Quote:"Chris Finlayson, the former minister for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations and attorney-general, and political commentator Matthew Hooton agree on one point - the National-led Government should not support the Act Party’s Treaty referendum.
Finlayson, who held those key portfolios under former National Party leader Sir John Key, and NZ Herald columnist Hooton, a political analyst and advisor, said the Act Party’s desire for a referendum would derail years of good faith bargaining and empower weirdos.

"It will bring out of the woodwork the sort of people who used to write to me and say, ‘why don’t you get cancer?’, ‘how dare you give property rights to people above their station’ or, as sometimes even happens now walking along Lambton Quay, someone will call me a ‘Māori-loving c***’," Finlayson told current affairs host Moana Maniapoto on Te Ao with Moana."

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/former-national-mp-slams-acts-radical-treaty-plan

(25-03-2024, 03:03 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Finlayson did a lot for Treaty negotiations. He is both knowledgeable and deeply respected by those he came in contact with. The government should pay attention.

(25-03-2024, 04:25 PM)Zurdo Wrote: He was one of the best Ministers in John Key's government.