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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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Hansard Sittings by Page Number

Saanich Inlet

Environmental impact analysis (Kasper) 13746

Saanich News,

Quoted re release of confidential information by police (Mitchell) 13639-40

SAFER program.

See

Safety

Community initiatives (Dalton) 13540-1
Community safety (Dalton) 13302-3 (Farnworth) 13303-4 (Warnke) 13311
Personal safety, mace/pepper spray use (Serwa) 13697-8
Public safety (Dalton) 13022, 13606-7 (Gabelmann) 13148, 13549 (Jones, K.) 13549 (Mitchell) 13660
Public safety, federal role (Dalton) 13540
Public safety issues, funding (Mitchell) 13147
Public safety officer pilot project (Gabelmann) 13584
Safety in the workplace. See Industrial accidents under main heading Accidents
World conference on community safety (Dalton) 13303

St. Ann's Academy, Victoria, B.C.

Auditorium renovations, cost (Jones, K.) 16094 (Truss) 16094
Heritage value (Jones, K.) 16094 (Truss) 16094
Restoration (Clark) 16090, 16094-5 (Jones, K.) 16094-5
Restoration, public input (Clark) 16095

St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.

Medical specializations (Ramsey) 14562 (Reid) 14562
Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, cooperative projects (Dalton) 13804 (Simpson) 13803-4
Wait-lists (Perry) 13163-4

St. Petersburg, Russia

Land registry project (Gingell) 16477, 16479 (Harcourt) 16477, 16747 (Hurd) 13695, 16294 (Weisgerber) 16747

Sales

Direct sellers (de Jong, M.) 14016 (Hanson) 14018 (Smallwood) 13975, 14015, 15307
Negative-option legislation elsewhere (Mitchell) 15023 (Smallwood) 15023, 15025
Negative-option legislation, enforceability (Mitchell) 15022-3 (Smallwood) 15023
Negative-option legislation, provisions for services and goods (Mitchell) 15022 (Smallwood) 15022, 15025
Negative-option offers, disclosure requirements (Dalton) 15025-6 (Smallwood) 14835, 15025-6
Negative-option offers, disclosure requirements, industry position (Mitchell) 15024-5 (Smallwood) 15024-5
Negative-option sales (Hanson) 14836 (Jarvis) 14836 (Mitchell) 15022 (Smallwood) 14835
Negative-option sales, refunds on payments (Smallwood) 14663, 14835
Time-share contracts (Jarvis) 14836-7 (Smallwood) 14663, 14835
Time-share contracts, model form (Mitchell) 15021 (Smallwood) 15021
Time-share contracts, right to cancel (Mitchell) 15021

Sales tax

Collection agencies, single agency for federal and provincial taxes (Harcourt) 16472, 16484
Exemption for customized software (Gingell) 13899
Fuel tax within Greater Vancouver Regional District (Cull) 15781-2 (Gingell) 15780-2
Goods and services tax, public reaction (Cull) 15154
Harmonization of goods and services tax and provincial sales tax (Harcourt) 16484 (Wilson) 16471-2
Legal services tax (Dalton) 13146 (Gabelmann) 13146-7, 13153 (Tyabji) 13153
Legal services tax, Attorney General ministry expenditures (Gabelmann) 13140, 13150 (Jones, K.) 13150
Liberal Party position (Cull) 15142
Provincial sales tax, electronic remittance (Cull) 15138
Provincial sales tax, impact on agriculture industry (Chisholm) 15187-8 (Cull) 15187-8
Reusable containers, tax on purchases (Cull) 15940, 16330-1 (Gingell) 16330-1 (Neufeld) 16330-1
Revenues (Cull) 15155 (Mitchell) 15155

Salmo, B.C.

Community challenge (Conroy) 13262

Salmonid enhancement program

Program (Chisholm) 13200

Salvation Army

Health care facilities operators (Ramsey) 14530 (Reid) 14530

Sam Green case.

See

San Juan River, B.C.

Bridge (Symons) 13815

Sarich, Anthony

Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry. See name of inquiry

Saskatchewan

Debt per capita (Miller) 13292
Tourist authority (Barlee) 13451-2 (Tanner) 13451-2

Saturna Island, B.C.

Subdivision, road access (Pement) 14942 (Symons) 14942

Savary Island, B.C.

Lot-size and highway rights-of-way issues (Gabelmann) 15199 (Wilson) 15199

Savings bonds.

See

Sawicki, Joan (Burnaby-Willingdon)

Address in Reply 13319-21
Adoption, access to adoption records 16133-4
Adoption Act 16133-4
Adoption, child's best interests, placement of children in same-sex families 16133
Adoption, private adoptions 16133
Alcohol abuse prevention, government funding 14896
Alcoholic beverage containers, health risk warning labels 13321, 14896-7
Alcoholic beverage containers, health risk warning labels, petition tabled 14893
B.C., population growth 13778-9
Coalition for Warning Labels on Alcohol Containers, members 14896
Community charters, Gordon Campbell's position 13780-1
Environmental stewardship initiatives 13320
Environmentally sensitive areas, protection, NDP government action 13780
Fetal alcohol syndrome, costs 13321
Fetal alcohol syndrome, incidence 14896
Fetal alcohol syndrome, prevention 14897
Fetal alcohol syndrome, social services for families 14897
Georgia Basin, growth in area, issues 13779-80
Georgia Basin, growth in area, NDP government action 13781
Georgia Basin initiative 13780, 16890
Gilmore, Joy, promotion of prenatal health awareness 14896
Government role in society 13320
Government spending cuts, social costs 13321
Growth management, local government autonomy 13781
Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 13778-81
Health care, private services, medical industry support 13321
Job creation 13320
Jobs and investment strategy 13320
Land use, areas set aside for preservation 16889-90
Land use plans for province 13320
Land use strategy, legacy for future 16890
Legislative process, reform 16742-3
Marzari, Hon. Darlene, commended for work on growth management legislation 13778, 13780
Medicare system, protection 13320-1
Municipalities, amalgamations 13781
Natural resources, investments by government 13320
NDP government vision 13320-1
Park Amendment Act (1995) 16889-90
Parliamentary Calendar Act (1995) 16742-3
Regional growth strategies, cooperation among regional districts, municipalities and province 13778
Regional growth strategies, dispute resolution mechanism 13780
Regional growth strategies legislation, need 13778, 13780-1
Rivers, protection of rivers and streams 13320
Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, recommendations, NDP government action 13781
Social well-being 13320-1
Tourism Act 13834
Tourism Act, Council of Tourism Associations position 13834
Tourism industry 13834
Tourism ministry, role in land use planning and resource management 13834
Urban sprawl 13779
Vancouver Island, amalgamation of southern communities 13781
Victim assistance program, Burnaby 15934
Victims of Crime Act 15934
Victims of crime, culturally sensitive services 15934
Washington, environmental issues, cooperation with B.C. 13780

