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

Eagle Park Health Care Facility, Qualicum Beach, B.C.
• Construction (Krog) 13016-7
Earthquakes
• Hazard mapping program (Edwards) 14156
• Preparedness (Chisholm) 13807 (Jones, K.) 14777 (Ramsey) 14777
• Preparedness, funding (Dalton) 13156 (Gabelmann) 13156
• Preparedness, Housing ministry role (Smallwood) 14021
• Probability of earthquake in B.C. (Chisholm) 13805 (Perry) 13806-7
East Kootenay Community College
• Horticultural programs (Miller) 15286
East Pine, B.C.
• Pulp mill (Weisgerber) 15813-4
Eating disorders
• "Draft Standards for a Residential Program for Individuals with Eating Disorders in the Province of British Columbia," report cited (Ramsey) 14509
• Montreux treatment program (Ramsey) 14509 (Reid) 14509
• Treatment services (Ramsey) 14507-9 (Reid) 14507-9
Ebco-Hamilton Test Systems Ltd.
• AirCare program contract. See AirCare program
Ebola virus
• Epidemic, screening of visitors to Canada (Fox) 14780 (Ramsey) 14780
Economic conditions
• Budget, 1995-96 budget and economy (Mitchell) 13184-5
• Competition (Giesbrecht) 14891-2 (Warnke) 14892
• Credit rating. See Credit rating
• Cross-border shopping, economic impact (Tanner) 13718
• Economic change (Miller) 14278-9
• Economic change, impact (Clark) 13258-9
• Economic change, impact on B.C. communities (Lovick) 13035
• Economic climate (Gingell) 13259 (Hanson) 13259
• Economic forecasts by government (Reid) 13113
• Economic growth (Copping) 13203 (Giesbrecht) 14892
• Economic growth and skilled workers (Miller) 15476
• Economic partnership approach to issues (Miller) 15903-4
• Economic plan for B.C. (Clark) 13259 (Garden) 14742, 14750-1 (MacPhail) 13037 (Sihota) 14797-9 (Symons) 13063, 13329
• Economic prosperity and environmental protection (Farnworth) 14025-6 (Sihota) 14687 (Warnke) 14025-6
• Economy and infrastructure investment (Lortie) 13573
• Economy and small business (Barlee) 13490-1
• Economy, comparisons with Alberta (Barlee) 13060
• Economy, comparisons with elsewhere (Barlee) 13440, 13456, 13488, 13557-8, 15663 (Gingell) 15139 (Pullinger) 14725-6
• Economy, cyclical nature, impact on government revenues (Farrell-Collins) 14460
• Economy during Social Credit Party administration (Giesbrecht) 13265
• Economy in 1994 (Cull) 13075
• Economy of B.C. (Barlee) 13059-60, 13496, 13556 (Campbell) 13220-1 (Cashore) 13269 (Charbonneau) 13123-4 (Chisholm) 13198 (Cull) 13074, 13298-9, 13382-3, 13827, 15136-7, 15222 (Farnworth) 13119, 13317-8, 13715-6 (Giesbrecht) 13265-6 (Hammell) 13288 (Harcourt) 16406, 16408, 16507-8 (Hurd) 13920-1 (Jarvis) 13066, 13122-3 (Jones, B.) 13279-80 (Kasper) 13189, 14801-2 (Lali) 13128, 13331 (Lortie) 13193 (Marzari) 13214 (Miller) 14746-7 (Neufeld) 13249, 15663-4 (Randall) 13365 (Schreck) 13116-8 (Sihota) 13196, 13776-7 (Simpson) 13295 (Stephens) 13326 (Streifel) 13023 (Symons) 13253-4 (Tanner) 15662
• Economy of Canada, competition (Warnke) 14892
• Economy, structural change (Clark) 13338-9 (Mitchell) 13260, 13337-9
• Globalization, impact on B.C. (Wilson) 14755-6
• Government role in economy (Gingell) 14586 (Krog) 14585-6 (Warnke) 13227
• Impact on health care (Gingell) 13019
• Impact on income assistance rolls (Anderson) 14614 (MacPhail) 14615
• Industrial base of B.C. economy (Miller) 15281
• Private enterprise economy (Neufeld) 13251
• Productivity levels (Serwa) 13285
• Promotion of shopping in B.C. (Tanner) 13718
• Retail sales (Barlee) 13560
• Service-oriented economy (Mitchell) 14820-1
Economic Development, Small Business and Trade, Ministry of
• Annual report, 1992-93, tabled (Clark) 13181
Economy
• Sustainable development (Serwa) 13771 (Wilson) 13743
• Underground economy (Chisholm) 14799 (Cull) 15154-5 (Hurd) 14113-4, 14792 (Mitchell) 14008-9, 14724, 15154-5 (Smallwood) 14009 (Wilson) 14755
Education. See also Apprentices; School boards/districts; Schools
• Alternative education (Hagen) 13024 (Stephens) 13577
• Apprenticeship programs in schools (Charbonneau) 13398, 13646, 15226 (Chisholm) 13748 (Miller) 15285, 15290, 15327-9 (Reid) 15327-8
• Assessment for learning disabilities, waiting time (Charbonneau) 13793 (Stephens) 13793
• Broad academic education and literacy (Charbonneau) 13645-6 (Fox) 13645-6
• Business and education partnerships (Dalton) 15370-1 (Miller) 15253, 15330-1, 15360-1, 15370-1, 15375 (Reid) 13395, 15253, 15330-1, 15360-1, 15363-4, 15374-5, 15475
• Business programs (Barlee) 13523 (Stephens) 13523
• Charter schools (Charbonneau) 13642, 13785, 13788-9, 15226 (Fox) 13784 (Giesbrecht) 13576-8 (Stephens) 13577, 13788-9
• Community involvement (Charbonneau) 13786 (Stephens) 13786
• Computers in schools (Charbonneau) 13681, 13719 (Fox) 14600 (Hurd) 13680 (Stephens) 13719
• Course materials, funding (Charbonneau) 13684-5 (Stephens) 13684
• Course materials, publication contracts (Charbonneau) 13685-6 (Stephens) 13685-6
• Criminal-record checks of staff (Charbonneau) 13795 (Stephens) 13795
• Curriculum
  • aboriginal education (Charbonneau) 13724, 13848 (Stephens) 13723-4
  • anger management program in schools (Charbonneau) 13797-8
  • applied technology programs (Miller) 14278
  • career and personal planning course (Charbonneau) 13687-9, 13748, 13786-8, 15226 (Chisholm) 13748 (Fox) 13689, 13786-8 (Stephens) 13687-9
  • career planning (Charbonneau) 13398, 13748 (Chisholm) 13748
  • career planning, work experience (Charbonneau) 13645, 13648
  • changes, Apprenticeship Board role (Charbonneau) 13646 (Fox) 13646
  • consultation with parent advisory councils (Charbonneau) 13784-5
  • core curriculum (Charbonneau) 13677
  • curriculum based on job opportunities (Fox) 13645-6
  • dispute resolution and relationships programs (Gabelmann) 13549-50 (Jones, K.) 13549-50
  • dispute resolution program (Charbonneau) 13797-8 (Gabelmann) 13700 (Jones, K.) 13797
  • focus (Charbonneau) 13640-2, 13644
  • Indian language instruction (Charbonneau) 13848
  • integrated resource packages (Charbonneau) 13643, 13678, 15226 (Stephens) 13643
  • kindergarten and elementary curriculum (Charbonneau) 13797-8 (Jones, K.) 13797
  • "Learning for Living" (Charbonneau) 13689, 13797-8
  • life skills program (Charbonneau) 13686 (Stephens) 13688
  • life skills program, Rick Hansen's role (Charbonneau) 13884-5 (Fox) 13884
  • multicultural nature (Anderson) 13751 (Charbonneau) 13751
  • new curriculum, development (Charbonneau) 13677, 13688 (Stephens) 13677
  • new curriculum, implementation (Charbonneau) 13643, 13678, 13682 (Stephens) 13643, 13678-9, 13682
  • new curriculum, implementation costs (Charbonneau) 13677 (Stephens) 13677
  • other languages (Charbonneau) 13751, 13848 (Sihota) 13848, 13920
  • parents' input (Charbonneau) 13786-7
  • physical education in grades 11 and 12 (Charbonneau) 13912 (Serwa) 13912
  • reading and writing skills (Charbonneau) 13750 (Chisholm) 13750-1
  • relationships instruction (Charbonneau) 13797 (Jones, K.) 13797
  • relevance (Charbonneau) 13642, 13648, 15226 (Stephens) 13642-3
  • skills training in K-to-12 (Miller) 15290-1 (Stephens) 15290-1
  • technology training (Charbonneau) 13683, 13719 (Stephens) 13683, 13719
  • technology training, funding (Charbonneau) 13641, 13643-4, 13876 (Stephens) 13643-4
• Distance education, electronic delivery (Charbonneau) 15079-80 (Stephens) 15079
• Distance education school, definition in legislation (Charbonneau) 15080 (Fox) 15080
• Dropout rate (Charbonneau) 13784-5 (Fox) 13783
• Electronic Bus project (Charbonneau) 13908-9 (Fox) 13908-9
• Elitism in education (Giesbrecht) 13576-7
• Essential service designation (Campbell) 13009, 13222 (de Jong, M.) 13106 (Hurd) 13646-7 (Stephens) 15225, 16745 (Weisgerber) 13097
• Examinable second languages (Symons) 13848
• French immersion, disbursement of federal funds (Charbonneau) 13794 (Stephens) 13794
• French immersion, integrated resource packages in French (Charbonneau) 13793 (Stephens) 13793
• French language instruction, right (Stephens) 13794
• Funding
  • aboriginal education, federal funding (Charbonneau) 13733-4 (Chisholm) 13733
  • aboriginal education funding (Charbonneau) 15161-2 (Fox) 15162
  • administration costs (Charbonneau) 13314 (Stephens) 13314
  • administration costs, cap (Charbonneau) 14953, 15158
  • allocations (Charbonneau) 14953, 15226 (Hurd) 13854 (Stephens) 13729, 14954 (Wilson) 14955
  • allocations, 1995-96 fiscal year (Charbonneau) 13729-30 (Stephens) 13729-30
  • allocations, preliminary and final allocations (Charbonneau) 14959, 15079
  • allocations, School Act amendments (Tyabji) 14958
  • budgeting (Fox) 13157
  • budgets, school year and government's fiscal year (Charbonneau) 13157-8 (Fox) 13157
  • capital costs (Charbonneau) 14966-7
  • capital costs, land as percentage of total cost (Charbonneau) 15167-8 (Serwa) 15167-8
  • capital funding, 1994-95 fiscal year (Charbonneau) 13729
  • capital funding process (Charbonneau) 13728, 13731 (Fox) 13728-9 (Stephens) 13731
  • capital funding process, bases for approval (Fox) 13728
  • capital projects, funding approval process (Charbonneau) 14126-7 (Jones, K.) 13057 (Weisgerber) 14126
  • capital spending in past (Charbonneau) 13729 (Fox) 13728
  • capital spending, reductions (Farnworth) 13119
  • cash flow (Charbonneau) 13731 (Stephens) 13731
  • community control (Wilson) 14954-6
  • costs (Weisgerber) 13050, 13097
  • cultural activities funding (Barlee) 13456 (Tanner) 13456
  • distribution among school districts (Charbonneau) 13914 (Hurd) 13913-4
  • four-year financing (Wilson) 13099
  • funding (Charbonneau) 13398, 13753, 15226 (Cull) 13383 (Jackson) 13244 (Jarvis) 13066 (Neufeld) 13715 (Pullinger) 13326 (Wilson) 13821
  • funding, 1992-95 fiscal years (Charbonneau) 13843-4
  • funding and public debt (de Jong, M.) 14282 (Miller) 14280, 14282, 15287
  • funding, comparisons with elsewhere (Fox) 13783, 13785
  • funding during 1980s (Charbonneau) 13783, 13785 (Fox) 13783, 13785
  • funding for equipment (Charbonneau) 13796-7
  • funding for fast-growing school districts (Charbonneau) 13732-3, 13856, 13914 (Hurd) 13856, 13914 (Stephens) 13732
  • funding for non-teaching contract settlements (Symons) 13848-9
  • funding formula (Charbonneau) 13879-80 (Farnworth) 13879-80 (Wilson) 14955
  • funding formula, impact on interior districts (Charbonneau) 13912 (Serwa) 13912
  • funding formula, new formula (Charbonneau) 14953, 14959, 15079 (Reid) 13157 (Stephens) 14954
  • funding formula, new formula, monitoring of success (Charbonneau) 15163 (Reid) 15162-3
  • funding formula, teacher salaries (Charbonneau) 13879 (Farnworth) 13880
