In a recent speech at Turangawaewae Marae the Prime Minister spoke about co-governance being the key to fulfilling Treaty of Waitangi obligations.

 

If her comments on co-governance being a Treaty obligation are correct this means that the previous assurances from this Government about better representation or better outcomes for all Kiwis were nothing more than empty rhetoric.

 

Co-governance is an agenda which is twisting the Treaty and will destroy New Zealand’s democracy.

 

The New Zealand public are coming to realise that co-governance does not deliver better outcomes for anyone and more New Zealanders are demanding a commitment for change and are looking for political parties to challenge the current Labour government’s direction which is based on a claimed partnership requirement made in the Lands Case of 1987, under the Treaty of Waitangi.

 

The “Lands Case” referred to was the first reference by the Courts to the Treaty creating a “partnership”. This decision has often been misquoted and misused to justify separatism, when the decision referred only to a relationship “akin” to a partnership.

 

We can have co-governance without democracy.

 

We can have democracy without co-governance.

 

But we cannot have democracy and co-governance.

 

Democracy will only prevail if we oppose these moves towards the legislated race based co-governance policies of this current Labour government. We need to oppose co-governance and race based separatist policies and laws.

 

The need to defend our democracy against differentiation of New Zealand citizens by ancestry or race has become urgent.

 

Democracy can and will prevail, but only if we fight against these policies, it is ‘Now or Never’.

 

We need to support policies based on need not race and the rule of law where everyone is equal before it.

 

If the government stopped concentrating on race based constitutional reforms they could maybe solve some of the real world problems which they have said they would such as; child poverty, education & truancy, housing provision & affordability and welfare dependency, etc.

 

If Jacinda Ardern and her government no longer believe that Kiwis should have equal rights under the rule of law then they should hold a binding referendum to allow Kiwis to either agree or disagree with this policy.