Province of British Columbia
1st Session, 29th Parliament
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
January 22, 1970 to April 3, 1970

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DDT (Insecticide)

Banning of (Macdonald) 103 (Ney) 95

Use of (Shelford) 388

Mentioned: (Brousson) 133 (Strachan) 177

Dailly, Eileen E. (Burnaby North)

Address in Reply 81

Age of Majority Act 666

Age of majority and status of wards of government 666

Age of majority, change in 666

Age of majority law and other legislation 666

B.C. Hydro, electricity rates, increase in 550

B.C. Hydro, electricity rates, increase in to industry 550

B.C. Hydro, special committee of Legislature on capital financing and rate structure 550

Budget debate 305-8

Colleges, funding for, local taxation 708

Colleges, funding for, source of 307

Elderly, counselling for 308

Estimates, debate on 33-4

Female Minimum Wage Act, An Act to Amend (Bill 42) IF, 585

Housing, funding for 308

Intermediate care facilities 308

Legislature, evening sittings, adjournment time 33-4

Legislature, Pages, appointment of girls as Pages 305

Male Minimum Wage Act, An Act to Amend (Bill 41) 1R, 585

The Maples, design of 308

The Maples, equipment 308

Mentally ill children, facilities for 308

Nursing homes 308

Public Schools Act, An Act to Amend 708

School construction, freeze on 306

School District 23, school space, shortage of 306-7

School District 37, school construction 307

School District 43, school construction 307

School District 61, Oak Bay school 307

School districts, deficit financing 305

School districts, operating costs 305

School districts, referendums, use of for operating funds 306

Simon Fraser University, students turned away 307

Teachers, sick leave 708

Universities, funding for 308

University of B.C. enrolment, restriction on 307

Wages, minimum wage for males, increase in 781

Young people, education of re contracts 666

Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C.

Quoted (Dailly) 307 (Dowding) 464 (Lorimer) 67 (Marshall) 474 (Richter) 326 (Strachan) 179 (Williams, R.) 510

Mentioned: (Chabot) 287 (Dailly) 305 (Hon. member) 435 (Mussallem) 435 (Strachan) 697

Dairy products

Vancouver Island chain store purchases (Ney) 94-5

Dairying

Dairy farming on Vancouver Island (Ney) 94-5

Dams

Construction of (Throne speech) 6

Cost of, federal sales tax on materials (Gaglardi) 545

Land, flooding of (McGeer) 147

Land, flooding of and pre-existing mineral claims (Strachan) 224

Reservoirs, clearing of (Hartley) 545 (McGeer) 260-1 (Strachan) 347, 348

See also names of dams, e.g. Duncan Dam

Dangerous cargo

See: Hazardous substances

Davis, Jack

Mentioned: (McDiarmid) 117 (Richter) 326

Dawson, Hon. Isabel P (Mackenzie) Member of the Executive Council Without Portfolio

