Hon Dr NICK SMITH (National): This is a bad bill. It's being pushed through under an awful process and it is a misuse of the trust that New Zealanders put in Labour members opposite. There's a really important principle that my colleague Chris Luxon said, which I want to strongly emphasise: the electoral system belongs to the electors, not the elected. That's why when this Parliament was to be changed from first past the post to MMP, it wasn't for the people that are elected to decide to make that change; it was a decision for the people of New Zealand who own this democracy to make that decision.