Battle against Health Canada - Please support our Canadian Friends

[Guest guest]

" Anthony Stephan "

 

Court begins Monday - going head to head

Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:20:37 -0700

 

 

Hi to all,

 

Thanks for your interest in this exciting action. We are putting

Health Canada on trial. Calgary Alberta Provincial Court, 800 - 5th

Ave. SW, Monday March 13th @ 9:30 am.

 

The trial will continue over a 15 day period. We are talking serious

things here, a maximum $500.00 fine if we are found guilty.

 

This is the result of a three year investigation at an approx cost

to the tax payers of 2 million dollars.

Realize that the law has changed and we are in full compliance with

the regulations. What's it really all about?

 

Its all about an agenda to remove competition, halting progress in

finding solutions to health care problems and protecting the drug

industry.

 

They through their restrictive regulations are once again imposing

themselves on the Canadian public.

We are enlisting the support of numerous groups to make a show of

support for the national media who will be present at the trial.

 

Truehope backers warn of suicides

 

 

Health Canada insists raid was necessary

David Heyman

 

 

Calgary Herald

Thursday, July 17, 2003

 

 

A Health Canada raid on the offices of a company producing a

purported nutritional cure for mental illness has sparked a

ferocious war of words between hard-core believers and skeptics of

the product.

 

Supporters say the supplement Empowerplus -- a mix of 36 vitamins,

minerals and anti-oxidants

-- is a miracle cure and some people may take their own lives if

they can't get it.

 

Detractors, however, say the company has been growing wealthy

selling something no better than a placebo to very vulnerable people

 

Ron LaJeunesse, executive director of the Canadian Mental Health

Association's Alberta division,

says he knows many people who have been essentially cured of mental

illness after taking Empowerplus.

 

" It's going to result in dozens of suicides. I know of two already, "

he said.

 

" If there's no opportunity for people to take it, at best we're

going to see some mental patients going back to hospital. At worst,

they'll die. "

 

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James Lunney defends the rights of Canadians to have the product.

http://www.truehope.com/StreamingMedia/Bedlam.asp

 

Best Regards,

Anthony Stephan

 

 

<< PressReleaseforCourtCaseonMar13-06Final.pdf >>

 

-----PRESS RELEASE-----

 

It's one man's dream to protect his family from mental illness.

 

Ten years later, it's a David vs. Goliath legal battle involving two

small-town Alberta entrepreneurs and Health Canada.

 

It was January 30th of 1994 when Tony Stephan of Magrath, Alberta

suffered a life changing loss. His young wife, only 40 years old

committed suicide after a lengthy battle with bipolar disorder, a

common mental illness affecting hundreds of thousands of Canadians.

After losing his wife, Stephan was determined not to lose his son

and daughter who had also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

After discussing his fears with a local agricultural specialist,

David Hardy, Stephan was shocked to learn about the nutritional

impact on a common behavioural problem affecting pigs called ear and

tail biting syndrome as identified by agricultural science. After

developing a nutritional supplement protocol for both his son and

daughter, the 2 children had virtually no symptoms of bipolar and

Tony Stephan and David Hardy were determined to share their story.

 

After introducing this discovery to a skeptical Bonnie Kaplan, the of the Behavioural Research Unit at the University of

Calgary, she agreed to launch a clinical trial of Stephan and

Hardy's nutrient supplement protocol. Shocked by her findings, Dr.

Kaplan presented a detailed report to the Canadian Psychiatric

Association's annual general meeting entitled " Successful Treatment

of Bipolar Disorder with a Nutritional Supplement: 10 Cases. " It was

shortly there after that Stephan and Hardy's peace of mind fell

apart in a nearly 5-year legal battle with Health Canada.

 

Upon seeing Doctor Kaplan's report on the nutritional treatment of

bipolar on CTV National news on October 4th of 2000, Health Canada

officials contacted the University of Calgary within days, demanding

that all testing and trials be stopped. Health Canada was determined

to make this discovery go away by shutting down an Alberta

government approved and funded study.

 

On March 13th, 2006, a noted expert in legal matters surrounding

nutritional supplements - Kamloops, B.C. lawyer Shawn Buckley, will

defend his clients - Truehope Nutritional Support Ltd. and the

Synergy Group of Canada Inc. against a charge of violating Health

Canada regulations for marketing their nutrient supplement protocol

to bipolar patients without a DIN number. A trial is scheduled for

three weeks at the Alberta Provincial Court in Calgary.

 

 

Contacts:

• Shawn Buckley, Lawyer: 250-372-1404

• Anthony Stephan, Co-founder, Truehope: 403-634-4840

• David Hardy, Co-founder, Truehope: 403-752-3639

 

 

The " Red Umbrellas " fully support the battle against Health Canada

 

In 2003, Health Canada seized personal shipments of vitamins and

minerals and destroyed them because people with mental illness were

using them instead of drugs for treatment. Under the Food and Drugs

Act no natural therapy could be used for their illness, so the

vitamin and mineral

combination called EMPowerplus became an illegal drug.

 

Supplies dwindled and EMPowerplus users panicked. Hundreds of

letters and phone calls to government were ignored. A mental health

crisis line was scripted to tell healthy people to go back to using

drug treatments and hospitalization instead of the vitamins and

minerals.

 

Desperate, nine women and one small boy went to Ottawa. For two

days, they stood outside telling of their plight. The story was

exposed, access was restored, and in October, 2003, Members of

Parliament wearing Red Umbrella pins voted for Bill C-420 saying

that the Food and Drugs Act must

be rewritten to allow freedom of choice in health for all Canadians.

 

The law has yet to change.

 

The Red Umbrella stands for our desire for freedom to choose health

in Canada.

 

www.TheRedUmbrellas.com