From Chris Gupta <chrisgupta@alumni.uwaterloo.ca>
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/healthcanadahypocrisy18jun08.shtml
June 18, 2008

Health Canada's Hypocrisy & Indifference to Suffering (June 18, 2008)

C-51 Policy Statement - Canadian Natural Health Coalition

"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."

Indeed we are to take it that Health Canada is here to protect us! If killing so many people is their idea of the efficacy of regulation then why in their warped mind regulating innocuous products, that are even safer than foods, should be as important as drugs??? With friends like these who needs enemies?

If this is how regulation works then who need it?

"People would not be turning to non-drug and "non-standard" health solutions -- if the essentially-free, publicly-insured "proper medical care" really worked. It's because of the medical system's failure to cure "chronic" disease and the massive adverse reactions and deaths that Canadians are voting with their pocketbooks for other approaches."

Extracted form: Bills C-51 & C-52 Example letters ">Bills C-51 & C-52 Example letters

From the above, obviously many find Natural Health Products (NHP) efficacious and safe all without the proposed regulations already, so why such a "tempest in teapot"? Is it because NHP cut into the cash cow disease management, palliative and generally toxic drug monopoly?

Here is an excellent statement on the standing of the Canadian Natural Health Coalition (CNHC). This along with C-51 The Real Facts Vs the Bull From Health Canada should provide a crystal clear picture on Health Canada's real agenda. All in the name of safety of course.

For those in Toronto and area a panel discussion with Helke Ferrie, Shawn Buckley and Shiv Chopra is scheduled for June 26, 2008 and is a must attend. Details are here. Others will be able to see live streamed on www.cnhc.ca

This post along with its links contains enough fodder for all to respond to their MPs' party line response on the self serving need for these bills.

The CNHC statement follows - much embellished of course!

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