Three Conferences Report

THE YEAR THAT WAS AND THINGS TO COME
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality, December 2009/January 2010

Corruption, stupidity, and greed are best viewed as dispassionately as one views household chores. Don’t get mad. Don’t get depressed. Just help clean up the mess. Forming the habit of calmly resisting the chaos that keeps sneaking up on us ensures a balance is maintained between the forces of darkness and creative humanity. The messes of 2009 were formidable. Talking to hundreds of people during this year’s EXPO was at times exhilarating because nobody appears to feel so victimized as they used to in past years. There is an air of empowerment dancing through the public psyche. Instead of the worried faces speaking of what “they” are doing to wreck food, medicine and human rights, everybody was reporting on what they themselves were doing to expose lies and how they were opposing that sneaking tyranny our government keeps offering under the guise of protection. Space only permits discussing four areas interesting to Vitality readers.

BILL C-6

Bill C-6, intended to improve the current Hazardous Products Act, was opposed by several hundred thousand Canadians who read the fine print. Indeed, C-6 may yet go down in history as a successful teaching tool by which many Canadians learned about Constitutional rights, and why legal safeguards are important. C-6 proposes the end of government as we know it. It defines “government” as part and parcel of whatever foreign government, foreign corporation, and international organization the Minister of Health chooses – without parliamentary or public debate (Section 2, (a) through (f); 32 (2), (a) through (c), and 36 (4). Astonishingly, the Opposition parties let this treasonous bill pass without hardly a murmur. Not one shouted: “Hey! Dude, what happened to our Constitution?”

So many people sent e-mails to the Senate, which was expected to pass C-6 without further ado, that the Senators reconsidered and initiated public hearings in November. (Vitality, October 2009) Lawyer Shawn Buckley, founder and director of the Natural Health Products Protection Association in B.C., addressed the Senate committee explaining how this bill abolishes constitutional safeguards, disregards our criminal code’s intent and procedures, and in the end protects us from nothing, but delivers us unto the evils of arbitrary governmental abuse. The mainstream media snored through this process, waking up occasionally to push the inevitable button – babies – assuring the public C-6 would protect all our diapered loved-ones.

Those Senate hearings provided an especially poignant example of how easily one can violate the Golden Rule: trade law expert C. T. Cherniak of the international trade law firm Lang Michener astonished the Senators when she informed them that the bill would basically wreck international trade – for us. She wondered: “What if [C-6 type legislation were to be] adopted by some of our trading partners?” How would we like it if we had to trade with a country run along the lines of the C-6 fantasy of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-benign Minister? The concern about preventing “harm to our people … should [also] be looking … at the perspective of our trading partners”. Foreign manufacturers would never be foolish enough to trade with us or establish business branches here when the Canadian government - by law – is free to act totally arbitrarily, unpredictably, and lacks intelligible procedural dependability. Constitutional safeguards must be protected and maintained not only for us, but be assumed to extend to those who wish to trade with us. C-6 lacks reciprocity – the sort of thing we learned in kindergarten.

Now it’s up to the Senators to pass, change, or reject C-6. Whatever they do, if they don’t do it right, too many Canadians now know BS when they smell it and will object again. Our governmental institutions are maintained by the exercise of the democratic right to ask questions and refuse consent. If you don’t use it you loose it.

H1N1 HOAX

Dr. Richard Schabas, Medical Officer of Health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, was quoted in the Toronto Star on November 20, observing that this swine flu is in fact “one tenth as lethal as the seasonal flu”. He went on to deplore the “media consensus that some apocalyptic plague is lurking somewhere – in a Chinese poultry farm or an African jungle – just itching to swoop down on humanity. But all such fears have proven false in the past and are unlikely to be warranted in the future… [meanwhile, health officials] sound like burnt-out surfers sitting on a beach, watching the waves go in and out and arguing the next one will be better.” In the US, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson of CBS wondered why the Centers for Disease Control were telling health officials to stop testing for H1N1. She learned that only one out of a hundred flu cases was in fact H1N1. She exposed the hype big time on prime time.

The former vaccine expert at the FDA, Dr. Anthony Morris stated categorically, “There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza… the producers of these vaccines know they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway” – and our governments pay them for this worthless stuff with out tax dollars. The last time we were served up a hoax like this was in 1973 when the US forked out $ 3.5 billion for that year’s flavor of swine flu and ended up with more than 4,000 seriously vaccine damaged citizens (see Chopra for the Canadian part of that mess)

Never mind these disasters, Big Pharma is always ready to serve, depend upon it! Baxter filed its patent (US patent 20090060950A1) for this year’s swine flu one year before its first outbreak in Mexico; Medimmune filed theirs back in 2008 (US patent 20081006921 A1), and Novartis was ready to protect us on November 6, 2006 (US patent 20090047353).

