The NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS PROTECTION ASSOCIATION posted this article back in May 14, 2008. As of November 30, 2009 they have almost 41,300 signatures on their Charter of Health Freedom Petition.
Draft Discussion Paper on Bill C-52 the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act
VOTE CANADA.CA has another petition regarding this here are some excerpts:
To: Stephen Harper / Conservatives
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.READ AND SIGN THE PETITION ONLINE HERE: petitiononline.com
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."
New enforcement powers allow Canadian government to seize your home or business
At the same time that C-6 & C-52 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.
* 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-52 & C-6 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...)
This is a series of videos on You Tube by Constitutional lawyer, Shawn Buckley, who presents the truth about Bill C-51 and the loss of our basic fundamental freedom in Canada if the bill passes. It is the same as they are doing in the US with their State of Emergency Act where they can lock you up if you refuse the H1N1 vaccine. The Canadian Gov't is using the "For Safety Reasons" excuse to take away our right to natural medicine....we have to stop this now!
