How did Thames Water go from being the darling of market fundamentalists to a financial basket case that cost Canadian pensioners a billion dollars? It is a classic case of corporate greed that stands as a stark reminder of what it means to safeguard the public interest. Water treatment privatization must never happen in Canada, John Cartwright, chair of the Council of Canadians, and Blue Community co-founder Maude Barlow write in an Op Ed in the Toronto Star on the folly of Canadian pension funds being invested in England’s disastrous water privatization experiment.
