No.
Thats one of the non sequitors that follows every comment ad nauseam about Maori that people like Tamaki (and so many other self-righteous, ambitious others) say whenever they need gullible people with a cognitive bias of fear about what they don't or can't or won't try to understand.
You know, hear something often enough it must be true right? Or that guy is Maori so he must know etc etc.
Doesn't matter that its got nothing to do with what is being discussed, or what is being asked for, or what is humane and just, or that they want to have a role in managing the environment to help protect it.
Erroneous and constant non sequitors, ad nauseam....repeated everywhere and even on here by some.
Those bloody Maoris eh! All they want is handouts! They get millions, what about the rest of us! Why can't they just sort their own problems out instead of us carrying the burden.? All they do is take, take, take and they want to OWN the rivers, the foreshore and all the fishing quotas, they want to set up a this that and the next thing because they want apartheid...etc.
Educate yourself and listen to what is actually being said, happening, and stop buying into the tropes being thrown out there constantly that are just ignorant and weaponised to keep you in that same bias.
Over and out from this echo chamber of the entrenched. Be careful what you wish for - will be interesting to revisit this thread in the coming months and years.
And to those that are erudite and eloquent, have enjoyed your responses in an unfortunate flogging a dead horse scenario. Kia kaha!

The season is almost upon us & turning my attention now to something that is hopefully more progressive and uplifting!