PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
31st Parliament, 3rd Session
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
March 30, 1978 to June 29, 1978
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
IBEW
See: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBM Co. Ltd.
B.C. Systems Corp., computer replacement, bidding on (Levi) Q. 2547 (Wolfe) A. 2547
Mentioned: (Levi) 729
IDB
See: Industrial Development Bank
IDSA
Mentioned: (Phillips) 1689
ILO
See: International Labour Organization
INCO
See: International Nickel Ltd.
IOK Poultry Ltd.
See: Interior-Okanagan-Kootenay Poultry Ltd.
ISPCO
Mentioned: (Lauk) 1348, 1674, 1676, 1681
IT&T
See: International Telephone and Telegraph Co.
IWA
See: International Woodworkers of America
Illecillewaet River, B.C.
Restocking of (Bawlf) 888 (King) 885-6
Illing, Ray
Mentioned: (Bennett) 1045, 1354
Illiteracy
Problem in B.C. (Levi) 2000-1
Immigrant Services Society of B.C.
Mentioned: (McCarthy) 1410
Immigration
See: Emigration and immigration
Imperial Metals and Power Ltd.
Mentioned: (Gibson) 2536 (Lea) 1460
Imperial Oil Ltd.
Donation to Social Credit Party (Lauk) 1057-8
Natural gas price increase application (Macdonald) 2121
Profits (Macdonald) 678
Mentioned: (Gibson) 1048, 2536 (Lauk) 1057, 1059 (Lea) 1327, 1467 (Lockstead) 1359
Income
Income distribution (Brown) 603-4
Per capita income in B.C. (Gibson) 64
Income, Guaranteed
Elderly, increase in pensions to (Lockstead) 311
GAIN, cost of living allowance (D’Arcy) 597, 599
GAIN exemption, increase in (Brown) 1172-3
GAIN, increase in (Gibson) 297
GAIN, indexing of (Brown) 1624-7 (Gibson) 79, Q. 2306 (Vander Zalm) A. 2306
GAIN, indexing of, cost (Brown) 1626
GAIN payments, complaints re receipt of (Lockstead) 311
GAIN programme, appropriation for (Brown) 1661-2 (Stupich) 281 (Vander Zalm) 1662
Guaranteed annual income (Bennett) 1175 (Brown) 1175
Income assistance to group aged 60 to 64 (Levi) 1620-1
Long-term care recipients, GAIN payments to (D’Arcy) 597
Income Tax
Finance Statutes Amendment Act, 1978. See name of act
Exemption level, increase in (Wolfe) 265
Increase in (Stupich) 587
Inflation, indexing of (Wolfe) 265
Reduction in (Gibson) 299 (Stephens) 99
Revenue and corporate tax revenue (Levi) 496-7, 664
Revenue, return to B.C. (Stupich) 739 (Wolfe) 739
Revenue source (Barber) 1154
Tax rebaters (Mair) 1883
Income Tax Act
Mentioned: (Gardom) 2079, 2102 (Wolfe) 852
Income Tax Act (Canada)
Mentioned: (Curtis) 433 (Wolfe) 256, 1384, 2510
Income tax branch
Employees, relocation of (Wolfe) 690
Independent Contractors and Businessmen's Association
Right-to-work campaign (Lauk) Q. 2457 (Phillips) A. 2457
Mentioned: (King) 1582
Independent Logging Association of B.C.
See: British Columbia Independent Logging Association
Independent schools
See: Private schools
Independent Schools Support Act
Mentioned: (Cocke) 1936, 2032 (Dailly) 1939, 2033 (McGeer) 1944
Indian Act
Mentioned: (Skelly) 1589
Indian Centre Society of Vancouver
Mentioned: (Brown) 2065
Indian Friendship Centre, Duncan, B.C.
Funds for (Wallace) 1594-5
Indian Homemakers' Association of B.C.
