Shawn spoke to Hugh Reilly, ThatChannel.com’s Liquid Lunch host.
ThatChannel.com’s interview summary: Your health freedom is in danger in Canada! BC constitutional lawyer Shawn Buckley talks about his transformation to fighting for health freedom with his National Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA.org), especially in the context of health and freedom destroying bills like the Conservative’s C-36 which has already had first reading in Ottawa.
WE HAD 10 DAYS TO DO IT. BUT ONLY NEEDED 9. [Aug 8 - Aug 16, 2010]
On Monday August 16th at 10:00 AM, one full day before the close of the Hill Times STOP Bill C-36 ‘ad’ fundraiser, we reached $6385.00!
We over-achieved and did it before our deadline. This has set a clear precedent that Canadians, through the NHPPA’s work, do not want our government to consider an unwanted and unnecessary piece of legislation like Bill C-36. It also is clear that there is a sea of motivated natural health and freedom advocates who are moved to make things happen.
Thank-you, everyone. Truly.
Before the end of next week, an insertion order will be placed at the Hill Times.
Soon after that, we’ll draft the communication to urge our nation’s MPs and Senators to take a closer look at the implications of the proposed Consumer Product Safety Act. We hope they understand the great number of people who gathered their resources to have the NHPPA present a collective public ask to Stop Bill C-36.
Remember, the cap on this dollar match campaign? You helped us double the funds that NHPPA has to work with. Today, our new supporter, confirmed the additional $5000.00 was on its way. These funds will be used immediately to build the next phase of our Stop Bill C-36 intentions. In the next 3 weeks we will encourage NHPPA’s team of citizen lobbyists to continue to assert their wishes to Parliament and Health Canada.
We will need everyone who believes in freedom, and Canada, to participate.
WORTH MENTIONING
Even though the updates of our work on countering the issues with the current NHP Regulations are not being posted during this campaign, please know, that our agenda has not stopped in favour of Bill C-36. To those of you in the natural health community counting on the NHPPA to speak on your behalf understand that this movement is always part of the fabric of our efforts.
We do not have to settle or celebrate minor concessions.
We can re-focus and move forward.
Please watch for the launch of these specific campaigns and updates on our social networks. It’s the best place to keep updated.
Since the launch of the Charter of Health Freedom on September 10 2008, the NHPPA has been receiving petitions from across Canada. The public and natural health industry are supporting the Charter of Health Freedom.
3 million signatures is the NHPPA’s goal. And we’re confident that this number is achievable because of concerned Canadians like you.
As of Friday, August 27 2010, the NHPPA has 51 850 petitionsignatures.
Here’s how you can make a difference – download the Charter of Health Freedom petition from the Charter of Health Freedom website, www.charterofhealthfreedom.org. You can also download a printable version either letter size or legal size of the petition by clicking here letter size or legal size. Then get your family, friends, colleagues, classmates and customers to sign the petition.
The NHPPA is collecting the petitions so send them to this address: #2-953 Laval Crescent, Kamloops, B.C. V2C 5P4.
In the July/August 2010 issue of The Agora Master Herbalist and NHPPA Board Member, Rick DeSylva has written a thought provoking article titled, A Question of Balance. Having 30 years of experience in the natural health community, Rick provides his perspective on Bill C-36 and the Natural Health Products Regulations. Rick asserts, “we as adults – [are] fully capable of making all necessary decisions for our own bodies, and in keeping with our own belief system, have the inalienable right to determine what is best for us, and to have access to those substances via appropriate regulations.”
Shawn spoke to Jon Hansen, blogtalkradio’s PI Window on Business host.
Jon has called the show “Criminalizing the Sale of Natural Health Products?” Jon writes “Against this backdrop we are once again pleased to welcome our health care industry thought leader Jeff Knott and the NHPPA’s Buckley, to discuss natural health products from both a patient’s rights and treatment effectiveness standpoint.”
Jeff Knott will be answering from a mainstream medicine perspective and Shawn, from the natural health paradigm. Should be interesting. Tune in and post your thoughts on the interview on NHPPA’s Facebook page.
CLICK HEREto view Jon’s blog, “Criminalizing the Sale of Natural Health Products?”
Listen to a taping of Shawn’s Interview
Click on the arrow shaped ”Play Button” above.
CLICK HERE to read the post interview article by Host Jon Hanson, “Big Pharma and the Vested Human Revenue Stream” based on the interview.
Kevin Miller, an award winning writer, producer, and director (Generation RX and We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom) comments on his new documentary film:
“Quietly, over a period of many years, unconstitutional legislation encompassed in Bills C-51, C-6, and the current Bill C-36 have placed not only basic civil liberties and freedoms at risk, but Canada’s national sovereignty as well. The film shares how entangling alliances with groups like the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, Codex Alimentarius, the United States and even multinational corporate interests have become so powerful that they literally threaten to make elected officials in Parliament irrelevant.
A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY discusses why this dramatic shift in the balance of power puts the nation and its people at a vital crossroad early in the 21st century — and why some of the past giants of Canadian politics may hold the answers to Canada’s future.”
