Province of British Columbia
33rd Parliament, 2nd Session
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
February 13, 1984 to February 21, 1985

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UNN

See: United Native Nations

Unemployment

ALRT, employment generated by (Brown) 3468

Automated bank tellers, elimination of jobs (Nicolson) 3306

B.C. Hydro, scaling down of projects contributing to (Davis) 4105

B.C. rate, government responsibility (Lauk) 4862

B.C. rate, second-highest in Canada (Gabelmann) Q. 3758 (McClelland) A. 3758

B.C., statistics by area (Rose) 3549

Budget, not mentioned in (Blencoe) 3528 (Brown) 3467-8 (Stupich) Q. 4151

Burnaby constituency, statistics (Dailly) 3502

Cabinet Committee on Employment Development, establishment and continuation of (Gabelmann) Q. 3821 (McCarthy) A. 3821

Canadian Mental Health Association report on (Gabelmann) 3448

Cause of (Mitchell) 4182

Cowichan Indian reserve, 50 percent unemployment (Wallace) 3788

Creation of, lack of silvicultural programs (Skelly) 3490

Crown land, demand for by unemployed (Brummet) 3882 (Lockstead) 3881-2

Crown land, lease of to unemployed (Passarell) 3432

Debate on requested under standing order 35 (Hanson) 3738

Economic strategy to ameliorate (Gabelmann) Q. 4422-3 (McClelland) A. 4422, A. 4423

Effects of (Blencoe) 3595 (Cocke) 4516

Engineers, new graduates (Nicolson) 4604-5, 4611

Families, effects on (Mitchell) 3714

Forestry and silviculture, job creation by (Lockstead) 4448-9 (Michael) 4450 (Mitchell) 4452 (Skelly) 4429 (Wallace) 4439 (Waterland) 4449

Government, creation of (Blencoe) 4743 (Hanson) 4005 (Lauk) 3240 (Rose) 3405 (Skelly) 4179 (Stupich) 4169

Government, lack of action on (Mitchell) 4182 (Stupich) 3543-4

Government, policies on (Bennett) A. 3822-3 (Curtis) A. 3796 (Gabelmann) Q. 3758Q. 3796, 4664 (Lauk) Q. 3822, 4691 (McClelland) A. 3758 (Sanford) 4706

Health care workers in B.C., statistics (Barrett) 3325

House building and remodelling, job creation by (Blencoe) 3896-7

Immigrants to province, cause of unemployment (Campbell) 3277

Indians on reserves, high rate among (Lockstead) 3264

Job creation (Skelly) 3488

Job creation, government programs for (Parks) 3560

Job creation, responsibility of Labour and Industry and Small Business ministries (McCarthy) 3698

Kamloops (Sanford) 3481-2

Kootenays, high rate of in (Nicolson) 3308-9

Lake Cowichan, closures in forest industries (Wallace) 3789

Nass Valley, forestry work needed (Passarell) 4436

North Island constituency (Gabelmann) 3253

Northwestern B.C., alleviation of (Howard) 4119

Organized labour, government attack on (Wallace) 4729

Part-time employment, increase in 3279

Powell River and Sunshine Coast, rate of (Lockstead) 4172

Professional and business people (Nicolson) 4604 (Rose) 3549

Rate (Blencoe) 4020 (Cocke) 4215 (Curtis) A. 4853, A. 4854 (Gabelmann) Q. 3758 (Lauk) 4117, 4671, 4691 (Lockstead) 4172, 4684, 4686 (Mitchell) 3420 (Nicolson) 3402, 3476 (Sanford) 4705, 4706 (Skelly) 4102, 4179 (Stupich) 3353, 3544, 4036, 4715, Q. 4853, Q. 4854 (Wallace) 3438

Rate, government attitude to (Mitchell) 4724

Rate, “hidden unemployed” (Lockstead) 3264

Rate, method of calculation (Lockstead) 4172

Rate, relationship with inflation rate (Nicolson) 4694

Reduction of (Stupich) Q. 4151 (Curtis) A. 4151 (Nicolson) 4695-6

Social assistance (McCarthy) 3702 (Rose) 3773

Southern interior (Gabelmann) Q. 3821 (Bennett) A. 3821

Statistics (Barrett) 3324 (Gabelmann) 3446 (Wallace) 3309

Sunshine Coast, alleviation of (Lockstead) Q. 3962 (McClelland) A. 3962

Sweden, control of (Mitchell) 3525

Teachers, unemployment statistics (Rose) 3768-9

Television news item on, bias of (Nicolson) 4033

Timber supply decline, potential cause of (Stupich) 3356-7

Unemployed and fixed-income recipients, percentage of B.C. population (Barnes) 4472

