Health Canada Looking for a Showdown

The Canada Border Services Agency paid a visit to the the 52nd Annual NorthWest Naturopathic Physicians Convention - a private professional event. They didn’t come by invitation. The CBSA representative and a senior compliance officer from Burnaby's Health Canada’s Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate were somewhat over-dressed and came prepared for an attack - swat gear, gun, etc (no this is not fiction), while the convention participants (mainly naturopaths and members of the health industry) were standing around chatting during a break at their convention hotel in downtown Vancouver.
One has to seriously question the integrity, if not the IQ, of the superiors of these two overdressed individuals. The inspectorate person reports to Dennis Shelly, BC manager of Health Canada’s Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate. For the record, the Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate stated mission is: “to help the people of Canada maintain and improve their health. With this in mind, the Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate is committed to verifying complaints from consumers regarding the quality or safety of health products.
The priority given to verifying such complaints is guided by the level of risk to public health.”
So a meeting of naturopaths and industry exhibitors must be a very dangerous and high risk event!  Or is this a retaliation for failed and lost court cases again Strauss and TrueHope (both exhibitors in attendance at the convention) and the recent inception of the Natural Health Products Protection Association that will eventually bring embarassment to Health Canada? Clearly intimidation tactics were required for this incursion..... I feel so much safer now, not to mention how proud I am of how my tax dollars are being spent!
Worst of all.... the Naturopathic Association DID NOTHING. They claimed the membership didn’t want a fuss - no media - no statements - the public might not understand... and it would be bad for business.....
I find this hypocritical - the public that naturopaths serve - their clients - we, the public - are no fools that need protecting from the truth and reality. Furthermore, some naturopaths see health food stores and their products as competitors. I’m sure the exhibitors would have welcomed a media fuss. The exhibitors pay a high fee to present their wares at these conventions and help defray a lot of the convention’s cost. They are acutely aware of what Health Canada is trying to do to their industry and have the most to loose from Health Canada’s legal and illegal actions and would benefit if the public was more aware of government shananigans and oppression.
I think the ND's association is not helping the whole supplement industry conundrum and being quiet about this illegal incursion from Health Canada helps underline my thinking.