Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she doesn’t support the concept of NZ First’s Respecting NZ Values Bill, which would impose cultural conditions on migrants and refugees entering the country.
Ms Ardern, who arrived back from New York where she addressed the UN last week, told Morning Report the bill was not something the Labour Party would promote or likely vote for in Parliament.
“We consider each bill case by case,” she said.
“It is not a government bill, it is not government policy. It’s a New Zealand First bill and it’s up to them to pursue it and debate it and it’s not something that Labour is likely to support at all.”
The New Zealand First conference at the weekend voted for a member’s bill requiring new arrivals to sign up to designated values. (more…)
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