To the Honorable Speaker and Members of Parliament. This submission outlines our strong opposition to the Regulatory Standards Bill.
TWH Consultants fully oppose the Regulatory Standards Bill for the following reasons.
This bill applies Neo libral ideologies of the Act Party that, if passed, can then be applied as a standard to regulate ALL laws.
Historically, neo libral ideologies have been at the heart of colonising Aotearoa since 1840, underpining the loss of land, language, cultural heritage and identity.
These are the VERY ideologies that also underpinned the Doctrine of Discovery and Papal Bull decrees of the Catholic church
Those ideologies were applied globally by Christian nations across the Indigenous world to exploit Indigenous people through slavery and the genocide of 100s of millions of Indigenous peoples ( including Maaori). This also led to the exploitation of their resourses, and assets from the 14th century through to 2025.
This bill makes the assumption that all people are equal under the law.
This assumption to the bill applies historical amnesia founded on Western eurocentric ideologies that favour individualism.
This puts power in the hands of individuals at the expense of the rest of the country, including governments.
Less than 1% has been compensated for historical breeches and are primary indicators behind Maaori experiences of intergenerational trauma, intergenerational poverty, and the breakdown of traditional whanau, hapuu roles and traditions.
The NZ Crown is an administrator (only) under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. However, under the RSB will overstep their role by advocating individual property rights over collective property rights, taking power away from even governments, and subjecting New Zealand to compensation demands.
Collective property rights are mainly held by Maaori
This bill ignores Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the founding relationship between Maaori and the British Empire partnership.
This bill does not have the jurisdiction to make such drastic changes.
Only Maaori and the British empire can make these decisions as they are actual Treaty partners. This government is an administrator, not the actual partner.
That role should (only) involve King Charles, and Te Arikinui Ngawai Hono i te poo.
There is NO consultation with Maaori, who will be most affected.
Minister David Seymour has also been ignoring the advice of his experts and, as a result, established a regulatory board to hold neo libral ideologies as THE standard to regulate ALL laws.
This Regulatory Standards Bill is dangerous and does not hold the best interests of New Zealanders at heart.
Its potential puts the rest of New Zealand at risk, and at the mercy of international corporations and speculators for profit and greed, by allowing them to sue for compensation whilst simultaniously poisoning the land, the sea, and the air due to its immediate cost benefit focus.
Another issue is this.
How will those international corporations give back and benefit New Zealand?
The reality is that the wealth coming from minerals, resources, and assets taken from our whenua will be taken back to the countries of those corporations without benefiting New Zealand at all.
We do not own the land, resourses and assets. We have borrowed it from the next generation.
My recommendation is that this bill be squashed immediately
