The Honourable Christopher Finlayson was made Attorney General and Minster in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations by Prime Minister, the Rt Hon John Key.

The Honourable Christopher Finlayson was a member of the Maori Affairs Select Committee that deliberately misled Parliament during the second reading of the Te Roroa Settlement Bill.

Hansard: The Hon Tau Henare, National Party. "Then there were the ugly submissions? the ugly submissioners. In all my time in the House? to some it is not long; to some it may be far too long? I had never ever seen submissions like I saw in the Te Roroa settlement process. These ugly submissions were full of language that even I? from South Auckland, from Otara? baulked at when I read them. Not a lot worries me; not a lot phases me. Those submissions from Allan Titford and the One New Zealand Foundation did. I am glad to say there was a unanimous decision in the select committee to make sure that we would not hear those submissions because of the language. So I say kia ora to my colleagues on the select committee".

This was a blatant and deliberate lie. I personally presented the ONZF submission to the Maori Affairs Select Committee at Parliament on the 2 May 2007 and it contained no bad language. The One New Zealand Foundation's submission and many others opposing this Bill, which were also suppressed by this Committee, contained information this Committee, many of which had close links to Te Roroa, did not want Parliament or the Public to know.
We believe the Maori Affairs Select Committee, "Perverted the course of justice" and Mr Finlayson was a member of this Committee.
The Attorney General and the Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations must have integrity, honesty and be impartial. We believe Mr Finlayson showed he lacks all three, when a member of the Maori Affairs Select Committee that misled Parliament and the Public.

To support a lie is just as bad as telling the lie!!!

Mr Key, this man is not fit to be our Attorney General or Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations.

We wrote to the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon John Key just after he had elected Mr Finlayson on the 17 November 2008, but he ignored our letter. See article about Finlayson's appointment CLICK HERE