Canada Passes Draconian Food Law

[onawah]

Are we paying attention? This is the insidious progression of Codex Alimentarius, now also creeping through the US Congress in the form of the S510 bill, which could still be passed if we don't take enough action. Please see the sticky thread on this and take action, tell your friends, post on Facebook, etc.etc. Thanks!!
IF you haven't heard, in Bill Ryan's latest net radio interview, he tells us about the insider who says that TPTB are now putting their major focus on population reduction through making healthy food scarce. They also mean to eliminate natural supplements, herbs etc from store shelves.
There may not be all that much we can do about many of the black op projects but this is one we can deal with at a grass roots level. PLEASE TAKE ACTION and be aware. Community gardens. local co-op, support of local farmer's markets, herbalists. etc. is more important than ever! Thanks!

Canada Passes Draconian Food Law
Posted on December 17, 2010 by geobear7| 2 Comments

Famine: Third Horse of the Apocalypse (Vasnetsov)

By Brigid of Gaia
Bring the Children Home

An Open Letter to the Police

On December 13, 2010, a piece of draconian legislation was passed into law by the Canadian senate. I refer to Bill C36, which is just one piece in the wider global plan called Codex Alimentarius. The bill controls consumer products and is widely understood to be the precursor for another bill that will give Health Canada the power to take some 75% of natural health products off the shelves.

At least as important as this is the part of the bill that removes the law of trespass. Until tonight, a police officer needed a warrant to enter private property in Canada. No longer. Under the new law, police can enter and seize private property at any time, for any reason, even if the person in question is not suspected of any crime.

We have to look at this with a wide lens. The same policies regarding consumer products, natural health products, and organic farming are coming in at dizzying speed around the world. At the same time, legislation is passing that gives police unprecedented powers to oppress the people in total disregard to human rights and the constitution of any nation.

Things are only going to get worse for a few years yet. As the economy continues its downward trend – and it will, because it is planned that way – millions of people will take to the streets in protest, as we are already seeing all over Europe. Millions more will peacefully start refusing to cooperate with governments that, more obviously every day, do not represent the people.

In conversation with one of the senators who voted the bill into law, I warned him that Canadians will not cooperate with it. His answer: “The police will have to deal with that.” In other words, big business and the government that represents it is counting on the police to do their dirty work.

It is time for the police to make a decision. When the order comes to use guns, tasers, water cannons and so on against innocent people, what are you going to do? When you are told to enter and search the homes of political dissidents, will you obey, or will you remember the oath you swore which says “I will, to the best of my power, cause the peace to be kept and prevent all offences against the persons and properties of Her Majesty’s subjects”?

Make no mistake, these orders will come. We are in a situation similar to Nazi Germany in the 1930s, only this time it is on a worldwide level and there are more people awakening and refusing to cooperate.

The excuse “I was just following orders” was not enough in the Nuremberg trials, and it will not be enough this time either. This is the time to have enough courage to follow your conscience, not your orders. Do you want your children to live in a police state, knowing they have no privacy even in their own homes? It is time to put the truncheons and the tasers down and refuse to follow orders to harm your neighbours. This is the line drawn in the sand.

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Also see Kevin Miller’s 24-minute film about Canada’s constitutional challenges, A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY. http://vimeo.com/13024940

[Bauzer]

Thanks for sharing this. This is terrible. Something needs to be done. I wish this 'first past the post' system didn't exist so we could get some real human beings in there.

[Celine]

Ok as a canadian... i am VERY confused...

The federal goverment is supporting Code Alimentarius... and the PQ is supporting whitsleblowers!!!


Somebody please hit the reset button

[Anchor]

Godwins law invoked in the first post! WOW.

Was this received in the email?

I did a google search:

Bill C-36: An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act

Or this C36 reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Anti-Terrorism_Act (not seeing anything about food safety there)

- Is this the one?

Celine is confused - count me double confused and somewhat sceptical of the information in the original post.

{Update: Aha here is another C-36 from Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/legislation/acts-lois/ccpsa-lcspc/index-eng.php}



The purpose of this legislation is to modernize and strengthen a 40-year-old product safety law. Among other things, the proposed legislation:

* introduces safety obligations for consumer products;
* requires industry to notify Health Canada of serious incidents or defects; and
* provides for quick and efficient corrective action when a dangerous product is discovered, including the ability to recall unreasonably dangerous consumer products.


Myth

Under the proposed Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, the Government would have the power to enter people's homes and seize products they have purchased for their own use.

