We argue for public ownership and governance, especially of drinking water and municipal waste water systems. That is what I said. We don't have a quarrel with provision of services to public utilities, for example. But with the access of the European Union to the provincial governments and the municipal sector, my understanding is that there are private corporations that would like to directly own and operate.... I'm not suggesting for a minute that any particular political party in Canada is advocating that, but there are companies that would like that to be the end result, and it's something we wanted to flag as a consequence to be avoided.
For example, when Ontario did the recent Water Opportunities Act, which we strongly endorsed, that government felt compelled to put in a statutory statement that it wasn't intended to privatize water. It's a constant pressure, and we saw in Walkerton that we need public governance.
I agree with much of what you said, but we are always very worried about this constant pressure for privatization that we see in the private sector. I'm not making any assertions politically.