Province of British Columbia
33rd Parliament, 1st Session
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
June 23, 1983 to February 9, 1984

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UBCM

See: Union of B.C. Municipalities

UBC Reports

Mentioned: (Gabelmann) 1646

U.S. News and World Report

Mentioned: (Passarell) 1515

U Thant

Quoted (Brown) 550

Uncles at Large

Mentioned: (Reynolds) 306

Underground water

See: Water, Underground

Unemployment

Alberni constituency (Skelly) 30

Burnaby-Edmonds constituency (Brown) 33

Cost of (Gabelmann) 986

Effects of (Blencoe) 126 (Brown) 35-6 (Dailly) 23 (Sanford) 447-9, 451

Employment-bridging assistance program. See name of program

Inflation rate, effect on (Sanford) 138

Job training and unemployment (Gabelmann) 3132-3 (Lea) 2951

Private sector, job loss (Bennett) 1190

Problem (Barnes) 107 (Parks) 231 (Passarell) 50 (Phillips) 109 (Segarty) .122

Professionals, managers (Stupich) 175

Rate (Bennett) 1194 (Blencoe) 417, 2973, 3144 (Brown) 2018, 2103 (Cocke) 1417, 1948, 1950, 2352 (Curtis) 161, 162, 2973-4 (Dailly) 22 (D’Arcy) 421 (Gabelmann) 374, Q. 1798 (Hanson) 2369 (Lauk) 151, 1433-3, 1572, 2388 (Lea) 2834, 2949-50 (Lockstead) 82, 245 (Mitchell) 337 (Nicolson) 2010 (Passarell) 49 (Skelly) 1982, 1983 (Stupich) 180, 1924, 1931 (Wallace) 1336, 2307

Rate, future unemployment (Lea) 2951 (Macdonald) 91 (Stupich) 61, 181

Socialists' solution (Davis) 925

Sunshine Coast area (Lockstead) 3113, 3115

Unemployed and economy (Bennett) 1188

Unemployed, categories of (Stupich) 174-5

Unemployed, loss of homes (Mitchell) 338

Unemployment insurance payments, level of (Barrett) 1040 (Lockstead) 245 (Skelly) 356 (Stupich) 174

Unemployment insurance, W. R. Bennett's remarks re (Skelly) 2065-6

Victoria (Blencoe) 126, Q. 3088 (Curtis) A. 3088

Young people, unemployment (Barrett) 1039 (Cocke) 2332, 2333 (Dailly) 1376, 1751 (Gabelmann) 3132 (Lockstead) 1424 (Macdonald) 1522 (Rose) 1371, 1604 (Sanford) 138

Unemployment, Technological

Microchip developments, effect of (Nicolson) 73

Resource industries (Lea) 2952 (Segarty) 785

Unemployed, retraining of (McCarthy) 209 (Segarty) 123

Unemployment Insurance Act (Canada)

Mentioned: (Rose) 2639, 2640

Uniform Law Conference of Canada

Recommendations (Brown) 1340, 1344, 1361, 1362 (Lauk) 858 (Nicolson) 884 (Smith) 856, 1344

Report quoted (Brown) 1362

Union Nationale

Mentioned: (D’Arcy) 421

Union of Bank Employees

Mentioned: (McClelland) 2595

Union of B.C. Municipalities

Assessment Amendment Act, 1983, consultation re (Brown) 1244 (Curtis) 2277-8

Assessment Authority board, appointments to (Blencoe) 2603, 2604 (Brown) 2605 (Smith) 2603, 2604, 2605

Executive director's report quoted (Stupich) 1840

Meetings, attendance of ministry personnel (Stupich) 1839

Municipal Amendment Act, 1983, consultation re (Blencoe) 480-1, 482, 488 (Brown) 1847 (Johnston) 516 (Lea) 2337, 2338 (Lockstead) 543, 1323 (Reid) 493 (Ritchie) 2337 (Rose) 516

Municipal Amendment Act, 1983, opposition to (Barnes) 1879 (Brown) 1847 (Dailly) 1837 (D’Arcy) 1805 (Lea) 1826 (Lockstead) 1800 (Macdonald) 1874-5, 1876, 1877 (Passarell) 1853, 1854 (Rose) 1830, 2397 (Skelly) 1871-2, 1873

Municipal Amendment Act, 1983, paper on quoted (Ritchie) 2409

Municipal Amendment Act, 1983, resolution re (Blencoe)Q. 1565 (Brown) 2411, 2412 (Howard) 2256 (Lea) 2337 (Passarell) 1851-2 (Ritchie) A. 1565-6, 2257 (Rose) 1830 (Skelly) 1871-2 (Stupich) 1841