Unemployed, “Bad British Columbians” label by Premier (Howard) 3823

Unemployed, effect of Metro Transit strike on (Dailly) 4870-1

Unemployed, government approach to (Lauk) 4510

Unemployed, job applications (Barrett) Q. 4423

Unemployed, number of (Barnes) 3681 (Blencoe) 4283, 4291 (Curtis) A. 3797 (Gabelmann) Q. 3797 (Hanson) 4005 (Skelly) 4846 (Sanford) 4705

Unemployed, rent in excess of shelter allowance for (Blencoe) 4304

Unemployed, willingness to work (Brown) 3468-9

Unemployed, work programs to benefit (Passarell) 3432 (Sanford) 3483

Unemployed, work search programs to benefit (Hewitt) 3480

Unemployment insurance benefits, cost related to reforestation employment costs (Lockstead) 4449 (Michael) 4450 (Wallace) 4439

Unemployment insurance benefits, first-time recipients (Barnes) 4472

Unemployment insurance benefits, low rate of in Canada (Rose) 3549

Unemployment insurance benefits, number of recipients (Lauk) 4318

Unemployment insurance, discrimination against farmworkers (Rose) 4404, 4498, 4499

Vancouver Island, job development strategy for (Blencoe)Q. 3822 (Heinrich) A. 3822

Vancouver Island, rate of (Blencoe) 3738

Vancouver, number of unemployed in (Rose) 3549

Victoria, job development strategy for (Blencoe) Q. 3822

Victoria, rate of (Blencoe) 3527, 3529, 3655-6, 3701

Victoria, unemployed professionals (Blencoe) 3656

Victoria, Vancouver Sun article quoted (Blencoe) 3696-7

West Kootenays, job development strategy for (Nicolson)Q. 3821 (Heinrich) A. 3822

Women (Brown) 3469-70

Workers, reaction to (Gabelmann) 4831

Young people (Blencoe) 3298 (Brown) 3469 (Gabelmann)Q. 4423 (Mitchell) 3420 (Rose) 3405 (Stupich) 3360, 3362

Young people, failure of government to provide training (Mitchell) 3524

Young people, job creation programs for (Gabelmann) Q. 3758 (McClelland) A. 3758

Young people, skill training for (Nicolson) Q. 3797 (McGeer) A. 3797-8

Young people, statistics (Rose) 3549

Young people, Vancouver employment program for (Mowat) 3456

Young people, Victoria unemployment rate (Blencoe) 3527-8

Mentioned: (Brown) 3291 (Macdonald) 3464 (Parks) 3244

See also: Youth — Employment

Unemployment, Technological

Interim report by advisory committee on forest industry (Wallace) 3521-2

Port Alberni, modern sawmill cause of (Lea) 3585

Unemployment Insurance Commission

Job creation, forestry (Waterland) 4449

Unemployment insurance benefits (Curtis) 3645

Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs

Cutoff land claims, settlement of with B.C. government (Howard) 3637

Union of B.C. Municipalities

Assessment Act, amendment re residential property proposed (Curtis) 4211

Budget, possible briefing on (Curtis) 3643

Formula for calculating municipal borrowing limits, acceptance by (Blencoe) 4826

Land development charges, changes in mode of payment (Blencoe) 4826, 4827 (Johnston) 4826 (Ritchie) 4827

Municipal Affairs ministry, cooperation with on economic recovery (Blencoe) 3940

Resolution on local autonomy and continuation of funding quoted (Lockstead) 3971

Revenue-sharing discussed with (Johnston) 3487

Sewage and water programs, funding (Lockstead) 3971

Sheriff services (Blencoe) Q. 4054 (Brown) Q. 4053-4 (Macdonald) Q. 4054 (Ritchie) 3955, A. 4055 (Segarty) Q. 4054 (Smith) A. 4053, A. 4054

