Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): I am pleased to be able to continue my opposition to this bill at this third reading. We know that this is a dead rubber" debate. This is a waste of time. We are wasting the House's time.I do not know where the National Government has been for the past 24 hours but there has been an election in the United States and there is a new President-Elect Trump and he has outlined that in his first 100 days he is withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA)—a complete withdrawal. I do not know why we are here in some sort of deluded sense that by passing this legislation the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is miraculously going to come into force because it will not. It is dead—over. Finito. Turn off the lights and go home. It is not coming into force. So why are we wasting the House's time here? This is a dead rubber—this is a dead rubber.I must give credit to the Minister of Trade. He has tried earnestly to consult—albeit in a rushed state—to get this bill to where it is at but the people of the world have spoken. Fifty million US citizens have voted for a new direction for their country and that means the end of the road for the TPP. It is over and it is done with. For those who want to know this bill is now destined upon its passage to become a latent Act. It will be doing nothing. It will never ever come to life. It will just sit there on the books of no consequence whatsoever.Why the rush from the Government? Why the rush when it should have been coming up with a plan B? What have we heard? We have heard nothing. I think I have got a good idea. The Government should send Mr Bennett to Russia—send him to Russia. Give him one of those ushanka hats. Give him one of those Russian hats and get him to try to do something. Send him via that new "Pūhoi to Tūhoe" highway.This is farcical this debate. It really is farcical because the TPP is a dead duck. It is all over. As we all know it is not going anywhere. The Government is really so patronising. It thinks it knows everything about business. It thinks it knows what drives small business and the primary sector as if they know all. In fact the sun will come up tomorrow and hard-working Kiwis will be out there working hard selling their goods and trading their goods to the world. They have been doing that—Māori have been doing that right from the very beginning. Trade will continue. The world of commerce carries on. There is no TPP—accept that. But the world of commerce will carry on. Our goods will be sold. Our goods and our services will be sold and we want to command a premium. Hey look—the fridges are empty. Our fish is all sold. It gets sold all over the world. It is not like oh we are not going to be able to sell our goods any more—of course not.The Government is so simplistic in the way it thinks. We know that our exporters are very sophisticated. They are world leaders in what they do. So do not patronise them by thinking that this dead-duck deal is going to be the be-all and end-all. We know it was a shonky deal. It had more holes in it than a West Coast whitebait net. It was giving more to transnational corporations. It was giving more to them than it would in terms of meaningful benefits to Kiwis.It was going to stifle innovation for Kiwi companies but add more protections to the big multinational corporations with copyright biological patents and the like. It was not really intended to break down the barriers for our dairy industry. Sure there might have been paltry positives for other sectors but in the great scheme of things it was a bad deal an incredibly bad deal and that is evidenced today by us passing a piece of legislation that will mean absolutely nothing—absolutely nothing. It is a dead deal dead rubber a dead duck thanks to I guess the Don the great Don who has come in over in the US. They have been trumped literally. They have been trumped on this. The TPP is dead it is over; finito. Kia ora tātou."