Municipal Amendment Act, 1983, support for (Barrett) 2342 (Howard) 2256-7, 2257, 2258-9 (Lea) 2338 (Parks) 2259 (Ritchie) 2257, 2259

Municipal Amendment Act, 1983, timing of (Howard) 1238-9, 1241

Municipal office, election to, resolution re (Ritchie) 1292

Penticton convention (Brown) 1275 (Ritchie) 1795 (Sanford) 1276

President's report quoted (Stupich) 1840

Property Tax Reform Act (No. 1) , 1983, consultation re (Blencoe) 669, 670, 671, 677-8, 679, 680, 682, 685, 690, 696, 1125 (Cocke) 1961 (Lockstead) 1791 (Nicolson) 1154, 1155, 1907, 1908 (Ritchie) 1961

Resolution quoted, referred to (Blencoe) 1973, 1974 (Brown) 1794

Mentioned: (Barrett) 1576, 1817, 2415 (Blencoe) 618, 673, 693, 697, 1108, 1122, 1294, 1540, 1585, 1586, 1587, 1909, 1973, 1975, 2039, 2053, 2054, 2056, 2265, 2885, 2888, 2889 (Brown) 1785 (Cocke) 1305, 1788, 1961, 2042 (D’Arcy) 1805, 2055 (Hanson) 1478, 1638, 1867, 1868 (Howard) 529, 1240, 1786, 1943 (Lauk) 1820 (Lea) 1151 (Lockstead) 1790 (Nicolson) 1304, 1907, 1908 (Ritchie) 48, 1911, 1975, 2897 (Sanford) 1550, 1222, 1223, 2263, 2264 (Skelly) 1808 (Stupich) 1843, 2281 (Waterland) 1800

Union of Psychiatric Nurses of B.C.

Mentioned: (Wallace) 2525

Unitarian Church, Vancouver, B.C.

Mentioned: (Brown) 2540

United Appeal

Mentioned: (Barnes) 2141

United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

Mentioned: (D’Arcy) 2237

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

On the Level mentioned (Kempf) 1994

United Church of Canada

Duncan minister's letter quoted, referred to (Wallace) 1447-8, 1450

Resolution quoted (Dailly) 1419

Statement quoted (Brown) 2102, 2580

Mentioned: (Barrett) 592, 593, 875, 1597 (Blencoe) 3006 (Nicolson) 1755 (Sanford) 658, 659, 1028, 1029 (Wallace) 1448, 1651

United Farmers of Alberta

Mentioned: (Wallace) 1651

United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union

Mentioned: (Gabelmann) 3137 (McClelland) 3137

United Garment Workers of America

Mentioned: (McClelland) 2595

United Mine Workers of America

Mentioned: (Segarty) 124

United Nations

Economic and Social Security Council, report to quoted (Brown) 550

Universal Declaration of Human Rights quoted (Blencoe) 309, 310, 419 (Macdonald) 2183

Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentioned (Barrett) 826 (Blencoe) 420 (Dailly) 234 (Gardom) 2934

Mentioned: (Barnes) 1555 (Blencoe) 313 (Gabelmann) 373, 2122 (Hanson) 1662, 1663, 1666 (Lockstead) 432 (Macdonald) 1523, 2183, 2662 (Mowat) 52 (Wallace) 1259 (Waterland) 2008

