David Seymour: ACT leader calls for role of Race Relations Commissioner to be axed

ACT believes the Race Relations Commissioner should go - calling it a political role masquerading as an apolitical, taxpayer-funded public service role. Commissioner Meng Foon has resigned after he didn't declare that a company he directed received more than $2 million for the provision of emergency housing. In April it was revealed he and his family made donations to Labour MP Kiri Allan and a National candidate. ACT Leader David Seymour says this is a huge conflict of interest- but it's impossible for anyone in the Race Relations Commissioner role to be politically neutral. "The whole idea of a taxpayer funded, supposedly politically neutral agency that acts in a very political sphere inevitably is going to fail at that job, because all people are political." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.