TORONTO RALLY & MARCH AGAINST BILL C-51 SATURDAY MAY 10 2008

Canada (Press Release) May 10, 2008 -- NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR
CANADIAN PUBLIC, ALTERNATIVE HEALTH PRACTITIONERS
& NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCT DEVELOPERS
JOIN THE TORONTO RALLY & MARCH AGAINST BILL C-51 SATURDAY MAY 10 2008
THE HARPER GOVERNMENT & BIG PHARMA ARE REMOVING RIGHTFUL ACCESS
TO VITAMINS, HERBS, SPICES, DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS & MEDICINAL FOOD.
PROTECT OUR RIGHTS TO NATURAL MEDICINE, NATURAL PRODUCTS & DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS!
Promoted as a means to protect the safety of Canadians from untested natural health products, Bill C-51 is a
wide-reaching, little publicized & carefully crafted set of amendments to the federal Food & Drug Act that
threatens Canadiansʼ rights to natural health products.
Key changes include: Replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, giving the Canadian
government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, spices, vitamins, supplements & more.
C-51 would require all ʻtherapeutic productsʼ to go through a costly approval process that would be financially
impossible for many natural health product manufacturers. These would then be “forced” unavailable to the public.
Then, only government “approved” natural health products, considered a prescription drug, would be made
available to you by prescription only!
C-51 could result in the outlawing of thousands of beneficial low risk natural health products. It would grant
alarming new "enforcement" powers to federal inspectors to "protect" Canadians from “dangerous” unapproved
"therapeutic agents". Products as benign as say, dandelion greens, blueberries, any plant-derived substance, bottled
water or Vitamin C could become illegal to possess or distribute.
C-51 would also allow federal enforcement agents to: Raid your home or business without a warrant, seize your
bank accounts, levy fines up to $5 million & jail terms up to 2 years for selling or drying herbs in your kitchen, now
categorized as “controlled activity”, confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees.
This is Big Pharma & the Harper government's desperate attack to destroy an industry that is threatening the
profits & viability of conventional allopathic medicine. Natural medicine works so well & is becoming so widely used
that both Canadian & American governments are attempting to suppress it on behalf of the pharmaceutical
lobby. Bill C-51 would criminalize the sale or even free distribution of “unapproved natural products”.
Show your opposition! Meet at 10.30 AM in front of Queenʼs Park (South Side) March begins at 11:00 AM.
We will march South on University to Queen, East on Queen to Yonge, North on Yonge to College & West back to
Queens Park. Show your solidarity with marches in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton & Lethbridge.
(The march begins at Queenʼs Park for convenience; this issue is not related to the provincial government)
LEARN MORE & TAKE ACTION NOW
Contact your local MP today by phone, email or in person. Sign a petition. Write a letter.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC
http://www.stopc51.com/default.asp
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/StopC51
http://www.healthcanadaexposed.com/c51backups/Canadian%20Rights%20Facts.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2008/05/04/legal_shenanigans_bill_c51.htm
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadianC-51bill27apr08.shtml