Address in Reply 97-9

Apples 437

Bella Bella, electric power 437

Bella Bella, hospital 437

Bella Coola area bridges 437

Bella Coola area, development of 438

Brannan Lake School for Boys, admissions to 439

Brannan Lake School for Boys, inmates, educational services for 439

B.C. Ferry Corporation, ferry service, Mackenzie area 97, 437

Budget debate 437-42

Child care workers, employment of 439

Detergents, biodegradability 99

Detergents, experiment on 99

Detergents, use of 98-9

Elderly, community involvement opportunities 439

Elderly, counsellors for 440

Elderly, foster grandparents 441

Elderly, housing for 440-1

Elderly, income tax exemption for 442

Elderly, loneliness 439

Elderly, population over age 65 442

Elderly, programs for 439-40

Forest fires, prevention of 97

Freight rates on coast 437

Freight rates on coast, federal subsidy 438

Hearing-Aid Dealers and Consultants, An Act Respecting 1R, 665

Hearing aids bank 441-2

Hearing aids, instruction in use of 442

Hearing impaired, problems 441-2

Highway 101, traffic 438

Home-purchase assistance 97

Homemakers' courses 438

Homeowner grant 97

Indians, Kamloops tattoo 97

Intermediate care facilities 441

Juvenile delinquents, provision for 438

Litter 97

Litter, school program on prevention of 97

"Louie, the Litter Rat” slide collection 97

Meals on Wheels program 440

Northland Navigation Co. Ltd., freight rates 437

Ocean Falls, Martin Valley road 437

Old age pension, eligibility for 442

Old age pensions, increase in 97, 441

Phosphates in environment 98

Phosphates in fertilizers 98

Pollution 97-9

Problem children, care for 438

Protection of Children Act, amendment to 438

Volunteers for Seniors program 440

Water pollution 97-9

Western Institute for the Deaf clinics 441

Willingdon School for Girls, inmates, vocational training for 439

Dawson, Robert MacGregor

Democratic Government in Canada mentioned (Speaker) 770

Dawson Creek, B.C.

Homemakers' course (Dawson) 438

Service industries for northern development (Marshall) 58-9

Dawson Creek Chamber of Commerce

Mentioned: (Marshall) 56-7

Day care

Tax allowance for child-care expenses (Strachan) 182

Deaf children

See: Children, Deaf

Dean, Ben

Mentioned: (Campbell, B.) 13

Dearing, Sir Edward

Mentioned: (Dowding) 459

Deas Island

See entries beginning George Massey Tunnel under Highway 99

Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, An Act Respecting the Broadcasting of

(Bill 77) (Clark) 1R, 689

Debtor and creditor

Debts, repayment of personal debts (Peterson) 517

Debts, Public

Debt (Barrett) 244, 244-5, 553 (Bennett) 557 (Campbell, D.) 356 (Cocke) 87 (Hall) 485 (McGeer) 254-5, 554-5 (Mussallem) 433-4 (Strachan) 350-1, 565

Debt, contingent liabilities (Bennett) 557 (Hall) 485 (Mussallem) 434 (Peterson) 516 (Price) 426

Debt, interest on (Barrett) 553 (Nimsick) 393

Federal debt (Ney) 469

Federal debt, interest on (Campbell, D.) 356 (LeCours) 424 (McCarthy) 399 (Shelford) 385

Federal deficit (Kiernan) 230

Guarantees, provincial guarantee of borrowings (Strachan) 351

Manitoba debt, contingent liabilities (Peterson) 516

Deer-hunting

Antlerless season (Nimsick) 205

Delta, B.C.

Municipal tax revenue, loss on Pacific Great Eastern Railway property (Lorimer) 419

Roberts Bank port and bylaws (Wenman) 10

Roberts Bank port, land purchase for (Chabot) 222 (Williams, R.) 219

Roberts Bank port, status of and municipality (Campbell, D.) 120 (Wenman) 10

Delta Housing Association

Ladner housing complex, new units (Wenman) 10

Delta School District

See: School District 37 (Delta)

Democracy

Democracy (Capozzi) 169 (Hall) 487

Denmark

Censorship (Clark) 627 (Dowding) 629

Parliament, procedures (Clark) 71

Pornography, legislation on (Clark) 72

Sexual offences, reduction in number of (Clark) 72

Social problems and change in laws (Clark) 71, 72

Dentists

Rural and remote areas, incentives to practise in (Campbell, B.) 298

Departure Bay, B.C.

Sewage in harbour (Ney) 470

Deposit-refund system

Beer bottles (Little) 449

Depressions

Prediction re future (Mussallem) 433

Recession elsewhere (Dowding) 464

Desertion and nonsupport

Deserted wives, problems (Hall) 137

Detained persons

See entries under Arrest

Detergent pollution of rivers, lakes, etc.

