NHPPA has established a credible reputation through our legal expertise in the Canadian natural health product industry.
We have published truthful and accurate information about the law and the challenges facing the industry. The NHPPA has a shockingly accurate record of predicting the next Health Canada steps.
The Self-Care Framework predictions are no exception. Read the NHPPA’s 2017 Discussion Papers on the Self-Care Framework and discover that all of the Health Canada actions that are currently threatening the natural health product industry were explained in detail in 2017.
We have produced discussion papers which have sparked movements and initiated national campaigns that have reached Health Canada and the Canadian Senate resulting in successfully changing legislation.
Our Discussion Papers are a top-tier source of information about the threats facing Canadian natural health products.
Shawn Buckley highlights the hidden changes to food and drug law buried within Canada’s 2024 Budget Bill (Bill C-69). This is a MUST-READ document for all Canadians who value their freedom of choice in healthcare.
All the things that we didn’t want to have happen to the natural health product industry are now happening—all at once. This is the end of the natural health product community as we know it—unless we act now.
Shawn Buckley delineates alterations to the drug approval process that were applied to COVID-19 vaccine authorizations. He questions Health Canada’s messaging that “All COVID-19 vaccines authorized in Canada are proven safe, effective and of high quality.”
Our governments keep pushing us farther to see how much we will quietly submit to. Shawn Buckley’s Discussion Paper examines Canadians’ loss of freedoms and government restrictions through a historical and legal lens. And he is not mincing words.
Health Canada has proposed expensive changes to exporting and importing in Canada. These changes can only harm businesses in the Canadian natural health product industry and Canadians’ individual access to NHPs.
Health Canada has made it clear that under the Self-Care Framework natural health product companies will be regulated in the same ways as chemical non-prescription drugs and charged chemical-drug style fees for licensing.
The purpose of the paper is to reveal the names of the people responsible for the Self-Care Framework and to show the documents they relied upon to bring about this change.
Health Canada’s proposed changes to the regulation of natural health products confirms that the war was lost in 2004: we are now renegotiating the terms of our surrender. Health Canada has published a timetable for repealing the Natural Health Product Regulations.
In 2019 Health Canada’s time line included making changes in the spring of 2020. However, when the spring of 2020 rolled around Canada was locked down, and so Health Canada delayed the changes.
The problem with censorship laws, is that it is the government that gets to decide what “truth” you will be allowed to access. Censorship and a free society cannot co-exist. It is as simple as that. If you want to remain at least partially free, you must resist this initiative.
Health Canada is signaling that they want to change how Natural Health Products (“NHPs”) are regulated. They have published a document called “Consulting Canadians on the Regulation of Self-Care Products in Canada”
On our first read of Bill C-17, our initial reaction was that it was drafted to ensure that natural health products are not threatened. In other words, it appeared to be an olive branch to the natural health community. After further reflection, we became concerned that Bill C-17 could later act as a Trojan Horse that surprises the natural health community with Bill C-51 provisions.
Bill C-38 makes some significant amendments to the Food and Drugs Act that will affect consumers and the natural health industry. To date there has been very little awareness of the proposed changes. Even more concerning is that the Bill was referred to the Finance Committee, not the Standing Committee on Health.
Whenever a government imposes strict regulations that will restrict consumer choice and raise the price of the products that remain, a justification must be given to consumers so that they will support the new regulations.
It is frightening that these are seen as “positive” developments. They are “positive” in the sense that the industry is being granted a few concessions. What is frightening, however, is how grateful and complacent the natural health community becomes when Health Canada slows its drive to re-shape the NHP industry into something that only the larger companies want.