I share the view that it's not clear to me that they are inherently less risky. For that reason, I think they should be regulated very carefully. I think it's more of a strategic consideration in some ways, as my friend just intimated, although I'm not sure it's that difficult to fix this part of the bill. As I look at the bill just quickly, it just excludes natural health products from the definition of “therapeutic product”. So, if that wording was simply removed, if the committee was motivated to hold natural health products to a higher standard, perhaps the new measures that are included in the bill could be applied against natural health products.
On June 10th, 2014. See this statement in context.