Former National MP slams ACt, radical treaty plan

[Lilith7]

Chris Finlayson is not a happy camper; the former minister for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations & attorney general agrees with political commentator Mathew Hooton.

You really have to wonder about David Seymour's motivation.

"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/form...reaty-plan

[Oh_hunnihunni]

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.

[Zurdo]

He was one of the best Ministers in John Key's government.

[Lilith7]

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.

They should but I doubt they will, unless they can somehow get David Seymour to change his views, which seems very unlikely.

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He was one of the best Ministers in John Key's government.

He was, & did a lot of work with Maori about the treaty so knows what he's on about - rather more than Seymour seems to.