Hi everyone,
 
In case you are not aware yet of the extreme insult the proposed Bill C-51 will have on every Canadian's right of freedom to choose their own way of treating their health, then please familiarize yourself with the message below and follow up on all the links.  
 
Unless each and everyone of us who is able to still think clearly acts a.s.a.p. Canada is in danger of turning into a police state beyond our imagination.  
 
How would you like to be prosecuted for growing herbs in your garden or flower pots?...
 
Thanks for actively standing up for our/your rights.
 
Tinesja
 
For those who like knowledge http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634  
 
KRIPPS HEALTHCARE Rx
Dr. Edward J. Thorpe, B.Sc. (Pharm), Ph.D.
5413 West Boulevard, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6M 3W5
 
Dear ______,  
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-51which 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