Province of British Columbia
32nd Parliament, 1st Session
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
June 6, 1979 to August 2, 1979
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
DATE
See: Demonstration of Agricultural Technology and Economics program
DDT
Mentioned: (Gabelmann) 656 (Mair) 654
DREE
See: Canada-Regional Economic Expansion, Department of
Dailly, Eileen E. (Burnaby North)
Alcoholism treatment, expenditure on 877
Attorney-General ministry, estimates 522-3, 536, 539, 540
B.C. Government News, April issue of, extra staff for 986, 1032
B.C. Government News, pre-election issue 986, 1032, 1033
B.C. Buildings Corp. directors, payment to, form of and amounts, Q. 652
B.C. Buildings Corp. employees, number of, Q. 184
B.C. Ferry Corp. employees, number of, Q. 184
B.C. Systems Corp. employees, number of, Q. 184
Burnaby General Hospital, budget restraint and patient care 818-9
Burnaby General Hospital, dietary cutbacks 819
Burnaby General Hospital staff, cutback in 819
Caldwell, Margaret, dismissal of, board of inquiry decision on 591
Captain Cook Bicentennial celebration, cost of 1032
Children in foster care, adoption of by foster parents 910-1
Children, illegitimate, discrimination against 523
Colleges, degree-granting status, precedent in use of private bill for 1139
Committee on Crown Corporations, member 442
Consumer and Corporate Affairs ministry, estimates 547-8
Drunken driving, teenage drivers 522-3
Education Statutes Amendment Act (1979) 718, 719, 720
Education, Science and Technology ministry, estimates 590-1, 622-3
Environment ministry, estimates 676-7, 678-9
Finance ministry, estimates 337
Fire prevention, appropriation for 539, 540
Fraternal organizations, assessments of 337
Gabry, Bill, financial assistance to 676, 677
Giddy Up Go Ltd., racehorse transport licence, Q. 5, Q. 186
“Good Times `79” booklet, distribution of, Q. 416
Greater Vancouver Regional District, study on property tax formula 785
Health care costs, increase in 818
Health ministry, estimates 818-20, 877, 878
Heroin addiction treatment, expenditure on 877
Human Resources ministry, estimates 910-1
Illiteracy 622
Independent school grants, figures used as basis for 718
Independent school grants, use of 718, 719
Independent schools, discriminatory practices by 591
Learning disabilities, children's diagnostic centre for 622
Lottery funds, placing of in general revenue 986
Lottery grant, breakwater study, North Saanich 986
Lottery grants, alleged political bias in 985-6
Lottery grants, criteria for 986
Lottery grants, publication of 985
Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre, extensions, renovations to 536
Lower Mainland Stadium Fund Act 181, 256
Medicare in Canada, history of 818
Members, female, references to 679
Metro Transit Operating Company Act 785
Neighbourhood pubs, licensing of 547-8
Nursing homes, smoke detectors, use of lottery funds for 540
Open Learning Institute, teaching of illiterates 622
Post-Secondary Education in British Columbia, timing of distribution of 590-1
Provincial Secretary and Government Services ministry, estimates 985-7, 1032, 1033, 1042
Pub, North Burnaby, licensing of 547-8
Public service employees, number of, Q. 184
Public service, increase in under present government 1042
St. Thomas Aquinas High School, alleged discriminatory practices, investigation of 622
St. Thomas Aquinas High School, funding of and alleged discrimination by 591
Salt Spring Island Golf and Country Club, lottery grant to, Q. 627, 986
School districts, number of, reduction in 622
Schools, enrolment figures, submission of 720
Select Standing Committee on Standing Orders and Private Bills, member 442
Sports facilities, provision of for children 181
Teachers, transfer of, transfer procedures 719
Transit problems, Burnaby 785
Transit, transfer of cost to homeowners 785
Traps, leg-hold, ban on and demand for furs 679
Traps, leg-hold, partial ban on use of 677
Trinity Western College Act, An Act to Amend 1143-4
Trinity Western College faculty members, signing of statement of belief by 1144
Trinity Western College, degree-granting status of, use of private bill for 1138
Trinity Western College, federal funds for 1138, 1144
Trinity Western College, provincial funds for 1139, 1144
Trinity Western College students, loan assistance to 622
Trinity Western College, Universities Council's review of 1138
Wolves, control of, use of lithium chloride for, Q. 254
Wolves, poisoning of, Q. 254, 676, 677
Wolves, poisoning of, U.S. policy on, Q. 254-5
Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C.