The current incarnation of the flu scare suggested another liability nightmare to some insurance companies in Europe. Medisec in Ireland notified doctors that they should not use the H1N1 vaccine. The toxic ingredients became more generally known too: GlaxoSmithKline’s H1N1 vaccine contains the patented AS03 adjuvant system which includes an oil, squalene, able to cause serious immune dysfunction and has been associated with the onset of Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gherrick’s. Among the other ingredients are neurotoxins and carcinogens such as formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, and potassium chloride (used in executions by lethal injection). This information is readily available from the manufacturer.

Instead of doing what several European countries did, namely refuse to let this vaccine of no known efficacy lose on its populations, Canada simply exempted the drug companies from all liability – in the full knowledge that these vaccines were never tested for safety in humans. This contravenes the rules set out in the current Food and Dugs Act.

Although Big Pharma got off the hook, the government’s liability is less easily disposed of. As the facts began to emerge, harmful batches of vaccine had to be withdrawn, and the British Medical Journal announced September 21, that the best protection against any flu is hand-washing, Health Canada smoothly moved into protective mode against its citizens by updating the advisory information on its website on November 13; it actually is pretty close to the published truth. This might prove useful when injured Canadians want to sue Ottawa.

Politically, this hype and anger began to have an effect: the federal Minister of Health, Hon. Leona Aglukkaq, sent out a formal letter on October 7 stating that “It is important to note that the Government of Canada does not have a mandatory vaccination policy for Canadians and will not be seeking any implementation of such a policy with regard to H1N1 vaccine.”

What patents are already hidden in regulatory file applications for diseases that have not yet struck and which already keep PR firms busy with formulating scary information at just the right pitch? And just how stupid do they think we will remain?

CODEX

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was established by the United Nations in the 1960’s to regulate through guidelines foods, drugs, nutritional supplements, and packaging for international trade. Heavily stacked since the 1970’s by food and pharmaceutical corporations, its guidelines totally favor their interests rather than public health and human nutrition. The science cited by Codex nutritional guidelines is corporate-generated to the point of absurdity. (Search Vitality’s websites for Codex articles since 2005.)

The most reliable source on Codex is Britain’s Alliance for Natural Health. Its director, Dr. Robert Verkerk, who has been extraordinarily successful through legal action on national and international levels to protect food and supplements from Codex and its corporate allies, recently brought me up to date. Dr. Verkerk reminded me that of the 300 plus Codex guidelines, none of which are actually compulsory for any member nation, only one has to do with nutritional supplements which Codex guidelines treat with hostility. (Canada is a Codex member and its nutritional supplement policy supports Codex.)

The US Centers for Disease Control recently published an amazing study in Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 5, No 5, September/October 2009). It turns out, that food-borne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths annually in the US. The toxicity comparisons were especially interesting: pharmaceutical drugs are acknowledged to be about 100,000 times more toxic than food which causes all that morbidity and mortality mentioned above. Food itself is 10,000 times more toxic than nutritional supplements – which are not toxic at all. Why is food so dangerous to health and survival? Because, Dr. Verkerk explained, the more international trade expands to involve foods, the more there is a necessity for stabilizers and preservatives, which are toxic and also degrade the nutrient value of such preserved foods. The more this trade diversifies and the local food and supplement production is endangered, the more government regulation is needed as well.

Needless to say, it is the multinational corporations that wish to use Codex guidelines to increase their control over food and drugs and eliminate competition from natural medicine. Dr. Verkerk’s alliance took repeated, successful legal action against Codex guidelines and individual nations often outright rejected Codex’s creeping tyranny. For example, several Codex member countries recently responded to the announcement that GMOs are good for us, but outlawing them.

The most powerful opposition to this regulatory trickery, he said, comes from those countries that not too long ago were under Communist dictatorships. They know what it is like to live under government “protection”.

The Alliance for Natural Health is now following up its successes in the law courts by publishing very uncomfortable facts in the mainstream scientific journals. This is possible because too many scientists and journal editors are totally infuriated by the blatant abuse of verifiable scientific research methodology. My favorite was the beta-carotene revelation: Dr. Verker’s organization systematically examined the nutrient content of standard foods eaten by most people. A couple of large carrots, eaten raw, vastly exceeds the maximum limit of daily beta carotene intake as decreed by Codex nutritional guidelines! The silliness is becoming overwhelming.

