Mitchell Mark: Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMitchell Mark: Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 07 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17618. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): It is a pleasure to take a call on the third reading of the Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill. I want to open with an observation. We were lucky enough to listen to the Hon Chris Tremain speaking for 10 minutes and he was uninterrupted. The Opposition benches were quiet. They had nothing to say. Then I listened to my colleagueKanwal Singh Bakshi and my colleague Jian Yang get up and make two very good contributions of 10 minutes each. The whole time they were making their contributions they were being laughed at they were being abused they were being interjected on by Ruth Dyson and they were being abused by Trevor Mallard. So what I would ask people and viewers at home to do is to take their own observations from that. The Hon Chris Tremain got up for 10 minutes and made a speech uninterrupted. My colleaguesKanwal and Jian then got up to make their speeches two thoughtful contributions and they were abused the entire time and heckled by the Opposition benches. People at home can make up their own minds about that one but I felt that it was a disgrace and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.Jami-Lee Ross: Because they’re ethnic.MARK MITCHELL: I do not know whether it is because they are ethnic. People can make up their own minds about that. I am not going to accuse anyone of anything but to me it was a disgrace and it was a smear on this House.If you want to talk about how important the digital age is we have to ask ourselves what Clare Curran was doing up at the Kim Dotcom mansion. What was Clare Curran doing up at the Kim Dotcom mansion having the—what was it—digital bill of rights legislation delivered to her by Kim Dotcom? Who was sitting in the getaway car out the back? Probably Mr Mallard. Mr Mallard was probably sitting out there in the getaway car ready for Clare to sneak away in the dead of the night with the new digital bill of rights legislation that Kim Dotcom had given her. Got anything to say now Mr Mallard? Got any comments to make on that? Yes it had to be a getaway car because you would fall off a bike. There is no doubt about that. There would be no doubt about that.This is a very good bill and I want to commend my colleague Paul Goldsmith for bringing this bill to the House. It is an excellent bill. We do live in an age of the internet and technology and—Hon Trevor Mallard: Minus 6 percent and falling.MARK MITCHELL: Oh well you want to talk about polls; let us talk about your prospective coalition partner the Greens. Let us talk about what Mr Norman has been doing Mr Mallard.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The member should be careful not to include the Speaker by the use of the inappropriate pronoun.MARK MITCHELL: You are right. I am sorry. I apologise Mr Deputy Speaker. So Mr Mallard let us speak about your future—Hon Trevor Mallard: I refused to do that yesterday. You’re a wimp.MARK MITCHELL: —and who you proposed to be your Deputy Prime Minister. Yes we are used to your abuse Mr Mallard. We have just seen Mr Jian Yang andKanwal Bakshi be subjected to your abuse over the last half an hour. But let us talk about your prospective coalition partner and what he has been up to. He has been up at the Kim Dotcom mansion too. He was probably high-fiving Clare Curran on the way through and being tasked by Mr Dotcom to stop his extradition. And this is aGovernment in waiting? This is meant to be a Government in waiting up there talking to someone who is currently under a Department of Justice indictment for theft of intellectual property? To me it is an absolute travesty.Let us talk about Shane Jones. You know I have been very fortunate and lucky to get to know Shane Jones in my time here in Parliament. I am involved in the Parliamentary Rugby Team. It is an honour to be the co-captain along with Damien O’Connor. I have got to know Shane Jones very well. I will tell you right now that he is a man of integrity and he is a man who is focused on economic growth for New Zealand. I will tell you now that the reason he is not sitting over there with you guys and why he is not going to stay with you is that he sees no future in terms of economic growth and that is what he is about. He has got aspirations for the people of Northland—yes he has—but he understands clearly that especially with your coalition partner the Green Party there is no aspiration for economic growth. It is as simple as that.I will get back to the Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill because it is a good bill and it does actually fold neatly into what the Government is trying to achieve and that is economic growth and a future for our generations. We are a small country. We are a country of 4½ million people. We will not get ahead by trading amongst ourselves. We have to make sure that we position ourselves globally to continue to be a real global player and to continue to grow our exports. To do that there has to be attention to detail and we have to be seen to have the best global regulations and systems in the world. To do that we actually have to have bills like this to make the changes and to make the tweaks that are necessary in order to allow us to keep growing and moving in that direction. So it is with great pride that I stand and take a call to support this very good bill from Mr Goldsmith this Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill. Thank you.Bill read a third time.