Quoted (Barrett) 378 (King) 134, 293
Mentioned: (Barrett) 6, 211 (Gardom) 12 (Hanson) 12 (Howard) 942 (McClelland) 255, 371 (Mitchell) 855
Dairy Commission
See: Canada-Dairy Commission
Dams
Water licences, granting of for power projects (Mair) 649
Daon Development Corp.
Mentioned: (Bennett) 366
D'Arcy, Christopher (Rossland-Trail)
B.C. Hydro, Columbia River power development, expenditures on, Q. 625
B.C. Hydro, Columbia River projects, expenditure required to complete, Q. 625
B.C. Hydro directors, remuneration to, Q. 250
B.C. Hydro, Peace River projects, expenditures on, total cost of, Q. 625
B.C. Hydro, real property taxes, payment of 465
B.C. Hydro, transmission costs, assessment of 464
B.C. Hydro, Vancouver Island hydroelectric sites 464
B.C. Petroleum Corp. directors, remuneration to, Q. 250
Coal mining, 1978, tonnage mined, Q. 251
Coal, royalty and land tax 1978, total paid, Q. 251
Columbia River Treaty, amount received under treaty, Q. 625
Cominco Ltd., sale of power by 1109
Copper concentrates, 1978, tonnage produced, value of, royalty on, Q. 625
Electric power producers, retroactive designation of 1108
Electric power, surplus, export of 1108, 1109
Electric power, surplus, protection of consumers 1107-8, 1109
Electric power, surplus, sale of to B.C. consumers 1108
Energy Amendment Act (1979) 1107-8, 1108, 1109
Energy policy for province 463-4
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, estimates 463-5, 466-7
Gasoline, shortage of in B.C. 465
Geothermal power, sites 464-5, 467
Heating oil, shortage of 465
Kemano 2 project 465
Lechner, George, resignation of 465
Natural gas sale, prices paid, bonus paid, 1976 to 1979, Q. 725
Petroleum resources sale, prices paid, bonus paid, 1976 to 1979, Q. 725
Petroleum, Alaskan, B.C. port for 466
Petroleum, Alaskan, for B.C. 464
Petroleum, alternative source to Alberta oil 464
Recreational areas, granting of to private developers 1016
Resort Municipality of Whistler Amendment Act (1979) 1015-6
Select Standing Committee on Environment and Resources, member 442
Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd., natural gas line, looping of 464, 466-7
Whistler resort, TIDS agreement funds committed to 1016
Wood waste, energy source 464
Wood waste, energy source, recovery of base metals 464
Daum, Herbert
Air ambulance for treatment, delay in (Passarell) Q. 121
Davidson, Walter K. (Delta) , Committee on Crown Corporations. member 442
Select Standing Committees on Standing Orders and Private Bills member 442
Select Standing Committee on Transportation and Communications, member 442
Davis, Jack (North Vancouver-Seymour)
Address in reply 14-6
Air pollution standards 664-5, 686-7
Alcan pipeline project 1062
B.C. Ferry Corp., freight rates 1062
B.C. Ferry Corp., subsidy to 1062
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (1964) Amendment Act (1979) 288-91
B.C. Hydro borrowing, percentage of gross national product 290
B.C. Hydro, export of power by 290-1
B.C. Railway, debt 1062
B.C. Railway, subsidy to 1061-2
Coal, electric power generation from, environmental aspects of 562
Coal, electric power generation from, export of 562
Coal, Kootenays, power generation 15-6, 468, 562-3
Coal, two-price system for 406
Coal wastes, Kootenays, energy source 15-6
Committee on Crown Corporations, member 442
Economic development 562-3
Economic Development ministry, estimates 562-3
Electric power generation, use of coal 290
Electric power generation, wood wastes 289-90
Electric power, cost per kilowatt 289
Electric power, development projects 15
Electric power, export of surplus 15-6
Electric power, sale of by industry 290
Electric power, water power 288-9
Energy conservation, price as factor in 467
Energy policy for province 467, 468
Energy resources, development of 289
Energy sources 15
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, estimates 467-8