Work of (Brown) 1444
Mentioned: (Brown) 1443 (McCarthy) 1446
Indians
Cut-off lands, additional land as compensation for (Williams) 1591
Cut-off lands, commission on (Skelly) 1592
Cut-off lands, compensation for (Williams) 1590
Cut-off lands, Lions Gate Bridge footings area (Gibson) 1597
Cut-off lands, negotiations on (Skelly) 1590, 1592 (Williams) 1590, 1598-9
Cut-off lands, return of (Skelly) 1590, 1592 (Williams) 1590
Economic development projects for (Skelly) 1588
Forest industry, opportunities in (King) 2319 (Shelford) 2365 (Wallace) 2434-5
Hunting regulations, review of (Bawlf) 653
Indian bands as municipalities (Gibson) 1503
Land claims against B.C. and confederation (Skelly) 1587-8 (Wallace) 1594 (Williams) 1590
Land claims, method of settlement (Gibson) 1597
Lands, taxes on (Skelly) 1589-90 (Williams) 1591
Taxes and social welfare services (Skelly) 1589 (William) 1591-2
Vander Zalm, W.N., statement re return to reservations (Brown) Q. 2397, Q. 2398 (Bennett) A. 2397
Women's Correctional Institute inmates (Brown) 2065-6 (Gardom) 2069
Indians — Reserves
Road maintenance (Chabot) 2642
Industrial accidents
Increase in (Wallace) 1595-6
Prevention of (Wallace) 1595, 1596
Industrial Development Bank
Mentioned: (Levi) 139
Industrial relations
B.C. Research Council work (William) 1566
Employee ownership (Gibson) 1604
Industrial democracy (Gibson) 1604 (Williams) 1566
Industrial democracy, conference on (Barber) 1564-6
Industrial research
See: Research, Industrial
Industrial safety
Inspections by occupational environment branch (Williams) 1554
Industrial sites
Delta industrial park (Davidson) 12
San Mateo county, Calif. (McGeer) 2522
Industrialization
Development, community plebiscite on (Shelford) 136
Environmentalists' opposition to (Skelly) 177
Industries
High-technology industry, growth of (McGeer) 2519
High-technology industry, price increases in products of (McGeer) 2520
Industry — Social aspects
Evils perpetrated by private enterprise (Brown) 104
Infants
Infant development programme (Vander Zalm) 1276
Infant development programme, income test for (Gibson) 1273
Inflation (Finance)
Contributory factors (Skelly) 1717
Cost-of-living indexation and inflation (Gibson) 793-4
Decrease in (Bennett) 222
Level of in B.C. (Bennett) 947, 1198-9
Problem (Bennett) 223 (Gibson) 289 (Loewen) 350 (Phillips) 157 (Shelford) 400 (Wolfe) 251
Tax revenue and inflation (Bennett) 947
Inheritance and transfer tax
Succession duties, abolition of (Barrett) 29 (Cocke) 635 (Macdonald) 674 (Wolfe) 680
Succession duties, abolition of and investment in B.C. (Levi) 497, 666 (Skelly) 572 (Stupich) Q. 155 (Wolfe) A. 155
Succession duties, reinstitution of (Barrett) 477
Initiation and Approval of Legislation by the Electors, An Act to Provide for
Proclamation of Act (Gibson) Q. 850, 1334-5, 1336 (Gardom) A. 850
Inland Natural Gas Ltd.
Mentioned: (D’Arcy) 422 (Lauk) 2373 (Macdonald) 197
Inner Harbour
See entries under Victoria, B.C.
Insulation (Heat)
Insulation material, removal of sales tax (Skelly) 781, 783 (Wolfe) 782
Insurance, Agricultural — Crop
Crop insurance programme (Hewitt) 2127
Insurance, Automobile
Private companies, loss of good risks to (Sanford) 1973-4, 1978
Private companies, return of to B.C. (Cooke) Q. 972 (McGeer) A. 972
See also: Insurance Corp. of B.C.
Insurance, Medical
See: Medical care, Prepaid
Insurance, Pharmaceutical services
Diabetics' needs, coverage for (Lauk) 796, 797 (Wolfe) 797
Pharmacare, appropriation for (Wolfe) 261
Pharmcare benefits, women and children (Vander Zalm) 116
Pharmacare, universal coverage (Bawlf) 568-9
Insurance Bureau of Canada
Mentioned: (Cocke) 1965-6
Insurance Corp. of B.C.
