Perce is a respected Pakeha elder. In 2024 Perce will have lived in New Zealand for half the time since the signing, in 1840, of the Treaty of Waitangi. He has Maori and Pakeha grandchilden that he cares about equally. He had a highly regarded entrepenurial career and is considered the father of the computer software industry in New Zealand. Perce has worked as an engineer, company manager, mediator, arbitrator and consultant with a constant interest in politics and economics. Perce has been a Green Party parliamentary candidate and supported the Labour Party for 16 years. He has now resigned in shame at what the Government is doing to replace democracy in New Zealand with a tribal system.