This is such an oblique position for legitimately grassroots activism to take. I mean, it's not like people are dropping dead en masse in Canada, out of all pla

This is such an oblique position for legitimately grassroots activism to take. I mean, it's not like people are dropping dead en masse in Canada, out of all places, from taking supposedly sketchy, industrially-produced medication. Meanwhile, importing copycat generics from India is fine [1] (taken from an article with an obvious slant against Walmart, one major importer of such medications). On the regulatory front, the difference is that India lets the US FDA work there and inspect plants that export to the US [2], while Canada doesn't, and although the US and Canada have been slowly easing into formally trusting the other's regulatory frameworks [3] by working up from food safety [4], they are not quite there on the medical front. How much of this is legitimately grounded in science, logistics, diplomacy, and protectionism are up for debate. This is good investigative journalism. It certainly raises some additional questions that would have been difficult for an average person to learn on their own -- including questions about this nonprofit, about whether both parties' past attempts to allow Canadian drug imports have been comparable or different, about whether an organic movement concerned about drug safety exists at all, about the author's motivations for writing this piece; all good questions worthy of more research and conversation. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/india-wal-marts-drug-conn_b_108466.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/india-wal-marts-drug... [2] https://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm333944.htm https://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm333944.h... [3] http://trade.gov/RCC/ http://trade.gov/RCC/ [4] https://www.fda.gov/food/newsevents/constituentupdates/ucm498611.htm https://www.fda.gov/food/newsevents/constituentupdates/ucm49...