Regulation of Canadian Health Products

A 1999 national survey found that at least 50 percent of Canadians had used alternative therapies in the previous 12 months, and 88 percent of those users had found the therapies very or somewhat useful. These statistics have not escaped the attention of the Drug Cartel in Canada and the U.S.. They know they are missing out on a huge piece of the “natural products” pie. That is why in Canada, they are attempting to introduce into law, legislation to “regulate” natural products. It has nothing to do with protecting the public as our Health Minister claims, it has everything to do with protecting the profits of Big Pharma.


The day that the drug industry, the FDA in the U.S., Health Canada and the medical industry recognize that natural products actually work, will be the day that Big Pharma gets away with successfully regulating health products and foods, and places them under government control where they can make billions from them, as we have already seen happen in Australia, Norway and Germany. It will be a sad day in Canada and the U.S. when we are allowed only products from a government pharmacy and products manufactured at ineffective levels instead of optimal levels. When this happens, many people who are dependent on quality natural products in order to maintain their health will die. But if drugs were removed from the market, thousands would live. It is estimated that1.7 million people die from legal drugs every year in Canada. Health Canada has not one person listed as dying from health products!


Health Canada is attacking the wrong industry, I think.