Mentioned: (Blencoe) 3915, 3941, 3942, 3943, 3969, 4634 (Fraser, A.) 4939 (Ritchie) 3970

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Logs, export (Kempf) 4453

Nuclear disarmament (Pelton) 3255

Timber, old-growth (Waterland) 4424

Wood products, manufacture and sale (Kempf) 4431

Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ

Leader of, trial (Nicolson) 4405

Unions and the Public Interest

Mentioned: (Stupich) 3354

Unitary tax

Effect on new industry (Davis) 3660

Imposition of not foreseen in B.C. (Curtis) 3660

United Church of Canada

Homosexuals, equal protection for (Skelly) 4559

Mentioned: (Blencoe) 4459

United Council of Churches

Human Rights Commission, opposition to abolition (Stupich) 4487

United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union

Environment ministry, cooperation with (Wallace) 3832

Labour Code Amendment Act, reaction to (Barnes) 4751

United Kingdom

See: Great Britain

United Nations

Decade for Women, Nairobi conference (Brown) 5024, 5026

Declaration of Human Rights (Brown) 3293 (Gabelmann) 4585 (Wallace) 4473-4, 4475

Declaration of Human Rights, terms of contravened by Human Rights Act (Brown) 4519

Disabled, resolution on rights quoted (Skelly) 4400

Human Rights Act, referral to UN Commission on Human Rights (Gabelmann) Q. 4712 (McClelland) A. 4712

