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Province of British Columbia
3rd Session, 35th Parliament
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
March 14, 1994 to March 22, 1995
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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
Vaisakhi Day
Vakil, Thea
Valley Organic Farmers
- Mentioned (Zirnhelt) 11603
Value-for-Money Audits: Ministry of Health -- Transfer of Patients from Riverview
Hospital to the Community; and Psychiatric Services
- Report referred to Public Accounts Committee (Clark) 10915
Van Blarcom, J. David
- Employment of as Workers' Compensation Board chair (Miller) 12813 (Warnke) 12813
- Mentioned (Tyabji) 12846
Van Den Bosch Trading Co. Ltd.
- Greenhouse operations mentioned (Chisholm) 11502
Van Dusen, Claire
- Mentioned (de Jong, M.) 10579
van Iersel, Arn
VanCity Credit Union. See Vancouver City Savings Credit Union
Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society
Vancouver, B.C.
- Basketball, professional basketball franchise for (Cull) 11401-2, 11402 (Jones, K.) 11401, 11402
- Bridges, toll on (Clark) 12589 (Symons) 12589
- City charter. See Vancouver Charter
- Crab Park mentioned (Wilson) 11126
- Crab Park, preservation of (Wilson) 9748
- Downtown east side, banking services in area (Anderson) 11119-21 (Clark) 10679, 11058, 11059, 11060, 11132-3 (Dalton) 11092 (De Jong, H.) 11121 (Farnworth) 11130 (Gingell) 11123 (MacPhail) 11092 (Petter) 11064 (Schreck) 11066-7 (Serwa) 11128 (Weisgerber) 11062-3 (Wilson) 11074-5, 11125-6
- Downtown east side, nature of (Anderson) 11120 (Campbell) 11065 (Clark) 11058, 11059-60, 11853-4
- Downtown east side, policing in area (Jones, K.) 11073
- Federal representation for (Krog) 10095
- First Narrows crossing, discussions re (Pement) 10854 (Symons) 10854
- First Narrows crossing, options (Symons) 12550
- First Narrows crossing, toll for (Symons) 10854
- Food bank, use of (Anderson) 11544
- Hastings Park, restoration to green space (MacPhail) 9647-8
- Housing, VLC proposal (Wilson) 9530
- Infrastructure, funding for (Simpson) 9761
- Inner city project, work on (Anderson) 11013
- Jail incident, commission of inquiry report tabled (Gabelmann) 9679
- Jericho lands, planning for (Clark) 12568 (Jones, K.) 12568
- Pacific Spirit Park mentioned (Harcourt) 12610 (Weisgerber) 12610
- Police. See entries under Police
- Population, diversity of (Anderson) 11014
- Property tax rates (Fox) 11922 (Marzari) 11922
- Riot after Stanley Cup game, action re (Clark) 11939 (Dalton) 11935 (Gabelmann) 11935 (Weisgerber) 11935
- Riot after Stanley Cup game, motion to adjourn the House to discuss (Mitchell) 11939
- Roads, unsafe intersections, identification of (Symons) 10761-2
- Robson Square renovation project mentioned (Clark) 12568 (Jones, K.) 12568
- Sewage treatment system for (Weisgerber) 9520
- Skateboards, legislation re (Marzari) 12645 (Wilson) 12645
- Stanley Park and Lions Gate Bridge options (Schreck) 9439
- Stanley Park causeway, test drilling (Dalton) 10613 (Pement) 10613
- Stanley Park mentioned (Pement) 10610 (Symons) 10610
- Stanley Park, traffic in (Symons) 10665
- Traffic volumes, study of (Pement) 10665 (Symons) 10665
- Waste management problems (Hurd) 10413-4
Vancouver, B.C. -- Transit system.
