Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Labour is playing politics with submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill.
Over 300,000 submissions were received, including 12,000 handwritten ones, many from tamariki.
Labour’s Dr. Duncan Webb says all submissions should at least be tabled in the official record.
But Luxon says Labour wanted the bill scrapped from the start and is now stalling the process.
“What’s important now is to actually wrap it up and actually move it forward. But ultimately, that’s a decision for the select committee to say. Have they got a good sense of what the submissions pro and against are about? You know what we’ve seen is a Labour Party that’ve said they want to kill the bill and now wanting to extend it out. And I think that’s political, and I think it’s rather cynical,” says Luxon.
