Twyford Phil: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTwyford Phil: General Debate[Sitting date: 21 October 2015. Volume:709;Page:7419. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PHIL TWYFORD (Labour—Te Atatū): I want to acknowledge the stunning election victory of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals in Canada. What a fantastic result and with Stephen Harper’s demise another Tory acolyte of John Key bites the dust. First it was Tony Abbott; now Stephen Harper—Hon David Cunliffe: The Key curse.PHIL TWYFORD: It is the Key curse—it is the Key curse. It is the kiss of death—it is the kiss of death getting close to John Key. Who knows how long Malcolm Turnbull will last.Speaking of Malcolm Turnbull what a sad weak figure the Prime Minister cut at his joint press conference with Malcolm Turnbull on the weekend. The combined diplomatic powers of Murray McCully and John Key the texts to Julie Bishop the forthright conversation at the football—it all amounted to nothing because the Prime Minister in these matters is weak. He rolled over for Malcolm Turnbull and Malcolm Turnbull tickled the Prime Minister’s tummy.See our Prime Minister is the king of the selfie. He loves the selfie—all right? He has reduced international relations to a few rounds of golf. But when it matters when the chips are down and Kiwis need someone to stand up for them and be forthright and tell a few home truths where is the Prime Minister? He is nowhere to be seen. He is the golfing partner to the rich and famous. He wants to be everybody’s friend but he could not level with the Australian Prime Minister and speak the truth.Our Anzac mates are holding hundreds of Kiwis in detention centres including on Christmas Island. They are deporting people who are guilty of even the most low-level crimes people who have lived in some cases their entire adult lives in Australia. They have paid taxes for decades. They have raised their families and lived their lives in Australia but they are being deported to detention centres and then shipped out of the country. It is wrong it is not how you treat your mates and it is certainly not how you treat family. So who will stand up for New Zealanders in this case? Who will? John Key will not. He is weak. He does not like to have the hard conversations with Malcolm Turnbull. I will tell you who will stand up for New Zealanders. Andrew Little will Kelvin Davis will and the New Zealand Labour Party will. Someone has to stand up for New Zealanders because this Prime Minister is not up to the job.Not only will the Government not stand up for New Zealand but it is actively selling out this country. Tim Groser and John Key went to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement negotiations and they traded away the right of future Governments in this country to legislate in the interests of New Zealanders. They gave away the ability of future Governments to ban non-resident foreigners from buying land and housing in this country. That sticks in the craw. It undermines our sovereignty. I can understand it if the National Party has a different view about what the best housing policy should be. You would expect that. But I do not expect the National Party to trade away the power and the right of future Governments to legislate in the interests of New Zealanders. Andrew Little’s Labour Party comes to this Parliament to make laws that strengthen our nation and improve the lives of New Zealanders. It goes against everything that we stand for that this Government would go to international trade negotiations and trade away this Parliament’s right to legislate in the interests of New Zealanders.The Government has sold out this country. It has betrayed the people of New Zealand. By its own admission it did not even try to carve out a protection for New Zealanders to implement this kind of policy in the future as Australia did and as several other parties to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement did. The Government cares so little for the sovereignty of our country our right to legislate in the public interest that it just gave it away. What a damning damning indictment.Meanwhile in the Auckland housing market billions of dollars of land and housing are being sold off under the feet of New Zealanders because this Government will not stand up for New Zealanders. It stands on the side of foreign property speculators. It will not stand up to Malcolm Turnbull and speak up for the interests of New Zealanders in detention in Australia. New Zealanders deserve much better.