I oppose all applications by…

I oppose all applications by Triton Waters Canada Holdings Inc. for permits to take water for bottling. Groundwater is a non-renewable resource that needs to be available for the public good, not for private profit. Water is being taken without the consent of First Nations and despite a cease-and-desist order issued two years ago (June 7, 2019) by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council, the traditional leadership of Six Nations on the Grand. Nestlé/BlueTriton continue to ignore Indigenous sovereignty. How can we talk about reconciliation without the actual work of listening and respecting each other? The continued bottling of water in plastic bottles is also damaging to the environment. Plastic water bottles breakdown into microplastics in landfills and leach into water sources and harm wildlife and human health. We are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis and a climate crisis. Bottling groundwater seems contrary to all logic and common sense and science.