1. This new company has no…

1. This new company has no track record in managing water extraction, transporting bottled water, or monitoring. They are investors now in debt. We can then anticipate layoffs as Metropoulous has done with other companies, leveraging loans, pumping up profit no matter what the results, and a quick sale. This is not who we would want managing and taking Ontario groundwater. Their motivation is a quick profit only. The ten year permit cannot be granted to this "Greed is Good" group.
2. Ontarions need better protections for food and water security. No studies anticipate the availabilty or needs for water 10 years into the future at these sites. Both are in rural, agricultural areas. There are many competing uses for water at each site and water bottling is the lowest of priorities. The water leaves the watershed never to return. It is a bad precedent and practice.
3. Another unknown is the long term effect of the presence of microplastics in plastic water bottles, our drinking water, and our bodies and the bodies of living creatures. Research indicates that all of us have plastics in our bodies. No one knows the critical amounts for health issues.

The term in the application is far too long, it is a low water use priority, the company has no experience or track record, no stated environmental standards, no loyalty to the employees or consumers, and continue to use virgin plastic with its terrible environmental impact. This permit ought not be granted as there a too many uncertainties with the new owner, and the length of the term.