June 2008 - Nr. 6
The Criminalization of Vitamin C
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The proposed Bill C-51 to amend the Food and Drugs Act, along with the accompanying regulations, can land you in jail for as much as five years for giving vitamin C to your child, your spouse or anyone else. Your Holistic Nutritionist Consultant, Naturopathic Doctor and even your regular Medical Doctor can be hit with as much as a $5,000,000 fine for even speaking about vitamin C, never mind suggesting you take it. Without fulfilling the inhibiting requirements, your health practitioner can’t even give you a free sample of the vitamin C, never mind selling it to you. This is, of course, assuming that there is high quality vitamin C worth taking still available in the market. On the one hand, Bill C-51 dictates a costly approval process for natural source nutrients. On the other hand, it makes selling recalled synthetic products perfectly legal. Am I making this up? Nope. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Check it out for yourself. Go to: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=3398126&file=4 Sections 13, 15.1(2), 23.1, 24(3) and 31 are of particular interest. Sections 4 and 5 of the accompanying regulations are also very telling of what the federal government really has in mind. And, it gets worse. According to this bill, products cannot be even tested without government permission. Now, since when has government been able to dictate what can and cannot be tested? And, since when is an entire industry dependent on the "opinion" of a single human being, without expert knowledge but dependent on the "advice" of paid officials? Are we heading for a government dictatorship here or is the destruction of the natural health industry a special exception? The federal government claims that this bill is in the interest of the Canadian people, but in what way do Canadians benefit from having people jailed or fined for doing nothing more than talking about, suggesting, selling, giving away or in any way dealing with non-harmful, natural products? Is this the criminalization of vitamin C? In what way will Canadians benefit by having their freedom of choice violated because only those products from companies with enough financial resources to overcome the restrictions will be allowed to sell to their products to them, even though these products may not be the best products possible and may, in fact, be the worst quality products? If the federal government is really interested in protecting Canadians, why don’t they focus instead on prohibiting harmful things like genetically modified foods? Chemically laced "foods"? Cigarettes? Or why not focus instead on obligatory labelling? Obligatory testing of multiple chemical exposure for more than 5 years? Etc., etc. Come to the Expert Panel discussion on Thursday, June 26, 2008, for a clear explanation of the content of Bill C-51 and its implications on all Canadians. The discussion will be held on Thursday, June 26, 2008, at the Main Auditorium of OISE, 252 Bloor Street West at St. George subway station. This is a charitable event and admission is by donation. Prior to the discussion, there will be a pre-panel Rally at 6pm North Area of Queens Park. See attached flyer. Lina Miraglia |
