Muller Todd: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMuller Todd: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 12 May 2016. Volume:713;Page:11080. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]TODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Every now and again in this House we get an opportunity to debate something that talks to the defining difference in philosophy of the political parties that are represented here. Over the last hour and a half I do not think we could have had put more clearly the choice that sits in front of us in respect of this legislation and indeed in front of us as a country.In this document we outline a framework that talks to the way we believe as the National Government we should engage with the world. It is an opportunity to back our exporters to ensure that we are a part of a global world and that we are there successful and delivering for our exporters. There are others who see this as an opportunity to pull up the drawbridge—“Fortress New Zealand”—because they do not believe they do not back our exporters and they want to pull New Zealand out of what is the largest trading bloc which will be created once this bill is passed.When you think of whom we are sent here to represent you see that this is a country of traders and we have always been a country of traders. But we then have a set of parties that hold the view that it is better for New Zealand to step out of that emerging trading bloc a trading bloc that has seen the future of globalisation and the challenges of investment and regulation and tariffs and say actually they have got a framework here to reduce them over time and stand in this House and say: “We back exporters and we want to pull you out of that agreement.” The Labour members and the New Zealand First members and the Green members should come up to Tauranga and have that conversation with the small businesses of my community and say to them that the opportunities that are listed and outlined and enabled in this document should be spurned. It is their capital they put at risk.I wonder sometimes whether anybody on the other side of the House has any idea of what it takes to put your capital at risk to hold a view and to create a service or a product and sell it on the world market. All we have heard this afternoon is process and academic treatise. Quite frankly I would ask any one of them to come to Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty and try to hold that view in front of a community that is incredibly globally connected has the most efficient port in the country and has an absolute focus on ensuring that it is delivering to the world market. That is the future of this country not the fortress isolationist academic nonsense we have had to listen to over the last hour and a half.Last year while David Walker and his team who should be commended for the Herculean task they have delivered on behalf of this country were out negotiating and regularly updating there was a party in this House whose members decided they would spend the year reflecting on the future of work. They had a navel-gazing exercise around globalisation and the forces of talent and capital moving and what that was going to mean for this country. Well I could have saved your angst Grant Robertson because this document is the future of work. This treaty is the future of work. This treaty connects our small businesses and middle businesses and exporters to 40 percent of the global output.That is the future of work and every single entity every single sector every single company that is exporting talked about the opportunities and the jobs that will come from this agreement. But instead all we get from the other side is politics of the short term as opposed to backing people who win for their country and win for their community and family like this Government does. I support this bill.