Province of British Columbia
4th Session, 35th Parliament
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
March 22, 1995 to April 25, 1996

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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
Hansard Sittings by Page Number

Dairy industry
• Bovine growth hormone, use in industry (Chisholm) 15646 (Zirnhelt) 15646
• Organic production standards (Chisholm) 15646 (Zirnhelt) 15646
Dairyland Foods
• Governance structure (van Dongen) 14760
Dalton, C. Jeremy (West Vancouver-Capilano)
• Abbotsford constituency by-election 13020
• Abortion, access zones 16174-5, 16177
• Access to Abortion Services Act 16165, 16174-5, 16177
• Access to Abortion Services Act, beset, definition 16165
• Access to Abortion Services Act, contravention provisions 16177
• Access to Abortion Services Act, protest, definition 16165
• Address in Reply 13020-2
• Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates 15639-40
• Alcohol-related traffic accidents 13377
• Attorney General ministry, class proceedings legislation, consultation document 15070-1
• Attorney General ministry, cost overruns 13141-2
• Attorney General ministry, estimates 13539-45, 13580-3, 13605-15, 13627-9, 13653-5, 13670-2, 13675, 13709-10
• Attorney General ministry, special warrant funding 13141-2
• Attorneys General, meetings 13608-10
• Autobody repair firm, letter from ICBC claims centre manager 15084
• Automobile emission standards, regulation-making authority 16723
• Automobile insurance for high risks 15052
• Automobile insurance, no-fault insurance 15084
• Babysitters, minimum wage requirement 13021
• Bail for accused in murder case 14600
• Bankruptcy declarations, impact on civil judgments 15766
• BCTV's election voting station coverage 16658-9
• Bell, Sherri, accidental death 13377, 16229-30
• Blencoe, Hon. Robin, dismissal as Government Services minister 13279
• Block Watch program 13540-1
• Blockades, concerns 15639-40
• Bouck, John C., court backlog, pilot project 13670
• Bowell, Gary, letter re jail in Chilliwack 13541-2
• Brenda minesite, correctional facility, feasibility 13543-4
• B.C. Coalition for Safer Communities, mandate 13303
• B.C. Ferries, debt limit, increase 13713
• B.C. Police Commission, performance 13653
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority funds, transfer from Transportation and Highways ministry 13194
• Budget, balanced budget 13194
• Budget debate 13193-5
• Budget leak 13144, 13193
• Budget Measures Implementation Act (1995) 13713
• Buller, Marion, recommendations re legal aid services for Indians 13539
• Business-education partnerships 15370-1
• Canadian Bar Association, class proceedings legislation, consultations 15070-1
• Canadian Bar Association, class proceedings legislation cost provisions 15387-8
• Canadian Bar Association, class proceedings legislation, unclaimed awards provisions 15382
• Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry recommendations 13539
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms 13606-7
• Child abuse, incidence 15885
• Child abuse prevention, legislation 15885
• Child Protection Act 16825
• Children witnessing violence, qualification as victim 13710
• Chilliwack, correctional facility in area 13541-2
• Civil service, number of employees 13022, 13195
• Class action awards, disposition of unclaimed moneys 15381-2
• Class actions, certification, notice requirement 15377
• Class actions, costs 15386-8
• Class actions, evidence of independent experts 15378
• Class actions, powers of court to protect interests of affected persons 15378
• Class actions, statistical evidence 15379-80
• Class Proceedings Act 15070-2, 15227-9, 15231, 15233, 15377-82, 15386-8
• Class Proceedings Act, consultations 15070-2
• Colleges, pension plan 16969-70
• Commercial arbitration centre, funding 13671
• Commission of inquiry into policing in B.C., complaints commission recommendation 13539
• Commission of inquiry into policing in B.C., recommendations 13539, 13653-4
• Commission of inquiry into policing in B.C., submissions 13654
• Commission on Resources and Environment, consultation 13021-3
• Community policing 13655
• Consumer Protection Amendment Act (1995) 14835-6, 15021-6
• Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, consent, definition of term 15023-4
• Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, goods, definition of term 15022
• Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, inferred, use of word 15023
• Consumer protection legislation 14836
• Consumers, civil actions by consumers 14023
• Corporation capital tax, elimination 13195, 13713
• Corporation capital tax, Hon. Michael Harcourt's comments 13713
• Correctional facilities, double-bunking 13142, 13544, 13580
• Correctional facilities, overcrowding 13582
• Correctional facilities, site selection 13541-4
• Corrections system, criminal-record checks for employees 16060
• Corrections system, handling of dangerous offenders 13540, 13609-10
• Corrections system, harassment training for prison guards 13884
• Corrections system, keep of prisoners program, funding 13147
• Courts, case backlog 13670
• Courts, case backlog, reduction 13142, 13539
• Crime and safety, survey 13540
• Crime in communities 13302
• Crime rate, public perception 13655
• Crime, young offenders in diversion 13583
• Criminal Injury Compensation Act, amendments 13710
• Criminal Injury Compensation Act, compensation for non-dependent family members 13605
• Criminal Injury Compensation Act, pay-outs under act 13606
• Criminal Injury Compensation Amendment Act (1995) 15765-6, 15939
• Criminal injury compensation for victims injured at work, case cited 15939
• Criminal injury compensation, murder cases 15765-6
• Criminal injury compensation, retroactive coverage, commencement dates 15765, 15939
• Criminal injury compensation through civil actions 15765-6
• Criminal Records Review Act 15885-8, 16041, 16043, 16045-7, 16050, 16052, 16055-61
• Criminal Records Review Act, applicability to municipal employees 16403
• Criminal Records Review Act, applicability to volunteers 15886, 16041
• Criminal Records Review Act, cost-benefit analysis request 15888
• Criminal Records Review Act, employer, definition 16041
• Criminal Records Review Act, implementation, cost 15887-8
• Criminal Records Review Act, reaction to bill 15885-7
• Criminal Records Review Act, referral to select standing committee 15887-8
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, appeal panel 16058
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, liability issue 16055
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, notification procedure 16047
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, out-of-country records 16045-6
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, relevance of offence to employment 16050
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, relevant offences, list 16060
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, subsequent relevant offences 16056
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, time requirements 15887
• Criminal-record checks for child workers, Women's Equality ministry's responsibilities 16057-8
• Criminal-record checks, liability issue 15886
• Criminal-record checks, mistaken identities 15887
• Criminal-record checks, out-of-country records 15887
• Criminal-record checks, privacy issue 15885, 15887
• Criminals, alternatives to incarceration 13540
• Criminals, electronic monitoring program, cost 13545
• Criminals, publication of names on release from prison 13606-7
• Cull, Hon. Elizabeth, performance as Finance minister 15340
• Cull, Hon. Elizabeth, resignation 15669
• Cycling, helmet use by cyclists 15976
• Debt, comparison to mortgage 13194
• Debt, manageability of public debt 13194-5
• Disclosure courts, overexpenditures 13155
• Drug problem in Vancouver 13610
• Drug use, Cain report 13610
• Earthquake preparedness, funding 13156
• Education and business partnerships 15370-1
• Education funding, targeted funding 14956
• Education, legislative amendments, consultation 14956, 15157
• Education, Liberal Party policy 14956
• Education, post-secondary and K-to-12 responsibility of single ministry 15369
• Education, post-secondary institutions, mandate 15370-1
• Education, post-secondary teaching certification 15368-9
• Education, public system 13022
• Education Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14956-7, 15157-8, 15160, 15164-6
• Education system, choices within public system 14956
• Election Act 16242-7, 16604-6, 16609-10, 16617, 16620-1, 16623, 16625-6, 16629-30, 16633-4, 16639, 16642, 16644, 16646, 16650-9, 16661-2, 16672, 16674-8, 16779-80, 16790-7, 16799-803, 16812-3, 16816-7, 16822, 16833-4, 16838-41, 16843-4, 16863-4, 16866, 16870, 16877-8, 16885
• Election Act, Charter of Rights issues 16242
• Election Act, election advertising limit, definition 16604-5
• Election Act, election proceedings, absence of definition in bill 16609-10, 16629-30, 16654, 16658
• Election Act, legal implications 16605, 16843
• Election Act offences, multiple penalties 16863
• Election Act offences, prosecutions 16863-4
• Election Act, public notice of revisions 16639
• Election Act, revision of old act 16242
• Election Act, sponsor, definition 16816
• Election Act, timing of bill 16243-4
