Het is niet de eerste keer dat een gelijkaardige resolutie wordt ingediend. Canada was altijd een felle tegenstander van de resolutie.
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At the World Water Forum at The Hague in 2000, in Kyoto in 2003, and in Mexico City in 2006, Canada refused to recognize water as a human right. In 2002 and 2003, Canada was the only country to vote against United Nations (UN) resolutions on the human right to water, stating, “Canada does not accept that there is a right to drinking water and sanitation.” The Harper government also played a key role in blocking a motion by Germany and Spain to officially recognize water as a human right at the UN Human Rights Council in March 2008.
On several occasions UN member states have pushed for recognition of the human right to water. Each time Canada rejected the efforts. Most recently, the Bolivian government has put forward a UN resolution for the human right to water and sanitation, which will be considered in late July 2010. The resolution has been endorsed by several other countries. The Canadian government, however, has not supported the resolution and may even be lobbying other countries to weaken it.
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Waarom vragen Canadezen zich af is Canada tegen het recht op water (deze keer onthielden ze zich)?
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Why would our government take a stance that is so out of line with Canadian values?
The world’s water companies would like to see water regarded as a human need, enabling them to control and sell water to the highest bidder for profit. Because Canada manages the largest freshwater resources in the world, companies are lining up to pump, bottle and privatize our water for their profit. Despite the increasing threat to our water, the Canadian government has not updated its national water policy in over 15 years. Instead, governments over this period of time have continued to support free trade agreements that only further threaten our ability to safeguard our water for people and nature.
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