No accountability.Dear editor, I was not surprised to see your lead story on our primate primate, member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, or lower primates. The group can be traced to the late Cretaceous period, where members were forest dwellers. and other church leaders denouncing the private sector and exhorting our politicians to "save" our water from the private sector. I was, however, surprised to see the reference to Walkerton, Ont., as a reason for keeping water/waste-water in public hands. The deaths in Walkerton occurred due to the failing efforts of the public sector owner-operator. If a private sector company had been responsible for those deaths, the company would be bankrupt and people would be in jail. No such accountability exists in the public sector. In France, water/waste-water has been in the private sector for more than a hundred years. In England, since water/wastewater was privatized, rivers are cleaner, as is drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . If only our church leaders would concentrate on leading their flocks instead of propagating ill-founded anti-private sector fads, they would not appear so foolish and our church would not be dwindling away Noun 1. dwindling away - a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family" dwindling decrease, lessening, drop-off - a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a into irrelevance ir·rel·e·vance n. 1. The quality or state of being unrelated to a matter being considered. 2. Something unrelated to a matter being considered. Noun 1. . James Cowan There have been a number of public figures named James Cowan, including:
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