Improving the Regulatory Environment for Natural Health Products

In April 2024, the Chamber responded to our members' request to establish a forum for businesses in the health and wellness sector to connect and share ideas and perspectives and a way to get to know other businesses in the health and wellness sector for both regulated and unregulated industries. A committee was established to represent the region’s health and wellness sector, creating a forum to listen and respond to both public and industry concerns and identify and address issues impacting the Health and Wellness sector. The Chamber adopted a policy position in June 2024, focused on Improving the Regulatory Environment for Natural Health Products.

The policy position was then submitted and approved by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in October 2024 and was introduced by MP Blain Calkins and referred to the Standing Committee on Health. However, when parliament was prorogued all committee work, including the agenda of the Standing Committee on Health, was halted. 

We recently checked to find out if the bill would be introduced and MP Glen Motz did share that MP Blaine Calkins presented Bill C-224. It completed First Reading on September 18, 2025, but at this point we have no indication yet on the timelines for how it will move forward.

We will continue to monitor progress to ensure this continues to move forward. 

You can view our previous post on this topic here.