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Affordability & Housing
Tax measures and rebates
Green's promise
"Eliminate federal income taxes for low income Canadians and decrease the tax burden on Canadians earning $100,000 or less by raising the Basic Personal Amount to $40,000." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Climate Change & the Environment
Green jobs
Green's promise
"Ensure clean economy subsidies serve workers and communities — not just corporate profits by requiring strong labour, environmental, and transparency conditions on all public funding." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Oil and gas
Green's promise
"Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects. No public funds should support continued fossil fuel expansion." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Pollution
Green's promise
"Support a global tax on pollution from aviation and shipping, ensuring major international polluters pay their fair share. Work with global partners, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to develop a fair and effective system." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Culture, Arts, & Media
News and journalism
Green's promise
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Oil and gas
Green's promise
"Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects. No public funds should support continued fossil fuel expansion." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Minority Rights, Fair Government, & Democracy
Tax fairness
Green's promises
"Increase the corporate tax rate from 14% to 21% for businesses with profits over $100 million ($44 billion in revenue)." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Introduce a permanent Windfall Tax (Excess Profit Tax) on large corporations, including banks, grocery chains and fossil fuel companies, to prevent profiteering at the expense of Canadians. This tax will apply at a rate of 15% on profits exceeding 120% of a company’s average profits over the previous four years, ensuring that large corporations contribute fairly when they generate excessive gains." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Implement a 0.35% Financial Transactions Tax (Tobin Tax) on trades involving stocks, bonds, derivatives, and currencies. This measure will help curb speculative trading practices that destabilize markets and generate significant revenue for social, economic, and environmental programs."
"Implement a progressive wealth tax on net wealth above $10 million. The tax would apply at a rate of 1% on net wealth over $10 million, 2% on net wealth over $50 million, and 3% on net wealth over $100 million. This policy would impact only .5% of Canadian households." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Strengthen Canada’s exit tax to prevent the ultra-wealthy from avoiding taxes by moving assets abroad. We will apply a net wealth-based exit tax of 35% on assets over $10 million for individuals renouncing Canadian tax residency, ensuring those who have benefited the most from Canada’s economy must contribute significantly before leaving. Loopholes that allow tax avoidance through corporate structures and exempt assets will also be closed." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Ensure fair taxation of extreme capital gains by applying a progressive tax only to profits over $10 million. To prevent wealthy investors from avoiding taxes indefinitely, we will also limit the ability to deduct past investment losses to a maximum of 10 years." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Revise Canada’s Select Luxury Items Tax Act to eliminate the “lesser of” rule and apply a flat luxury tax rate (e.g., 10% or higher on the full purchase price).
» Increase the tax rates for extreme wealth purchases (e.g., higher rates for private jets and superyachts.)
» Close corporate loopholes that allow businesses to buy these assets to avoid the Select Luxury Items Tax.
» Exempt Canadian-made commercial and recreational vessels from the Select Luxury Items Tax, to support small manufacturers and coastal industries."
— Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Close stock options and capital gains tax loopholes, which primarily benefit wealthy executives." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"End off shore tax evasion by taxing hidden funds and requiring proof of foreign business operations." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Review and phase out corporate subsidies that fail to deliver proven economic, environmental, or social benefits, with priority given to eliminating subsidies that:
» Distort markets without improving public well-being.
» Contribute to corporate concentration of key industries.
» Benefit large corporations disproportionately over small businesses and workers.
» Are provided to corporations with majority foreign ownership, particularly U.S.-based firms, undermining Canadian economic sovereignty.
» Fail to pass a cost-benefit analysis."
— Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"Increase transparency on business subsidies by mandating full public reporting on corporate tax benefits, grants, and loans — including which corporations receive them and their economic impact." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Biography
My name is Lilian Barrera and I am running for the role of Member of Parliament with the Green Party to make the world a better place.
I was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and came to Canada in 1998 when I was four years old. Being a middle-class, mixed-race immigrant allowed me to gain a unique perspective on social and racial issues in Canada. In grade school, I developed my skills and interests in geopolitics, history, language, art, and even advanced math, physics and chemistry. Solving the world’s energy crisis was already top of my mind when I was 15, with hydroelectricity (wave power) and nuclear fusion capturing my attention. I ended up attending the University of Ottawa for a double major in Communications and Visual Arts in French Immersion, because my philosophy that miscommunication is the cause of all interpersonal problems around the world pushed me towards it.
While in Ottawa, I worked in four different government departments and was disillusioned by the petty bureaucracy which slowed progress and costed tax-payers money. I vowed to one day improve those issues.
After graduating Magna Cum Laude, I set out to broaden my horizons an Aupair and later a Marketing Manager in Munich, Germany. While there, I fell in love with Germany – the robust public health and public transit systems and the well-maintained infrastructure. I aspired to bring this excellence back to Canada. I also believe my fluency in Spanish, French, and German, as well as basic Arabic and Russian, will help me serve my constituents better.
