I te tau 2006, ara i te wā he minita te kaiārahi o Aotearoa Tuatahi a Winston Peters nō te kāwanatanga Reipa, ka tautoko tōna rōpū ki te mukunga o ngā mātāpono tiriti. Tēnā whakarongo ki te mema paremata o Aotearoa Tuatahi a Doug Woolerton e kōrero ana mō te tautoko o tōna rōpū i te Pire Muku i Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Tuhinga
We don't have a problem with the Treaty of Waitangi being defined in a court. We don't have a problem with it being talked about, we don't have a problem with it being in legislation. But we do have a problem with the word 'principles' because that was only put in there in 1996. And we have asked many, many times what that means, nobody has been able to tell us. And in our view, the courts interpret it differently and that precisely is the problem. Treaty of Waitangi? No problem.
Interviewer: So you're saying, say Wolf [?] from the Privy Council, he's saying we're saying the principle will become more important than its precise term. You don't accept that?
Well, no, because we don't, we haven't had proper answers out of the people in Parliament and if this was as precise as you say it is, they would've been able just to read it out to us.
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