If you're Canadian you've probably heard about this one recently. Seemingly everybody is up in arms claiming that the Bill will be nothing more than a power grab and an excuse for the government stormtroopers to ruin your day.
My first impression was that C-51 was probably a change for the better and those fighting it were either the alternative medicine manufacturers themselves or people who don't see a problem with the bunk herbal remedy industry. Turns out that's exactly what's going on:
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=590205
StopC51.com it seems, is nothing more than a front for an Alberta based company that makes herbal bipolar remedies.
Nowhere does the site directly indicate its origins or backers. It was created, though, by Truehope Nutritional Support Ltd., the Alberta firm that makes EMpowerPlus, a multi-vitamin mixture billed as a treatment for bipolar and other serious psychiatric illnesses. Truehope was tried in 2006, but acquitted, for selling the treatment as a drug without a licence.
Here is another interesting article about that.
So Bill C-51 actually ends up being good for all of us (consumers, anyway), since its main focus is imposing more strenuous control over the safety of herbal remedies and increasing the fines dramatically for those who continue to sell dangerous "natural" pills. Its bad enough that 99% of this stuff doesn't work as advertised, at least after C-51 a smaller percentage of it will actually be harmful.