  • funding system (Charbonneau) 13790-1, 13856, 14953 (Schreck) 13691
  • funding to match enrolment increases (Charbonneau) 13747 (Chisholm) 13747
  • gambling revenues used to purchase school equipment and resource materials (Charbonneau) 13797
  • increase (Beattie) 13286 (Charbonneau) 13747 (Simpson) 13296
  • Indians on reserves, federal funding (Cull) 15189 (Gingell) 15189
  • minister's powers (Anderson) 15160-1 (Charbonneau) 15160-1 (Dalton) 15160, 15164 (Fox) 15161 (Reid) 15162 (Tyabji) 14958
  • operating grants (Cull) 13077
  • salaries (Charbonneau) 13747
  • school tax (Gingell) 15141-2
  • school tax and homeowner grant (Gingell) 14256 (Mitchell) 14257 (Serwa) 14258 (Tyabji) 14261
  • school tax, grants in lieu paid to municipalities (Cull) 13899 (Gingell) 13899
  • school tax, grants in lieu paid to municipalities, revenue to provincial government (Cull) 13711
  • school tax, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party position (Wilson) 13821
  • school tax, revenue to province (Gingell) 15141
  • special needs funding (Charbonneau) 13734, 13854-5, 15158-60, 15162-3 (Fox) 15161 (Hurd) 13854-5 (Reid) 15158-9
  • targeted funding (Charbonneau) 14959, 15161 (Dalton) 14956 (Fox) 14954, 15158 (Reid) 15162
  • targeting authority for resource materials (Charbonneau) 15080-1, 15157
  • targeting authority for resource materials, consultation re legislative amendment (Charbonneau) 15157 (Dalton) 15157
• Gambling revenues used to purchase school equipment and resource materials (Jones, K.) 13796
• Government role (Fox) 14954 (Wilson) 14954-5
• Graduation program (Chisholm) 13747
• Graduation rate (Charbonneau) 13784-5 (Stephens) 15225
• Graduation, work experience requirement (Reid) 13395
• Independent schools, health services funding (Charbonneau) 13794 (Stephens) 13794
• Indians, education for Indian students. See Education under main heading Indians
• Infrastructure, need (Cull) 13383
• Inner-city schools program (Charbonneau) 13641-2
• Interactive video connections between facilities (Miller) 15286-7, 15333
• Internet use for schooling (Charbonneau) 13908
• Investment in facilities (Cull) 13077 (Miller) 13207-8
• Joint Project in Mission (Streifel) 13023
• Junior Achievement program (Stephens) 13725
• Labour disruptions, impact (Chisholm) 13750
• Learning resources, purchase (Charbonneau) 13876
• Legislative amendments, consultation (Dalton) 14956
• Letter grade system (Charbonneau) 13748, 13915-6 (Chisholm) 13747
• Liberal Party of Canada, Axworthy proposal (Cull) 13383
• Liberal Party policy (Dalton) 14956
• Literacy level of students (Hurd) 13647-8
• Meals program (Charbonneau) 13641, 13815-6 (Stephens) 13815
• Multiculturalism, promotion in schools (Anderson) 16465 (Dosanjh) 16465
• Non-certified teachers, pedagogy training (Charbonneau) 13725 (Fox) 13726-7
• Non-certified teachers, pedagogy training and job security (Charbonneau) 13726 (Fox) 13726
• Non-certified teachers, skills instruction for students (Charbonneau) 13725 (Stephens) 13725
• Ombudsman's report on public school system, (Fair Schools), tabled (Deputy Speaker) 14581
• Parent advisory councils, funding (Charbonneau) 13796 (Jones, K.) 13796
• Parents' role (Charbonneau) 13723, 13784-5, 13786 (Fox) 13786 (Jones, K.) 13056-7 (Stephens) 13722, 13786
• Post-secondary education. See also Universities, colleges and institutes
  • access to system (Miller) 14287 (Reid) 15475
  • cost (Miller) 14274, 15279 (Reid) 15279
  • demand for services (Miller) 14281-2
  • funding (Krog) 14585 (Lali) 13128
  • funding, federal funding (Beattie) 13368 (Serwa) 14582 (Streifel) 14581
  • funding, federal funding reductions (Chisholm) 15283-4 (Cull) 13383 (Miller) 13206, 14273, 14275, 14282, 15253-4, 15283-4, 15580 (Serwa) 15579 (Streifel) 14581, 14583
  • funding, Liberal Party position (Cull) 13383 (Reid) 14582
  • future (Reid) 13306-7 (Serwa) 15579
  • Indian students (Miller) 14291-2
  • institutions, links with high schools (Chisholm) 15287 (de Jong, M.) 14279-80 (Miller) 14279, 15287
  • investments (Perry) 13235
  • Liberal Party position (Miller) 13293-4 (Mitchell) 15574
  • NDP government action (Streifel) 14581-3
  • program delivery via telecommunication (Miller) 15286-7, 15333
  • system (Miller) 15252, 15580 (Reid) 15252, 15475
  • system, expansion (Jones, K.) 14275-6 (Miller) 14275-6 (Reid) 15331
  • system, future goals (Miller) 15475-6
  • system, participation rate (Miller) 15580 (Serwa) 15579
• Private schools, success rate (Charbonneau) 13785-6 (Fox) 13784-6
• Programs, electronic delivery (Chisholm) 15287
• Progressive Democratic Alliance Party policy (Tyabji) 14957 (Wilson) 14955
• Public school partnerships with post-secondary institutions (Chisholm) 15287 (de Jong, M.) 14279-80 (Miller) 14279, 15287
• Quality, responsibility of institution (Fox) 15337 (Miller) 15338
• Reporting, anecdotal and written (Charbonneau) 13915-6, 15226
• Royal Commission on Education. See name of commission
• School enrolment increases, impact (Charbonneau) 13158 (Wilson) 13158
• School enrolments, forecasting (Charbonneau) 13156-7 (Reid) 13156-7
• School warning signs on roads (Symons) 14942
• Severe behaviour initiative (Charbonneau) 13748
• Site-based management and site-based decision-making (Charbonneau) 13789-90 (Stephens) 13789-90
• Size of learning units (Charbonneau) 13724 (Stephens) 13724-5
• Social benefits (Charbonneau) 14966
• Special education, gifted program (Stephens) 13792
• Special education, job training (Charbonneau) 13791 (Stephens) 13791
• Special education programs, targeted grants (Charbonneau) 13791-2 (Stephens) 13791-2
• Special needs students, integration (Charbonneau) 13748-9, 13855 (Chisholm) 13748-9 (Reid) 15159
• Speech therapy in schools. See Treatment services under main heading Speech disorders
• Standard achievement indicators program (Charbonneau) 13677 (Stephens) 13677
• Standards, benchmarking (Hurd) 13680
• Standards, international comparisons (Charbonneau) 13682-3 (Stephens) 13682-3
• Standards, national assessment (Charbonneau) 13677-9, 13684, 13720-1, 15226 (Stephens) 13677-9, 13684, 13720-1
• Standards, national assessment and reporting methods (Charbonneau) 13677-8, 15226 (Stephens) 13677-8
• Standards, national assessment, B.C. rating (Charbonneau) 13678, 13720-1 (Stephens) 13677-8, 13720-1
• Student involvement in decision-making (Stephens) 13722-3
• Students leaving school (Charbonneau) 13640-1
• System
  • accountability (Charbonneau) 13642
  • choices (Charbonneau) 13785 (Dalton) 14956 (Fox) 13784, 13915, 15225
  • focus (Charbonneau) 13784 (Fox) 13783
  • New Zealand model (Serwa) 13388
  • performance incentives (Stephens) 15225
  • privatization (Beattie) 13367 (Miller) 15255 (Pullinger) 13325
  • protection of public system (Reid) 15287
  • public system (Charbonneau) 13124 (Dalton) 13022
  • reform (Campbell) 13009 (Hurd) 13032 (Stephens) 13327
  • seamless system (Miller) 15252, 15287 (Reid) 15252, 15475
  • system during Social Credit Party administration (Charbonneau) 13909-10 (de Jong, M.) 13106
  • system in B.C. (Charbonneau) 15226 (Giesbrecht) 13576-8 (Stephens) 13577 (Tyabji) 14957 (Warnke) 13310-1
  • two-tier system (Charbonneau) 13642, 13681, 13785, 13875 (Hurd) 13680 (Stephens) 13643, 13788
• Textbook deposits (Chisholm) 13381
• Textbooks, provincewide use of same textbooks (Chisholm) 13381
• Traditional model schools (Fox) 13784-5
• Voucher system (Charbonneau) 13642 (Stephens) 13643
• Year-round schooling (Charbonneau) 13852 (Stephens) 13682
Education as an Essential Services Act
• (Bill M216) (Stephens) 1R, 16745
• Speakers (Stephens) 16745
Education, Ministry of
• Estimates 13640-8, 13676-91, 13718-34, 13747-56, 13783-98, 13841-59, 13873-81, 13907-26
• Estimates, speakers (Anderson) 13751-4 (Charbonneau) 13640-8, 13676-91, 13719-34, 13747-56, 13783-98, 13843-59 (Chisholm) 13732-3, 13747-51 (Evans) 13732, 13754-6 (Fox) 13645-6, 13685, 13689-90, 13726-9, 13783-7, 13858-9 (Garden) 13679 (Hurd) 13646-8, 13680-1, 13853-6 (Jones, K.) 13795-7 (Reid) 13849-53, 13857-8 (Schreck) 13690-1 (Sihota) 13848 (Stephens) 13642-5, 13676-9, 13682-9, 13719-26, 13729-32, 13788-95 (Symons) 13845-9 (Tanner) 13687, 13690 (Warnke) 13798, 13841-4
• Accountability (Hurd) 13648
• Administration costs (Serwa) 13910-1
• Advanced education and K-to-12 in single ministry (Dalton) 15369
• Advertising budget (Charbonneau) 13676 (Stephens) 13676
• Debt management plan (Charbonneau) 13730-1 (Stephens) 13730-1
• Debt-servicing costs (Charbonneau) 13730 (Stephens) 13730
• Education programs and evaluations, recoveries (Charbonneau) 13676-7, 13684-5 (Stephens) 13676-7, 13684-5
• Employee travel, funding (Charbonneau) 13644-5, 13676 (Stephens) 13644-5, 13676
• Focus (Charbonneau) 13910 (Serwa) 13909
• Funding and staff reductions (Charbonneau) 13641
• Grants for services (Charbonneau) 13687 (Stephens) 13687
• Interministerial committee on multiculturalism, participation (Anderson) 13753 (Charbonneau) 13753
• Mandate (Charbonneau) 13640
• Minister's role in university policies (Tyabji) 15578
• Office furniture and equipment expenditures (Charbonneau) 13684 (Stephens) 13684
• Operating costs (Charbonneau) 13910-1
• Professional services expenditures (Charbonneau) 13676 (Stephens) 13676
• Publications in other languages (Charbonneau) 13751
• Purchases from local suppliers (Charbonneau) 13685-6, 13876 (Fox) 13685
• School funding, special warrant 13156-8
• Servicing costs on capital debt as percentage of ministry budget (Charbonneau) 15171 (Serwa) 15171
• Staff, 1992-95 numbers (Charbonneau) 13645 (Stephens) 13645
• Student services, grants (Charbonneau) 13689 (Stephens) 13689
• Women's Equality ministry, work with ministry (Priddy) 13618 (Stephens) 13618
Education Statutes Amendment Act, 1995
• (Bill 23) (Minister of Education) 1R, 14233; 2R, 14952-60; C, 15078-81, 15157-67; 3R, 15167; RA, 15879
• Amdts: sec. 6 (Charbonneau) 15080, approved 15160; sec. 6 (Dalton for Stephens) 15160, ruled out of order 15160; sec. 6 (Dalton for Stephens) 15160, negatived 15164; sec. 11.1 (Charbonneau) 15164, approved 15164
• Division: 2R approved 14959-60
• Speakers (Anderson) 15160-1, 15163-4 (Charbonneau) 14233, 14952-3, 14959, 15078-81, 15157-66 (Dalton) 14956-7, 15157-8, 15160, 15164-6 (Fox) 14954, 15080, 15161-2, 15164-7 (Reid) 15158-9, 15162-3 (Stephens) 14953-4, 15078-81 (Tyabji) 14957-9 (Wilson) 14954-6, 15079-81
• Distance education school, definition (Charbonneau) 15080 (Fox) 15080
Edward Milne Community School Society
• Funding for new school, letter of thanks quoted (Kasper) 13189
Edward Milne Community School, Sooke, B.C.
