Profile: Lisa Girbav; What gives a 19 year-old the gall to run in an election?
The Daily News (Prince Rupert)
April 24, 2009
By: George T. Baker

Lisa Girbav doesn't believe that's an issue at all. Age - AGE? - age has nothing to do with this. It's about the economy, the environment and social change or, as the Green Party candidate would like locals to understand, it's about the Green Party agenda.

… Much has been made of the hard to house situation in Prince Rupert. Girbav said that her party is looking at poverty as a services issue.

"British Columbia has the highest poverty levels in Canada at over 16 per cent and over 20 per cent for child poverty. We would like to protect our children by securing our youth with universal and affordable child care as well as encourage businesses to take up on-site child care for people that are working," said Girbav.

Another way to decrease poverty would be to raise the minimum wage, reasons Girbav...