on New Zealand’s grocery market, which highlights how complex land use regulations restrict competition and drive up prices. Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “David Parker needs to take a good close read of this report. The Commerce Commission have rightly pointed out the many ways that regulation restricts competition in our grocery market. The report absolutely skewers the Resource Management Act for the way it restricts access to suitable sites, drives up site prices, and allows vested interests to lock out competition.” “If there’s one sentence in the entire report that epitomises the destructive power of regulation, it’s this: ‘