As for toxic substances, like pesticides, which Codex also advises government regulators are just fine for us, the courts once again took a very dim view of such assurances. The French Supreme Court ruled in October that Monsanto lied about its flagship product, Roundup, finding that contrary to the manufacturer’s information, this herbicide is toxic and not environmentally benign. The effect of this ruling on sales and potential liability cases can be expected to be punishing.

Dr. Verker’s advice was that individual action within one’s own country is the key to dissolving this immense smoke screen. Indeed, I met many Dorothies at the Expo who had decided to inform the Wizard of Oz that he was just a big bully.

LYME DISEASE

One of the biggest scandals in the history of medicine is the denial of Lyme disease, especially in its chronic form. The controversy arose when the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) denied the existence of chronic Lyme disease; this was not based on published science or clinical experience, but was due to financial conflicts of interest pertaining to vaccine development. An anti-trust investigation by the Attorney General of Connecticut last year, forced the IDSA to set aside their ethically and scientifically flawed guidelines.

The CDC estimates that about 200,000 people get infected with Lyme in North America annually. Astonishingly, Canada ’s medical licensing bodies maintain their allegiance to those now defunct IDSA Lyme guidelines. In January, the Lyme Action Group of Ontario formally approached the Ontario government asking for action in accordance with the medical information available worldwide. In August a petition with some 1,400 signatures was formally tabled in the Ontario Legislature. Next to nothing has been done to educate the public on prevention, to instruct doctors on treatment, and provincial governments turn a blind eye to the nation-wide prosecution of those doctors who dare to diagnose and treat this disease, especially in its chronic form. In the US, where these shenanigans were going on too, 15 jurisdictions have passed protective legislation or regulations, and the federal government has a bill pending to protect doctors treating chronic Lyme throughout the US. Recently, when the Lyme Action Group of Ontario and Dr. Jozef Krop testified on this situation before Ontario’s Standing Committee on Government Policy, members of all three parties in Ontario stated that such action is urgently needed here also. The recent W5 program explored this unfolding disaster very well.

Worst of all is the fact that we have to acknowledge we have a crisis looming in our blood supply – again. The Canadian Blood Services takes the view that the Lyme spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi (sibling to several other terrifically infectious spirochetes like syphilis for which our blood supply is routinely tested), is supposedly only a “theoretical risk”. All other industrialized countries take precautions against the Lyme pathogen and its co-infections in their blood supplies, but not in Canada.

I am the editor of the forthcoming book, Ending Denial – The Lyme Disease Epidemic: Canada’s Public Health Disaster, in which medical scientists, Lyme-literate doctors, health lawyers, politicians, and patients tell the true Canadian Lyme story. The book not only provides solutions, but also contains those international treatment protocols that actually work.

All this clearly indicates that 2010 will be at least as interesting as 2009 was, and that we all have our work cut out for us. If we continue to pursue the spirit of informed rebellion one thing is sure to happen one day – we might actually forge a true democracy.

Sixteen amendments to bill C-6 were formulated by Senator Day, after extensive discussion in the responsible Senate Committee throughout November. They were completed on December 2 and will be presented for a final vote by the Committee in early December. He expects most to be accepted. C-6 will then be returned to Parliament and the amendments will then have to be dealt with formally by all MPs. A rejection of a government-sponsored bill is serious and a potential embarrassment for a minority government. Hence, this bill may either disappear, as MPs debate more pressing legislation, and so the current Hazardous Products Act remains in force, or C-6 will re-appear with a new number for renewed debate and a second run at the Senate for ratification. It is important to note that our Senate is now dominated by Conservative appointments recently made to replace retiring, mostly Liberal Senators. It appears that many Conservatives oppose this bill, as evidenced by Senator McCoy’s public and outspoken objections. In describing this rejection of C-6 and summarizing his 16 amendments, Senator Day said: "One just has to keep on working [and] insist on maintaining the proper balance between the individual and the powers the government may be allowed to have."


