Bruce Cotterill on Three Waters

Bruce Cotterill writes in the NZ Herald:

This is major constitutional reform, involving the deliberate confiscation of assets from ratepayers and the councils that represent them, to a government and a policy that will be controlled by iwi-based or tribal interests. The consultation process around it has been minimal and most of us would say what little consultation has occurred has been ignored.

The French would have people marching in the streets and tractors blocking the freeways if this was occurring in their country. Not us. Let’s just sit back and let it happen! …

We should be staggered that this legislation, delivering major constitutional change, is sleepwalking its way through Parliament via an aggressive majority government, while it appears that there is nothing that opposition politicians can do about it. …

That’s why we have elections. When governments become this corrupt, they and the laws they created must go.

Well worth reading the full column, He is right that the opposition can not stop this law in the current Parliament. But if you vote to put the current Government into opposition, then the law can be repealed.