Protecting your right to natural health products
Common Sense Conservatives are one step closer to countering Justin Trudeau’s latest attempt to control the personal health choices of Canadians.
I am pleased to announce that Conservative bill C-368 recently passed Second Reading in the House of Commons with the support of all parties—except the Liberals.
Last year, the Liberal Government included measures in their budget bill (C-47) to regulate (and potentially ban) natural health products.
The Government claimed their move to regulate was about ensuring product safety but really it was about more government control—and throwing a bone to their friends in Big Pharma.
Justin Trudeau is Big Pharma’s dream. He blew the bank on COVID-19 spending, including for vaccines, making many Liberal insiders rich off the backs of suffering Canadians. He paid pharmaceutical companies exponentially more than other countries for vaccines, and he chose to overlook or hide safety issues from Canadians—just like he did with other products like fentanyl and hydromorphone.
Those who chose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19—a demographic that included people of all political backgrounds, many of whom opted for a more natural path long before they’d heard of the coronavirus—were vilified and slandered by this Prime Minister.
According to Trudeau:
“They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist….This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice: Do we tolerate these people?”
Clearly to Mr. Trudeau and his team, the answer is no.
As has so often been the case under Trudeau’s reign, rather than admit he was wrong, he is choosing instead to go after those who dared stand up to him. Thus, his crusade against natural medicines (many of which human beings have been using for centuries).
To be clear, going after natural health products isn’t about safety. It’s about control. A punitive politically motivated move largely aimed at targeting those who refused to capitulate to his discriminatory vaccine mandates.
People of all backgrounds and beliefs use natural health products in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons. Some use them exclusively. Others in tandem with traditional prescription medication.
Natural health products offer people an alternative and the freedom to choose that alternative. No wonder big-government Liberals are against it.
These burdensome new regulations will only serve to make freedom of choice more complicated and expensive, both for businesses and consumers.
Canadian consumers and businesses are already paying more for everything due to Liberal inflation. These new regulations will make life-changing medicine even more unaffordable for people to buy and for businesses to sell.
In fact, among the new regulations, the government is demanding companies that sell natural health products reimburse the government for regulating them. It’s absurd.
This is just the kind of unnecessary, government-focused and punitive red tape gate-keeping a new Conservative government will target.
Conservatives believe the existing regulations were sufficient.
Rather than giving more power to politicians and unelected bureaucrats, Conservatives will restore fundamental freedoms to Canadians, over their wallets and bodies.
That’s why Conservatives have put forward bill C-368, An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act, stating that the products in question are not therapeutic products within the meaning of that Act and therefore not subject to the same monitoring regime as other (pharmaceutical) drugs.
In other words, our bill will keep natural health products exempt from these burdensome new regulations.
If it passes, Canadians can be assured of affordable access to the powders, vitamins, lotions, probiotics and supplements they depend on for non-chemical-dependant quality of life. Conservatives will continue to advocate for the fundamental rights and freedoms of Canadians to make their own health choices without undue interference from Ottawa—and the ability to do so affordably.