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ACT leader David Seymour speaks about his party’s policies at a public meeting in Gore on Sunday.
ACT leader David Seymour says allowing immigrants to fill jobs will create more jobs for Kiwis.
Seymour took his party’s election campaign to Southland on Sunday, stopping at Gore, Bluff and Invercargill.
On Gore, Seymour said that “unlike any other party, we see immigration as part of New Zealand history. We recognized that if you get more people to do critical jobs, that allows the economy to grow and, ironically, you get more jobs for Kiwis by allowing immigration than stopping it.
“A lot of companies in Southland need people to come here and give their skills. A lot of people say ‘get those people out of the subsidy queue’, well if employers could have done it they would have done it by now.
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“The region [Southland] He needs Filipinos to come milk cows and many other things. “
Seymour had connections to the south, including his grandfather, who was working as an electrical engineer at the Tiwai Point aluminum smelter in 1971.
He said ACT was the only party that had a plan to save the foundry. It involved getting a better deal in power.
“The next parliament must legislate permission to build a second transmission line.
“If it allowed a second transmission line, Transpower would be forced to lower its transmission prices at realistic cost.
“Transpower would have to discount its price to compete.
“Tiwai will go bankrupt because he will be forced to subsidize the rest of the country’s broadcast.”
About 60 people attended Seymour’s public meeting in Gore, respecting physical distance. Several hours earlier he addressed some 50 people in Balclutha.
Public meetings would be held at Transport World in Invercargill on Sunday evening.
On Monday, Seymour will announce his party’s rural and tourism policies in Wreys Bush and Te Anau, respectively.
Seymour’s itinerary on Monday includes a visit to the Tiwai Point Aluminum Smelter (6.45am), the Launch of the Rural Act Policy in Wreys Bush (10am), visits to Te Anau Te Anau Helicopter Services companies ( 12.30pm), Bao Now (1.30pm) and Fiordland Lobster Company (3.30pm) and a public meeting at the Te Anau Club to announce ACT’s tourism policy (7pm).
He will visit Alexandra, Cromwell and Queenstown on Tuesday.
