Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Chair. I rise again with pleasure and a bit of heartbreak as the lone voice in this committee speaking against this agreement the agreement that it was designed to project and also the bill itself which seeks to implement that damaging and dangerous trade model. So we've heard earlier this afternoon and this evening a couple of things that really jump out. One is that this trade agreement appears to be changed in name only and in the second part we see the breadth of it—just how much there is here that we're implementing that has very little to do with free trade.Now the Green Party is not against trade. New Zealand is a small country and we need trade.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Can I just ask the member to speak into the microphone otherwise Hansard will have difficulty picking it up. Thank you.GOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN: So Part 2—we're talking about a lot of things that don't seem particularly related to trade per se but they are part of this corporate privilege framework that this trade agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA) before it was based on. We heard from hundreds of submitters two thirds of whom opposed this agreement and they opposed it on the basis that it was rather unchanged and that it went far beyond what is necessary to ensure trade.We have 6000 pages that were negotiated without transparency and much of which are about things like copyright things like the privilege of foreign corporate investors to keep their information offshore so that they can avoid our privacy laws. We've promised not to regulate future unknown technologies—not much to do with trade—and of course the investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses the provision that allows foreign multinationals to sue our Government if we legislate or if we adopt progressive policy that protects New Zealanders our environment our workers' rights our Treaty of Waitangi over their profits. And we've talked about that a lot.So I have tabled two Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) and I will speak to them. The first is to add a provision into this law that ensures that no future new States can join without signing binding agreements that opt out of the ISDS provisions. This agreement was sold to us as being completely changed in part based on the fact that a number of member States have signed side agreements so to speak that say that investors based in those States won't avail themselves of the right to sue us under the ISDS provisions. Now we know that any level of ISDS is too much because of course multinational corporations can base themselves anyway and sue us. An Australian company can sue us from Singapore bases. But let's mitigate that risk at least and the Government has said that we're not going to sign on to any further trade agreements that include ISDS clauses. So let's limit the risk that ISDS will be used against us under this agreement or in fact the old TPPA because we have heard from officials that that can be resurrected were the US for example to join it. So the first SOP seeks to include a provision that says that no further States can join and avail themselves of that ISDS provision. That's important to our democracy.The second Supplementary Order Paper that I've proposed we adopt seeks to bind the executive in bringing back this agreement for select committee consultation for New Zealanders' voices to be heard were new member States to join and change the agreements. Now the other way that this agreement was sold to us is by way of all of these suspended provisions these protections that could be lifted if new member States join—the protection of Pharmac to set fair prices and provide high-quality medical care for New Zealanders is in there. We want parliamentary oversight if new members are to join and to opt out of the suspended clauses. That's about democracy. It's about a new way of doing trade. It's about trade being transparent and subject to parliamentary oversight democratic oversight by New Zealanders which we weren't given when this Government signed on to this newly named trade agreement.