I am writing this to let the…

I am writing this to let the Ontario Government that I am strongly opposed to BlueTriton's plans to set up an operation that pumps clean water from Indigenous lands and bottles it for profit. Why is the Ontario Government continuing to ignore our Indigenous Peoples with business as usual with respect to these types of complicit corporate grabs. It's almost as if the Provincial and Federal Governments are at war with Indigenous Peoples.

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council issued a cease-and-desist order two years ago to stop Nestlé (BlueTriton's predecessor) from taking the water. By requesting the permit and making plans to continue the water grab, BlueTriton is ignoring Indigenous sovereignty. Just like Nestlé did. In fact it's still really Nestle. They just rebranded.

So while dozens of First Nations communities across Canada have not had access to safe drinking water for at least a year, BlueTriton is pumping clean water from Indigenous lands and bottling it for profit.

The Ontario Government needs to sit down with Indigenous representatives and BlueTriton to establish equitable and sustainable methods of extracting water, which ensure all Indigenous people in the impacted area are well rewarded with proper infrastructure including clean water.

When is the Ontario Government planning on committing to reconciliation and not further exploitation of our precious resources with a sell-off to corporate interests who serve no-one but themselves?

Where is the environmental commitment to ban single-use plastics so that we are not drowning in plastic by the time my children are grown up? BlueTriton proposes to donate a bottle for every bottle recycled. Guess what, that's still producing single-use plastic. They may be donating but they are still creating more of it! Why aren't they paying to recycle the plastic? Or funding the costs of municipalities to recycle the plastic?

What is the Ontario Government thinking?

Please know that the values of the current Ontario Government to not align with mine or with many citizens of Ontario and indeed, Canada. Activism on climate change and climate justice are not going away. You will become irrelevant if you don't keep up with the priorities of Ontarians.