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Bonita Zarrillo

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • Port Moody—Coquitlam
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $129,260.13

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Context: House Hansard - 312 - May/9/24
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • May/9/24 2:50:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if someone has to negotiate for dignity, then dignity is lost. That is what we heard today at Canada's first-ever air accessibility summit. Forcing people to drag themselves off planes or to be taken out on food carts is what's happening under the Liberals. Today, the minister said he could intervene, but he prefers to leave it up to big CEOs or, as he called them, the “guys”. That has not worked for the last 20 years. Why will the Liberal minister not make sure that people with disabilities are treated with dignity?
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Context: House Hansard - 254 - Nov/23/23
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Nov/23/23 11:07:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the speech from my colleague from North Island—Powell River. She speaks about the bar of dignity a lot. I hear it a lot. I do a lot of work with the disability community, and they appreciate the human rights lens the member always talks about. Does she mind sharing a bit about the fact that the disability benefit was not mentioned in the fall economic statement? We know it disproportionately impacts women and indigenous people, and I wanted to hear her thoughts on that.
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Context: House Hansard - 210 - Jun/9/23
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Jun/9/23 11:46:03 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, close to a million people living with a disability live in poverty, and the Liberals have left them to suffer. The Canada disability benefit must be the solution to finally enable them to make ends meet, otherwise the government continues to be part of the problem. People living with a disability deserve to live in dignity. Will the Liberals ensure that this new benefit will lift people living with a disability out of poverty?
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