See also Vancouver Regional Transit Commission
- Authority for (Clark) 9713, 9714
- Broadway service, options re (Clark) 12550-1 (Symons) 12251, 12550
- Bus lanes (Clark) 12551-2 (Symons) 12551
- Bus lanes, conversion of to high-occupancy-vehicle lanes (Pement) 10663 (Symons) 10663
- Bus system, fare-free zone in downtown Vancouver (Clark) 12543 (Symons) 12543
- Buses, ridership levels (Clark) 12548 (Symons) 12547-8
- Commuter rail system (Campbell) 12553-4 (Clark) 12553, 12554, 12554-5, 12555 (Symons) 12553, 12554, 12555
- Commuter rail system, cost of and ridership levels (Clark) 12553, 12554 (Symons) 12553, 12554
- Commuter rail system, impact on highway upgrading (Pement) 10663 (Symons) 10663
- Northeast sector, transit service for (Clark) 12556 (Symons) 12555-6
- Planning for and First Narrows crossing options (Symons) 12550
- Service issues (Symons) 12551
- Services, cost of (Symons) 12544
- Subsidy to (Clark) 12543 (Janssen) 12552
Vancouver Board of Trade
Vancouver Business Information Centre
- Renamed Canada-British Columbia Business Service Centre (Barlee) 9872
Vancouver Canadians Baseball Club
Vancouver Canucks
- Commended (Weisgerber) 11935
- Riot after Stanley Cup game. See entries under Vancouver, B.C.
- Mentioned (Sihota) 11937 (Tanner) 9682
Vancouver Charter
Vancouver City Council
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union
- B.C. Community Financial Services Corporation, support for (Clark) 11388, 11389
- Mentioned (Anderson) 11119 (Clark) 11132 (Wilson) 11778
The Vancouver Club
Vancouver Community College
Vancouver Food Bank
- Volunteers (Anderson) 10021
Vancouver-Fraserview constituency
- Care homes, funding for (Simpson) 9761
Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. See also Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
- Services moved to University Hospital (Reid) 10735
- Mentioned (Priddy) 10127
Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
Vancouver International Airport Authority
Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver, B.C.
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver Island, B.C.
- Forest land, private managed forest land (Petter) 12741
- Forest land protected (Serwa) 12737
- Forest land reserve, need for (Krog) 12710-1
- Forest land reserve, percentage of land in (Petter) 12704, 12741
- Forest lands, future of (Petter) 12703, 12705
- Land use plan. See entries under Land use
Vancouver Island Forestry Task Force
- Recommendations quoted (Kasper) 10268-9
Vancouver Island gas pipeline. See entries under Natural gas
Vancouver Island land use plan. See entries under Land use
Vancouver Island M‚tis Association
Vancouver Island Regional Library
- Mentioned (Marzari) 12118
Vancouver Land Corp. See also VLC companies
Vancouver Land Corp. Properties Ltd. See VLC companies
Vancouver Pacific Realty
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Co.
Vancouver Police Board
Vancouver Port Corporation
- Casino proposal call (Cashore) 10456 (Harcourt) 9456
- Federal involvement in (Farnworth) 11155
- Mentioned (Gingell) 10730
Vancouver Pretrial Services Centre, Vancouver, B.C. See also Pretrial centres under Jails
Vancouver Public Library
- Library Act, support for (Perry) 11231
- Mentioned (Marzari) 11231
Vancouver-Quilchena constituency
- By-election (Krog) 9446
- By-election, chief electoral officer's report tabled (Speaker) 12987
- By-election, impact of (de Jong, M.) 9583
- Nature of (Campbell) 9434
Vancouver Regional Transit Commission
- Accountability (Symons) 12548
- Bicycle racks, use of on buses (Pement) 10730 (Symons) 10730
- Debt and commuter rail funding (Campbell) 12553-4 (Clark) 12553, 12554 (Symons) 12553
- Deficit (Clark) 9713
- Funding for (Clark) 9713, 9714, 12556
- Membership, Langley and Pitt Meadows mayors (Gabelmann) 11894
- Parking tax, proposal re, position on (Clark) 12543-4 (Symons) 12544
- Routes, responsibility for (Clark) 12546 (Jones, K.) 12546
- Sales tax on parking, revenue from (Clark) 9713 (Wilson) 9713-4
- Subsidy to (Clark) 12543-4 (Janssen) 12552
- Transit fares, setting of (Clark) 12543, 12543-4
- Transit, jurisdiction over (Clark) 12556
Vancouver Resources Board
- Mentioned (Schreck) 11067
Vancouver School District. See entries under School District 39 (Vancouver)
Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd.