International Women's Year (Brown) 3687, 3689

Labour, rights of (Hanson) 4744

Mentioned: (Brown) 5023, 5025 (Chabot) 5023 (Hanson) 4898 (Skelly) 4898

United Nations Charter

Indians, rights covered by (Passarell) 4250

United Nations Decade for Women

Proposals, negatived in B.C. (Brown) 3293

United Native Nations

Victoria local (Smith) 4671

Mentioned: (Passarell) 3887

United States

Black Americans, development of human rights (Rose) 4496

Cabinet ministers, congressional approval required (Rose) 4581-2

Capital, economic stimulation by retention of (Howard) 4679

Educational system, problems in (Rose) 3763, 3768

Electric power, sale to (Wallace) 4143

Export of power to (Skelly) 3237

Labour legislation, economic effects (D’Arcy) 4737

Labour practice, southern states (Gabelmann) 4673

Logs, sale to China (Kempf) 4453

Mobile-home parks, eviction notice (Mitchell) 4315

National debt, comparison with Canadian (McGeer) 4605

Pacific northwest, market for wood products (Skelly) 4454

Race riot, Detroit (Passarell) 4459

Standard of living, importance of trade unionism to (Dailly) 4736

Trade unions, organization and certification (Gabelmann) 4787

Vancouver Stock Exchange, export of funds to U.S. (Howard) 4680

Wood products, manufacture and sale (Kempf) 4431

United States. Agriculture, Department of

Food, purchase of surplus (Sanford) 3903-4

United States. Civil Service Commission

Mentioned: (Chabot) 5007

United States. Congress

Mentioned: (Howard) 5041

United States. Environmental Protection Agency

Mentioned: (Brummet) 3865

United States. General Accounting Office

Food surplus, report on amount of quoted (Sanford) 3903-4

United States. Securities and Exchange Commission

Mentioned: (Lauk) 4992

United States. Senate

Skagit valley legislation, ratification (Brummet) 4589

United States. Supreme Court

Segregation in schools, enforcement of abolition of (Skelly) 4400

Mentioned: (Williams) 4957

United States — Bankruptcy Code

Small business, protection for (Blencoe) 3299

United States — Economic conditions

Economic recovery led by consumer spending (Stupich) 3545

Southern states' cheap labour (Wallace) 4727-8

United Tahltan Association

Gulf Oil road-building in Iskut area, traplines affected (Passarell) 3851

Tahltan language, program for Dease Lake proposed (Passarell) 3780

United Way

Food banks, funding for (Wallace) 3437

Western Institute for the Deaf, funding of (Heinrich) 3825

Mentioned: (Dailly) 4736

Universities and colleges

Appropriation, reduction (Blencoe) 4613 (McGeer) 4602, 4623-4

Audiologists, training of (Dailly) Q. 4632 (Nielsen) A. 4632-3

Autonomy, loss of (Rose) 3815

B.C. system, disintegration (Blencoe) 4613

Budget 1984-85, reduction in funding (Heinrich) 3762 (Rose) 3814-6

College boards (Howard) 4398 (Rose) 4581

College councils, appointments to (Blencoe) 5035 (Stupich) 5029

Colleges, courses cancelled by (Rose) 3814-5, 4622

Co-op program (Nicolson) 4626

Courses available and costs (Stupich) 3363

Courses, options for (Rose) 3283

Education, technical and scientific need for (Lea) 4112 (Phillips) 4117

Established programs, financing grants for (Rose) 4622

Faculty (McGeer) 4615

Faculty, loss of (Blencoe) 4613, 4614 (Lockstead) 4621-2 (McGeer) 4615, 4627 (Nicolson) 4626

Faculty, tenure of (McGeer) 4610

Federal funding of (McGeer) A. 3289 (Nicolson) Q. 3289

Federal funds, use of (Heinrich) A. 4932 (McGeer) A. 4967 (Nicolson) Q. 4967 (Rose) Q. 4932

Fees, rate of (Blencoe) 4613, 4614 (McGeer) 4606, 4614

Foreign students, cost of to taxpayers (Davis) 3262, 3827

Forestry research, funding (Waterland) 4443

Funding of (Heinrich) 3762 (Nicolson) 3797 (McGeer) 3797-8 (Rose) 3814-6

Graduate students, increase in (Nicolson) 4605

Graduates, employment of (Nicolson) 4638, 4639

Operating grants, reduction in (Curtis) 3344

Post-secondary education, budget for reduced (Curtis) 3344

Post-secondary education, criticism of (Mowat) 3229

Post-secondary education, reduction in (Nicolson) 3403

Post-secondary education, relation to labour market (Pelton) 3257

Priorities, establishment of (McGeer) 4623

Program cuts, effect on five-year courses (Rose) 4621

Research and development, funding of (Blencoe) 4613, 4614 (Stupich) 3370-1

Science teaching (Rose) 4621

Students, B.C. assistance plan (Nicolson) 4624

Students, cost of withdrawal from labour force (McGeer) 4614

Students, effect of budget reductions on (Nicolson) 4604

Students, loans (Blencoe) 4614 (Nicolson) 4604

Universities Council of B.C. See name of council

Universities, funding of (Nicolson) 3923

Universities, mood of uncertainty among faculty (Nicolson) 4626 (Rose) 4621-2

Universities, provincial funds for (McGeer) A. 4967 (Nicolson) Q. 4967

Universities, staff resignations (Lauk) 4118

Universities, students' share of costs (McGeer) 4967-8

University programs, priority for engineering courses (McGeer) 4610

University programs, priority for high-technology courses (McGeer) 4623

University students, financial assistance for (Barrett) 3325

Universities Council of B.C.

Tribute to (McGeer) 4967

Mentioned: (McGeer) 4602, 4623 (Nicolson) 3825, 4967

Universities, Science and Communications, Ministry of

Estimates, 1984-85 fiscal year 4602-6, 4609-27

Speakers: Blencoe 4612-7; Lockstead 4619-20; McGeer 4602, 4605-6, 4609-10, 4611-2, 4614-7, 4618-9; Nicolson 4602-5, 4609, 4610-I; Rose 4620-3; Wallace 4617-8, 4619

Employees, attendance at rally (McGeer) A. 4444 (Reynolds) Q. 4444

High technology, funds allocated to (Curtis) 3344

Telecommunications jurisdiction, federal-provincial discussion and solution for (McGeer) 4626

University of Alberta

Mentioned: (Rose) 3779

University of B.C.

