King MattClauses 1 to 3MATT KING (National—Northland): Thanks Mr Chair. Hey look it's a real privilege to be up here and speaking in terms of the title. If ever there was a bill where the title was important this is one of them. This is one of them. The CPTPP—what a mouthful. And you know what? We—Michael Wood: That's not the title.MATT KING: Ha ha! We—this is our bill. This is our bill. OK? The Hon Todd McClay and the Hon Tim Groser—they worked for years negotiating this 6000-page document so this is ours; we are claiming it. There's so much in a title here. There's so much in a title. The Government they protested in the streets over this bill. They said that this was wrong wrong wrong. There were so many things wrong with it they protested in the street. They told their supporters they were going to oppose this with every bone in their bodies. And you know what? This free-trade agreement it's all about improved market access. But this Government has not negotiated one single change in the market access provisions not one—zero. Not one single change. So their claims are exaggerated.So the only real changes we've got here are two letters C" and "P". This Government they're defensive about this. They've spent so much time telling the public that this was a bad free-trade agreement. They promised their supporters they wouldn't support it. They said that the market access agreements were rubbish in respect of dairy and the rest didn't amount to much. Now they have to admit that they were playing cynical politics siding with the isolationists and extremists that simply never back free-trade. Now Professor Jane Kelsey a strong opponent to this bill when it was the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has said there is no significant change in the new deal since this new Government's got involved. It's essentially the same bill which is why this Government is very prone to exaggerating minor changes to things like the investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) clause.So these changes are minor. This is a 6000-page document and there are two pages of changes—that is 0.03 percent of this document that has been changed. So it goes from some gross terrible piece of legislation to the best thing since sliced bread with zero—Barbara Kuriger: And two more letters in the name.MATT KING: Ha ha! Yeah two more letters in the name two pages and a 0.03 percent change and all of a sudden it's rocking and rolling. Now I've looked at this departmental disclosure statement and it said there are 22 suspensions to this document—22 suspensions. Most of them relate to the USA pulling out. They relate to intellectual property and pharmaceuticals and they relate to the USA pulling out and they can be reinstated if the USA comes back in.So look we know it's our bill. We know it is good for our country. We know that there's been 0.03 percent of change in it so that's why we're behind it. That's why we're supporting it. Now this ISDS clause that's in it—that's been in trade agreements for years and we've never been sued by anyone else with this ISDS clause. So this was held up as the bogeyman but it isn't. It's been in every clause. The ISDS clause was a straw man and New Zealand First knows it.So we're changing it to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). It's the same agreement. It's good for New Zealand. It's good for our exporters. We're supporting it. We're not going to stand in the way. So with all the bluff and bluster and BS that we're hearing from the other side of the House for the good of New Zealanders we the National Party are going to support the CPTPP which is the TPP with two letters on the front and that's why we supporting it. I commend this bill to the House."