Dear Minister of Health.
I am writing to you again concerning Bill C-36, and even the need for it.
Increasingly I am hearing of invasions of people’s homes and businesses by Health Canada Inspectors backed by RCMP to close the businesses and confiscate their stock of goods.
Dr, Eldon Dahl of Edmonton Alberta.
Marigold Compounding and Natural Pharmacy of Courtenay, BC.
In the case of Marigold Compounding Company of Courtney BC they were also accompanied by inspectors of the College of Pharmacists of BC. What rights do those COPBC inspectors have to be there, and to then decide that the business should stay closed until they choose to let a competitive company open again?
The very nature of compounding suggests that ingredients should be combined for the purpose of bringing relief to a physical problem. In the case of drugs this is a forced and potentially dangerous procedure. In the case of natural health it is a question of offering the body what it needs in one form or another so that it can mend itself.
The so called problem is that these compounded products do not have a DIN and that is the reason for Marigolds being closed and its stock confiscated. You of all people must be aware of how long it takes to get a DIN for natural health products – anywhere up to 2 years or so,( as opposed to a couple of days for pharmaceutical products) thus by the time the DIN is granted for a new natural health compound it is no longer relevant because:
a) the patient is dead from the problem or from the drugs administered by a doctor who may or may not know what he or she is doing, but they are doing it legally,
or
b) the then new but now old proposed compound is outdated.
This is all being done already in the name of Safety under the regulations of the Food and Drug Act, and I fail to understand why there is any need for Bill C-36 if it really is for the safety of consumer products as claimed.
The suggestion that Health Canada does not have the power to recall is simply stupid in the face of what they are doing in seizing products and closing businesses, with RCMP assistance, on the suspicion of wrong doing and with no criminal act being involved. Why should it matter if it is under the regulations above or the Hazardous Goods Act, the power IS there, it is just an excuse for Bill C-36 to say that it is not.
Bill C-36 is not designed for the safety of the people of Canada at all is it?
It is a mechanism through which you will bring in some more of these damaging regulations to ensure that the rights and freedoms of Canadians are stripped away for corporate gain.
I must hand it to you and your Reform /Alliance coalition government, particularly the Minister of Justice, for the way which you side step the Bill of Rights by doing the dirty deeds through regulations which do not have to go before parliament for approval rather than through the Acts themselves. However with Bill C-36 there is more than enough evidence of your intentions. Foreign governments and bodies of foreign states are clearly to write the regulations for you.
I repeat my claim that Bill C-36 is absolutely unnecessary for the safety of Canadians, and combined with the regulations you will bring in from abroad will be damaging to the Rights of all Canadian People, and in case you had not realized it, that also means you.
In closing I would point out that in a letter to Charlene Simon concerning the labeling of GM foods, which she shared with me and gave me permission to quote, you clearly aligned you and your department to Codex Alimentarius
I quote you from that letter:
Health Canada has established a rigorous process for evaluating the safety in novel foods, including those foods derived from biotechnology, before they enter the Canadian marketplace. The department’s Guidelines for the Safety Assessment of Novel Foods describe the criteria for safety assessment, which are consistent with the recognized international standards adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
So am I right in assuming you consider GM foods to be novelties, not to be treated seriously enough to have their own labeling, yet Natural Health foods have to have a DIN number?
Minister, you also said in that letter to Charlene Simon:
To date, it has not been necessary to require special labeling for health and safety reasons for a GM food.
Thus I determine that a novelty food without any real food value but loaded with weed killers such as Roundup (toxic when ingested) can be foisted on an unsuspecting Canadian public disguised as real food, yet a naturally grown health food cannot even be allowed to be consumed by the same Canadian public unless it has a DIN.
If this Alliance / Reform coalition government, Health Canada and you Minister are to be taken seriously I suggest you understand what you are not only writing but also doing.
I do not approve, as one of your employers, with what you have been and are planning to do (Bill C-36) with your portfolio.
Jeremy Arney.
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What happened to choice?
What happened to our choices?
There is a move afoot in Canada to remove from the public domain the opportunity for us to choose whether we can use natural products for our health or if we must be forced to use dangerous and harmful pharmaceutical drugs controlled by Health Canada and Big Pharma with the only purpose being that the corporate bottom line and shareholders profit is far supreme to the health of Canadians.
More and more today we are hearing of Health Canada inspectors, RCMP officers and Pharmaceutical Board inspectors descending upon and closing health food outlets, or compounding companies and what amounts to the theft of their products. This is being done in the name of regulations.
I use the word theft advisedly because the excuse for taking the products from Marigold Compounding Company of Courtenay BC was based upon the lack of a DIN for the compounded products. The very nature of any compounding company is that various ingredients are compounded together with the idea of being of benefit to the patient. Well that is true in the case of natural health products, but regretfully it cannot be said to be true of the pharmaceutical drug compounds.
In order to understand the difference it is easiest to show that pharmaceutical drugs have a deliberate predetermined effect on the body which has no choice on what happens to it as a result of the ingestion of these drugs. They have an effect, good or bad, and that is that.
I wonder too how many of these drugs are tested to see how they will react with the toxins in our environment from the constant use of pesticides, weed killer and fattening drugs for livestock. Very few if any I suspect because Health Canada doesn’t stop the use of these toxins unless told to by the good old USA
On the other hand natural health products give the body what it requires to help it cure itself, and the body chooses what it needs and passes the remainder out of its system.
In the case of Marigold, they are presumably presented with symptoms along with the history of the patient and decide what natural products will have a beneficial effect, or create a cure if you will; actually by Health Canada rules the only products which can claim a cure are harmful pharmaceutical drugs, so it is dangerous to even suggest that a natural product can effect a cure because it unlawful to do so!
