Law For Natural Health Products & Practices

This is an exciting time in the field of natural medicine. The Charter of Health Freedom has the potential to set Canada apart as one of the most progressive countries in the world. The Charter envisions a health care system to be fully sustainable, culturally diverse and encompass natural, traditional and conventional medicine.

The Charter of Health Freedom is a proposed legislation that gives Natural Health Products and Practices their own Act.

It was developed specifically to protect natural health products (NHPs), practices and the Canadian consumers who use them.

The Charter creates a completely separate category for NHPs; separate from the Drug category that they are currently a part of; under the old Food and Drug Act.

It works within the Government of Canada to provide the new law that works for everybody and protects today’s Canadian public and our future generations. Forever.

The Charter of Health Freedom offers an appropriate, healthy, beneficial, safe and well-rooted change for regulating the nation’s natural health products industry; permanently. It proposes the definition and regulation of NHPs be elevated to a peer basis with Drugs.

The Charter of Health Freedom is a reminder to exercise the rights and freedoms we enjoy as Canadians. It is a change that meets today’s greatly shifting values and ethics. It is about creating an evolution. It is about protecting our freedom to choose.

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Keeping Our Options Open

The Charter of Health Freedom is about the legal sovereignty you have over your body as a Canadian.

The Charter of Health Freedom is about protecting your right to decide how you will maintain your health or address a health crisis by protecting your treatment options.

The Charter of Health Freedom is about protecting our fundamental right to choose how we or our children will be treated when sick or injured.

The Charter of Health Freedom is about protecting our safety by ensuring that we can continue to access treatments we can rely on.

Signs Of Tightening

NHPs we rely on for our health are being taken away from us in unprecedented numbers. The number of lost NHPs is measured in the tens of thousands and increasing. The imposition of the drug model which is intended and designed to restrict access is, unsurprisingly, restricting our access. If our children are going to experience the same health freedoms we have enjoyed, we will have to act.

We envision this health care system to be fully sustainable, culturally diverse and encompass natural, traditional and conventional medicine. We envision a health care system that respects our legal and ancestral rights. The Charter of Health Freedom has the potential to set us apart as one of the most progressive countries in the world introducing it’s visionary proposal; The Ministry of Wellness.

The Ministry Of Wellness

The Ministry of Wellness has been put forward as an alternative, and partner, to the current Ministry of Health/Health Canada. Given the track records and differences between conventional medicine and natural medicine, it is quite evident that they should be regulated separately.

The Ministry of Wellness would therefore oversee natural medicines, therapies and treatments and natural healing arts while the Ministry of Health/Health Canada would oversee conventional medicine. The Minister of Wellness would be restricted to regulating the NHP industry.

This concept is unique to Canada and would serve as a solution that would accommodate all parties and honour the multiple Supreme Court of Canada decisions which consistently reinforce the notion of sovereignty over one’s body.

With a new Charter and a new Ministry we can expect a broad-based health care system in which Canadians would be free to choose what form of health maintenance, prevention or crisis treatment they would like to receive and could have confidence in knowing that both are being regulated well.

When In Doubt

If there is something that you do not quite understand or would like to comment on please do not hesitate to contact us. Email your detailed question, comment or suggestion including your full contact information, for discussion. Shawn and the core advisory team welcome legitimate communication with representatives of any associations, organizations, governing or regulating bodies and individuals from within or without the natural health industry and community that may feel affected by the Charter.