Guy NathanHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): Well that was a very interesting call from the Green member Golriz Ghahraman. She has just been saying things that Labour used to say. Only a matter of months ago we would have heard the same content of speech by David Parker and others on that side of the House. He's shaking his head but we know that we would've heard the same rhetoric from Labour in the election campaign and indeed we did.I've got to hand it to the Greens because it's not often that I agree with much that they say but we've heard from that member this evening a speech that hasn't changed in their rhetoric about trade even though I don't agree with it. On this side of the House we don't agree with what the previous speaker just said but they have spoken with a degree of principle and they haven't shifted their stance.What we've seen in the last couple of months is a real shift. It's almost like liquefaction over the other side of the House. Liquefaction has crept through their toes they've sunk down a bit and they've realised that this trade agreement is really important for New Zealand it's important for job growth it's important for reducing costs and fundamentally the New Zealand economy needs this agreement. So off David Parker and Winston Peters and the Prime Minister went to try and sort out what they thought were issues with this deal and they've come back and they've put CP" at the front of "TPP". Now they stand up in the House and say "We've got these amazing changes. They're comprehensive—28 of them." But when you delve down into the detail it's really very much window dressing.What I'm really keen to hear in this debate this evening is about the approach that the Government takes to trade overall because this is just one agreement. This is a really important one. It's taken a long time to get here this evening but we're not hearing from the Government what their plan is on the New Zealand - EU free trade agreement. We've spent a huge amount of time—and I acknowledge Todd McClay and Gerry Brownlee and the work that they did and before that—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Oh Todd more than me.Hon NATHAN GUY: Yes you're right. Yeah Todd did a huge amount of work. Of course what I'm hearing from this Government is that the Prime Minister is not going to travel very much obviously: pregnant baby coming on board—that's great. Fantastic news—congratulations. So the Prime Minister won't be leading big trade delegations. She'll go to the Pacific shortly and then she'll go to Europe and the UK and have her photograph with the Queen—fantastic—and that'll be it.What I'm also hearing is that the Minister of Foreign Affairs won't be doing a lot of travelling. He'll put Fletcher Tabuteau on a plane and try and get a trade delegation together and businesses in New Zealand will go "Who? Who is this guy? Who is he? Oh that's right. He's the new deputy leader of New Zealand First."And David Parker won't be doing much travelling. He's the Minister for Economic Development and quite a few other things as well. He should be leading trade delegations around the world but he won't because he's got to keep an eye on Shane Jones' provincial fund as the Minister. And of course we've already seen the first real blooper under that new fund. Sixty-one million dollars announced last week and already we are seeing that fund hit liquefaction as well—probity issues. So getting back to the issue—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Thank you.Hon NATHAN GUY: —David Parker is not going to travel as well. So businesses are coming to the National Party worried about the overall focus and the trade agenda of this new Government because their senior leadership team aren't going to travel. It's going to be left to Fletcher Tabuteau and Damien O'Connor.It's fine having a debate about trade but they've just concluded their 100-day programme. It's been a real shocker for the primary sector. They don't support irrigation. Now irrigation helps us grow our exports. It helps our farmers and processors put more products into market. It creates jobs. Unfortunately the coalition Government—and we know the Greens don't support irrigation.We've got issues in biosecurity which is a real trade issue as well because if you don't get on top of biosecurity issues that impacts what we can do in the trade space. Also we have got numerous other issues in their 100-day programme that they haven't addressed. The other one is that they're not getting on top of Mycoplasma bovis a massive cattle disease.Fortunately farmers can still find a market and get those into export. And the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will help particularly our beef farmers into the lucrative Japanese market.This Government is raiding from the research and development fund the Primary Growth Partnership. Under the Ministry for Primary Industries they're raiding that to do a rebranding exercise. That's not going to grow exports for our CPTPP market.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): You are straying a little way outside of the motion so I'd encourage you to come back.Hon NATHAN GUY: Well I am coming back to it all the time Madam Assistant Speaker because it's really important. When you think about the primary sector and you think about the Trans-Pacific Partnership with "CP" in front of it it's really important that this Government supports our primary producers.I acknowledge them in that they are supporting the CPTPP—that's fantastic. But we're unsure and we're not hearing enough from them about their broader trade agreement because they're not prepared to travel the world and open up new market opportunities. That's really disappointing for our exporters to get pretty clear indication that this Government is more about domestic politics than about looking at a full international approach.So in summary what we've heard this evening is that Labour and New Zealand First were lions in Opposition and now they're mere lambs and I'll leave everyone to think about that. We heard all the rhetoric in the campaign and how terrible Trans-Pacific Partnership was. So they went off to the meeting came back with "CP" bolted it on the front and it's pretty much the same agreement. We should get on with dealing constructively across the Parliament on these trade issues and it would have been great—if they hadn't been drumming up votes or trying to from the greenies and the lefties—if they'd supported a broad trade agreement.So my challenge back to David Parker and other senior economic-facing Ministers is please get out there and lead some trade delegations because you can't leave it to junior Ministers to open the doors that we need to see for our exporters to reach into these very lucrative international markets. Thank you. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Split call—this is five minutes."