• Construction (Kasper) 13188
Edwards, Hon. Anne (Kootenay) Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
• Alberta, energy exports to B.C. 14227
• Alberta Natural Gas power proposal 15430
• Alouette Lake fishery 15432
• Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd., contracts with B.C. Hydro 14226-7
• Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd., energy consumption 14227, 15390
• Ballard fuel cell technology, progress 15432
• Bennett, W.A.C., action on Columbia River Treaty 13355
• Bonneville Power Administration, Columbia River Treaty negotiations 14405
• Bonneville Power Administration, corporate designation change 15437-8
• Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14416-8
• Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of agreement with B.C. 14417-8, 15391-2, 15430, 15436-7, 15445
• Bonneville Power Administration, negotiations 15399
• Bralorne area mining activity 14165
• B.C. Advisory Council on Mining 14153
• B.C. Energy Council, 1993-94 and 1994-95 annual reports tabled 13219
• B.C. Energy Council, costs 14228
• B.C. Energy Council, energy planning 14215
• B.C. Energy Council, energy planning recommendations 14151, 15439, 16327
• B.C. Ferries, fast ferries, emissions 15439-40
• B.C. Gas, liquid natural gas proposal 15435
• B.C. Hydro capital projects, cost recovery 14217
• B.C. Hydro, Columbia River water storage agreement 14225
• B.C. Hydro, electrical systems operation review 14152, 14223, 16328
• B.C. Hydro, integrated resource planning 14223
• B.C. Hydro power lines, installation 15444
• B.C. Hydro power requirements 14226-7, 15390, 15392-5
• B.C. Hydro power transmission costs 15430
• B.C. Hydro, private power purchases 14152
• B.C. Hydro rates 15433-4
• B.C. Mining Association, concerns re Mineral Tax Act amendments 15176
• B.C. Petroleum Corporation, 1993-94 annual report tabled 13219
• B.C. Tel cable system, right-of-way agreements to cross mineral claims 16573, 16577, 16580
• B.C. Utilities Commission 14153
• B.C. Utilities Commission, 1994 annual report tabled 16539
• B.C. Utilities Commission, electricity market structure review 16327
• B.C. Utilities Commission, energy project reviews 14216-20
• B.C. Utilities Commission, role in Columbia basin dam project 14215-16
• Budget, content 13267
• Budget debate 13266-8
• Building materials, dimension stone 15201-2, 15205-6, 15504
• Building materials, minerals used for construction purposes 15203
• Burrard Thermal power station, role as power supplier 14227
• Business sector, growth 13267-8
• Capital investments, impact 13267-8
• Chile, mining industry 14189
• Civil service, accountability of unelected officials 15506
• Civil service, powers of unelected officials 15512-3
• Clean Choice program 14160-3
• Coal Act, amendments 15173
• Coal deposits in southeastern B.C. 14184
• Coal, designation as mineral 15173
• Coal export markets, development 14230
• Coal industry, current activity 14153
• Coal industry, position on Kootenay Commission on Resources and Environment process 14166-7, 14183-4
• Coal reserves, Crown-held rights 15173
• Coal-generated electric power 14227, 14230-1
• Columbia Basin accord 14152, 14361
• Columbia Basin accord, memorandum of understanding 14219-20
• Columbia basin energy projects 14219-20
• Columbia Basin Trust Act 13353-5, 13502-4, 13508, 13512
• Columbia Basin Trust dam construction projects 15394-5
• Columbia Basin Trust dam construction projects, government role 14215
• Columbia Basin Trust dam construction projects, impact on price of power 13508
• Columbia Basin Trust, directors from regional districts 13502
• Columbia Basin Trust, directors' rules, public input 13502-3
• Columbia Basin Trust, inclusion of Peace hydro system 14223
• Columbia Basin Trust, initial investment from government, use of funds 13503-4
• Columbia Basin Trust, membership 13354
• Columbia Basin Trust, role 14218-20
• Columbia River basin energy projects 14216-7
• Columbia River Treaty, agreements under treaty 15391-2
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefit entitlement, renegotiation 13354, 14215
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefit entitlement, value of power generated in Columbia system 15396-8, 15438-9
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, Columbia-Kootenay region's share 14361
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, return to B.C. 15219
• Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region 13353, 15397
• Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region, redress 13353, 13355, 13512
• Columbia River Treaty issues, Liberal Party position 13354
• Columbia River Treaty issues, Reform Party position 13354
• Columbia River Treaty, public input 13353-4
• Columbia River Treaty, water storage provisions 14225-6
• Commission on Resources and Environment decision on Kootenays land use, impact on mine development 14166-7, 14183-4
• Commission on Resources and Environment, estimates 16511
• Corporations, definition of Canadian corporation 15510-2
• Crown land, mineral extraction 15202-3, 15487
• Dam construction, employment 13354-5
• Dam construction, new dams in B.C. 14227
• Delgamuukw 2 ruling, impact on mining activity 16579
• Desan-Sierra-Yoyo road, maintenance 14152-3, 15440-1
• Earthquake hazard mapping program 14156
• Electric power consumption on Vancouver Island 15435
• Electric power export sales to U.S. 15390-2, 15437-8
• Electric power exports 14230-1
• Electric power generation from coal 14227, 14230-1
• Electric power, importation 14227
• Electric power, independent power producers 13268
• Electric power, independent power producers, market access 15429-30
• Electric power, independent power producers, policy 14231
• Electric power, independent power producers, proposal for Vancouver Island facility 14161
• Electric power, independent power producers, proposals for power generation 15431-3
• Electric power line extension, Beattie family case 15443-4
• Electric power, markets for Kootenay-generated power 15394-5, 15430
• Electric power, private power production 14152
• Electric power projects, review process 14216-20
• Electric power projects, social costing 14223-5
• Electric power sales to U.S. 15219
• Electric power supply contracts 14219-20, 15429
• Electric power supply in B.C. 15392-5
• Electric power supply, shortage in B.C. 15390
• Electric power, tidal generation 14228
• Electric power, transmission costs 15430
• Electric power, transmission costs of Kootenay-generated power 15398
• Electric power transmission lines, cost 15392
• Electricity market structure review 14152
• Energy conservation, energy efficiency standards 14151-2, 16327-8
• Energy conservation projects 14155-6
• Energy consumption in B.C. 15392-5
• Energy Council of B.C. levies, legal action to recover 13181
• Energy efficiency standards 15439
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources minister's powers to act in the public interest 16573-4, 16576-8
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources minister's powers to act in the public interest, due diligence principle 16580
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, 1993-94 annual report tabled 15112
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, accountability 14071-2
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry annual report, timeliness 14163
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, estimates 14151-68, 14181-90, 14215-32, 15389-99, 15429-45, 16327-8
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, Fort St. John office 15442
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, internal operations 14154
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, international work 14189-90
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, jurisdiction re mineral resources 15204-5
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, natural-gas-powered vehicles 14159
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, oil and gas sector activities 14152-3, 14156
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, performance measurement 14157-8
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, productivity standards 14163
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, responsibility for mineral extraction sites 15204
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, role in Columbia basin energy projects 14218
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, staff acknowledged 16327
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, staffing 14155, 14158
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, strategic priorities 14155-7
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, trade mission to Asia 14230
• Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, work 14154
• Energy plan for province 13352, 14151
• Energy resource use, environmentally clean practices 15439-40
• Energy resources, policy development 14229
• Energy resources, stewardship 14155-6
• Energy resources, supply forecast 15390, 15392-5
• Energy savings, role of national energy code 14152, 16327
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, jurisdiction re mineral resources 15202-3
• Ethanol, benefits 14221
• Explore B.C. program 14153
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, agreement 15431
• Fish Lake mine project 14165, 14182-3
• Fording Coal Ltd., power projects 14230-1
• Forest Practices Code, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry role 14158-9
• Free miner certificate, cancellation 15518-9
• Free miner certificate, cancellation notification 15519-21
• Free miner certificate, elimination of Canadian citizenship requirement 15509-11, 15514
• Free miner certificate granted to ineligible applicants 15512-3
• Free miner certificate, knowledge requirement 15508-9, 15515, 16582
• Free miner certificate, residency requirement 15513
• Fuel, alternative motor fuels 14221
• Fuel, MMT content in motor fuel 14221
• Fuel, natural gas as motor fuel 14159
• Fuel, natural-gas-powered government vehicles 14163
• Gathercole, Dick, financial settlement 13181, 14228-30, 16322
• Gathercole, Dick, work with B.C. Energy Council 14217
• Geological Survey of Canada, relocation 14182
• Gold commissioner, number of commissioners 15509
• Gold commissioner, power to issue free miner certificates to ineligible applicants 15512-3
• Gold commissioner, power to refuse a mining claim 16590-93
• Gold commissioner, powers of chief gold commissioner 15506-7, 16582, 16584-5, 16595-6
• Gold commissioner, powers to cancel free miner certificate 15518-21
• Gold commissioner to receive notice of mining activity on private land 16587-8
• Government automobiles, natural-gas-powered vehicles 14163
• Government, cooperation with private sector 13267-8
• Gravel operations, regulation 15202-4
• Grohmann, Norm, promotional work 13402
• Haines triangle, mineral deposits 14232
• Hand panning on mineral claim, permission needed from title holder 15516-7
• Harassment prevention training for government staff 14157
• Heritage Conservation Act, aboriginal cultural heritage resources provisions 16575, 16578-9
• Heritage Conservation Act, heritage sites and heritage values provisions 16581-2
• Heritage sites, cultural heritage resources and mining activity 15519, 16579
• Indian land claims and mineral rights 15206, 15487, 16591-3
• Indian reserve land, comparisons with definition of private land in mineral tenure legislation 15485
• Indians, aboriginal title and fee simple ownership 15485
• Indians, cultural heritage resources, protection 16575
• Indians, involvement in mining industry 14190
• Indians, resource development involvement 14156
• Investment, Asian investment in B.C. 14230
• Job creation 13268
• Keenleyside Dam power-generating costs 15395-6, 15430
• Keenleyside Dam renovation project 14216
• Kemano completion project cancellation, impact on power supplies 15394
• Kemano power project, capacity 14226-7
• Kinross gold mine 14189
• Kootenay area economy 13268
• Kootenay area mining activities, impact of Commission on Resources and Environment process 14166-7, 14183-4
• Kootenay constituency, economy and investments 13268
• Kootenay land use plan 13268
• Kootenay power projects 15394-5
• Kootenay protected areas, compensation for mineral tenure holders 16511
• Land Act, amendments 13883
• Land Act, extraction of rock and natural substances, regulation 15202-4