• Election Advisory Committee, establishment 16243
• Election Advisory Committee, membership 16625-6
• Election call 13022, 13193-5
• Election campaign advertising 16822, 16838
• Election campaign advertising by government 16833-4
• Election campaign advertising, limits on third-party advertising 16244-5, 16604-6, 16796
• Election campaign contribution limits 16245
• Election campaign contributions, anonymous contributions 16246, 16795
• Election campaign contributions, disclosure requirements 16243-4, 16801, 16843
• Election campaign contributions from outside B.C. 16246
• Election campaign contributions through fundraising functions 16792
• Election campaign funds, disposition of candidates' surplus funds 16799-801
• Election campaign funds, transfers from federal parties 16246
• Election campaign spending 16793-4
• Election campaign spending, Alberta Court of Appeal case cited 16245-6
• Election campaign spending, late filing of report, court orders 16812-3
• Election campaign spending limits 16246, 16843
• Election campaign spending limits, penalties 16802-3
• Election campaign workers, paid leave from other jobs 16244-5
• Election candidates, challenges to nomination 16651-2
• Election candidates, death before election 16650
• Election candidates, expense reports during writ period 16802
• Election candidates, financial agents' role 16675-6
• Election candidates, leave from employment 16652
• Election candidates, nomination qualifications 16644
• Election candidates, party endorsement 16646
• Election candidates, requirement for financial agent 16244, 16675
• Election candidates, requirement for official agent 16653-4
• Election proceedings, keeping peace and order 16870
• Election voting stations, who may be present 16659
• Elections, adjournment of election proceedings 16870
• Elections, alternative absentee voting 16672
• Elections, audit requirements 16676
• Elections, ballot-marking 16661, 16674-5
• Elections, ballots, information included on ballot 16656-7
• Elections, chief electoral officer, acting officer 16623
• Elections, chief electoral officer, impartiality 16620-1
• Elections, chief electoral officer, reporting to Legislature 16623
• Elections, electronic voting 16672
• Elections, enumeration of voters 16639
• Elections, municipal elections, campaign contributions 16779-80
• Elections, private member's bill 16243, 16246 See also Election Finances Reform Act
• Elections, provincial election, timing 16245
• Elections, special voting opportunities 16655
• Elections, tie votes 16675
• Elections, vote-buying 16866
• Elections, voter qualifications 16633-4
• Elections, voters list accuracy 13672, 16642
• Elections, voters list link to driver's licence address 16243
• Emergency preparedness, overexpenditures 13155-6
• Employment Standards Act, debate on bill 14836
• Enumeration of voters 13672
• Family justice centres, role 13627
• Family law, parents denied access to children, enforcement 13613
• Family maintenance, collection rate 13612
• Family maintenance enforcement program, accessibility through family justice centres 13612
• Family maintenance enforcement program, attachments 13627-8
• Family maintenance enforcement program, concerns 13612-4, 13627-8
• Family maintenance enforcement program, liens against personal property 13628
• Family maintenance enforcement program participants, number 13612
• Ferry Corporation Act, amendments 13713
• Fetterley, Douglas, release from Surrey pretrial centre, report on case 13544
• Fraser Valley Cancer Centre, opening 14028-9
• Freedom-of-information requests, health care information 14809-10
• Gabelmann, Hon. Colin, performance as Attorney General 15339-40
• Gabelmann, Hon. Colin, quoted re special warrant funding of ministry overruns 13141
• Gamache, Jason, sexual offender case 13607
• Gossage, John, sexual abuse case 13675
• Government accounting methods and debt 13194
• Government information leaks, investigation 14039
• Government, reduction in cost of government 13195
• Government, size 13022, 13195
• Government spending levels 13195
• Government, transfers of responsibilities to other ministries 13611
• Gun control 13608-9
• Gun control campaign advertising, Election Act impact 16816-7
• Gun control legislation 13671-2
• Gun registration proposal, Hon. Michael Harcourt's statements 13671
• Harcourt, Hon. Michael, press release and letter to Jean Chr‚tien re criminals, young offenders 13608-10
• Health care, community-based services 14028-9
• Health care costs 13804-5
• Health care facilities, private institutions, financial information 14809-10
• Health care services, community-based services 14810
• Health care services, coordinated delivery 13804-5
• Health care services for growing communities 14028-9
• Health care system, management efficiency 13804-5
• Health ministry, estimates 14809-10
• Health ministry, freedom of information requests 14810
• Home-care support services on North Shore 14810
• Hospitals, freedom-of-information requests 14809-10
• Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, estimates 13976-8, 14022-3
• Impaired drivers, petition tabled re prosecution 13219
• Impaired driving causing death or injury, prosecutions 13377, 16229
• Impaired driving, handling 13540, 13610-1
• Impaired driving, penalties 13611
• Indian land claims and private property rights 15639-40
• Indian land claims, interministerial coordination 15639
• Indian land claims, third-party issues 15639-40
• Information and privacy commissioner, position on criminal-record checks for child workers 15885, 16052
• Insurance Corporation of B.C. adjusters, number 15085
• Insurance Corporation of B.C., automobile repair costs 15084
• Insurance Corporation of B.C. claim centres, operating costs 15085
• Insurance Corporation of B.C., plaintiffs' compensation 15083-4
• Insurance Corporation of B.C., relationship with autobody shops 15084
• Island Highway construction project, cost overruns 13021
• Island Highway construction project, intersections replacing proposed interchanges 13021
• Jericho Hill School for the Deaf, sexual abuse of students, government action 16321
• Judges, independence of judiciary 15340
• Judges, Provincial Court judges' compensation 13155, 15339-42
• Judges, Provincial Court judges' compensation, language of motion 15339
• Judicial compensation committee, recommendations, rejection by Legislature 15340-1
• Judicial Council of B.C., recommendation for pension study with government 15341
• Juries, fees and expenses 15173-4
• Jury Act, amendments 14999, 15173-4
• Justice system, class actions, certification guidelines 15071
• Justice system, class actions, commonality 15228-9
• Justice system, class actions, costs 15071-2
• Justice system, class actions, number of claimants in class 15228
• Justice system, class actions, powers of court 15231
• Justice system, class actions, residency requirement, access of non-residents to class proceeding 15227-8, 15231
• Justice system, complaints commission 14816
• Justice system, juries' fees and expenses 14999
• Landlord and tenant disputes 13976-8
• Landlords' expenses, limit 13977
• Law Reform Commission, class proceedings legislation, consultations 15070
• Law Reform Commission, funding 13672
• Law Reform Commission of Ontario, recommendations re B.C.'s class action legislation 15071, 15382, 15387-8
• Leask, Peter, investigation of John Gossage case, files to College of Physicians and Surgeons 13675
• Legal Services Society, special warrant funding 13142
• Legal services tax 13146
• Legal services tax, revenue from tax 13710
• Legislation, retroactivity 13605-6
• Legislature, select standing committees, use 15887
• Liberal Party of B.C. proposal on victims' rights 15691
• Liquor distribution branch, San Francisco marketing meeting 15017
• Liquor distribution branch, staff training video 14906-7
• Local Elections Reform Act, campaign contribution provisions 16678-80
• McGregor, Malcolm, post-retirement teaching career 15370
• McKinney, Tiffany, murder case 14600
• Marley, David, work on criminal injury compensation through civil actions 15765-6
• Medicare, Liberal Party position 14029
• MLAs' compensation, public perception 16969-70
• MLAs' pension plan eligibility rules, effective date 16969-70
• MLAs' pension plan, elimination 16723, 16969-70
• MLAs' pension plan, Gordon Campbell's private member's bill 16723
• Mineral Prospectors Act, repeal of act 14999
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14999, 15173-4
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15002
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16721-3, 16935, 16966, 16969-70
• Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15976
• Motor vehicle branch, transfer to Transportation and Highways ministry 13611
• Mount Thurston correctional facility replacement 13541-2
• Municipalities, document delivery services, cost transferred from government 13709
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society activities, criminal investigation 15669
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation, Parks report, release 15468-9
• Natural gas, Vancouver Island pipeline project, rate stabilization fund changes 16723
• Natural resource-based communities, NDP government action 13022
• Natural resources, NDP government action 13021
• Neighbourhood Watch program 13540-1