Energy, two-price system for 406
Environment ministry, estimates 663-5, 686-7
Environment ministry, Great Britain, jurisdiction of 663-4
Executive council, estimates 405-6
Freight rates, Crowsnest Pass rates 1061
Freight rates, decrease in 1060
Great Lakes water quality agreement 664
Hat Creek power project, pollution control costs 664-5
Manufactured goods, two-price system for 405-6
McNaughton Plan, environmental impact of 665
Mission to Coquitlam, commuter trains 1062
Natural gas, Vancouver Island pipeline 290, 468
Natural resources, export tax on 406
Nuclear power 15-6
Nuclear power in province 289, 290
Payment to (D’Arcy) Q. 250 (Hewitt) A. 250, 251
Petro Canada, role of 406
Petroleum, Alberta, supply of 467
Petroleum, Beaufort Sea, source for B.C. 467
Petroleum as energy source, alternatives to 289
Petroleum pipeline, Alcan route 467
Petroleum pipeline, eastern Canada, subsidization of 468
Petroleum, Transmountain Oil Pipeline Co. 467-8
Petroleum, two-price system for 406
Power production, pollution costs of 665
Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Economic Affairs, member 442
Smelters, refineries, discharge of sulphur dioxide by 686
STOL airstrip in downtown Victoria 1062
Transportation, Communications and Highways ministry, estimates 1059-63
Transportation, competition between modes of 1060-1, 1062
Transportation, regulation of by government 1060, 1061, 1062
Transportation, subsidization of by government 1060
Transportation, user-pay basis for 1060-2
Tug and barge industry 1062
VIA Rail, establishment of 1062
Water quality agreement, west coast, proposal for 664
Davis, William
Mentioned: (Lea) 558
Davison, Michael
Mentioned: (Wolfe) 322
Dawson, Isabel
Mentioned: (McCarthy) 881
Dawson, McGregor
Government of Canada quoted (Macdonald) 1172
Day care
See: Day nurseries
Day nurseries
Child-care facilities, shortage of (Gabelmann) 901
Day-care centres, closing of (Brown) 890, 908-9 (McCarthy) 897
Day-care centres, serving of lunch (Brown) 891-2, 908
Day-care facilities, 24-hour care in crisis situations (Brown) 908
Day-care facilities, under-3-year-olds (Brown) 908
Day care, appropriation for (Brown) 890-1
Day care, subsidy for (Brown) 891, 909 (McCarthy) 896
Home-care program (McCarthy) 896
Deaf Advocate
Mentioned: (Cocke) 623
Deaf children
See: Children, Deaf
Deas Island Highway
See: Highway 99
Deas Island tunnel
See entries under Highway 99
Dease Lake, B.C.
Emergency nurse services for (McClelland) 865
First aid station, need for (Passarell) 824
Medical services (Passarell) 45
Telegraph Creek-Dease Lake road (Passarell) 1063
DeBeck, H.D.
Mentioned: (Mair) 649
Debt Collection Act
Mentioned: (Nielsen) 543
Debtor and creditor
Debt collection legislation, review of (Nielsen) 543-4
Debts, Public
Debt per capita (Wolfe) 323
Debt under former government (Cocke) 164-5 (Leggatt) 118 (Stupich) 26 (Wolfe) 168
Debt under former government, increase in, estimate of (Stupich) 324, 344-5, 345-6 (Wolfe) 327, 343, 345
Debt under former government, interest on (Howard) 160-1 (McClelland) 30 (Stupich) 162
Debt under former government, repayment of (Howard) 161 (Wolfe) 167
Debt, interest charge on (Howard) 337, 338 (Stupich) 348
Debt, reduction in (Hyndman) 74
Debt, repayment of (Howard) 337-8
Debts guaranteed by province (Howard) 338-9
Deficits, debt per capita, other provinces (Howard) 338 (Wolfe) 323
Increase in (Cocke) 300
de Cotret, J. Robert
Mentioned: (Smith) 615
Delegated legislation
Regulations, reduction in number of (Bennett) 1173
Rights of individuals in regulatory matters (Wolfe) 349
Delta, B.C.
Police investigation and Tsawwassen Beach disturbance (Macdonald) Q. 1031 (Gardom) A. 1031
Delta Hospital, Delta, B.C.
Mentioned: (McClelland) 795
Delta River Inn, Richmond, B.C.
Mentioned: (McGeer) 262
Demonstration of Agricultural Technology and Economics program
Mentioned: (Hewitt) 451
Denison Mines Ltd.
