We’ve been conned:
Not only are they a deceitful lying pack of bastards they have also been extremely devious in their actions in relation to Three Waters.
Once again we see the Prime Minister is offshore when the bad news is put out in front of the public.
Is this actually a pre-ordained strategy to try to keep her away from the fallout or is it just because she is irrelevant in the eyes of the Maori Caucus which seems to wield the stick of power in this government.
Minister Mahuta and her cohorts in the so-called Maori Caucus have just completed the biggest theft in our history, disguised & hidden away from us all very deceitfully, and the implications are huge.
The Select committee stated that they also consider that Te Mana o Te Wai statements should apply to all water bodies, and Water Services Entities (WSEs) should give effect to these statements.
We don’t know who promoted this consideration before the select committee and we are unlikely to ever find out because this government keeps on lying and lying and lying about their true intentions.
So Three Waters has now become FIVE WATERS
Three Waters is now Five Waters, because Minister Mahuta wants iwi control of geothermal and coastal waters too and this coverage of coastal waters is over a huge area.
It is an area that extends from a mark between the water-lines on our foreshores to 24 nautical miles out to sea; that’s about 45 kilometres from shore, approximately 750,000 km2 of open water bounding our coast, and will give control of recreational fishing over to Iwi.
Like much of the current government’s policies and decisions, particularly those related to the Treaty of Waitangi, the decision to include this shows their contempt, arrogance and disdain for democracy.
This attitude of ignorance of the actual content of the Treaty (guarantee of equality for all under the law) in favour of the current interpretation by our Prime Minister and her government just shows the level of deceitfulness and devious conduct that they are prepared to go to achieve their ideological aims.
I fully expect to now see the house go into urgency over this Bill to ensure that it can be passed, before the election has a chance to derail their plans.
This has to be one of the worst examples of theft by a government anywhere in the history of New Zealand.
Our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has come into government spouting all sorts of platitudes about her commitments and her desire for truth openness and transparency in government and in actual fact all we have got from her government is lies and theft on a grand scale.
And she can’t even point to a culture of success as nearly every metric used to measure her government’s terms of office will show failure at every turn.
This extended theft has been orchestrated through the select committee process so as to be hidden behind the consultation processes for the Three Waters Bill, and by the time we found out (in the report from the committee) it is too late to stop it.
The consultation process has finished and they are now going to include this recommendation into the final Bill that will go before the house without the public having any chance to comment.
Devious conduct and deceitfulness by government taken to another level; making a mockery of the Parliamentary process and lifting a big middle finger to New Zealand.
The government claims to have consulted widely and made changes as a result of the select committee process and they have made changes, but the only beneficiaries of those changes are small section of the population (approximately 15 %) with Maori ethnicity.
The only real change is the one made to Section 4 of the WSE Bill in relation to “Application of Te Mana o Te Wai” were they recommended that ;
Te Mana o te Wai applies, for the purposes of this Act, not only to all freshwater, but also to all coastal water, and to all geothermal water…”.
“Te mana o Te Wai” is embedded in some legislation already. A “Te mana o Te Wai statement” is essentially a directive issued by an iwi to a water services entity and must be responded to, integrated or incorporated. It is not fixed and may be amended at any time. “Coastal water” means “seawater within the outer limits of the territorial sea”.
This devious, deceitful power-grab for control over our coastal water has nothing whatsoever to do with water infrastructure whether fresh, storm or waste and had not been flagged in advance or even aired in the open by Ardern or her senior minister Mahuta.
Instead, as is the norm for this government in relation to the Three Waters proposals, it was disguised, hidden away from us all very deceitfully, only to be brought out into the open when there is no chance of the public having any effect on this theft of public rights and direct attack on our democracy.
The Prime Minister and her government are handing control of this huge resource to an unelected, unrepresentative, tribal elite purely on the basis of race.
We have been lied to and stolen from by this government, and as a result of this recommendation we will cede total control of our country to this same unelected, unrepresentative, tribal elite purely on the basis of race.
With this decision New Zealand as we know it will have gone; welcome to the new banana republic called Aotearoa.
The only thing we have to look forward to is the election next year and the likelihood that this mob will be consigned to the waste bin where they belong and the incoming government will repeal the entire list of race based legislation that this current Labour government has implemented.