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Lisa Marie Barron

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • Nanaimo—Ladysmith
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 66%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $144,270.93

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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • Jun/8/23 12:43:59 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech, and I thank her party for choosing to debate this motion today. It is especially timely now, with forest fires raging across the country. Last year, the Liberals gave big oil $20 billion in subsidies. Does the member have any suggestions for climate solutions that we could invest in, instead of doling out public money to oil companies?
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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 4:08:10 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, I am happy we are talking about this today. My own experience as a single parent is that I was working at a minimum wage trying to make ends meet and still, despite provincial subsidies, was unable to afford child care. My daughter is turning 20 on February 2 and my son is 15. This has been going on for generations and so many families are impacted by unaffordable and inaccessible child care. We can celebrate that this is moving in the right direction, but we also need to look at why it has taken so many generations for us to get to where we are today and to finally be implementing child care.
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Context: House Hansard - 141 - Dec/5/22
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron
  • Dec/5/22 6:58:28 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member whom I have a deep respect for. Unfortunately, I do not think an example of concrete action is the Liberal government handing rich CEOs, the very ones who are profiting from globally destructive business practices, a subsidy of $2.6 billion to ineffectively clean up the mess they are making. That money is coming out of the pockets of Canadians who are struggling to make ends meet, and who, in many cases, are suffering the devastating effects of climate degradation. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control, for example, is creating a fact sheet to educate people about the health hazards of wildfire smoke and how to prepare themselves to cope with it every year. This is tragic. Meanwhile, the current government is handing oil and gas companies billions in subsidies and tax incentives. I will ask again: When will the government stop subsidizing big oil companies and start making them pay what they owe?
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