Scarfe, Brian

Review of timber pricing system (Petter) 14917-8, 14925, 15407
Review of timber pricing system, report quoted (Neufeld) 14922

Scarth, William

Decision on fair-wage policy (Reid) 13853

Schaefer, Jacee

Role in Abbotsford by-election (Mitchell) 16778

Schmidheiny, Stephan

St. Petersburg project (Harcourt) 16477

School Act

Amendments (Charbonneau) 14233 (Cull) 13080, 13711 (Wilson) 13821
Amendments re other professional organization for teachers (Stephens) 13725-6
Amendments re school site acquisitions (Charbonneau) 14709, 14960

School boards/districts

Accountability (Dalton) 15166
Administration costs (Serwa) 13911
Administration costs, limits (Charbonneau) 13854 (Hurd) 13853-4
Administrators, compensation and sick leave (Charbonneau) 13848 (Sihota) 13848
Administrators returning to teaching positions, re-entrance to union (Charbonneau) 13881 (Fox) 13880-1, 13908 (Serwa) 13909-10
Administrators returning to teaching positions, seniority issue (Charbonneau) 13859 (Fox) 13858-9, 13880-1, 13908, 13915
Administrators, training (Charbonneau) 13790 (Stephens) 13790
Annual reports, auditor general's recommendations, action (Charbonneau) 13917 (Hurd) 13917
Annual reports, standardization (Charbonneau) 13917 (Hurd) 13917
Autonomy of boards (Charbonneau) 15157 (Dalton) 15157-8 (Fox) 14954 (Stephens) 14954, 15225-6
Budget management (Charbonneau) 13733 (Chisholm) 13733
Budgeting, minister's powers (Anderson) 15160-1 (Charbonneau) 15160-1 (Dalton) 15160, 15164 (Fox) 15161 (Reid) 15162 (Tyabji) 14958
Capital funding, unspent portion reverting to province (Charbonneau) 13793 (Stephens) 13792
Capital planning agreements with local governments (Charbonneau) 14960, 15168-70 (Fox) 15169 (Reid) 14964, 15167, 15172 (Stephens) 14960-1
Capital reserves (Charbonneau) 13877-8 (Fox) 13877 (Reid) 15168, 15172 (Serwa) 15168
Cooperation with municipalities re growth strategies legislation and school site acquisitions (Charbonneau) 13878 (Fox) 13878
Executive compensation review (Charbonneau) 13790
Financial disclosure requirements for departed employees (Fox) 15198 (Gabelmann) 15198
Financial disclosure requirements for officials, filing times (Gabelmann) 15001, 15198
French school board (Charbonneau) 13794 (Stephens) 13794
Number (Tyabji) 13213
Number, reduction and amalgamation (Campbell) 13220, 13222 (Charbonneau) 13314, 13727-8 (Dalton) 14956 (Fox) 13727-8 (Stephens) 13314, 15225 (Weisgerber) 13097 (Wilson) 13099
Purchasing, auditor general's recommendations (Charbonneau) 13876 (Dosanjh) 16310 (Gingell) 16310 (Hurd) 13876
Purchasing policies (Charbonneau) 13876 (Hurd) 13876
Role of boards (Charbonneau) 15163 (Wilson) 14955
Taxation power (Schreck) 13690
Trust funds (Charbonneau) 15164-5 (Fox) 15164-5 (Stephens) 14954

School District 23 (Central Okanagan)

Administration costs (Serwa) 13911
Land acquisitions for future school sites (Serwa) 15168
School construction (Charbonneau) 13913 (Serwa) 13913

School District 33 (Chilliwack)

Funding (Charbonneau) 13732-3, 13747 (Chisholm) 13732-3
Work with University College of the Fraser Valley (Chisholm) 13747

School District 36 (Surrey)

Capital funding during 1992-96 fiscal years (Charbonneau) 13914
Funding (Charbonneau) 13732, 13796, 13855-6, 13876 (Hurd) 13855-6 (Jones, K.) 13796 (Stephens) 13731-2
Funding during Social Credit Party administration (Hammell) 13287-8
Funding needs (Jones, K.) 13057
Growth, need for schools (Jones, K.) 13795-6
Portables (Charbonneau) 13855, 13874-6, 13914 (Hurd) 13855, 13873-5
School board's questions re funding (Hurd) 13913-4

School District 38 (Richmond)

Alberta Road secondary school proposal (Charbonneau) 13852
Capital funding needs (Fox) 13182 (Reid) 14963-4 (Symons) 13255-6
City Centre school proposal (Reid) 13851-2
Complementary learning space (Charbonneau) 13851-2 (Reid) 13851-2
Funding (Charbonneau) 13843 (Symons) 13847
Garry Street school proposal (Charbonneau) 13844 (Warnke) 13843-4
Henry Anderson elementary school, construction project (Charbonneau) 13845 (Symons) 13845
Learning resources (Charbonneau) 13844-5, 13847 (Warnke) 13844
Portables (Charbonneau) 13844, 13851-2 (Reid) 13850-1 (Symons) 13328, 13846 (Warnke) 13842-3
School construction (Charbonneau) 13843-7, 13849-50 (Farnworth) 13118-9 (Reid) 13849-50
School construction, completion funding (Charbonneau) 13849 (Reid) 13849
School construction, Education ministry's newspaper ad (Reid) 13849-50 (Symons) 13845
School construction, Hon. Anita Hagen's comments (Warnke) 13842, 13844
School construction proposals (Charbonneau) 13852-3 (Reid) 13852-3
Schools, issues (Warnke) 13798, 13841-4
Schools, overcrowding (Charbonneau) 13851-2 (Reid) 13851-2 (Warnke) 13842-3
Student spaces (Charbonneau) 13843, 13850 (Reid) 13849-50
Symons, Doug, comments re Richmond schools (Warnke) 13229-30

School District 41 (Burnaby)

Traditional school proposal (Fox) 13785

School District 43 (Coquitlam)

Portables (Cashore) 13270
School construction (Charbonneau) 13878 (Farnworth) 13119-20, 13878

School District 44 (North Vancouver)

Accreditation process, questionnaire (Dalton) 14956-7, 15165-6
Budget committee meeting with Hon. Art Charbonneau (Charbonneau) 13721 (Schreck) 13690-1
Funding (Charbonneau) 13691, 13721 (Schreck) 13691 (Stephens) 13721

School District 45 (West Vancouver)

School land sale, revenue for school construction elsewhere (Charbonneau) 13877

School District 56 (Nechako)

Electronic Bus pilot project, evaluation (Charbonneau) 13908-9 (Fox) 13908
Forestry training program (Fox) 15337 (Miller) 15336-7
Private system, number of students (Fox) 13786

School District 62 (Sooke)

Capital construction (Kasper) 13187-8

School District 65 (Cowichan)

Capital construction (Kasper) 13188

School District 68 (Nanaimo)

Purchase of land from Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society (Mitchell) 14964-5

School districts.

