Health Canada is continuing to block natural health products from hitting Canadian shelves. In there most recent move a major NHP manufacturer has been forced to discontinue 53 safe, popular NHPs. Including Bee Pollen, Zinc, GABA, Resveratrol, Grapeseed extract, cinnamon, boron, Gaba, B12, and boswellia.

When the regulations started in 2004, Health Canada classified NHPs as “DRUGS”. This meant that there were now two classes of drugs: synthetic pharmaceuticals, which are patentable, and NHPs, (vitamins, minerals, herbs, probiotics, etc.)

Within three years, this requirement had eliminated well over 20,000 imported American products from Canada, because their makers couldn’t justify the cost or hassle.

American made NHP's that are safe and very effective are slowly being blocked from the small Canadian market. Health Canada is accomplishing this by setting very high and costly testing standards, that these companies cannot afford to provide. In return for the small return. And bet your bottom dollar that Health Canada knew this would be the case!

It is a calm and collected way for Codex Alimentarius to be phased into Canada.


According to the Herb Regulation In Canada, under section C. The UN Codex Alimentarius Commission

* The UN Codex Alimentarius Commission aims to harmonize international food standards to protect consumers against health hazards and fraud; to ensure safe practices in the food trade; and to facilitate international trade in food and food products.

* In 1997, the Codex Commission’s Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses reviewed concerns over potentially harmful herbs and botanical products sold as foods. It stated that the toxicity of herbs is essentially a safety problem with no nutritional implications and recommended that national authorities establish lists of potentially harmful plants on a toxicological basis.

* As one of its 151 member countries, Canada is free to adopt or reject the standards, guidelines and recommendations the Commission develops. The herbal community is concerned that Canada will yield to international trade pressure but Health Canada stresses that the World Trade Organization does not have the authority to require countries to adopt and enforce a Codex finding.
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According to this Canada is free to adopt these standards or not to, but unfortunately Health Canada seems hell bent on imposing these draconian measures, on top of the other draconian measures like the consumer product safety act. To keep Canadians safe from products that have been in the market place for decades, without one known death caused by any of them. But you know things like Bee Pollen and Grapeseed extract are so dangerous, they just can't take that chance!

It is very clear that health Canada is fully on board with codex, and is being backed by the big pharma corporations that want the Canadian people unable to naturally defend themselves. Big pharma/health Canada wants all of you fully dependent on their ineffective and dangerous pharmaceuticals!

"TORONTO - Global market fundamentalism and U.S. attempts at international cooperation have failed and given rise to a new world order, one dominated by China, says George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist whose forays into politics have made more headlines lately than his massive hedge fund profits." Source

As a main player in the economic downfall of 2009 (also one of the few people to make a lot of money from it), it is not surprising that Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, and Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie awarded Soro's with the CIC Globalist of the Year award on November 15 2010, in Toronto.

CIC (Canadian International Council) is just one of a vast network of Canadian think tanks that focus on globalization. We have written about the CIGI globalism school in Kitchener/Waterloo, that is run by Jim Balsillie. We have also seen what kind of a job Mark Carney and Jim Flaherty have done. In there time in office, the Canadian economy and marketplace has taken a nose dive, and there is still no end in sight.

So as hard working Canadians are loosing their jobs, everything is OK. Because the banking elite of this country are focusing on giving out awards for globalist of the year! Who need to focus on fixing our economy, and preserving our national sovereignty when we can give out awards to elite criminals!

Soro's joins some great company with the likes of WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, who was the 2009 globalism award winner.