Detergents, use of (Bruch) 92 (Campbell, B.) 15 (Williams, L.) 195

Detergents

Biodegradability (Dawson) 99

Experiment on (Dawson) 99

Deuterium oxide

Manufacture of, proposal for (Skillings) 413

Developing countries

Agricultural aid to. See Agricultural assistance

Aid to (Nimsick) 391 (Shelford) 389, 390 (Tisdalle) 444

Students, scholarships for (Shelford) 390

Devlin, Sir Patrick

Mentioned: (Jordan) 367

Diamond, Charles

Mentioned: (Williams, R) 132

Diamond, Gordon

Mentioned: (Williams, R) 132

Diamond, Jack

Mentioned: (Campbell, B.) 299

See also: J. Diamond and Sons Ltd.

Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist quoted (Gardom) 188

Diefenbaker, John

Mentioned: (Barrett) 150

Dieldrin

Use of (Shelford) 388

Discipline

Discipline in society (Tisdalle) 153

Disney, Walt

Mentioned: (Wenman) 631

Distilleries

Okanagan Valley, incentive for distillery (Skillings) 415

Distress Act

Mentioned: (Macdonald) 369

District of North Vancouver, B.C.

Identity of (Brousson) 465-6 North Vancouver, amalgamation with (Brousson) 466 (Campbell, D.) 123

Divide Lake, B.C.

Bethlehem Copper Corp., use of lake (Dowding) 225, 226 (Kiernan) 226 (Nimsick) 204 (Williams, R) 128-9

Draining of lake (Dowding) 463 (Hartley) 218 (Kiernan) 210-1

Name of (Hartley) 218 (Kiernan) 209-10

Use of, compensation for (Dowding) 226 (Kiernan) 210 (McGeer) 216

Use of, decision on (Dowding) 226

Water rights (Hartley) 218

Mentioned: (Barrett) 228 (Kiernan) 209, 230 (McGeer) 216 (Nimsick) 208 (Williams, R) 125

Divisions

Address in Reply approved 231; amdts. to negatived 55, 151, 228

Adjournment of debate until next sitting of House, M. approved 765

Adjournment of debate until next sitting of House, M. negatived 333, 658-9, 794

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 559-60

British Columbia Professional Foresters Act, 2R approved 696

Budget approved 519

Hospital Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 749

Land Act, 2R approved 664

Landlord and Tenant Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 649

Legislature, night sittings, M. negatived 579

Legislature, sittings of and adjournment time, M. approved 34; amdt. negatived 34

Marijuana, John Munro's statements re (Motion 7) approved 794-5

Mineral Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 705

Municipal Finance Authority of British Columbia, An Act to Establish, 2R approved 742; 3R approved 777

Municipal Treatment Plant Assistance Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 378

Murray, W.H., election as Speaker approved 1

Pacific Great Eastern Construction Loan Act, 1954, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 567

Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company, An Act Respecting the Purchase of Unissued Shares of the Capital Stock, 2R approved 564

Pollution Control Act, 1967, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 756

Provincial Home-owner Grant Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 625

Public Schools Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 715

Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Printing, report, M. approved 771

Speaker's ruling sustained 340, 782, 783-4, 797-8

Special Committee of Legislature on B.C. Hydro (Motion 3) negatived 552

Succession Duty Act, An Act to Amend, 2R approved 611-2

Divorce

Cause of (McCarthy) 402

Legal fees for (Macdonald) 370

Doctors

See: Physicians

Dogfish

Canning of (Ney) 93

Dogwood Trails

Quoted (Nimsick) 752

Dollar, Canadian

Devaluation of (Price) 109

Dominion Construction Co.

Mentioned: (Skillings) 414

Dominion Drama Festival

Mentioned: (Wenman) 12

Domtar Chemicals Ltd.

Mentioned: (Strachan) 354

Dorset Place Apartments Ltd.