Vancouver Stock Exchange
- Commission of inquiry into, cost of (Cull) 11191 (Gingell) 11191, 11192
- Commission of inquiry into, recommendations, review of (Cull) 11192, 11198, 11205, 11762 (Gingell) 11761 (Warnke) 11198
- Commission of inquiry into, report of, investor survey of (Cull) 11192 (Gingell) 11192
- Commission of inquiry into, report of, minister's statement re (Cull) 11198, 11762 (Gingell) 11761 (Warnke) 11198
- Commission of inquiry into, report tabled (Cull) 9456
- Operations of, concerns re (Cull) 11198 (Warnke) 11198
- Policies of (Hyndman) 11204 (Weisgerber) 11204
- Mentioned (Sihota) 12335
Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C.
- Quoted (Chisholm) 9827, 9828, 11811 (Clark) 11060 (Dalton) 9857, 11455, 11456 (Farrell-Collins) 11780 (Gingell) 11193 (Jones, B.) 12844 (Miller) 11282-3 (Neufeld) 10293 (Serwa) 12856 (Sihota) 10680 (Symons) 10876 (Weisgerber) 9546, 9547
- Quoted re Seattle-Victoria ferry run (Farrell-Collins) 12518
- Report on child poverty mentioned (Anderson) 11150 (MacPhail) 11150
- Mentioned (Barlee) 9610, 9939 (Chisholm) 10653, 12852 (Clark) 9547 (Cull) 11193 (Dalton) 9845, 9854, 9857, 10293, 10294 (de Jong, M.) 12904 (Fox) 9617 (Gabelmann) 9854, 9947, 10026, 10860, 10921 (Hanson) 11777 (Harcourt) 12388 (Pement) 10608 (Perry) 9661 (Reid) 10921 (Sihota) 10175, 10185, 10646, 10650, 10651 (Smallwood) 9463, 11792 (Symons) 10608 (Warnke) 11999, 12001 (Weisgerber) 10343 (Wilson) 10105
Vancouver Wharves Ltd.
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant constituency
Vander Zalm, William N. (Bill)
Vanderhoof, B.C.
- Downtown revitalization grant (Marzari) 10786
- Long-term care facility for (Fox) 12463 (Ramsey) 12463
Vanderhoof Specialty Wood Products
Vanderpol's Eggs Ltd.
- Fire mentioned (De Jong, H.) 12190
- Water contamination incident mentioned (de Jong, M.) 12004
Vanity Fair
- Article re Galen Weston mentioned (Miller) 11952
Variety Child Development Centre, Surrey, B.C.
- Funding for (Priddy) 10128
Vaudreuil, Matthew
- Case of (Anderson) 10853 (Fox) 11526
- Case of, action on (MacPhail) 10638 (Weisgerber) 10638
- Case of, independent inquiry into (Anderson) 10222, 10222-3, 10223, 10284 (MacPhail) 10911
- Case of, independent inquiry into, time limit for (Neufeld) 10912
- Case of, inquiry into (Anderson) 10699 (Cull) 10284 (Harcourt) 10223 (MacPhail) 10638, 10699
- Case of, inquiry into and review of Social Services ministry operations (Anderson) 12250, 12251
- Case of, inquiry into, terms of reference for (Anderson) 12250, 12251 (MacPhail) 12250, 12251
- Case of, internal review of (Anderson) 10638, 10912 (MacPhail) 10638, 10639, 10853, 10911 (Weisgerber) 10638-9
- Case of, internal review of, report and response tabled (MacPhail) 10912
- Case of mentioned (Anderson) 11015 (Tyabji) 11526 (Wilson) 11551
- Case of, Social Services ministry's role in (Anderson) 10222, 10222-3, 10284, 11047 (Harcourt) 10222, 10223
VCC (Venture capital corporations program). See entries under Venture capital
Vedder Canal, B.C.
- Bridge (De Jong, H.) 10618
- Water level (De Jong, H.) 10181
Vehicle management services branch
Veit, Suzanne
Veitch, Elwood
Venereal Disease Act
- Amendment to (Ramsey) 10973
Venereal diseases
- Chlamydia, legislation re (Ramsey) 10973
Venture capital
- Employee Investment Act. See name of act
- Employee venture capital corporations, investment in (Barlee) 9882
- Venture capital corporations program (Barlee) 9882 (Gingell) 9882
- Venture capital corporations program mentioned (Gingell) 9929
- Working Opportunity Fund. See name of fund
Vernon, B.C.