	THE YEAR THAT WAS AND THINGS TO COME:

	THE YEAR THAT WAS AND THINGS TO COME By Helke Ferrie Vitality, December 2009/January 2010 Corruption, stupidity, and greed are best viewed as dispassionately as one views household chores. Don’t get mad. Don’t get depressed. Just help clean up the mess. Forming the habit of calmly resisting the chaos that keeps sneaking up on us ensures a balance is maintained between the forces of darkness and creative humanity. The messes of 2009 were formidable. Talking to hundreds of people during this year’s EXPO was at times exhilarating because nobody appears to feel so victimized as they used to in past years. There is an air of empowerment dancing through the public psyche. Instead of the worried faces speaking of what “they” are doing to wreck food, medicine and human rights, everybody was reporting on what they themselves were doing to expose lies and how they were opposing that sneaking tyranny our government keeps offering under the guise of protection. Space only permits discussing four areas interesting to Vitality readers. Top BILL C-6 Bill C-6, intended to improve the current Hazardous Products Act, was opposed by several hundred thousand Canadians who read the fine print. Indeed, C-6 may yet go down in history as a successful teaching tool by which many Canadians learned about Constitutional rights, and why legal safeguards are important. C-6 proposes the end of government as we know it. It defines “government” as part and parcel of whatever foreign government, foreign corporation, and international organization the Minister of Health chooses – without parliamentary or public debate (Section 2, (a) through (f); 32 (2), (a) through (c), and 36 (4). Astonishingly, the Opposition parties let this treasonous bill pass without hardly a murmur. Not one shouted: “Hey! Dude, what happened to our Constitution?” Top So many people sent e-mails to the Senate, which was expected to pass C-6 without further ado, that the Senators reconsidered and initiated public hearings in November. (Vitality, October 2009) Lawyer Shawn Buckley, founder and director of the Natural Health Products Protection Association in B.C., addressed the Senate committee explaining how this bill abolishes constitutional safeguards, disregards our criminal code’s intent and procedures, and in the end protects us from nothing, but delivers us unto the evils of arbitrary governmental abuse. The mainstream media snored through this process, waking up occasionally to push the inevitable button – babies – assuring the public C-6 would protect all our diapered loved-ones. Top Those Senate hearings provided an especially poignant example of how easily one can violate the Golden Rule: trade law expert C. T. Cherniak of the international trade law firm Lang Michener astonished the Senators when she informed them that the bill would basically wreck international trade – for us. She wondered: “What if [C-6 type legislation were to be] adopted by some of our trading partners?” How would we like it if we had to trade with a country run along the lines of the C-6 fantasy of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-benign Minister? The concern about preventing “harm to our people … should [also] be looking … at the perspective of our trading partners”. Foreign manufacturers would never be foolish enough to trade with us or establish business branches here when the Canadian government - by law – is free to act totally arbitrarily, unpredictably, and lacks intelligible procedural dependability. Constitutional safeguards must be protected and maintained not only for us, but be assumed to extend to those who wish to trade with us. C-6 lacks reciprocity – the sort of thing we learned in kindergarten. Top Now it’s up to the Senators to pass, change, or reject C-6. Whatever they do, if they don’t do it right, too many Canadians now know BS when they smell it and will object again. Our governmental institutions are maintained by the exercise of the democratic right to ask questions and refuse consent. If you don’t use it you loose it. Top H1N1 HOAX Dr. Richard Schabas, Medical Officer of Health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, was quoted in the Toronto Star on November 20, observing that this swine flu is in fact “one tenth as lethal as the seasonal flu”. He went on to deplore the “media consensus that some apocalyptic plague is lurking somewhere – in a Chinese poultry farm or an African jungle – just itching to swoop down on humanity. But all such fears have proven false in the past and are unlikely to be warranted in the future… [meanwhile, health officials] sound like burnt-out surfers sitting on a beach, watching the waves go in and out and arguing the next one will be better.” In the US, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson of CBS wondered why the Centers for Disease Control were telling health officials to stop testing for H1N1. She learned that only one out of a hundred flu cases was in fact H1N1. She exposed the hype big time on prime time. Top The former vaccine expert at the FDA, Dr. Anthony Morris stated categorically, “There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza… the producers of these vaccines know they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway” – and our governments pay them for this worthless stuff with out tax dollars. The last time we were served up a hoax like this was in 1973 when the US forked out $ 3.5 billion for that year’s flavor of swine flu and ended up with more than 4,000 seriously vaccine damaged citizens (see Chopra for the Canadian part of that mess) Top. Never mind these disasters, Big Pharma is always ready to serve, depend upon it! Baxter filed its patent (US patent 20090060950A1) for