Bennett David: Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 22 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5259. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): This piece of legislation brought in by the New Zealand First Party is really just an attack to frustrate an agreement that is in the best interests of New Zealanders. It is something that shows the real true intent of that party which is a party that is against an open and free New Zealand. It is a party that does not want free trade. It is a party that wants to take us back to the 1950s. It is a party that does not want immigration. It is a party that does not want change in New Zealand communities and society. It is a party that believes that a select group of a few people can decide and tell everybody else what to do. It is a party that is stuck in the past. Those party members are the dinosaurs of the past and they have brought in legislation that tries to stop New Zealand from progressing and being in the open free world that we can be part of and that has made our country so strong in the past. This bill is an attack on New Zealand’s future by the people who represent New Zealand’s past—that was ages and ages ago. We should be looking forward as a country and not back as those dinosaurs next door are.The Labour Party is pretty rich coming into this Parliament here today because the Labour Party in its greatest day of free-trade agreements—every time you talk of the Labour Party and free trade one person and one agreement are mentioned. Labour members say that Phil Goff got the New Zealand - China free-trade agreement. That is what they said. We heard that in this House only an hour ago. The Chinese free-trade agreement allows these kinds of clauses. It does allow these kinds of clauses. To have the Labour Party members come into this House now and say: “We think that this should still go through to the next stage for discussion.” really is just them trying to bet on both sides of the coin. They do not actually believe in it. They know that New Zealand needs to be a free and open trading country. They know that an integral part of free and open trade is to have these kinds of clauses in the agreements going forward.It is very rich of the Labour Party to come in here and try to open up the debate and say “Oh we believe that there should be a debate on this issue.” when in reality the biggest agreement that Labour signed had one of these clauses in it. It was an agreement that Labour is very proud of. Labour members cannot come into this Parliament and then be against these types of clauses and then have them in that very one agreement which they wanted.Clayton Mitchell: Tell us what you think of the TPPA with the ISDS clauses instead of what everybody else thinks.DAVID BENNETT: OK. So we have got New Zealand First piping up again. New Zealand First—the party that does not want free trade in New Zealand. This is what this debate is about. Do you want New Zealand to be a free-trading country? Do you want the Chinese free-trade agreement? Do you want the New Zealand - Korea free-trade agreement?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!DAVID BENNETT: Do you want to have a free-trade agreement with the Pacific rim?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!Ron Mark: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I notice you Mr Assistant Speaker were a little distracted but the speaker continues to try to bring yourself and your Chair into the debate—quite pathetic.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): I was attempting to call him to order. I think if he occasionally addressed the Chair he might notice that that was happening.DAVID BENNETT: There is no involvement of the Chair in this. This is about the New Zealand First Party which is against free trade and the free-trade agreements.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Can I remind the member that when a ruling has been made on a point of order it is not to be referred to by members. The member has been here for a while and he does know that.Ron Mark: But he never listens—never listens.DAVID BENNETT: Oh never listens. This is the New Zealand First Party which does not want New Zealanders to trade—the trade that we have heard about from Mr Mark Mitchell and what the Korean free-trade agreement would mean for New Zealanders. But no New Zealand First does not want that. New Zealand First does not want us to be in that trading bloc which will be the future of this part of the world. That shows the small mindedness the arrogance the old-fashioned approach that is the New Zealand First Party. It is a shame that we have to even debate these bills in this House. It is an attack on the values of New Zealanders and this House that these bills should even be debated here because they represent an attack on the fundamental values that New Zealanders want. New Zealanders want a progressive open and free country. They want a country that does not say no to people because of race a country that is open to people to come here and make their future a country that wants to have free trade and that wants to engage in the new world. That is the difference between this side of the House and the opposite side of the House.Ron Mark: This speech won’t get that member into Cabinet.DAVID BENNETT: Mr Ron Mark is sitting there. Mr Ron Mark said that they wanted transparency around the negotiation of a free-trade agreement. They want to see the agreement. We did not see transparency around the New Zealand First deputy leadership contest did we? When was that transparent? That was not around. When were the votes that were cast in that vote last week shown to the public? No. New Zealand First—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! The debate has been quite wide but I think the member has got well beyond it now. I am going to invite him in the last half minute of his speech to address the bill.Ron Mark: He’s desperate.DAVID BENNETT: Desperation comes from New Zealand First when their leader will not even come and support their flagship policy.It is bad for New Zealanders that we even debate this bill. It is a shame on Fletcher Tabuteau to come to this House with legislation like this. New Zealand does not want the attitude that New Zealand First brings to this House and Labour Party members should stand up and say the right thing. They have had the chance over the last week and they have not done that either.