On September 10, 2008, the Natural Health Community of Canada joined forces to launch the Charter of Health Freedom. The Charter of Health Freedom will bring about a new era in Health Care Freedom in Canada.
This proposed legislation will create a fair health care system that respects our ancestral legal rights. We envision this health care system to be fully sustainable, culturally diverse and encompass natural, traditional and conventional medicine. 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.
Charter of Health Freedom
The Charter of Health Freedom is a bold initiative that moves us in a new direction. It protects Canadians’ rights to unhindered access to safely regulated natural health products. It protects our freedom of choice from over-regulation by the Health Canada. Since the January 2004 implementation of the Natural Health Products Regulations, Canadians have already lost 20,000 safe and effective natural health products.
This Charter will put an end to the devastating trend of unreasonable restriction in our natural health community.
This new federal legislation serves to include all natural medicines, therapies and treatments. It is built on the fundamental belief that every person has the right to choose what form of health care they and their family wish to receive.
It’s your life. It’s your body. It’s your choice.
Ministry of Wellness
The Ministry of Wellness has been put forward as an alternative, and an adjunct, 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 all natural healing arts while the Ministry of Health/Health Canada would oversee conventional medicine.
This concept is unique to Canada and would serve as a solution that would accomodate 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 treatment they would like to receive and could have confidence in knowing that both are being properly regulated.
Our goal is to bridge the gap between conventional medicine and natural medicine. We believe that all forms of medicine have their time and place and should be respected.
To download a copy of the Charter of Health Freedom and sign the petition please click here!
