Forced amalgamation is wrong on so many levels. Getting rid of regional authorities based on ecosystem boundaries is absolutely the wrong approach, for reasons I laid out a few days ago;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116497200612919931
But even if it wasn't, forcing these changes down our throats using Parliamentary supremacy is impressively antidemocratic. Even for the NatACT First regime, for whom antidemocratic is their middle name.
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The "Better Regional Boundaries Bill" sounds like a bad idea.
The current boundaries are based around geological reality, specifically the watersheds of major rivers. The whole idea of creating regional authorities, separate from civic authorities (city and district councils), was to make them *environmental* regulators. With responsibility for an area defined by ecosystem boundaries, not social, cultural, historical or political ones.
