Urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing against ACTs corporate Regulatory Standards Bill highlights once again why Government wants to crush the Tribunal
- The Waitangi Tribunal is holding an urgent hearing on the controversial Regulatory Standards Bill.
- Critics, including Māori leaders, argue the bill lacks a Treaty clause and could impact Māori rights.
- David Seymour says the bill reduces red tape and improves lawmaking transparency, but 88% of submissions oppose it.
Urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing against ACTs corporate Regulatory Standards Bill was fascinating this morning…
…this is about putting Property Rights over Human Rights, a means to allow the corporations to impede legislation if they don’t like it!
Māori have correctly identified the threat establishing a Corporate Review of all laws would immediately attack the Treaty!
Just so we are clear. The Consultation time for a law as enormous as Regulatory Standards Bill has a tiny window open over the holidays, and of the 20 000 submissions, barely .3% agreed with it!
Submitters oppose David Seymour’s regulation law. Why he’s charging forward anyway
David Seymour is intending to turn “up the heat on bad lawmaking” with a new piece of legislation outlining principles of good regulatory practice and establishing a board to keep politicians accountable for any red tape they impose.
A discussion document on the proposal drew significant attention over summer, pulling in more than 20,000 submissions. It coincided, however, with Seymour’scontentious Treaty Principles Bill also being out for public feedback, itself receiving a record number of submissions.
A just-released summary of that feedback found 88% of submitters opposed the bill, with just 0.33% supporting or partially supporting it. The rest didn’t have a clear position.
…only .3% supported out because it is such an egregious abuse of democratic power in favour of corporate power!
It is Property Rights over Human Rights!
ACT have tailored an economic straight jacket that will make it impossible to counter corporate interests ever again.
If this passes, Corporations will be able to stop any environmental or taxation policy they don’t like.
The radical nature of this should terrify every New Zealander. It is a brake pedal for corporate interests and a gag for democratically elected change.
The Regulatory Standards Bill is directly driven by The Atlas Network and will enable them to have direct influence over all legislation!
Why are you allowing Corporations this level of power over our laws Kiwi?
Māori have cultural memory of the first wave of white settler capitalist exploitation resource taking, they have the flax roots knowledge of what sustainability and environmental protection looks like, it is no wonder that international right wing think tanks always aim to attack indigenous rights first to enable the next generation of exploitative resource stripping.
On a global warming planet, the Treaty can protect all our rights when corporations come with their vampire capitalism.
The fact the Tribunal are holding this inquiry highlights why the Government is so desperate to gag and cancel them…
Government announces review into Waitangi Tribunal, Seymour calls it ‘activist’
…Māoridom are once again the final defender of egalitarian NZ!
We need to be kinder to individuals and crueller to Corporations!
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This just plays into the government’s hands. The Tribunal is being reviewed for overreach and now it’s proving it.
This just plays into the tribunals hands. The government is displaying its overreach and now it’s proving it.
There are no human rights without private property rights.
The Waitangi tribunal panders to tribal leaders who have no interest in individual Maori property rights only in control of collective tribal rights .