• Land and resources management process, participants 15443
• Land surface rights and mineral rights, priority concerns 15522-4, 16573-80
• Land use, emerging issues 15485
• Land use, impact of protected-areas strategy on mining industry 14166-7
• Land use, non-exclusive rights of multiple users 16573-4
• Land use planning and mine development 14166-7
• Land use planning and resource development 14156, 14164
• Land use planning process, public input 15206
• Mapping, mineral potential mapping 14185
• Michael Margolick and Associates, energy project study 14216
• Mediation and Arbitration Board, meetings 15441
• Mediation and Arbitration Board, role in land use conflicts 16577
• MLAs, language used in House 14732
• Mine development, environmental assessment 16596-7
• Mine rescue teams 14220
• Mineral claim, availability of open ground 16590-3
• Mineral claim, holding period 16593
• Mineral claim maintenance requirements 16589
• Mineral claim maintenance requirements, forfeiture for non-performance 16595-6
• Mineral claim, recording fee, cash-in-lieu rates 16593-4
• Mineral exploration, investment 14164-6, 14185-6
• Mineral extraction for construction purposes, regulation 15202-3
• Mineral lands, high mineral potential lands 14183, 14185
• Mineral leases converted to mining leases 16597
• Mineral, legal designation 14067, 15201, 15484-5
• Mineral, legal designation, change 15488-90
• Mineral Prospectors Act, repeal of act 15175-6
• Mineral resources, development 14156
• Mineral resources, tenure issues 13883, 14067, 15201-6, 15485-9
• Mineral rights and Indian land claims 15206, 15485-7, 16591-3
• Mineral rights on private land 15206, 15485-9
• Mineral strategy for province 14153
• Mineral Tax Act, amendments 15176
• Mineral tax, filing requirement 15176
• Mineral tax forms, filing requirement 15445
• Mineral Tenure Act amendments 13883, 14067
• Mineral Tenure Act amendments, consultations 14071, 15484
• Mineral Tenure Act, applicability 15173
• Mineral Tenure Act, definitions 15201-2
• Mineral Tenure Act, industrial minerals provisions 16578-9
• Mineral Tenure Act, "interested person" 16596
• Mineral Tenure Act, open ground, definition 16590, 16593
• Mineral Tenure Act, recorded holders, use of term 15521
• Mineral Tenure Act regulations, consultations 16597
• Mineral Tenure Act, rights of tenure holders under act 15488-9
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act (1995) 13883, 14067, 14071-2, 15201-6, 15484-90, 15503-24, 16573-98
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, bulk sample, definition 15202, 15484
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, dispute resolution provisions 14071
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, enforcement provisions 16581
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, mineral, definition 15484-5, 15488-90, 16574-5, 16578
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, mining activity, definition 15201-2, 15488
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, phrase "deliberately fails to comply" 16583-4
• Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, private land, definition 15485-6
• Mineral tenure holders, land reclamation requirement 15522
• Mineral tenure holders' legal obligations, impact of non-compliance 16580-7
• Mineral tenure holders, restrictions on rights 15522-4, 16573-80
• Mineral tenure system, changes 13883, 14067, 15201
• Mines, number in B.C. 14186, 16328
• Mineworker certification, examination requirement 14182
• Mining activity on private land, notice requirement 16587-8
• Mining claim, comparison with mining lease 15522
• Mining companies leaving B.C. 14165, 14186-7
• Mining exploration expenditures, carry-forward provisions 16589, 16594-5
• Mining exploration incentives 16593-4
• Mining, extraction of mineral substances, regulation 15202-4
• Mining industry 13268
• Mining industry and bureaucracy 14188
• Mining industry and land use planning 14166-7, 14183-4
• Mining industry, appeal of refusal by gold commissioner to record a claim 16590-3
• Mining industry, appeal of restricted activities 16575-9
• Mining industry, appeal of suspension order 16586
• Mining industry, appeal of suspension order, compensation for reversal of decision 16587
• Mining industry, assistance to industry 14164-5
• Mining industry, bulk sampling 15484, 15521-2
• Mining industry, compensation re impact of change in definition of mineral 15488-90, 15503-6
• Mining industry, current activity 14153, 16328
• Mining industry, environmental requirements 14167
• Mining industry, globalization 14187-8
• Mining industry in B.C. 14164-5
• Mining industry, infrastructure 14165
• Mining industry, infrastructure funding, government role 14168
• Mining industry, notification for non-compliance 16583-7
• Mining industry, overstaking of existing claim 16590-2
• Mining industry, planning and policy 14156
• Mining industry, role in economy 14151
• Mining industry, taxation 14166, 14168, 14186-7
• Mining prospectors, assistance 15175-6
• Mining prospectors' assistance program 15175-6
• Mining prospectors' course 14190
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 15173, 15175-6
• Mitchell, David, comments re Columbia River Treaty 13355
• Mount Polley copper-gold mining project 14189
• Municipal taxation, energy tax levy 14223
• National Energy Board, jurisdictional authority 15434-5, 15445
• Natural gas, access in northern B.C. 14161-3
• Natural gas companies, profitability 14160
• Natural gas, conversion grants for Vancouver Island users 14160-3
• Natural gas drilling projects, approval process 14159
• Natural gas, Fraser Valley extension 14222
• Natural gas industry, 1994 activities 14152
• Natural gas industry, deregulation 15445
• Natural gas industry in northern B.C., impact on region 14224-5
• Natural gas industry, investment 13268
• Natural gas industry, planning and policy 14156
• Natural gas industry, value-added industry 15441
• Natural gas pipeline extensions 14222
• Natural gas pipeline extensions, funding 15444
• Natural gas pipeline extensions, rural gasification projects 14161-3
• Natural gas prices 14221-2, 15393-4
• Natural gas processing plants, regulation 15434-5
• Natural gas resource development 14156
• Natural gas storage in lower mainland 15435
• Natural resource development activities 14156-7
• Natural resource-producing areas of B.C., problems 14225
• Natural resources, integrated management principles 15509, 15513
• Nisga'a land issues, mining industry concerns 14167
• North American Free Trade Agreement and mining industry 15510-11, 15513-4
• Northern B.C., economic stability 14224
• Oil and gas industry, 1994 activities 14152
• Oil and gas industry, drilling on private land 15442-3
• Oil and gas industry, drilling project approval process 14159
• Oil and gas industry, enhanced oil recovery process 15443
• Oil and gas industry, geothermal exploration 15443
• Oil and gas industry, planning and policy 14156
• Oil and gas resource development 14156
• Oil and gas wells, orphan wells 15435
• Oil and natural gas products, exports 14156
• Oil pipelines, ministerial responsibility 15442
• Peace River area, energy-generating capacity 14223
• Peace River water levels 15434
• Peterson, Ken, employment 15392
• Power Smart program, energy efficiency program 14151-2, 16327
• Power Smart program rate design 15392-4
• Property rights, mineral rights on private land 15206
• Protected areas strategy, impact on mining industry 14166-7
• Provincial emergency program, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry participation 14220-1
• Quarry operations, jurisdiction 15204-5
• Roads, maintenance of resource roads 15440-1
• Role in Columbia River Treaty negotiations (Campbell) 14405
• Royal Oak Mines Inc., mine development proposal 14165-6
• South America mining industry, foreign investment 14187-8
• Stave Falls Dam, power generation costs 15432
• Sullivan mine, life expectancy of mine 14181-2
• Tatshenshini land use decision, compensation 14232
• Tatshenshini land use decision, prior knowledge 13528
• Tener v. the Queen, park designation case 16577
• Towards Energy Sustainability: Implementing the B.C. Energy Council's Energy Strategy for British Columbia, report tabled 14712
• Trade mission to Asia 14230
• Transportation and Highways ministry, resource roads policy 15440-1
• U.S., B.C. accesspower transmission lines 15437-8
• Vancouver Island natural gas pipeline 15435
• Vancouver Island natural gas pipeline, purchase 15389-90
• Vancouver Island natural gas pipeline, rate stabilization fund 14153-4
• Vancouver Island natural gas pipeline, rate stabilization fund repayments 14159-61
• Water drawdowns from B.C. lakes and rivers 14225-6
• Water levels of B.C. lakes and rivers 15434
• Water licensing issues 15433-4
• Water-generated electric power, costs 15432-3
• Williston Lake water levels 15429, 15431, 15433-4
• Williston Lake, water levels 14226-7
• Windy Craggy mine, airstrip 14232
• Windy Craggy project, compensation 14165-6
• Wood waste, power generation 14152
• Workers' Compensation Board, jurisidiction re mineral extraction sites 15204
"An Effective Role for Rehabilitation in the Health Care System: A Summary of Key Points"
• Quoted (Reid) 14452
841-KOZ
• Work of group (Gabelmann) 13549, 13601, 13700
Elderly. See Seniors
Election Act
• (Bill 28) (Attorney General) 1R, 14791; 2R, 16240-53, 16273-300, 16542-72; C, 16604-24, 16625-50, 16651-64, 16672-83, 16777-807, 16809-23, 16828-45, 16863-87; 3R, 16918; RA,17015
• Amdts: 2R (Tyabji) 16282, ruled out of order 16282; 2R (Wilson) 16292, negatived 16553; sec. 1 (Gabelmann) 16604, approved 16609; sec. 1 (Dalton) 16609, negatived 16610; sec. 4 (Mitchell) 16616, negatived 16617; sec. 13 (Dalton) 16623, negatived 16623; sec. 14 (Dalton) 16625, negatived 16625; sec. 14 (Dalton) 16626, approved 16626; sec. 15 (Wilson for Mitchell) 16628, withdrawn 16628; sec. 15 (Gabelmann) 16628, approved 16628; sec. 24 (Weisgerber) 16631, negatived 16632; sec. 42 (Wilson) 16640, negatived 16641; sec. 56 (Gabelmann) 16645, approved 16646; sec. 60 (Dalton) 16646, negatived 16648; sec. 66 (Dalton) 16652, negatived 16653; sec. 69 (Dalton) 16653, negatived 16653; sec. 91 (Wilson) 16660, withdrawn 16661; sec. 91 (Wilson) 16661, approved 16662; sec. 179 (Dalton) 16676, negatived 16676; sec. 180 (Dalton) 16676, negatived 16783; sec. 190 (Dalton) 16795, negatived 16795; to add sec. 190.1 (Gabelmann) 16796, approved 16796; sec. 206 (Gabelmann) 16802, approved 16802; sec. 214 (Gabelmann) 16802, approved 16802; sec. 219 (Gabelmann) 16812, approved 16813; sec. 223 (Gabelmann) 16815, approved 16815; sec. 227 (Gabelmann) 16815, approved 16818; to add sec. 227.1 (Fox for Weisgerber) 16828, negatived 16834; to add sec. 227.1 (Serwa) 16834, stood down 16834; to add sec. 227.1 (Serwa) 16837, ruled out of order 16837; sec. 229 (Gabelmann) 16837, approved 16838; sec. 230 (Gabelmann) 16838, approved 16838; sec. 234 (Gabelmann) 16839, approved 16841; to add sec. 234.1 through 234.96 (Gabelmann) 16841, approved 16845; sec. 239 (Mitchell) 16865, negatived 16866; sec. 240 (Mitchell) 16866, negatived 16867; sec. 241 (Mitchell) 16868, negatived 16869; sec. 246 (Gabelmann) 16869, approved 16870; sec. 248 (Gabelmann) 16870, approved 16870; sec. 260 (Gabelmann) 16871, approved 16871; sec. 262 (Gabelmann) 16873, approved 16873; sec. 267 (Gabelmann) 16877, approved 16877; sec. 272 and 273 (Gabelmann) 16879, approved 16879; sec. 278 (Gabelmann) 16879-80, withdrawn 16883; to add sec. 278.1 (Gabelmann) 16883, approved 16883; to add sec. 279.1 (Gabelmann) 16883-4, approved 16884; to add sec. 285.1 and 285.2 (Gabelmann) 16884, approved 16884; sec. 287 (Gabelmann) 16884, approved 16884; sec. 300 and 302 (Gabelmann) 16885, approved 16885; sec. 307 (Gabelmann) 16886, approved 16886
• Divisions: 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