• NDP 1995 convention 13193
• NDP government, performance 13021, 14290, 15340-2
• NDP government, public confidence 13193
• New Directions program, implementation 13022
• North Vancouver School District, accreditation process, questionnaire 14956-7, 15165-6
• Oaklands land, environmental cleanup 13142
• Offence Amendment Act (1995) 15479
• Offence Amendment Act, 1995, definition of direct sale and direct seller 15021
• Ontario, class action legislation 15071-2, 15228-9, 15231
• Open Learning Agency, role in education system 14290
• Perrault, Daniel, escape case 13539-40, 13543
• Police, cost to issue new service revolvers 13654
• Police, high-speed chases, policy 13653-4
• Police, search warrants 13654
• Police, semi-automatic handguns, Oppal commission recommendations 13654
• Policing guidelines, Attorney General role 13653
• Political parties, links between provincial and federal parties 16791
• Political parties, registration 16244
• Political party campaign spending on public policy issues 16796-7
• Political party contributions, who can donate 16795
• Political poll results, publication restrictions 16840-1
• Political polling, legislative rules 16242-4
• Port Coquitlam correctional facility 13542
• Port Coquitlam correctional facility, petition tabled 13652
• Prince George Regional Hospital, services 13403
• Prisoners, work on tourist facilities 13543
• Prostitution concern 13610
• Prostitution, prevention of youth prostitution 16825
• Public complaints commission 13654
• Public protection and individual rights 13607
• Public safety 13022, 13606-7
• Railways, property tax changes, Union of B.C. Municipalities position 16720-2, 16935
• Ramsey, Ross, report on impaired driving 13610-1
• Real estate agents, disclosure requirements 14176
• Real estate agents, representation of both purchaser and vendor 14176
• Real Estate Amendment Act (1995) 13901-2, 14176-7
• Real Estate Amendment Act, background 13901-2
• Real estate industry, dual agency issue 14176
• Real estate industry, shared interests in land or buildings 13902, 14176-7
• Recall and Initiative Act, adequacy 16885
• Recall and Initiative Act amendments in Election Act 16242, 16244
• Rent controls, Liberal Party position 13977
• Rent protection formula 13977
• Rental housing, conversion to shared-interest buildings 13902
• Rental Housing Council, letter re consultation on legislation 13976
• Rental housing, mortgage interest on rental properties 13976
• Rentalsman's office 13976-7
• Residential Tenancy Act, approval requirement for residential leases 13902
• Residential Tenancy Amendment Act, 1994, consultation 13976
• Residential tenancy offices, cost of new offices 14022-3
• Rogers Cable Communications Ltd., negative-option services issue 14835
• Safety, community initiatives 13540-1
• Safety, federal role in public safety 13540
• Safety in communities 13302-3
• Safety, world conference on community safety 13303
• St. Paul's Hospital, cooperative projects with Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre 13804
• Sales, negative-option offers, disclosure requirements 15025-6
• School accreditation 14956, 15165-6
• School boards, accountability 15166
• School boards, autonomy 15157-8
• School boards, budgeting, minister's powers 15160, 15164
• School boards, number and amalgamation 14956
• Security of confidential government information 13144, 13193, 14039
• Sex crimes, education of public re safety 13608
• Sex offenders registry 13607-8
• Sexual harassment allegations against cabinet minister 13279
• Sexual harassment allegations within corrections system 13884
• Skills Now program, community skills centres 14288-9
• Skills, Training and Labour ministry, estimates 14288-90, 14292, 15368-71
• Skills, Training and Labour ministry offices, setup costs of new offices 15371
• Skills training, funding 14289
• Small business partnerships with post-secondary institutions 15370-1
• Special warrants, retroactive approval for funds already expended 13141
• Sullivan, Wayne, verdict in wife's death, appeal by Crown 14127
• Supply Act (No. 1) (1995) 13141-2, 13146-7, 13155-6
• Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, administration 13528, 13581
• Surrey Pretrial Services Centre administration, acting positions 13544
• Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, administration, acting positions 13581
• Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, sexual assault allegations 13528
• Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, sexual assault allegations, report 13544, 13580-1
• Tax breaks for business re training expenses 15371
• Taxation 13021
• Taxation, increased taxes 13195
• Throne speech, content 13020, 13022
• Traffic accidents, alcohol-related accidents 13377
• Traffic fines, overdue fines, filing of certificate, ten-year time limit 15479
• Traffic violations, enforcement responsibility 16722-3
• Traffic violations, revenue returned to municipalities,Liberal Party position 16722
• Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates 15083-5
• Transportation and Highways ministry, expenditurestransferred to B.C. Transportation Financing Authority 13194
• Treasury Board memo re provincial debt 13193
• Trial Lawyers' Association, court backlog, recommendations 13670
• Universities, colleges and institutes, cooperative education with employers 14290, 15370-1
• Universities, colleges and institutes, degree-grantingdesignations 15369-70
• Vancouver, document delivery services, cost transferred from government 13709-10
• Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, cooperative projects with St. Paul's Hospital 13804
• Vancouver, incarceration costs, reimbursement fromgovernment 13709
• Vancouver police, funding 13708-9
• Vaudreuil, Matthew, manslaughter case, sentence reduction for convicted mother 13413
• Victim impact statements 15931
• Victim services, fine surcharge levy 15938
• Victim services, fine surcharge levy, revenue 15936
• Victim services in North and West Vancouver 13582, 15691
• Victim services, volunteers 13582
• Victims of crime 13605
• Victims of Crime Act 15691, 15930-2, 15936, 15938
• Victims of Crime Act, goals 15691
• Victims of Crime Act, implementation and costs 15691
• Victims of Crime Act, significant emotional trauma, use of phrase 15930
• Victims' right to information 15932
• Violence, anti-violence groups commended 15765
• Volunteers in health care system 13805
• Winfield, correctional facility in area 13543
• Young offenders, Alan Rock's position 13608
• Young offenders, transfer to adult court 13608
Dams. See also names of dams, e.g., Waneta Dam
• Activation under Columbia River accord (Evans) 13174 (Hurd) 13175
• Benefits (Serwa) 13358
• Construction, employment (Edwards) 13354-5
• Construction, Green Party position (Hurd) 14521
• Construction in Columbia-Kootenay region. See also Dam construction projects under main heading Columbia Basin Trust (Clark) 13340-1 (Hurd) 13346-7 (Jarvis) 13341-2 (Miller) 13346
• Construction of new dams in B.C. (Edwards) 14227 (Jarvis) 14227-8 (Neufeld) 14231
• Construction projects, financing (Clark) 16033 (Hurd) 16033
• Construction projects, power-storage costs (Hurd) 16034 (Sivertson) 16034
• Cost (Jarvis) 13342
• Cost of power generation (Weisgerber) 13361
• Towns flooded by dam construction (Barlee) 14440
• Water storage and release, problems (Cull) 15239-41 (Jarvis) 15239 (Tyabji) 15240
Dance Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
• Funding (Perry) 13887
Danson, Timothy
• Water exports and free trade, views quoted (Tyabji) 14557-8
Daviault. See Regina v. Daviault
Davie, Ken
• Subdivision application case (Ramsey) 14765 (van Dongen) 14764
Davis, John (Jack)
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits used to pay down debt, proposal (Mitchell) 13424
Dawson Creek, B.C.
• Natural gas service (Fox) 15759 (Marzari) 15067, 15759
De Jong, Harry
• Tribute (de Jong, M.) 13369 (Fox) 13396
de Jong, Michael G. (Matsqui)
• Abbotsford by-election call 13105-6, 13370
• Abbotsford, discharges into Fraser River 16268
• Abbotsford health care facility construction, petition tabled 14240
• Abbotsford hospital construction project, petition 14240
• Abbotsford, MSA hospital construction project 14501-4
• Abbotsford, MSA hospital construction project, NDP government action 13369-70, 13406-7
• Adams Lake blockade, impact on tourism 15403
• Address in Reply 13368-71
• Adoptions by homosexuals, petition 13760
• Agricultural Land Commission Amendment Act 16914
• Agricultural land, regional divisions, establishment 16914
• Agricultural land reserve, changes, petition tabled 16917
• Agricultural land use 13371
• Alouette River fishery, protection 16669
• Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd., agreement re cancellation of Kemano completion project 16667-8
• Aquaculture industry 16270-1
• Aquaculture industry, policy 16270
• Attorney General ministry, special prosecutor investigation 13528
• Automobile emission standards, testing procedures 17005
• Automobile emission standards, Waste Management Act definitions 17002
• Automobile leasing, consumer protection regulations 14015-6
• Bears, ban on sale of grizzly bear pelts 17009
• Bingo licences held by NDP organizations 13145
• Biomedical waste 16191
• Black Creek dam 16669
