Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I do want to stand and acknowledge as others have done that New Zealand in particular the defence forces has the responsibility of monitoring what is a fifth of the world's oceans. That's huge. It's a huge responsibility. I do on behalf of the Green Party want to acknowledge and commend that. That happens to be the biggest deployment; the biggest focus of our defence forces is environmental monitoring of a fifth of the world's oceans. We're very proud and happy to have contributed last term to a Government that did actually pull our defence force combat operations out of where they were to focus on that monitoring.Having said that I do want to acknowledge also that international rule of law must always be the deciding factor when we're talking about law enforcement. This isn't a foreign policy bill; this is about international criminal enforcement. Just as domestic law enforcement has to focus on upholding the rule of law and rights mechanisms that balance out what we hate—which is violence and crime and others have mentioned you know the things we're trying to stop through this bill which is human trafficking the introduction and smuggling of class A drugs into our borders and other heinous social ills—I want to also notice that preventing those harms can never be at the cost of upholding the rule of law and our safeguards for due process.So I want to notice that this bill introduces the exact same wording and standards of the Search and Surveillance Act that the National Party introduced in their second-to-last term in office and that we all opposed on this other side of the House. I want to notice also that we've been proven right because through our criminal justice system the mechanism of allowing the discretionary search and seizure powers that that bill introduced and this bill furthers have been proven to be applied rampantly with prejudice and in contexts that have created chaos in our criminal justice system. So this bill furthers that same standard that same discretion that same—dare I say it—lawlessness when it comes to search and seizure powers. It extends those powers beyond the police force—that have a very specific type of training in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act—to our defence forces who don't and to our customs officials who don't.So in the law we have a saying that says Bad cases make bad law" which means that the precedent system often produces bad legal standards where we are faced with the highest level of prejudice and often sympathy when it comes to us facing some of the most serious crimes. We produce terrible precedents in the criminal justice system because we just want to shut that one thing down. But actually we're looking at a whole system. We're looking at the rule of law in the fifth of the world's oceans. We do have a high responsibility for monitoring those oceans but we also have a very very high common interest across the globe for upholding the rule of law when we do that. This bill lowers that standard as did the Search and Surveillance Act that was introduced by that last National Party Government. We know that; we have the evidence.So actually when we come to looking at drug trafficking and human trafficking and what has been called "irregular migration"—and maybe I'll pause here and just think about that: people are actually allowed to approach our borders by sea and seek to migrate here; there's nothing irregular about that. But say we're talking about human trafficking let's call it that rather than irregular migration shall we? We still have to uphold a human rights - based order. We still have to apply the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act as being supreme to our desire to stopping crime. We have to do that because that is the only way to stop that slippery slope that we could go down where we do actually throw out our own standards our own safeguards our own rules-based order in our desire to sort of look like we're tough on crime.So it is sad for us as the Green Party that this Government is going to further what has been proven in our criminal justice system to have eroded the rule of law to have increased prejudice and lawlessness and search and seizure through this new bill. So we can't support it. And I stand with regret not to support this bill because I do want to notice that at least one part of it when it comes to the smuggling of endangered animals is something that is very close to our hearts and we do want to stand for nature when it comes to that protection. But we can't do it in a way that erodes what's actually really really important to us as New Zealanders and our value system and what we normally bring to the international rules-based system. This bill doesn't do that and so I can't commend it to the House."