United States

Bill of Rights mentioned (Davis) 2927

Conditions in country 1929-32 (Lea) 1746

Deficit (Chabot) 1782

Income tax, reduction in (Rose) 454-5

National Recovery Act mentioned (Smith) 1031

Roads, funds for (D’Arcy) 1989

Spending priorities (Lauk) 1002

State budgets (Johnston) 969 (Michael) 921-2

Wealth of and number of poor (Rose) 2163

United States. Army

Mentioned: (Barrett) 1768 (Hon. member) 1768

United States. Bureau of Labor

Mentioned: (Rose) 2028

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Mentioned: (Howard) 3190

United States. Congress

Unemployment study quoted, referred to (Sanford) 447, 448

Mentioned: (Lea) 1333 (Sanford) 2452

United States. Congressional Budget Office

Mentioned: (Rose) 454

United States. Council on Wage and Price Stability

Mentioned: (Macdonald) 2048

United States. Environmental Protection Agency

Mentioned: (Brummet) 3189 (Wallace) 3189

United States. Health and Human Services, Department of

Mentioned: (Howard) 1329 (Skelly) 607, 609

United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education

Nation at Risk mentioned (Brummet) 636 (Heinrich) 3186

United States. National Marine Fisheries Commission

Mentioned: (Dailly) 879

United States. Post Office

Operation of (Reynolds) 156

United States. Senate

Mentioned: (Bennett) 1219

United States. Supreme Court

Mentioned: (Macdonald) 90

United States. Surgeon-General

Mentioned: (Wallace) 1259

United Steelworkers of America

Quoted, referred to (Skelly) 2840-1

Mentioned: (D’Arcy) 2237 (Nicolson) 2202, 2479 (Segarty) 123

Universities and colleges

Autonomy of (Cocke) 1407 (Dailly) 1375, 1376 (Hanson) 1641, 1655 (Heinrich) 1367, 1378, 1407

College and Institute Amendment Act, 1983. See name of act

College boards, accountability of (Rose) 1410

College boards, appointments to (Brown) 1411, 1429 (Cocke) 1407 (Dailly) 1374-5, 1376 (Hanson) 1411 (Heinrich) 1367, 1368, 1377, 1378, 1406, 1407 (Howard) 1408, 1409, 1786, 1941 (Nicolson) 1376, 1377 (Rose) 1369-70, 1371, 1394, 1402, 1404-5, 1409, 1410, 1610, 1739 (Stupich) 177

College boards, elected representation on (D’Arcy) 1405 (Howard) 1409 (Rose) 1371, 1403-5, 1409

College boards, members (Rose) 1369, 1404

College budgets, preparation of (Nicolson) Q. 574 (Heinrich) A. 574

College councils (Heinrich) 1366 (Stupich) 462 (Veitch) 1401

College councils, elimination of (Curtis) 163 (Dailly) 1373, 1400 (Heinrich) 1366, 1378 (Rose) 1369, 1370, 1372, 1393, 1394 (Veitch) 1395-6, 1400

College councils, establishment of (Dailly) 1400 (Heinrich) 1366

Colleges, administration of (Rose) 1410 (Veitch) 1400

Colleges, admission to (Rose) 1371

Colleges, appropriation, 1983-84 fiscal year (Stupich) 1017

Colleges, auditing of operations of (Brown) 1412, 1428, 1429, 1431 (Heinrich) 1412, 1426, 1427, 1428, 1429 (Howard) 1412 (Lauk) 1427, 1428 (Nicolson) 1430 (Rose) 1431

Colleges, autonomy of (Rose) 2086

Colleges, courses (Dailly) 1375 (D’Arcy) 1405, 1406 (Rose) 1371, 1373, 1375, 1401 (Stupich) 1530

Colleges, courses, duplication of (Brown) 2328, 2329 (Heinrich) 2267, 2328 (Rose) 2329

Colleges, fees (Heinrich) 228

Colleges, history of in B.C. (Dailly) 1373 (D’Arcy) 1404 (Nicolson) 1376-7

Colleges, institutes, employees (Heinrich) 1378 (Howard) 1941-2 (Rose) 1373, 1394

Colleges, institutes, funding for (Dailly) 1376 (D’Arcy) 1405 (Heinrich) 1366, 1407 (Howard) 1408

Colleges, role of (Rose) 1370

Colleges, satellite campuses (Rose) 1401-2

Colleges, TRAC program (Brummet) 142 (Nicolson) 2010

Debt (D’Arcy) 964

Educational opportunities in B.C. (Nicolson) 3174

Employment in (Davis) 401 (Stupich) 462

Federal funds for (Lauk) 1176-7 (Nicolson) 3172 (Rose) 3203 (Stupich) 1531

Foreign students in B.C. universities (Brown) 3180 (Davis) 3178 (McGeer) 3178-9

Professional degrees, number of in B.C. (Nicolson) 3175

Students, access to post-secondary education (Heinrich) 3203-4 (Rose) 1401-2, 1402-3, 3183, 3201-2