- Downtown revitalization grant (Marzari) 10786
- Mentioned (Marzari) 10787
Vernon School District. See School District 22 (Vernon)
Via Rail
- Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, responsibility for (Lovick) 10628 (Mitchell) 10627 (Tanner) 10841
- Vancouver Island rail service (Harcourt) 10577 (Serwa) 10578 (Symons) 10578
- Mentioned (Mitchell) 12381
VICLAS (Violent crime linkage analysis system). See Computer system under Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Victims of crime.
See also Child abuse
- Assistance to (Dalton) 10624, 10625 (Gabelmann) 10850, 10852 (Jones, B.) 10624 (Priddy) 10118
- Concerns re (Dalton) 9854, 9855, 9857 (Gabelmann) 9853
- Criminal injury compensation program. See name of program
- Sex offenders, protection for victims of (de Jong, M.) 9766 (Ramsey) 9766 (Reid) 9766 (Stephens) 9803
- Victim assistance programs (Gabelmann) 9851, 9853, 9913
- Victim assistance workers commended (Gabelmann) 9853
- Victim support services, funding for (Gabelmann) 9850
Victoria, B.C.
- Goldstream Park mentioned (Kasper) 9797
- Hazardous waste site, cleanup of (Sihota) 10418
- Highlands area, development in (Kasper) 9796
- Highlands area, incorporation of, boundary issues re (Marzari) 11913, 11914 (Tanner) 11913, 11914
- Occupancy vacancy rate (Gabelmann) 11894
- Seniors, percentage of (Brewin) 11423
- Seniors, support programs for (Brewin) 11423
- Tourism, importance of (Brewin) 9518
- Victoria accord (Blencoe) 10395, 11671, 11672 (Clark) 12568 (Fox) 11672 (Gabelmann) 11894 (Jones, K.) 11671
- Victoria accord and government buildings (Blencoe) 11673 (Clark) 12566, 12567 (Jones, K.) 12566, 12566-7, 12567
- Victoria accord, benefits of to capital region MLAs (Blencoe) 11672 (Jones, K.) 11671
- Victoria accord, trolley proposal mentioned (Jones, K.) 12568
- Waste management problems (Hurd) 10413-4
Victoria, B.C. -- Transit system
- Hydro levy, removal of (Clark) 9714
- Services, cost of (Symons) 12544
- Transit service to legislative precincts (Blencoe) 11161, 11674
Victoria Business Information Centre
Victoria Chamber of Commerce
Victoria Conservatory of Music
Victoria Elder Abuse Committee
Victoria Epilepsy and Parkinson's Centre Society
Victoria Line Ltd.
- Dock site fendering contract (Campbell) 10912 (Clark) 10954, 11118, 11171, 12541, 12542 (Farrell-Collins) 11118, 11171, 12541, 12541-2, 12542
- Dock site fendering project, redesign of, cost savings re (Clark) 12541, 12542 (Farrell-Collins) 12542 (Symons) 12542-3
- Employees, union representation for (Clark) 12518, 12539-40, 12540 (Farrell-Collins) 12518, 12539, 12540
- Establishment of (Clark) 10580
- Hiring procedures (Clark) 12517, 12518, 12539-40, 12540, 12541 (Farrell-Collins) 12516-7, 12517, 12518, 12539, 12540
- Purchase of Queen of Burnaby (Clark) 12508 (Symons) 12508
- Role of B.C. Ferries in (Clark) 10580
- Seattle-Victoria service (Barlee) 9934 (Symons) 9933-4
- Seattle-Victoria service, advertising of (Barlee) 9934 (Symons) 9934
- Seattle-Victoria service, Liberal Party's position on (Clark) 12518 (Farrell-Collins) 12539
- Stena Line employees, successorship rights (Clark) 10998, 10999-1000, 12517, 12518, 12539-40, 12540, 12541 (de Jong, M.) 10998, 10999 (Farrell-Collins) 12516-7, 12517, 12518, 12539, 12540
- Mentioned (Clark) 10222
Victoria Regional News
- Mentioned (Farrell-Collins) 12518
Victoria Volunteer Bureau
Victoria Youth Custody Centre, Victoria, B.C.
