The fight continues. Liberal members of the Health Committee deleted every clause of Bill C-224, but that does not end the bill. It returns to the full House of Commons at report stage, where MP Blaine Calkins can move to reinsert the clauses the committee removed.
This is how the process works: After a committee reports a bill, the House of Commons gets its own chance to review and amend it. Members can propose motions to restore deleted clauses. Calkins has prepared those motions. If a majority of the House votes to restore the original text, the substance of the bill returns.
Bill C-224 was sabotaged by Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Health. They voted against the clauses in the bill, rendering it useless in its current form. There is one remaining chance to save it. At report stage, Members of Parliament can propose further amendments. This means the bill can be amended back to its original wording.
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A New Chance for Bill C-224 – It’s Not Over Yet
💚 Blaine Calkins Has Found a Path to Save Bill C-224!
💚 Bill C-224 is not dead. We need you to act now more than ever.
💚 The fight continues. Liberal members of the Health Committee deleted every clause of Bill C-224, but that does not end the bill. It returns to the full House of Commons at report stage, where MP Blaine Calkins can move to reinsert the clauses the committee removed.
💚 This is how the process works: After a committee reports a bill, the House of Commons gets its own chance to review and amend it. Members can propose motions to restore deleted clauses. Calkins has prepared those motions. If a majority of the House votes to restore the original text, the substance of the bill returns.
💚 A new campaign launches now. We are asking every supporter to write their MP and demand they vote to restore the clauses of Bill C-224. The window is short, so every message counts.
💚 Send the letter immediately. Share it. Follow up. Tell your MP that Canadians want the original Bill C-224 restored, not the version the committee emptied.
💚 This is the moment to turn earlier support into concrete votes. Take action the day the campaign drops. Keep taking action until the votes are cast.
Visit nhppa.org/last-chance-for-224/ to find everything you need to get involved. Send emails, print letters, download ready-made social media posts, contact candidates, and much more.
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Bill C-224 is not dead.
🚨 Liberal members of the Health Committee deleted every clause, but the bill returns to the House of Commons at report stage on December 3. MP Blaine Calkins can move to restore the original clauses.
🚨 This is our last real chance to protect access to natural remedies and essential nutrients. Health Canada has already moved products like Vitamin C and calcium into the same restrictive class as high-risk drugs.
🚨 Your letters and calls helped get us here. Now we need even more pressure.
Write your MP. Call their office. Share this post. Act every day until December 3.
Let’s make protecting access to natural health products a key issue. Ask your MP to Speak up for Natural Health and vote in favour of Bill-C224.
Visit nhppa.org/last-chance-for-224/ to find everything you need to get involved. Send emails, print letters, download ready-made social media posts, contact candidates, and much more.
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Urgent: Report stage for Bill C-224 is December 3.
🚨 The committee gutted the bill. At report stage, MPs can put the original clauses back. Blaine Calkins is ready to move the amendments.
🚨 Without restoration, essential nutrients stay trapped in pharmaceutical-style rules that raise prices, limit products, and restrict truthful information.
🚨 Natural health products are classed by law as food in the U.S. They are deemed by law to be safe in the U.S. There is no requirement for government pre-approval in the form of a licence in the U.S. This is because Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, 1994.
Without restoration, essential nutrients stay trapped in pharmaceutical-style rules that raise prices, limit products, and restrict truthful information.
We need consistent pressure. One letter is not enough. One call is not enough.
Send a message today. Then send another tomorrow.
Visit nhppa.org/last-chance-for-224/ to find everything you need to get involved. Send emails, print letters, download ready-made social media posts, contact candidates, and much more.
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Health is Our Greatest Asset
🚨 Over 70% of Canadians rely on natural health products.
🚨 Health Canada is over-regulating safe, time-tested natural health products by treating them like pharmaceutical drugs, that often come with lengthy lists of dangerous side effects.
🚨 We deserve the freedom to choose how we care for our health and our families.
Let’s make protecting access to natural health products a key issue. Ask your mp to Speak up for Natural Health and vote in favour of Bill-C224.
Visit nhppa.org/last-chance-for-224/ to find everything you need to get involved. Send emails, print letters, download ready-made social media posts, contact candidates, and much more.
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Canadian manufacturers of natural health products are being squeezed out of the market! Why aren’t American manufacturers subject to the same STRICT REGULATIONS as Canadian companies?
LET’S STAND UP FOR CANADA!
Let’s make protecting access to natural health products a priority for Canada. Ask your candidate to take a stand in favour of natural health.
Visit nhppa.org/last-chance-for-224/ to find everything you need to get involved. Send emails, print letters, download ready-made social media posts, contact candidates, and much more.
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Natural health products (NHPs) include our vital nutrients and our natural remedies. Recently our NHPs were moved into the class of drugs reserved for dangerous chemical drugs. This is the therapeutic product category of drugs. Vital nutrients such as Magnesium and Vitamin D are essential for health. They should be promoted. They should not be put into the restrictive therapeutic product category. This is morally wrong and small and medium-sized Canadian natural health product companies will drown under Health Canada’s new regulations.
🚨 Manufacturers will be forced to discontinue products, raise prices, or shut down altogether.
🚨 Practitioners won’t have access to the products they rely on.
🚨 Health food stores will lose their customers.
🚨 And many Canadians will lose their jobs.
And remember, Health Canada’s policies don’t just affect businesses, they affect your health options.
Let’s make protecting access to natural health products a key issue. Ask your mp to Speak up for Natural Health and vote in favour of Bill-C224.
Visit nhppa.org/last-chance-for-224/ to find everything you need to get involved. Send emails, print letters, download ready-made social media posts, contact candidates, and much more.
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.
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