• Speakers (Campbell) 16553-5 (Chisholm) 16297-9, 16555-6, 16790 (Dalton) 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 (de Jong, M.) 16286-9 (Farnworth) 16250-1 (Farrell-Collins) 16556-60, 16647-8, 16679-82, 16867-8, 16870, 16880-1, 16883-5 (Fox) 16549-50, 16627, 16639, 16660, 16777, 16797, 16800, 16828-30 (Gabelmann) 14791, 16240-2, 16569-72, 16604-24, 16625-31, 16633-46, 16648-50, 16651-64, 16672-7, 16681-2, 16779-807, 16810-23, 16829-32, 16834-45, 16863-7, 16869-87 (Giesbrecht) 16285-6 (Gingell) 16275-8 (Hanson) 16782, 16787-8 (Hurd) 16294-7, 16562-4, 16814, 16818-20, 16822 (Jarvis) 16298-300, 16542-3 (Jones, K.) 16608-9, 16633-4, 16636-7, 16639, 16641-3, 16648, 16650, 16663, 16839-40, 16842, 16872-3, 16881-2 (Miller) 16682-3, 16821-2 (Mitchell) 16251-3, 16273-5, 16550-3, 16606-7, 16610-9, 16621-2, 16652, 16658, 16662-4, 16676, 16777-8, 16781-4, 16788-9, 16791-5, 16797-9, 16802-5, 16807, 16810-1, 16814-6, 16818-22, 16830, 16834, 16836-41, 16864-9, 16871-5, 16877-80, 16882-3, 16886-7 (Neufeld) 16567-9, 16621-2 (Pullinger) 16678-9 (Reid) 16544, 16631-2, 16880 (Schreck) 16560-2 (Serwa) 16564-7, 16660-1, 16663-4, 16673-4, 16782-3, 16785-7, 16791-2, 16800-3, 16805, 16809-11, 16818, 16820-2, 16831, 16834, 16837, 16840, 16886 (Streifel) 16660 (Symons) 16781, 16788, 16790, 16793 (Tyabji) 16278-82, 16545-9, 16806, 16811-2, 16821, 16868-9 (Warnke) 16283-5, 16645-7, 16649, 16653-8, 16660, 16662, 16664, 16672, 16863-4 (Weisgerber) 16248-50, 16615, 16630-2, 16641-2, 16645-7, 16650, 16663, 16817-8, 16818, 16831-3, 16873, 16875-7, 16881, 16884-6 (Wilson) 16289-94, 16606-8, 16610, 16612-24, 16625-30, 16632-44, 16646-9, 16654-6, 16659-62, 16672-4, 16778-9, 16781, 16785-6, 16789-90, 16792-5, 16797-9, 16804, 16806-7, 16812-5, 16819-20, 16830, 16834-6, 16841-2, 16844-5, 16864-5, 16869, 16871-5, 16877-80, 16882
• Auditor, definition (Gabelmann) 16676 (Mitchell) 16676
• Campaign period, definition (Gabelmann) 16611 (Mitchell) 16611
• Candidate, definition (Gabelmann) 16649 (Wilson) 16649
• Changes (Schreck) 14030-1 (Wilson) 1403-1
• Charter of Rights issues (Dalton) 16242
• Commencement date (Gabelmann) 16613, 16886-7 (Mitchell) 16613, 16886-7
• Conduct, definition (Gabelmann) 16611 (Mitchell) 16611-2
• Consultations (Campbell) 16539-40 (de Jong, M.) 16541-2 (Farrell-Collins) 16540, 16560 (Gingell) 16277-8 (Harcourt) 15016 (Mitchell) 16254, 16550-1, 16834 (Reid) 16544 (Tyabji) 16546-8 (Wilson) 16289, 16292-3
• Contribution, definition (Gabelmann) 16781, 16815-6 (Mitchell) 16816 (Wilson) 16779, 16781
• Disclosure provisions, retroactivity (Mitchell) 16553
• Drafting of bill, input from labour movement (Campbell) 15016 (Farrell-Collins) 14815-6 (Gabelmann) 14815-6
• Due diligence, meaning of term in act (Gabelmann) 16864-5 (Mitchell) 16864-5 (Wilson) 16864-5
• Election advertising, definition (Gabelmann) 16816 (Mitchell) 16815-6
• Election advertising, definition, impact on NDP administration (Hurd) 16822
• Election advertising limit, definition of term (Dalton) 16604-5 (Gabelmann) 16606-9 (Jones, K.) 16608 (Mitchell) 16606-7 (Wilson) 16606-8
• Election proceedings, definition of term, absence in bill (Dalton) 16609-10, 16629-30, 16654, 16658 (Gabelmann) 16610, 16630, 16658 (Wilson) 16610
• Enforcement by court injunction (Gabelmann) 16874 (Wilson) 16873-4
• Exceptions due to emergencies (Gabelmann) 16874 (Mitchell) 16874
• Expenditures by political parties, provisions (Farrell-Collins) 15305
• Financial agent and official agent, definitions (Gabelmann) 16612-3 (Wilson) 16612-3
• Government advertising, restrictions (Hurd) 16540-1
• Independent, definition (Mitchell) 16612
• Inducement, definition (Gabelmann) 16612 (Mitchell) 16612
• Legal implications (Dalton) 16605, 16843 (Gabelmann) 16605 (Hurd) 16562-4
• Offences, multiple penalties (Dalton) 16863 (Gabelmann) 16863
• Offences, prosecutions (Dalton) 16863-4 (Gabelmann) 16863-4 (Warnke) 16863-4
• Opinion survey, definition (Mitchell) 16815-6, 16821 (Tyabji) 16821
• Political contribution, definition (Mitchell) 16783-4
• Public notice of revisions (Dalton) 16639
• Public reaction (Hurd) 16562
• Referendum Act provisions and act (Gabelmann) 16876-7 (Weisgerber) 16876-7
• Referral to Committee of the Whole House (Tyabji) 16282
• Referral to select standing committee (Chisholm) 16297-8 (Fox) 16549-50 (Hurd) 16294-6 (Jarvis) 16298-300 (Mitchell) 16550-3 (Tyabji) 16545-9 (Wilson) 16292-4
• Revision of old act (Dalton) 16242 (de Jong, M.) 16286-7 (Gabelmann) 16242 (Schreck) 16560-1 (Serwa) 16564-6 (Weisgerber) 16248
• Revisions to Recall and Initiative Act (Dalton) 16242, 16244
• Sponsor, definition (Dalton) 16816 (Gabelmann) 16816
• Timing of bill (Dalton) 16243-4 (Mitchell) 16251-2
Election Finances Reform Act
• Private member's bill (Gabelmann) 16677 (Mitchell) 16777
Elections. See also Politics and politicians
• Adjournment of election proceedings (Dalton) 16870 (Gabelmann) 16870
• Alberta Court decisions re federal regulations cited (Dalton) 16245-6, 16605-6, 16843-4 (Gabelmann) 16844
• Ballot-marking (Dalton) 16661, 16674-5 (Fox) 16660 (Gabelmann) 16659-62, 16674-5 (Mitchell) 16662 (Serwa) 16660 (Streifel) 16660 (Warnke) 16283, 16660 (Wilson) 16659-62
• Ballots, information included on ballot (Dalton) 16656-7 (Gabelmann) 16656-8 (Warnke) 16657-8
• Call for election (Campbell) 15304-5 (Dalton) 13022, 13193-5 (Harcourt) 15305 (Hurd) 13033-4
• Campaign advertising
  • advertising (Dalton) 16822 (Serwa) 16785-7
  • advertising by government (Dalton) 16833-4 (Farrell-Collins) 16560 (Fox) 16828-30 (Gabelmann) 16829-30, 16832, 16834, 16836 (Hurd) 16822 (Mitchell) 16830, 16834, 16836 (Serwa) 16566, 16831, 16834, 16837 (Weisgerber) 16831-3 (Wilson) 16830
  • limits on third-party advertising (Campbell) 16554-5 (Chisholm) 16298, 16556 (Dalton) 16244-5, 16604-6, 16796 (de Jong, M.) 16288 (Farnworth) 16250-1 (Farrell-Collins) 16558-9 (Fox) 16549 (Gabelmann) 16571, 16605-9, 16783-7, 16796, 16817, 16841-4 (Giesbrecht) 16286 (Gingell) 16277 (Hurd) 16297 (Jarvis) 16299 (Mitchell) 16274-5, 16606-7, 16783-4 (Neufeld) 16567 (Serwa) 16566 (Tyabji) 16545-7 (Weisgerber) 16249 (Wilson) 16290-2, 16607-8, 16841-2
  • rate restrictions (Gabelmann) 16838-9 (Jones, K.) 16839 (Mitchell) 16838
  • sponsorship (Dalton) 16838 (Gabelmann) 16834-6, 16838 (Mitchell) 16838 (Wilson) 16834-6
  • sponsorship, level of spending requiring registration with chief electoral officer (Gabelmann) 16841 (Mitchell) 16841 (Wilson) 16841
  • voting day advertising (Gabelmann) 16839 (Mitchell) 16839
• Campaign contributions
  • anonymous contributions (Dalton) 16246, 16795 (Gabelmann) 16794-5 (Mitchell) 16794 (Wilson) 16794-5
  • cash limit (Gabelmann) 16794 (Mitchell) 16794
  • contributions from federal party (Campbell) 16554
  • contributions from non-profit societies (Campbell) 16555 (Farrell-Collins) 16559
  • contributions from outside B.C. (Dalton) 16246
  • contributions through fundraising functions (Dalton) 16792 (Gabelmann) 16792-3 (Mitchell) 16792-3 (Wilson) 16792-3
  • definition of contribution (Gabelmann) 16781, 16815-6 (Mitchell) 16816 (Wilson) 16779, 16781
  • disclosure of paid labour (Campbell) 16554 (Chisholm) 16556 (Farrell-Collins) 16557-8 (Gabelmann) 16570 (Giesbrecht) 16286 (Hurd) 16563 (Neufeld) 16568
  • disclosure requirements (Dalton) 16243-4, 16843 (Farrell-Collins) 16679-82 (Fox) 16549 (Gabelmann) 16241, 16843 (Jarvis) 16299-300, 16543 (Mitchell) 16252, 16273 (Schreck) 16561-2 (Serwa) 16565-6 (Weisgerber) 16248
  • limits (Dalton) 16245 (Gabelmann) 16802
  • reporting requirements (Dalton) 16801 (Gabelmann) 16801-2 (Mitchell) 16801 (Serwa) 16802
• Campaign expenses (Dalton) 16793-4 (Gabelmann) 16794 (Mitchell) 16794
• Campaign funds, disposition of candidates' surplus funds (Dalton) 16799-801 (Fox) 16799-800 (Gabelmann) 16798-801 (Mitchell) 16799 (Serwa) 16800-1 (Wilson) 16798-9
• Campaign funds, transfers from federal parties (Dalton) 16246
• Campaign spending
  • disclosure requirements (Gingell) 16277 (Mitchell) 16273 (Weisgerber) 16248
  • late filing of report, court orders (Dalton) 16812-3 (Gabelmann) 16812-3
  • spending before writ period (Gabelmann) 16789-90 (Wilson) 16789-90
  • spending from another province (Fox) 16797
  • spending in past (Wilson) 16291
  • spending limits (Chisholm) 16556 (Dalton) 16246, 16843 (Fox) 16549 (Gabelmann) 16241, 16779, 16798 (Gingell) 16275-7 (Jarvis) 16542-3 (Mitchell) 16273, 16552, 16798 (Serwa) 16782-3 (Tyabji) 16282 (Wilson) 14030-1, 16290, 16293
  • spending limits in sparsely populated areas (Gabelmann) 16798 (Mitchell) 16798
  • spending limits, penalties (Gabelmann) 16805-7, 16810-2, 16818 (Mitchell) 16804-5, 16807, 16810-1 (Serwa) 16805, 16809-11, 16818 (Tyabji) 16806, 16811-2 (Wilson) 16806-7, 16812
  • spending on public policy issues (Dalton) 16796-7 (Gabelmann) 16796-8 (Mitchell) 16797 (Wilson) 16797
  • valuation of equipment and signs (Chisholm) 16790 (Gabelmann) 16790 (Symons) 16790
• Campaign workers
  • contribution of time (Fox) 16777
  • contribution versus volunteering (Farrell-Collins) 16679 (Pullinger) 16678-9
  • paid leave from other jobs (Dalton) 16244-5 (Fox) 16549 (Gingell) 16275-6 (Weisgerber) 16248-9
  • valuation of time worked (Gabelmann) 16779-81, 16782 (Hanson) 16782 (Miller) 16683 (Mitchell) 16778, 16781-2 (Symons) 16781
  • volunteers (Jarvis) 16299
• Candidates
  • audit requirements (Dalton) 16676 (Gabelmann) 16676
  • challenges to nomination (Dalton) 16651-2 (Gabelmann) 16651-2
  • death before election (Dalton) 16650 (Gabelmann) 16649-50 (Jones, K.) 16650 (Warnke) 16649 (Weisgerber) 16650
  • expense reports during writ period (Dalton) 16802 (Gabelmann) 16802
  • filing of financial report (Gabelmann) 16810 (Mitchell) 16810
  • financial agents, role (Dalton) 16675-6 (Gabelmann) 16676
  • leave from employment (Dalton) 16652 (Gabelmann) 16652-3 (Mitchell) 16652 (Warnke) 16653
  • nomination and declaration (Gabelmann) 16649 (Wilson) 16648-9
  • nomination qualifications (Dalton) 16644 (Gabelmann) 16644 (Wilson) 16643-4
  • nominations (Gabelmann) 16644-6 (Warnke) 16645-6 (Weisgerber) 16645 (Wilson) 16644
  • party endorsement (Dalton) 16646 (Farrell-Collins) 16647-8 (Gabelmann) 16646 (Jones, K.) 16648 (Warnke) 16647 (Weisgerber) 16646-7 (Wilson) 16646-8
  • requirement for financial agent (Dalton) 16244, 16675
  • requirement for official agent (Dalton) 16653-4 (Gabelmann) 16653-4 (Warnke) 16285 (Wilson) 16654
  • spending limits, penalties (Dalton) 16802-3 (Gabelmann) 16802-4 (Mitchell) 16803 (Serwa) 16803 (Wilson) 16804
• Chief electoral officer
  • acting officer (Dalton) 16623 (Gabelmann) 16623 (Wilson) 16622-3
  • appointment (Chisholm) 16556 (Gabelmann) 16613-7 (Mitchell) 16252-3, 16613-6 (Weisgerber) 16248, 16615 (Wilson) 16614-7
  • auditing powers (Gabelmann) 16871-3 (Jones, K.) 16872-3 (Mitchell) 16871-2 (Weisgerber) 16873 (Wilson) 16812, 16871-2
  • impartiality (Dalton) 16620-1 (Gabelmann) 16617-21 (Mitchell) 16617-9 (Wilson) 16618-21
  • power to make regulations (Gabelmann) 16877-8 (Mitchell) 16877-8
  • powers (Gabelmann) 16801 (Mitchell) 16801
  • removal or resignation (Gabelmann) 16622 (Mitchell) 16622 (Wilson) 16622
  • remuneration and pension (Gabelmann) 16621-2 (Neufeld) 16621-2 (Wilson) 16621
  • reporting requirements (Gabelmann) 16802 (Mitchell) 16802
  • reporting to Legislature (Dalton) 16623 (Gabelmann) 16623 (Wilson) 16623-4
  • special committee to appoint, establishment (Gabelmann) 17013
  • term of office (Gabelmann) 16621 (Mitchell) 16621
  • transition to permanent officer (Mitchell) 16878
  • travel expenses (Fox) 16627 (Gabelmann) 16627-8 (Wilson) 16626-8
• District registrars of voters (Gabelmann) 16630-1 (Weisgerber) 16630-1 (Wilson) 16630
• Election Advisory Committee
  • calling of meetings (Gabelmann) 16628-9 (Wilson) 16628-9
  • establishment (Mitchell) 16252 (Weisgerber) 16248
  • establishment, timing (Dalton) 16243
  • meeting minutes, publication (Gabelmann) 16628 (Wilson) 16628
  • membership (Dalton) 16625-6 (Gabelmann) 16625-6, 16878-9 (Mitchell) 16879 (Wilson) 16625-6, 16878-9
  • reporting (Mitchell) 16252-3
  • role (Gabelmann) 16629 (Wilson) 16629
  • travel expenses (Fox) 16627 (Gabelmann) 16627-8 (Wilson) 16626-8
• Election proceedings, keeping peace and order (Dalton) 16870 (Gabelmann) 16870
• Electoral reform (Gabelmann) 14791, 16240-2 (Hurd) 16562-3 (Schreck) 14030-1 (Serwa) 13388 (Warnke) 16284-5 (Wilson) 14029-31
• Enumeration of voters (Dalton) 13672, 16639 (Gabelmann) 13672, 16639-40
• Enumeration of voters and electoral boundary changes (Gabelmann) 16640-1 (Wilson) 16640-1
• Enumeration of voters, requirements (Gabelmann) 16623-4 (Wilson) 16623-4
• Fixed election date (Chisholm) 13380 (Fox) 16549 (Gabelmann) 16610-1, 16631 (Mitchell) 16552, 16610-1, 16830 (Neufeld) 16569 (Reid) 16631-2 (Weisgerber) 16631-2 (Wilson) 16632
