Conservative MP wants to reverse new rules for natural health products
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Alberta Conservative MP Blaine Calkins is seeking to reverse the changes entirely in a private member's bill that's being studied by the House of Commons health committee.
A Conservative MP wants Parliament to undo changes made by the Liberals last year that brought natural health products under the same regulations as pharmaceuticals.
The new rules mean Health Canada can demand that stores pull products such as supplements and homeopathic medicines off their shelves if they are found to be a health risk, and impose bigger fines on companies that don’t comply with regulations.
Alberta Conservative MP Blaine Calkins is seeking to reverse the changes entirely in a private member’s bill that’s being studied by the House of Commons health committee.
He says the changes didn’t get proper scrutiny when they came into law because the Liberals put them in a big budget bill, and he thinks they increase costs for consumers and stifle innovation.
Calkins’ bill made it through second reading with support from both the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.
Health Minister Mark Holland told the committee last week that reversing the changes is “cuckoo bananas” and will put the health of Canadian consumers at risk.
“We have a duty of care, a duty of care that anything that is ingested or used by Canadians, that we ensure that it’s safe and that it’s not going to make them sick,” Holland said on Oct. 29. “This bill would jeopardize that.”
Calkins said in an recent interview that he doesn’t remember anyone debating these specific clauses in the budget bill, and said it was “underhanded” and “sneaky” for the government to put the changes into a budget.
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