Tirikatene Rino; Tisch LindsayRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): I would like to join with my Labour colleagues in our opposition to this bill. This whole Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is just one more example of the subterfuge and trickery that we are getting from this National Government—the National Government of smoke and mirrors—because what we have heard this afternoon and what we have heard consistently is only one side of the story. We have heard about oh how great this is going to be for trade how we are going to reap the benefits and how it is going to be great for our export sectors and I certainly do wish our export sectors well—we all do. But with every deal there is always another side to the deal. What are we giving up? Well it has been disingenuous of this Government to just ram down the throats tariffs here trade benefits for this export sector or that export sector and pull out all its cheerleaders to laud the so-called benefits because we do not know. We do not know the true numbers. All we have heard is just that one side of the story but has anyone ever come up definitively with or allowed the proper scrutiny to take place as to what it will do to what we are giving up? What scrutiny has there been on Pharmac the accessibility of medicines to the New Zealand citizens and the cost of those medicines? There is the issue about non-resident foreign speculators buying up all our whenua our rawa—our resources. There is the issue of our sovereignty. This is what it comes down to—our sovereignty. Sure we may be gaining some perceived benefits—we do not know for sure; we are hearing it a lot from that side—but it is at the expense of our sovereignty and that is why Labour opposes this bill. We do support free trade. We are the party for free trade and all of the major agreements that we have put in place have been done on a consensus basis. They have been—they have been. We have worked together and we have drawn consensus around them. But this deal is subterfuge because it is trickery that this Government is going to be inflicting on New Zealand and all we have heard is just that one side of the story. But you know there are so many holes. We have not had the opportunity for a proper public debate for a proper public forum and for serious discussion not just a rushed truncated $45-a-ticket roadshow not just a few token hui where fewer than a dozen people show up and not just an invite-only to the business audiences—to the converted. We needed a proper discussion. We needed a proper debate of the full assessment of the impacts of this agreement and we have not had that. This Government has just been trying to ram it through as fast as it can and to kowtow to the big international US corporates that have been driving this agreement. Sure we might want to try to hang on to those coat-tails but we do not know what we are giving up—we do not know what we are giving up. If anyone knows about being very careful about signing off agreements it is Māori. Believe me; we know what it is like to sign off agreements and the consequences that flow from that. But there is an elephant in the room. There is an elephant in the room which we are not addressing here and I am not talking about the Republican logo elephant; it is the US presidential elections. Because like it or not this TPP issue is not only divisive here for Aotearoa it is dividing populations in countries around the world—those that are party to it. I certainly hope that this is just a futile exercise. I hope that this is a redundant exercise—that we are going through the motions here but this agreement will not go ahead because it is not in the interests of New Zealand. It does undermine our sovereignty. We do support free trade but we do not support the way that this Government has been trying to pull the wool over our people's eyes with this sham—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Sorry the member's time has expired.