I am given to understand…

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I am given to understand that, after years of public outcry, Nestle (of Switzerland), which has been extracting water from Ontario for years for virtually nothing, and selling it back to us at a huge cost has finally given up and a new corporation has arrived, hoping to do exactly the same thing.
I am well aware of the holy belief that 'what is good for business is good for everyone' but this credo has been proven false so many times in so many cases that it seems incredible to me that anyone is still gullible enough to believe it.
Yet here we are, looking at another business, seeking to privatize profits at the expense, not the benefit of, us, the people of Ontario.
That any corporation, whatever their name, should be taking water without paying a full and fair price for it is theft. The mere fact that any given individual can cower behind the cover of a corporation does not make them any less guilty of being, to all intents and purposes, thieves and hustlers.
Stop giving them our most precious resource. If there is a profit to be make, they will make it and we do not need to give it to them.
Allow this corporation to take water, but only if they pay the full price for it, the price that will reflect the loss of water to the people who live here, both indigenous and immigrant, and only in the amount that we have to spare.