Muller Todd; Rurawhe AdrianTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Gerry Brownlee said it best earlier this afternoon when he said that this agreement and in particular the performance of this Government on this issue is political deception of the highest order. If you listen to the way this debate has unfolded when they have positioned trade—trade of all things; the lifeblood of this country trade that essentially underpins the livelihoods of all our communities that they passionately say they represent—when they talk to this agreement and position it as something materially different to what this Parliament had debated and supported that they voted against is in my view—I agree with Mr Brownlee—political deception in the highest order. This was politics at its most cynical.It was a party that was under pressure in the polls and an issue that has always been bipartisan. For the last 30 years it has been bipartisan but this Government the Labour Party decided they were so desperate they would turn it into a partisan issue. They said the deal was being done in secret until the full 6000-page document was released for all to see. They said it was being done without public consultation until the public consultation started. They said it was going to breach the Treaty of Waitangi until the Waitangi Tribunal ruled that it didn't. They said it would ruin Pharmac despite specific clauses in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA) that protected it. They protested on the steps of Parliament. They went and got a hundred thousand signatures. They said it would restrict and restrain our sovereignty except there are explicit clauses in the TPPA that prevented that from happening and never in any way restrained our ability to regulate for the national interest.David Parker stood up and said it is and I quote an affront to democracy." Andrew Little stood up and said "This deal is hopeless. The dairy deal is hopeless. Meat is hardly better and the rest amounts to not much." They the Labour Party and the Labour Party leader were talking to the market access provisions in the TPPA. The whole purpose of the deal is to open up market provisions and opportunities for our exporters. They were describing those provisions that had been negotiated as hopeless. Those same people stand in the House tonight and laud the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership as a great revelation as an achievement amongst all achievements. They can barely look down the camera without looking away. They barely can control their cynical smirks as they realise "Well actually look what we've managed to get through here."The public of New Zealand know the exporters of New Zealand know that the deal is a good deal. The deal was negotiated by the last Government for market access to a huge huge set of markets around the world. We stood beside our exporters. We said that these market access provisions were superb and should be celebrated. That side said they were hopeless. How can they stand here tonight and look at New Zealand and say "Actually we think this deal now is superb." It talks to integrity—it talks to integrity. That's why they struggle to look down the camera tonight and say "We have delivered a deal that is fundamentally different and better." because they haven't. Two pages of text out of 6000 is not a revised refreshed deal; it is the same deal with a couple of minor changes. They know it.I tell you the people of Tauranga the exporters of Tauranga the kiwifruit industry that has $26 million worth of benefit that was negotiated over the last two years they know it. They know a political deceit when they see it and they see it here tonight. But we will not do what the Government benches have done and play politics with this. This is a good deal for this country and despite the political deceit we therefore support it because we always have supported and we always will support the exporters of this country. And that's why I'm proud to be a National Party member. Thank you very much.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): This is a split call. I call the Hon Nanaia Mahuta."