Bennett DavidDAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): I would just like to take a short call on the Customs and Excise (Prohibition of Imports Made by Slave Labour) Amendment Bill. I would like to acknowledge Peeni Henare the member who brought the bill to the House. He is a good member of this House and he has got a genuine intention to do well for this country but this bill unfortunately does not achieve a purpose that he would be proud of in his legislative career. This is a bill that I think the previous speaker Marama Davidson summed up more eloquently in the sense that it is a statement of intent rather than a statement of fact about the ability to do anything that would be serious in that area and have the effect that the member bringing this bill to this Parliament would like to see.A number of members have gone through the difficulty in the definitions and just how you define slave labour. We are in a very modern manufacturing world that has a lot of supply chains and there are a lot of different products and definitions of what slave labour could be so that could be an issue. Fletcher Tabuteau: Did someone talk about supply chain?DAVID BENNETT: Is there a problem from New Zealand First? Yes be quiet in the cheap seats over there. The nature of the bill has got some major issues.The previous speaker Marama Davidson tried to pronounce this bill as something wider than it actually is and I think that member needs to look at what it is actually about. You know in many cases you could say that there are some aspects of the system that Labour and the Greens support that do not insist on freedom of choice. The union movement for example has a major impact on the ability of individuals to do what they would like to do. They are coerced into acting in the interests of the majority not in the interests of their individual requirements. You can actually take it to a very wide scale if you wanted to and that could be a danger to the labour and green movements which are so based on those things as part of their base of support.When you look at slave labour nobody wants to see slave labour in any form. I do not think there is any debate about that in this House. But it is not what the previous member said. She was saying that there are only a few people in the world who are gaining from billions of people who are in slave labour. That is not the case. You know people may have different working conditions they may have different income levels from us but that is part of the growth of those countries. Not everybody starts at the same level. China for example which brings millions of people up to our standard of living every year has increased its standard of pay over many years and the vast bulk of the Chinese population is seeing huge gains through industrialisation globalisation and being part of the world economy. It is easy for the labour and green movements to say that something is slave labour because it is not under the terms and conditions that they perceive somebody should be paid in New Zealand. That is the difficulty of this—there are so many transactions going on in the world there are so many people who are gaining through the economic system of the world and we should not be saying that there are major issues in that regard because there are not. There are a lot of people who are actually transitioning from a subsistence lifestyle into a lifestyle very much like ours where they have that standard of living. There are so many difficulties with this definition. We understand what the member is trying to do and nobody is against sending that message but this bill does not achieve that and unfortunately it will not get the support of this House.