Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Oh thank you Madam Speaker what a good choice. Now we in the National Party are unashamedly pro - free trade and capitalism and the benefits of people working hard and getting benefit from it and being able to make profit because profit pays taxes—and that is an excellent thing.Anna Lorck: And fair pay to the workers—fair pay to the workers!Hon JUDITH COLLINS: The left are very upset about this.So we've heard from Emily Henderson MP for Whangārei who is very keen—very keen—to bring this home. We're very keen to bring home Whangārei Ms Henderson and we will be because we're quite good at doing that.We have a brilliant opportunity in this House to come together and to celebrate the hard work that has gone on for many years by our officials and with the support of both the National Government starting in 2017 and now this Government that has finally decided that free trade is a good thing.I think it's good to note that apparently the Hon Damien O'Connor the Minister for Trade and Export Growth and the Rt Hon Liz Truss struck up a very good relationship I'm told. I thought she did really well as the trade Minister for the UK; gave an opportunity for the UK to get out of that sort of negativity and restrictive-type attitude they'd taken to free trade with New Zealand since about the 1970s and embraced countries like ours that actually survive on trade.I know that the Green Party can't bring themselves to vote for this. That's a shame because they're not actually evil people; they're just a bit deluded. They're not awful. They're very pleasant one on one; just not in a group. I find that their attitude to free trade makes me know that we are so on the right side because they don't seem to understand that without trade without free trade we end up having 40 million people's worth of food that we have to have ourselves or dump. So I don't think that that is where we want to be.We should also note that this party on the other side the Government at the moment—for only a short period of time thankfully—they were protesting against free trade they were protesting against a free-trade deal that included the United States. They were out there—Jacinda Ardern was out there—saying that this would bring down New Zealand working standards. New Zealand's standards of employment have all increased every time New Zealand gets richer. New Zealand gets richer on free trade. That's how we do it. Whether it's free trade in dairying whether it's free trade in anything else whether it's free trade in technology that's how we make our money. New Zealand workers get better—better—results because of that trade. We cut that trade we end up with people unemployed unable to work or actually having to take whatever job there is available rather than having the choice that they as free human beings should be able to make.That's why trade is so important to us. It is the lifeblood not only of our economy but the lifeblood of the economy that pays for health that pays for education that pays for the police that pays for our justice system that pays for everything that's provided by taxpayer funding. That's where it comes from; there is nothing else. That's it. So yes we are unashamedly pro - free trade.It is nice that the Labour Party has finally come back from that very far-left position that they took under the Cunliffe and the Little eras and the Ardern and they've come back into the light on this issue.This particular free-trade agreement is a very comprehensive free-trade agreement. That's because in 2017 that was the way it was set up. And we're really pleased with that—in stark contrast to the EU free-trade agreement which I think really helps if one is an onion grower a kiwifruit grower and my colleague Nicola Grigg so passionately mentioned the fact that there is a family interest in onion growing and I'm very pleased that she brought that issue up so it didn't become a story!But we also should think that actually dairy and meat which are our biggest exports really have been pushed aside somewhat in the rush to the EU. And I don't wish to criticise these countries in the EU because they have had a lifetime of feeling that they are a closed shop and they are only now starting to find their way through to looking more to free trade. And we should thank them for that and congratulate them on it. But when we get down to what someone can call feta cheese" I mean I have to say frankly if your livelihood depends on whether or not you can call feta cheese "feta" there is a serious problem in the economy. And that's you know obviously a situation where Greece was very passionate about that. And you know good for them for finally getting along and being part of that deal. But really come on let's think a bit bigger than that; let's think a bit more—Karen Chhour: Let's be ambitious.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —out in the world. A little bit more ambitious as has been said tonight. A little bit more thinking about what we could do not what we can't do.And when I look at the foreign investment direct foreign investment; how utterly important that is to this economy—how utterly important. It shouldn't just be about planting pine trees. It shouldn't be about buying farms. What it should be about is putting it into technology. It should be about putting it into science. It should be about growing our economy in a way that hasn't been done for a long time. What it should be about is saying you know "No longer."Remember that whole campaign in 2017 about Chinese-sounding names? Remember when the Labour Party ran that campaign? The ACT Party certainly remembers. We certainly remember—we certainly remember that. Going through having one of their chief advisers—a Mr Salmond—going through looking for people on the property register who had Chinese-sounding names. Oh thanks very much. What does that say? What does that say to the ethnic diversity quotient that they're so fascinated about?By the way talking about the UK and this free-trade agreement isn't it great to see that the Conservative Party in the UK a party that is not—Anna Lorck: Oh ho here we go! Talk about the leaders.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —fussed on people's—and here's Anna Lorck. My word she certainly can squawk. And let's have a look at the Conservative Party of the UK. Isn't it wonderful that for a party that is not fascinated by everyone's identity they're the first party in Britain to have three Prime Ministers who are women and now the very first Prime Minister of Asian descent? Well fancy that. And all the time the Labour Party—they can't get past the fact that they want to treat people of ethnicities other than the white Anglo-Saxon one as being in need of special help and of women as having to be helped through on some sort of quota. I think that says volumes.And of course we know that Liz Truss did not have a great time as the Prime Minister but unlike Ms Anna Lorck at least she was the Prime Minister. And I think that she also should be congratulated for working so closely I'm told by those in the know with Damien O'Connor to help bring this deal through. And Ms Lorck might think she should laugh at someone who has done that but actually I don't. And Ms Lorck might find that there's another seat about to be brought home too called Tukituki which will also come home because we like bringing things home. And it is so time for a National-led Government working with our friends in the ACT Party to make sure that this country does not squander the next three years six years nine years like it squandered under five years of failure under this Government."