🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Hanna wrote:

> 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

	Unfortunately, I was too busy to read this post. I assume it says that
you are bemoaning the fact that the Canadian government has a
monkey-see/monkey-do policy about almost all legislation originating in
the US.


											Michael