I'm interested in reading and returning my views on Key's pamphlet. Does anyone know of a link or can upload it so we can all have our say to Key about his 'not so hidden' dirty dairy agenda..?

I am amazed at this expensive undertaking so long after it happened. What is true purpose of it? Why choose this method of survey? Can we trust National MPs to give us true and accurate results of their survey if they are not in line with their own views? Is John Key going to reinstate the sacked councillors? Anne-Marie

It strikes me as an odd way to gauge public opinion. Why does this survey need to be under John Key's name at all? And why so randomised? The people of Canterbury will all suffer if and when our water quality is eroded by the corporate farming practices that are justified by the National Party on purely fiscal terms-and we will have to pay for the damages once the profits have been enjoyed by those same interests- thats how it goes,as everybody knows, to quote Leonard Cohen.We should all be asked our opinion of this in the upcoming elections.

This is pretty undemocratic. First they shut down a democratically elected board for "lack of confidence" which sounds like they weren't confident they'd tow the government's line. Then the government uses taxpayer money to produce a pamphlet that basically argues their reasons, like a campaign pamphlet. Have the government donated the equivalent (secret) taxpayers money so the ousted ECAN board can state their views on the situation? Of course not. To pretend the pamphlet is research is dishonest as it's so long after they shut down ECAN that the results of the 'survey' are irrelevant and who is going to seek out a National MP to submit their survey. This whole ECAN thing was shameful, and it keeps getting worse. Somehow Canterbury is letting the government make a mockery of managing their most precious resource.

we haven't seen any pamphlets yet. Some of us in the rural areas care as well. Why is the pamphlet not sent to all ratepayers?

I haven't seen the pamplet referred to in The Press, but the idea confirms my worst suspision - that rather than being blissfully unaware of the importance of the water issues in Canterbury, Keys has knowingly chosen to do take the action he chooses inspite of us all. I am deeply concerned about the impact Nation Party decisions about water and education will have on the future of this country. We are already seeing the results of contamination that may never heal. This has not been a democracy for the last two years, but we do have the power to vote them out. I can't wait!

The ECAN act is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed in NZ. It is a cynical payoff for National supporters in the farming community at the expense of the disenfranchised ratepayers in Canterbury. And now Key compounds the issue with a cynical 'push-poll' just prior to local council elections. Parker signed the mayoral letter that was used by Smith and Hyde to roll ECAN - I hope ratepayer anger is reflected in the mayoralty going to someone else.

I live in a recent housing development near the travis wetlands and statehighway 74. While walking home i found several of these pamphlets in the waterway the runs opposit the highway and kate shepard lake i kept one to fill out but was unable to salvage the 13 other pamphlets.

Must have been posted just to National Party voters. I didn't get one and neither did any of my neighbours... shame!

Their mates, Federated F**kin Farmers, got what they wanted; a water grab, and National hoped we would suck on it and be gratefully oppressed. But we aren't forgetting, and we aren't going to let them do perverted stuff to our water, and J. Key has only a two seat majority on the centre right now that Act has bitten its pimpled bum. We gonna get you for this John smiley face.....from rabid ex-national voter. Note; Their recent economic studies show many of the big water schemes proposed for Canterbury are uneconomic. We're all supposed to pay to ruin our country!