Harper Law C-16 Say Goodbye To Freedom

Tonington

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Nah, we'll all be invaded by hordes of cops n health inspectors who will confiscate our homemade chicken soup and have us fined and thrown in jail by the courts. :D

You know it! Job creation to protect the wealthy from the poor, or something to that effect. :lol:
 

darkbeaver

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Frankly, maybe you should read some more, and build your own opinions rather than relying on others to tell you what is going on.

Here's a hypothetical situation.

My company sells a product called Plastidpower tablets. It's basically a product derived from algal organelles. We market this product as a therapy for everything from protection against UV to cancer prevention. Under this new law, now my company must justify the claims we make, there must be rigorous testing to make sure the product is safe, and there must be controls to ensure that customers are getting what they are paying for.

Before the law came about, I could sell my product to health food stores around the country. They didn't know, and hence didn't care that I was buying my product from a lower quality manufacturer in southeast Asia, rather than a high quality manufacturer. They didn't know that the therapy they were purchasing contained unacceptable levels of heavy metals. It turns out the plants they harvested to extract the plastids grew on contaminated soils, and thus the customers were ingesting this unintentional bioremediated crap.

Kiss your freedoms good bye? I don't think so.

Bottled water is not a therapy. Blueberries are not a therapy. Unless you sell them as one, and customers should be protected from snake oil salesman who pass off these products as therapies.

Tonnington the legislation protects the profits of the big corporations, you do not need a hypothetical situation you can study the real thing. Are you seriously trying to tell us that Blueberries and water are not theraputic. A good safe diet is the ultimate therapy that's why the junk dealers need the legislation, they are threatened by organics and homebrews and refuse to provide either quality or economy. The situation you used is hugely in existance already and by the supposedly regulated, taxed and registered corporations.
You don't realize that what you're looking at is a further consolodation of a market and not even remotely meant for safe frequent inspection and regulation of any industry but the one that might threaten the transnationals bottom line. It is anti-consumer legislation, plain and simple.imo
 

Tonington

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Tonnington the legislation protects the profits of the big corporations,

I'm going to stop you right there. Big corporations are the ones making a killing right now off of this market segment. Their profits are not being protected by this legislation.

Again, this is why I find this uproar so ironic.

I guess it's all good so long as it's not the monsters you know ehh Beve? :lol:
 

L Gilbert

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lol Whatever happened to "caveat emptor", anyway?
Perhaps everyone should have a herbalist in their family, or befriend one. Wifey's Dad wanders around with a totebag fulla twigs n leaves n stuff. Don't have to buy it when he brings it out of the bush all the time, and there aren't too many people out there dousing them with pesticides, fungicides and stuff. And a lot of people grow a lot of their own food, even in cities.
 

Cliffy

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In any given area are the natural remedies to cure just about anything. All one needs to do is go out and pick it. Your health and safety is your responsibility. Educate yourself and stop relying on others to tell you what to do and what not to do.
 

Tonington

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Except the government pays the bill from everyones taxes when even your best intentions fail your health, so it makes some sense for them to be proactive with our money.
 

darkbeaver

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I'm going to stop you right there. Big corporations are the ones making a killing right now off of this market segment. Their profits are not being protected by this legislation.

Again, this is why I find this uproar so ironic.

I guess it's all good so long as it's not the monsters you know ehh Beve? :lol:

What are the big corporations? Thier profits are going to be enhanced at the citizens expence, that's the reality. Already they are busting small organic operations. This legislation is aimed at destroying diversification in foodstuffs and medicinal herbals.
 

darkbeaver

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Except the government pays the bill from everyones taxes when even your best intentions fail your health, so it makes some sense for them to be proactive with our money.

If they were proactive they would enforce the existing regulations with respect to inspection and verification, they don't, that part of health Canada has been gutted, and the industry has been left to self-regulate, which it consistantly does in it's own favour not the consumers.