This paper considers the Report of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification in relation to its analysis of the Treaty of Waitangi and the way that the Commission responded to the Maori views placed before it. It concludes that the arguments it uses to deal with those views are both flawed and damaging to any meaningful notion of a Treaty relationship between our people and the Crown.

That it is also flawed and potentially damaging in its conclusions on the future of GM in this country follows almost axiomatically.