Fact

Health Canada inspectors currently have the authority to enter a place where regulated business-related activities occur to conduct an inspection. No federal health and safety legislation requires a warrant to conduct inspections of a place of business participating in a regulated activity in order to enforce the law, except if the place of business is a home.

The Government's interest is in inspecting places where business activities regulated by the proposed Act occur. If a home is being used to conduct business activities regulated under the proposed Act, inspectors would seek consent prior to entering the home. If consent has been refused an inspector would seek a warrant to enter the home. The proposed Act would not allow the government to enter an individual consumer's home to inspect products they have purchased for their own use.

The product safety inspector powers in Bill C-36 are fair and consistent with powers for inspectors in other federal laws. Items could only be taken to verify if they are compliant or not with the law. In addition, these items would have to be returned to the owner once it has been determined that they are compliant.

Here is a link from the Health Canada web-site.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/legislation/acts-lois/ccpsa-lcspc/know-savoir-eng.php

It is fairly clear that this law regulates COMMERCE and not private property.

John..

[onawah]

I am not a Canadian, so I don't really know first hand what lawmakers are up to there. Hopefully all is well, but at the link in the first post for the film by Kevin Miller, a 24-minute film about Canada’s constitutional challenges, A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY
at http://vimeo.com/13024940

You can read the following and more comments from viewers and from the film maker"

"In this patriotic and sentimental film, international award winning Writer/Director Kevin P. Miller (GENERATION RX, WE BECOME SILENT) exposes how Canadians are being stripped of their personal sovereignty by government agencies — and how free trade deals and other international agreements imperil Canadian democracy.

Quietly, over a period of many years, unconstitutional legislation encompassed in Bills C-51, C-6, and the current Bill C-36 have placed not only basic civil liberties and freedoms at risk, but Canada's national sovereignty as well. The film shares how entangling alliances with groups like the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, Codex Alimentarius, the United States and even multinational corporate interests have become so powerful that they literally threaten to make elected officials in Parliament irrelevant.

A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY discusses why this dramatic shift in the balance of power puts the nation and its people at a vital crossroad early in the 21st century — and why some of the past giants of Canadian politics may hold the answers to Canada's future. "

[onawah]

Feds order farmer to destroy his own wheat crops: The shocking revelations of Wickard vs Filburn

http://www.naturalnews.com/030799_food_freedom_Wickard_vs_Filburn.html

Here is an article that just came out today about how the government regulating commerce can also be about regulating the freedom to grow your own food. Since this is a NWO agenda, I would think their way of implementing it in Canada would probably be very similar to their methods in the US. I apologize for not knowing more about what is happening in Canada, but it may be worth investigating further, especially if you live there.

http://www.naturalnews.com/030799_food_freedom_Wickard_vs_Filburn.html

(NaturalNews) In arguing for S.510, the "Food Safety Modernization Act," there are all sorts of attorneys, legislators and internet commentators who keep claiming, "The government won't try to control the food production of small farms." They say, "Your backyard garden is safe" and that the feds won't come knocking on your door to control your seeds or foods.

As usual, these pushers of Big Government are utterly ignorant of the history in their own country. Because as you'll learn right here, not only CAN the U.S. government control and dictate to single-family farms what they can grow in their own backyards; the government has already blatantly done so!

In this article, I'll share with you the full and true story of how Big Government has already run rampant over the rights of individuals to grow their own food -- I'll even cite the US Supreme Court decision that "legalized" this tyranny.

How the tyrants came after a farmer named Roscoe Filburn
It all starts with a farmer named Roscoe Filburn, a modest farmer who grew wheat in his own back yard in order to feed his chickens.

One day, a U.S. government official showed up at his farm. Noting that Filburn was growing a lot of wheat, this government official determined that Filburn was growing too much wheat and ordered Filburn to destroy his wheat crops and pay a large fine to the federal government.

The year was 1940, you see. And through a highly protectionist policy, the federal government had decided to artificially drive up the prices of wheat by limiting the amount of wheat that could be grown on any given acre. This is all part of Big Government's "infinite wisdom" of trying to somehow improve prosperity by destroying food and impairing economic productivity. (Be wary any time the government says it's going to "solve problems" for you.)

The federal government, of course, claims authority over all commerce (even when such claims are blatantly in violation of the limitations placed upon government by the Constitution). But Roscoe Filburn wasn't selling his wheat to anyone. Thus, he was not engaged in interstate commerce. He wasn't growing wheat as something to use for commerce at all, in fact. He was simply growing wheat in his back yard and feeding it to his chickens. That's not commerce. That's just growing your own food.

