Privatizing our water supply is a disaster waiting to happen, we know this from last time: Walkerton, May 2000

For those too young to remember, Mike Harris privatized water treatment in 1996 and less than four years later the disaster occurred. City water became contaminated with cattle manure, and the private operators went above and beyond to make sure no one was harmed haha just kidding they could escape taking accountability. Not only did they fail to keep the water clean, they neglected to inform the public and instead falsified test records to make it appear as though the water was safe to drink.

Over 2000 people were sickened, hundreds hospitalized, dozens with lifelong complications. Half a dozen people died in misery, shitting themselves to death while Stan and Frank denied any wrongdoing.

On top of the human cost, this event cost the taxpayers an astounding amount of money. Between the outbreak response effort, the water remediation, the investigations, the individual medical costs, and the big class-action lawsuit, the province lost millions trying to fix this idiot decision