See

School Sites Acquisition Statutes Amendment Act, 1995

(Bill 43) (Minister of Education) 1R, 14709; 2R, 14960-7; C, 15167-72; 3R, 15172; RA, 15879
Divisions: 3R approved 15172
Speakers (Charbonneau) 14709, 14960, 14966-7, 15167-72 (Fox) 14961-2, 15167, 15169 (Mitchell) 14964-5 (Reid) 14963-4, 15167-9, 15172 (Serwa) 14962-3, 15167-72 (Stephens) 14960-1
Dispute resolution provisions (Charbonneau) 15167 (Reid) 14964, 15167
Need for bill (Serwa) 15171-2

School tax on property.

See

Schools.

See also

Accreditation, legislative provisions (Charbonneau) 14953, 15166 (Dalton) 14956 (Fox) 14953, 15166 (Stephens) 14953
Accreditation, legislative provisions and existing collective agreements (Charbonneau) 15165 (Dalton) 15165
Accreditation process (Charbonneau) 15166 (Dalton) 15165-6
Community schools (Anderson) 13753 (Charbonneau) 13753
Community services through schools (Charbonneau) 13723 (Stephens) 13723
Community use (Charbonneau) 13682
Community/parent rooms (Charbonneau) 13722 (Stephens) 13722
Complementary learning space (Charbonneau) 13851-2 (Reid) 13851-2
Construction
- budgeting process (Charbonneau) 13845-6 (Symons) 13845-6
- construction (Charbonneau) 13755-6, 13793-4 (Copping) 13203 (Evans) 13755-6 (Stephens) 13792-3
- construction and fair-wage policy (Charbonneau) 13853 (Stephens) 15225
- construction and population growth (Farnworth) 13120
- construction by community volunteers (Charbonneau) 13732, 13754-5 (Evans) 13732, 13754
- construction sites on private land, identification in official community plan (Farnworth) 13880
- funding (Charbonneau) 13398, 13680, 13878-9 (Farnworth) 13878-9
- private sector role (Charbonneau) 13681, 13730-1, 13847 (Hurd) 13230-3, 13681 (Stephens) 13730-1 (Symons) 13847
- private sector role, Hon. Michael Harcourt's comments (Charbonneau) 13730 (Stephens) 13730
- use of modular facility during construction (Charbonneau) 13852 (Reid) 13852
Enrolment increases (Charbonneau) 13728, 13843 (Fox) 13728
Facilities, use by businesses (Reid) 13395
Facilities, use during labour disruptions (Hurd) 13646-7
Facilities, use outside school hours (Chisholm) 13381
Portables, standards (Charbonneau) 13681-2, 13874 (Hurd) 13681, 13874
Portables, use (Charbonneau) 13680-1, 13728, 13875-6 (Fox) 13728 (Hurd) 13874-5 (Serwa) 13913 (Stephens) 15225 (Warnke) 13311
Replacement schools, funding (Garden) 13679
Seismic upgrading (Charbonneau) 13916
Site acquisition (Charbonneau) 13877-8, 13880, 14709, 14960, 14966-7, 15168-72 (Farnworth) 13880 (Fox) 13880, 14098, 14961-2, 15169 (Hurd) 13876 (Mitchell) 14964-5 (Reid) 14963-4, 15168-9, 15172 (Serwa) 14962-3, 15169-72 (Stephens) 14960-1

Schreck, David (North Vancouver-Lonsdale)

An Act to Promote the Reuse of Construction and Demolition Materials 13027, 16738-9
An Act To Protect Medicare 16769
An Act To Protect Medicare and Canada Health Act 16769
Address in Reply 12995-7
Alberta economy 13116-7
Allmand, Warren, commended for free vote in House of Commons 13301-2
B.C. Pharmacy Association, Pharmacare program seniors' benefits, position on changes 14397-8, 14625
B.C. Rail Ltd., planning 15009
B.C. Rail Ltd., privatization 15008
B.C. Rail Ltd., privatization, Liberal Party position 15154
B.C. Rail Ltd., property tax exemption, value to company 15008-9
B.C. Rail Ltd., property taxes, grants in lieu 15008-9
Budget debate 13115-8
Capilano College, expansion 15257
Columbia basin accord, Liberal Party position 13343
Columbia basin accord, reaction to accord 13343
Columbia Basin Trust Act 13342-3
Columbia River Treaty, redress for impact on region 13343
Columbia-Kootenay MLAs, work on Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits 13343
Conflict-of-interest charges, incidence 13410
Consumer protection, real estate transactions 13900-1, 14177
Corporation capital tax, elimination 13116, 13118
Debt, cap on cost of debt 13117
Debt levels 13117
Drug and pharmaceutical industry, position on changes to Pharmacare program 14629-30
Economy of B.C. 13116-8
Education funding system 13691
Education ministry, estimates 13690-1
Election Act 16560-2
Election campaign contributions, disclosure requirements 16561-2
Elections, voter participation rates 14030-1
Electoral reform 14030-1
Employment and Investment ministry, estimates 16389, 16392, 16401
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, estimates 15391
Erola, Judy, role as pharmaceutical industry spokesperson 14629
Federal funding for education, health and social services 13301
Federal transfer payments to B.C., reductions 14345
Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates 15154
Financial reporting by government 13117
Fiscal reform, Reform Party proposal 13116
Forest industry, employment 12997-8
Forests ministry, estimates 15810
Government accounting methods 13117
Government buildings, construction projects, use of recycled materials 13027, 16738-9
Government, privatization of government assets, agencies 15154
Government Services ministry, estimates 16359, 16419
Government spending, Liberal Party position 13118
Hansard, electronic keyword searchable version 16419
Health care, accessibility 13302
Health care, Liberal Party of Canada position 12999, 13302
Health care service delivery, restructuring 14345
Health care service levels, staffing issues 14639-40
Health ministry, estimates 14345, 14351, 14397-8, 14625, 14629-30, 14639-40
Highway 1, Upper Levels Highway, Lloyd Avenue connection 15091
Highway 1, Upper Levels Highway, Westview interchange 12998, 15091
House of Commons, free votes 13301-2
Housing, conversion of rental stock to fractional-interest complexes 13402
Information access via electronic highway 16419
Information highway, technology 12998
Infrastructure, investment 12998
Internet system, access to government information 16419
Internet system, budget speech 13116
Internet system, Hansard debates and index 12998
Internet system, legislation of B.C. 12998, 15810
Job creation 12997-8
Legislative process, reform 14030-1, 16744
Legislature, estimates debates, subject matter 16529
Legislature, free votes 13301
Liberal Party, Abbotsford by-election campaign manager, conflict-of-interest allegation 13410
Liberal Party funding sources 16562
Liberal Party leadership campaign funding 16561
Liberal Party, plan for province 13116, 13118
Liberal Party, political ideology 14291
Lions Gate Bridge, rehabilitation or replacement 15090-1
Magnetic resonance imaging, scans 12999
Manning, Preston, health care policy 13301
Medicare system, guiding principles 13302
Medicare system, Gur Singh's position 16769
Medicare system, protection 12999, 13301, 13303
MLAs, compensation 14584
MLAs, role 14584
Mitchell, David, conflict-of-interest allegation re radio show 13410
NDP government performance 13116-17
North Shore health board, membership 14345
North Vancouver School District, budget committee meeting with Hon. Art Charbonneau 13690-1
North Vancouver School District, funding 13691
Parliamentary Calendar Act (1995) 16744
Parliamentary reform 14030-1, 16744
Pharmacare benefits, ability to pay 14397-8
Pharmacare program, changes 14629-30
Pharmacare program, seniors' benefits, changes 14397-8, 14625
Physicians, extra billing 16769
Politicians, public perception 13410
Politics, participation in political process 14030-1
Premier's Summit on a Strong and Secure Economy, recommendations 13117
Public sector workers, conditions of employment, concerns 14639-40
Queen's Printer staff commended 12998
Real estate agents, disclosure requirements 13901
Real Estate Amendment Act (1995) 13900-1, 14177-8
Real estate, shared-interest ownership 13900-1, 14177-8
Rental housing, conversion to shared-interest buildings 13900-1
Residential Tenancy Act, tenant protection provisions 13900-1
School boards, taxation power 13690
Shaughnessy Hospital closing 14351
Shipbuilding industry 16389
Skills Now program 12999
Skills, Training and Labour ministry, estimates 15257
Superintendent of real estate, role 14177
Surgery, false diagnoses 12999
Tax levels 13117
Tenants' rights in shared-interest conversions 13900-1, 14177
Therapeutics initiative, Linda Reid's position 16392
Throne speech, content 12997
Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates 15008-9, 15090-1
Transportation funding, Liberal Party position 13118
Waste reduction legislation, government construction and demolition projects 13027
Work on real estate legislation commended (Mitchell) 14178

