Bill C-51 FOOD AND DRUGS ACT Update!
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While it appears Bill C51 may now be going undercover until fall Parliament resumes, you may find it interesting to read the attached letter I received from our MP, James Bezan (Conservative) after I sent him an email requesting a Stakeholders’ meeting.
If the Minister of Health gives us a stakeholders’ meeting like the one they had in Kelowna, Saskatoon, and several other cities, we need to have it very well attended to have a good effect. In fact the other stakeholders’ meetings were held by invitation only and were not publicized - almost held in secret. Mr. Bezan requests an open public invitation. This will be amazing if it comes together. We are all stakeholders - those who have a stake in businesses or other interests in natural health modalities and products.
I’ll let you know when we have a date. Please notify any interested parties in Manitoba.
Letter from James Bezan to Tony Clemente
Jun 13th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Policy Statement on
the Standing of the
Canadian Natural
Health Coalition
CANADIAN
COALITION
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INTRODUCTION
Bill C‐51 presents a direct threat to the rights of Canadians to access safe, effective and low‐cost
natural health products (NHPs). This proposal would reverse the regulatory reforms that Canadians
campaigned for and Parliament approved.
This legislation is just the latest assault by Health Canada (HC) intended to restrict the freedom
Canadians have to choose NHPs for their health and well‐being. If passed, Bill C‐51 would give
enormous powers to HC. It is certain that these will be used to strangle and marginalize NHPs.
Bill C‐51 does not directly impose sanctions on the availability to the public of natural health
products. Instead, it would confer on Health Canada the power to impose sanctions later, at their
discretion, one piece at a time, when the opportunity is ripe. Health Canada has always been hostile
to natural health products. Bill C‐51 will provide them with the weaponry to complete the job.
Apologists for Bill C‐51 try to deflect public concerns about its grim provisions by claiming “it is not
the intention” of the bill or its advocates that it will be used to suppress natural health products.
Canadians are being asked to trust these soothing assurances about Bill C‐51’s “intentions”.
We have heard this all before.
THE GOOD ‘INTENTIONS’ BEHIND BILL C-51
It was the “intention” of Parliament that Health Canada would implement its approval, in March
1999, of the Standing Committee on Health’s (SCOH) report, Natural Health Products: A New Vision
which featured 53 specific Recommendations. This was the culmination of a large‐scale public
campaign to ensure better access to NHPs through major regulatory reform. Despite Health
Canada’s bitter resistance Parliament agreed with the public and approved a significant package of
reforms.
These mandated reforms have not been carried out. Would someone in the government and
Parliament account for this situation? Despite the combination of public support and Parliament’s
“intentions”, Health Canada has insubordinately refused to implement them. Parliaments pass
legislation and governments give orders but the record shows HC pursues its own agenda which is
vindictively hostile to natural health. Who is running the show?
We don’t doubt the good‐faith of MPs professed intentions. We just see that they can’t deliver the
goods. If the intentions of Parliament carried any weight we wouldn’t have to have this fight again.
Parliament and the government have lost control over the management at HC.
We say: Health Canada is a rogue agency. Canadians are confronted with a breakdown of good
governance and accountability over this department.
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This is the public’s health care system. We own it. Parliament is our trustee. More Canadians than
ever favour natural health. We say to our politicians:
We are not going away. The current regime at Health Canada must go away.
We will fight until we see the public interest on natural health respected in policy and practice. We
are tired of the tail wagging the dog and we want this fixed – permanently.
The Canadian Natural Health Coalition (CNHC) calls on Parliament and the government to re‐assert
proper management and oversight of Health Canada. We call for a thorough house‐cleaning and
reform of that agency which we have lost confidence in and respect for. We call for a Regime
Change at Health Canada.
After which, the public may again have confidence in the intentions of its legislators.
HOW BIL L C - 51 WILL HURT CANADIANS
Canadians won the right to have natural health products formally confirmed as a third independent
category within the current legislation on a peer basis with the existing categories – Foods and
Drugs. This has not happened. Health Canada has obstructed every legislative opportunity to carry
our Parliament’s instructions.
Canadians won the right to have natural health products formally confirmed as a third category
within the current legislation on a peer basis with the other legal categories ‐ Foods and Drugs.
This has not happened. HC has obstructed every legislative opportunity to carry out its duty to have
made this so. Instead, we have been fobbed off with a mere third directorate ‐ the Natural Health
Products Directorate (NHPD). This directorate is a wholly‐owned subsidiary of the Therapeutics
Product Programme (TPP) aka the Drugs Directorate ‐ re‐branded. NHPs remain as drugs under the
current system.