Actuary, advertisement for in San Francisco Examiner (Cocke) Q. 2611, Q. 2765 (McGeer) A. 2765
Borrowing by, 1977 to date (Cocke) Q. 723 (McGeer) A. 723
Claimants, P.L. McGeer's statements re (Stephens) 992-3, 994
Claim for broken windows, Hall-Gray broadcasting station (King) Q. 2763
Claims, amount of and effect on reserves (McGeer) 1979
Claims, amount of and rate increases (Stephens) 1979
Claims, disparity in awards made (Macdonald) 1981-2 (McGeer) 1979, 1980 (Stephens) 1980-1
Claims, increase in amount of (McGeer) 1979-80
Claims involving vehicles insured by Royal Insurance Co. (Cocke) Q. 2307 (McGeer) A. 2307
Claims, proposal for no-fault system (Cocke) 1976 (King) 1985 (McGeer) 1976 (Stephens) 1978-9, 1981
Claims service, agreements with private companies (Cocke) Q. 972 (McGeer) A. 972
Employees, bonuses paid to (Cocke) Q. 336 (McGeer) A. 336
Employees, right to bargain for pensions (King) 2751 (McGeer) 2750-1 (Sanford) 2749-50, 2751
Executive development programme (McGeer) 1967
Executives, 1975 advertisements in U.S., Great Britain (Strongman) Q. 2765
Forms, supplying by Ontario firm (Cocke) Q. 1040-1 (McGeer) A. 1079-80
Grant, March, 1976 (Barrett) 964 (Gibson) 290 (King) 1984-5 (Macdonald) 673, 810, 1984 (Stupich) 811
Head office, locating of in New Westminster (Cocke) 468 (Loewen) 472
Investment holdings (Cocke) Q. 722 (McGeer) A. 722
Loans, names of companies and amount of loans (Cocke) Q. 723 (McGeer) A. 723
Loss under former government (Bennett) 961
Losses (McGeer) 302
Political interference in (Cocke) Q. 2765
Premiums, cyclical renewal system (McGeer) 1968
Premiums, rates, comparisons with other provinces (McGeer) 1974-5 (Sanford) 1974, 1977, 1978
President. See also entries under Sherrell, Robert
Private companies, loss of good risks to (Sanford) 1973-4, 1978
Rates, increase in (D’Arcy) 427-8 (Macdonald) 1982-3 (McGeer) 1984
Rates, young drivers (King) 1985
Reserves, increase in (Macdonald) 1982-3 (McGeer) 1979
Revenue (D’Arcy) 597
Royal Insurance Co. Ltd., charges to for claims services (Cocke) Q. 911-2 (McGeer) A. 912
Safe driver discount (Kerster) 1977 (Macdonald) 1983 (McGeer) 1983-4 (Sanford) 1973
Telephone, free long-distance calls (D’Arcy) 420
Truck parts, retail price charged by dealers (Cocke) Q. 2517 (McGeer) A. 2517
West, Susan, claim to corporation (Cocke) 1969, 1976-7 (McGeer) 1975-6
Mentioned: (Barber) 613, 618, 766, 769, 1152, 1439 (Barnes) 411, 416 (Barrett) 40, 959 (Bawtree) 1865 (Brown) 107, 604 (Cocke) 706, 1927, 1931, 1946 (D’Arcy) 1764 (Gardom) 2104 (Gibson) 154, 291, 298, 706, 788, 2721, 2722, 2725 (Jordan) 626 (Kerster) 1749 (Lauk) 55, 1289 (Lea) 343, 2603 (Lockstead) 310 (Macdonald) 676, 2108, 2531 (McGeer) 245, 371, 1945 (Nicolson) 1110, 2622 (Nielsen) 1834 (Sanford) 441, 2665, 2718 (Skelly) 394 (Vander Zalm) 1648 (Wallace) 319 (Wolfe) 690, 2667
Insurers' Advisory Organization
Mentioned: (McGeer) 1974 (Sanford) 1974
Inter-American Development Bank
Mentioned: (Skelly) 1715
Interest and usury
Interest rate (Macdonald) 194-5
Intercoast Resources Corp.
Queen Charlotte Island oil shales, exploration permits (Chabot) 1464, 1465 (Lea) 1463-4, 1465
Report quoted (Lea) 1465
Interior-Okanagan-Kootenay Poultry Ltd.
