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The Supreme Court ruled there is underfunding of police services in a northern Quebec First Nation.

The president of the First Nations Chiefs of Police hopes governments will now negotiate better funding.

That's on this episode of Nation to Nation.

I can only imagine how this issue is impacting the public confidence in the administration of justice in NZ. A reminder to never become complacent in the work to ensure the state is held to its promises in law.

Under the Bill, Parliament is seeking to unilaterally re-write the Treaty using the age-old colonial tool of assimilation, claiming a Treaty which recognizes Māori as distinct is ‘divisive.’

This reinterpretation is not supported by the growing NZ jurisprudence which has supported rights-centred interpretation of the Te Tiriti to affirm Māori self governance and land rights.

Te Tiriti (Treaty of Waitang) has governed Crown-Māori relations since 1840. The Bill, which passed 1st reading immediately prior to the haka, imposes a reinterpretation of the treaty that would see all NZ-ers a “equal,” removing protections for Māori people, who make up 20% of New Zelanders.