Bill C‐51 proposes to re‐define the definition of ‘drug’ into the nebulous concept of “Therapeutic
Products”. The entire reason for this is initiative is to construct a categorical umbrella wide enough
to embrace the upstart NHPs so their rapid growth can be contained. Health Canada is wasting
taxpayer’s money and abusing the public trust by pursuing this unauthorized vendetta against
natural health products.
If Bill C‐51 is passed, Health Canada’s plans are transparent. Health Canada officials have been
bruiting their intentions throughout the natural health products industry. With the NHPD under its
thumb a new Natural Products Directorate (NPD) will be positioned jurisdictionally between the
Drugs Directorate and the NHPD. This new NPD will regulate all ‘natural’ ingredients and products
that are held to have ‘therapeutic potential’.
Since in HC dogma only drugs can deliver therapeutic benefits ipso facto any substance with
therapeutic potential is automatically designated as a drug, even if the substance is demonstrably
not a drug as in the case of an NHP.
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Health Canada simply refuses to acknowledge that Natural Health Products are qualitatively
distinct from pharmaceutical drugs. They refuse to evaluate NHPs according to their intrinsic
properties.
We – the Canadian public and our members of Parliament – are being forced to fight over the same
ground we already decided on. Health Canada’s insistence that Natural Health Products be forced
through the Procrustean Bed of pharmaceutical criteria is scientifically and clinically without basis,
is contrary to the public interest, and provides plain sight evidence of their disloyalty as a public
agency.
Thanks to Bill C‐51, Health Canada will be able to strip the NHPD of jurisdiction over most of its
ingredients and products vesting these products under the Natural Products Directorate, including
the majority of NHPD applicants who are facing final disallowance. Therefore, the NHPD will be left
with authority over wheat germ and alfalfa tablets.
Since Natural Products are deemed to be capable of ‘therapeutic potential’ (i.e. can do something
useful) ex‐NHPD ingredients will now be subject to pharmaceutical‐type evaluation under the NPD.
Since these substances are not drugs to begin with these products will not be approved. The current
tsunami of unapproved NHPD applications will soon manifest as failed NHPs and be forced off the
market.
Thanks to Bill C‐51, Health Canada will be able to move the goalposts anywhere it likes. The
standards of evidence, the burden of proof, the review process, the reviewers, enforcement,
investigation ‐ everything can be moved around and manipulated at Health Canada’s enhanced
discretion. These powers have always been abused. Health Canada gets to make the rules, hires
‘ringers’ as reviewers and then uses selected enforcement to punish or reward. The whole system is
stage managed to ‘appear’ as formally correct but in practice it is rotten and corrupt. Bill C‐51 will
make sure that the regulation of natural ingredients by Health Canada will become just as debased
as they have become for pharmaceutical medicaments what with the endemic payoffs, conflicts of
interest, corruption, malpractice, bad ethics and outright lying that characterizes that field. And
thanks to Bill C‐51, Health Canada will have the means to subject Canadians to the additional
restrictions against natural health products that derive from the Codex Alimentarius.
What few products are allowed by the NPD must perforce have their public access restricted as all
‘therapeutic’ products ‐‘drugs’ ‐ are deemed to have the potential to cause harm. Under this new
regime, they simply cannot be sold openly like Natural Health Products.
Thanks to Bill C‐51, Health Canada will be able to require that ‘therapeutic’ Natural Products be
accessible only on the prescription of a licensed practitioner as each province variably defines that.
What a nightmare of enforcement problems that will set off compounding this is the well
established fact that physicians generally have no training or competence in the use of natural
health products while other well trained practitioners are not licensed. Such products of course,
must be ‘dispensed’ from controlled facilities known as pharmacies.
Health Canada aims to choke off product availability of NHPs to Canadians. These actions will force a
person living in Quebec who now routinely buys an NHP locally to travel to Ontario and engage the
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services of a licensed Naturopathic physician (ND) since the Province of Quebec does not recognize
Naturopaths. That ND could write a prescription for the desired product ONLY if it remained
available for sale on the Short List of the NPD. Also, the poor patient would have to find a drug store
that even knew what the product was.
The whole point of what Health Canada is doing is place as many obstacles as possible in the way
of consumers trying to access Natural Health Products just as they have rigged the system to
frustrate suppliers who want to develop and market products.
This scenario is not speculative, it is pending. Health Canada personnel are already bragging about it.