• Blencoe, Hon. Robin, dismissal as Government Services minister 14038
• Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of agreement with B.C. 14360
• B.C. Hydro International, Argentina hydroelectric project 13651
• B.C. Hydro, New Westminster site cleanup case 16265-6
• B.C.'s aging population 13404
• Budget, 1995-96 budget, inclusion of Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits 14360
• Budget, content 13106
• Budget debate 13103-6
• Budget leak, government knowledge 13082
• Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and water exports 15241-3, 15259-60
• Child labour 14729
• Chilton, Chris, appointment to Health ministry 14464, 14471-2
• Chloramine used as water treatment, policy 16268
• Class actions, awards 15380
• Class actions, costs 15388
• Class actions, deadlines for opting in or out 15378
• Class actions, evidence of independent experts 15378-9
• Class actions, powers of court to protect interests of affected persons 15377-8
• Class Proceedings Act 15072-3, 15229-33, 15377-80, 15387-9
• Clearbrook Career Technical Centre, program objectives 14278-9
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue considered in 1995-96 budget 14360
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue to pay down debt 13104
• Conair Aviation, contracts 13350-1, 13759
• Conflict-of-interest commissioner, investigation into use of constituency allowance funds 16916
• Constitutional reform, end of discussions 16483-5
• Constitutional reform, third constitutional level of government 16485
• Coopers and Lybrand Consulting Group report on tire recycling 16159
• Court of Appeal, dismissal of inactive appeal 15196
• Craig Bay Estates, development project on heritage site 15995-6
• Craig Bay, land in area appraised for sale 16267-8
• Creston Valley wildlife association, funding 16266-7
• Creston Valley wildlife management area, B.C. Hydro role 16267
• Cull, Hon. Elizabeth, resignation call 13106, 15778
• De Jong, Harry, tribute 13369
• Debt and investment for future 14282
• Debt, impact 13370
• Debt level 13104
• Door-to-door sellers, consumer complaints 14016
• Douglas Lake Cattle Co. lands, blockade 13984, 14711, 14815, 14906, 15112
• Douglas Lake Cattle Co. lands, blockade, charges 15016-7
• Education, essential service designation 13106
• Education funding and public debt 14282
• Education, post-secondary institutions, links with high schools 14279-80
• Education system during Social Credit Party administration 13106
• Election Act 16286-9
• Election Act, consultations 16541-2
• Election Act, revision of old act 16286-7
• Election campaign advertising, limits on third-party advertising 16288
• Employer-employee relations 14729-30
• Employment Standards Act 14728-31
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, centralization 16152
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, communications 16152-4
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 16150-9, 16188-94, 16265-71, 16519-61
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, handling of issues re Indians 16154-5
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, management efficiencies 16156
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, program evaluation unit 16156
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, staff 16151-3
• Environment Week, results 16192-3
• Environmental protection department 16150-1
• Environmental protection, NDP government action 16325
• Environmental protection standards 13651
• Environmental protection standards, enforcement 16155
• Export trade, interjurisdictional arrangements 13350-1, 13759
• Families, support for young parents 14590, 14592
• Families, support for young parents, referral to Social Services ministry 14590-1
• Family counsellors as witnesses, compellability 15196-7
• Farm Practices Board hearings 15678
• Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 15678
• Forest fire in Penticton area, Price Waterhouse review 14245
• Forest industry, future 14237
• Forest industry, job loss 13370
• Forest Practices Code, implementation, staff requirements 16271
• Freedom-of-information request for government files on NDP-held bingo licences 13145
• Friesen (Mrs.), groundwater case 16271
• Fuel emissions, classes of fuel 17005
• Fuel, MMT content in motor fuel 16269-70, 17005
• GAIN fraud, prosecutions 14592-5
• GAIN fraud, recovery rate on restitution orders 14593
• GAIN recipients, debt collection immunity 13003
• Gardiner, Brian, knowledge of Parks report contents 15669, 15880
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and water exports 15241-3, 15259-60
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, restrictive provisions 15259-60
• Government advertising expenditures 16122
• Government, dedication of weeks to various purposes 16192
• Government, enforcement of regulations against other levels of government 16193-4, 16268
• Government involvement in people's lives 14015-6
• Government, public perception 14280
• Government purchasing, out-of-province purchases 13350-1, 13759
• Government, size 13106
• Grains and Oilseeds Revenue Protection Plan Trust Fund Act 14063, 14248-9
• Grains and Oilseeds Revenue Protection Plan Trust Fund Act, repeal of act 14249
• Grains and Oilseeds Revenue Protection Plan Trust Fund Act, retroactivity 14249
• Grains and oilseeds revenue protection trust fund 14063, 14248
• Grazing enhancement special account 14064-5
• Grazing Enhancement Special Account Act 14064-5
• Greater Vancouver Regional District, dumping of waste in Burrard Inlet 16193-4
• Groundwater, export exclusion 16271
• Groundwater, farm practice guidelines 16271
• Groundwater, quality of well water 14264
• Harcourt, Hon. Michael, actions while an opposition MLA 16488
• Harcourt, Hon. Michael, election campaign statements 13104
• Harcourt, Hon. Michael, resignation during investigation 13046
• Health care, community services 13406
• Health ministry, estimates 14464-5, 14496-504
• Hip replacement surgery, wait-lists 13369
• Home-care support services, availability 14471-2
• Home-care support services, eligibility 14127, 14496-501, 14588-9
• Home-care support services, ministerial responsibility 14588
• Home-care support services, need 13370
• Home-care support workers' strike, impact 13404-5, 14496, 14498
• Home-care support workers' strike, settlement 13404
• Hospital services for Fraser Valley 14501-5
• Hospitals, construction funding 13105
• Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, consumer services staff 14017
• Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, estimates 14105-8
• Impaired driving, sentences for convicted offenders 16229-30
• Income support programs 14592
• Indian land claims and private property rights 13371, 13984
• Indian treaty negotiations with bands involved in illegal activities 14815, 15995
• Indians, sovereignty 13371
• Indians, Treaty 8 issue 16154
• Jobs for B.C. workers 13350-1
• Justice system, class actions, certification 15229-30
• Justice system, class actions, costs 15232
• Justice system, class actions, deadlines for opting in or out 15231, 15233
• Justice system, class actions, decisions of court as legal precedence 15229-30
• Justice system, class actions, number of claimants in class 15230-1
• Justice system, class actions, powers of court 15072
• Justice system, class actions, powers of court to stay proceedings 15232
• Justice system, class actions, representative plaintiffs 15072-3, 15229
• Justice system, dual standard for Indians and non-Indians 15016-7
• Justice system, equality before the law 15016
• Justice system, sentencing, consultation requirement 15177
• Kemano completion project cancellation, compensation 16667
• Kemano completion project, Liberal Party position 16667
• Land use, ability of local groups to buy land for facilities 13371
• Land use, areas set aside for preservation, 12 percent figure 16690
• Land use policies, legacy for future 16689
• Landlord and tenant disputes 14017-8
• Legislature, private members' statements 13403
• Legislature, withdrawal from House due to possible conflict-of-interest 13141
• Libel and Slander Amendment Act (1995) 16741
• Libel and slander, fair comment defence for publishers 16741
• McPhee family, cleanup of land contaminated before purchase 16265-6
• Matsqui constituency, health care facility funding 13105
• Medicare system, reforms 13406
• MLAs, accountability, Jack Weisgerber's comments 13106
• Mercer Management Consulting, advice re B.C. Hydro restructuring 14193-4
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 15177
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15196-7
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 17005, 17009
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society activities 13105
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society activities, criminal investigation 15777-8
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation, Parks report 13146, 15669, 15777
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation, Parks report, Hon. Elizabeth Cull's handling 16487
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation, Parks report, Hon. Mike Harcourt's handling 16488
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation, Parks report, release 15469-70, 15565
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, public inquiry 13178, 13181, 16488
• Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society Public Inquiry Act 13178
• Nanoose first nation, Craig Bay heritage site 15995-6
• Natural resource-based communities, concerns 13104
• NDP constituency allowances, use of funds 16916
• NDP government performance 13370, 16485-7
• NDP government policies, links between initiatives 16485-6
• NDP government, public confidence 13105
• NDP government vision 13113
• New Westminster Gas Co. coal gasification plant, site cleanup case 16265-6
• Nobody's Perfect program 14589-90
• North American Free Trade Agreement and water exports 15241-3, 15259-60
• North American Free Trade Agreement investors, national treatment provisions 15260
• Offence Act, amendments 15177
• Paint recycling, stewardship program 16160-1, 16188
• Parent support programs 14591-2
• Park Amendment Act (1995) 16689-90
• Parks branch, regional operations, elimination 16157
• Parks, new parks 16153
• Parks, new parks and Indian land claims 16690
• Patronage appointments 13103, 13370
• Penticton area forest fire, Forest Service response 14245
• Petter, Hon. Andrew, statement re Gordon Hanson 16747
• "A Plan for B.C." 16122
• Police, independence 14711
• Political polling, use 16287-9
• Politicians, public perception 13106
• Premier and Cabinet Office, estimates 16483-8
• Privacy protection for families in mediation with family court counsellors 15196-7
• Privacy protection, personal medical records 13401-2
• Quantz, Ernie, discussions re Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation report 15880
• Quebec referendum on sovereignty 16483-4
• Quebec, separation from Canada, impact on B.C. 13370-1
• Railways, taxation legislation, Abbotsford petition tabled 16917
• Recycling, blue box tracking system 16189
• Riis, Nelson, statements re funding for Indians 14906
• Seniors, health care needs 13404
• Sihota, Hon. Moe, resignation 14038
• Sihota, Hon. Moe, support for new parks 16690
• Skills Now program, effectiveness 16429-30
• Skills Now program, objectives 14278-81
• Skills, Training and Labour ministry, estimates 14278-82
• Skills training facilities, role 14278-9
• Social Services ministry, estimates 14588-95
• Social Services ministry, program evaluation 14590
• Statutory holidays and unpaid leave for workers 14731
• Stupich, David, cooperation with Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society audit 13181
• Supply Act (No. 1), conflict-of-interest issue 13141
• Technical skills, employer demand 14279
• Tire recycling 16157-9
• Tire reuse product research, transportation credit system 16159-60
• Tires as fuel in cement kilns 16158
• Transportation to workplace, alternatives 16192-3
• Treasury Board memo re provincial debt 13104
• University College of the Fraser Valley, expansion 14282
• Upper Nicola Indian band, blockade 13984, 14711, 14815, 14906, 15112
• Upper Nicola Indian band, blockade, charges 15016-7
• Upper Nicola Indian band, discussions 15112
• Upper Nicola Indian band, funding 14906
• Upper Nicola Indian band, land claims 13984, 14815
• User fees, licences and service fees, increase 13105
• VE-Day, fiftieth anniversary remembrances 14050-2
• Victim services, fine surcharge levy 15936-7
• Victim services, goals 15933
• Victims of commercial fraud 15932
• Victims of Crime Act 15930-3, 15936-8
• Victims of Crime Act, ombudsman's review powers 15938
• Victims of crime, impact statements 15931
• Victims of crime, legal representation 15930
• Victims' right to information 15932
• Wages, assignment of wages 14730
• War, human cost of war 14050-2
• Waste management, municipal solid waste program funding 16189-90
• Waste management plans by regional districts 16188-90
• Water as product and good for trade 15242-3
• Water diversion and removal, prohibitions 14263-4, 15259-60
• Water diversion within watersheds 15262
• Water exports 14263-4, 15241-3, 15259-60
• Water, exports of water obtained outside B.C. 15262
• Water, jurisdictional issues 15259-60
• Water Protection Act 14263-4, 15234, 15237-8, 15241-3, 15259-67
• Water Protection Act and international trade agreements 15241-3, 15259-61
• Water Protection Act, conditional licence holders 15263
• Water Protection Act, penalty provisions 15266-7
• Water Protection Act, registry system for water users 15265
• Water resources, aboriginal entitlement 15237-8
• Water resources, conservation 15259-60
• Water resources, ownership vested in Crown 14263-4, 15241-2
• Water resources, stewardship legislation 14263-4
• Water transfers between major watersheds 14264
• Water users, registration requirement 15264-5
• Watershed determinations 15234
• Weisgerber, Jack, budget comments released to media 13104, 13110
• Western Rubber Products, access to used tires 16158
• Whaling industry, policy 16155
• World War II, Netherlands during war 14050-2
• Yacyreta Dam project, B.C. Hydro involvement 13651
Deafness
• American Sign Language, importance to deaf community (Gabelmann) 16320
• Residences for deaf children, policies (MacPhail) 14608
Deas Island Tunnel
• Lighting (Gingell) 14935-6 (Pement) 14935-6
Dease Lake, B.C.
• Airport funding (Clark) 16398
Death
• Cultural attitudes, differences (Ramsey) 14529
Debt
• Debt collection practices, consumer awareness (Smallwood) 13975
Debt, Public
• Borrowing (Mitchell) 13185-6
• Cap on cost of debt (Cull) 13074-6 (Schreck) 13117 (Zirnhelt) 13237
• Contingent liabilities (Jones, K.) 13252
• Control of debt and deficit (Cull) 13075
• Debt (Anderson) 13176 (Gingell) 13091 (Hanson) 13015 (Marzari) 13215 (Mitchell) 13716-7 (Neufeld) 15663-4 (Randall) 13335
• Debt and B.C. credit rating (Campbell) 13376-7
• Debt and deficit, constitutional limits (Serwa) 13388
• Debt and deficit during Social Credit Party administration (Giesbrecht) 13265 (Serwa) 13282
• Debt and foreign investment (Reid) 13112
• Debt and investment for future (de Jong, M.) 14282 (Miller) 14282
• Debt and investment in infrastructure (Hanson) 13574
• Debt as percentage of gross domestic product (Copping) 13203 (Cull) 13076 (Fox) 13397 (Symons) 13257 (Zirnhelt) 13237
• Debt, commercial debt (Cull) 13076
• Debt, comparison to mortgage (Dalton) 13194 (Hammell) 13287 (Neufeld) 13250 (Tanner) 13322
• Debt, comparisons with elsewhere (Giesbrecht) 13266 (Lortie) 13574
• Debt during NDP administration (Campbell) 16431-2 (Harcourt) 16431-2 (Neufeld) 13714 (Serwa) 16760 (Symons) 13846 (Tanner) 13717-8 (Warnke) 13228 (Weisgerber) 16435
• Debt during Social Credit Party administration (Reid) 13113
• Debt, impact (de Jong, M.) 13370 (Fox) 13560 (Weisgerber) 13094
• Debt, impact on services (Campbell) 13221
• Debt levels (Campbell) 14085 (de Jong, M.) 13104 (Fox) 13182-3 (Jarvis) 13121 (Jones, K.) 13251-2 (Reid) 13111-2 (Schreck) 13117 (Symons) 13253 (Weisgerber) 13094
• Debt levels, affordability (Chisholm) 13198-201 (Sihota) 13197
• Debt levels, sustainability (Hurd) 13031-3 (Jarvis) 13065 (Weisgerber) 13047-8
• Debt load (Anderson) 14742-3 (Jones, K.) 13056 (Lovick) 13223 (Neufeld) 13040-1, 14752-3 (Symons) 13065, 13329-30
• Debt, manageability (Dalton) 13194-5 (Giesbrecht) 13257-8 (Stephens) 13114
• Debt management, economists' views (Warnke) 13228
• Debt management plan (Beattie) 13286 (Campbell) 13220-1, 16429, 16431 (Charbonneau) 13849 (Chisholm) 13201-2 (Cull) 13074, 13076, 13297-9, 13827, 14361, 15137 (Garden) 13276 (Giesbrecht) 13266 (Gingell) 14361 (Hanson) 13226 (Harcourt) 16429 (Hurd) 13231 (Jackson) 13244 (Lali) 13127-8 (Lortie) 13193 (Lovick) 13036-7 (Marzari) 13215 (Neufeld) 13249-50 (Pullinger) 13270, 13326 (Reid) 13111-3 (Stephens) 13114-5 (Symons) 13255 (Weisgerber) 13048, 13094 (Wilson) 13821 (Zirnhelt) 13237
• Debt, off-budget debt (Fox) 13183 (Hurd) 13032
• Debt, payback period (Cull) 13076 (Farnworth) 13118 (Gingell) 13079-80 (Reid) 13113 (Weisgerber) 13094 (Wilson) 13098
• Debt per capita (Cull) 13076 (Fox) 13397
• Debt repayment plan (Farnworth) 13716 (Neufeld) 13714
• Debt retirement and sale of public assets (Mitchell) 13186-7
• Debt servicing costs, impact on health care system (Hurd) 16772-3
• Debt, taxpayer-supported debt (Cull) 13076 (Mitchell) 13185-6 (Neufeld) 13249
• Debt, taxpayer-supported debt as percentage of gross domestic product (Beattie) 13367-8
• Debt, tax-supported debt (Gingell) 13092
• Debt-servicing costs (Campbell) 13221 (Chisholm) 13201 (Gingell) 13091 (Jones, B.) 13280 (Marzari) 13215 (Neufeld) 13249, 13714 (Serwa) 13283, 13820 (Stephens) 13114-5 (Symons) 13256 (Tyabji) 13211
• Deficit (Campbell) 13220 (Cull) 13074 (Gingell) 13091 (Hurd) 13711
• Deficit, elimination (Brewin) 13191-2 (Copping) 13203 (Cull) 13075, 13079 (Hammell) 13287 (Jackson) 13243
• Deficit financing (Charbonneau) 13123 (Serwa) 13282 (Symons) 13256-7
• Federal debt (Charbonneau) 13124
• Federal debt as percentage of gross domestic product (Barlee) 13060
• Per capita debt of provinces (Miller) 13292
Debtor assistance branch
• Recoveries to creditors (Smallwood) 13003
• Work (Smallwood) 13975
Debtor assistance program
• Kamloops office (Mitchell) 14007 (Smallwood) 14007
• Number of clients (Mitchell) 13981 (Smallwood) 13981, 15307
Dees Communications Engineering Ltd.
• Working Opportunity Fund investment cited (Barlee) 13496
Deficit. See entries under Debt, Public
Dehr, Roma
• Medical treatment for daughter (Zirnhelt) 13239
Deines Micro-film Services Ltd.
