Peters Winston: Taxation (Annual Rates Employee Allowances and Remedial Matters) Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Taxation (Annual Rates Employee Allowances and Remedial Matters) Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 19 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18728. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First):This House is actually contemplating something that is extraordinary in a First World democracy. What the Government is seeking to do is to introduce a bill the Taxation (Annual Rates Employee Allowances and Remedial Matters) Bill arising from an agreement that it has not got. You would go a long way around the First World and not far in the Third World or parts of the world to find where that happens—where you bring legislation into Parliament and an agreement is required to give the legislation effect yet you have not got an agreement.There are all sorts of members over there who claim to have experience in life in law in business—in all sorts of areas. They are sitting there condoning this appalling public policy. They have not got a murmur or a syllable to defend themselves. I ask Mr Bennett over there who is nodding his head as he is wont to do and as some do when they grow old before their time—there he is nodding his head—whether the Government has an agreement on this. No. So what is the basis for the law that we are being asked to pass? He does not know because it has not got an agreement. I find that hard to believe and so will everybody watching Parliament today. Everyone watching Parliament today will say “Mr Peters and New Zealand First can’t possibly be right. Surely a sound Government would not do that.” But I am afraid to say that it is true.The Minister for Senior Citizens’ only great glory is pursuing the SuperGold Card that New Zealand First started—and the only time she ever gets a cheer is when she says she is adding to that. I praise her for it. It is not enough of course because it is under threat as everyone knows. Everyone knows that it is under threat. The Minister for Senior Citizens should sit back and tell us when we ever pass bills requiring an agreement without first having the agreement.Can I ask you this. If I am somebody who was born in New York 55 years ago and I am living for example down in Queenstown or on Waiheke Island in the country that I adopted that I gave sovereignty over me that I promised I would be a good citizen of—New Zealand—why could I not expect that country named New Zealand to protect me like it would any other person living here legally?Hon Amy Adams: What about if you’re Chinese Winston?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is not with China Ms Adams. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is with the United States. I know that party over there. Every time its members see Uncle Sam and Uncle Sam asks for something or says jump they ask “How high?”. I was around dealing with the United States before she ever got to Parliament so let us not have any arrogant argument. That is a lawyer over there. She has got a law background. Maybe she should tell us more about her own family’s investment interests in parts of the South Island that are affected by the Resource Management Act. Maybe we should hear more about that and probably we will in this campaign.Hon Amy Adams: Oh come off it!Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh no—come on! That is what we will do. Come on is what we will do in this campaign and real strong. I know that the Government members are going through their polling. They know that this rubbish in the papers yesterday and today is meaningless. I know how nervous they are. I know how many people in the National Party talk to me on the quiet trying to get some sort of understanding. But our party is beyond being bought unlike so many around here. Everyone knows that.One last thing—I again ask these people for whom democracy is of such little moment where in the First World of democracies like Australia the United States Canada or Britain you would ever be contemplating what we are doing here. The Congress of the United States in 2010 passed a law. It is now June 2014. We have not got an agreement but the Government is ramming this bill through Parliament which is why one party New Zealand First will not sell itself out. We will not buy it. We will not back it.