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Lisa Marie Barron

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • Nanaimo—Ladysmith
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 65%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $144,270.93

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Context: House Hansard - 313 - May/10/24
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • May/10/24 11:28:28 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, rent is going up faster than Canadians can afford, with families relying on credit cards more and more to buy food and necessities. In my riding of Nanaimo—Ladysmith, rent went up over 9% last year alone. People cannot cut back any more than they already are, and yet the Liberals are sitting on their hands and letting corporate greed drive up costs. This plan is not working. When will the Liberals have the courage to crack down on the corporate greed driving up rent and food prices?
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Context: House Hansard - 109 - Oct/6/22
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron
  • Oct/6/22 12:21:26 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is clear that this issue is complex. There are many different factors that we need to be looking at. However, in response to the member's question, I will quote from an article about Jim Stanford, an economist and director of the Centre for Future Work, who says that when people spend more on shopping, it inflates supermarket profits. This is “acting as a kind of trickle-up economics and transferring wealth from the poorest to the richest. “The inflation we're seeing ‘wasn't caused by wages,’ Stanford said, or by workers. ‘It's caused by greed.’” This is why this motion is so important. We need to look at what is happening, look at the greedflation that is happening around us and finally start having those who are profiting off the backs of Canadians pay their fair share.
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