[hedgetrimmer]

Canada has a lot of fresh water.

The people of Canada do. Transnational corporations want that water for profit, so they want to usurp the authority of the Canadian people over their own resources. Why should a transnational corporation or foreign nation have a greater say than the citizens of a country?

[gcruse]

” Why should a transnational corporation or foreign nation have a greater say than the citizens of a country?’

Such hysteria overlooks the way things have been for decades.
The Canadian subsidiary of MLW Worthington had to cancel a sale of locomotive engines to Castro because the US govt put pressure on the American parent company. That was thirty years ago.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

They shouldn't, but it would be in Canadians' interest to sell a resource that is renewable (if the water comes freely from lakes, rivers and streams--as opposed to aquifiers or ice packs) and can be replenished each year. It should be up to Canadians, but they shouldn't object to selling something they have in overabundance.