That in itself is absolutely ridiculous. It is perfectly legal for Big Pharma to add for instance Echinacea to a cold drug and then claim it is improved with that addition.
Do not make that claim if you are only talking about Echinacea though because that is not legal.
Natural foods have been used for centuries without multiple deaths in fact very few deaths can be laid at natural health products door, whereas just to name two recent examples Gardasil and H1N1 vaccinations have caused many serious side effects and deaths. What’s worse is there is absolutely no proof that either of these vaccinations will do what they claim to do!
Back to Marigold, after the compound is made, by strict letter of the law a DIN must be applied for to be attach to this new compound and we all know that it could be up to 2 years before such a number is given…meanwhile what happens to the patient? Health Canada doesn’t care about them it is clear, so they have a choice: take something that is made to make a profit and most likely to damage them- a drug, remain sick for two years and maybe more, or take the new compound now and most likely get better.
But wait! This government doesn’t want that to happen does it? Get better? what nonsense! There is no profit for Pharma in that!
No they are trying so hard to get Codex Alimentarious here in Canada that not only will we not be able to obtain or consume health food products, we will have to survive on genetically modified crap from companies such as Monsanto who are the main backers of Codex anyway.
We have a Minister of Health who only appears to care for untested vaccinations and drugs for supposed health and safety, and thus seems determined to make us all sick. Shame on her.
How did we get to this situation where our ability to choose how we look after ourselves is taken away from us?
Why is it so urgent and important that our health and safety be controlled by other countries?
Why do we need a new consumer product safety act (Bill C-36) when the very agency which is to administer it is completely corrupted and indifferent to our health and safety anyway?
Why can we not modify the Hazardous Goods Act and then give the administration of public safety it to an agency that works for the Canadian people?
Instead we have Health Canada, which is so compromised and corporate influenced it will never again be of any use to the Canadian people.
It is time for a major shake-up in the way we look at health and the way we treat those who are sick.
Jeremy Arney
Ignatief why do you support trade deals
Mr. Ignatief
I understand that your party is backing the trade deals with Colombia and the European Union that Harper in his stupidity wants to rush into.
Mr Ignatieff could you please tell me how it will benefit Canada to have whatever business we still own here in Canada bought by Europeans, or drug dealers from Colombia?
The idea with Colombia is for them to allow Canada access to their country for our mining, oil drilling and banking companies, but what good will that do for us when those same companies can and probably will be bought by those drug dealers?
Can we afford to loose any more companies to overseas buyers who want to just get rid of competition?
Do we really want every level of our communities from federal, provincial , to municipal and school boards, hospitals etc., to be told by Colombians, or Europeans what they can and cannot do, who they must buy from, when and where?
It is bad enough that that autonomy has been given to the USA whilst you were not looking during the prorogation this last winter, through the “buy American” trade deal. If you were looking why did you allow it to go ahead?
I have written to you before concerning your “image” with Canadians and what you are portraying to my mind is a Harper lite but with less steel and will to screw the country at any cost.
When will you understand that just “not being Conservative” is enough? You must give the people something they can believe and want….you are not doing that.
I do not approve of Harper’s desire to give the country to the international corporations because it is his personal mantra I think, but do you share that mantra or are you interested in maintaining Canada’s sovereignty? I understand that you may think that you could right the wrongs if and when you ever get into power, however the only way to change things is to start with complete abrogation of NAFTA, and then all later trade deals with their disastrous results for Canada, and to wipe out TILMA too although that is not really in your power
We owe more but own less than we did when the FTA and then NAFTA came into being, and we are getting worse and worse. Our banking system, fraudulent and illegal as it is, will soon be bought by Europeans, and our people owned Bank of Canada will be given away to the Fed in the USA probably.
What do you see in all this that I am missing?
Is this what you really want for Canada, our children and grandchildren?
To go along with Harper’s contempt for Canada and Canadians we have here in B C a dictator who flat out refuses to listen to the people of BC or to actr in their best in terests, and now we are learning that our official federal opposition party appears to be the same.
This is not what I want from my employees in the Parliament of Canada.
I want a backbone in those who are supposed to look out for my interests,
I want a future for my grandchildren,
I want a Canada strong, free, ready and willing to help the world, in actions not empty rhetoric .
I wonder what you really want because it is not obvious.
Jeremy Arney
Canada and You, Mr Ignatief
Mr Ignatief,
On 9th July 2010 I received an email from Rob Jamieson asking me
a)to join the Liberal Party and
b)help form the Liberal Party platform for the next election.
I did neither.
I have heard you say that you are for the Canadian People as is the Liberal Party and yet you are doing nothing for us to prove that.
You have just allowed Bill C-9 to pass into law even though it is not in the best interests of Canadians. The NDP and the Bloq both could see that this was not in the best interest of Canadians but you and the Liberals turned a blind eye to that.
Now we are faced with the prospect of you and your party allowing Bill C-36 to get swift passage through into law as well.
You claim to love Canada, and I have to ask you which Canada you love: the sovereign Canada that still clings to life today or the foreign controlled Canada which will arise from the ashes of a passed Bill C-36?
Please watch this:
http://vimeo.com/13024940
Men have fought battles both in warfare and in politics for this country and you are surrendering all they fought for and I wonder why?
We already know that Prime Minister Harper will go down in history as the man who completed Mulroney’s initial giving Canada away, and you, if you continue as you are, will be described as the Canadian Nero who allowed, aided and abetted him in his endeavours. Actually I pity you both.
I truly fear for what the two of you are doing to my grandchildren without my permission as one of your employers.
Jeremy Arney
Canadian Action Party candidate for SGI in 2008
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