View Royal, B.C.
View Royal Elementary School, Victoria, B.C.
- Enrolment increase mentioned (Stephens) 11749
Viewpoints Research Ltd.
- Poll for NDP government (Gingell) 11169
- Mentioned (Cull) 9909 (Hurd) 9846
Viking Air Ltd.
Villa-Arce, Jos‚
Vintners' Quality Alliance
Violence
- Causes of (Krog) 10207
- Incidence of (Jones, K.) 9818
- North Shore conference mentioned (Dalton) 10899 (Gabelmann) 10899
- Television violence, impact of (Gabelmann) 9887
- Together Against Violence program (Dalton) 10899
Violence against women. See Abused women
Violence Against Women in Relationships
- Policy, implementation of (Gabelmann) 9913, 9914
Viscount Alexander Elementary School, Port Coquitlam, B.C.
- Mentioned (Farnworth) 9833
VLC companies. See also Vancouver Land Corp.; VLC Properties Ltd.; VLC Real Estate Corp.
- Affordable housing proposal (Smallwood) 9724 (Wilson) 9530, 9724, 9963
- Casino proposal (Cashore) 10456 (Harcourt) 9456 (Mitchell) 9621-2 (Warnke) 10456 (Wilson) 9433, 9963
- Government investment in (Clark) 9531 (Serwa) 9531 (Weisgerber) 9574 (Wilson) 9605, 9963
- Government investment in, review of (Clark) 9606
- Investment in by B.C. Endowment Fund (Mitchell) 9621-2
- Payments to by provincial government (Gingell) 10198, 10199 (Smallwood) 10195, 10196, 10198, 10199 (Wilson) 10195, 10196
- Rental housing, supply of, contract re (Gingell) 10198, 10198-9 (Smallwood) 10195, 10196 (Wilson) 10195, 10196, 10366
- Shares mentioned (Randall) 9732
- Social Credit Party administration's contract with (Smallwood) 10195, 10196 (Wilson) 10195
- Vancouver, contract with (Wilson) 10195, 10196
- Mentioned (De Jong, H.) 9809
VLC Properties Ltd. See also VLC companies
VLC Real Estate Corp. See also VLC companies
- Shares, government purchase of (Harcourt) 9456
- Vancouver Port Corporation, participation in casino proposal call by (Harcourt) 9456
Vocational education
- Applied technology programs (Miller) 11887, 11955, 12200
- Career technical centre in Abbotsford School District (Dalton) 9514
- Facilities in Fraser Valley (Jones, K.) 11960
- Post-secondary training (Dalton) 9514
- Private sector training institutes (Miller) 12194-5, 12195
- Programs, enrolment in (De Jong, H.) 9810
- Technical preparation courses (Charbonneau) 11829 (Stephens) 11829, 11830
- Vocational skills, need for (Dosanjh) 10842-3, 10844 (Miller) 12269 (Reid) 12269
Volberg, Rachel A.
Volunteer Recognition Week
- Celebration of (Anderson) 10020
- Mentioned (Brewin) 10021
Volunteers
- Contribution of (Anderson) 10020-1, 10021-2, 11253, 11253-4 (Brewin) 10021 (MacPhail) 11253, 11254 (Serwa) 9836
- Emergency social services program, volunteers in (Anderson) 11084, 11085 (MacPhail) 11084, 11085
- Funding for volunteer agencies (MacPhail) 11253, 11254
- Health care system, volunteers in (Anderson) 12325 (Fox) 12327 (Ramsey) 12325
- Health care system, volunteers in, position on reforms (Wilson) 12328
- Thanked (Anderson) 10020-1 (Brewin) 10021
- Volunteer bureau, role of (Anderson) 10022
- Women volunteers, contribution of (Priddy) 10136
- Work of (Serwa) 10579
Von Donop Park
- Use of by Klahoose Indian band (Cashore) 10446-7
- Mentioned (Cashore) 10322
Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- Printing of (Gabelmann) 9419
- Publication of, paper savings in (Speaker) 11347
Voting. See Elections
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