– by Shawn Buckley
As published in Common Ground, March 7, 2019
Health Canada has been restricting access to natural products. This has happened before. Back in the 1990s, Health Canada had been restricting access to natural products by insisting on strict compliance with chemical drug regulations. More onerous regulations were about to be imposed. Canadians rebelled, forcing the government to back down.
Now, in 2019, Health Canada is in stealth attack mode. The regulation of natural products is getting ever stricter. The government has announced it will impose more onerous regulations which will further restrict our access to natural products. They will also restrict our access to truthful information about them. Instead of having freedom of choice and the broadest range of options available, consumers are being driven into a drug model where it is illegal to:
- treat a serious illness with a natural product, and
- share truthful information about natural products.
Read more here.
The article is extremely short on specifics. It looks like corporate fear mongering. People are spending a lot of money on absolutely worthless concoctions and somebody is making a lot of money. Don’t forget that alt-med products are made and sold by corporations, too.
Is there a petition to sign?
I have the rights and freedoms to have full access to natural products without government interference. Health Canada should focus it’s efforts on getting poisons and chemicals out of our food, air, water and vaccines.