Both Shawn Buckley and Ian Stewart, president and vice president of the NHPPA, were interviewed for A Question of Sovereignty. The NHPPA supports Kevin and honours his dedicated service to use his outstanding vision and work to effect change in Canada, and protect its future.
Your donations are the NHPPA’s lifeblood. Please give so that we can maintain measures to ensure Canadians’ rights and freedoms through projects like our Constitutional Challenge and to fund select educational initiatives.
Bill C-36 is almost identical to Bill C-52 which had been introduced into the 39th Parliament on April 8, 2008, and to Bill C-6 which had been introduced into the 40th Parliament on January 29, 2009.
Summary of Points Discussed In This Paper
The rule of law is the fundamental underpinning of a free society. Sacrificing the rule of law always leads to tyranny and loss of freedom.
The Bill represents an unprecedented change in the powers of the state vis-à-vis the citizen. The rule of law and private property rights are all but extinguished in the area of consumer products.
Although not applicable to natural health products, the Bill still poses a threat. The Bill gives Health Canada inspectors the very powers that concerned citizens in Bill C-51.
Bill C-36 is being promoted as necessary to protect our families. However, under the existing law the State can already:
ban or restrict any consumer product under threat of million dollar fines and two year jail sentences under the Hazardous Products Act;
make immediate orders banning or restricting any consumer product if there is a significant risk to health or safety. In addition to fines and imprisonment for non-compliance, the State can apply to the Court for an injunction which brings police enforcement of the order;
obtain a search warrant and seize non-compliant products, and
prosecute for criminal negligence or homicide under the Criminal Code. In some cases this can result in penalties of life imprisonment.
The real change brought about by Bill C-36 is not that it protects consumers, as the cur-rent law already grants the State significant powers to protect safety. Rather the real change is the abolition of procedural safeguards citizens currently enjoy.
Bill C-36 abolishes the law of trespass thus allowing the State access onto private property without any legal recourse.
Bill C-36 for the first time in Canadian history allows warrants to be issued to search private homes without evidence of criminal wrong doing.
Bill C-36 allows the State to seize property without a Court order, without reporting the seizure to a Court, and for an indefinite period.
Bill C-36 allows the State to assume control over the movement of private property without a Court order and without a safety concern.
The search and seizure powers in Bill C-36 are probably unconstitutional for violating the right found in section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
Persons can be fined and have property forfeited to the State for administrative violations. Persons so charged have no right to have a Court determine their guilt or innocence. Guilt is determined by the Minister. There is no defence of due diligence or of honest but mistaken belief. There does not have to be a safety risk to be charged with an administrative offence. The Minister who determines your guilt or innocence can keep seized property if he/she finds you guilty.
Directors, officers and managers are personally liable for violations by their company. Despite the possibility of multi-million dollar fines and long prison sentences, there is no right to cross-examine key witnesses.
Directors, officers and managers can be saddled with debt years after they have left the company.
Orders for recall or which take control of private property are exempted from the procedural safeguards of (1) review and (2) publication found in the Statutory Instruments Act.
All businesses manufacturing, selling or distributing consumer products are saddled with additional red tape and expense regardless of whether or not there is a safety concern.
Retailers and distributors of consumer products become liable for product labelling and instructions.
There may be a significant conflict of interest. Health Canada may benefit financially from fines and the seizure of private property.
Some consumer products such as sporting goods may have to be removed from the market for violating the safety provisions of the Bill.
The Provinces are allowing the Federal Government to regulate in the Provincial area of property and civil rights. This represents a significant transfer of power from the Provinces to the Federal Government.
The federal cabinet can incorporate documents from foreign governments or organizations as law by referring to them in regulations. This will remove Parliamentary scrutiny on issues that could fundamentally change the ground rules for the consumer product industry.
Trade agreements and foreign laws can be adopted without Parliamentary scrutiny.
DownloadOpen Letter to Minister Aglukkaq from the NHPPA June 17 2010 Re: Bill C-36 – the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act
Shawn Buckley’s Nov. 25 appearance before the Senate Committee where he was a witness in opposition to Bill C-6 (now Bill C-36) – Part 1 of 10
Click Here to view all video clips of the Senate Committee Session.
Health Canada recently published the Natural Health Products (Unprocessed Product Licence Applications) Regulations in the Canada Gazette Part 1. Shawn Buckley has written a discussion paper outlining the concerns that the proposed regulations will have on the natural health industry and consumers of natural health products.
On Monday, May 3 2010 Shawn Buckley was interviewed by the host of Health First Radio, Dave Fuller.
Shawn and Dave discussed the current status of NHP regulations, Health Canada’s view on Canadian manufacturers, and why consumers can go over the border to buy NHPs but not buy them in their own communities.
CLICK HERE and on the right hand column choose Dr. Alan Logan/ Shawn Buckley Constitutional lawyer.
Please note that the quality of this recording is not as clean as others.
The Natural Health Products Protection Association is federally incorporated as a non-profit company with the sole object of: Protecting access to Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements.
By limiting its purpose to protecting access to Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements, the NHPPA will focus on identifying and responding to threats facing the Natural Health Product and Dietary Supplement industry.
