However, he was somewhat surprised to see that our new government’s favour is now extending to unions in other countries. Despite its rhetoric on toughening up on the sale of farmland to foreign buyers, the government has approved the sale of a $17.7 million dairy farm in Canterbury to a Canadian buyer on behalf of the Canadian Public Sector Pension Fund – with not a peep of protest from its lapdogs in NZ First. So it appears to the Hound that Labour is not only looking after its mates in the NZ union movement but also its comrades in Canada.
