I find it odd that we want to do to natural health products the same type of regulatory approval process that the therapeutic drug process undergoes right now, which has resulted directly in the deaths of over 3,000 seniors every year in Canada.
As I said in my opening remarks, natural health products should be closely aligned with food. If you talk to the industry associations and everyday Canadians who use these products, they will tell you the same thing.
Mr. Ellis, there's no reason for this to happen. Nothing that Parliament's ever done, such as parliamentary reports, has suggested that they do this. Fifteen years after a previous government fell into the same trap, this government is doing the same thing all over again. The problem is that this time there's no course correction other than through my private member's bill.