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May 9, 2008
Will draconian Bill C-51 ban natural therapeutic products?
May 8th, 2008 Canadians against Bill C-51
Write a comment on this article !Read members’ comments [2]Will draconian Bill C-51 ban natural therapeutic products? Richard Burnett
In an all-Canadian David vs. Goliath battle, Alberta-based non-profit natural therapeutic products company True Hope is taking Health Canada to Federal Court on May 9 to stop the feds from "detaining and suspending shipments to our customers," Truehope co-founder Anthony Stephan told Hour this week.
"A person should have the right to take it [Truehope's natural therapeutic supplements, like EMPowerplus]," says Stephan.
Health Canada's battle with Truehope began back in 2003, when Health Canada claimed Canadians using EMPowerplus "could be putting their health at risk" and so filed criminal charges against Truehope.
But in 2006, Truehope won that battle in the Provincial Court of Alberta. Then on April 8 the Harper Tories introduced Bill C-51, which Truehope's Anthony Stephan says is biased in favour of Big Pharma. Stephan says C-51 will allow Canadian authorities to raid businesses without warrants, seize bank accounts, confiscate property and levy fines up to $5-million and give jail terms of up to two years for selling herbs. [full story]
May 8, 2008
Here is the current status on Bill C-51 deliberations and Trueman's input "THEY will make a critical decision on Thursday May 8th 2008 on whether to schedule Bill C-51 on next week’s order paper. IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU KEEP UP THE PROTESTS AND WE HAVE CREATED A SPECIAL WEBSITE TO ASSIST IN THIS – go to www.helpstopbillc51.ca and / or www.healthcanadaabuse.com and send the E-Action Protest letters immediately."
See also: The Canadian Health Coalition poster here.
Here is the current status on Bill C-51 deliberations and Trueman's input
A couple websites are posting some of the rally info (the following sites are not the organizers), there are ~ 3 pdf’s available to least -
http://www.lifeismymessage.com/billc51
http://www.inspiredlife.ca/stop_bill_c-51
http://www.thebigcarrot.ca
Other rally info can be found here: [full story]
May 6, 2008
Under the guise of protecting the public's safety, the proposed bill Attention News/Health Editors:
Re: Proposed amendment to the Food and Drugs Act 50 international scientists, physicians and associated health practitioners are calling upon Canada's Health Minister to reconsider its
plan to amend the Food and Drugs Act (Bill C-51). TORONTO, May 5 /CNW/ - For several years now there has been an effort on
the part of the WHO and the WTO to bring in a common international standardfor health products. In 2009 signatory states, like Canada, are obliged to
adopt standards and guidelines that were laid down by the Codex AlimentariusCommission.
Sections of Bill C-51 (section 30, paragraphs 7 - 9)(*) will enable HealthCanada to implement the Codex within Canada without adequate public
consultation. The amendments could restrict the level of dosage available innutritional supplements to questionable low levels. Dosages above a certain as
yet unknown threshold could require a prescription from a physician. Ofcourse, this could result in a diminution of choices available to Canadians as
compared to today. Under the guise of protecting the public's safety, the proposed bill
could allow for the introduction of restrictive regulations that would likelyfall below "the radar" of sufficient public scrutiny. One such is bringing
nutritional products and pharmaceutical drugs together under a commonregulatory term "therapeutic products". [full story]
May 5, 2008
Just what are Parliament's real priorities Asks Croft Woodruff PhD MH Council member of Friends of Freedom International & the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom Suggested letter / Presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health:
Why do 'health protection' bureaucrats attack the natural health products industry with Bill C-51 and not alcohol or prescription drug abuse?Canadians can remember what happened to scientists in Health Canada and Agriculture Canada when they exposed attempts on the part of Monsanto to bribe senior bureaucrats into approving a synthetic growth hormone (rBGH, BGH, rBST) which - when injected into dairy cattle - would force the cows to give more milk on less feed. The consequences being that old Bossy's life would be shortened - because of chronic mastitis, other infections and bone loss. Additionally, the milk would be contaminated with anti inflammatory drugs and antibiotics to treat the mastitis and infections respectively. What is worse, this growth hormone is