Michael Laws talks to ACT Leader David Seymour on the Platform about Pharmac's Treaty controversy.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024
David Seymour on Pharmac's Treaty Controversy
Labels: 4th Article, David Seymour, Michael Laws, Pharmac, Treaty of WaitangiMichael Laws talks to ACT Leader David Seymour on the Platform about Pharmac's Treaty controversy.
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The TOW has no fourth article.
This was fabricated in the 1990s by a group of Marxist church infiltrators called Project Waitangi.
Their goal was to promote the notion that under the Treaty the Crown must protect the Maori way of life in its entirety – based on references to a non-existent “Article IV” that Treatyists have plainly invented.
This claim traces to
a pre-Treaty korero at Hokianga—not at Waitangi as Professor Paul Moon recently asserted when interviewed on The Platform by Michael Laws—where Bishop Jean-Baptiste Pompallier had established a Roman Catholic mission.
Primed by their spiritual advisers -- who feared that the Church of England wanted them run off -- Maori Catholics asked if the Crown, as incoming sovereign, could guarantee freedom of religion.
Hobson replied that all religions, including “Maori [spiritual] customs,” would be protected.
Freedom of religion was of course already captured in Article III of the Treaty, which accords individual Māori all the rights and duties of British subjects, meaning an Article IV was never needed.
David needs to ensure these Pharmac Nimrods stop peddling this horse wallop!
If anyone was in any doubt what all those additional (and likely a good many of the existing) public servants employed under the last labour Government were doing, it seems not only were they busy embracing a nearly two-hundred-year-old Treaty and contemplating new ‘principles’ of what it could all mean – no, realising a very distant possibility of a finality to that endeavour they got creative and invented a new Article, to which even more ‘principles’ could arguably apply. With that precedent set, the potential would be akin to the Universe – infinite, although nothing to do with the creation or enhancement of our GDP.
And in the knowledge that all this bs was signed-off by those that run these outfits, what confidence should we have in them? And in proclaiming this nonsense, not unlike a recent former PM, patently none of them had taken the time to read the real thing, much less understand it.
As for Pharmac, with their prime health related role in society and their apparent infatuation with the Treaty and all things Maori, my question to them is: “Do they employ the services of a Tohanga, and if not, why not?”
Perhaps in the contemplation of their answer, just maybe there might be a light go on and a realisation as to why they exist, what they are charged with doing, and what the public expect of them? And given their wayward thinking to date, perhaps a clue to assist them with that end – it really has nothing to do with the Treaty. That in itself, should save them some expenditure that could be better directed elsewhere.
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