Trade And Immigration Linked? Please Explain Pm Asks
Peters
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters has called
on Helen Clark to publicly explain the links between
immigration and New Zealand’s trade with Asia.
He said
today that it was “deeply disturbing” to learn that some how
the Labour-led minority government had established some
connection between trading with Asian nations and taking
their citizens as immigrants.
“If this is the case, which
I seriously doubt, the people of New Zealand have certainly
not been told about it.
“To suggest as Miss Clark has
done, that we now have to import Asian people as part of
some bizarre trade deal is drivel at best, and a suggestion
of trafficking in humans at worst.”
Mr Peters suggested
that if Ms Clark and her Immigration Minister studied the
immigration policies of New Zealand’s Asian trading partners
they would find that those policies were a lot tougher than
New Zealand’s “open door” system.
“The truth of the matter
is that the present immigration system is disastrous for New
Zealanders and an increasing number are beginning to realise
it.
“The next move from this government of ethnic
engineers will be to change the way the statistics are
collated to confuse everybody.
“Let me warn them that New
Zealanders are awake to these tactics and we will not let
the matter rest.”
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