this year’s swine flu one year before its first outbreak in Mexico; Medimmune filed theirs back in 2008 (US patent 20081006921 A1), and Novartis was ready to protect us on November 6, 2006 (US patent 20090047353). Top The current incarnation of the flu scare suggested another liability nightmare to some insurance companies in Europe. Medisec in Ireland notified doctors that they should not use the H1N1 vaccine. The toxic ingredients became more generally known too: GlaxoSmithKline’s H1N1 vaccine contains the patented AS03 adjuvant system which includes an oil, squalene, able to cause serious immune dysfunction and has been associated with the onset of Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gherrick’s. Among the other ingredients are neurotoxins and carcinogens such as formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, and potassium chloride (used in executions by lethal injection). This information is readily available from the manufacturer. Top Instead of doing what several European countries did, namely refuse to let this vaccine of no known efficacy lose on its populations, Canada simply exempted the drug companies from all liability – in the full knowledge that these vaccines were never tested for safety in humans. This contravenes the rules set out in the current Food and Dugs Act. Top Although Big Pharma got off the hook, the government’s liability is less easily disposed of. As the facts began to emerge, harmful batches of vaccine had to be withdrawn, and the British Medical Journal announced September 21, that the best protection against any flu is hand-washing, Health Canada smoothly moved into protective mode against its citizens by updating the advisory information on its website on November 13; it actually is pretty close to the published truth. This might prove useful when injured Canadians want to sue Ottawa. Top Politically, this hype and anger began to have an effect: the federal Minister of Health, Hon. Leona Aglukkaq, sent out a formal letter on October 7 stating that “It is important to note that the Government of Canada does not have a mandatory vaccination policy for Canadians and will not be seeking any implementation of such a policy with regard to H1N1 vaccine.” Top What patents are already hidden in regulatory file applications for diseases that have not yet struck and which already keep PR firms busy with formulating scary information at just the right pitch? And just how stupid do they think we will remain? Top CODEX The Codex Alimentarius Commission was established by the United Nations in the 1960’s to regulate through guidelines foods, drugs, nutritional supplements, and packaging for international trade. Heavily stacked since the 1970’s by food and pharmaceutical corporations, its guidelines totally favor their interests rather than public health and human nutrition. The science cited by Codex nutritional guidelines is corporate-generated to the point of absurdity. (Search Vitality’s websites for Codex articles since 2005.) Top The most reliable source on Codex is Britain’s Alliance for Natural Health. Its director, Dr. Robert Verkerk, who has been extraordinarily successful through legal action on national and international levels to protect food and supplements from Codex and its corporate allies, recently brought me up to date. Dr. Verkerk reminded me that of the 300 plus Codex guidelines, none of which are actually compulsory for any member nation, only one has to do with nutritional supplements which Codex guidelines treat with hostility. (Canada is a Codex member and its nutritional supplement policy supports Codex.) Top The US Centers for Disease Control recently published an amazing study in Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 5, No 5, September/October 2009). It turns out, that food-borne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths annually in the US. The toxicity comparisons were especially interesting: pharmaceutical drugs are acknowledged to be about 100,000 times more toxic than food which causes all that morbidity and mortality mentioned above. Food itself is 10,000 times more toxic than nutritional supplements – which are not toxic at all. Why is food so dangerous to health and survival? Because, Dr. Verkerk explained, the more international trade expands to involve foods, the more there is a necessity for stabilizers and preservatives, which are toxic and also degrade the nutrient value of such preserved foods. The more this trade diversifies and the local food and supplement production is endangered, the more government regulation is needed as well. Top Needless to say, it is the multinational corporations that wish to use Codex guidelines to increase their control over food and drugs and eliminate competition from natural medicine. Dr. Verkerk’s alliance took repeated, successful legal action against Codex guidelines and individual nations often outright rejected Codex’s creeping tyranny. For example, several Codex member countries recently responded to the announcement that GMOs are good for us, but outlawing them. Top The most powerful opposition to this regulatory trickery, he said, comes from those countries that not too long ago were under Communist dictatorships. They know what it is like to live under government “protection”. Top The Alliance for Natural Health is now following up its successes in the law courts by publishing very uncomfortable facts in the mainstream scientific journals. This is possible because too many scientists and journal editors are totally infuriated by the blatant abuse of verifiable scientific research methodology. My favorite was the beta-carotene revelation: Dr. Verker’s organization systematically examined the nutrient content of standard foods