During the week I had an email from Kelvan Smith who demonstrated that he might have retired but he still reads the Tuesday Club notes! For clarification the bits in bold are what I wrote in the Tuesday Club notes last week. Here’s what Kelvan said: I was interested to read your “Global … [Read more...]
Two legal opinions
Also attached are two further emails: One is the Deloitte’s Report on Horizontal Infrastructure and the other is the legal opinion which we have already sent last Monday. I think we should be promoting this as much as possible to assist CCC. … [Read more...]
I was asked by a mate “what is the Global Settlement?”
The other night I was asked by somebody who had been at the meeting with Megan Woods “what is the Global Settlement?” I have been so deeply engrossed in the document I just made an assumption. That everybody had read it. Silly me. It is a 59-page document which is about as exciting as watching … [Read more...]
How much did the Government really spend in Canterbury?
In the Global Settlement document, the Crown claimed to have spent $14b in Canterbury. (Remember these figures aren’t just for Christchurch.) This appears to have been accepted by the negotiating team as correct. The CCC negotiator, Brendan Anstiss, supplied to us the Treasury document to show … [Read more...]