• Contract for services (Dosanjh) 16304-8 (Jones, K.) 16307-8
Delgamuukw cases
• Aboriginal rights, legal opinions (Cashore) 13946, 13963-5, 14333-4 (Fox) 14333-4 (Warnke) 13946, 13963
• Appeal decision (Cashore) 14318
• Appeal decision, impact on Crown land use application process (Cashore) 13808, 14033
• Appeal decision, impact on mining activity (Edwards) 16579 (Wilson) 16579
• Decision, Hunter ruling (Cashore) 13965, 14213
• Decision, McEachern ruling (Fox) 13922 (Warnke) 13946, 13963
• Decisions (Cashore) 13808, 13946, 14318 (Cull) 16259 (Fox) 16259 (Warnke) 14546
• Decisions, interpretations (Cashore) 13946, 13963-5, 14333-4 (Fox) 14333-4 (Warnke) 13946, 13963, 13966
• Decisions, interpretations, legal opinions (Cashore) 15778 (Weisgerber) 15778
• Decisions, policy implications (Cashore) 13963-5
• Legal costs (Cashore) 14214
Delta Air Park
• Park (Gingell) 13957, 13961 (Sihota) 13961
Delta, B.C.
• Farm operations in area (Gingell) 14667
• Farmland, repurchase of expropriated land (Cull) 15882 (Gingell) 15882
• Health agencies, amalgamation, consultations (Gingell) 14694-5 (Ramsey) 14694-5
• Secondary suites (Smallwood) 14114
• South Fraser perimeter road. See name of road
• Traffic violations, revenue (Gingell) 16992
Delta Health Council
• Management role (Gingell) 14694-5 (Ramsey) 14694-5
Delta View Habilitation Center Ltd.
• Funding for long term care beds (Ramsey) 14599 (Reid) 14599
Democracy
• Democratic freedom (Campbell) 14042 (Chisholm) 14047-50 (Hanson) 14052 (Mitchell) 14056-8 (Perry) 14052-5 (Warnke) 14055-6 (Wilson) 14042-3
• Democratic ideals and choice in education (Stephens) 13577
• Grass-roots democracy (Lovick) 13034-5
• Protection of democratic process (Wilson) 14029-31
• Social democratic ideals (Evans) 13575
den Hertog, Johanna
• European trip (Farrell-Collins) 13461 (Harcourt) 13461
Denike, Ken
• Quoted re charter schools (Giesbrecht) 13578
Dental Technicians and Denturists Act
• Repeal of act (Ramsey) 14663, 15033
Dentistry
• Dental hygienists, professional college (Ramsey) 15036
• Dental technicians, professional college proposal (Ramsey) 15033
Denturists
• College of denturism, establishment (Ramsey) 14574, 15033 (Wilson) 14574
Department of External Affairs Manual of Administrative Procedures
• Quoted re memorandums of understanding (Weisgerber) 14316
Deputy Ministers' Committee on Clean Vehicles and Clean Fuels
• Committee cited (Edwards) 14221
Desan-Sierra-Yoyo road
• Maintenance (Edwards) 14152-3, 15440-1 (Neufeld) 15104, 15440-1
Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Mich.
• Quoted re electric vehicles (Chisholm) 16220
Development cost charges. See entries under Land use
Dewdney-Alouette Regional District
• Cloramine used as water treatment (Cull) 16268
Dhillon, (Speaker, India Parliament)
• Ruling re budget leak quoted (Clark) 13071
Dialysis
• Kidney dialysis, funding (Ramsey) 13163
• Kidney dialysis, increased need (Ramsey) 13159
Dikes
• Diking, funding (Hurd) 13957 (Sihota) 13957
M.M. Dillon Ltd.
• B.C. Transit employees, report quoted (Symons) 15859
"Directions for Post-Secondary Education"
• Liberal Party White Paper (Mitchell) 15574
Disabled and handicapped persons
• Disabled persons in the workforce (Hanson) 15611 (Miller) 15611
• Income assistance for people with disabilities (Anderson) 15720 (MacPhail) 14838, 15720 (Neufeld) 15720
• Public transportation (Clark) 15918-9 (Symons) 15918
• Victims of crime, access to courtrooms (Gabelmann) 15933-4 (Neufeld) 15934-5
Disasters. See Emergencies
Discover B.C. program
• Program (Barlee) 13555 (Chisholm) 13555
Discovery Enterprises Inc.
• Discovery park for Fraser Valley (Clark) 16391-2 (Reid) 16391
• Discovery park, role in education system (Reid) 15374-5
Discrimination and racism
• Discrimination in purchase of property (Dosanjh) 16184-5 (Wilson) 16184-5
• Elimination (Anderson) 16523 (Dosanjh) 16063-4, 16462-3, 16523 (Serwa) 16069-70 (Weisgerber) 16064 (Wilson) 16065-7
• Hate communications via electronic highway (Dosanjh) 16426-7 (Jones, K.) 16426-7
• Legislation. See Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995
• Reform Party position (Lali) 16068
Disease
• Communicable diseases, exposure of emergency medical personnel (Jones, K.) 14785 (Ramsey) 14785
Divisions
• Access to Abortion Services Act, 2R approved 16020; title approved 16182; 3R approved 16232
• An Act To Protect Medicare, 2R approved 16776
• Address in Reply, amdt. to negatived 13335-6; approved 13399
• Adjournment of debate until next sitting of House, motion approved 16744
• Adoption Act, sec. 5 approved 16375; sec. 29 approved 16375; 3R approved 16542
• Bonneville Power Administration's failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement (Motion 87), amdt. negatived 14451; motion approved 14527
• Budget, amdt. to negatived 13239; approved 13299
• Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1995, 2R approved 13827-8
• Columbia Basin Trust Act, amdt. to sec. 4 negatived 13479; preamble approved 13535-6; 3R approved 14040
• Criminal Records Review Act, amdt. to 2R negatived 15894
• Education Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, 2R approved 14959-60
• Election Act, amdt. to 2R negatived 16553; 2R approved 16572; amdt. to sec. 1 approved 16609; amdt. to sec. 4 negatived 16617; amdt. to sec. 24 negatived 16632; amdt. to sec. 60 negatived 16648; amdt. to sec. 91 approved 16662; amdt. to sec. 180 negatived 16783; sec. 227 as amended approved 16822; amdt. to add sec. 227.1 negatived 16834; 3R approved 16918
• Employment Standards Act, amdt. to 2R negatived 14747-8; 2R approved 14827; amdt. to sec. 30 negatived 15634; 3R approved 16000
• Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act, 2R approved 15569-70; amdt. to add sec. 2.1 negatived 15849-50; amdt. to sec. 4 negatived 15852; 3R approved 16000
• Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, amdt. to sec. 7, sec. 942.15 negatived14133
• Guaranteed Available Income for Need Amendment Act, 1995, 2R approved 15276-7; sec. 8 approved 15726
• Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1995, 2R approved 15428; C approved 15930
• Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995, 2R approved 16070; sec. 4, sec. 10 approved 16210-1; amdt. to sec. 4, sec. 33 negatived 16234; 3R approved 16235-6
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, 2R approved 14072; amdt. to sec. 2 negatived 15505; amdt. to sec. 4 negatived 15512; sec. 4 approved 15515; sec. 11 approved 15524; sec. 12 approved 16580; C approved 16598; 3R approved 16604
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1995, 2R approved 16727; amdt. to sec. 3 negatived 16933; sec. 3 approved 16951; amdt. to sec. 15 negatived 16966; amdt. to sec. 21 negatived 16972; sec. 21 approved 16979; 3R approved 17013
• Motion that the committee rise negatived 16892
• Motion that the committee rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again negatived 16588-9, 16807
• Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 1995, sec. 4, sec. 76.1, approved 15456
• Offence Amendment Act, 1995, amdt. to sec. 1 negatived 15483
• Park Amendment Act, 1995, 2R approved 16720; amdt. to schedule D negatived 16903; 3R approved 16919
• Premier and Cabinet Office estimates, vote 8 approved 16510
• School Sites Acquisition Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, 3R approved 15172
• Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, 2R approved 14952
• Tobacco Sales Amendment Act, 1995, amdt. to sec. 1 negatived 15038-9
• Vancouver Stock Exchange Amendment Act, 1995, 2R approved 14930
Helen Dixon Elementary School, Quesnel, B.C.
• Replacement of building (Charbonneau) 13679 (Garden) 13679
Dixon, Frank
• Wrongful dismissal suit against B.C. Hydro (Clark) 14598 (Symons) 14598
Doctors. See Physicians
Documents
• Disposal legislation. See An Act to Amend the Document Disposal Act
• Disposal provisions (Gabelmann) 16050
Doman Forest Products Ltd.
• Harvesting rights, Strathcona timber supply area (Hurd) 15409-10 (Petter) 14918, 15409-10
Domestic Violence Prevention Act
• (Bill M218) (Stephens) 1R, 16825
• Speakers (Stephens) 16825
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, B.C.
• Research and development (Beattie) 13800
Donation of Food Act
• (Bill M217) (Anderson) 1R, 16746
• Speakers (Anderson) 16746
Doney, Lee
• Work cited (Reid) 15364
Doppelmayr Lifts Ltd.