Our tax dollars at work.
With Bill C‐51, Health Canada is working to restrain the rapid growth of the Natural Health Products
sector. As far as Health Canada is concerned too many Canadians are using too many NHPs for
therapeutic purposes. We are getting out of control and must be forced back into line “for our own
good”.
HEALTH CANADA : ECONOMIC SABOTEUR
Health Canada’s campaign against NHPs directly harms the economic welfare of the large number of
Canadians whose livelihood is invested in this growing business sector. There a lot of jobs at stake.
Growers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, health professionals and researchers all will suffer if
Health Canada’s repressive desires take force. The regulatory chill and hostility that Health Canada
directs towards natural health – something which is widely known ‐ will confine Canada in the
backwaters of a high‐growth international industry.
Of course, the well‐paid and tenured HC bureaucracy could not care less about other people’s jobs,
businesses, practices or investments. Members of Parliament must take cognisance of this. They
must be supporting the development of a healthy NHP industry which is rich in entrepreneurial
vitality instead of allowing Health Canada to strangle it.
We say: Stop Health Canada from destroying a Healthy industry.
The greatest crisis facing Canadians in our health care system is the growing tension between
constantly rising costs and declining outcomes. When Canadians use natural health products they
ease the burden on the health care system. This deserves to be recognized by our Members of
Parliament.
NHPs have the best safety record of all classes of medicaments. If pharmaceutical drugs were held
to the same safety standard as Natural Health Products, there would be very few of them left.
Health Canada’s reckless actions will directly result in the development of an underground market
for Natural Health Products. We can look forward to grandmothers being busted by HC brownshirts
for possession of carnitine. Popular U.S., Japanese or European products that Health Canada refuses
to approve will nevertheless find their way to market on a large scale. This is very bad public policy in
the making.
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To our Members of Parliament: with costs of adverse effects from prescription drug use going
through the roof, how do you justify sanctioning the expense of Health Canada’s large‐scale
campaign against ultra‐safe NHPs?
NHPs are clinically effective; their preventative properties benefit consumers and this reduces the
demand on high priced taxpayer‐funded conventional medicine. They are largely used by people
who have actively taken control of their health.
Why is it not public policy to support such tendencies? Dollar against dollar, measure against
measure – benefits, adverse effects, compliance ‐ NHPs deliver a better return on investment than
drugs. It should be the case that the widest possible use of NHPs is formally promoted.
HEALTH CANADA’S PHONY ‘CONTAMINATION’ CAMPAIGN
Health Canada claims they need the stern enforcement powers of Bill C‐51 because the public needs
to be protected from “contaminated” NHPs. A clearer example of the culture of lying and deceit
within HC towards NHPs could not be hoped for.
There is a large business being carried on in Canada selling fake drugs. They are largely sold through
the anonymity of spam email solicitations or through the unwitting agency of pharmacies or by
street trafficking like illegal drugs.
A very small part of fake drug sales are made through the retail channel. Since they cannot be sold
openly in a store just as they are, fake drugs have to be disguised. Sometimes they are represented
as ‘herbal’ products. The fake drug masquerades as a fake NHP. The peddlers of these goods are not
part of the legal NHP business. They are outlaws of the drug business.
We are not in the drug business. This is your dirty laundry Health Canada. The issue is not that REAL
Natural Health Products are a problem. It is that HC allows drug carpetbaggers to graze into our
territory.
We say to Health Canada: Keep your drugs out of our Natural Health Products.
Besides, is there anyone so naive as to imagine that HC cares about the welfare of someone who got
an unexpected Viagra response from a bottle of ‘herbal’ sexual aides they bought at the local
convenience store? These bureaucrats are comfortably indifferent to the tens of thousands of
Canadians annually who die or suffer adverse effects from the legal drugs they so blithely permit.
Almost every day Canadians are informed of studies or reports that find some approved prescription
drug or another doesn’t work or causes serious adverse effects. About these things Health Canada
does nothing. The hypocrisy of Health Canada on product safety is obscene.
While fake drugs are being sold, does HC attack the legal pharmaceutical industry? When fake
watches or DVDs are sold does the government attack the manufacturers of legal watches or DVDs?
On what policy basis then does HC attack the NHP industry alone?
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Health Canada is attempting to smear the legal NHP industry by false association. We say loud and
clear: There are NO examples of compliant NHPs being found ‘contaminated’ with fake drugs. HCs’
malicious allegations have no factual basis.