Romania, coal sale to (Phillips) 551
Romania, coal sale to, contract price (Leggatt) 550
Mentioned: (Leggatt) 693
Denman Island, B.C.
Seaview Land Estates subdivision (Fraser) 1057 (Sanford) Q. 419, Q. 503, 1056
Dental care
Children, special needs of, appropriation for (McCarthy) 915
Denticare program (Heinrich) 8 (McClelland) 31 (Mitchell) 14 (Segarty) 56 (Wolfe) 24
Denticare program, cost of (McClelland) 871 (Stupich) 324 (Wolfe) 327
Denticare program, planning for (Stupich) 866
Deregulation, Ministry of
Estimates 349-53
Speakers: Barber 353; Barrett 351-2, 352-3; Hall 350-1; Wolfe 349-50, 352, 353
Achievements (Wolfe) 349-50
Correspondence and complaints dealt with (Barrett) 352-3 (Hall) 351
Deregulation board (Hall) 350 (Wolfe) 352
Establishment of (Segarty) 56
Function of (Hall) 1160-1 (Stupich) 1162 (Wolfe) 349
Land use approvals, task forces on (Wolfe) 350
Obsolete Statutes Repeal Act, inclusion of under Act (Hall) 1102
Purpose of ministry (Wolfe) 349
Staff (Hall) 350
Deregulation, Ministry of, Act
Repeal of (Hall) 1102
de Roo, Remi
Mentioned: (Sanford) 933
Devonian Foundation
Grants from for parkland acquisition (Chabot) 961
De Vries, Celia (Mrs. Frank)
Tribute to (McCarthy) 897
DeVries, Frank
Tribute to (McCarthy) 897
Diabetes
Supplies, sales tax exemption (Wolfe) 24, 98
Dialysis
Dialysis machine for Prince George Regional Hospital (Heinrich) 826
Dialysis service, development of (McClelland) 813
Dialysis service in North Okanagan (Jordan) 813
Diet
Dietary supplements, sales tax exemption (Wolfe) 98
Dieticians
Registration Act, proposed (McClelland) 871 (Stupich)
Discovery Parks Inc.
High-technology industries, development of (McGeer) 587
Patricia Bay branch, proposed (McGeer) 597
Property for (McGeer) 263
Disney, Walt
Mentioned: (Kempf) 824 (Mair) 678
Dividends
B.C.-based companies, tax credit and investments in (Howard) 190
B.C.-based companies, tax credit for (Howard) 107-8, 188-9, 191 (Stupich) 107, 190-1 (Wolfe) 24, 106, 110, 1909 191
B.C.-based companies, tax credit for, hypothetical cases (Howard) 188-9
B.C.-based companies, tax credit for, revenue loss (Howard) 191 (Wolfe) 191
Tax credit for, Quebec scheme (Howard) 188 (Wolfe) 188
Divine Light Mission
Mentioned: (Gardom) 1124
Diving, Submarine
Skindivers, fishing industry, Workers' Compensation Board responsibility for (Howard) Q. 701, 942
Skindivers, working conditions of, Workers' Compensation Board inspection of (Howard) Q. 701
Divisions
Address in reply approved 20
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (1964) Amendment Act, 1979, 2R approved 315-6
British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation Amendment Act, 1979, amdt. to sec. 1 negatived 244; amdt. to sec. 2 negatived 429; amdt. to sec. 17 negatived 434; amdts. to sec. 18 negatived 434, 436, 439
Budget approved 92
Chairman's ruling sustained 780
Education Statutes Amendment Act, 1979, 2R approved 643
Forests, Ministry of, estimates, vote 117 approved 772
Health minister's salary reduced by $1, M. negatived 863
Income Tax Amendment Act, 1979, sec. 4 approved 192; amdt. to sec. 5 negatived 212; sec. 5 approved 226
Lands, Parks and Housing, Ministry of, Act, 211 approved 714; motion that the committee rise and report the bill complete approved 774
Lower Mainland Stadium Fund Act, sec. 1 approved 257
Metro Transit Operating Company Act, 211 approved 787; committee approved 1110
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 1979, amdt. to sec. 19 negatived 1113
Motion that David Barrett be suspended from the service of the House for one sitting day approved 1119
Motion that Alexander Barrett Macdonald be suspended from the service of the House for one sitting day approved 418
Motion that strangers in the House be ordered to withdraw negatived 233
Motion that the Chairman do now leave the chair negatived 248
Motion that the committee rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again negatived 225, 247, 410, 451, 476
Public Schools Amendment Act, 1979, amdt. to sec. 1 negatived 277; sec. 1 approved 284
Resort Municipality of Whistler Amendment Act, 1979, 2R approved 1086; amdt. to sec. 1 negatived 1130
Revenue Surplus of 1977-78 Appropriation Act, 1979, title approved 182, 183
Select Standing Committee on Standing Orders and Private Bills, adoption of third report (Motion 8) , approved 1142
Speaker's ruling sustained 321, 1089
Dixon Entrance, B.C.
