To Whom It May Concern: The…

To Whom It May Concern:

The previous rate that Nestle was charged to bottle water out of Canadian watersheds, with the intention of bottling it, and selling it back to us, while producing massive amounts of pollution, and externalizing economic and environmental costs is laughable at best and criminal at worst.

The current rate is an improvement, but a marginal one at best. This increase will not affect Nestle's bottom line in any way, and goes a small fraction of the distance that Canada, and more importantly Canadians need to be remunerated if these practices are to continue,

Any extension of a moratorium on the bottling of water in order to properly examine and research the impacts is favourable to continuing to allow corporations to run roughshod over rural communities and environmental health as a whole.

There should be an absolute stoppage of the issuing of new permits, and a thorough examination on the costs that nestle and other megacorporations pay for the perceived right to the Canadian citizen's natural resources.

Let me remind you that Nestle has all but admitted to employing the slave trade in their production lines for other products. Do not allow corporations to take our resources while simultaneously proving they are willing to dehumanize and enslave populations in other countries.

These companies have proven that they are comfortable operating without moral imperative. The bare minimum that they will do is based upon the laws of the nation they are operating that portion of their supply chain in.

I ask you to consider how we as a generation, and our government of the day will be looked back upon by history. Corporate profit is not analogous to the quality of human life.

Yours Truly - Canadian Citizen