Councils must obey the law

Radio NZ reports:

Whangārei’s fluoridation rebellion is intensifying with the Director-General of Health threatening to potentially pull rank and turn on the switch to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water if the council continues its defiance.

The Councillors seem to have an inflated sense of their own importance. They don’t get to ignore laws passed by Parliament.

Whether or not you agree, Parliament has passed a law that allowed the DG of Health to mandate fluoridation. If you don’t like the law you lobby to change it. You don’t get to ignore it.