Thread: Countdown supporting Twig and Tweet. (Forest & Bird)

Originally Posted by Sasquatch

Rushing new laws in lightning time with no due process is not living in a "healthy democracy"

@Sasquatch it could be a lot less healthy.

What are these "due process" breaches?? A breach of our Bill of Rights? Parliament in contempt?

Or simply just a feeling of being shafted?

The citizens got together a petition of 60,000 signatures in a few days demanding changes to gun laws. We couldn't even get a petition off the ground.

The Order in Council must now be consulted on, debated and brought into legislation. We will have plenty of opportunities to state our case. But yes we have lost the first round, albeit that that does not mean it hasn't been democratic.