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July 19, 2008 at 00:45:09

Bill C51 in Canada

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Citizens in Canada have wrung some changes from the government in regard to Bill C51 it

but the bill is so draconian that it stands as a warning about corporate/government agencies efforts to destroy the alternative movements that are growing, whether in health or in food, and the means that they are using.

The bill derives its forces from the Codex Alimentarius, created by the United Nations in 1962, through a series of relationships between The World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as the American FDA and USDA.

The dangerous elements of the Codex are first, that these standards are devised as international rules intended for world-wide adoption, and second, that they classify nutrients as toxins.

"The Codex Commission decided—with the support of the United States—to use something called Risk Assessment, which assesses the maximum level of a substance – in this case a nutrient -- that may be ingested without causing any discernable biological effect.

Risk Assessment is a branch of Toxicology, a.k.a. the science of toxins (as opposed to the science of nutrition). In a sane world, it is used to assess how much of a toxic substance you can safely eat without noticing any physical effects or problems. As soon as there is a biological effect, you have hit the upper, maximum limit for that substance.

Codex is slowly but surely shimmying into position to mandate the universal maximum “safe” level of every vitamin, mineral, supplement and herb that may legally be manufactured, used or sold -- with “safe” being a level that has no physical effect."

Bill C51 would amend Canadian law to allow trade agreements to become law without Parliamentary involvement and "for the regulation to incorporate documents produced by a foreign state or subdivision of a foreign state." If Canada adopts the Codex rules, supplements would be treated on a toxicology scale and if the North American Union goes into effect, the United States and Mexico would "may have little choice but to fall under the same umbrella of laws and standards."

So, what happens in Canada could be our future.

"And, even if you refuse to believe that the North American Union will ever take place, passing similar, potentially restricting natural health laws in the U.S. will be a whole lot easier if Canada sets the precedent."

What seems critical to watch in all the current large bills aimed at "protecting" our health or food, is the radical alteration of terminology. Bill C51, for instance, replaces the word "drug" with "therapeutic product,” the same term for all natural products, thus setting natural products up to be controlled as though they were drugs, and "toxins." More, the bill redefines "sell" which we have always understood to mean to distribute with consideration - that is, for payment of some kind.

But the new definition of "sell" in Bill C51 is “includes offer for sale, expose for sale or have in possession for sale, or distribute to one or more persons, whether or not the distribution is made for consideration and in relation to a device, includes lease, offer for lease, expose for lease or have in possession for lease.”

That is, for free. This would include sharing and giving, and the criminalization of either if the thing being shared were any nutrient the government wished to control. That could include herbs and even food. Raw milk people, alert by now? Seed bankers should also be on the edge of their seats since all of this is coming down from the Codex was influenced by the WTO and our USDA and FDA, which are Monsanto controlled. And seed banking is the sane, generous, caring, biodiversity-protective solution to the genetically engineered patented and biologically devastating trap Monsanto has lured farmers into around the world.

Mercola reports that "Canadian Health Minister Tony Clement decided to make some vital changes to the bill after rallies were organized across Canada by the Canadian Health Food Association, which represents manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in the natural products industry.

The Natural Health Products Protection Association also launched a campaign to rid the bill of its "police state" powers to search private property for illegal products, stating the proposed legislation “read like a police state manual."

After hearing the opposition, Mr. Clement admitted that “it became clear that some things that we thought were implicit in the bill needed to be spelled out.”

Mercola says that to him "that particular statement sounds a bit funny coming from a lawyer (he was previously employed as legal counsel with the law firm Bennett Jones LLP.), and this incident of “oops, I didn’t see those loopholes,” unfortunately ends up smelling like industry infiltration."

Now, for the petition:

"Target:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper

The Canadian government, afraid of the public reaction once people find out what they are trying to pull, is currently fast-tracking a Bill which threatens to strip you of your rights to access a wide range of natural health products. If it passes, and you buy/sell/share/collect/dry/eat/feed to your family any of the restricted stuff, you become a criminal subject to fines 1000X bigger than those currently in effect.

(NaturalNews) 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.

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.

The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved "therapeutic substances."

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"Free Trade" = Fascism

"Free Trade" is the weapon of choice by the Power Elite to gain their foothold in world power, or New World Order.

What nation actually controls "free trade"? Answer: "NONE", it is controlled by the "agreement" which was written by corporate powers and monitored by these same corporate powers, and mediated, if needed, by these corporate powers. That my friends is Fascism.

