Peters Winston: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: General Debate[Sitting date: 29 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5430. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Winston Churchill once said: “I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father’s house to believe in democracy. ‘Trust the people’—that was his message. … I owe my advancement entirely to the House of Commons whose servant I am.” Well we need to ask the Government members and the ACT Party and the United Future members over there whose servants they are and whose House they serve. This concept of someone else pulling the strings can be seen in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Too little and too late Fonterra Federated Farmers and our primary industries have woken up to the bad deal the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is.This Parliament has been denied repeated opportunities to have any meaningful debate on the discussions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. If negotiations are indeed in their final stages my party New Zealand First believes it is only proper that Parliament should debate it now because if we do not it represents a contempt for this democracy and a contempt for Parliament. We cannot debate the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement until it is signed—as ruled yesterday. Yet after it is signed no debate can change even one word. That is contempt for democracy. It is a charade that we are going through here. Only this week the Prime Minister said this: “give and take … It depends on the deal and what is negotiated. But from the things I have seen I am pretty darn confident that on the balance of benefits New Zealand is going to do a lot better if they sign the free trade agreement than if they don’t.” Well why then is Parliament being kept in the dark until after the deal is signed? If it is good Mr Key tell us about it now. In other words put up or naff off—put up or naff off.The trade Minister Tim Groser has said that for New Zealand the future of Pharmac and dairy tariffs are key issues his team will be discussing. Yet Malcolm Bailey Fonterra director head of the Dairy Companies Association and a former president of Federated Farmers is on the Farmingshow this very day saying that the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is a bad deal. At last they have woken up. They were not saying that a month ago and there is nothing so antiseptic as the phrase “I told you so.” or “We told you so.” but we darn well did! We darn well did. Mr Key wants to do the deal even if it means sacrificing our dairy industry and Pharmac to get it. And remember this: he will not be here; he will be in Hawaii which is a state that has the Union Jack on its flag. He does not even know that—he does not even know that.Mr Key has finally admitted that some medicines will cost more under the deal but that it was he said “still in the country’s best interests.” American drug companies love Pharmac just as much as the US dairy lobby loves Fonterra. They want it reined in so that their profits are not suppressed and Mr Key and Mr Groser think that is OK.So here are some questions. Will a future Government have its ability to restrict land sales residential or farm curtailed? Will a US defence giant like Rocket Lab—co-owner Lockheed Martin—be able to apply for public taxpayer research money on even terms with Kiwi companies? Third will the Government be able to be sued by corporates if we change our laws in our interests? Mr Key and his National colleagues have spent years denying certain public suspicions about their negotiations but this month Mr Key has been on a serious damage control programme trying to soften up the media and the public against the inevitable backlash. Will the Chinese and Koreans be able to join the other 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement partners in gaining access to New Zealand homes and land? Of course they will. Mr Key admitted it in the House today but in typical style he is going to introduce taxes to reduce and restrain foreign buying of New Zealand land and homes.That statement is not worth the air it passes on. Has he let Mr Groser act as an economic double agent? Yes. Against our foreign interests? Yes. Has he let Mr Groser commit economic treason? Most certainly. He is dismissive of all opponents as being—this is what he said—“breathless children”. This economic Benedict Arnold should be brought home and brought home now and the agreement should be debated before he signs it so that if we do not like it—or if the MPs for Rodney or Epsom or the MP who is the list member for Te Atatū do not like it—they can actually change the deal. That is what Parliament is for. But no no Government members are a bunch of yes-men. They will be whipped into line and they will pass—David Bennett: They are the yes-men—yours. They all walked out.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh no no. My colleagues walked out because they do not like a constitutional atrocity. My colleagues do not like constitutional atrocities. That is why they walked out. They are people of honour unlike Mr Bennett whose major achievement is to rubber-stamp everything the Government does.