It is appalling that any…

It is appalling that any consideration is being given to selling Ontario’s water to commercial interests. Fresh water should belong to all of us, and it should not be up to government entities to unilaterally sell it especially at the laughably low price usually offered, to companies who make outrageous profits on it. Not to mention that this industry is filling up our landfill with single-use plastic bottles.

Since dozens of First Nations communities across Canada have not had access to safe drinking water for years, if not decades, it is unconscionable for BlueTriton or any other industry to be allowed to pump clean water from Indigenous or municipal lands and bottle it for profit.

These companies aren’t in the bottled water business, they’re in the plastic bottle business.

Mary VanBuskirk
Maryvb47@gmail.com