LIES. LIES. LIES. Scaring people about their drinking water is beyond the pale. But not surprising, eh? The story says an agent "could be a private company, a public-private partnership like Metrolinx or the Canada Infrastructure Bank." Metrolinx is a Crown agency under section 3 of the Metrolinx Act. It’s 100% owned by the Province of Ontario. The Canada Infrastructure Bank’s shares are issued to a federal minister and held on behalf of the Crown under section 25 of the Canada Infrastructure Bank Act. It’s 100% owned by the Government of Canada. Neither has a single private shareholder. They aren’t public-private partnerships. They’re public bodies. The professor reached for the 2 best examples of wholly public ownership in the country to argue the law permits private ownership. And "agent of the Crown" isn’t a label a company can give itself. It’s a legal status conferred by statute. The only way a private investor ever holds a share in one of these corporations is if a legislature passes a new law saying so. That’s the opposite of a door left open.