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