• Gabelmann, Hon. Colin, comments re elections (Campbell) 16553-5 (Neufeld) 16567 (Serwa) 16567
• General elections and by-elections, timing (Gabelmann) 16633 (Wilson) 16633
• Leadership debates, regulation of televised debates (Mitchell) 16552
• Legislation. See Election Act
• Lortie commission on electoral reform cited, quoted (Dalton) 16843 (Gabelmann) 16571, 16633 (Mitchell) 16274
• Municipal election campaign contributions (Dalton) 16779-80
• Municipal election campaign workers, contribution of time (Fox) 16777
• Municipal election campaigns (Farrell-Collins) 16682
• Municipal election campaigns, disclosure of paid labour (Campbell) 16554 (Farrell-Collins) 16557 (Neufeld) 16568
• Municipal elections, public confidence (Tyabji) 13212
• Officials' responsibilities (Gabelmann) 16659
• Party contributions
  • contributions through loans and debts (Gabelmann) 16792 (Mitchell) 16791-2
  • definition (Wilson) 16785-6
  • disclosure forms (Serwa) 16791
  • disclosure requirements (Jarvis) 16298 (Wilson) 16291
  • restrictions (Gabelmann) 16787-8
  • tax deductibility (Gingell) 16276-7 (Warnke) 16285
  • who can donate (Dalton) 16795 (Gabelmann) 16795 (Mitchell) 16795 (Wilson) 16795
• Polling. See Political polling under main heading Public opinion polls
• Private member's bill, Jeremy Dalton's bill (Dalton) 16243, 16246 (Gabelmann) 16677 (Mitchell) 16777
• Provincial election, timing (Dalton) 16245 (Hanson) 13227
• Regulation of process (Mitchell) 16552
• Requirement to vote (Gabelmann) 16654-5 (Wilson) 16654
• Technology in election administration (Gabelmann) 16240-1
• Testing of new procedures in a by-election (Gabelmann) 16874-5 (Mitchell) 16875 (Wilson) 16874-5
• Tie votes (Dalton) 16675 (Gabelmann) 16675
• Vote-buying (Dalton) 16866 (Gabelmann) 16865-6 (Mitchell) 16865-6
• Voter participation rates (Schreck) 14030-1
• Voter qualifications (Dalton) 16633-4 (Gabelmann) 16633-5 (Jones, K.) 16633-4 (Wilson) 16633-5
• Voter registration (Gabelmann) 16637-8 (Wilson) 16637-9
• Voters list
  • accessibility (Gabelmann) 16643 (Wilson) 16630, 16643
  • alphabetical and geographical lists (Gabelmann) 16642-3 (Jones, K.) 16642-3
  • currency and accuracy (Dalton) 13672, 16642 (Gabelmann) 16636-7, 16641-2 (Jones, K.) 16636-7, 16639-40 (Weisgerber) 16641-2 (Wilson) 16636, 16642
  • link to driver's licence address (Dalton) 16243 (Fox) 16639 (Gabelmann) 16241, 16639, 16641 (Gingell) 15147 (Jones, K.) 16639
• Voting
  • accessibility (Gabelmann) 16240-1 (Weisgerber) 16248
  • alternative absentee voting (Dalton) 16672 (Gabelmann) 16672
  • assistants, charges against assistants (Gabelmann) 16673 (Serwa) 16673
  • assistants, foreign-language assistants (Gabelmann) 16673-4 (Serwa) 16673 (Wilson) 16672-3
  • corrupt practices (Mitchell) 16868-9 (Tyabji) 16868-9 (Wilson) 16869
  • electronic voting (Dalton) 16672 (Gabelmann) 16672
  • intimidation (Farrell-Collins) 16867 (Mitchell) 16866-7
  • stations, who may be present (Dalton) 16659 (Gabelmann) 16659, 16662-3 (Jones, K.) 16663 (Mitchell) 16663-4 (Serwa) 16663-4 (Warnke) 16662, 16664 (Weisgerber) 16663
  • time extensions in remote areas (Gabelmann) 16674 (Wilson) 16674
  • voting opportunities, advance polls (Gabelmann) 16655 (Wilson) 16655
  • voting opportunities, special opportunities (Dalton) 16655 (Gabelmann) 16655 (Warnke) 16655-6 (Wilson) 16656
  • voting opportunities, write-in ballot (Gabelmann) 16654 (Warnke) 16654
• Writ period (Gabelmann) 16613 (Mitchell) 16273 (Wilson) 16613
Electric power
• Alternatives to hydroelectricity (Hurd) 14521-4 (Jarvis) 14476-7
• Alternatives to hydroelectricity, storage capability (Clark) 14525
• Availability in B.C. (Serwa) 14450-1
• Benefits returned to generating areas (Neufeld) 13002-3
• B.C. access to U.S. transmission lines (Edwards) 15437-8 (Hurd) 15437-8
• Capacity, sale to U.S. (Clark) 13431-2
• Cogeneration projects (Hurd) 15773
• Contracts for supply of power (Edwards) 14219-20
• Cost of electricity (Clark) 15988-92 (Evans) 13174 (Weisgerber) 15988-92
• Export sales to U.S. (Edwards) 15390-2, 15437-8 (Hurd) 15437-8 (Jarvis) 15390-2
• Exports (Edwards) 14230-1 (Neufeld) 14231-2
• Exports, sale price (Clark) 15991
• Generation from burning wood waste (Weisgerber) 15989
• Generation from coal (Edwards) 14227, 14230-1 (Jarvis) 14227 (Neufeld) 14230-1
• Generation projects, Columbia River area (Harcourt) 13001-2
• Hydroelectricity resources (Clark) 14524-6
• Importation (Edwards) 14227 (Jarvis) 14227
• Importation from Alberta (Jarvis) 13067
• Independent power producers
  • independent power producers (Clark) 15988, 16026-8 (Edwards) 13268 (Jarvis) 16026-8 (Weisgerber) 15988
  • market access (Edwards) 15429-30 (Jarvis) 15429-30
  • NDP government position (Campbell) 13044 (Edwards) 14231 (Harcourt) 13043-4 (Neufeld) 14231 (Weisgerber) 13044
  • power prices (Weisgerber) 15992
  • projects, environmental impact (Serwa) 13358, 16668
  • proposal for Vancouver Island facility (Edwards) 14161 (Gingell) 14161
  • proposals for power generation (Campbell) 13044 (Edwards) 15431-3 (Harcourt) 13043-4 (Jarvis) 15431-2 (Neufeld) 15433 (Weisgerber) 13044
• Job creation in industry (Clark) 14525-6
• Jurisdiction over electric power (Serwa) 14488
• Kootenay projects (Edwards) 15394-5 (Weisgerber) 15394-5
• Market structure review (Edwards) 14152
• Markets for Kootenay-generated power (Edwards) 15394-5, 15430 (Jarvis) 15430 (Weisgerber) 15394-5
• Nexgen projects, job creation (Janssen) 13289
• Power line extension, Beattie family case (Edwards) 15443-4 (Neufeld) 15443-4
• Prices (Chisholm) 14221-2 (Clark) 13432-3
• Private power production (Edwards) 14152
• Projects, review process (Edwards) 14216-20 (Hurd) 14216-9
• Projects, social costing (Edwards) 14223-5 (Neufeld) 14223-5
• Retail wheeling (Clark) 16026
• Review of system (Hurd) 15987
• Storage of hydro power (Clark) 15986 (Evans) 13419-20
• Supply contracts (Edwards) 15429
• Supply in B.C. (Edwards) 15390, 15392-5 (Jarvis) 15390 (Weisgerber) 15392-5, 15398-9
• Tidal generation of power (Edwards) 14228 (Jarvis) 14228
• Transmission costs (Edwards) 15430 (Jarvis) 15430
• Transmission costs of Kootenay-generated power (Edwards) 15398 (Neufeld) 16326 (Weisgerber) 15398
• Transmission lines, cost (Edwards) 15392 (Jarvis) 15392
• Transmission lines, emissions (Clark) 16028-9 (Jarvis) 16028-9
• Vancouver Island consumption (Edwards) 15435 (Neufeld) 15435
• Water-generated power, costs (Edwards) 15432-3 (Neufeld) 15432-3
Eliesen, Marcus
• Pension and severance (Farrell-Collins) 14460
• Salary (Clark) 16029 (Jarvis) 16029
Elk
• Killing of elk in Kootenays (Sihota) 13930 (Warnke) 13930
• Radio-collar frequency, use by poachers (Cull) 16255 (Fox) 16256 (Warnke) 16254-5
• Research project in Kootenays, mortality rate (Cull) 16254 (Warnke) 16254-5
• Research project in Kootenays, results (Cull) 16254 (Warnke) 16254-5
• Roosevelt elk, protection (Serwa) 14199
Elk River, B.C.
• Removal of tires placed as erosion preventer (Cull) 16258 (Fox) 16257-8
Ellis, Doris
• Emergency response time case (Fox) 16323
ELUC. See Environment and Land Use Committee
Emergencies. See also Provincial emergency program

• Earthquakes. See Earthquakes
• Emergency response centre for Chilliwack (Chisholm) 13928-9 (Harcourt) 13929
• Emergency social services (Anderson) 14859 (MacPhail) 14859
• Federal role (Chisholm) 14115, 15102-3 (Pement) 15102-3 (Smallwood) 14115
• Preparedness and response (Chisholm) 15102-3 (Pement) 15102-3
• Preparedness, funding (Chisholm) 16480 (Harcourt) 16480
• Preparedness, overexpenditures (Dalton) 13155-6 (Gabelmann) 13155-6
• Preparedness, withdrawal of Canadian forces from B.C., impact (Chisholm) 13805-6, 13807, 14426, 14599 (Harcourt) 14426, 14599 (Perry) 13806-7
• Response outside community's jurisdiction, liability insurance (Pement) 15083 (Symons) 15083
• Response outside community's jurisdiction, responsibility for expenses (Pement) 15054 (Symons) 15054
• Response training for ambulance attendants (Jones, K.) 14777 (Ramsey) 14777
Emergency Health Services Commission
• Overexpenditures (Ramsey) 13162-3
Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan
• Exhibit (Barlee) 13441
Employee share ownership program
• Program (Barlee) 13490
Employment
• Affirmative action (Dosanjh) 16184 (Weisgerber) 16065, 16184 (Wilson) 16065, 16067
• Changes in meaning of work (Miller) 15612-3 (Tyabji) 14803, 15612-3 (Wilson) 14754-5, 14757
• Culture-related jobs (Barlee) 13440
• Employee leave entitlements (Farrell-Collins) 15802-3 (Miller) 15802-3 (Tyabji) 15802-3
• Employee leave entitlements, duties of employer (Miller) 15801
• Employee leave entitlements, jury duty (Farrell-Collins) 15803 (Miller) 15802-3 (Tyabji) 15802-3
• Employee leave entitlements, parental leave (Miller) 15800-1 (Tyabji) 15800-1
• Employee leave entitlements, pregnancy leave (Farrell-Collins) 15799-800 (Fox) 15799-800 (Miller) 15798-800 (Mitchell) 14723-4 (Tanner) 15800 (Tyabji) 14803, 15798-800
• Employee leave entitlements, unpaid leave (Clark) 14827
• Employee payroll records (Farrell-Collins) 15629 (Hanson) 15629-30 (Miller) 15629-31
• Employee records, retention requirement (Farrell-Collins) 15624-6 (Fox) 14796 (Miller) 15624-6 (Tyabji) 14817-8
• Employee rights, statement of rights displayed in workplace (Farrell-Collins) 15614-5 (Hanson) 15615 (Miller) 15615-6 (Tyabji) 15615-6 (Wilson) 15615
• Employee's place of work (Farrell-Collins) 15621-2 (Hanson) 15622 (Miller) 15621-2
• Employer-employee relations (de Jong, M.) 14729-30 (Miller) 15591-2 (Tyabji) 15591
• Employer-employee relations, regulation (Chisholm) 14799-800 (Clark) 14827 (Miller) 15612-3 (Mitchell) 14820-1 (Tanner) 14748 (Tyabji) 15612-3 (van Dongen) 14795
• Employers' rights (van Dongen) 14795
• Employment, comparison with self-employment (Miller) 15591 (Tyabji) 15591
• Employment equity. See also Human rights
• Employment equity during NDP administration (Dosanjh) 16063 (Lali) 16068
• Employment equity programs, use as remedy for discrimination (Anderson) 16233-4 (Dosanjh) 16063, 16232-4 (Neufeld) 16232 (Weisgerber) 16064-5, 16183-4
• Employment equity programs, use as remedy for discrimination, Reform Party position (Neufeld) 16232
• Employment standards. See also Employment Standards Act
• Employment standards review (Thompson report). See entries under Thompson, Mark
• Employment-bridging program (Anderson) 15354-5 (MacPhail) 15354-5
• Family-friendly workplaces, harmonization of work and family (Priddy) 13624 (Stephens) 13624
• Flexible work hours (Priddy) 16107
• Hours of work
  • excessive hours (Farrell-Collins) 15790-1 (Fox) 15792 (Jones, K.) 15791 (Miller) 15791-2 (Tyabji) 15792
  • flexible schedules (Farrell-Collins) 14719-20 (Fox) 14796-7 (Hanson) 14721 (Jarvis) 14825-6 (Neufeld) 14735
  • flexible schedules, approval process (Farrell-Collins) 15789-90 (Hanson) 15789 (Miller) 15788-90, 15827-9 (Tyabji) 15788-90
  • four-hour paid minimum (Farrell-Collins) 15627-8, 15787-8, 15790-1 (Miller) 15627-9, 15787-8, 15791 (Serwa) 15629 (Tyabji) 15787
  • notice requirement (Farrell-Collins) 15782, 15784-5 (Miller) 15782-5 (Serwa) 15783-4 (Tyabji) 15783 (van Dongen) 15783
  • overtime hours, banking of overtime wages (Farrell-Collins) 15793-4 (Miller) 15792-4 (Serwa) 15794 (Tyabji) 15792-4
  • split shifts (Chisholm) 15786-7 (Farrell-Collins) 15786 (Miller) 15786-7
• Jobs
  • future jobs (Hammell) 13288 (Jackson) 13244 (Reid) 13306-7
  • "good" jobs (Neufeld) 14751-2
  • job creation (Anderson) 14614 (Barlee) 13440-1, 13488, 13496, 15663 (Brewin) 13190 (Campbell) 13222 (Charbonneau) 13123-4 (Chisholm) 15734 (Clark) 13258 (Copping) 13203 (Cull) 13074-5 (Edwards) 13268 (Farnworth) 13319, 13716 (Harcourt) 13351, 16414 (Janssen) 13290 (Jones, B.) 13280 (Kasper) 13189 (Krog) 13101 (Lali) 13128, 13331-2 (MacPhail) 14614, 15734 (Miller) 13294 (Neufeld) 13041, 13248 (Pullinger) 13323 (Sawicki) 13320 (Schreck) 12997-8 (Simpson) 13296 (Tanner) 13718 (Zirnhelt) 13237
  • job creation and labour market regulation (Hanson) 14722
  • job creation by government-business partnerships (Throne speech) 12990
  • job creation by private sector (Cull) 13382-3
  • job creation incentives (Gingell) 13259
  • job creation strategy (Lovick) 13034
  • job loss (Jarvis) 13122
  • job loss during federal Liberal Party administration (Tyabji) 13212
  • jobs for B.C. workers (de Jong, M.) 13350-1 (Farnworth) 13118-9 (Harcourt) 13351 (Serwa) 14824 (Wilson) 14756