Alma Mater Society, opposition to Human Rights Act (Sanford) 4389 (Stupich) 4394

Agricultural research, Agriculture ministry funds for (Sanford) 3908 (Schroeder) 3910

Asian centre (Phillips) 3568

Atomic energy research (Phillips) 4117

Audiologists, training of (Nielsen) 4127 (Segarty) 4126

Blind students, talking books for (Heinrich) 3824 (Nicolson) 3819, 3824-5

Commerce faculty, loss of teachers (Nicolson) 4626 (Rose) 4622

Crane Library, funding for (Hanson) 4005 (McGeer) A. 3575 (Nicolson) 3819

Education faculty, budget reduction (McGeer) 4623 (Rose) 4621

Engineering school graduates, unemployment (Nicolson) 3476, 3923

Expenditures (McGeer) A. 3575

Extended care at (Mowat) 3455

Faculty club (McGeer) 4623 (Rose) 4624

Forestry professor, reforestation suggestions (Lockstead) 4448-9

Grant, research into forestry economics and policy (Wallace) 3522

Law faculty (Brown) 4264

Medicine faculty, representation on Medical Manpower Committee (Nielsen) 4340

Nurses, extended role of (Cocke) 4132

Physiotherapists, training of (Dailly) 4352 (Nielsen) 4353

Red Rag, engineering students' publication (Brown) 4540, 4541-2 (McClelland) 4540-1, 4542

Special-education program, effects of curtailment (Nicolson) 4604 (Rose) 4621

Students, costs (Passarell) 3427

Tuition, cost of (Parks) 3560

Mentioned: (Lockstead) 5060 (Nicolson) 3308, 3478 (Rose) 5000 (Stupich) 3543

University of B.C. Endowment Lands

Mentioned: (Nielsen) 4924

University of Ottawa. Human Rights Research and Education Centre

Director of quoted (Sanford) 4389

University of Saskatchewan

Red Eye, discrimination in (Brown) 4540

University of Victoria

Business, relationship with (Cocke) 3923

Computer science department, loss of faculty members (Blencoe) 4613, 4615 (Rose) 4622

David Thompson University Centre, commitment to (Nicolson) 3476

David Thompson University Centre, extension programs at (Heinrich) A. 3473 (Nicolson) Q. 3473

Engineering school (Phillips) 4117

Engineering school building, funding of (Curtis) 3919-20, 3921 (Stupich) 3920

Engineering school, government encouragement (Blencoe) 4612 (McGeer) 4610

Engineering school, grant for (Blencoe) 3530

Engineering school students, characteristics (Cocke) 3923

Expo 86, student employment generated by (Campbell) 4704

Faculty, elimination of (Blencoe) 4614, 4615

Faculty, resignations of senior members (Blencoe) 4613 (McGeer) 4615

Federal research grants, dependence on provincial funding (Blencoe) 4613-4

Funding, petition re (Blencoe) 4113

High-technology employment, funding of training for (Blencoe) 4613-4

Mathematics, increasing failure in first year (Parks) 3245

Mathematics, school grade standards studied (Heinrich) 3777

Research and development, funding of (Blencoe) 4613

A Widening Gap (Nicolson) 4642

Young, Walter, tribute to (Smith) 3760

Mentioned: (Smith) 4640 (Stupich) 3543

University of Victoria Special Appropriation Act, 1984

(Bill 5) (Minister of Finance) 1R, 3348; 2R, 3919-21; C, 3923-4; 3R, 3924; RA, 4023

Speakers: Blencoe 3923-4; Cocke 3920, 3923; Curtis 3348, 3919-20, 3921; Dailly 3921; McGeer 3920; Nicolson 3923; Stupich 3920

University of Waterloo

Mentioned: (McGeer) 4616

Unruh, Abe H.

Mentioned: (Rose) 3282

Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ont.

Mentioned: (Rose) 5038

Upper Room Christian Coffee House

Mentioned: (Blencoe) 3696, 3701

Uranium

Moratorium on mining of (Passarell) 3748 (Rogers) 3748

Urban Transit Authority

Mentioned: (McCarthy) 3731

See also: Metro Transit Operating Co.

Urban Transit Authority Act

Transit system for Cowichan Valley, demand for (Wallace) 3728

See also: British Columbia Transit Amendment Act, 1984

Utah Mines Ltd.

Mentioned: (Gabelmann) 3445 (Rogers) 3741, 5066

Utilities Commission Act

Amendment, reason for (Lauk) 4648-9 (Smith) 4647-8 (Wallace) 4646, 4646-7, 4648

Utilities Commission of B.C.

See: British Columbia Utilities Commission