Canada--Bill C-6 Urgent Message to Lawyers Against the WAR and all freedom loving Canadians

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It's now or never--you don't need to ne a rocket scientist to see that "THE PERFECT STORM" is brewing for this fall. Loss of all freedoms--swineflu/vaccinations---total surveillance--- and on and on and on...

and it is happening simultaneously in Canada, US, UK, Europe, Australia---etc...etc...etc...some further ahead than others--but it's coming for us all...

 

CANADA!! Time to make this #1 on your list of things to do!

 

--- On Thu, 7/2/09, Dee Nicholson <dnicholson wrote:

Dee Nicholson <dnicholsonHow brave are all you lawyers at Lawyers Against the War?mmandel, lawReceived: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:37 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Michael and Gayle, and Lawyers Against the War:

 

I'm one of many health freedom activists who has been attempting to shut down Bill C-6 ( See Shawn Buckley's analysis at http://nhppa.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/discussion_paper_on_bill_c-61.pdf) for its potential to wreak havoc against Natural Health Products. Our entire movement is aware that while not directly targeting NHP's, C-6 has provisions within it that can be instituted against NHP's by a ministerial regulatory change, a simple stroke of a pen, then published twice in the Gazette.

 

Buckley correctly identifies the following elements which may be moved against our natural health product suppliers and retailers:

"....Bill C-6 provides Health Canada with dramatically expanded powers to:a. search private property without a warrant;b. seize private property without Court supervision;c. destroy private property without Court supervision;d. take control of businesses without Court supervision;e. in some circumstances to keep seized private property without a Court order;f. impose penalties that manufacturers, distributors and retailers in the natural health community could not survive."

 

If you will notice, the powers granted under C-6 amount very clearly to a DENIAL OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW. This is unconstitutional, and in fact may be considered treasonous. And Parliament just passed it on June 12th, without any fanfare whatsoever.

 

Due process, enshrined since Magna Carta, is in fact the ONLY right which may not be derogated under the "Notwithstanding" clause (Clause 33) of our Bill of Rights, because no case could possibly be made that the nation would somehow benefit from the elimination of legal rights in any crisis: this could not stand the test of law. This, we believe, is the reason for it to be included in the very "unsexy" issue of the "Canada Consumer Product Safety Act", C-6, in order that precedent be set for "special cases".

 

However, these provisions are portable, not just against Natural Health Products (where it would comprise the enforcement muscle for the introduction of Codex Alimentarius guidelines), but ALSO any OTHER existing legislation. You can see that not only is C-6 unconstitutional ab initio, because it violates enshrined rights, but it could be used as precedent for unwarranted search, seizure, and arrest of "subversives", which as we all know could well include anyone who is opposed to government policy, or any other group or individual authorities decide to add to the "special case" list. As we all know, that list would be entirely arbitrary. If this bill allows ANY Canadian to be seen as GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT, we have LOST THE RULE OF LAW in this country!

 

It gets worse: Similar wording is found also in HR 2749, presently in Congress, as well as in the ISP legislation in Britain, and has been announced as a provision in the proposed ISP legislation here in Canada to be introduced in the fall. No doubt it is hidden in some innocuous piece of legislation in many places around the world.

 

We note also that this bill has been fast-tracked through the Senate. We believe this is so that the provisions within it may be safely transported over to the ISP bills, before they are read, and establish firm precedent. Note also that when passing legislation that contains distasteful or egregious language, the bill is positioned publicly so that voters are made out to be anti-social if they oppose it. (Example: "Surely you aren't against protecting our kids from those really bad products made in China, are you?" AND "What? You don't want police to catch purveyors of kiddie porn?") This is precisely what is being done in this instance, while the language that allows authorities such unlawful latitude is buried in a bill of little public interest.

 

It is our feeling that all Canadians, in fact all those affected by this sort of assault on their most basic of legal rights, anywhere in the world, have a stake in halting this nefarious legislation RIGHT NOW. We have only ten weeks, here in Canada, to accomplish that goal, or we could all be seen as guilty until proven innocent, and our children will inherit a land with no rights at all.

 

Would you and your organization consider getting behind this? We need to educate Canadians fast, and we feel that the issue is meaningful enough to a broad spectrum of Canadians to attract widespread attention. Your group has been snubbed by Harper when you told him his minister was violating the law in allowing Bush the War Criminal into this country: we cannot afford to be snubbed on this one, because a lot more is at stake.

 

Please let us know asap.

 

I may be reached at this email or by phone at 416-778-9581 in Toronto, and would welcome an early reply.

 

Dee Nicholson,

Freedom in Canadian Health Care (and other concerned groups and parties)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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