OPINION: Yet another sign has emerged that the Government's controversial Three Waters reform could be in trouble.
The Labour Party used
its supporters’ mailing list
to ask for help and to back
its Three Waters proposals
as submissions closed last
month.
National called the
move “desperate”, saying it
shows Labour is worried the
committee will be overwhelmed
by submissions
against the controversial
scheme.
Days before submissions
closed, Labour’s Campaigns
Team sent an email
to people on its mailing
list – usually reserved for
Labour Party fundraising
and events – asking them
to make a submission to
Parliament’s Finance and
Expenditure Committee on
the Water Services Entities
Bill, the main legislation
that will give effect to Three
Waters reforms.
Was Labour worried
about a likely avalanche of
submissions against the
proposals?