Submit against the RSB before you go on leave

Before you go on leave, please ensure that you put in a submission against the Regulatory Standards Bill.  Submissions close on Monday.

"As many experts have pointed out [if the bill passes], taxpayers may be required to compensate tobacco companies for regulations that reduce their profits by seeking to minimise the negative health and economic impacts of smoking; mining, industrial forestry and other extractive industries for regulations that seek to minimise environmental harm and damage to communities; and many other activities in which capital seeks to profit at the expense of others.

The accumulation of wealth and power by the few at the expense of the many is precisely what is undermining other democracies around the world. 

It is inimical to the very idea of democracy as government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,’ in which governments are supposed to serve the interests of citizens, not of capital or corporations."  (Dame Anne Salmond - https://newsroom.co.nz/author/dame-anne-salmond/)

You can make a submission here (although the page is getting heavy traffic so you may need to try a few times)
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCFIN_SCF_E22299B3-B67B-4F74-023D-08DD9688D2C5/regulatory-standards-bill

If you need some help with what to put in your submission here are some suggestions courtesy of Greenpeace.