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I really hope it's okay to post this. Our right to freedom of choosing our own health care is at stake. If you know any Canadians who might not know about this but would like to, please send it to them as well. It gets pretty well diabolical when they threaten to charge you for drying herbs in your own home, then want to charge you for taking it, storing it, plus the time the 'workers' spent in dealing with it! We've got to try hard to not to let this happen!
KRIPPS HEALTHCARE Rx
Dr. Edward J. Thorpe, B.Sc. (Pharm), Ph.D.
5413 West Boulevard, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6M 3W5
Dear Kripps Customer, Constance Fogal,
We at the pharmacy email you for an unusual, urgent purpose. You may have learned recently from the news media about the controversy over Bill C-51 which
has just finished second Parliamentary reading in Ottawa. The Bill will go to Committee for further study, and then proceed to the third and final
reading.
We believe the Bill as currently worded is at best, ambiguous, inconsistent and wrong-headed, and at worst is potentially dangerous to our consumer health-care
liberties. We believe it deserves citizens' examination (see item # 6 below) and protest to our elected parliamentarians. We urge you to look into the
matter, and if you feel it justified, to voice your concern to a government official.
Briefly, our specific concerns are as follows.
1] The prospective law can be used to remove your rightful access to vitamins, herbs, spices, dietary supplements & medicinal food. Promoted as a means to
protect the safety of Canadians from untested natural health products, Bill C-51 is a wide-reaching, little publicized and carefully crafted set of
amendments to the federal Food & Drug Act that threatens Canadians rights to
natural health products. Key changes include: replacing the word “drug” with “therapeutic product” throughout the Act, giving the Canadian Government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, spices,
vitamins, and supplements.
C-51 would require all other therapeutic products to go through an even more costly approval process than the current regulations require, which would be
financially impossible for many natural health product manufacturers to meet, rendering the products unavailable to the public. Currently, 65% of the
applications to Health Canada are being rejected. In the future, as a possible result of this legislation, only narrowly defined government approved natural
health products, possibly to be considered “prescription drugs”, would
be available to you - by prescription only!
2] C-51 will result in the outlawing of thousands of beneficial low risk natural health products. It would grant alarming new “enforcement”powers to
federal inspectors to “protect” Canadians from “dangerous”
unapproved “therapeutic agents”. Without oversight or appeal, products
as
benign as, for example, dandelion greens, blueberries, bottled water or
vitamin
C could become illegal to possess or distribute. As written, Bill C-51
can
classify your food as a “therapeutic product”.
3] C-51 would also allow federal enforcement agents to raid your home
or
business without a warrant, seize your bank accounts, and levy fines up
to $5
million with jail terms up to 2 years for selling or drying herbs in
your
kitchen, such activity now to be categorized as “controlled activity”.
Bill C-
51 allows for the confiscation of your property, and then the charging
of
storage fees on that property plus a charge for the government
bureaucracy's
time! In effect, such legislation will destroy an industry that is the
age-old
alternative to conventional allopathic medicine. Natural medicine works
well,
is increasingly scientifically-based, and is traditionally and widely
used in
North America, Europe, and Asia. Bill C-51 would criminalize the sale
or even
the free distribution of “unapproved natural products”.
We appreciate your consideration of this matter. We believe this Bill
should be
stopped in its entirety. Please see below for how you can act to make a
difference in the outcome of this legislation.
Sincerely,
Edward Thorpe
Tel: 604-687-2564 - Fax: 604-685-9721
Toll Free: 1-877-312-8822
www.krippspharmacy.com <http://www.krippspharmacy.com> -
altermed@portal.ca
<mailto:altermed@portal.ca>
1) Contact your Member of Parliament ASAP.
Inform him/her that:
- you are opposed to Bill C-51;
- you want him/her to vote against Bill C-51;
- you want your access to natural health products protected.
To find out who your MP is, search by postal code at
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOf......
2) Forward this e-mail to everybody you know and request that they do
the same.
3) Phone your MP and the Prime Minister's Office to voice your
concerns.
Dial toll-free 1-866-599-4999 and ask to be transferred to any MPs
office. The
hours of this service are:
Monday - Thursday, 8:30 - 6:00 pm Eastern standard time
Friday only, 8:30 - 5:00 pm Eastern Standard time
Stephen Harper's phone numbers are (613) 992-4211 and (403) 253-7990.
Tony Clement's phone numbers are (613) 944-7740 and (705) 746-9053.
4) Introduce this issue to your local media.
5) Also write a handwritten letter to:
- your local MP;
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper;
- Tony Clement, Minister of Health.
You can send your letters without postage to:
(Name of person)
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6
6) Get more information
Read the transcript of April 30th's House of Commons debate on C-51
here (note
that the debate has not finished yet):
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication...
Read a copy of Bill C-51:
<http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication> ... &
Read a Draft Discussion Paper on Bill C-51 by Shawn Buckley, president
of the
Natural Health Products Protection Association: http://www.nhppa.org/.
See
also: www.stopbillc51.com
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