Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 14, 2017 9:35:49 GMT 12
TREATY WARNING OVER LABOUR'S WATER TAX
Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson is warning that Labour's water taxes could force existing full-and-final Treaty of Waitangi settlements to be opened for renegotiation with iwi.
He said the policy overturned accepted policy of successive Labour and National Governments of the past 25 years that no one owned the water.
Governments applying a tax on water was an assertion of Crown ownership "and then that gives rise to the counter assertion that Maori own water".
"They are dicing with death, quite frankly," he told the Herald.
"It opens a complete Pandora's Box......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11903486
Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson is warning that Labour's water taxes could force existing full-and-final Treaty of Waitangi settlements to be opened for renegotiation with iwi.
He said the policy overturned accepted policy of successive Labour and National Governments of the past 25 years that no one owned the water.
Governments applying a tax on water was an assertion of Crown ownership "and then that gives rise to the counter assertion that Maori own water".
"They are dicing with death, quite frankly," he told the Herald.
"It opens a complete Pandora's Box......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11903486