Health Minister Tony Clement fully supports enforcement actions causing the deaths of Canadians

In 2003 Health Canada agents knowingly and willfully took action against a group of mentally ill Canadians, preventing them from accessing a natural health product they relied on to correct their mental illness and prevent suicides. A 2006 court trial exposed the clear and unchallenged evidence of warnings and pleadings by Ron LaJeunesse, Alberta Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association (click here for transcript). He bore witness of suicides that were the result of desperation when Canadians were advised they would no longer have access to their natural health product. When Constitutional Lawyer Shawn P. Buckley wrote an official request, asking the Minister to initiate a full inquiry into the actions taken by Health Canada agents, Minister Clement responded with silence (click here for letter). Instead, Assistant Deputy Minister Meena Ballantyne reviewed the case and said: “Health Canada fully supports actions taken…”
(click here for letter).
 
Q. Should Canadians trust Health Canada with increased powers?

Q. Should Minister Clement be entrusted with the safety of Canadians when such evidence is unmoving to him?