Welcome to the New World Order!

by Dennis Kaiser (14 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 226 comments) on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 5:53:27 AM

NOBODY WITH TO MUCH TRUTH IT HURTS
RICH SHANOBODY WITH TO MUCH TRUTH IT HURTS

ITS COMING DOWN TO

THE ELITE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE TOTAL CONTROL OF THE WORLD, JUST THE ELITE AND MAY BE TWO BILLION SLAVES, AT THERE CONTROL, AND THIS IS IN PROGRESS AS WE SPEAK, JUST LOOK WHAT HAS HAPPEN HERE IN AMERICA IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. THEY HAVE PASS ENOUGH DECENT BILLS TO CHOKE A HORSE. THEY ARE GETTING PREPARED FOR AND UPRISING BY WE THE PEOPLE. AND POPULATION CONTROL IS WELL ON ITS WAY, ALL THESE GM PRODUCTS ARE PART OF IT, I THINK THE ELITE ARE PAST THE PLANING STAGES, THE LAWS OF THE LAND HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED, THE POLICE STATE IS HERE BUT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT WANT ADMIT IT. JUST WAIT TILL THE CHAOS STARTS, AND THEN REALITY WILL HIT REAL QUICK. HOPE TO SEE YOU ON THE TRAIN.

by RICH SHA (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 106 comments) on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:49:58 AM

Rolland (Ron) Miller is a free enterprise socialist leaning financier in his mid 60's currently working as a Realtor at Re/Max in Powell River, Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada. I moved here for quality of life in 2004 from Vancouver where I was born and carried on my financing and consulting business of large Residential and Commercial Real Estate projects across Canada, USA, and China since 1974 after excelling in the corporate world as a lender. I believe balance is the key word.
Rolland MillerRolland (Ron) Miller is a free enterprise socialist leaning financier in his mid 60's currently working as a Realtor at Re/Max in Powell River, Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada. I moved here for quality of life in 2004 from Vancouver where I was born and carried on my financing and consulting business of large Residential and Commercial Real Estate projects across Canada, USA, and China since 1974 after excelling in the corporate world as a lender. I believe balance is the key word.

Bill C51 in Canada

The proposed C51Bill in Canada is an outrageous, and criminal attempt to remove alternate methods of natural drug use that have been used for centuries.

How dare they!

If there was a clear need to do this I could understand it but this is not the case. To also include police state methods of control is completely unecessary.

The concervative party in Canada should be thrown out promptly.

by Rolland Miller (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 56 comments) on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 12:14:03 PM

Recently retired activist with an MA in Public Policy from an Ivy League school. A born again believer who also believes in the separation of church and state and is outraged that the Word of the Lord has been highjacked to justify the actions of the current administration.
macdon1Recently retired activist with an MA in Public Policy from an Ivy League school. A born again believer who also believes in the separation of church and state and is outraged that the Word of the Lord has been highjacked to justify the actions of the current administration.

US already tried this...

Having Canada try to pass legislation to deny natural remedies, herbs, etc. to citizens is just another attempt by big pharmacorp to commodify and corner the market on everything that affects out health and well being. When it didn't work in the US they decided to try and give it a shot in Canada with this draconian legislation. It's all about the money; even the control is all about more profits. Mussolini said that fascism may as well be called corporatism because it is the marriage of the state and the corporation. A marriage made in hell, I might add.

by macdon1 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 97 comments) on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:41:10 PM

I am nothing more than a patriotic American that is doing whatever I can to further the cause of democracy, the rule of law, and am absolutely outraged on how the Bush administration is defying our Congress, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights! Footnote: I write in a style that I believe is appropriate in today’s world where we can’t trust the Mainstream News Media, and rather than concentrating on one article alone, which may or may not receive the exposure and emphasis it should, I prefer...

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It's all about the money...

Big Pharma wants to control every product that people consume for their health. The vitamin and food supplement business is a multi-billion dollar business - and the mega-corporations that manufacture most of our drugs want that business too - and resent that the sale of natural remedies impacts their sales. The Canadians are running neck and neck with Bush and Company now that they have "conservative" leadership.

The Canadian people are not dumb, and I'm guessing that when it comes election time again, the conservatives will be out on their ear, especially now that they have revealed they are no better than Bush and his cabal of fascists and thieves.

by William Cormier (126 articles, 6 quicklinks, 17 diaries, 302 comments) on Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 9:25:51 AM