Wait? WHAT! ACT supports slavery???
Wait? WHAT!
National and Labour MPs team up to get slavery bill heard after ACT objects
National and Labour are joining forces to get modern slavery legislation into Parliament, using a new process to skip the biscuit tin for the first time.
The MPs backing it say the process was needed because the ACT Party and its Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden refused support.
National’s Greg Fleming and Labour’s Camilla Belich have agreed to co-sponsor the bill.
The bill strengthens reporting to Parliament, brings in public naming and potential liability for directors and senior managers, along with fines up to $200,000 for companies that failed to report on modern slavery, or which made false or misleading statements.
“Large companies will have to report on modern slavery that they find in their supply chain, that they have to report that to a registrar that keeps those reports – it provides for ministerial oversight and it also provides greater support and focus for victims,” Belich said.
This would apply to all companies operating in New Zealand making more than $100 million a year. It would also introduce civil penalties of up to $600,000, give the Human Rights Commission a formal role and create a public register of reports.
RNZ
Let me get this straight.
ACT are such wide eyed free market acolytes that they consider slavery as something the State shouldn’t interfere with???
How far right are ACT?
Refusing to crack down on slavery is kinda one of those entry point issues in a Modern Democracy.
If you refuse to make slavery illegal and toughen regulations to prevent slavery, then you kinda don’t deserve to be part of the representative democratic process.
Opposing slavery is a little like rejecting political violence, it’s a necessary value to be allowed to participate.
If you run in elections while advocating political violence, you rule yourself out from participating.
Likewise slavery, if you aren’t prepared to make slavery illegal, you rule yourself out from participating.
That ACT refused to legislate against slavery is a scandal of immense proportions.
We all knew ACT were pretty extreme, their knee capping of pay parity, their race baiting Treaty Principles Referendum, their Atlas Network adjacent libertarianism and their acquiescence to Corporate power, but refusing to fight slavery is one of those things you can’t really ignore.
If you democratically support slavery, you are beneath our collective mana and deserve nothing but contempt.