  • jobs for children and youth (Anderson) 14743-4 (Serwa) 14822-3
  • jobs for Skills Now program graduates (Jones, K.) 15362 (Miller) 15362
  • jobs for young employables (Farrell-Collins) 14717-8
  • jobs for youth (Barlee) 13488 (Gingell) 13488
  • jobs in small business sector (Barlee) 13440
  • job-sharing (Miller) 15613 (Wilson) 15613
  • part-time jobs (Campbell) 16417 (Farrell-Collins) 14719 (Jarvis) 13262
  • skills-based jobs (Miller) 15476
  • technical jobs (Jones, K.) 14277 (Miller) 14277-8
• Local hiring (Clark) 14194 (Fox) 14194
• Protective clothing for employees (Neufeld) 14752
• Right to employment (Randall) 13335
• Right-to-work legislation (Pullinger) 13273
• Severance arrangements (Clark) 15907
• Sexual harassment in workplace (Priddy) 13623 (Stephens) 13623
• Single mothers in workforce (Neufeld) 14735
• Statutory holidays (Wilson) 15613
• Statutory holidays and unpaid leave (de Jong, M.) 14731 (Streifel) 14732-3
• Termination of employment, notice requirements (Farrell-Collins) 15804-5 (Miller) 15804-5
Employment and Investment, Ministry of
• Estimates 15854-77, 15904-22, 15947-70, 15983-93, 16020-39, 16070-97, 16107-18, 16387-403, 16385-6
• Estimates, speakers (Blasetti) 15854, 15965, 15969 (Brown) 16073 (Chisholm) 15866, 15967-8 (Clark) 15854-77, 15904-21, 15947-70, 15983-93, 16020-39, 16070-97, 16107-18, 16386-403 (Corrigan) 15861-2, 15905-6, 15915, 15917 (Farrell-Collins) 16386 (George) 16391, 16394, 16396 (Gingell) 15864-5, 15868-9, 15913, 15920-1, 15950-61, 16387-90 (Hammell) 15864-5, 15868-9, 15913, 15920-1, 15950-61, 16387-90 (Hanson) 15919, 16077-81 (Hibbins) 15958 (Hurd) 15983-7, 16030-7, 16401-3 (Jarvis) 15908-9, 15985, 16025-31 (Jones, K.) 15909-12, 15968-70, 16082, 16091-7, 16108-18 (Krowchuk) 15905 (Mitchell) 16020-4, 16385-6 (Neufeld) 15855-6, 15863-5 (Peel) 16037 (Redlin) 15955 (Reid) 16386-7, 16390-7 (Rhodes) 16073, 16077, 16085-90 (Schreck) 16389, 16392, 16401 (Sheehan) 15984-5, 16029-30 (Sivertson) 16033-4 (Symons) 15854-63, 15865-77, 15905-10, 15912-22, 15947-50, 15952, 15955-9, 15961, 16037-9, 16070-6, 16081-90, 16397-401 (Tanner) 16079-80 (Truss) 16094, 16097 (Tyabji) 15962-7 (Ward) 16077, 16081, 16083-4 (Weisgerber) 15987-93
• Contracts, tendering policy (Clark) 13045-6, 13069, 13109 (Farrell-Collins) 13045 (Gingell) 13109
Employment Standards Act
• (Bill 29) (Minister of Skills, Training and Labour) 1R, 14469-70; 2R, 14712-57, 14791-803, 14817-27; C, 15588-92, 15611-34, 15782-805, 15827-48; 3R, 16000; RA, 16513
• Amdts: 2R (Farrell-Collins) 14720, negatived 14747-8; sec. 1 (Miller) 15588, approved 15589; sec. 22 (Wilson) 15623, negatived 15624; sec. 28 (Miller) 15629, approved 15629; sec. 29 (Miller) 15848, approved 15848; sec. 30 (Tyabji) 15633, negatived 15634; sec. 31 (Miller) 15782, approved 15782; sec. 34 (Miller) 15787, approved 15787; sec. 38 (Miller) 15790, approved 15790; sec. 42 (Tyabji) (two amdts) 15792, 15793, negatived 15793, 15794; sec. 43 (Miller) 15794, approved 15794; sec. 45 (Miller) 15796, approved 15796; sec. 49 (Miller) 15797-8, approved 15798; sec. 50 (Miller) 15798, approved 15798, (Tyabji) 15798, negatived 15800; sec. 51 (Tyabji) 15800, negatived 15801; sec. 54 (Miller) 15801, approved 15801; sec. 55 (Miller) 15801, approved 15802; sec 56.1 (Tyabji) 15802, negatived 15803; sec. 61 (Miller) 15803, approved 15803; sec. 62 (Miller) 15803, approved 15803; sec. 63 (Miller) 15803, approved 15804; sec. 70 (Miller) 15827, approved 15827; sec. 73 (Fox) 15829, approved 15830; sec. 83 (Fox) 15837, negatived 15838; sec. 87 (Miller) 15839, approved 15839; sec. 88 (Miller) 15839, approved 15839; sec. 119 (Miller) 15847, approved 15847
• Divisions: amdt. to 2R negatived 14747-8; 2R approved 14827; amdt. to sec. 30 negatived 15634; 3R approved 16000
• Speakers (Anderson) 14742-5 (Chisholm) 14799-800, 15786-7 (Clark) 14826-7 (de Jong, M.) 14728-31 (Farrell-Collins) 14715-20, 15588-9, 15611, 15614-22, 15624-9, 15631, 15633, 15782, 15784-96, 15799-805, 15827-32, 15840-5 (Fox) 15792, 15796-7, 15799-800, 15829-30, 15832, 15835-8, 15844 (Garden) 14741-2, 14750-1 (Giesbrecht) 14753 (Gingell) 14736-7 (Hanson) 14720-2, 15611, 15615, 15619-20, 15622-3, 15629-30, 15632, 15789 (Hurd) 14791-5 (Jarvis) 14825-6 (Jones, K.) 15791 (Kasper) 14800-2 (Miller) 14469-70, 14712-7, 14724, 14745-7, 15588-92, 15611-34, 15782-805, 15827-48 (Mitchell) 14722-4, 14820-1 (Neufeld) 14734-6, 14751-4 (Pullinger) 14724-8 (Randall) 14826 (Serwa) 14821-4, 15629-32, 15783-5, 15794-7, 15842 (Sihota) 14797-9 (Stephens) 14740-1 (Streifel) 14731-4, 14803 (Tanner) 14748-9, 15800 (Tyabji) 14735, 14802-3, 14817-20, 15589-91, 15612-9, 15621, 15627-9, 15633-4, 15783, 15786-94, 15798-804, 15830-40, 15842-7 (van Dongen) 14795-7, 15783, 15792 (Warnke) 14824-5 (Wilson) 14737-40, 14754-7, 15589, 15613, 15615, 15617-8, 15621, 15623-4, 15634
• Appeal provisions (Tyabji) 14819-20
• Awareness of act, promotion (Farrell-Collins) 15614 (Miller) 15614 (Tyabji) 15613-4
• Comparison with existing legislation (Clark) 14826-7 (Miller) 15848 (Tyabji) 15847 (Wilson) 14737-8
• Construction, definition (Farrell-Collins) 15589 (Miller) 15589
• Consultations (Anderson) 14742-3, 14745 (Chisholm) 14799 (Kasper) 14800-1 (Miller) 14712-3, 14747 (Mitchell) 14722-3 (Neufeld) 14734-5, 14753-4 (Pullinger) 14726 (Streifel) 14731
• Debate on bill (Dalton) 14836
• Employee, definition (Hanson) 15611 (Miller) 15590-1, 15611 (Tyabji) 15590-1
• Farm labour contractor, definition (Miller) 15589 (Wilson) 15589
• Hours of work, notice provisions (Farrell-Collins) 15782, 15784-5 (Miller) 15782-4 (Serwa) 15783-4 (Tyabji) 15783 (van Dongen) 15783
• Immediate family, definition (Miller) 15588
• Leave provisions, inclusion in collective agreements (Farrell-Collins) 15803 (Miller) 15802-3 (Tyabji) 15802-3
• Leave provisions, jury duty (Gabelmann) 15173-4 (Tyabji) 15173-4
• Monetary penalties provisions (Farrell-Collins) 15842-3 (Miller) 15843 (Tyabji) 15842-3
• Opting out of particular provisions (Farrell-Collins) 16914
• Party positions on bill (Wilson) 14738, 14740
• Plain language, use in bill (Miller) 14713, 15590-2
• Provisions to meet or exceed collective agreements (Farrell-Collins) 15794-5 (Miller) 15795, 15797-8, 15803 (Tyabji) 15802
• Registry provision, workers in private residences (Farrell-Collins) 15621-2 (Hanson) 15622 (Miller) 15621-2
• Regular wage, definition (Miller) 15590 (Tyabji) 15590 (Wilson) 14739
• Regulations (Farrell-Collins) 14717 (Fox) 14797 (Stephens) 14740
• Regulations, availability (Farrell-Collins) 15589, 15611 (Miller) 15589, 15611-2
• Review provisions (Farrell-Collins) 15616-7 (Miller) 15616-7 (Tyabji) 14803, 15617 (Wilson) 15617
• Tabling of bill, timing (de Jong, M.) 14728-31 (Farrell-Collins) 14715-7 (Gingell) 14736-7 (Hanson) 14721 (Neufeld) 14735-6 (Tanner) 14748
• Temporary layoff, definition (Miller) 15588
• Termination pay, definition (Miller) 15588-9
• Termination provisions (Farrell-Collins) 15804-5 (Miller) 15803-5, 15827
• Time requirement for keeping of records (Farrell-Collins) 15624-6 (Miller) 15624-6
• Variances (Farrell-Collins) 15827-31 (Fox) 15829-30 (Miller) 15827-31 (Tyabji) 15830-1
• Wages assignment provision (Miller) 15623-4 (Wilson) 15623-4
• Waiving of requirements of act (Miller) 15612-3 (Tyabji) 15612-3
• Week of layoff, definition (Miller) 15803
• Workplace, definition, absence of definition (Tyabji) 15615
• Workplace search and seizure provisions (Miller) 15839 (Tyabji) 15838-9
Employment standards branch
• Complaints, third-party complaints (Farrell-Collins) 15831-2 (Miller) 15831-2
• Complaints, time limit issues (Miller) 15832-5 (Tyabji) 15832-5
• Complaints, vexatious complaints (Fox) 15836-8 (Miller) 15836-8 (Tyabji) 15837-8
• Determinations by director (Miller) 15836 (Tyabji) 15836
• Director's liability (Wilson) 14757
• Director's powers (Tyabji) 14818-20, 15831, 15835-6, 15843-4 (Wilson) 14739
• Evidence used in other proceedings (Miller) 15847 (Tyabji) 15847
• Imposition of penalties on violators (Farrell-Collins) 15843 (Miller) 15843 (Tyabji) 15843-4
• Investigation of workplace variance applications (Farrell-Collins) 15830 (Fox) 15829-30 (Miller) 15829-30 (Tyabji) 15830
• Investigation where no complaint filed (Fox) 15835-6 (Miller) 15836
Employment Standards Exclusion Act
• (Bill M224) (Farrell-Collins) 1R, 16914
• Speakers (Farrell-Collins) 16914
Employment Standards Tribunal
• Appeals (Miller) 15844-6 (Tyabji) 15844-6
• Appointments (Fox) 15844 (Miller) 15844
• Establishment (Farrell-Collins) 15846-7 (Miller) 14715
• Powers (Farrell-Collins) 15845 (Miller) 15847 (Serwa) 14823 (Tyabji) 14818-20, 15847
• Tribunal, comparison with Labour Relations Board (Farrell-Collins) 15844 (Miller) 15844-5 (Tyabji) 15844
End Legislated Poverty
• The Long Haul report on Premier's skills summit (Anderson) 15665
Endangered Species Act (U.S.)
• Pre-eminence over international treaty (Clark) 16032
Energy Council of British Columbia
• Chairman's contract (Farrell-Collins) 14460
• Levies, legal action to recover (Edwards) 13181 (Jarvis) 13181
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Ministry of
• Estimates 14151-68, 14181-90, 14215-32, 15389-99, 15429-45, 16326-8
• Estimates, speakers (Chisholm) 14220-2 (Edwards) 14151-68, 14181-90, 14215-32, 15389-99, 15429-45, 16327-8 (Garden) 14188-9 (Gingell) 14159-61, 14163, 15439-40 (Hurd) 14215-20, 15435-9 (Jarvis) 14154-5, 14158-9, 14163-7, 14181-4, 14225-8, 14232, 15389-92, 15429-32, 15445, 16326-7 (Neufeld) 14158-9, 14161-3, 14167-8, 14184-90, 14222-5, 14229-32, 15432-5, 15440-5, 16326 (Schreck) 15391 (Weisgerber) 15392-9
• Accountability (Edwards) 14071-2
• Activities, oil and gas sector (Edwards) 14152-3, 14156
• Annual report, 1993-94, tabled (Edwards) 15112
• Annual report, timeliness (Edwards) 14163 (Gingell) 14163
• Forest Practices Code implementation, staff (Neufeld) 16198-9
• Fort St. John office (Edwards) 15442 (Neufeld) 15442
• Internal operations (Edwards) 14154
• Mineral extraction sites, responsibility of ministry (Edwards) 15204
• Mineral resources, jurisdiction (Edwards) 15204-5 (Hurd) 15204-5
• Minister to receive notice of free miner certificate cancellations (Edwards) 15520-1 (Tyabji) 15520-1
• Minister's powers to act in the public interest (Edwards) 16573-4, 16576-8 (Jarvis) 16573-4, 16577-8 (Wilson) 16576-7
• Minister's powers to act in the public interest, due diligence principle (Edwards) 16580 (Jarvis) 16580
• Minister's role in development of mining industry (Tyabji) 16581
• Ministry vehicles, natural-gas-powered vehicles (Edwards) 14159 (Neufeld) 14159
• Performance measurement (Edwards) 14157-8
• Productivity standards (Edwards) 14163 (Gingell) 14163
• Programs (Jarvis) 14155
• Provincial emergency program, participation (Chisholm) 14220-1 (Edwards) 14220-1
• Responsibilities (Jarvis) 16327
• Role in Columbia basin energy projects (Edwards) 14218 (Hurd) 14218-19
• Staff acknowledged (Edwards) 16327
• Staff, international work (Edwards) 14189-90 (Neufeld) 14189-90
• Staffing (Edwards) 14155, 14158 (Jarvis) 14154-5, 14158 (Neufeld) 14158
• Strategic priorities (Edwards) 14155-7
• Trade mission to Asia (Edwards) 14230 (Neufeld) 14230
• Work (Edwards) 14154
Energy resources
• Energy consumption in B.C. (Edwards) 15392-5 (Weisgerber) 15392-5
• Energy efficiency standards (Edwards) 14151-2, 15439, 16327-8 (Gingell) 15439-40
• Energy plan for province (Edwards) 13352, 14151
• Energy policy development (Edwards) 14229 (Neufeld) 14229
• Energy savings, role of national energy code (Edwards) 14152, 16327
• Industries, private-public partnerships (Harcourt) 13043-4
• Industries, role in economy (Jarvis) 16327
• Projects (Edwards) 14155-6
• Stewardship (Edwards) 14155-6
• Supply forecast (Edwards) 15390, 15392-5 (Jarvis) 15390 (Weisgerber) 15392-5
• Use, environmentally clean practices (Edwards) 15439-40 (Gingell) 15439-40
English-as-a-second-language program
• Adult programs (Charbonneau) 13751-2
• B.C. Teachers' Federation research report cited (Stephens) 13792
• Course materials, schools' role (Anderson) 13752 (Charbonneau) 13752-3
• Facilities, access (Anderson) 13752
• Family participation in schools (Anderson) 13752 (Charbonneau) 13752
• Funding (Charbonneau) 13792 (Stephens) 13792
• Privatization, funding (Dosanjh) 13169
• Program (Charbonneau) 13792 (Stephens) 13792
• Volunteer assistants (Anderson) 13752 (Charbonneau) 13752
Enquiry B.C.
