We own the water says Tamihere

John Tamihere writes:

If we were playing Jeopardy, the answer is Māori, and the winning question is, who owns the water?

What is bizarre to me is that people who have stolen an asset are now having a debate about the rights over it.

We reject co-governance because we want to have the appropriate conversation about the elephant in the room: how did Pākeha get to the table on a 100% Māori-owned asset?

So there we have it clear as day – the assertion that water is owned 100% by Maori. Yep nothing less than the liquid responsible for life on earth is owned by Maori.

And people wonder why there is going division in New Zealand.