Last week I attended the Constitutional Advisory Panel (CAP) meeting fronted only by Sir Michael Cullen. The main stated aim of CAP appears to be to entrench the Treaty of Waitangi into the NZ Constitution as supreme law.
In a robust question and answer forum, many spoke of the desire that we remain 'one people.” Sadly this will not be so if the Treaty, based on Maori tikanga, is legislated into law. It would be separatist, divisive and undemocratic and, would be almost impossible to remove once enacted.
Cullen was asked questions about the future of our country, and his many of his replies were prime examples of obfuscation and platitudes.
At a follow-up meeting to be held at Bureta Park on Monday evening June 10, I will be interested in the views of David Round, Chairman of the Independent Constitutional Review Panel which was formed to help counter the propaganda and spin being fed to us by the Government's stacked Constitutional Advisory Panel. As a senior lecturer in law at the University of Canterbury, Mr. Round is very knowledgeable on treaty and constitutional issues and will provide an independent outlook on the current Review.

R. Bishop, Pyes Pa.