Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. I once remember a proud Labour Party that stood for migrants that actually believed in migration—Glen Bennett: We do.Hon DAVID BENNETT: And one of the members said We do." Well we have experienced the worst period of migration in New Zealand's history under this Government. OK they might blame Winston Peters because he campaigned on anti-immigration rhetoric but the reality is when they had a chance they kept it going. The union movement took over the Labour Party members and decided it didn't want migrant workers in New Zealand. They will do anything to stop migration and they have shown that over the last two terms.And New Zealand has suffered from that failure of the Labour Party. I remember years ago when I was first elected and we would go to all these events and the Labour Party members were there every Friday Saturday night and they were telling all the migrant communities "We are for you we're for you." And as soon as they got in Government they turned the tap off—they turned the tap off—and they stopped migration. Pre-COVID they stopped migration; post-COVID they stopped migration. They've only let in migration this year to try and get the economy looking good for an election; that's all they're doing. And migrants are well aware that post-election if Labour gets back in they will stop migration again because the unions don't want migrants.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Poto Williams): Order! Mr Bennett.Hon DAVID BENNETT: I am on the bill because this bill can essentially hurt migration because it's going to be harder for employers to want to take that risk: there's the risk that there will be people coming after you in another Government department trying to inhibit your business.The ability of current processes to deal with these things is possible. Nobody wants to see any exploitation of workers' rights and nobody wants to see exploitation of migrant workers' rights and there are processes now to do that. But the Labour Party doesn't want migrants in New Zealand—they have made that very clear. And that is the nub of what we see in the Labour Party. That is why the migrant vote will come back to National at this election because the migrants—Hon Kieran McAnulty: Ha ha!Hon DAVID BENNETT: And Kieran McAnulty laughs but you know I don't know too many Filipino dairy farm workers in the Wairarapa that are going to vote for the Labour Party and I don't know too many dairy owners that are going to vote for the Labour Party or businesspeople who have had to do it really hard and who know that their safety and security have been put at risk because of the Labour Party and who know that they don't have the ability to stay long term.Hon Willie Jackson: Stick to the subject.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Wow—Willie Jackson sticking to the subject! This is the man that took half an hour at question time to tell us the story you know? Ha ha! Go back to sleep Willie it's OK. We've only got 10 minutes to go and you can get out of here.The reality is that the greatest injustice we do in this country is we don't let migrants stay. We as a country have got a very poor record of allowing people to stay. We put up all these barriers around income levels you have to have skill levels English language requirements—all those sorts of things. And we take away the very people who are the future of this country and their children who will build this country even more. We should be enhancing migration in New Zealand. We should be welcoming people who want to come to this country because they add so much to this country. We shouldn't be trying to pass legislation to make it harder for migrants to come to New Zealand.The Labour Party wants to make it harder for migrants to come to New Zealand. They've said that; they've proved it. [Interruption] And I say to Ibrahim Omer a great member for the Labour Party: stand up against the leadership of the Labour Party stand up against them for the last six years when they stopped migration stand up for those migrants that want to come here and be part of New Zealand.So this bill we are opposing but the big problem we have in New Zealand is that we don't welcome migration. We can say it all we like but the reality is that we don't let people come here and make their future here and that is the problem. The Labour Government is the worst party in this Parliament at doing that. The Labour Government have shown over the last six years that they are anti-migrant and they are anti - the future of this country. That should not be allowed going forward. Thank you Madam Speaker."