a known carcinogen (carcinogen = a fancy word for "it causes cancer," buddy!). Canadians know what happened to another HC scientist, Dr. Pierre Blaise, who warned about silicone breast implants. He was fired for his efforts. A man without honor in his own country but recognized around the world for his effort in trying to save women from this deadly cosmetic crap. No whistle blower legislation allowed here.In 1997 - after Liberal Prime Minister Chrétien's then Health Minister Allan Rock tried to pull a 'sandy' by attacking natural health products (NHP's) with draconian legislation - millions of Canadians demanded of the Liberal government that foods are not drugs and that dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, proteins, lipids and herbs be regulated as food. The frightened Liberals backed off and promised a new category for NHP's. [full story]
May 4, 2008
Why do 'health protection' bureaucrats attack the natural health products industry with Bill C-51 and not alcohol or prescription drug abuse? Why do 'health protection' bureaucrats attack the natural health products industry with Bill C-51 and not alcohol or prescription drug abuse?Canadians can remember what happened to scientists in Health Canada and Agriculture Canada when they exposed attempts on the part of Monsanto to bribe senior bureaucrats into approving a synthetic growth hormone which - when injected into dairy cattle - would force the cows to give more milk on less feed. The consequences being that old Bossy's life would be shortened - because of chronic mastitis, other infections and bone loss. Additionally, the milk would be contaminated with anti inflammatory drugs and antibiotics to treat the mastitis and infections respectively. What is worse, this growth hormone is a known carcinogen (carcinogen= a fancy word for "it causes cancer," buddy!). Canadians know what happened to another HC scientist, Dr. Pierre Blaise, who warned about silicone breast implants. He was fired for his efforts. A man without honor in his own country but recognized around the world for his effort in trying to save women from this deadly cosmetic crap. No whistle blower legislation allowed here. [full story]
May 4, 2008
'Secret science' puts lives at risk. Regulators are criticized after trial participants were given a dangerous product even after tests had identified problems
'Secret science' puts lives at risk
Regulators are criticized after trial participants were given a dangerous product even after tests had identified problems
HELEN BRANSWELL
The Canadian Press
April 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM EDT
U.S. and Canadian regulatory rules allowed companies to conduct "secret science" that jeopardized the lives and health of hundreds of people who took part in clinical trials for a human blood substitute, even though earlier tests had shown the existing products were dangerous, researchers reported yesterday.
Companies were not required to publish the findings of their trials, leaving research ethics boards that were assessing applications for additional trials - and people being asked to participate in them - in the dark about the fact the products elevated the risks of death and of having a heart attack.
A review of all the available literature on the trials - published online yesterday by the Journal of the American Medical Association - shows that people who received hemoglobin-based blood substitutes in clinical trials were 30 per cent more likely to die and faced a nearly threefold increased risk of heart attack. [full story]
May 3, 2008
Debate on C-51 Extracted From Parliament Website, Key Sections Highlighted in RED pertain directly to Natural Health Products ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: John Hammell <jham@iahf.com>Date: Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:34 PMSubject: Debate on C-51 Extracted From Parliament Website, Key Sections Highlighted in RED pertain directly to Natural Health ProductsTo: a.stephan@truehope.com, bradford Stephan <brad@truehope.com>, david.s@truehope.com, Croft Woodruff <croft.woodruff@gmail.com>Cc: debbie@dowco.com, Candace Hill <hillcan@gmail.com>, beltmj@accesscomm.ca, kurtluzny@weights101.com, Ed Hendricks <ehendricks@sympatico.ca>
