Today, it is with endless excitement, that we announce a significant and consequential development in our progress toward our goal to protect the natural health product industry in Canada. Last week, we released a Private Member’s Bill, drafted by Shawn Buckley, aimed at repealing Sections 500-504 of the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 (formerly...Read More

Are you familiar with the case of Ezekiel Stephan? Join David Stephan, VP of Truehope Canada, and constitutional lawyer Shawn Buckley as they discuss how Health Canada officials are inappropriately using the death of Ezekiel Stephan to push their attempts to over-regulate the natural health industry. In an effort to set the record straight, both...Read More

While you’ve been busy writing letters and sending postcards to educate our MPs, Shawn Buckley has been busy drafting a new Private Members Bill to repeal sections 500-504 of Bill C-47. A Private Member’s Bill is a Bill that can be introduced by any Member of Parliament that is not a Member of the Cabinet....Read More

Our campaigns are already having an impact! Thank you to all who have been a part of our successes to date – by sending a postcard, contacting your Member of Parliament (MP), signing or collecting signatures for our petitions, volunteering, or supporting us financially. Together we are getting information out, having our voices heard by...Read More

Terry is an NHPPA warrior and letter writing machine! She has already mailed a letter to EVERY SINGLE MP—that’s 338 letters!! Efforts like Terry’s, that go above and beyond, are helping our MPs to understand the seriousness of the threats facing natural health products and what we, as Canadian citizens, expect them to do about...Read More

MPs are returning to their home riding offices for the week of November 14-17, 2023—so now is the time to schedule in-person meetings during that week! Thanks to your hard work we’ve already seen remarkable success in bringing attention to the threats our natural health industry, and all its stakeholders, are facing. It’s crucial that...Read More

If you had a new idea about something that you thought no one, or very few people had ever had, you might call that a “novel” idea, and you might try to patent it, i.e. acquire intellectual property rights. What is a Use-Patent? For instance, even though you can’t patent a naturally existing herb or...Read More

This week, the Standing Committee on Health held their second meeting to discuss Health Canada’s proposed changes to our natural health product regulations—no doubt as a result of your calls and visits to their offices, and the thousands of postcards and letters filling their desks. The focus of this meeting was for the committee to...Read More

We’ve been sharing these media reviews with you periodically since summertime, when things in the natural health product industry began shifting rapidly—and not for the better. Below you’ll find links to articles, podcasts, video interviews, and more! Our goal with sharing these lists is to support you in staying up-to-date with NHPPA’s work in whatever...Read More

These Safer than Food Postcards call out Health Canada’s claims around the risks associated with natural health products, which they have consistently pointed to as a justification for targeting the industry via increased regulation. Have you seen our latest postcard design? Check Out Our 1-minute Video According to statistical analyses, natural health products are not...Read More