Science.

See also

Discovery parks. See Discovery Enterprises Inc.
Funding for science and technology (Clark) 16395 (Perry) 13236 (Reid) 16395
Investment by government (Beattie) 13800-1
Investment by private sector (Hurd) 13801

Science Council of British Columbia

Annual report, 1993-94, tabled (Clark) 13181
Regional councils (Clark) 16396 (George) 16396

Scotland

Declaration of independence (Jackson) 13277

Scott, Mike

Vancouver Sun article cited (Cashore) 13934 (Warnke) 13972

Sea to Sky Highway.

See

SeaBus.

See

Seals

Seal scarers, use by fish farmers (Wilson) 14677

Seaton, Peter Donald

Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs. See name of commission

Sechelt Indian band

Band council, non-Indian representation (Cashore) 14206-7 (Wilson) 14206
Comprehensive claim, negotiations with federal government (Harcourt) 16473 (Weisgerber) 16482 (Wilson) 16473
Self-government (Weisgerber) 16481 (Wilson) 13013, 14108, 16184, 16473
Settlement lands, subsurface rights (Cashore) 14364 (Warnke) 14363-4
Treaty, 1987 agreement (Cashore) 14364 (Warnke) 14364
Treaty negotiations framework agreement, signing (Cashore) 14329 (Weisgerber) 14329
Treaty negotiations, openness principle (Cashore) 13934, 14202, 14326, 14328, 16915
Treaty negotiations, progress to date (Cashore) 13808, 14363-4 (Warnke) 14363-4
Treaty ratification (Cashore) 14329-30 (Warnke) 14329-30
Treaty settlement, costs (Warnke) 14330, 14363

Second Narrows Bridge

Hastings connector, traffic (Jarvis) 14975
Indian band's development at north end (Jarvis) 14976 (Pement) 14976
Widening (Jarvis) 14976 (Pement) 14976

Securities Act

Amendments (Cull) 14709-10
Amendments re freedom of information (Cull) 16996-7 (Gabelmann) 16721 (Tyabji) 16995-7
Investigations under act, confidentiality provision, time limit (Cull) 16995-7 (Mitchell) 16995

Securities Amendment Act, 1995

(Bill 5) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 13080; 2R, 13861-2; C, 14178-81; 3R, 14181; RA, 15218
Amdts: sec. 7, sec. 9.8 (Gingell) 14180, negatived 14180
Speakers (Cull) 13861, 14178-81 (Gingell) 13861-2, 14178-81 (Wilson) 13879-81
Participants, definition (Cull) 14178 (Gingell) 14178
Public investor and act (Wilson) 14179
Transitional provisions re funding (Cull) 14181 (Gingell) 14181 (Wilson) 14181

Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995

(Bill 44) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 14709-10; 2R, 14930-3, 14951-2; C, 15943-7, 16332-40; 3R, 16340; RA, 16513
Amdts: sec. 17 (Cull) 16336, approved 16336; sec. 22 (Cull) 16337, approved 16337; sec. 45 (Cull) 16339, approved 16339
Division: 2R approved 14952
Speakers (Cull) 14709-10, 14930, 14952, 15943-7, 16332-9 (Gingell) 14930-1, 15944, 15946-7, 16332-3, 16335-9 (Mitchell) 16338-9 (Tyabji) 14951-2 (Warnke) 14933, 14951 (Weisgerber) 14931-2 (Wilson) 14932-3, 15943-7, 16333-6
Commencement (Cull) 16339 (Mitchell) 16339
Debate on bill, public input (Cull) 15944 (Weisgerber) 14931-2
Investor relations activities, definition (Cull) 15943-5 (Wilson) 15943-5
Private mutual fund, definition (Cull) 15946 (Wilson) 15946
Reaction to bill (Wilson) 15944
Spouse, definition (Cull) 15945 (Wilson) 15945
Wording in bill (Cull) 15946 (Gingell) 15946

Securities industry.

See also

Brokers' role (Warnke) 14951
Conflict-of-interest issues (Cull) 16334 (Warnke) 14951
Disclosure of investor relations activities (Cull) 16337 (Gingell) 16337 (Wilson) 14933
Fraud, action against fraud (Warnke) 14951
Fraud office, establishment (Cull) 14929, 15140
Industry in Ontario (Warnke) 14951
Investor relations activities (Gingell) 15944
Investor relations, written commentaries (Cull) 15945 (Wilson) 15944-5
Legislation. See also Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995
Legislative amendments (Cull) 14930
Mutual fund management, standards (Cull) 16337-8 (Gingell) 16337-8 (Wilson) 14933
Mutual funds, Stromberg report (Cull) 16338
Promoters, regulation (Gingell) 14931
Regulation (Cull) 14179
Salespeople, cold calling (Cull) 16337 (Gingell) 16337
Salespeople, notice-of-change requirement (Cull) 16336
Salespeople, registration exemptions (Cull) 16337 (Gingell) 16337
Salespeople, reporting of misconduct or criminal record (Cull) 16336 (Gingell) 16336
Salespeople, suspension of registration (Cull) 16336 (Gingell) 16336 (Wilson) 14933

Securities Policy Advisory Committee.

