon. Leona Aglukkaq, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6. For every personal letter received, politicians are aware that over 100 others feel the same way but didn’t take the time to write. You can also fax your letter to Minister Aglukkaq at (613) 996-9764 – or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) . ALSO go to our website – _www.canadiancoalitionforhealthfreedom.ca_ (http://www.canadiancoalitionforhealthfreedom.ca) and click on the STOP SIGN and you can in a few seconds send over 400 e-mails to all Canadian MPs and Senators. Dr. David Rowland, PhD. MBA, BCom Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom Office & Mailing Address: c/o Tucks Business Center, 444 Dundas Street East, Suites H & I, Belleville, Ontario, Canada, K8N 1E9 Phone: (613) 771-1797 Fax: (613) 771-1435 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Website: _www.canadiancoalitionforhealthfreedom.ca_ (http://www.canadiancoalitionforhealthfreedom.ca) Be sure to visit our affiliated websites: _www.allianceofnaturalhealthsuppliers.com_ (http://www.allianceofnaturalhealthsuppliers.com) | _www.healthcanadaabuse.ca_ (http://www.healthcanadaabuse.ca) | _www.friendsoffreedominternational.org_ (http://www.friendsoffreedominternational.org) | _www.freedomofchoiceinhealthcare.ca_ (http://www.freedomofchoiceinhealthcare.ca) | Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) * _Bill C-51 all over again?_ (http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/bill-c-51-all-over-again/) * _Natural Health Coalition opposes Bill C-51_ (http://johnb98.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/natural-health-coalition-opposes-bill-c-51/) (http://philosophyliterature.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/a-triumph-of-astroturf/) (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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