Cost of, estimate of (Williams, R) 131

Land, value of (Williams, R) 131

Douglas, Clifford

Social Credit Party economics, basis for (Dowding) 460

Douglas, Thomas Clement (Tommy)

Tribute to (Strachan) 346-7

Douglas College

Establishment of (Brothers) 303, 714

Dowding, Gordon H. (Burnaby-Edmonds)

Address in Reply 81, 143-5, 225-7

Ambulance service 622

Beverage containers, return of for refunds 676

Beverage containers, tin cans, return of 675

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Act, 1964, An Act to Amend 555-6

B.C. Hydro, electricity rates, increase in 143-4, 537-8

B.C. Hydro, financial operations, examination of Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts 537-8

B.C. Hydro, special committee of Legislature on capital financing and rate structure 536-8

Budget and references to recession 464

Budget debate 457-65

Budget, inflationary aspects of 463-4

Burnaby, Hastings Street, widening of 458

Burnaby, Marine Drive, relocation of 458

Buttle Lake, pollution of, court action on 727

Censorship, Denmark 629

Colleges, course offerings, decisions on 712

Columbia River Treaty, cost of 537

Columbia River Treaty, cost of power and treaty 143-5

Crown land, applicants for, citizenship requirement 661

Crown land, applicants for, corporations as applicants 661

Detained persons, right to make phone calls 459-60, 732

Director of Lands, powers of 662

Divide Lake, draining of 463

Divide Lake, use of by Bethlehem Copper Corp. 225, 226

Divide Lake, use of, compensation for 226

Divide Lake, use of, decision on 226

Economy of B.C., recession elsewhere 464

Economy of Canada and U.S. economic decisions 465

Electric power, demand for, increase in 538

Electric power development, two-river policy 143-.4

Electric power, future needs 536-7, 538

Expenditures, increase in 463-4

Expo '67, deficit 465

Grand Coulee Dam, compensation for water backup 145

Health Act, An Act to Amend 762

Highway 37, Stewart-Cassiar section, completion of 562

Highways department, cooperation with municipalities 457

Hospital Act, An Act to Amend 747-8

Hospitals, admission to, delay in, case cited 748

Hospitals, admission to, regulations re 747

Hospitals, public administrators, appointment of 747

Hugh Keenleyside Dam, cost of 144

Inflation 463-5

Inflation, control over 464

International Woodworkers of America, wage contract 464

Jurors, compensation for jury duty 636

Jury Act 636

Lac Le Jeune campsites, improvements to 226

Lakes, public ownership of 662

Lakes, sale of 226

Land Act 661-2

Land Act, referral of to committee of House 662

Land Act, regulations under act 662

Land Surveyors Act, An Act to Amend 665

Land surveyors, fees 665

Land surveyors, shortage of 665

Landlord and Tenant Act, An Act to Amend 646-7

Lawyers, insurance for 682

Legal Professions Act, An Act to Amend 682-3

Legislature, debates, printing of report of 786

Legislature, debates, recording and transcribing of 796-7

Legislature, debates, recording of all proceedings in House 797

Legislature, debates, recording of, use of tapes 796, 797

Legislature, debates, transcript of, provision of daily transcript 796

Legislature, press gallery, history of 459

Legislature, question period 459

Litter Act 675-6

Lumber prices 464

Marijuana, John Munro's statement re use of 792-3

Medical Act, An Act to Amend 699

Medical school undergraduates, provision for work by 699

Medicare program, role of opposition in adoption of 458

Mica Dam, completion of 538

Mica Dam construction, expenditure on 144

Mica Dam construction, feasibility study 144

Mineral Act, An Act to Amend 702-3

Mineral Processing Act 696-7

Mining claims, surface rights, purchase of 702-3

Motion Pictures, An Act Respecting 628-9

Moving pictures, censorship of 628-9

Moving pictures, classification of 628

Municipal grants, per capita grant and population figures 622

Municipal grants, per capita grant, increase in 622

Municipal Treatment Plant Assistance Act, An Act to Amend 380

Municipalities Aid Act, An Act to Amend 622

Nuclear power, development of 555-6

Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company, An Act Respecting the Purchase of Unissued Shares of the Capital Stock of 562