The government should order HC to stop this anti‐NHP smear campaign at once. The Minister of
Health should conduct a thorough investigation and discipline the responsible officials.
Canadian Natural Health Coalition calls on the Members of Parliament to see the following into
law:
1. That Natural Health Products are consecrated as a ‘category’ on a peer basis with Foods and
Drugs throughout all legislation;
2. That the legislation fixes the definition of NHPs to be that as currently applies for the NHPD;
3. That the legislation specify that NHPs will be remain available to Canadians in the public domain
with specific prohibition of prescription status;
4. That all products containing only natural health ingredients and otherwise complying with Good
Manufacturing Practices and labelling requirements be available for sale to consumers on a
default basis.
WE CONCLUDE, PLAINLY
The Canadian Natural Health Coalition and the public will no longer tolerate the abuse of power
from Health Canada. We will mobilize, organize and focus the power of the majority of Canadians
who rightfully demand access to safe, effective and low‐cost NHPs. We will wage a ceaseless
campaign to bring an end to the tyranny of the current regime at Health Canada.
To our Members of Parliament who at present retain our confidence, if you betray our trust we will
confront you in the impending federal election. If you want this issue to go away and for the public
to applaud you then fix this NOW.
Permanently.
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Drafted by Robert McMaster
Canadian Natural Health Coalition
Toronto, Ontario
http://www.cnhc.ca
policy@cnhc.ca
© Canadian Natural Health Coalition 2008
Permission is granted to photocopy or distribute this material, unedited.
This policy statement was approved by the CNHC Executive/Steering committee on June 11, 2008.
Jul 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Hi, I am posting this today to show people the response I was given by James Bezan and the Conservatives when I questioned him and Tony Clement about Bill C-51. If Canada is such a free country why does our conservative government threaten people for asking questions about a proposed bill…like Bill c-51. Below are the emails between James Bezan and I and as I want everyone to know James Bezan threatened to sue me and take legal action against me for asking how the conservatives and Tony Clement stand to profit from this bill.
Email #1. Dear Conservatives,
My name is Mike Krahn and I am emailing you to encourage the conservatives to STOP BILL C-51. Again just because Tony Clement has a 25% stock share in a pharma. company in Ontario, he is going to march forward with a bill that would make natural cures illegal. I don’t believe in prescription pills, use all natural cures and am 100 times healthier than any politician out there. STOP C-51 it is unconstitutional and against my rights and if your going to tell me it’s to weed out bad companies, then you should start a bill to start closing down big pharma. companies that RUN our government.
I know that the FDA and pharma. companies have already changed the law to make it illegal to heal, cure and treat disease without a pill. This is insane already and the fact that Tony Clement is pushing this forward so quickly just to fatten his pockets is also insane. It’s time to listen to the people of the country NOT LARGE INDUSTRY.
How much are you going to make off of this bill Mr. Bezan? Are you also going to profit from this bill? So much for the Conservative’s Accountability Bullshit…same old same old!
Sincerely,
Mike Krahn
Email #2 Dear Mr. Krahn:
Thank you for your e-mail concerning Bill C-51, an Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act. I appreciate hearing from constituents on legislation that is before the House of Commons.
Bill C-51 was introduced on April 8, 2008. This Bill responds to a weakness in the federal health law regime and is part of our strategy to ensure that food and other products that are available on the Canadian market are safe for consumers. The purpose of this legislation is to target those few who would break the law, and by doing so, level the playing field for law-abiding Canadian businesses.
Please be assured that the legislation is designed to ensure access to safe, effective Natural Health Products, not to keep them from Canadians. Natural Health Products are already a separate category in the regulations of the Food and Drugs Act, and have been since 2004. They are not regulated as drugs, and Bill C-51 won’t change that. However, there are many cases of adulterated Natural Health Products, such as the pills “Sleepees” that were the subject of national media stories, and Canadians want us to make sure they are safe. Products that make health claims must be regulated. Otherwise they should be sold as foods.
I want to clarify the term ‘therapeutic product’ in the legislation. This term is general in nature because it includes drugs, natural health products, medical devices, veterinary drugs, and blood and blood products. They all share one common element: they claim to enhance human health, and Canadians rely on them to do that. When a health claim is made, it needs to be tested in order to ensure public safety.
Under this Bill, Natural Health Products will continue to fall under their own unique set of regulations and the provisions for safety, efficacy and quality will continue to be appropriate to the relatively low risk profile of this class of products.
