SpeechDr JIAN YANG (National): I move That the date be changed to 6th July 2020".Now—DEPUTY SPEAKER: You have a Supplementary Order Paper? You're moving a motion—an amendment to the motion.Dr JIAN YANG: That's right.DEPUTY SPEAKER: OK. You're moving an amendment to the motion?Dr JIAN YANG: Yes that's right.Now I believe that this particular motion—I mean the Government's motion—is not democratic. That's why we need to move the date to 6 July 2020. Now—[Interruption]DEPUTY SPEAKER: They can move an amendment.Dr JIAN YANG: Sorry?Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: Sorry we're just having a chat. You carry on.Dr JIAN YANG: I have noticed a pattern because yesterday I was here in the House speaking on the referral of another bill and that was the Local Government (Rating of Whenua Māori) Amendment Bill. Again the select committee process was shortened and then before that bill there was another bill and that was the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill. So we have now one after another bill for the select committee process to be shortened. So this has become a pattern of this Government trying to cut short all the bills in the committee. I do not think this is really what a democracy should have. So we believe we should respect democratic rights of other voters. This bill is trying to give more rights to sentenced prisoners but at the same time we need to respect the rights of other voters.Now actually I published a recent article about this particular bill just last week. I introduced the content of this bill on WeChat and then we had a lot of feedback. People in the Chinese community had strong feelings about this particular bill. They may well want to be heard in the committee process. Now we often say that people like Chinese and Asian voters they are not particularly interested in participating in voting but this is a process. We need to give them the opportunity to be exposed to politics to democracy and that is why we should encourage them to come to the committee and talk with members about their feelings. We need to give them the opportunity. And to have a very short period I cannot see how the committee could accommodate the strong feelings of the Chinese community. So for them they do need more time because firstly they need to understand really the process and understand the bill and understand the system so we need to be able to provide more information for them and more time for them so they can consult with other parties or other better educated people to understand the system the bill and the way to talk to the committee. So to have a shortened period I do not see this as really a way to accommodate their interests or their interest in participating in democracy.So for that reasoning I believe we do need to postpone this but more importantly I believe it is important for us to respect our democratic way of dealing with different bills. And this bill itself is particularly important because this group's voting rights would have a strong impact on other people's voting rights. So I believe this is democracy; I believe we should treat everyone in a democratic way. We can't simply favour one particular group of people at the cost or expense of another group of people. So for that reason I think we should really try to stick to the full six-month select committee process.This is core not only for this category but also for other bills; however today we are focused on this particular bill. So for that reason I'd like to move that the date be changed to 6 July 2020."