Questions (highlighted in red) pertinent to concerns of consumers of Natural Health Products were asked below by Paul Szabo (Mississaqua South- Lib)James Lunney (Naniamo- Albernia CPC)Judy Wasylycia Leis (Winnepeg North- NDP)Larry Bagnell (Yukon-Lib) who was the most persistent in asking questions, asking them several times in different ways, clearly not trusting ANY answers.Responses are also highlighted in red. There will be a need for several people from our side to sign up to testify before Parliament when this goes to second reading to make sure our questions aren't evaded and to make sure we get amendments put in to protect ourselves. Notice how evasive the Conservatives are here to all questions. Shawn Buckley should plan on testifying with razor sharp questions and proposed amendments. The Conservatives are trying very hard to make this legislation seem perfectly reasonable and necessary. Judy Wasylycia Leis raised some very good skeptical questions about their true intentions noting that the Conservatives dismantled the drug testing labs years ago putting Canadians at risk. She stated that the risk assessment model proposed in this legislation really favors big business over Canadians and she's correct. I note that this legislation is very similar to S.1082 which passed a year ago in the US which totally subverted the mission and purpose of the FDA turning it into a pharmaceutical company. This legislation seems to parallel it and for similar reasons. [full story]
May 3, 2008
A recent decision of the Ontario Human Rights Commission reminds us that he who pays the piper, calls the tune. If the OHRC's tune is to be widely echoed, it is not one churches can dance to, lest their message be compromised. Church must decide which it serves:
the state or God
NIGEL HANNAFORD
Nigel Hannaford, Calgary Herald
Published: Saturday, May 03, 2008
Politicians who love the Kingdom of God must deal with a tough question: Should they advocate cutting loose the church from its tax advantages? For its own protection, should donations to churches cease to be tax deductible? There is a case for it. A recent decision of the Ontario Human Rights Commission reminds us that he who pays the piper, calls the tune. If the OHRC's tune is to be widely echoed, it is not one churches can dance to, lest their message be compromised.
Christian Horizons is a mission to the developmentally challenged, started 40 years ago by a minister with two children who might have been institutionalized, had he not started it. Its history is a notable testimony to the power of God, working for good through individuals. Now, it runs 180 group homes in Ontario and cares for 1,400 clients with a staff of 2,500.
A condition of employment though, is that staff sign the mission's code of conduct. Consistent with Christian orthodoxy, it features a clear ban on unbiblical sexual behaviour: adultery and sex before marriage are no-nos, likewise homosexual relationships. [full story]
May 3, 2008
This is not about justice, equality or discrimination. It is about crude bullying and triumphalism. The campaign stopped being about tolerance a long time ago and now is about penalizing anyone who will not embrace a particular social and sexual agenda. Disabling charity
Human Rights Commissions might spell end for Christian aid
MICHAEL COREN
Toronto Sun
May 3, 2008
There was a time, long ago, when sanity ruled. When people could disagree with each other without malice and nobody was silenced for having unfashionable opinions.
If you don't like something on television or radio, we were told, don't watch it. If you don't like a particular newspaper or magazine, don't read it. And if you don't like the values of certain employers, don't work for them.
But that was before the good Pierre Trudeau and his followers told us that we had never before enjoyed human rights. Times had changed, we were instructed, and from now on we would be free, happy and diverse. That was an order.
If you doubt it, speak to members of a group by the name of Christian Horizons in Kitchener, Ont. It operates homes for the disabled across the province and do extraordinary work for people who often have little or nothing. Work, in fact, that most people refuse to do. [full story]
May 3, 2008
Forget innocent until proven guilty, you are now a terrorist suspect until you are told otherwise Three States Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"Local, state police and sheriff's office join feds for "terror" sweeps that result in hundreds of citations for traffic violations
Steve WatsonInfowars.netFriday, April 18, 2008
Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff's deputy has described as "martial law training".
Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part in what was described by local media as "an anti-crime and anti-terrorism initiative" involving officers from more than 50 federal, state and local agencies.
Given the military style name "Operation Sudden Impact", the initiative saw officers from six counties rounding up fugitives, conducting traffic checkpoints, climbing on boats on the Mississippi River and doing other "crime-abatement" programs all under the label of "anti-terrorism". [full story]