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Mike's Minute: Not everything is a conspiracy · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Some are working pretty hard at the moment. You might
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  Speaker 2: have noticed to a bind the Mike Smith storyline that
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of town has the government's a year over
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  Speaker 2: climate change. So Mike Smith, you know, the activist, the agitated,
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  Speaker 2: the chainsaw man, the smack the America's cup bloke, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Life full of angst and upset. Anyway's latest outing
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  Speaker 2: was in court looking to sue individual companies over their
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  Speaker 2: pollution around climate change. He was looking for an activist
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  Speaker 2: court to agree with the idea that a company can
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  Speaker 2: be held to specific an individual account for something that
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  Speaker 2: happens all over the world by if you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: all of us. The government stepped in a week or
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  Speaker 2: so back, put an end to it, or will put
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  Speaker 2: an end to it. Their argument is Parliament is your
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  Speaker 2: ultimate court and these sort of laws are for it,
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  Speaker 2: not individual judges who may sway with wind. But there
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  Speaker 2: is no doubt in my mind in a number of areas,
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  Speaker 2: various courts these days are of course open to a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of judicial dabbling. It is brought about in
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  Speaker 2: my humble opinion, by an increasing arrogance that they make
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  Speaker 2: the rules, not the government. It is true to say
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  Speaker 2: that a court can have a say or hold sway,
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  Speaker 2: but it is equally true to say that the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: court has always been the Parliament of the land, and
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  Speaker 2: we do not want that undermined. Now, Mike claims people
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  Speaker 2: like Fonterra have been writing to the PM's office and
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  Speaker 2: advocating for the government to step in on court action
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  Speaker 2: like his, and given they did, he now suggests this
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  Speaker 2: is collusion, this is scally waggery, this is big money,
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  Speaker 2: big influence malachy that borders on scandal. Or could it
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  Speaker 2: be a corporate saying what you would expect a corporate
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  Speaker 2: to say and a government not surprisingly doing what they
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  Speaker 2: would do anyway. In other words, Fontira didn't need to
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  Speaker 2: say anything. Paul Goldsmith would have done what he did
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  Speaker 2: without any correspondence at all. Why because they think the
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  Speaker 2: same way. Say, for example, I do, I didn't write
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  Speaker 2: to anyone, didn't have a meeting with anyone, and yet
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  Speaker 2: I would have thought, nay expected, the government to nip
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  Speaker 2: the Smith fishing expedition in the bud. Why because it's
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  Speaker 2: obvious and its common sense see not everything's the conspiracy,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes remarkably, especially when it's obvious people tend to have
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  Speaker 2: the same view. Letters or no letters, meetings or no meetings.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing to see Here.
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