Peter Williams: We need the full story on the Treaty Principles Bill

So in the end all the submissions made on the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill will be on the Parliamentary record. But many of them, thousands it would seem, will not be read or processed until after the Justice Select Committee has reported to the House.

This still makes a mockery of the process. After all, this was the bill that attracted the most submissions of any in the history of our Parliament. That in itself states unequivocally that this was a discussion or conversation or debate or whatever you like to call it that the country wanted and needed to have.