The Taxpayers’ Union is supporting the Three Waters litigation being led by the ‘Water Users’ Group’.
The Government has now responded to the Statement of Claim and are desperately trying to avoid fronting up with the advice Ministers received on Three Waters. Remember that Ms Mahuta still claims that her Three Waters co-governance model is needed to comply with the Treaty. The legal advice we have from multiple senior lawyers and QCs is that this is highly unlikely.
One of the key issues of this case is whether Ms Mahuta’s claims are an accurate reflection of the advice received by the Cabinet, and if it is, whether it is correct (we say it’s a radical departure from what the Courts have previously said the ‘partnership principle’ actually is).
The media appear to be deliberately ignoring this awkward litigation for the Government. We would have thought it newsworthy that Nanaia Mahuta’s lawyers are playing games with the proceedings, in that they don’t want the Court to see what advice the Ministers actually received.
This woman is hell bent on having her way regardless of any advice she is given.what the hell does it have to do with the Treaty?
Fuck Three waters or Ten waters what ever you want off!!! Thanks
three waters is NOT a Treaty issue Maori were traditionally very mobile and those that acquired weapons for up north raided and consumed their defeated opponents. The point being the water supply was where they found it. Further under the treaty article 2 provides that they could retain their “lands and Estates for as long as they wished and could transfer(sell) through and argent of the Crown. This did not always go well. However and most importantly the Treaty Article 3 “extended to the Natives on NZ Her royal protection and impart/ed to them all Rights and Privileges of British Subjects”. nothing about partnership but equal citizens under the law(Crown). There is no place for the three waters proposal which sets out representation based on ethnicity and biased towards 16% of the population having 50% representation.