Our natural remedies and essential nutrients like vitamin C and vitamin D were recently subjected to the same regulations as the dangerous chemical drugs. This is inappropriate. The chemical drugs are the third leading cause of death in Canada and are under regulations to restrict them. Vital nutrients like vitamin C and vitamin D are essential for our health and need to be promoted, not restricted. Bill C-224 protects our access to our natural products by moving us back out of the chemical drug regulations.
Tell those around you about this campaign. Show them this web page. Share the printed materials. Share the social media posts to your network.
Ensure that your friends and your family get involved in the C-224 Campaign. Encourage people in your community to spread the word.
Ensure you have instructed them to do what you just did with them, to share the campaign with others and to get them to share with others.
This is a 2 sided poster/flyer that you can distribute and display, to bring awareness and direct the population to our “Mission Critical – Bill C-224” landing page.
This is a 2 sided poster/flyer that you can distribute and display, to bring awareness and direct the population to our “Mission Critical – Bill C-224” landing page.
This is a postcard that you can distribute and display, to bring awareness and direct the population to our “Mission Critical – Bill C-224” landing page.
This is your cheat sheet to confidently and effectively speak to candidates, or their staff, about protecting access to natural health products and supporting the Charter of Health Freedom.
If you haven’t already reviewed our materials, we have a few options available to help you understand the issues:
By utilizing the resources above, it will ensure you have a solid understanding of the issues, which will build your confidence to communicate with your MP!
Commit to yourself, and schedule time in your calendar, to draft a letter weekly or biweekly, depending on your availability.
Because we are asking you to write multiple letters, you do not need to include every issue within a single letter. It is okay for many of the letters you draft to have a different focus because there are many ways Health Canada’s actions in restricting natural health products will impact you as an individual Canadian citizen. Using this strategy can also help keep you inspired to continue letter-writing in the months to come.
We have provided form letters below, if you are unwilling or unable to draft a letter in your own words. However, if you have the capacity to write your own letter, in your own words, we strongly encourage you to do so. Personalized letters hold much more weight with our MPs.
Tell your MP what natural health products mean to you! You can include a connection or success story that you or a family member has had with natural health products. Personal stories are some of the most impactful communications we can share with our elected officials.
Print out a copy of the Discussion Paper on 2023 Health Canada Initiatives. We suggest stapling your letter to this Discussion Paper at least once. You may also want to highlight passages in the Discussion Paper that are particularly meaningful to you, or write notes in the margins about sections in the Discussion Paper that most apply to you. The physical size and weight of sending in a 36-page Discussion Paper to your MP causes an impact, as will the understanding they’re sure to gain as a result.
With subsequent letters, you can print out a copy of our 2-page Natural Health Products Crisis Summary and affix that to your letter.
It is important to send a letter to your MP at both their House of Commons address and their Constituency Office. You can find their Constituency Office here:
House of Commons Current Members of Parliament.
You don’t have to stop at sending letters to your Member of Parliament. You can also mail your letter to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health, the Standing Committee on Health, or even all 338 MPs, if you’re willing.