But get this: The government insisted he pay a fine and destroy his wheat, so Filburn took the government to court, arguing that the federal government had no right to tell a man to destroy his food crops just because they wanted to protect some sort of artificially high prices in the wheat market.

This case eventually went to the US Supreme Court. It's now known as Wickard v. Filburn, and it is one of the most famous US Supreme Court decisions ever rendered because it represents a gross expansion of the tyranny of the federal government.

The US Supreme Court sided with government tyranny
The US Supreme Court, you see, ruled that Roscoe Filburn's wheat could be regulated and destroyed by the federal government simply because Roscoe's wheat production might reduce the amount of wheat he bought from other wheat producers and therefore could impact interstate trade.

Now stay with me on this, because this is a really, really important point to understand.

The federal government claimed authority under the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution (Article 1, Section 8), even though the Commerce Clause was originally written primarily to prevent states from erecting tariffs, not to allow the federal government to control interstate trade. But thanks to the twisted interpretation of the government -- and believe me, the government will twist every interpretation it can in an effort to assert more power over the population -- the feds claimed that Filburn's growing of his own wheat effectively reduced interstate commerce in wheat. Therefore, they reasoned, they could regulate his backyard wheat production (and order him to destroy his wheat).

Because of this US Supreme Court decision in 1942, it now means the federal government can order you to halt food production in your own back yard by arguing that when you grow your own food, the amount of food you purchase from other food providers is reduced, meaning that your food production impacts interstate trade and therefore can be fully controlled by the federal government.

In other words, the federal government claims the authority right now -- even without the Food Safety Modernization Act -- to knock on your door and order you at gunpoint to destroy all the food in your garden, your greenhouse or your farm. They can order you to destroy all seeds in your possession and all food harvested from your own garden. And they can do all this with the full protection of U.S. law by simply citing the precedent set in Wickard v. Filburn in 1942 as ruled by the US Supreme Court.

Why the naysayers will probably starve
Still think you have the right to grow your own food? I've heard all sorts of naysayers claiming that S.510 -- the Food Safety Modernization Act -- is no threat to small growers and family farms. They say the fears about S.510 are overblown and that the government can't possibly shut down your backyard gardens or small, local vegetable farms. They say this with the kind of smug certainty you might typically hear from a doctor who thinks he knows everything about human health (but who actually knows nothing about nutrition).

These naysayers tend to operate out of an assumption that Big Government will never take away their rights and freedoms and that expanding the reach of agencies such as the TSA, FDA, DEA and FTC with even more power and more armed agents is a good thing because the government always takes care of the people. We need more protection from e.coli, they argue, so let's unleash 4,000 armed FDA agents instead to protect us from bacteria. (But who will protect us from the FDA?)

What these ignorant naysayers don't understand is that government is constantly trying to expand its power to the point of tyranny. As a current example of this, look at what just happened with Chavez in Venezuela. He has now been granted what are essentially dictatorial powers over the country (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...). Chavez is now the King of Venezuela, and whatever he says is now law. Venezuelan citizens are now slaves to his tyranny, and they must follow his orders or be executed.

The United States is moving in precisely the same direction. First, power gets stripped away from the People little by little. Then it gets concentrated in the hands of a few regulatory agencies who write their own laws and who stay in power year after year because none of their officials are elected. (Think the FDA commissioner is elected by the people? Think again…) And then, over time, a few powerful individuals concentrate power from those agencies into their own hands. Before long, the country is run by a handful of power-crazed tyrants who disregard all freedoms and rights of the People.

This is precisely what the FDA is doing with the Food Safety Modernization Act. Backed by yet more funding and a new army of agents, plus the Supreme Court ruling that says the federal government can order you to destroy the food you're growing in your own back yard, the FDA can now pillage the countryside, going from farm to farm and house to house, burning fields and ordering the citizenry to destroy their plants, seeds and crops. This is exactly what they've been doing to raw milk producers and food coops, by the way (http://www.naturalnews.com/030136_R...).

That is no exaggeration. It is a documented "legal" precedent established in Wickard vs Filburn, and it can be used at any moment to destroy the ability of people to grow their own food, thereby making these people totally dependent on dead processed food (which is always FDA approved if it's dead, of course) made in food factories that churn out nutritional deficiencies and death.

What will you eat when the government destroys your local food supply?
You see, under the argument that your backyard garden "impacts interstate commerce," the federal government can order you to simply spray Roundup on your entire garden in order to kill it.

What will you eat then? When the GMO crops suffer a mass catastrophic failure, and the monocultured wheat dies from a global viral infection called ug99 "rust" (http://theemergencyfoodsupply.com/a...), what will you eat?

