I am just an average…

I am just an average Canadian, I don't have a bunch of attachments for this comment, I simply want to express my concern in general for an issue that seems to be stymied and needs to be resolved once and for all.

I am frustrated that this moratorium now needs to be extended yet again. It commenced THREE YEARS AGO in 2016 and now its being proposed to extend it almost another year. How many years does it take for the government to finally act?

The whole industry of, often foreign, corporations extracting our groundwater almost for free, then packaging it into environmentally problematic plastic bottles and reselling it back to Canadians at huge mark-ups needs to be addressed.

Climate change, increasing population, environmental (pollution) impacts, not to mention indigenous issues around groundwater in their lands, are serious concerns. Canada needs to protect its groundwater so it remains sustainable for future generations.

Instead of continuing to extend the moratorium, which basically allows Nestle and other such companies to continue their plunder as long as its at the same (or lesser) quantities, is not adequately addressing the concern.

Instead, an extended moratorium needs to have some serious changes whereby water plundering is reduced even further or better yet, cancelled entirely until we can finalize a new and improved regulations to protect our precious groundwater.

We need this issue resolved, not dragging on and on like this. There is an appearance of corporate pressure and compromised government. Let's see some positive action on this issue once and for all.

Thank you.