A social justice group is continuing to express concerns about a public private partnerships, or P3 for the city’s water utility.
The Council of Canadians calls such a plan expensive, wasteful and misguided. Spokesman Wayne Dryer presented to common council a litany of failed P3s from Kamloops to Montreal, urging common council to be cautious when it comes to the funding model.
Spokesman Joel Butler tells CHSJ News while the group agrees it’s necessary for the water quality to improve, it’s wrong for private corporations to profit from our water when the onus should actually be on the federal government to step up with the money.
Council assured the public and about 50 spectators it’s simply looking into the feasibility of a P3 and nothing is decided yet; the Council of Canadians expresses concerns council will merely take the path of least resistance and bow to pressure from the feds.