Boundaries, enforcement of (Leggatt) 404
Jurisdiction over (Leggatt) 690
Doctors, Medical
See: Physicians
Doman, H.
Payments to, 1976 to 1978 (Phillips) 1091
Doman Industries Ltd.
Duke Point plant, electric power for (Hewitt) 462
Profits and employees (Wallace) 54
Mentioned: (Skelly) 463 (Stupich) 555 (Waterland) 311
Dome Petroleum Ltd.
Mentioned: (Howard) 1089 (McClelland) 1088
Domestic workers
See: Servants
Dominion Stores Ltd.
Mentioned: (Nielsen) 374
Donovan, Mike
Mentioned: (McCarthy) 926
Dosanjh, Ujjal
Tribute to (Rogers) 19
Douglas, C.H.
Mentioned: (Barrett) 1018
Douglas, Thomas Clement
Mentioned: (Barber) 1141 (Dailly) 818 (Leggatt) 403 (McClelland) 820
Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C.
Parking, provision for (Cocke) 633, 703-4, 704 (Vander Zalm) 634
Relocation of (Cocke) 633, 634, 704 (Vander Zalm) 634
Mentioned: (McClelland) 793
Doukhobors
Lawlessness, arson in Doukhobor community (Gardom) 516 (Nicolson) 513-5
Problems, examination of by Select Standing Committee on Labour and Justice (Nicolson) 514
Dow Chemical Co.
Dow-Jones Wire Service
Mentioned: (Nicolson) 312
Dowding, Gordon
Mentioned: (Gardom) 483 (Lauk) 1119
Downtown Eastside Residents Association
Mentioned: (Hyndman) 145
Draper, Martin
Letter quoted (Barber) 129
Drinking and traffic accidents
Fatalities, coroner's procedure in (Gardom) 487-8
Fatalities, Crown prosecutor's procedure in (Smith) 488
Fatalities, reduced charges in (Gardom) 487-8 (Jordan) 491-2 (Macdonald) 486-7, 488
Fatalities, reduced charges in, cases cited (Jordan) 491-2 (Macdonald) 486-7
See also: Drunken driving
Driver Development Corp. Ltd.
Mentioned: (Levi) 1023
Driving, Safe
See: Traffic safety
Driving under the influence of alcohol
See: Drunken driving
Drug, Alcohol and Cigarette Education, Prevention and Rehabilitation Fund
Interest on fund, expenditure of (Howard) 862
Drugs
Prescribing of (Cocke) 631 (McClelland) 632
Drunken driving
BATmobiles, use of (Gardom) 516 (Nicolson) 515
Counterattack program (Gardom) 516, 523
Counterattack, lottery grant for (Curtis) 988
Teenage drivers (Dailly) 522-3 (Gardom) 523
See also: Breathalyser
Drury, C.M.
Mentioned: (Leggatt) 489
Ducks Unlimited
Mentioned: (Nicolson) 663
Duckk on Broadway Ltd.
Mentioned: (Cocke) 192
Duff, Wilson
The Indian History of British Columbia mentioned (Hanson) 596
Duguid, Donald
Payments to, 1976 to 1978 (Phillips) 1091
Salary (Leggatt) Q. 372-3
Duke Point industrial site
See entries under Nanaimo, B.C.
Duncan, W.A.
Fees and expenses of (Fraser) 999
Duncan, B.C.
Alcoholism, treatment facilities for (Wallace) 878
Duncan Dam
Mentioned: (King) 291
Dunhill Development Corp.
Hayesville mobile-home park (Chabot) A. 459-60
Mentioned: (Chabot) 460 (Lea) 460
Duvall, James
Tribute to (Rogers) 19
Dwellings
Home improvement tax incentive (Smith) 81