Lori-Ann Martino is a politician of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. On July 28, 2004, she ran for the Canadian House of Commons, representing the Green Party of Canada in Labrador, but lost to Lawrence O'Brien of the Liberal Party of Canada. Martino received 178 votes to O'Brien's 5,524. During the 2005-6 General Election, Lori-Ann Martino abruptly resigned from the Green Party, in the middle of the election campaign. Martino resigned from the Green Party of Canada because she disagreed with Jim Harris' opposition to a sustainable seal fishery in Atlantic Canada.