There is nothing in Bill C-51 that changes the regulatory status of natural health products from over-the-counter, as they are now, to prescription. Under Bill C-51, Canadians will continue to have access to natural health products that are safe, effective and of high quality. Natural health products will continue to be regulated in the same way under the Natural Health Products Regulations, which have been in force since January 1, 2004.
For your information, the Natural Health Products Regulations can be found at the following Internet address, or by contacting my office:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cr/SOR-2003-196///en?page=1
Bill C-51 was drafted in order to allow for increased flexibility to regulate products proportional to their risk. The Bill specifically recognizes that different product classes have different standards of evidence. As such, the standards of evidence will remain unchanged for Natural Health Products, which allow for a full range of evidence from traditional use to full clinical trials. On products of low risk, which includes most Natural Health Products, pharmaceutical standards of evidence are not required. On the other hand, the legislation also requires vigilance to ensure that tainted products are found and recalled, that what is on the label is actually in the bottle, and that health claims are supported by evidence.
The regulated activities for natural health products are already identified in the Natural Health Products Regulations, and remain unchanged. These activities are: manufacturing, packaging, labeling, importation and distribution of natural health products for sale. The new definition of “sale” in Bill C-51 will not affect practitioners. The relationship between practitioner and patient for compounding falls under the definition of “practice of medicine” and is under provincial jurisdiction. Bill C-51 respects this arrangement.
In terms of the increased compliance and enforcement powers that the Bill affords the government, we are bringing Canada up to par with other international regulators. Without this Bill, Canada will remain unable to require recall of products even in situations when there are clear health and safety concerns. The increased powers around recalls, enforcement, fines and penalties are not specifically targeting the Natural Health Products’ industry. This is incorrect and misleading as these powers apply to all product classes regulated under the Act and are not directed to any single group.
If an inspector is needed to enter a private home, they would have to have the owner’s consent or, after making a compelling case to a judge, a warrant to enter. Some manufacturing sites may not be situated on public roads or beside public spaces. The Bill contains a provision that would permit inspectors to cross private property to gain access to a manufacturing site. This provision does not, in any way, permit an inspector to enter a private home without consent or a warrant.
We also need fines in the Bill to deter criminals from abusing their privilege to market safe products. But the Bill also says that the fines must be tailored to the risk of the product. While fines under the new Bill have increased, the highest fines will be applied only for the most severe contraventions. A minor contravention would not be treated in the same manner as an incident that has significant impacts on the health and safety of Canadians.
Thank you again for your correspondence. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact my office.
Sincerely,
James Bezan, M.P.
Selkirk-Interlake
Email #3 Dear James Bezan,
Thank you for your reply,all thought again you do not mention how politicians like Tony Clement and big drug companies stand to make a lot of money from this bill or how drug companies are manipulating our leaders to get better control of the people and what they put into their bodies. Again, it’s my right what I choose to use and Bill C-51 is against my rights and does nothing but favor big drug companies. If our government is so worried about protecting Canadians then it needs to crack down on the real drug dealers and the real drug pushers…drug companies.
Mr. Bezan I am currently reading Kevin Trudeau’s book called ” Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About. I just learned through this book that drug companies gave tens of millions of dollars to lobbyists to get the FDA to make a new “law”. The FDA has the power to make “laws” and enforce them. It can make “laws” without congressional approval or debate. In order to protect the profits of the drug industry the FDA passed the most incredibly insane “law” OF ALL TIME. The FDA has now made as “law” the following statement, “Only a drug can cure, prevent or treat a disease.” This is insane and it only guarantee’s and protects the profits of the drug companies. Mr. Bezan, how much do you stand to profit if this bill is passed?
This is an example for you as to how the large drug companies work, for example CEOs of major drug companies say things such as this, and I quote “I don’t care how much liver damage this drug causes, get it approved by the FDA. Pay whoever you have to pay, get the lobbyists that you have to get, but just get this drug approved. Do it and our stock price goes up threefold. We sell our stock and move on. And five years from now, when they find out about the liver damage, they’ll take the drug off the market. But who cares, we’ll have our money. Just do it. In other word Mr. BEzan you and your governments Bill C-51 is simply feeding us to the wolves and people that don’t like chemical drugs pumped into them will no longer have the right to say NO.
Your entire email talks about protecting people, well then protect us from large chemical drug companies and protect us from Bill C-51!
This is another quote from former FDA Commissioner Herbert Lay, M.D. The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day. Medical Science and absolutely, 100 percent failed in the curing and prevention of illness, and disease. Consider the following startling bits of data:
1. More people get colds and flus then ever before…why chemical drug destroy the immune system.
2. More people get cancer then ever before…the more Money the Canadian Cancer Society get the more cancer rates go up…something wrong there!
