Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Mr Assistant Speaker thank you. I couldn't help but think when the previous speaker Nanaia Mahuta resumed her seat you can understand why she is such a long-experienced member of this Parliament. She's just shown the ability to fill in five minutes of Parliament's time without saying anything.I will give you an example. She said that this Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) puts people back at the centre of trade. Well who else would be trading with each other other than people? The fact of the matter is that this is a bill that the Labour Party despite its long liberal internationalist history opposed because they thought it was politically convenient. And then upon assuming Government they recognised a few truths. First of all New Zealand is a nation of traders. We are a nation of people who have come here from the Pacific Islands from Hawaiki from England from Europe and from Asia because we wanted a better life. When we arrived here four million or five million of us at the edge of the Earth did we say that we wanted no further links with the rest of the world from whence we came? Of course we didn't.Only the Labour Party and their new-found small-mindedness would have suggested that New Zealanders wanted to shut themselves off from the rest of the world. As their former leader Helen Clark said the TPP was one of those times when you realised that New Zealand was in danger of missing out completely. So it's no surprise that the Labour Party despite all their rhetoric despite all their grand talk of difference and being a different party and having a different position on trade are here tonight in the Parliament signing off a Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership that constitutes the following and this is really important. Stuart Nash knows. He's smiling; he knows.It is the Trans-Pacific Partnership to which the Labour Party and their props in New Zealand First were so opposed plus a four-page cover letter that removes a few conditions in order that if the United States wishes to come back to the table we have a negotiating position. So people who supported the Labour Party and New Zealand First—I'd say to them they were wrong to oppose trade for New Zealand but they should also be under no illusion that their parties have just signed up to the TPP with a four-page cover letter. You see the text is exactly the same. It's a four-page cover letter that sets out some negotiating positions for when the United States decides to re-enter.On behalf of the ACT Party who understands the origin of this country who understands that we are a nation of immigrants people who sought a better life at the edge of the Earth but did not want to sever our ties with the countries from whence we came—in this case around the Pacific—we understand that our global links are critical. We want to commend this Government even though they've come to it in a sort of confused denialist sort of way for agreeing that the Trans-Pacific Partnership as it was originally written should be passed in this Parliament and passed by this Government and signed by our Minister of Foreign Affairs in such a way that we maintain a country with global links that trades value for value with the rest of the world that stands proudly in the world that is not afraid of the rest of the world and that heaven forbid is not xenophobic as the Labour Party has sadly and recently in its history become.We commend the Government for swallowing its pride and signing the TPP so that Aotearoa New Zealand can remain a country that is a strong capitalist global system that trades value for value and gets stronger together with our cousins from around the world of whatever nationality. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker.