No more vitamins? WTF?

[hermetic]

"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.

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At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new "enforcement" powers to the enforcement agents who claim to be "protecting" the public from dangerous unapproved "therapeutic agents" like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org website ((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government's enforcement agents to:

• 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"

This all sounds a little too weird to be true, but there's going to be a rally in Calgary:

"On May 9th, 2008, Canadian citizens will be gathering at the Calgary Federal Court to protest C-51 and help protect their access to natural health products. Call 1-888-878-3467 to learn more, or visit the action page of Health Canada Exposed at: http://www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp "

If you're in Calgary and have a video camera, they are looking to pay someone to film the rally:

"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"

Full story here: http://www.naturalnews.com/023121.html

[Posteritatis]

1. Any site that claims the government is "outlawing vitamins" makes my BS meter twinge. (nt)

[hermetic]

2. Right,

Like I said, it sounded weird. But then I started finding more info about it, here:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2832

here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20080430&articleId=8850

and here: http://www.healthcanadaabuse.com/index.php?command=show&ID=12810

"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."

It certainly sounds as if something is afoot, and it's not good.