Cabinet discussed National's constitutionally and historically illiterate "Treaty Principles Bill" this week, and decided to push on with it. The bill will apparently receive a full six month select committee process - unlike practically every other policy this government has pushed, and despite the fact that if the government is being honest in its intentions, it will then be immediately voted down. Its clearly intended to be a six month-long anti-Māori hatefest. And it will cost us millions:
A conservative estimate suggests it will cost about $4 million to progress the controversial, and doomed, Treaty Principles Bill to a second reading at Parliament.Rimmer of course calls this the cost of "democracy". What it actually is is a government-funded racial hate campaign. It is disgusting and illegitimate, just like the racists pushing it. And by proceeding with it, National will bring both Parliament, and the New Zealand state, into disrepute.The estimate, calculated by Council of Trade Unions (CTU) economist Craig Renney, suggests just 12 people would have been working to create the bill since the government was formed in November last year, and includes the legislation passing through a six-month select committee process.
It does not include costs such as contractors, consultants and lawyers, or any involvement from Crown Law, the Waitangi Tribunal, or the Human Rights Commission.
