That anyone would consider…

That anyone would consider allowing our natural resources to continue to be pillaged by corporate interests, instead of developing the infrastructure to provide clean drinking water to dozens of communities who call this province their home is a travesty. Attached is a story reported on by The Guardian concerning our country’s ongoing failure to provide for our own people. Despite being a report from 2018, somehow this old story feels very current. How we can claim to be leaders in the developed world, while still whole communities are denied the same priveleges that I am?

This article also keenly details how we’ve bent over backwards for corporations not even based in our country at the expense of our own people. Consider that if this is how Human Rights are considered inside of Canada, how can our international allies trust in the reputation we maintain as global leaders on the subject?

On top of all of this, it is up to all of us who are concerned with the welfare of our planet to reject the bottling of water. This is of course due to the well-documented research citing disposable plastics as one of several major factors in the poisoning of waterways across the globe. Corporations whose profit models are based off of packaging something they stole inside of something that is killing us and our planet have to be shown that their practices are a thing of the past.

If our politicians are committed to changing this country in the way that they rhetorically promise they will, they HAVE to stop this deal in its tracks. Our water is precious, as are our people and our planet. Prioritize them all over these corporate thieves if you TRULY act on behalf of the people of this province. Don’t allow history or this nightmare to repeat itself with BlueTriton, who is just another Nestle ready to take advantage of us.