Province of British Columbia
32nd Parliament, 1st Session
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
June 6, 1979 to August 2, 1979

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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

Stadium, site of 181, 256

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

Cost of (Lauk) 1170, 1171

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.

Mentioned: (Skelly) 654, 655

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