Ivan Court to ban bottled water in city owned buildings
Mayor McCheese Ivan Court and his brother Bruce are back at it again – trying to ban bottled water in city owned buildings.
The Telegraph-Journal had a good article on the topic; unforgivably, they give these two guys way too much credibility.
Common Council should not have the ability to take away our right to choose which products to purchase and consume.
Thank goodness we have some common sense on Council – Duputy Mayor Stephen Chase says it best:
But Deputy Mayor Stephen Chase said consumers should have the right to choose what they drink, whether it comes in a bottle or from a tap.
“To ban bottled water, all you are doing is taking away the right of people to choose a drink.”
I also wish that the TJ would properly report that the Council of Canadians group is just a front for CUPE – who only have one thing in their interests (it’s not the environment) – their jobs.
Don’t accept the stupid personal opinions of Ivan and Bruce Court – they were elected to represent us – not themselves.
It’s time they started doing it!
If they ban bottled water, they would then have to drink the city water themselves. That may get them motivated to fix the water problems faster.
I get what McCheese and the Hamburgler are getting at: SJ water is clean and safe. But not everyone likes the taste of tap water.
By banning bottled water, Ivan and Bruce are in a way promoting bad health practices: people who don’t like tap water aren’t going to drink it. And if they can’t get bottled water in the building then they’ll resort to fruit juices or pop or other high sugar content drinks that they shouldn’t be consuming.
The only way I could get behind this is if the Mayor was going to give all employees in city owned buildings a refillable water bottle. That way they could bring their own water from home – tap, bottled, well, whatever.
Personally, I don’t drink bottled water because the World Health Organization says that it is not as safe to drink as treated municipal water, and also because it is bad for the environment with all the plastic that is used to bottle it. We have both bottled and tap water at work and I always choose to drink the tap water. I only use bottled water for my fish tank
I have to agree somewhat with Sara, I’m not sure these plastics are a recyclable, post consumer, probable product we are going to realize in our lifetime.
Maureen
Shawn,
I note your comment that the Council is a front for CUPE. I’m not a member of either but ask you to verify this statement. I don’t believe it. My research on it shows a very broad base of support.
“I also wish that the TJ would properly report that the Council of Canadians group is just a front for CUPE – who only have one thing in their interests (it’s not the environment) – their jobs.”
Source, please.
Just Google it:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Council+of+Canadians%2C+CUPE&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=