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Article #152Save Natural Health Products in Canada!
From: Michael Hanna
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:00
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The Reform Party of Canada has introduced a Private Members Bill (the Reform Health Freedom Amendment or RHFA) to safeguard the right of Canadians to choose safe, low-risk, natural health supplements. According to current regulations, Health Canada can regulate a natural product as a drug if any health claim is made. Health Canada has been using this regulation to remove from health stores, low-risk, natural supplements that are widely available in other countries. (These natural products are clearly competition to pharmaceutical companies, which are ostensibly lobbying the government.) However, the RHFA will make Health Canada have to show there is evidence that a natural product is harmful or potentially harmful before it can be regulated as a drug. If you would like to support this bill to safeguard the right of Canadians to choose natural products, one very effective way is to send a short, hand-written letter to your MP. A sample letter could be, "I urge you to support the Reform Health Freedom Amendment. If you fail to support this important initiative, I will actively encourage all consitutents not to vote for you in the next federal election." (Remember, no postage is necessary for letters addressed to: name of mp, MP, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6) We need to act now to make this one-time opportunity a reality. The RHFA will be introduced into parliament during the first week of February. If you don't know who your MP is, call 1-800-363-1363 (in Quebec), 1-800-282-8060 (in Manitoba), or 1-800-667-3355(everywhere else). To get a copy of the RHFA, phone the office of Dr. Grant Hill, MP at 613-995-8471 or fax 613-996-9770. You can also fax your MP directly by going to the 'fax the feds' website: http://www.net-efx.com/faxfeds (All the names and address of all the MP's and ministers are at this site) Thank you for your consideration, and I apologize for all the non-Canadians receiving this email Best wishes Richard -- -- ad255@hwcn.org http://www.hwcn.org/~ad255/Profile.html Stop Genetic Engineering in our food supply! see http://www.natural-law.ca/genetic/geindex.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,b3ea6ae7bcb5da5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,b3ea6ae7bcb5da5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,b3ea6ae7bcb5da5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10a88a,b3ea6ae7bcb5da5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a88a,public X-Google-Thread: 114721,b3ea6ae7bcb5da5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid114721,public X-Google-Thread: 104294,b3ea6ae7bcb5da5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104294,public X-Google-Thread: fbd01,b3ea6ae7bcb5da5c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbd01,public From: ad255@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Michael Hanna) Subject: Save Natural Health Products in Canada! Date: 1998/01/30 Message-ID: <6arhnr$bqh$1@mohawk.hwcn.org> X-Deja-AN: 320483244 Distribution: world Organization: Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet Newsgroups: can.gov.general,ont.general,hamilton.general,tor.general,can.general,can.atlantic.general,can.atlantic