URGENT NORTH AMERICAN RED ALERT

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It seems to be creeping closer and closer to the US...

URGENT NORTH AMERICAN RED ALERT: C-51 Goes to Second Reading Monday or Tuesday

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/holistic_alternative_medicine/news.php?q=1209149314

No one in Canada or the USA can afford not to help kill this bill. (...) Consider How Bill C-51 Would Affect You: Many natural health products that have been sold in Canada for decades would become unavailable, and remaining products would cost much more (Sections 13 & 18.7); The government could designate any natural health product a prescription drug, making it available by prescription only (Section 15.1(4)); You could be fined thousands of dollars or go to jail for giving your child or friend a natural health product (Sections 31 & 3(3) - expanded definition of "sell"); Researchers would lose academic freedom: they could not study the beneficial effects of natural health products without first getting the government' permission (Sections 3(6) & 18.2);International laws that restrict access to natural health products could be made law in Canada without the approval of elected officials or any debate in the House of Commons (Sections 3(6) & 30(7)); To enforce this new law, inspectors could enter private property and (Section 23): take anything at their discretion; never pay the owner for it; charge the owner of the property a fee for shipping it to a secure storage unit; charge the owner of the property fees for keeping it in storage;keep it in storage as long as they want; and/or dispose of it at will. (...)

What You Can Do To Protect Your Rights...

Read Bill C-51

Read a Discussion Paper on Bill C-51 by the President of the Natural Health Product Protection Agency

Contact your local MP to voice your objections to this Bill

Forward this email to all of your concerned friends and family.

Attend a key court case to stop Health Canada from seizing natural health products without court permission.

Where: Federal Court of Canada, 635 8 Ave SW, 4th floor, Calgary, Alberta. When: Friday, May 9, 2008, at 1:00 PM. CLIP Americans- Take action via http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3113337.htm