Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. On behalf of ACT I would like to join with other leaders supporting this motion condemning the barbaric illegal unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's Russia.And I'd like to stand in support of those brave Ukrainians—many of whom only 96 hours ago were shopping and had in their hands their iPhone looking at Instagram—now dug into trenches around their city defending their home with a military weapon. It is the most extraordinary display of grit and courage from those people—from their leader—and a display of what people are prepared to do to defend their home to defend their freedom and we are proud to stand with them and feel we should be doing more to support them because no country has more to lose than New Zealand when a rules-based values-based international order is lost and thuggery takes its place. If others are standing up—and they are in the most extraordinary way right around the world—to the kind of thuggery exhibited by Vladimir Putin we as a small nation with a history of being right and taking moral stands on global issues of the day should be right beside them.I read in the newspaper over the weekend that this is World War Wired" a war where people can and are making a difference all over the world not just through Governments not just through States but donating volunteering helping in the most unexpected ways and it is extraordinarily hopeful that actually one dictator from one country—despite having as Stalin said to the Pope more divisions—does not have the power to overwhelm freedom and democracy. That has to be our hope but New Zealand has a role to play joining in that "World War Wired" movement.We need to say to Vladimir Putin: he is frozen out the walls are going up and we will not accept him in this world so long as his actions are unacceptable. And I say "Good on you." to Fonterra saying "Sorry we're not going to sell to you. We don't share your values." I say "Good on you." to our allies around the world who've said "Sorry no more banking system because we don't share those values." And that is why it is so critical that I join with the call of the National leader that New Zealand has the legal ability to join in implementing similar sanctions at a parliamentary level. This is a Government that will go into urgency in this Parliament at the drop of a hat—doesn't even have to be urgent. If there was ever a time to use urgency then passing autonomous sanctions legislation—that's the time to use urgency right now. And that's what we should be doing so we can join in that moral movement against this Government of Vladimir Putin.And I have to say for many people this is deeply personal. I can't claim to have any great connection to Ukraine but I know someone who does—Nataliya Shchetkova the proprietor of La Vista restaurant of St Heliers who came to national attention a few years ago. And I got in touch with her and I said "I'm so sorry I can't imagine what it must be like for your family." And she said "All we want is for them to be here." As the rest of the world opens its borders unconditionally to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees walking across their border—of course it is harder for New Zealand a country that is literally on the opposite of the world. But if there are to be barriers to those people being reunited safe with their family here in New Zealand surely the barrier should be geographical rather than legal. We should let them come here immediately in these circumstances.It's critical that a worldwide effort ensures the Russian people see that Vladimir Putin who many of them like—and I know Russian people who like Vladimir Putin. You know why? Because he doubled their standard of living in 10 years. It's important they see he's had them frozen out and they should be asking him "Why has the rouble just dropped 30 percent in 24 hours Mr Putin if you're so great?" It's absolutely critical that they're frozen out and that they are excluded from normal day-to-day life of the State so long as they behave in unacceptable ways.It's also worth asking where this man came from. And it's always good to read. A great thing to read right now is an old classic The Road to Serfdom. The Road to Serfdom tells us that if you have an economic system where you can't pay people for their efforts you have to force them. And the enforcement required often looks like the KGB. And organisations all have a culture and they promote individuals that suit their culture. Vladimir Putin—you can draw a direct line from the socialist experiment in Russia 100 years ago to the enforcement tactics required to make it work to the kind of monster it creates who is now terrorising people in Ukraine. That is a question of values. It is an opportunity to talk about our values of democracy. The first thing I remember seeing on the TV screen was a whole lot of adults very badly dressed in 1980s fashion tearing down a concrete wall decorated with graffiti. Of course being six years old at the time I didn't know there was a place called Berlin I didn't know there was a Cold War I didn't know there was a wall—being six I didn't know a huge amount about those things. But I knew it was important and the first thing I remember—it's seared on my mind—watching on TV was my grandfather's gravelly voice saying "Well it's good people uniting."And for 20 years after that I could look around the world and see that democracy and freedom were winning—more and more countries were turning to democracy. It looked like the world was going to work out. Francis Fukuyama said history had ended—or we'd reached the end of history. Helen Clark said that we were living in a benign strategic environment. We had a free-trade agreement with China the first Western country to do so as we hoped they too would join Western liberal democracy.The truth is it hasn't worked out so well over the last 15 years since the great financial crisis. Democracy around the world is practised by fewer people with less enthusiasm. And that makes for a more dangerous world for a country like New Zealand. That is why we need to reflect strongly on our values our place in the world and how we behave at times of crisis such as this. That's why we should be putting the walls up and freezing them out and giving ourselves the legal ability to do so. That's why we should be welcoming those who have family connections in New Zealand to the Ukraine without question the way the European countries are and if we were to do those things then we could say that we are at the forefront of the moral reaction that is putting Vladimir Putin in his place and giving the Russian people the courage to put him there too. Thank you Mr Speaker."