A Langley mom behind a petition to ban smoking in condos and other multi-unit dwellings is meeting with the housing minister Thursday. It comes on the same day her petition was presented to lawmakers in Victoria.

Langley resident Naomi Baker started the petition last year after realizing there was second-hand smoke wafting in her home and being inhaled by her newborn baby.

She said she collected more than 15,000 signatures online and another 2,200 in person. Seven organizations, including Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, the Clean Air Coalition of BC, and Landlord BC have also signed on in support of the movement.

Even though her building has recently gone smoke-free she’s hoping the ban will go province-wide.

“You can't smoke in workplaces, you can't smoke on BC ferries, you can't smoke in airplanes, hotels anywhere and yet when you're at your home where you spend most of your time you can't protect your family or yourself from it,” Baker told reporters at the legislature.

Baker and her MLA Mary Polak were scheduled to meet with Selina Robinson, the housing minister, Thursday afternoon. Robinson said she’s open to listening to Baker on what she called an important issue and said the impact on everyone impacted would need to be considered before implementing such a ban.

Currently, smoking is allowed in any shared building by default unless a strata or tenancy agreement states otherwise.

Polak thinks there may be a workable fix.

“Why is it in a strata development that the default position is that smoking and you have to get a two-third majority to make it non-smoking,” Polak told reporters.” In this day and age you would think the default would be the opposite.”

Baker says while there are some people who aren’t following the new rules in her building it’s been a vast improvement. She hopes others will soon be able to breathe easier and hopes the ban will soon become a reality.