eaten by most people. A couple of large carrots, eaten raw, vastly exceeds the maximum limit of daily beta carotene intake as decreed by Codex nutritional guidelines! The silliness is becoming overwhelming. Top As for toxic substances, like pesticides, which Codex also advises government regulators are just fine for us, the courts once again took a very dim view of such assurances. The French Supreme Court ruled in October that Monsanto lied about its flagship product, Roundup, finding that contrary to the manufacturer’s information, this herbicide is toxic and not environmentally benign. The effect of this ruling on sales and potential liability cases can be expected to be punishing. Top Dr. Verker’s advice was that individual action within one’s own country is the key to dissolving this immense smoke screen. Indeed, I met many Dorothies at the Expo who had decided to inform the Wizard of Oz that he was just a big bully. Top LYME DISEASE One of the biggest scandals in the history of medicine is the denial of Lyme disease, especially in its chronic form. The controversy arose when the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) denied the existence of chronic Lyme disease; this was not based on published science or clinical experience, but was due to financial conflicts of interest pertaining to vaccine development. An anti-trust investigation by the Attorney General of Connecticut last year, forced the IDSA to set aside their ethically and scientifically flawed guidelines. Top The CDC estimates that about 200,000 people get infected with Lyme in North America annually. Astonishingly, Canada ’s medical licensing bodies maintain their allegiance to those now defunct IDSA Lyme guidelines. In January, the Lyme Action Group of Ontario formally approached the Ontario government asking for action in accordance with the medical information available worldwide. In August a petition with some 1,400 signatures was formally tabled in the Ontario Legislature. Next to nothing has been done to educate the public on prevention, to instruct doctors on treatment, and provincial governments turn a blind eye to the nation-wide prosecution of those doctors who dare to diagnose and treat this disease, especially in its chronic form. In the US, where these shenanigans were going on too, 15 jurisdictions have passed protective legislation or regulations, and the federal government has a bill pending to protect doctors treating chronic Lyme throughout the US. Recently, when the Lyme Action Group of Ontario and Dr. Jozef Krop testified on this situation before Ontario’s Standing Committee on Government Policy, members of all three parties in Ontario stated that such action is urgently needed here also. The recent W5 program explored this unfolding disaster very well. Top Worst of all is the fact that we have to acknowledge we have a crisis looming in our blood supply – again. The Canadian Blood Services takes the view that the Lyme spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi (sibling to several other terrifically infectious spirochetes like syphilis for which our blood supply is routinely tested), is supposedly only a “theoretical risk”. All other industrialized countries take precautions against the Lyme pathogen and its co-infections in their blood supplies, but not in Canada. Top I am the editor of the forthcoming book, Ending Denial – The Lyme Disease Epidemic: Canada’s Public Health Disaster, in which medical scientists, Lyme-literate doctors, health lawyers, politicians, and patients tell the true Canadian Lyme story. The book not only provides solutions, but also contains those international treatment protocols that actually work. Top All this clearly indicates that 2010 will be at least as interesting as 2009 was, and that we all have our work cut out for us. If we continue to pursue the spirit of informed rebellion one thing is sure to happen one day – we might actually forge a true democracy. Top P.S. As this article went to press, I was able to interview Senator Day by phone in the evening. This is the late-late news: Top Sixteen amendments to bill C-6 were formulated by Senator Day, after extensive discussion in the responsible Senate Committee throughout November. They were completed on December 2 and will be presented for a final vote by the Committee in early December. He expects most to be accepted. C-6 will then be returned to Parliament and the amendments will then have to be dealt with formally by all MPs. A rejection of a government-sponsored bill is serious and a potential embarrassment for a minority government. Hence, this bill may either disappear, as MPs debate more pressing legislation, and so the current Hazardous Products Act remains in force, or C-6 will re-appear with a new number for renewed debate and a second run at the Senate for ratification. It is important to note that our Senate is now dominated by Conservative appointments recently made to replace retiring, mostly Liberal Senators. It appears that many Conservatives oppose this bill, as evidenced by Senator McCoy’s public and outspoken objections. In describing this rejection of C-6 and summarizing his 16 amendments, Senator Day said: "One just has to keep on working [and] insist on maintaining the proper balance between the individual and the powers the government may be allowed to have." Top

	Sources and Resources:

	Google the following: For the research showing mass vaccinations do not protect or prevent, see mercola.com Alliance for Natural Health (UK) Natural Health Products Protection Association (Canada) Lyme Association of Ontario www.kospublishing.com (for the forthcoming Lyme book – 519-927-1049) Chopra, Shiv. Corrupt to the Core – Memoirs of A Health Canada Scientist, Kos 2009 Top