We heard, as we travelled around the countryside, submitters from far and wide. Many of the leaseholders came to speak to the select committee during our hearings in Wellington, in Queenstown, and in Christchurch, and they were amongst some of the most heartfelt submissions that I've heard in my time in Parliament. These were representatives of families who had farmed sensibly, pragmatically, with conservation and environmental values at their heart for several generations, and they were distraught, they were hurt, they were confused, and they were unconvinced by the need or the desire for why this Government would want to treat them so harshly, so poorly, and so insultingly.