Cameron MarkMARK CAMERON (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. I know why I came here. The ACT caucus knows why I came here. I got off a quad bike after 30 years on a farm in rural New Zealand because I had seen this Government oversee a rort in New Zealand farming communities and it just got wider. Somehow this Government had created this fictional character like a dark overlord that literally went rampaging through rural New Zealand.The Government by its own hand spawned the groundswell impetus—Hon Member: The farmers are making huge money!MARK CAMERON: And I see the member over there has got a contribution; she wants to weigh in on it. But to understand the year that happened we have to understand year that was—sorry I beg your pardon the year coming. We must acknowledge that this Government is like a bull in a china shop. It has assaulted the rural communities in every sector. We routinely hear it the Minister of Finance applauding the rural sector. The dairy industry he says has been the impetus that is driving New Zealand out of this COVID pandemic financial security can be found in the dairy sector but on the other hand he will target it and is part of a Government that does.What do we know? We have to look back on the rural calendar highlights. We've seen a Government that have gone after your ute and they affectionately call that a fee-bate scheme a tax on a tradie's ute a farmer's ute—his tools his ability to function on a farm. They've eroded our trust with the acquisition of private property rights masked under significant natural areas (SNAs). And when questioned by me through an Official Information Act process the Associate Minister for the Environment James Shaw said that names and titles were withheld when requested by me as to who he had actually met with pursuant to SNAs.But hey the list goes on. We could talk about three waters. I know on this side of the House that this is an animating conversation. We've had 27-odd mayors in rural New Zealand weigh in on that. They see this as a theft of their ratepayer assets. And the water services bill a piece of legislation that we spoke to on this side of the House asks for a carve-out for the 70000 rural water schemes. Nanaia Mahuta the Minister of Local Government repudiated the requirement for that.Barbara Kuriger: Bureaucracy gone mad.MARK CAMERON: Yeah gone mad as the member notes. We have seen central planning and this red tide Government that seems to think that this is the way to proceed.Freshwater reforms and intensive winter grazing: it took this side of the House and arguably members from the ACT Party who happened to be farming to talk to better options for that. And albeit that iterations—it's through OVERSEER—failed 11 times I was told. Members on this side of House might wish to speak to that further.And the big one the tamale this is coming: climate change. We had a Prime Minister that said that was her nuclear-free moment this generation's nuclear-free moment. Minister Shaw sets fantastical targets by all assertions out of the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment and Treasury. That will totally cook the books for not only farmers in their ability to operate but the overall fiscal wellbeing of the Government. Well ACT is asking for logic. We hope that logic prevails albeit that's a hard ask when you look at the quality of the policy being delivered on the other side of the House.Very quickly we've got to have a conversation about He Waka Eke Noa and the emissions trading scheme (ETS). We at the ACT Party said that farmers shouldn't be in any pricing scheme until all the calculables all the measurables all the on-farm sequestration is given consideration to. Farmers need the tools. They need the methane vaccines and inhibitors. We've got to have an honest conversation about the ETS and farmers' inclusion in it or He Waka Eke Noa. Forget the slogans on this side of the House. We know they simply don't add up.Hon Member: But you're full of slogans.MARK CAMERON: There we go. I'll leave my contribution by saying that unfortunately we have a Government high on its own hubris drunk on its own arrogance and constantly looking through a myopic lens with rural New Zealand. Thank you very much Madam Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Does the member want the call? Damien Smith: I call Madam Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Damien Smith—five minutes.