See

Seitz, Lorne

Work with Forests ministry (Mitchell) 15533-5 (Petter) 15533-5

Sekora, Lou

Quoted re development of Coquitlam (Cashore) 13269

Select Standing Committee on Ethical Conduct and Conflict of Interest

Re-establishment (Hurd) 13088

Select Standing Committee on Forests, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources

Powers and reporting requirements (Gabelmann) 17013

Select Standing Committee on Health and Social Services

Tobacco products, regulation of sales, work of committee (Fox) 15055-6 (Mitchell) 15057 (Ramsey) 14974, 15055 (Randall) 14972 (Reid) 14968-9

Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills

Report, input (Serwa) 13358

Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts

Report adopted 16918
Report tabled (Gingell) 16918
Sitting out of session (Farrell-Collins) 17014 (Gingell) 17013 (Tyabji) 17014 (Weisgerber) 17014
Travel powers (Weisgerber) 17014

Semeniuk, John

Retirement (Serwa) 17014

Seniors

Abbeyfield housing, funding (Hurd) 14114 (Smallwood) 14114
Automobile insurance grant, use (Hanson) 15053 (Pement) 15052-3 (Symons) 15052-3
Bus passes for welfare recipients (Anderson) 15354 (MacPhail) 15354
Care homes, seniors' concerns (Randall) 13364
Counsellors (Anderson) 15350 (MacPhail) 15350
Health care, long-term care (Ramsey) 14712 (Reid) 14712
Health care needs (Brewin) 13406 (de Jong, M.) 13404 (Fox) 14661 (Krog) 13404 (Ramsey) 14661, 14699 (Stephens) 14699
Health care, psychogeriatric services (Ramsey) 14804 (Reid) 14804
Health care, seniors remaining at home (Krog) 13404-5
Housing. See also Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program (Anderson) 14077-8 (Chisholm) 14020 (Gingell) 15069 (Marzari) 15069 (Smallwood) 14020, 14077-8
Housing, supportive housing (Ramsey) 14573, 14698 (Stephens) 14697-8 (Wilson) 14573
In-home care (Anderson) 14123
Long term care facilities (Clark) 14402 (Ramsey) 14403
Long term care patients, quality of care (Fox) 14781-2 (Ramsey) 14781-2
Pharmacare program changes (Ramsey) 14397-8, 14625-6 (Reid) 14624-6 (Schreck) 14397-8, 14625
Programs and services (Anderson) 15354 (MacPhail) 15354

Septic systems.

See

Serpentine River, B.C.

Diking, funding (Hurd) 13957

Serwa, Clifford (Okanagan West)

Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates 14198-9, 14207, 14323-4
Abortion, anti-abortion protests 16013
Abortion, establishment of access zones 16013
Abortion services, accessibility 16012-3
Access for All program 15579-80
Access to Abortion Services Act 16012-3
An Act to Promote the Reuse of Construction and Demolition Materials 16739
An Act To Protect Medicare 16757-60
Address in Reply 13385-8
Address in Reply, nature of debate 13385
Agricultural land and urban sprawl 13772, 14098-9
Agricultural land reserve, farming outside reserve 15686-7
Agricultural land reserve, impact 14258, 14670-1
Agricultural producer's liability re wages of contract workers 15630
Agriculture industry, costs 14669-70
Agriculture industry, impact of Employment Standards Act 14821
Agriculture Protection Act, purpose of legislation 14668-9
Alcan, compensation for Kemano cancellation 13283
Apex Mountain Resort, blockade of access road 13697
Apprenticeship program 14582
Attorney General ministry, cost overruns 13135
Attorney General ministry, estimates 13594-5, 13696-701
Automobile drivers, licensing 13696-7
Bankruptcy, business bankruptcies, liability 15842
Barlee, Hon. Bill, commended as Tourism minister 13831
Bear population 17009
Bears, hunting by Indians 17010
Bears, penalties for offences re grizzly bears 17010
Bears, penalties for offences, use of maximum fine 17009
Bennett, W.A.C., action on Columbia River Treaty 13357-8
Bennett, W.A.C., vision 13386
Big White ski resort, development 13436-7
Big White ski resort, governance 13866
Bison, Pink Mountain herd hunters, prosecutions 17010
Blockades of roads, Attorney General ministry position 13697
Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14448-51, 14486-9
Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement, all-party task force 14448, 14450
Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of agreement with B.C. 14448-9, 14486
B.C. Endowment Fund, use of funds 13357
B.C. Federation of Agriculture, farm practices standards 15683
B.C. Federation of Agriculture, mandate 14669
B.C. Ferries, fast-ferry service, cost 13284
B.C. Hydro rates 13284-5
B.C. Hydro, role in Columbia-Kootenay region 13471
B.C. Marketing Board, agriculture industry representation 14669
B.C. Marketing Board, membership on Farm Practices Board 15681, 15683
B.C. Medical Association, physicians' pensions agreement 16760
B.C., motto 13831
B.C., population growth 13770-1
B.C. Rail Ltd., dividends 16954
B.C. Rail Ltd., government assistance 16954
B.C. Teachers' Federation, focus 13818
B.C. Teachers' Federation, position on school administrators returning to teaching positions 13909
British North America Act, powers 14198
Brown, George, national rail link proposal, position 13386
Budget, balanced budget 13283-4
Budget debate 13281-5
Budget, financial write-offs charged to 1991-92 budget 13282
Budget Measures Implementation Act (1995) 13818-20
Budget reductions 13818
Budgetary process and interim supply 13135
Business, big business 14822-3
Business costs 13358
Cattle industry 14670
Cattle industry, environmental concerns 16717
Central Okanagan School District, administration costs 13911
Central Okanagan School District, land acquisitions for future school sites 15168
Central Okanagan School District, school construction 13913
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, impact on Criminal Records Review Act 16042
Child abuse, prevention 15888-90
Citizenship rights, dual standards for Indians and non-Indians 14207
Civil service, integrity 13820
Civil service salaries 15343
Civil service salaries during Social Credit Party administration 13910
Civil service, special investigator for public sector 13820
Columbia Basin Trust Act 13356-60, 13468, 13471, 13474, 13477, 13503, 13508, 13510-1, 13513
Columbia Basin Trust Act, conflict-of-interest section 13508
Columbia Basin Trust Act, preamble 13513
Columbia Basin Trust Act, region, definition 13468, 13510
Columbia Basin Trust, comptroller of water rights, role 13511
Columbia Basin Trust dam construction projects, impact on price of power 13508
Columbia Basin Trust directors, selection by population 13503
Columbia Basin Trust, Financial Administration Act applicability 13474
Columbia Basin Trust, Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council board participation 13503
Columbia Basin Trust, liability of board members 13477
Columbia Basin Trust, liability under Company Act 13477
Columbia Basin Trust, security of government loan 13506
Columbia Basin Trust, water rental fees 13511
Columbia River, drainage system boundaries 13468
Columbia River, McNaughton plan, NDP position 13358
Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits 13819
Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, NDP government handling 14448-51
Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue to general revenues 13283-4, 13819
Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue to pay down debt 13357, 13359
Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region 13356-7
Columbia River, two-rivers policy 13284
Cominco Ltd., water rental fees 13511
Compensation Fairness Act, repeal 13818
Competitiveness of B.C. businesses 14823
Corporations, directors' liability for unpaid wages 15842
Correctional facilities, construction and maintenance by private sector 13701
Correctional facilities, cost to build 13701
Corrections system, role 13387-8
Court cases, delays 13595
Crime prevention 13701
Criminal Injury Compensation Amendment Act (1995) 15767-8
Criminal Records Review Act 15888-9, 15895-6, 16042-4
Criminal Records Review Act, applicability to volunteers 16042-4
Criminal Records Review Act, cost-benefit analysis request 15888
Criminal Records Review Act, employee, definition 16403-4
Criminal Records Review Act, employer, definition 16042
Criminal Records Review Act implementation, cost 15888
Criminal Records Review Act, referral to select standing committee 15889
Criminal-record checks for child workers, privacy issue 15895-6
Criminals, restitution for crimes committed 15760
Critical Industries Act, enactment by Social Credit government 13262-3
Crown corporations, accountability 13388
Crown corporations, borrowing 13284
Crown land for septic field, Kelowna area case, consultation with Indians 13954
Crown land, lakeshore lot leases and Indian land claims 13953
Crown land, lakeshore lots, lease rates 13953
Crown land, rental fee for communications sites 13219, 13285
Cycling, hand signalling and hand brakes 16239
Cycling, helmet use by cyclists 15975, 16238
Cycling, safety equipment on bicycles 16238
Cycling safety, public education 15975
Dams, benefits 13358
Debt and deficit, constitutional limits 13388
Debt and deficit during Social Credit Party administration 13282
Debt during NDP administration 16760
Debt-servicing costs 13283, 13820
Deficit 13282
Discrimination, elimination 16069-70
Doppelmayr Lifts, investment in Big White ski facility 13436-7
Drug trafficking, penalties 13699
Drugs, role in crime 13699
Economy, productivity levels 13285
Education curriculum, grades 11 and 12 physical education 13912
Education financing, school tax and homeowner grant 14258
Education funding formula, impact on interior districts 13912
Education ministry, administration costs 13910-1
Education ministry, focus 13909
Education ministry, servicing costs on capital debt as percentage of ministry budget 15171
Education, New Zealand model 13388
Education, post-secondary education, federal funding 14582
Education, post-secondary education, federal funding reduction 15579
Education, post-secondary education for future 15579
Education, post-secondary education, participation rate 15579
Election Act 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
Election Act, revision of old act 16564-6
Election campaign advertising 16785-7
Election campaign advertising by government 16566, 16831, 16834, 16837
Election campaign advertising, limits on third-party advertising 16566
Election campaign contributions, disclosure requirements 16565-6, 16802
Election campaign funds, disposition of candidates' surplus funds 16800-1
Election campaign spending limits 16782-3
Election campaign spending limits, penalties 16805, 16809-11, 16818
Election campaign spending limits, penalties 16803
Elections, ballot-marking 16660
Elections, foreign-language assistants 16673
Elections legislation, Hon. Colin Gabelmann's comments 16567
Elections, voting assistants, charges against assistants 16673
Elections, voting stations, who may be present 16663-4
Electoral reform 13388
Electric power, availability in B.C. 14450-1
Electric power, independent power projects, environmental impact 13358, 16668
Electric power, jurisdiction over electric power 14488
Employee hours of work, four-hour paid minimum 15629
Employee hours of work, notice requirement 15783-4
Employee hours of work, overtime hours, banking of overtime wages 15794
Employment Standards Act 14821-4, 15629-32, 15783-5, 15794-7, 15842
Employment Standards Tribunal, powers 14823
Environment and Land Use Committee, Tourism minister's participation 13831
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 13953-4
Environmental habitat for ungulates 14670-1
Environmental protection during Social Credit Party administration 16716
Environmental protection, European situation 16715-6
Environmental protection, NDP government action 13952-3
Export trade, increase 13284
Expropriation of private property 13357, 13359
Farm labour contractors 15630-2, 15786
Farm operations, provincial standards 15681
Farm Practices Board 15681, 15683
Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 14668-71, 15679, 15681, 15683, 15685-7
Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, need for bill 14668-9, 14671
Farm practices, regulation 15681
Farming, economic viability 14669, 14671
Farming, normal farm practices 14671
Farmworkers, contracted farm labour, payment for work performed 15630-1
Federal transfer payments to B.C., reductions 13282
Federal transfer payments to provinces 16759
Finance and Corporate Relations ministry staff, lie detector tests 13820
Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act 15550-2
Fish stocks conservation, federal government role 14198-9
Forest industry jobs 14823
Forest industry, revenue to province 16716
Forest management, public perception 16716
Government borrowing, impact on future 13284
Government buildings, construction projects, use of recycled materials 16739
Government, decentralization 13773
Government, interim supply, use of practice 13135
Government ministers, accountability for budget overruns 13135
Government, public input 13388
Government role 13386-8
Government size during NDP administration 13818
Government spending levels 13282
Government spending, provisions for future expenditures 13283
Grazing enhancement and stocking levels 14253
Grazing Enhancement Special Account Act 14253, 14255
Grazing enhancement special account, establishment 14255
Greater Vancouver Regional District, regional planning 14150-1
Groundwater, aquifer contamination and farm practices 15679
Growth management, consultation between municipalities and Indian groups 14091-2
Growth management, government encouragement of growth in low-growth areas 13773
Growth management, planners' work 13770
Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 13769-73, 14088, 14091-2, 14096, 14098, 14110, 14145, 14150-1
Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, and regional planning in progress 14150-1
Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, "first nation...however organized," definition 14091
Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, geographic focus 13769-70
Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, support 13772
Gun control legislation, Hon. Colin Gabelmann's position 13697-8
Guns, registration for shotguns and hunting rifles 13697-8
Head injuries, cost of treatment 15975
Health care, cost-effective care 16760
Health care costs, impact of aging population 16758-60
Health care expenditures by NDP government, impact 13282
Health care, funding priorities 13282
Health care, New Zealand model 13388
