Conservative MP Blaine Calkins said he has made an application to the House speaker to have all clauses of his private member’s bill on natural health products reinstated, after Liberal MPs voted in committee to delete every clause.
Bill C-224 aimed to amend the Food and Drugs Act to determine that natural health products are not therapeutic products within the meaning of that act, and are therefore not subject to the same monitoring regime as drugs. The bill would have rolled back increased regulations on these products that the Liberal government put in place in 2023.
“Unfortunately, the minister of health has made the decision to gut Bill C-224. The Liberal members of the committee deleted every clause of Bill C-224, including the title, and [the committee] is basically reporting my bill back to the House of Commons as a blank sheet of paper,” Calkins said during a press conference on Nov. 4….