I came back home to Canada in October 2020 to become an active participant of the democratic process and to work in the film industry. Because of the pandemic, I had to work odd jobs to scrape by. I’ve been a nanny, a server, a tutor, a dog walker, a background actor, a production assistant and a sales associate. I’m grateful that these varied, humble jobs helped me connect with people in need of systemic change. I promise to use everything in my abilities to make that change happen.
Je m'appelle Lilian Barrera et je suis candidate au poste de députée du Parti vert pour améliorer le monde.
Je suis née à Mexico, au Mexique, et je suis arrivée au Canada en 1998, à l'âge de quatre ans. Le fait d'être une immigrante métisse de la classe moyenne m'a permis d'acquérir une perspective unique sur les questions sociales et raciales au Canada. À l'école primaire, j'ai développé mes compétences et mes intérêts pour la géopolitique, l'histoire, les langues, l'art et même les mathématiques avancées, la physique et la chimie. À l'âge de 15 ans, j'avais déjà en tête de résoudre la crise énergétique mondiale, l'hydroélectricité (énergie houlomotrice) et la fusion nucléaire ayant retenu mon attention. J'ai fini par étudier à l'Université d'Ottawa, où j'ai obtenu une double spécialisation en communication et en arts visuels en immersion française, parce que ma philosophie selon laquelle la mauvaise communication est la cause de tous les problèmes interpersonnels dans le monde m'a poussé vers cette voie.
Pendant mon séjour à Ottawa, j'ai travaillé dans quatre ministères différents et j'ai été désillusionnée par la petite bureaucratie qui ralentissait le progrès et coûtait de l'argent aux contribuables. Je me suis promis d'améliorer un jour ces problèmes.
Après avoir obtenu mon diplôme avec mention, j'ai décidé d'élargir mes horizons en tant qu'aupair puis responsable marketing à Munich, en Allemagne. Pendant mon séjour, je suis tombée amoureuse de l'Allemagne, de ses systèmes de santé publique et de transport en commun robustes et de ses infrastructures bien entretenues. J'aspirais à ramener cette excellence au Canada. Je pense également que ma maîtrise de l'espagnol, du français et de l'allemand, ainsi que des rudiments d'arabe et de russe, m'aidera à mieux servir mes électeurs.
Je suis revenue au Canada en octobre 2020 pour participer activement au processus démocratique et travailler dans l'industrie cinématographique. À cause de la pandémie, j'ai dû faire des petits boulots pour m'en sortir. J'ai été nounou, serveur, tuteur, promeneur de chiens, acteur, assistant de production et vendeur. Je suis reconnaissant que ces emplois variés et modestes m'aient aidé à entrer en contact avec des personnes qui ont besoin d'un changement systémique. Je promets d'utiliser tout ce qui est en mon pouvoir pour que ce changement se produise.
Reason for running
As someone with very little private safety net, I understand what it’s like to need the public safety net that is the government, in other words, public services. Because of this vulnerability, I witness firsthand the inequality and inadequacy in our federal government. For example, I have friends on ODSP who don’t have enough to get by and live on the streets/couch-surf, I know international students who were lied to about the cost of living before coming to Canada, and I know many people living paycheck to paycheck (including myself) because their rent has gone up and they spend 50-60% of their monthly income on it!
As a go-getter and problem-solver, if I see no one has stepped up to the plate and it is long overdue, I step up!
Society works best when the voices of the vulnerable are amplified. It is critical that a country like Canada, who boasts its “no one left behind” motto internationally, practice what it preaches. Currently, Canada is complicit in the war crimes of Benjamin Netanyahu's (née Mileikowsky) administration, and there are not enough voices in Parliament with the courage and integrity to stop this.
This is why I’m running to be Davenport’s Member of Parliament.
Comme j'ai très peu de filet de sécurité privé, je comprends ce que c'est que d'avoir besoin du filet de protection sociale. En raison de cette vulnérabilité, je suis la témoin direct de l'inégalité et de l'inadéquation de notre gouvernement fédéral. Par exemple, j'ai des amis bénéficiaires du POSPH qui n'ont pas assez pour survivre et qui vivent dans la rue, je connais des étudiants étrangers à qui le gouvernement a menti sur le coût de la vie avant de venir au Canada, et je connais beaucoup de gens qui vivent au jour le jour (moi y compris) parce que leur loyer a augmenté et qu'ils y consacrent 50 à 60 % de leurs revenus mensuels !
Étant une femme d'action et parce que je suis axée sur la résolution des problèmes, si je vois que personne n'a pris les choses en main et qu'elles auraient dû être faites depuis longtemps, je le fais !
La société fonctionne mieux lorsque les voix des personnes vulnérables sont amplifiées. Il est essentiel qu'un pays comme le Canada, qui se targue de sa devise « personne n'est laissé pour compte » à l'échelle internationale, mette en pratique ce qu'il prêche. Actuellement, le Canada est complice des crimes de guerre de l'administration de Benjamin Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky), et il n'y a pas assez de voix au Parlement qui aient le courage et l'intégrité de mettre un terme à cette situation.
C'est pourquoi je me présente pour devenir le député de Davenport.
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