Dear Tyson,

Thanks for your message expressing your opposition to Bill C-51, An Act
to Amend the Food and Drugs Act.

This bill contains a lot of proposed changes. Some of there are
necessary and have been long needed. Others are more troublesome.

I am particularly concerned that this bill opens the door for
direct-to-consumer advertising from pharmacological and other companies,
which is currently banned in Canada. I do not feel this bill allows for
strong enough pre-market testing of pharmaceuticals and do not feel it
creates a transparent system of drug safety and testing.

One of the biggest issues I have heard from people in Vancouver East are
the proposed changes to the way natural health products may be
addressed. I favour an approach that will balance the right of Canadians
to choose health products for themselves, with the need for oversight
and regulation, to ensure the safety of consumers. As it is, I think the
bill needs to be changed, in terms of what type of oversight it will
mandate for natural health products.

My colleague, MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis, is the NDP Health Critic. She, and
all of us, will be watching the progress of this bill very carefully,
and will be representing the NDP on the committee that will study the
bill. She will be bringing all these concerns, and more, forward to the
committee and will get this bill changed. I am including a link to the
debate in Parliament about this bill, here:

www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePubli...cation.aspx

Thanks again for writing - letters like yours help me keep the pressure
on here in Ottawa.

Sincerely,

Libby Davies, MP
Vancouver East

This is a mesage i've written and sent to several MP's in the Vancouver area. I'm posting it here in hopes that every one of you will read it and take it very seriously. This isn't the only Bill of this nature that's been presented. Our freedoms are slipping away one by one, and we're letting it happen. I just found out about this one myself...

check out the info for yourself:

stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp

www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePubli...cation.aspx

Tyson


CC:

I'm writing this in disrespect of Bill C-51.

It's bad enough to find ourselves abutting a nation that is actively trying to kill off their citizens with soy products and other genetically modified 'food' products, an extra dose of Mercury in their vaccinations (and god knows what else), deliberately increasing stress and anxiety to critical levels, and pharmaceuticals that are not only dangerous to the peoples health but can sterilize against future generations; there's a eugenics war going on in the US, there's no need to bring any of that here.

With the NAU looming over our heads, Canadians have been pretty lucky, or fierce, against many of these things, letting only a few of them slip through the screen, like soy products, flu shots, foreign armies allowed to cross our borders and aspartame...but we have to be firmer in our self-preservation. Our non-elected officials keep imposing restriction after restriction upon us and of our elected officials only a few are willing to strand up for what's right. Now their back on us with the regulation and restrictions in regards to 'natural' plants. Every plant has a purpose, every weed is an herb that can be used for cooking, for medicinal purposes (many of them employed by pharmaceutical companies themselves), or for spiritual expansion and growth.

How *dare* they presume to deny us these things. How *dare* we allow them to do it! Turning an herb garden into a thing of shamefulness, and making it punishable?? What happens when you can't put oregano in your spaghetti sauce because it's essential oil is a cure for numerous ailments? Garlic? Chamomile? Rue? Valarian? The list goes on forever, cause that's damned near how many useful herbs we have on this planet.

"My God!" points the ignorant, self-righteous woman sitting over her double-cheeseburger and a diet coke, "That man over there is putting salt on his trans fat saturated, hydrogenated, once-potato french fries!" What *is* the world coming to?!


Look, i'm all for depopulation of the planet's population to something more manageable and sustainable but there's got to be someone left to inherit the earth beyond the filthy-stinkin'-rich. Their gene pool is already borderline. If people insist on eating GM soy beef that makes their intestines bleed, or to smoke or not smoke, then fine, that's their choice. But we have to have that choice, the choice of what we wish to eat, and how we wish to maintain our health. The body is our temple and reiki or yoga alone can't sustain it.

As an MP we depend on you to defend our freedom of choice -- before it's completely gone. Please stand up and fight Bill C-51, and every other Bill that threatens our freedoms, that tries to protect us from ourselves, that sneaks in little things in 'this' bill that negate 'that one' over there.

I think i'm going to CC: this to everyone i can thnk of, to see if i can wake some of us up.

Fight for us...fight for yourself and your children...and their children...

Sincerely and Adamantly,

Tyson.