Health care, preventive care 16760
Health care services, access to legal medical services 16012-3 Health care workers labour accord, impact 13820
Home Owner Grant Amendment Act (1995) 14258-9
Home ownership 14258-9
Homeowner grant, purpose 14258
Homeowner grant, supplementary grant, abolition 13284
Hospital services for non-resident patients 16759
Housing, affordability 14962-3
Housing, affordable housing 14258-9
Human Rights Amendment Act (1995) 16069-70
Hunting, penalties for offences 17010
Hunting, shooting of ram at feeding station, charges 17019
Impaired driving, penalties 13699
Indian land claim settlements, cost 13283
Indian land, non-Indian tenants 14110
Indian lands, jurisdiction re environmental issues 14092
Indian schools in public system, federal funding for status Indians 13913
Indian treaty negotiations, credibility 14323-4
Indian treaty negotiations, openness 14199
Indian treaty negotiations, public confidence 14323-4
Indian treaty negotiations, representation of B.C.'s interests 14198-9
Indian treaty settlements, affordability 14323
Indian treaty settlements and climate of uncertainty in B.C. 14198-9
Indian treaty settlements, finality of agreements 14199
Indian treaty settlements, fishery allocations 14198-9
Indian treaty settlements, public referenda 14323-4
Indians, dual standards for Indians and non-Indians 13697, 14199, 14207
Indians, resolution of historic issues 14199
Indians, tax-funded services 14207
Infrastructure funding, policy 13865-6
Infrastructure investments in mountain resort communities 13437, 13865-6
Initiative legislation 13388
Investments by government in recreational infrastructure 13865-6
Island Highway construction project, fair-wage policy impact 13819
Job Protection Amendment Act (1995) 13262-3
Job Protection Commission, continuation of activities 13262-3
Jobs for B.C. workers 14824
Jobs for children and youth 14822-3
Judicial compensation committee, recommendations, rejection by Legislature 15343
Judiciary, independence 13699
Justice system, Attorney General ministry role 13699
Justice system, dual standard for Indians and non-Indians 13697, 14199, 14207
Justice system, penalties for use of restricted weapons during crime 13698-9
Kelowna, agricultural land designation, impact on infrastructure costs 14099
Kelowna, education funding 13912
Kelowna General Hospital, costs, impact of union agreement with employees 16760
Kelowna Secondary School, safety concerns 13913
Kemano completion project, cancellation 13283, 13357, 13386
Kemano completion project, environmental assessment 16668
Kootenay region, compensation for impact of Columbia River Treaty 13357, 13359
Labour, child labour 14822-3
Land for housing, availability 14670
Land prices, impact on housing costs 14962-3
Land prices, impact on school construction costs 15167-8
Land, privately owned land, percentage of land base 16716
Land set aside for school sites 13911, 14962-3, 15169-72
Land use, areas set aside for preservation, 12 percent figure 16714-5
Land use, development cost charges 14962-3
Land use, rural-urban conflict 14099
Land use, sustainable development 13771
Legal Services Society, cost overruns 13135
Legislature, free votes 13388
Legislature, ministerial statements, nature 13458
Legislature, oral questions 13377-8
Legislature, private members' statements 13028
Legislature rules, request for leave 13055
Legislature sessions, fixed schedule and budget approval process 13135
Legislature staff thanked 17014
Lower mainland, growth 13772
Macdonald, John A., national rail link proposal 13386
McDonald's Restaurants, employee training 14823
Mace/pepper spray, use 13697-8
Maple Ridge, land expropriation case 14145
Marijuana 13699
Media role 13387
Medical and Health Care Services Act, change of name 16757-8
Medicare system, affordability 16758-60
MLAs, language used in House 13415
MLAs' pensions, reform 13284
MLAs, recall legislation 13388
MLAs' remuneration legislation and conflict of interest 16729
MLAs, responsibilities 13283
Military education, need 15579
Mining industry, restrictions 16717
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16921, 16923-5, 16931, 16946, 16949, 16954, 16960, 17009-10
Motion picture industry 13831
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (1995) 15452
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15974-5, 16238-9
Mountain Resort Associations Act 13436-7, 13865-6
Mountain resort industry, development 13437
Multicultural society in Canada 16069
Municipal Act provisions and Big White ski resort 13866
Municipal Act, provisions re resort areas 13865-6
Municipal funding for resort community infrastructure 13865-6
Municipalities, farm regulatory bylaws 15686-7
Municipalities, resort-municipality status 13865-6
Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, contributions to NDP, disclosure 16565
Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, links with NDP 13282
Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, public inquiry, petition 13109
Natural resource extraction and wilderness concerns 13388
Natural resource extraction industries 13832
Natural resource industries, role in economy 13263, 13832
Natural resource-based communities, concerns re land use 16715
Natural resources, benefits, sharing in province 13356, 13358-9
Natural resources, sustainability 13771
Nature conservation 14198-9
Nelson, mining and deforestation in area 16716
NDP government, fiscal policies 13282-4
NDP government performance 13359, 13818
NDP government policies, impact on forest resource 13283
NDP government, public consultation 13358
NDP government, spending overruns 13135
NDP government, support for business 14821-2
NDP government, support for farmers 14669, 14671
NDP, links with trade unions 13820
NDP provincial council, accountability 14823-4
Nippon Cable, investment in Tod Mountain ski resort 13436
Nisga'a fishery allocations 14198-9
Nuclear testing, testing by France in South Pacific 16749
Offenders Registry Act, purpose 15895
Okanagan area, growth 13769-70
Okanagan area, regional planning, cooperation 13772
Okanagan Lake, highway corridor on west side, compensation issue 13953-4
Okanagan, water supply issues 14832
Orchardists in Okanagan, problems 14671
Outdoor recreation, Whistler-style destination resort communities 13438
Park Amendment Act (1995) 16714-7
Parks, impact of new parks on Indian land claims 16716
Parks in Victoria region, reverting of land to Crown, Indian land claim impact 13953
Parks, land reserved for park purposes, 5 percent figure 14962, 15169-70
Parks, maintenance of existing parks 16715
Parliamentary Calendar Act (1995) 16743
Parole system, concerns 15760-1
Patronage appointments 13819-20
Peace River dam construction, impact on region, redress 13468, 13513
Pharmacare program, drug costs 16759
Police, service revolvers, change to semi-automatic guns 13698
Political parties, transfer of funds between provincial and federal parties 16565
Political party contributions, disclosure forms 16791
Political poll results, publication restrictions 16840
Political polling, legislative rules 16820-1
Politicians, public perception 13386
Private ownership of real property 14258
Property rights of private land owner 14962-3
Property tax system 16924
Protection of critical industries 13263
Provincial Court judges' compensation 15343
Radar cameras, use in automobile speed monitoring, enforceability 15452
Railways, property tax assessment, commissioner's rate 16924
Railways, property tax assessment, municipal consultation 16931
Railways, property tax changes, impact 16946
Railways, property tax changes, revenue to municipalities 16946
Railways, taxation 16946
Railways, taxes paid 16949
RBC Dominion Securities Inc., examination of Columbia eRiver dam projects 13506
Recall and Initiative Act, adequacy 16886
Regional districts, boundaries 14088
Regional growth strategies, Agriculture ministry and Agricultural Land Commission role 14099
Regional growth strategies, Crown agencies' role 14096
Regional growth strategies, environmental requirements 14110
Regional growth strategies, government role 13770-2
Regional growth strategies, issues re Indians 14110
Regional growth strategies, land expropriation, compensation 14145
Regional growth strategies, voting for part of region 14088
Regional growth strategy for Central Okanagan 13770
Rental housing, grants for renters 14260
Rental housing, renter's tax credit 14258
Rental housing, secondary suites 14259
Rose, Mark, eligibility for multiple pensions 13284
Royal Roads site, use of facilities 15579-80
Royal Roads University Act 15579-80
School administrators returning to teaching positions, re-entrance to union 13909-10
School districts, administration costs 13911
School districts, capital reserves for future needs 15168
School portables, use 13913
School site acquisitions 14962-3, 15169-72
School Sites Acquisition Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14962-3, 15167-72
Schools, capital costs, land as percentage of total cost 15167-8
Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform report, input 13358
Semeniuk, John, retirement 17014
Sex offenders registry 15895, 16043
Ski industry, consultations re mountain resort legislation 13437
Ski industry, Okanagan area operations 13437
Ski resort facilities, year-round utilization 13437
Small business, fees and licences 13285
Small business, impact of Employment Standards Act 14821-2
Smith, Michael, Nobel prize winner 13387
Social Credit Party government actions, NDP government position 13386
Social Credit Party government, fiscal policies 13282-3, 13284
Social Credit Party governments, performance 13387
Social Credit Party vision 13388
State-of-the-environment report 13952-3
Subdivision development, impact on existing farm operations 15685-6
Subdivision of land, provision for schools in new development 14962-3
Subdivision of land, provision for schools in new development, 5 percent figure 15169-72
Sun Peaks Resort at Tod Mountain, development 13436-7
Supply Act (No. 1) (1995) 13135
Sustainable environment fund, reduction 13818
Tax burden 13284
Tax collection by province 16759
Taxation during NDP administration 13818
Teachers, compensation fairness policy 13818-9
Teaching Profession Amendment Act, 1991, purpose 15888, 15895
Technology, use 13387
Telecommunication installations on Crown lands, site fees 13953, 16925
Television cable companies, tax assessment 16921, 16923
Tobacco tax, federal reduction 13700
Tourism Act 13831-2
Tourism Act, minister's powers, use of word "may" 13831-2
Tourism industry, destination resort sector, development 13437
Tourism ministry, role in land use planning and resource management 13831
Tourism potential of B.C. 13831-2
Trade unions, corporation capital tax exemption 13820
Traffic offences, police time spent in court 13696
Uranium, moratorium on mining 13359
Urban sprawl 13772, 14098-9
Victim services, fine surcharge levy and special account 15760
Victims of Crime Act 15760-1
Victims of crime compensation legislation 15767-8
Victims' rights 15767-8
Victims' rights legislation and supporters commended 15760
Wages, fair-wage policy, cost 13284, 13819
Wages, statutory holiday pay 15795-7
Water diversion and removal, prohibitions 14831-2
Water exports 14831-2
Water, jurisdictional issues 14832
Water Protection Act 14685, 14831-2
Water resources, stewardship legislation 14831-2
Westbank Indian band land, development 14091-2
WesTel Telecommunications Ltd., taxation 16924
Western Star Trucks Ltd., performance 13263
Westwood Plateau housing project, provision of school sites 13911
Whistler, popularity as destination resort 13436-7
Wildlife, conservation issues 14199
Windy Craggy mine project, cancellation 13357, 13386
Windy Craggy mine project, cancellation, cost 13283
Wolves, protection 16716
Workers, protection 15785-6
Workers, rights and responsibilities 14824
Young Offenders Act, concerns 13595
Young offenders, publication of name 13595
Youth unemployment 14822
Youth violence, government action 13700
Zoning, buffer zones between farming and non-farming areas 15685-6
Zoning, buffer zones, responsibility to provide 15679