If the government has its way, you won't eat at all. You'll starve to death under the "protection" of the food safety thugs at the FDA who don't believe any "live" food is safe in the first place (hence their war against raw milk).

Those people who have the foresight to grow their own gardens and protect their food sources from the tyranny of the federal government may actually have a chance at surviving. The rest will simply starve while waiting in government food lines where the feds hand out nutritionally worthless cheese and other depleted processed foods that Sesame Street absurdly thinks are "superfoods" (http://www.naturalnews.com/030626_m...).

Big Government declares war on the local food movement
Make no mistake, folks: the government is attempting to destroy the local food movement. They are trying to wipe out small, organic farms that compete with corporate agribiz in the same way the FDA has long plotted to destroy natural health supplement companies who compete with Big Pharma.

It's all about wiping out the little guys and protecting the monopoly markets of the largest and most influential corporations that are poisoning the earth and destroying your health. As Wickard vs Filburn clearly demonstrated, the government does not believe you have any natural right or Constitutional right to grow your own food. In fact, the government believes it has the right to order you to destroy your food at the time of its choosing.

Don't think this could happen to you? Filburn didn't either. The idea that his own government would show up at his door and order him to burn his field of wheat was simply unimaginable. Similarly, the idea that the FDA would tear across the countryside wiping out small family farms is unimaginable to many Americans today. But that's only because they don't know their own history and they put far too much faith in the flimsy idea that the government somehow, in some way, respects the rights and freedoms of the People.

The obvious falsehood of that idea is evident in the way we are all being treated by the TSA. Who would have thought, just two years ago, that we'd be subjected to government-enforced molestation at the hands of airport security screeners? That idea seems unthinkable at the time, much like the idea that the FDA could seize your garden seeds or order you to destroy your greenhouse crops. Yet such actions are already within the claimed power of the federal government… merely waiting to be invoked at the time of their choosing.

Traitors to freedom
All those who voted for S.510 -- which includes the entire U.S. Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike -- are traitors to the freedoms upon which America was founded. They have thrust our food supply into the hands of tyrants who are just waiting to exercise their control and "authority" over as many people as possible.

Five years ago, I joked that people might one day be arrested for smuggling broccoli across state lines. Today, that joke has become a sad reality. The mere act of growing food and selling it to your neighbor without government permission is about to become a criminal act. And no, small farms are not "exempt" from S.510. They must provide financial information and apply to the FDA to be granted exemption status. That sounds a lot like slaves begging for mercy from the king, doesn't it?

Keep the big picture in mind as you consider all this: When teens are poisoned by the aspartame in diet soda, the FDA does nothing. When children are given cancer by the sodium nitrite in hot dogs, the FDA does nothing. When countless thousands of Americans suffer heart attacks and cardiovascular disease each year from the partially-hydrogenated oils used throughout the food supply, the FDA does nothing. But when you grow fresh produce in your own back yard and carry it to your local farmer's market to sell it without government permission, you will be arrested by the FDA as a criminal.

Shame on all those who supported this bill. May history have mercy on their souls for the suffering and injustices they have unleashed upon us all.

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[Bauzer]

I am still looking in to the Bill myself. With the Holidays abound its hard to put my head to the grindstone and read legal-political-jargan. I appreciate what you posted there John. Does make me feel a tad better.

[Anchor]

Feeling better is good.I'm not suggesting we take our eyes off the ball at all. I am glad others are taking time to read the actual acts.

I am quite pleased that in Australia, all the laws are on the internet so we can read it all if we want. For instance I am quite interested about similar issues in Australia as I actually intend to grow my own food. If this means I buy less and am therefore affecting commerce well that will be an interesting fight to see tried on Aussie blokes. Perhaps in 1940 there was no way for the farmer in the story Onawah posted could rally support for his cause - if they had the internet then I wonder if the outcome would have been different?

[onawah]

Feeling better is good.I'm not suggesting we take our eyes off the ball at all. I am glad others are taking time to read the actual acts.

I am quite pleased that in Australia, all the laws are on the internet so we can read it all if we want. For instance I am quite interested about similar issues in Australia as I actually intend to grow my own food. If this means I buy less and am therefore affecting commerce well that will be an interesting fight to see tried on Aussie blokes. Perhaps in 1940 there was no way for the farmer in the story Onawah posted could rally support for his cause - if they had the internet then I wonder if the outcome would have been different?

Different, perhaps, but all the more reason why we have to continue to defend our Internet rights. It's one of the best tools we have, and TPTB know it!
I look forward to hearing more about what is happening in Canada re food freedom. It's not looking so good now in the US that S510 got passed in both the Senate and the House.