In 2010, the Human Rights Commission published Māori Representation in Local Government: The Continuing Challenge. When noted that a key problem with current provisions is that the implementation of councils' decisions to establish Māori wards depends on the very shortcomings of the majoritarian process—which the Māori constituencies are designed to address—and citing Professor Janine Hayward, the report noted that to a point "irrespective of the wishes of Māori voters, the provision has been rejected. Those who have power have been unwilling to share it." That is why I support this bill.