Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): Kia ora nō tatou. During the course of my speech I'm going to avoid tying my tongue with the acronym; I'm going to call it the Trans-Pacific Agreement for fear of muddling not the vowels but the consonants. First thing one of the most challenging decisions that we had was to recover the territory so there was partisanship in our New Zealand political system. Now I know that the former ambassador to Washington is the self-decreed trade expert of the world and I know that our colleague from Rotorua Todd McClay was disappointed but this is a vastly improved bill. I say that because there are very few other issues—[Interruption] Fortunately this bill will lower the cost of bibs for young Bidois to wear as he is the baby of this kōhanga reo backbencher society. A koe—me turituri ina tū tō rangatira a Shane Jones.[And you—you should be quiet while your elder Shane Jones is standing to speak.]So I would say that it was a difficult and challenging task to recover that territory but it's worth fighting for because it's sovereignty. Now where David Parker actually led us was to ensure that we had enough safeguards in the revised foreign direct investment rules under the overseas investment legislation so that when we sign up and we go forward as an open trading nation we've kept enough gunpowder of a legislative nature back home to protect the interests that define us as Kiwis. That's worth fighting for. Now I'm not quite in the space of Jane Kelsey and Annette Sykes and a host of other conspiracists but they did make a good point. We should not ever have surrendered to a shadowy vague unelected group of self-appointed jurists to deal to our interests in a disputes resolution process in the way it was devised under the last Government. And that was a fair criticism not necessarily because of the zest with which the Opposition pursued this but because they were unwilling to stand up to certain corporate interests. So in that respect we have done a great job by securing a stronger base for us as a bunch of parliamentarians and political parties to be better stewards of our sovereignty.On the question of those other nations I think there's a fault line that's emerged and I read recently that the current President of the USA has pretty much said to Mexico and Canada that if they ever consider doing a trade deal with China he will extinguish and cancel that trade deal that's he's just agreed to overnight. I presume he has similar views about the EU and Brexit and I presume what that represents is a major challenge to what we've taken for granted as an open trading system—the orthodoxy of the last 30 years and we've been key contributors. So whilst we are keen to defend our birthright we have bigger battles ahead of us. The fact that we've hung tight we've moderated we've improved this legislation and we've actually defended it from excesses that would have come our way in the future—now we need to continue the mission.The one thing I do agree with Mr McClay about not necessarily about Colombia or anything is being a standout performer in not only joining other nations to the fray but leading the way with innovation—not only with political leadership; with executive leadership—and for those reasons we are thoroughly proud of our leader Winston Peters our Deputy Prime Minister for boosting the pūtea of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It is not inexpensive and it is not glamorous going to all of these places but unless we a relatively small fish in the global sea of politics are there—kanohi kitea—constantly affirming the importance of rules constantly reminding our bigger players that there is greater wealth by working together whilst at the same time not selling ourselves out we're laying down a better platform for the next bunch of politicians that come and for the next generation of entrepreneurs.Now there is unfinished work in respect of refining the next stage of improvements for the China free-trade deal and that's in the capable hands of our colleague over here. But I would say to corporate New Zealand: we do a certain level of the heavy lifting but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not the Ministry of Fonterra". They too have to join the fray and constantly demonstrate to garden-variety Kiwis that the international set of rules that enables us to trade is for the benefit for all not just the big end of town. And their unwillingness to join in that endeavour only worsens the prospects of the fault line leaving long-term damage. I've constantly said this but the banks recently don't like it. That bothers me not one iota; it only proves that I'm more provincially attuned than they are.So we support the bill. We support the efforts of the Minister and I do want to acknowledge Todd McClay. It just required a more mature trade Minister to refine and get it over the line with the entirety of New Zealand behind it. Thank you very much."