• Big White ski facility investment (Serwa) 13436-7
Dorsey, James
• Payment for services (Farrell-Collins) 16601 (Hurd) 16601-2 (Miller) 16601-2
• Recommendations re health sector labour relations (Ramsey) 14789-90 (Reid) 14789-90
• Role as health sector labour relations commissioner (Ramsey) 14697
• Work at Workers' Compensation Board commended (Miller) 16858
Dosanjh, Hon. Ujjal (Vancouver-Kensington) Minister of Government Services and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism, Human Rights, Sports and Immigration
• Agencies, boards and commissions, appointments 16212
• Aviation quality assurance program 16537-8
• Bingo, community service club charitable bingos 16358-9
• Blockades of roads through Indian lands, defence funds for participants 16354
• B.C. archives and records service, electronic access 16301, 16458
• B.C. archives and records service, operations 16456-8
• B.C. archives and records service users' group, consultative role 16457
• B.C. Council of Human Rights, funding 16523-4
• B.C. Council of Human Rights, structure of council, separation of functions 15401, 16061-2
• B.C. Ferries, fuel expenditures 16313-4
• B.C. Gaming Commission, approval criteria for casinos on Indian reserves 16356-7
• B.C. Gaming Commission, community charitable gaming policy 16358-9
• B.C. Gaming Commission, enforcement powers 16345-6
• B.C. Gaming Commission, gambling policy 16301-3
• B.C. Gaming Commission, guidelines for gaming operations 16346-7
• B.C. Gaming Commission, Indian representation 16353
• B.C. Gaming Commission, investigation of Nanaimo case 16525
• B.C. Gaming Commission, mandate 16344-5, 16354
• B.C. Gaming Commission, number of commissioners 16315
• B.C. Gaming Commission, relationship with B.C. Lottery Corporation 16348
• B.C. Human Rights Coalition 16523
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, appointments 16182
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, chief commissioner's role 16062, 16186
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, commissioner of investigation and mediation, powers of investigation 16063
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, commissioner of investigation and mediation, role 16210, 16214-5
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, consultation and communication 16187
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, establishment 16062
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, fixed-term appointments 16207-9
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, human rights officers' qualifications 16183
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, human rights officers' role in complaints investigations 16214
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, independence of deputy chief commissioner 16213
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, research and education 16186
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, role 16183, 16210
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, selection of commissioners 16207-10
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, special reports, timeliness 16211
• B.C. Human Rights Commission, staffing and budget requirements 16211
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, complaints hearings, legal representation and costs to parties 16218, 16232
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, employment equity programs used as remedy for discrimination 16063, 16232-4
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, full-time and part-time members 16216-7
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, human rights complaints, review of decisions to dismiss 16216
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, orders 16234-5
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, regional representation 16217
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, remuneration 16217
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, role 16062, 16183, 16216
• B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, selection of members 16217
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, 1994 annual report tabled 15995
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, business relationships 16527-8
• B.C. Lottery Corporation financial information, availability 16349
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, offshore ticket sales 16350
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, program objectives 16526-7
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, recreational incentives 16536
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, revenues and expenses 16529-30
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, role in 1996 conference of lottery groups 16459-60
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, role in casino operations by Indian bands 16530-1
• B.C. Lottery Corporation, timeliness of 1993-94 annual report 16349
• B.C. Systems Corporation, 1994-95 annual report tabled 16601
• Business programs for immigrant entrepreneurs and investors 16521-2
• Business Travel Guide, purpose 16316-7
• Canadian culture, definition 16463-5
• Casino in Washington State, impact on B.C. charities 14086
• Casinos, Las-Vegas-style gambling in B.C. 16347, 16460
• Casinos on Indian reserves 16348, 16352, 16354-6, 16530-3
• Charity gambling operations, comparisons with aboriginal gaming 16533-4
• Charity gambling revenues, catchment-area issue 16357
• Chilton, Chris, office accommodation 14907, 15220
• Chinese immigrants, head tax 13169
• Citizenship ceremony, significance 16466
• Commonwealth Games, legacy of 1994 games 16300
• Crown Corporations Committee on Multiculturalism 16515-6
• Cultural diversity of Canada 16463-5
• Culture, mainstream culture, use of term 16464-5
• Deines Micro-film Services Ltd., contract for services 16304-8
• Discrimination and racism, elimination 16063-4, 16462-3, 16523
• Discrimination in purchase of property 16184-5
• Employment, affirmative action 16184
• Employment equity during NDP administration 16063
• English language training for professional purposes 16517
• English-as-a-second-language program, privatization 13169
• Enquiry B.C., operations 16314-6
• First Nations Gaming Committee, role 16353
• Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, annual report tabled 16601
• Freedom-of-information requests 16301
• Freedom-of-information requests, privacy rights of requester 16454-6
• Freedom-of-information requests, response time 16458-9
• Gambling activities on Indian reserves 16348, 16352, 16354-6, 16530-3
• Gambling by Indians 14128, 16353-7
• Gambling by Indians, policy 16353
• Gambling, charitable gaming operations 16346-7
• Gambling, charity operations 14086
• Gambling, illegal gambling 16345-6, 16461-2
• Gambling, jurisdictional issues 16352, 16460-1
• Gambling, participation demographics 16352-3
• Gambling policy 14126, 15220, 16301-3, 16344-5
• Gambling policy, consultations 14087
• Gambling, problem gambling 16535-6
• Gambling revenues from activities on Indian reserves, distribution 16348, 16354-7, 16530-3
• Gambling, shipboard gambling, cruise ships in B.C. waters 16460-1
• Gambling, shipboard gambling, riverboat operations 16460-1
• Gaming coordination council, role 16353
• Government air services, displaced employees 16421
• Government air services, disposition of assets 16421-2, 16424-5
• Government air services, lease of Victoria hangar space to Purchasing Commission 16421-4
• Government air services, management competence issue 16425-6
• Government air services, operating costs 16313-4, 16422
• Government aircraft, sale of government air services fleet 16424-5
• Government assets, surplus computers for schools 14600
• Government contingency account, amount paid out 16518
• Government employee commuting options program 16301
• Government employee commuting options program, staffing 16315
• Government House, staffing 16315
• Government purchasing, value of goods purchased by government 16303
• Government Services ministry, 1992-93 annual report tabled 15306
• Government Services ministry, communications office 16514
• Government Services ministry, contract staff 16315-6
• Government Services ministry, electronic provision of information 16419-21
• Government Services ministry, estimates 16300-18, 16344-59, 16419-27, 16454-70, 16512, 16514-38
• Government Services ministry estimates debate, staff available to answer questions 16526, 16528-9
• Government Services ministry, immigration and multiculturalism responsibilities 16469-70
• Government Services ministry, information and privacy branch 16454
• Government Services ministry, multicultural-based grants and contributions 16516-9
• Government Services ministry programs, evaluation 16316
• Government Services ministry, supply management division 16316
• Government Services ministry, work of ministry 16300-1
• Government telephone system, abuse by employees 14247
• Government waste and duplication, elimination 16301
• Gtech Corp., supplier of video lottery terminals 16527-8
• Harewood Charities Bingo Society, litigation case 16525
• Health care, multicultural services 16467
• Henaulf, Roland, commended 13806
• Holocaust information project 16426-7
• Human Rights Act, change of name to Human Rights Code 15401
• Human Rights Advisory Council, appointments 16212
• Human Rights Advisory Council, establishment 16062
• Human Rights Advisory Council, role 16187, 16211
• Human Rights Amendment Act (1995) 15401, 16061-4, 16182-7, 16207-18, 16232-5
• Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995, and Offence Act 16235
• Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995, implementation costs 16185
• Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995, inequality, definition 16185
• Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995, party, definition 16182
• Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995, purpose 15401, 16183
• Human Rights Code 16185-6
• Human Rights Commission, complaints process 16524
• Human Rights Commission, relationship to Tribunal and Advisory Council 16212
• Human rights complainants, services 16524
• Human rights complaints, backlog 16213, 16216
• Human rights complaints, confidentiality of information disclosed 16235
• Human rights complaints, deferral 16214
• Human rights complaints, deputy chief commissioner's power to file complaint 16213
• Human rights complaints, disposition of complaints 16214-6
• Human rights complaints, investigations 16063
• Human rights complaints, number 16062
• Human rights complaints process 16213, 16215
• Human rights complaints process, legislative changes 16062-3
• Human rights complaints, processing time 16062-3
• Human rights complaints, protection for complainant 16235
• Human rights legislation, need 16061
• Human rights legislation, purpose 16426-7
• Human rights, protection 16209
• Human rights study by Bill Black, recommendations 15401, 16061-2
• Immigrant physicians 16522-3
• Immigrant service organizations, core funding 16519
• Immigrant services for new arrivals 16514
• Immigrant services, urban focus 16515
• Immigrants, federal-provincial planning 16519-20
• Immigrants, fee for entry into Canada 13169-70
• Immigrants, first-generation immigrants 16466
• Immigrants, interministry committee 16520
• Immigrants, needs of new arrivals 16467
• Immigrants, settlement grants 16518-9
• Immigrants, settlement programs 16464
• Indians, economic development funding from gambling revenues 16530-4
• Information access via electronic highway 16419-21
• Interculturalism 16468-9
• Internet system, access to government information 16419-21
• Internet system, Nizkor Project 16426-7
• Legal Services Society, funding 16524
• Legislature, estimates debates, staff available to answer questions 16526, 16528-9
• Liberal Party of Canada policies 13169
• Link program, federal funding 13169
• Lotteries, 1996 conference of lottery groups 16459-60
• Lotteries, American Indian lottery program 16351
• Lotteries, resale of lottery tickets outside B.C. 16345, 16350-1, 16525-6
• Lotteries, revenues 16349
• Lotteries, revenues to Indian bands 16357-8
• Masset air crash, report 16318
• Micro Com Systems Ltd., government contract 16304-8, 16422-3
• Multicultural advisory council 16467-8
• Multiculturalism Act, 1993-94 annual report tabled 16601
• Multiculturalism Act, leadership role 16466-7
• Multiculturalism Act, report requirement 16467
• Multiculturalism Advisory Council, member nomination process 16212
• Multiculturalism B.C., role 16515-6
• Multiculturalism, community and institutional partnership program 16519
• Multiculturalism, funding 16469, 16516-9
• Multiculturalism, funding for promotion and education 16514-5
• Multiculturalism, interministerial committee 16515-6
• Multiculturalism, policy objectives 16462-4
• Multiculturalism, professional services expenditures 16470
• Multiculturalism, promotion in schools 16465
• Open Learning Agency, funding 16517-8
• Physician supply in northern B.C., recruitment and retention 16522-3
• Pollard Banknote Ltd., bingo paper supplier 16527
• Public opinion polls by government, availability 16456
• Purchasing Commission, contract extensions 16306-7
• Purchasing Commission, contract extensions, retendering for increased volumes 16308-9
• Purchasing Commission, customer complaints 16313
• Purchasing Commission, employee travel costs 16423
• Purchasing Commission, fuel purchase recoveries 16313
• Purchasing Commission, goods and services purchases 16303
• Purchasing Commission offices, use of Victoria airport hangar space 16421-4
• Purchasing Commission, operating costs 16310, 16313-4
• Purchasing Commission, policies and practices 16310-1
• Purchasing Commission, purchasing services branch 16424
• Purchasing Commission, salaries and benefits 16309
• Purchasing Commission, tendering decisions, appeals 16307-8, 16312, 16422-3
• Purchasing Commission, tendering policies, change-of-supplier case 16304-8
• Purchasing Commission, vehicle purchasing policy 16303
• Queen's Printer, provision of information 16420
• Racism, electronic hate communications 16426-7
• Royal Victorian, gambling facilities 16460
• School districts' purchasing practices, review by auditor general 16310
• Shamrock Halls bingo operation 16524-5
• Simonis, Guy, responsibilities 16459-60
• Travel Smart program, effectiveness 16316-8
• Treasury Board, expenditure approvals 16518
• United Nations, Canada's support for work 16119-20
• United Nations, fiftieth anniversary 16119-20
• Video lottery terminals 13415, 16461-2, 16536
• Video lottery terminals, availability 13885
• Video lottery terminals, illegal terminals 14471
• Video lottery terminals, legalization 13759
• Wages, fair wages 16186
Douglas College
• Campus extension (Copping) 13204
• Coquitlam campus, construction (Cashore) 13270
Douglas Lake Cattle Co.
• Land dispute with Upper Nicola Indian band (Cashore) 13998 (Wilson) 13998
• Lands, blockade by Upper Nicola Indian band (Campbell) 14598, 14664, 14710, 15014-5, 15110 (Cashore) 14598, 14712, 15110-1 (de Jong, M.) 13984, 14711, 14815, 14906, 15112 (Gabelmann) 14664, 14710-1, 14815, 15014 (Harcourt) 14598-9, 15110, 15112 (Hurd) 15111 (Neufeld) 14598-9 (Warnke) 15110-1 (Weisgerber) 14664-5, 14711-2, 14906, 15015, 15111
• Lands, blockade by Upper Nicola Indian band, charges (Campbell) 14905 (de Jong, M.) 15016-7 (Gabelmann) 15016-8 (Weisgerber) 15017
Douglas, Thomas Clement (Tommy)
• Quoted re Columbia River Treaty (Warnke) 13522
• Quoted re social responsibility (Jackson) 13245
• Tribute (Anderson) 13029
Doukhobors
• Castlegar land tenure issue (Cull) 16148-9 (Hurd) 16148-9
Dow Jones
• Quoted re budget (Kasper) 13189
Doyle, James E. (Columbia River-Revelstoke)
• Agricultural Land Reserve Act, importance of act 14668
• Agricultural land reserve, farming in reserve 14667-8
• Agriculture industry, protection 14667-8
• Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14427-8
• Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of agreement with B.C. 14427-8
• Columbia Basin Trust Act 13428-9
• Columbia Basin Trust, investment in region 13428
• Columbia Basin Trust, public consultation 13428
• Columbia Basin Trust, representation on board 13429
• Columbia River, fishery enhancement fund 13429
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, Gordon Campbell's position 13429
• Columbia River Treaty, impact 14427-8
• Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region 13428
• Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region, Cliff Serwa's position 13429
• Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region, redress 13428
• Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 14667-8
• Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, consultation 14668
• Farming, role in economy 14668
• Forest industry, employment 14236-8
• Forest industry, value-added industry 14237
• Municipalities, farm regulatory bylaws 14668
• Urban encroachment on farmland 14668
• Wages, Liberal Party position 13428-9
Drinking and driving. See Impaired driving
Dromgoole, Will Allen
• Poem quoted (Symons) 13065
Drug use/abuse. See also Drugs and pharmaceuticals
• Cain, Vincent, report on drug use. See Task Force into Illicit Narcotic Overdose Deaths in British Columbia (Cain task force)
• Counsellor for Powell River (Ramsey) 14570 (Wilson) 14570
• Marijuana (Serwa) 13699
• Methadone distribution in Vancouver (Clark) 14402-3 (Ramsey) 14403
• Role in crime (Gabelmann) 13699-700 (Serwa) 13699
• Services, management changes (Ramsey) 14788 (Reid) 14788
• Trafficking, penalties (Serwa) 13699
Drugs and pharmaceuticals. See also Drug use/abuse
• Dispensing costs (Ramsey) 14632
• Economic benefits of therapeutic drug use, evaluation (Ramsey) 14636 (Reid) 14635-6
• Generic drugs, comparisons with patent medications (Fox) 14631 (Ramsey) 14627, 14631-2, 14758 (van Dongen) 14758
• Industry, investments in B.C. (Clark) 16392-3
• Industry, position on changes to Pharmacare program (Schreck) 14629-30
• Industry, pricing practices (Fox) 14632-4 (Ramsey) 14632-4
• Industry, role in Pharmacare program (Fox) 14630-1 (Ramsey) 14630-1
• Pharmacoeconomics institute (Reid) 16392-4
• Prescription drugs
  • drug therapies, research (Ramsey) 15411 (Reid) 15411
  • interactions (Hanson) 15415 (Ramsey) 15414-5
  • use by elderly, concerns (Ramsey) 14628
  • use, monitoring (Fox) 15029 (Ramsey) 15026-7, 15032 (Reid) 15027-8 (Tyabji) 15031
  • use, records management (Fox) 15412-3 (Ramsey) 15412-4 (Reid) 15411-4
  • utilization issues (Ramsey) 14628-9, 14636-7 (Reid) 14629, 14636-7
• Reference-based pricing (Ramsey) 14635 (Reid) 14635
• Research (Clark) 16393-4 (Ramsey) 15027, 15032
• Therapeutics initiative. See entries under Pharmacare program
Drunk driving. See Impaired driving
Du Plessis, Adrian
• Allegations re B.C. Securities Commission. See Commission of inquiry into the Vancouver Stock Exchange and securities regulation (Matkin commission)
Dual Elected Office Prohibition Act
• (Bill M201) (Streifel) 1R, 13027
• Speakers (Streifel) 13027
Ducks Unlimited
• Waterfowl feeding areas (Cull) 16226
Duckworth, Stanley
• Appointment to community health council (Gingell) 14397 (Ramsey) 14397
Dueck, Peter
• Resignation as minister (Harcourt) 16440-1 (Weisgerber) 16440-1
Duffey Lake Road
• Blockade (Cashore) 15111 (Harcourt) 15017 (Weisgerber) 15017, 15999
Duggan, Lynn
• Missing person case (Jarvis) 13594, 15244, 15766
• Missing person case, workers' compensation benefits for sister (Jarvis) 13606
Dye, Kenneth
• Contract with Workers' Compensation Board (Farrell-Collins) 15214

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