• Operations (Dosanjh) 16314-6 (Jones, K.) 16314-6
Environment
• Consortium of environmental companies for work with Asia (Harcourt) 16453
• Environmental cleanup technology (Hurd) 13801
• Environmental cleanups, payment (Tyabji) 13153
• Environmental consciousness (Perry) 13766-7
• Environmental health, sewage disposal system failures (Fox) 14769-70 (Ramsey) 14767-8, 14770 (van Dongen) 14767-8
• Environmental integrity (Sihota) 14559-61
• Environmental legislation, applicability to projects on Indian lands (Cashore) 13083 (Sihota) 13083 (Wilson) 13083, 13100
• Environmental protection
  • biodiversity protection (Sihota) 13917, 13919
  • economic sustainability and environmental protection (Farnworth) 14025-6 (Warnke) 14025-6
  • environmentally sensitive areas (Hagen) 13769
  • environmentally sensitive areas, NDP action (Sawicki) 13780
  • European situation (Serwa) 16715-6
  • farming practices (Tyabji) 14680-1
  • Gordon Campbell's position (Sihota) 13918
  • importance for future (Sihota) 14684-8
  • Liberal Party position (Cull) 16326
  • measures during Social Credit Party administration (Serwa) 16716
  • NDP action (Cull) 16325-6 (de Jong, M.) 16325 (Fox) 13922 (Neufeld) 16324 (Perry) 13308 (Serwa) 13952-3 (Sihota) 13776-7, 13917-9, 13961
  • protection (Brewin) 13191 (Cull) 16687, 16689 (Perry) 13237, 13308
  • standards (Clark) 13651 (de Jong, M.) 13651 (Sihota) 14798
  • standards, enforcement (Cull) 16155 (de Jong, M.) 16155
• Environmental testing lab, establishment (Harcourt) 16483-4
• Indian lands, environmental standards (Cashore) 13998-9 (Wilson) 13998-9
• Stewardship initiatives (Sawicki) 13320
• Stream protection in urban areas (Sihota) 13919
• Sustainable environment fund, reduction (Serwa) 13818
• Sustainable environment fund, tire recycling revenue (Cull) 16159 (Fox) 16159
• Water exports, impact (Sihota) 14829
Environment and Land Use Committee
• Tourism minister's participation (Serwa) 13831
Environment, Lands and Parks, Ministry of
• Estimates
  • 13917-26, 13947-61, 16146-62, 16188-205, 16218-27, 16253-72
• Estimates, speakers (Chisholm) 16218-26, 16253-4 (Cull) 16146-62, 16188-205, 16219-27, 16254-72 (de Jong, M.) 16150-9, 16188-94, 16265-71, 16519-61 (Evans) 16226-7 (Fox) 13922, 16159, 16256-61 (Garden) 13961 (Gingell) 13957-61 (Hurd) 13920-6, 13947-52, 13954-7, 16146-50 (Jarvis) 16264-5 (Jones, K.) 16272 (Lortie) 13958 (Mitchell) 16261-3 (Neufeld) 16191-2, 16194-200 (Perry) 16201 (Stephens) 16204-5, 16272 (Tyabji) 16269 (Warnke) 16254-6 (Weisgerber) 16203-4 (Wilson) 16200-2
• Aboriginal issues, handling (de Jong, M.) 16154-5
• Annual report, 1992-93, tabled (Sihota) 13886
• Application-processing time (Sihota) 13959
• Audits (Gingell) 13958-9 (Sihota) 13958-9
• Centralization (Cull) 16152 (de Jong, M.) 16152
• Communications (Cull) 16152-4 (de Jong, M.) 16152-4
• Environmental protection department (Cull) 16150-1 (de Jong, M.) 16150-1
• Forest Practices Code implementation, staff (Cull) 16198-9 (Neufeld) 16198-9
• Issues re Indians, handling (Cull) 16154-5
• Lands branch
  • Aboriginal Affairs ministry, liaison (Hurd) 13948 (Sihota) 13948
  • aboriginal land issues, handling (Hurd) 13948 (Sihota) 13948, 13952
  • Crown land activities, interministry process, delays (Hurd) 13949-50 (Sihota) 13949-50
  • Crown land sale and lease applications (Hurd) 13950 (Sihota) 13950
  • evaluations (Hurd) 13949 (Sihota) 13949
  • performance (Hurd) 13948, 13952 (Sihota) 13948, 13952
  • staff (Hurd) 13948-9, 13951-2 (Sihota) 13948-9, 13951-2
• Management efficiencies (Cull) 16156 (de Jong, M.) 16156
• Mineral resources, jurisdiction (Edwards) 15202-3 (Hurd) 15204-5 (Wilson) 15202-3
• Parks branch
  • efficiency (Sihota) 13959
  • regional operations, elimination (Cull) 16156-7 (de Jong, M.) 16157 (Sihota) 13954-5, 13958
  • staff, funding (Hurd) 13955-6 (Sihota) 13955-6
  • staff reductions (Hurd) 13955
• Performance (Cull) 16151-2 (de Jong, M.) 16151 (Garden) 13961
• Program evaluation unit (Cull) 16156 (de Jong, M.) 16156
• Staff (Cull) 16151-3, 16199 (de Jong, M.) 16151-3
• Staff thanked (Sihota) 13920
• Staff workload (Cull) 16325
Environment Week
• Results (Cull) 16192-3 (de Jong, M.) 16192-3
Environmental Assessment Act
• Assessment requirements (Cull) 16540 (Weisgerber) 16540
• Implementation, staff requirements (de Jong, M.) 16271
Erola, Judy
• Role as pharmaceutical industry spokesperson (Schreck) 14629
Eskay Creek mine
• Claim establishment cited (Edwards) 16590
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway
• Passenger service, responsibility for Vancouver Island service (Clark) 16401 (Symons) 15044, 16401
• Right-of-way protection, legislation (Pullinger) 16651
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Right-of-Way Protection Act 1995
• (Bill M213) (Pullinger) 1R, 16651
• Speakers (Pullinger) 16651
Estimates of expenditures
• Debate length (Clark) 15459-60
• Estimates of individual ministries. See ministries by name
• Referral to Committee of Supply moved (Cull) 13073
Ethanol
• Benefits (Chisholm) 14221, 15880, 16219-20 (Edwards) 14221
• Industry, support (Weisgerber) 16481
• Industry, support for production facilities (Chisholm) 16219
• Use in gasoline, private member's bill re required use (Chisholm) 16219, 16222, 16480-1 (Harcourt) 16481
• Use in gasoline, private member's bill re required use, inclusion in federal government's Green Plan (Chisholm) 13380
• Use in gasoline, taxation (Cull) 16219
Ethics
• Ethical issues in health care (Ramsey) 14387-9 (Reid) 14387-8
Evans, Corky (Nelson-Creston)
• Agriculture industry advocates on municipal councils 14652
• Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14419-22, 14493-5
• Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of understanding with B.C. 14268-9
• B.C. Hydro dams, payment of taxes 13416-8
• Burton park, volunteer construction 13754
• Burton school gym, construction 13754
• Canadian cultural identity 13575
• Columbia Basin Trust, accountability 13470
• Columbia Basin Trust Act 13416-22, 13469-70, 13479-80
• Columbia Basin Trust, administrative funding 13420
• Columbia Basin Trust dam construction projects, job creation 13421
• Columbia Basin Trust, establishment 13416, 13419-22
• Columbia Basin Trust, initial investment from government 13420
• Columbia Basin Trust, Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council board participation 13503
• Columbia Basin Trust, power generation to provide negotiation rights 13421
• Columbia Basin Trust, prescribed purposes of corporation 13479-80
• Columbia Basin Trust, representation on board 13470
• Columbia Basin Trust, revenue, disposition 13421
• Columbia River accord, Liberal Party position 13174
• Columbia River accord, Reform Party position 13174
• Columbia River downstream benefit entitlement, renegotiation 14268-9
• Columbia River Treaty 14420-2
• Columbia River Treaty Committee, negotiations with government 13420
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, allocation of revenue 13174
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, Columbia-Kootenay region share 13420
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, disposition 13418-9
• Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, NDP government handling 13417, 13419-22
• Columbia River Treaty, generating capacity as entitlement 13420
• Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region 13416-8
• Columbia River Treaty, public input 13419
• Columbia River Treaty, Social Credit Party government action 13418
• Commission on Resources and Environment process, environmentalists' role 16701-2
• Creston Valley wildlife management area, funding 16226-7
• Creston Valley wildlife management area, governance 16227
• Crown corporations, privatization, Liberal Party position 14494
• Cultural diversity and community 13575
• Dams, activation under Columbia River accord 13174
• Democracy, social democratic ideals 13575
• Education ministry, estimates 13732, 13754-6
• Electric power, storage of hydro power 13419-20
• Electricity, cost 13174
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 16226-7
• Farm operations as business 14650-2
• Farm Practices Board, role as mediator 14651-2
• Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 14650-3
• Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, consultation 14651
• Farming, normal farm practices 14651
• Farming, right to farm 14650-2
• Keenleyside Dam, activation 13174-5
• Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council, participation in Columbia Basin Trust 13420
• Land use, areas set aside for preservation, 12 percent figure 16701
• Legislature, disturbance during 1993 throne speech 16701
• Legislature, operating costs 16978
• Lucerne school construction, project management 13755
• Meeting with B.C. Hydro president 13419
• MLAs' compensation 16978-9
• MLAs' pensions 16977-9
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16977-9
• Municipal Act, amendments 14652
• Municipalities, farm regulatory bylaws 14652
• Nelson-Creston constituency, political representation 16702
• North American Free Trade Agreement and water exports 14268
• Park Amendment Act (1995) 16700-3
• Political process, public trust 16978
• Real estate agents, disclosure requirements, sales of rural land 14652
• School construction by community volunteers 13732, 13754
• School construction, general contractor and project management 13755-6
• Speech commended (Mitchell) 16703
• U.S. continental objectives 14269-70
• U.S. socioeconomic conditions 13575
• Vancouver hydro costs, increase to compensate Columbia-Kootenay region for Columbia River Treaty impact on region 13417
• Vancouver Island land use plan 16702
• Water exports 14268
• Water levels in lakes, setting 13175
• Water Protection Act 14268-70
• Water Protection Act and cancellation of Bonneville Power Administration agreement 14269
• Water, sharing of resource with U.S. 14268-9
• World Commission on Environment and Development report, 12 percent set-aside figure 16701
Everywoman's Health Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
• Anti-abortion protests (Smallwood) 16007-8
Evidence Act
• Amendments (Gabelmann) 15001
Exell, Oksana
• Position with B.C. Trade Development Corporation (Harcourt) 16445
Explore B.C. program
• Program (Edwards) 14153
Export Council of Canadian Architecture
• Strategic alliance (Harcourt) 16478
Export trade
• Asia trade (Harcourt) 16447, 16453
• Asia, trade mission (Edwards) 14230 (Harcourt) 16406 (Neufeld) 14230
• Asia-Pacific trade (Sihota) 13108-9
• B.C. exports (Harcourt) 16406
• B.C. exports, growth (Gingell) 13093
• Bulk water exports (Clark) 14834 (Cull) 14263, 15239 (de Jong, M.) 14263-4, 15241-3 (Hurd) 14556 (Jarvis) 15239 (Mitchell) 14264-7 (Perry) 14829 (Serwa) 14831-2 (Weisgerber) 14267-8 (Wilson) 14270-1
• Canada-U.S. issues (Harcourt) 16446-7
• Consortium of environmental companies for work with Asia (Harcourt) 16453
• Free trade in North America (Giesbrecht) 14891
• Increase (Serwa) 13284
• India, trade initiatives (Harcourt) 16452 (Wilson) 16452
• Interjurisdictional arrangements (Clark) 13759 (de Jong, M.) 13350-1, 13759 (Harcourt) 13351, 13759-60
• International agreements, constitutional issues (Clark) 15259-60 (Sihota) 14828-9
• Interprovincial trade barriers (Chisholm) 16479-80 (Harcourt) 16479-80
• Oil and natural gas products (Edwards) 14156
• Opportunities in Asia (Harcourt) 16453
• Strategic alliances between B.C. and other jurisdictions (Harcourt) 16453, 16476-9
• Trade and human rights issues (Anderson) 13217-8, 13313 (Clark) 13217 (Harcourt) 13218, 13313
• Trade missions by Hon. Michael Harcourt, impact (Cull) 13078
• Trading patterns, diversification (Sihota) 13196
Expropriation Act
• Amendments (Gabelmann) 14998
Eye Bank of British Columbia
• Role (Ramsey) 14383 (Reid) 14383

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