In Canada there is an attempt to stop access to natural health supplements. Regardless of where one lives, it’s all one world. We all should have the choice, the freedom to decide and to have access to the health care that we choose.
In 2003 Health Canada agents knowingly and willfully took action against a group of mentally ill Canadians, preventing them from accessing a natural health product they relied on to correct their mental illness and prevent suicides. A 2006 court trial exposed the clear and unchallenged evidence of warnings and pleadings by Ron LaJeunesse, Alberta Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association (click here for transcript). He bore witness of suicides that were the result of desperation when Canadians were advised they would no longer have access to their natural health product. When Constitutional Lawyer Shawn P. Buckley wrote an official request, asking the Minister to initiate a full inquiry into the actions taken by Health Canada agents, Minister Clement responded with silence (click here for letter). Instead, Assistant Deputy Minister Meena Ballantyne reviewed the case and said: “Health Canada fully supports actions taken…”(more)