Poultry plant, establishment of (Hewitt) 2154 (Stupich) 2153-4
Interior Vegetable Marketing Board
See: British Columbia Interior Vegetable Marketing Board
Intermediate care
See: Nursing homes
International boundaries
See name of country with subdivision Boundaries, e.g. Canada — Boundaries
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Mentioned: (Wallace) 1596
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America
Vlahovic, Jack, report of hearings (Gibson) Q. 335, 1597 (Williams) A. 335, 1600
Mentioned: (Dailly) 647
International Monetary Fund
Mentioned: (Skelly) 1715
International Nickel Ltd.
Mentioned: (King) 2315, 2316 (Macdonald) 196, 1185
International Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Mentioned: (Cocke) 1964, 1965 (D’Arcy) 423
International Woodworkers of America
Doman Industries Ltd. sawmill, union activities prior to collective agreement (Wallace) Q. 268-9 (Phillips) A. 369, A. 370 (Stephens) Q. 370, Q. 455
Press release quoted (Gibson) 2420 (Levi) 2415
Report quoted (Lauk) 2376
Telegrams quoted (King) 2388 (Stephens) 2363
Mentioned: (Bennett) 224 (Cocke) 2378, 2379 (Gibson) 2356, 2725 (Haddad) 2427, 2428 (King) 2312, 2389 (Lauk) 55, 381, 1695, 1696 (Levi) 2416 (Macdonald) 1584, 1585 (Nicolson) 1587 (Phillips) 161 (Rogers) 201 (Sanford) 2417 (Shelford) 1586 (Skelly) 2384, 2422, 2424 (Wallace) 2431 (Waterland) 1531, 2444 (Williams) 1587
Interpretation Act
Mentioned: (Gardom) 2696, 2697 (Waterland) 2767, 2768
Inter-Provincial Lottery Corporation
Advertising budget, amount of and percentage spent in B.C. (Gibson) Q. 2645 (McCarthy) A. 2645
Interprovincial Pipe and Steel Co. Ltd.
Mentioned: (Lauk) 244
Intersection, Surrey, B.C.
Mentioned: (Brown) 1165
Inventions
Encouragement, application of in B.C. (Kohl) 644
Investment, Capital
See: Capital investments
Investment of public funds
Investment officer (Wolfe) 691
Investments, interest on (Stupich) 737, 740 (Wolfe) 737
Temporary investments (Gibson) 763
Term investments, length of (Stupich) 809-10
Irrigation
ARDA agreement (Hewitt) 329
Irving, K.C.
Newspaper case cited (Levi) 1905 (Mair) 1905
Irwin, W.S.
Work load (Levi) 2502
Tribute to (Mair) 2502
Island Copper Mine
Tailings, disposal of (Nielsen) 1875 (Sanford) 1874
Island Highway
See: Highway 19
Island Youth Centre, Brannan Lake, B.C.
B.C. Buildings Corp. work on (Stupich) Q. 1363, Q. 1576 (Fraser) A. 1363, A. 1367, A. 1576
Closing of (Levi) 1623
Staff (Vander Zalm) 1634
Status as correctional institute, date of change in (Gardom) 2096 (Stupich) 2094, 2096
Use as tourist facility (Stupich) Q. 1363, 1397-8 (McCarthy) A. 1363
Use for heroin treatment (Cocke) Q. 1366 (Fraser) A. 1367
Use for heroin treatment, date of decision on (Stupich) Q. 1425, Q. 1426 (Bennett) A. 1426
Use for heroin treatment, effect of on surrounding community (Gardom) 2096 (Stupich) 2095, 2096
Use of (Stupich) Q. 1143, Q. 1266, 1782, 1784
Use of, decision on (McCarthy) 1399-1400 (Stupich) 1398, 1399
Mentioned: (Brown) 1612 (D’Arcy) 2253
Islands Protection Society
Mentioned: (Cocke) 2379 (Skelly) 2424
Islands Trust Act
Amendments to (Curtis) 430
Isotopes
Facility, construction of (Cocke) 1671 (Gibson) 1671 (Lauk) 1673 (McGeer) 1671 (Phillips) 1677
Israel
Aerospace industry (Gibson) 96
Itel of Canada
B.C. Systems Corp., computer replacement, bidding on (Levi) Q. 2547 (Wolfe) A. 2547