3. More people have diabetes than ever before…drug companies feed us into diabetes with foods they make and then they double their profits by selling us the diabetic pill as well.<<<<<<<DID YOU KNOW THAT MR. BEZAN. The same company that makes the yoo-hoo a very sweet unhealthy candy bar is the same company that makes a diabetic pill…in other words drug companies are making the foods that harm us so they not only make money from feeding us into problems that but they double their profits by feeding people into health problems and then sell them the drugs as well. THIS IS WHY FOOD AND DRUG SHOULD NOT BE TOGETHER.
4. More people have multiple sclerosis, lupus, muscular dystrophy, asthma, migraine headaches, joint, neck, and back pain then ever before…side effects from chemical drugs.
5. More people have acid reflux, ulcers, and stomach problems than ever before…side effects from chemical drugs.
6. More woman have menopause problems than ever before…more problems from chemical drugs.
7. More woman have more frequent PMS and more severe PMS than ever before.
8. More kids have attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity than ever before.
9. More people have chronic fatigue than ever before.
10. More people have insomnia than ever before.
11. More people have bad skin, acne, and dandruff than ever before.
12. More people suffer from depression, stress, and anxiety than ever before.
13. More men and women suffer from sexual dysfunction and infertility than ever before.
14. More people suffer from allergies, arthritis, constipation, fibromyalgia, cold sores, and herpetic breakouts than ever before.
15. More men suffer from prostate problems than ever before.
16. More woman suffer from yeast infections than ever before.
Mr. Bezan, in your last email you did not answer any question in regards to this bill benefiting people like you and Tony Clement, and if any one had common sense in the conservative party this bill would not have even been thought of. Consider this, if humans are different, physically, and chemically then how can a drug company make one type of pill for the masses or the world? That is a joke and one of the biggest scams on the planet.
Protecting people is what you say this bill is all about. Well did you know the FDA list approximately 1700 drugs approved for use in animal feed. Of these approved drugs, approximately 300 include “weight gain” in their description, (Hmmm might be a reason why obesity in North America is out of control, kinda like that fat leader of yours Stephen Harper) but worse yet, studies show that the FDA is using anywhere from 20,000-30,000 different drugs in meats alone, so why not protect me from this? Why not protect me and Canadians from the FDA? Hmmm might be a reason why obesity in North America is out of control, kinda like that fat leader of yours Stephen Harper.
Thanks for your time and I do hope to hear back from you,
Sincerely,
Mike Krahn
ps-I refuse any type of chemical drug to be put into my body and I am 100 times healthier than most politicians yet your going to try and force me to use chemicals…it is unconstitutional and against my human rights!!
pss-I hear from people every day that are sick and tired of pills being pushed down their throats and they are sick and tired of it…the side effects are why to much to handle lead them into a multitide of other health problems. So stop pushing pills down our throats and start standing up for the people…not large industry!
Dear Mr. Krahn:
Thank you for your email and I have noted your additional comments regarding Bill - C-51.
As you maybe aware, the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has no jurisdiction in Canada. Natural health products are still going to be available over the counter and regulated, separately, as they always have been, not as drugs or as food.
Lobbying in Canada, unlike the U.S., is highly regulated. By law, MP’s have to declare all conflicts of interests that may exist with policy decisions, as well as declare any gifts worth over $200. This declaration is made available to the public.
Minister Clement and I have no personal interests or holdings in any drug companies. Any suggestions to the contrary, are false and misleading. To make these statements in your letter is libel and legal action has been taken against others who have made these types of false, defaming statements.
Your disrespectful comments about the Prime Minister are disheartening. The Prime Minister has spent the spring getting back into shape and has lost a lot of weight. If you cannot show the maturity and common courtesy to correspond in a more diplomatic fashion, I will not be inclined to respond in the future.
Sincerely,
James Bezan, MP
Selkirk – Interlake
So again I am posting this to let everyone know we do not live in the free country that we think we do if we can not even ask questions of our elected government. I do feel threatened and uneasy after James Bezan’s response and the fact that I was threaten should make people question their government even more. Stop the secrecy between large industry and government because a lot is going on behind closed doors in secret that we don’t know about. Our health care is in jeopardy our sovereignty is in jeopardy just to name a few.
Sincerely,
Mike Krahn
PS-I will never in my life vote conservative after being threatened for asking questions.