Yule LawrenceLAWRENCE YULE (National—Tukituki): It's my pleasure to speak to this bill the Consumers' Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill. I do so coming from what I call the food bowl of New Zealand—slightly further up from the Wairarapa Mr McAnulty but you know you produce some good food as well.Kieran McAnulty: That's right.LAWRENCE YULE: That's right. But this is really about our future. Coming from a place which has exceptional food and wine there have been lots of conversations in Hawke's Bay over the years about how we protect and preserve the value in those products. So even in the wine industry there have been changes to pretty much the origin of where wine comes from and the labelling resources and in a place like Hawke's Bay if you look at our wine industry there are unique parts. Gimblett Gravels as an example produces some of the best wine in the world. We need to make sure that we look after—Kieran McAnulty: Not as good as Martinborough.LAWRENCE YULE: Well Martinborough's got some not bad stuff but not quite in our league. So we need to look after our products and importantly our value.Last night in Hastings I attended the Hawke's Bay Wine Awards and it was packed. Those people are there because they believe they work hard and they are exporting to the world and supplying New Zealand consumers. And that value needs to be protected. We also know that in an international market—and I remember this vividly in Hawke's Bay once. There was a glut of onions. You couldn't give them away—a glut. You couldn't give them away. They were in storage sheds all around the world. All of a sudden the American crop failed and the whole lot were put on ships and went to Europe. So we shouldn't underestimate how much the global trade of food products occurs particularly with multinationals and particularly in today's world where so much is over the internet or online. So the National Party is happy to support this bill. It provides value to us and to our consumers in an ever-changing world.If you look today in supermarkets and if you look at people doing their shopping or if you look at a farmers market on a Sunday morning as an example people are way more interested in their food products than when I was a young boy. When I was a young boy my mum bought food products often around what was the cheapest and often around way less choice. Today if you go to a supermarket—and there are specialist supermarkets: some that specialise in Indian food Asian food. There are even companies that specialise in bringing food-based products from the UK. We need to give consumers enough information and confidence that they can make informed choices and that the value of New Zealand - based products can also be enhanced because it's my view that if people actually know where the product is from—if you have pork from Canada or Australia and it's sitting on a supermarket shelf and there is a New Zealand product there and there is a Canadian or Australian product there unless there is a massive price differential Kiwis will always buy Kiwi-based products. This bill is simply about ensuring that continues and that value is retained in New Zealand.I also think it's important—and there have been some changes in the Primary Production Committee and I agree with those—that the compliance costs for failure get to a level that discourages people from trying to rort the system. There have been people in my own electorate companies in my own electorate that have effectively changed weights and done all sorts of other things. They don't do it now but they used to and they are out of business largely. So the consumer in New Zealand needs to know that what they are getting is the fair deal where it comes from that it's weighed properly and what its value is.Don't underestimate where this country-of-origin labelling will go in the future. I have been to Europe. I have been to Asia. Smart codes barcodes little implants—all sorts of things are on the agenda for people to be able to show where that product was grown. You put it up on your phone and you'll see the farmer you'll see the country you'll see the mountains you'll see the grass and you'll see the products. That is our value. So anything we can do to enhance our value internationally and to protect our consumers at home should be encouraged and I commend this bill to the House.