Pacific Great Eastern Railway, funding for 562

Pacific Great Eastern Railway shares, purchase of by government 562

Parks, acreage, reduction in 226-7

Parks, boundaries, changes in 226

Parks, timber, land trades for 225

Parliament, history of 458-9

Peace River, power development 538

Peace River power development, cost of power 536

Physicians, rules for specialists 699

Pollution Control Act, amendments proposed in 1966726-7

Pollution Control Act, 1967, An Act to Amend 726-7

Pollution Control Board, members 462

Pollution Control Board members, deputy ministers 727

Pollution Control Board members, ministers 727

Pollution control, ministry for 462

Pollution, control of 462

Pollution permits, issuing of, procedure for 462

Pollution standards, prosecutions for violation of 726

Professional Corporations Act 669

Professional corporations, names of, restrictions on 669

Professional corporations, tax benefits of 669

Public health services, charges for 762

Public Schools Act, An Act to Amend 712

Pulp mill, Okanagan site for 461

Rent, increases in 646

Rented premises, right of access for election candidates 647

Ringdal, Glen, allegations against MLAs, Investigation into 593

Ross Dam, raising of level of 462-3

Salmon fishing industry, independent commercial fishermen 465

Securities Act, An Act to Amend 731

Securities Commission hearings 731

Sewage treatment 380

Simon Fraser University, student protest, allegation re 460

Skagit Valley, application to International Joint Commission re 462

Skagit Valley, flooding of 462-3

Smelters, mineral production for 696-7

Social Credit Party economics, basis for 460

Summary Convictions Act, An Act to Amend 732

Supreme Court Act, An Act to Amend 635

Supreme Court of B.C., transcripts, 635

Tanker traffic on coast 727

Tenancy agreements, standard form for, proposal re 646-7

Traffic noise, urban areas 458

Trust companies, inspection of 731

Unemployment 465

Union boards of health, powers and duties 762

Universities, intervention in affairs of 460

Vancouver General Hospital Act, 1902, An Act to Amend 707

Vancouver General Hospital, administration of 707

Vancouver General Hospital, board of directors, representation on 707

Vancouver General Hospital bylaws, approval of by Health minister 707

Vancouver General Hospital, governing of by private Bill 707

W.A.C. Bennett Dam, cost of 144

Wage controls 464

Downey Creek, B.C.

Dam, construction of (Campbell, B.) 299

Dreidiger, George

Quoted (Strachan) 175

Drinka, John

Quoted (Brousson) 110

Driving, Automobile

See: Automobile driving

Le Droit, Ottawa, Ont.

Quoted (LeCours) 422

Dropouts

Dropouts (Tisdalle) 444-5

Drug abuse

Addicts, rehabilitation of, cases cited (Tisdale) 154

Drugs, use of, committee of Legislature on (Barrett) 782

Kitsilano area problem (Price) 106

Marijuana, LSD, Heroin, and Lysergic Drugs Are Illegally Available, An Act Inquiring into and a Survey of the Extent to Which. See name of act

Police powers (Price) 106

Problem (Tisdalle) 153, 154 (Wenman) 312-3

Soft drugs, policy on (Tisdalle) 154

Trafficker, case cited (Price) 106

Young people, drug abuse problem (Wenman) 13

Drug addiction

See: Drug abuse

Drugs

Prescription drugs, advertising of (Merilees) 79

Duncan, B.C.

Social services, cost of (Strachan) 620

Duncan Dam

Pondage, clearing of, funds for (Nimsick) 148

Mentioned: (Barrett) 150 (Campbell, B.) 14, 298 (Hartley) 545 (Throne speech) 6

Duncan Pictorial, Duncan, B.C.

Quoted (Strachan) 175

Dunsky, Menahem

Mentioned: (Capozzi) 170

Dunsky Advertising Ltd.

Employment of by Manitoba government (Capozzi) 170

Dwellings

Construction of, methods (McCarthy) 403

Construction of, new materials (Tisdale) 159

Cost of (Cocke) 331-2 (McCarthy) 402 (Williams, R) 124

Cost of, lower-cost housing (Merilees) 80

Cost of, U.S. costs (Tisdalle) 159

Prices of houses (Campbell, B.) 15 (Williams, R.) 124

Value of homes (Campbell, D.) 121