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Cleita

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2. It would be better, but leave it up to the investor class to attempt to
Sun Feb 2, 2014, 04:27 PM
Feb 2014

make money from it with the end result being environmental damage and poor Canadians going without water because they can't access a once free resource. If water management were kept within government ownership by both governments as a non-profit commodity, it might work.

However, I always thought the people of a nation should own the resources that come out of the ground like oil, metals, minerals, lumber and water. I always felt all those enterprises should belong to the people, worked by the people for the benefit of the people. We should start by nationalizing all the oil fields.

Oh, and never let them get their hands on the water.

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