‘The World’s Greatest Health Van’ Travels to Ottawa: 150,000 Canadians Call for The Charter of Health Freedom
OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
Shawn Buckley, President of the Natural Health Product Protection Association (NHPPA), is on the road — destination Parliament Hill, Ottawa. His main purpose is to deliver a message on behalf of thousands of Canadians: We want better access to natural health products.
Upon arrival in Ottawa, Mr. Buckley is delivering to members of Parliament a document called The Charter of Health Freedom (‘The Health Charter’), which he describes as “a citizen initiative to ensure fair and balanced regulation of basic nutrients and natural remedies. The benefits must be maximized, and the risks minimized.”
Along with ‘The Health Charter’, he is also delivering the third-largest paper petition in Canadian history, signed by more than 150,000 citizens from coast to coast.
Delivering the Charter in Ottawa will be the culmination of a cross-Canada road trip, which began October 4 in Victoria, British Columbia, making multiple stops in cities including Whitehorse, Grande …Read More
What’s going on with Natural Health Products in Canada?
You may have seen those mail-in postcards recently, talking about “Natural Health Products”. Over 1 million postcards were distributed to health food stores, pharmacies and natural health clinics across Canada by the Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA).
Here is a brief synopsis of what’s going on with Natural Health Products (NHPs). Heatlh Canada considers NHPs to be vitamins and minerals, herbal remedies, traditional medicines (traditional Chinese/ Ayurvedic), homeopathic medicines, fatty acids, probiotics and some personal care products.
What’s going on is Health Canada has decided to control and strictly regulate NHPs in the same manner as if they were pharmaceutical drugs. It has done this by considering NHPs as “therapeutic products” in the Food and Drugs Act, whereas previously they were excluded from the definition. This is part of the “self-care framework”, put forward by Health Canada in 2016. This framework is being implemented in steps, the most recent of which …Read More
