compiled by Adam Sealey
Two citizen groups in Canada put out the call to protect our herbal and natural products.
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Under the European Parliament law of 2004, many herbal and natural medicines including Traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicines will become illegal on April 1, 2011 |
First, the Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA) has developed a three-part plan to solve the current regulatory crisis in Canada. The plan includes:
1. Seek a suspension of the Current NHP Regulations.
2. Start court proceedings to have the Natural Health Product Regulations declared unconstitutional.
3. Move to have the Charter of Health Freedom enacted to guarantee a reasonable legal environment for natural health products, and to prevent continued over-regulation of NHPs in the future.
The Charter of Health Freedom is a proposed legislation that gives Natural Health Products their own Act. It was developed specifically to protect natural health products (NHPs) and the Canadian consumers who use them. The Charter creates a completely separate category for NHPs; separate from the Drug category that they are currently a part of; under the old Food and Drug Act.
The proposed Charter of Health Freedom is a reminder to exercise the rights and freedoms we enjoy as Canadians. It is a change that meets today’s greatly shifting values and ethics. It is about creating an evolution. It is about protecting our freedom. We need three million signatures from Coast to Coast to make sure that this charter gets the political attention is deserves. Each person should print out a petition sheet from www.charterofhealthfreedom.org and get 25 signatures along with a donation to support the coming legal challenges.
This is an exciting time in the field of natural medicine. The Charter of Health Freedom has the potential to set Canada apart as one of the most progressive countries in the world. The Charter envisions a health care system to be fully sustainable, culturally diverse and encompass natural, traditional and conventional medicine.
It works within the Government of Canada to provide the new law that works for everybody and protects today’s Canadian public and our future generations.
Forever.
The Charter of Health Freedom offers an appropriate, healthy, beneficial, safe and well-rooted change for regulating the nation’s natural health products industry; permanently. It proposes the definition and regulation of NHPs be elevated to a peer basis with Drugs.
Secondly, the newly formed National Health Federation of Canada:
We the People and mothers of the children stand united to protect and provide only safe natural supplements and herbs for the children of today and the next seven generations. I speak as a Métis woman, mother and traditional healer for my people the First people of Turtle Island North America. Our government is attempting to take away herbal medicines that my ancestors have used for thousands of years. When I hear stories from my elder John Perry, aged 80, from the Gitxsan Nation (Hazelton BC) tell me that they cannot pick their beloved jack pine resin for colds and building up the immune system because Health Canada has threatened to arrest them, then we have a big problem!
Are we ready as a people? Please ask your self this question. We have a battle on our hands that has been going on for over 80 years against us. If we want to stop the monster it will take brave, strong, intelligent, passionate people to stand together against our government and police. Newly formed, National Health Federation Canada is uniting the industry while allying with the oldest health freedom fighting organization in the world. The National Health Federation had the foresight in the early 90’s to apply for a seat at the Codex Alimentarius table. We are the only recognized NGO fighting for natural health freedoms against an international wash of propagandists and pencil pushers there. We have solutions but we also need your support. Please respond by giving of your time, your wallet, your ideas and your expertise to accomplish our goals.
Candace Hill, Co-Executive Director, National Health Federation Canada
www.thenhf.com
