(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, <http://www.naturalnews.com/vitamins.html>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." Learn
about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the
Stop51.com website: <http://www.stopc51.com>http://www.stopc51.com
New
enforcement powers allow Canadian government to seize your home or
business
. 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-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...)
There's more, too. C-51 is
the Canadian government's "final solution" for the <http://www.naturalnews.com/health_products.html>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 <http://www.naturalnews.com/Big_Pharma.html>Big Pharma and the outdated, corrupt and criminally-operated pharmaceutical
industry that these criminally-operated governments are trying to
protect.
NaturalNews
is looking to hire someone with a good video camera to film the event. We'll
gladly pay you to video tape this and send us the resulting file, which
we will edit and then post for NaturalNews readers. If you have a video
camera (with good audio, hopefully) and can attend the May 9th rally,
please contact us at (U.S.) for details. If you do film there, be
sure to use the camera buddy system, where you have somebody in the
distance filming YOU with the camera, so that if Canadian law enforcement
thugs decide to assault you and steal your video camera in order to
censor the event, then somebody else in the distance has THAT on video!
You got that? So there are two cameras working, camera A is filming the
rally, and it's very close to the action. Camera B is set back farther
from the scene, and it's filming the person holding camera A. This is
standard operating practice for filming such events, and it makes it
very difficult for government thugs to shut down the video. Often, the
person filming with camera B is in a car somewhere, or filming covertly so
that they don't attract attention. Zoom lenses help a lot.
In any
case, if you manage to get some video of this event, then we'd be thrilled
to share it with NaturalNews readers. And like I said, we'll pay for
footage, so call us for details. Together, we can help spread the word about
this important rally for health freedom in Canada.
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