Seymour David; Rurawhe AdrianDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I congratulate the member who's just resumed his seat Jamie Strange on a very fine speech. I think in the quality of his presentation we can see a lot about the future of the Labour Party and its prospects. Well done to him. I want to join with almost all members of this House—I will get to the exceptions in a minute—in saying it is a great day. The history of free trade is a history of prosperity and of civility. As Adam Smith once said you never see a dog voluntarily exchange a bone with another dog. To trade freely and voluntarily is to be human it is to be civil and to do it across international borders is to be peaceful.As Frederic Bastiat said when goods don't cross borders soldiers do. It's important that we meet our friends around the world and trade value for value and get stronger together. As David Ricardo pointed out—Hon Christopher Finlayson: Stop name-dropping.DAVID SEYMOUR: —even nations that may not be particularly prosperous or productive are wealthier when they can trade with countries that have a greater opportunity cost than they do. Even Paul Krugman—if Mr Finlayson would like one more name-drop—was in favour of free trade before he completely lost his mind. But who is it in this House that is opposed to free trade? Well Donald Trump is not here but he has his allies in the Green Party. The Green Party think that it is an assault on the sovereignty of this Parliament and of New Zealanders to have a trade agreement.Well let me put it in perspective. Let me put three societies to you with a very similar economy and population to that of New Zealand. Let me give you Denmark British Columbia and Colorado. Now I can tell you even the Green parties in those states or provinces or countries are in favour of being integrated into a wider economic unit. The Green party in Copenhagen does not campaign on Denmark leaving the EU. The Green party in Colorado does not say that it's an affront to the sovereignty of Coloradans to be part of the United States you know. The Green party in Colorado are not separatists in the Trumpian fashion—they leave that to the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand—and the Green party in British Columbia is not advocating that British Columbia should leave the federation of Canada to protect their sovereignty from trade. They're all Green parties that are sensible—sensible Green parties that believe that trade makes us prosperous that trade makes us peaceful and that trade makes us human. They accept there's a trade-off that actually a society has to have some common rules with other people across the seas or across land borders in order to have that civilising trade.This is how absurd the position of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is. They want a society of 5 million people to be separate from the rest of the world economically because they think it's a slight on our sovereignty to have an agreement with more than 4 million or 5 million people—a totally absurd situation that no one in British Columbia Denmark or Colorado would take seriously for a moment even in their Green parties.On the other hand the ACT Party is proud to have stood in this House now for 22 years and counting so far and been in favour of free trade with free people trading value for value getting stronger together and making our world peaceful making our world civilised and making our world human through the voluntary exchange of goods and services under agreed rules. I'm so happy that the Labour Party who only a few short years ago were pulling stunts about Chinese-sounding names have all grown up. They've got to Parliament and they're supporting—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! The member's time has expired.