I leave Christchurch residents to decide if they think this is corporate fraud, sloppy council oversight, greed, sharp business practice, conflict of interest, immoral, unethical, outrageous or a mixture of these.
I’m John Minto and I’m standing as the Keep Our Assets Canterbury candidate for the Christchurch mayoralty.
Last week Greater Christchurch Regeneration Minister Gerry Brownlee sent me a letter in response to a blog I wrote about four of his wealthy constituents getting $595,000 each for land remediation after the September 2010 earthquake when they would have been entitled to only $20,000 each from EQC.
It’s become a well-accepted fact in Christchurch that wealthier areas of the city received a better deal from government agencies and quicker responses to the disastrous earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 than poorer suburbs.
For a people’s Christchurch rather than a corporate Christchurch – decisions by us, for us, made here!
This is a shameful act of betrayal by IHC which has transitioned from a genuine community based group doing great work for disabled New Zealanders into a corporate contractor for a vicious right-wing government.
With just two months before we elect a mayor and councillors it would be a travesty of democracy were the current mayor and council to sign off a new cost-sharing agreement with the government.
Christchurch Mayoral candidate John Minto is delighted the council has decided not to sell its works company City Care.
The NBR’s rich list is out again and New Zealand’s biggest bludgers are on display. There are 190 on the list this year with a combined wealth of $59.6 billion. The one thing this group has in common with each other is an allergy to tax.
As a senior Labour MP Mallard must shoulder a lot of the blame for the 175,000 children Labour left living in Poverty in 2008 despite three successive terms of a Labour government in times of marvellous economic conditions.