Mr. Speaker, I am standing today on behalf of people who are calling for freedom of choice in health care, which is becoming increasingly curtailed and further threatened by legislation and statutory regulations of the Government of Canada.
It is a fundamental right of individuals to be able to choose how to prevent illness or how to address illness or injury in their own body. Canadians want the freedom to decide how they will prevent illness and how they will address that illness or injury in their own body. They are competent and able to make their own health care decisions without state interference.
Therefore petitioners call upon the government to guarantee the right of every Canadian to health freedom by enacting the charter of health freedom, drafted by the Natural Health Product Protection Association on September 4, 2008.