Bill C-224

An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (natural health products)

Sponsor

Blaine Calkins  Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Sept. 18, 2025

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Food and Drugs Act to provide that natural health products are not therapeutic products within the meaning of that Act and, therefore, are not subject to the same monitoring regime as other drugs.

Elsewhere

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Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-224s:

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C-224 (2016) Law Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act

Food and Drugs ActRoutine Proceedings

September 18th, 2025 / 10:05 a.m.

Conservative

Blaine Calkins Conservative Ponoka—Didsbury, AB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-224, An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (natural health products).

Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today to table my private member's bill to reverse the changes that the government made in Bill C-47 with regard to the definition of natural health products. In the last Parliament, the bill was known as Bill C-368.

Eighty per cent of Canadians use natural health products, and virtually everybody in the industry was against the changes that the government made in Bill C-47. They want to restore the traditional definition of natural health products and not have them included in the same definition as therapeutic products, which are drugs with large pharmaceutical companies.

There was great support for my legislation across Canada. Canadians thought the bill was very popular in the last Parliament. I had the support of other political parties in this place. I truly hope that the government this time changes its position, much like it has changed its position on pipelines, changed its position on criminal justice, changed its position on carbon taxes and changed its position on virtually everything it has been doing wrong for the last 10 years, and actually gets behind my bill.

This is what Canadians want. This is what Canadians expect Parliament to do. In fact, when Health Canada did its consultations, it had over 3,000 people respond to the proposed changes in Bill C-47. There were two in favour and everybody else was against it. It is time the government take these things into consideration.

I am very happy to table this bill, and I look forward to the debate and the support of everybody in the House this time.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)