The NHPPA Show Goes Live Tonight

Join Us Live Tonight, Wednesday, November 11 at 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm ET.

The whole NHPPA team will be live tonight, and we are excited to bring our subscribers and followers up to speed on everything happening at NHPPA.

The show remains the place where supporters get the latest campaign numbers, social media pulse, and direct answers from the team.

There will be a focus on rescuing Bill C-224 and the team will walk you through all the options we’ve given you to take action.

Of course, our regular segments will also be back:

• Campaign Update with Jason Dahl
• The Feed with Eric Clegg
• Buckley Unfiltered
• NHPPA University with Teresa
• Your Questions from the live chat

Join the live chat to interact with the whole NHPPA team in real time and get your comments on screen.

Tune in live tonight at 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm ET.

Replay will be available next week.

Keep Up the Pressure: Last Chance for Bill C-224

Report Stage Is December 3

Liberal members of the Health Committee deleted every clause of Bill C-224, but the fight is not over. The bill goes back to the full House of Commons at report stage, where MP Blaine Calkins can move to restore the clauses the committee removed.

At a press conference on Parliament Hill on November 4, MP Blaine Calkins and Shawn Buckley laid out exactly what happened to Bill C-224 and what comes next. Calkins explained that the Liberal members of the committee deleted every clause, and the title too, sending the bill back to the House as “a blank sheet of paper”, even though it had passed second reading unanimously.

He has formally applied to reinstate every clause and the title, and the Speaker will rule on that at report stage. Shawn pointed out that through the NHPPA alone, Canadians sent 493,000 e-letters supporting this bill and its predecessor, C-368, and he warned that the report stage, beginning December 3, will only succeed if the government faces pressure so strong it cannot ignore it.

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Here is how it works. Once a committee reports a bill, the House gets its own chance to review and amend it, and members can bring motions to reinstate deleted clauses. Calkins has those motions ready. If a majority of the House votes to restore the original text, the substance of the bill comes back.

Your letters, briefs and calls kept this bill alive long enough to reach this stage, and that work still counts.

The Last Chance to Save Bill C-224 campaign is underway.

We need steady action every day until December 3. One letter is good, but a letter every day is better, and several calls beat one.

Here’s what you can do right now:

1. Send an electronic letter
2. Print and mail physical letters
3. Call and speak with your MP and your MP’s staff
4. Meet with your MP
5. Post on social media
6. Send a handwritten note to your Liberal MP
7. Repeat!

(Bonus: Tell people to tell people.)

It may look like a lot, but there are still a few weeks left, and the campaign is set up so you can take one action a day.

Repetition gets results. Every message, call and follow-up helps turn earlier support into the votes we need to restore the original Bill C-224.

Visit nhppa.org/last-chance-for-224 every day, take one action, and come back tomorrow for another. Share the page and keep the pressure on until the votes are cast.

This is the moment. Let’s get it done.

Mark Your Calendar for Giving

On Giving Tuesday, December 1, starting at 4pm PT / 5pm MT / 6pm ET, NHPPA goes live for a marathon broadcast, our biggest show of the year and the only one like it.

We’ll have special guests joining us throughout the evening, along with updates on the fight to protect your access to natural health products. This is a day for the whole community to come together and show what grassroots support can do.

And we’re raising the stakes. As we hit each donation goal, we’ll unlock special incentives, including exclusive video clips you won’t see anywhere else. Some goals will put the team on the spot with truth-or-dares, so how far this goes is up to you.

You’ll also have plenty of chances to talk with the whole NHPPA team in the live chat all night, with your comments and questions on screen.

Every dollar raised goes straight into protecting access and defending informed choice. This only happens once a year. Put December 1 in your calendar now and join us live.

NHPPA Team
​Natural Health Product Protection Association | nhppa.org​
​Dedicated to protecting Canadians’ access to natural health products.

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