Fox MaramaMARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party): I had three words in mind and they were not those ones. I think they were pot kettle and black. Ha! We are here today to offer congratulations to the President-Elect Donald Trump. Although I find it a little bit difficult there was a collective sigh this morning and a girding of the loins for the next 4 years across the world. I am a pragmatist at heart. I like to see the silver lining around the clouds. As I look to America I think Well you know what? The bricklayers are going to be happy and the concrete merchants will be happy." because they will be building a wall very soon to keep Americans in. And that might be because if you watched the results as they came in overnight you would have seen that a number of immigration sites around the world actually crashed from the inquiries of people trying to get out. Hon Member: The people voted.MARAMA FOX: But here is the thing: the people did vote. The disaffected people of America the blue-collar people of America stood up and voted and they voted for Mr Trump because he represented something that we must take note of and that is the fact that they feel disenfranchised in their nation. They feel like they do not fit in the system. But they used the politics of hate. They used the politics of divide and conquer in order to put their view across. We have seen a very good example of that just now meted out against my friend and colleague Mr Seymour. Ron Mark: Sorry he's your friend?MARAMA FOX: Mr David Seymour—yes he is my friend. I have quite a number of friends in this House across all the parties and we will work with others. I think that we have shown as the Māori Party of this nation that we will work with others who want to support the advancement of our people for the value of this nation and not use the politics of hate divide and conquer that we see in this nation. There is one fear I have after this election. The fear that I have is that we have opened the door for the redneck comment at the next election—the iwi versus Kiwi the "brownmailing" of the Government and all of those things that they throw out against Māori. That happens every time an election comes up. It has started already. It has started already. So all I say is that we must take note of the voice of the people because that is why we are here. With that I agree. We need to understand that the voice of the people for Māoridom which we represent says that actually we like charter schools and actually we want to have a say in the Resource Management Act and actually we want to ensure that we have a voice in the democracy of this country. That is what we stand for. Before we start to go and point the finger in the coming up of this election that a vote for the Māori Party is a vote for National—it is not. A vote for us is a vote for democracy just like the people in America yesterday stood up and took their vote. We would like to congratulate President-Elect Trump despite the misgivings that we may have despite the girding of the loins and despite the collective sigh that the world has given this morning and expressed today. We have to move forward and we have to look for the silver lining. One of them might be that we can thank Mr Trump for getting rid of the Trans-Pacific Partnership."