Students, number of in B.C. (McGeer) 3175 (Nicolson) 3171, 3174

Universities, academic freedom (Nicolson) 1756, 1757

Universities, access to (Rose) 1371-2

Universities, appropriation, 1983-84 fiscal year (McGeer) 416

Universities, budgets, preparation of (Nicolson) Q. 574 (McGeer) A. 574

Universities Council (Reynolds) 155

Universities Council, elimination of (Rose) 1393

Universities, employees (Howard) 404

Universities, funding of (McGeer) A. 2730 (Nicolson) Q. 2730 (Rose) 1370

Universities, support for (McGeer) 3172-3 (Nicolson) 3170-1, 3177

Universities, vocational courses (Lea) 1538

University graduates, employment opportunities (Hanson) 1704

See also: Professors; Student aid

Universities, Science and Communications, Ministry of

Estimates 3149, 3170-5, 3177-81

Speakers: Brown 3180; Davis 3178; McGeer 3172-3, 3174-5, 3178-80, 3181; Nicolson 3149, 3170-2, 3173-4, 3175, 3177-8, 3180-1, 3181

Appropriation, 1983-84 fiscal year (Stupich) 462

Future of ministry, prediction re (Nicolson) 3171

University Act

Mentioned: (Cocke) 2332 (Hanson) 1639 (Howard) 404, 2679 (Macdonald) 1776 (McGeer) 854

University of B.C.

Accounts receivable (Curtis) 792

Crane Library, talking books, funding for (Reynolds) Q. 3045 (McGeer) A. 3045

Faculty club, subsidization of (Reynolds) Q. 3045

Neurological project, positions in (Nicolson) Q. 702 (McGeer) A. 729

Operating grant, 1984-85 fiscal year (Nicolson) 3172

Pulp and paper research (Lea) 206 (Throne speech) 7

Tennis bubble, construction of (Reynolds) Q. 3045

Tuition fees, increase in (Nicolson) 3172

Mentioned: (Blencoe) 2890 (Brown) 3123, 3180 (Dailly) 1375 (D’Arcy) 961, 1399 (Davis) 3178 (Gabelmann) 1646 (Hanson) 1702 (Hon. member) 1343 (Lea) 1538, 2832 (Macdonald) 440, 1592, 2661 (Nicolson) 3171, 3172 (Nielsen) 3092 (Reynolds) 155 (Rose) 950, 1368, 1369, 1371, 3127, 3182, 3202 (Sanford) 1550, 3097, 3149 (Schroeder) 3101 (Skelly) 1496, 2243 (Smith) 1344 (Stupich) 459 (Waterland) 3037

University of B.C. Endowment Lands

Mentioned: (Barnes) 1181 (Davis) 3116 (Hanson) 1483 (Reid) 495

University of B.C. Medical School

Health Sciences Centre Hospital. See entries under name of hospital

University of Oregon

Mentioned: (Nicolson) 3171

University of the West Indies

Mentioned: (Brown) 3180

University of Toronto

Mentioned: (Brown) 3180 (Wallace) 1259, 1965

University of Victoria

Accounts receivable (Curtis) 792

Engineering school (Fraser, R.) 13 (Throne speech) 7

Operating grants (Nicolson) 3177

A Widening Gap mentioned (Nicolson) 3171

Mentioned: (Blencoe) 880, 2040, 2890 (Brown) 2101, 2992 (Davis) 3178 (Gabelmann) 2034, 2597 (Hanson) 1475, 1476, 1688 (Lauk) 154 (Lea) 269 (Macdonald) 1521 (McGeer) 2365 (Nicolson) 74, 2365, 2944, 3172 (Reid) 277 (Rose) 228, 1371, 1394 (Smith) 3108 (Stupich) 1935

University of Waterloo

Mentioned: (Blencoe) 479 (Nicolson) 3171 (Rose) 1606

University of Western Ontario

Mentioned: (Nicolson) 1756, 1757

University Teachers of New Zealand

Telegram quoted (Rose) 457

Unparty of B.C.

Mentioned: (Curtis) 817

Unruh, Abe H.

Letter quoted (Rose) 1404

Uphill, Thomas

Mentioned: (Howard) 1892 (Stupich) 2282, 2286

Upjohn Co. of Canada

Mentioned: (Brown) 3000

Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ont.

Mentioned: (Rose) 3196

Urban Development Institute

Mentioned: (Barnes) 1879 (Blencoe) 2888 (D’Arcy) 1857 (Lauk) 1820 (Lockstead) 547

Urban Transit Development Corp.

Mentioned: (Reid) 38

Urbanization

Agriculture and urbanization (Nicolson) 731

Used-car trade

Inspection of vehicles (Sanford) 1316

Used-car buyers, recourse to courts (Sanford) 451

User fees, Government

See: Fees, Administrative

Utilities Commission Act

Section 3, changes to (Wallace) Q. 1060

Mentioned: (Rogers) 3160

Utilities Commission of B.C.

See: British Columbia Utilities Commission