Sewage disposal.

See

Sex crimes.

See also

Education of public re safety (Dalton) 13608 (Gabelmann) 13607
Sex offenders, handling of offenders (Farnworth) 13599
Sex offenders, identification of offenders in community (Gabelmann) 13607-8 (Tyabji) 15898
Sex offenders, mandatory release (Kasper) 13600
Sex offenders, registry of convicted offenders (Dalton) 13607-8 (Fox) 15900 (Gabelmann) 13607-8, 16043 (Neufeld) 13760 (Serwa) 15895, 16043 (Weisgerber) 16043
Sexual assault centres, funding (Gabelmann) 13582
Victims, legislation (Gabelmann) 13590 (Stephens) 13589-90

Sexual misconduct

Harassment
- allegations against cabinet minister (Anderson) 13277-8 (Campbell) 13241 (Dalton) 13279 (Farrell-Collins) 13243, 13278-9 (Harcourt) 13241-3, 13314 (Hurd) 13241-2 (MacPhail) 13277-9, 13401 (Neufeld) 13242, 13278 (Stephens) 13242, 13277, 13401 (Warnke) 13279 (Weisgerber) 13313-4
- allegations within corrections system (Dalton) 13884 (Gabelmann) 13884 (Harcourt) 13884
- charges, committee process for handling of cases (Farrell-Collins) 13243 (Stephens) 13242
- policy of NDP government (Harcourt) 16502 (Hurd) 16502-3
- prevention training for government staff (Edwards) 14157 (Harcourt) 13242, 16502 (Priddy) 13623 (Stephens) 13623
- standards of conduct (Farrell-Collins) 13243 (Harcourt) 13242 (Stephens) 13242
Sexual misconduct by physicians. See entries under Physicians

Shady Island, B.C.

Park status (Farnworth) 14026 (Warnke) 14026

Shaffer, Marvin

Columbia River Treaty role (Clark) 13431

Shamrock Halls Ltd.

Bingo operation (Dosanjh) 16524-5 (Jones, K.) 16524-5

Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.

Closing (Jones, K.) 13251 (Perry) 13234 (Schreck) 14351
Closing, impact (Harcourt) 16418
Closing, relocation of staff (Jones, K.) 14350-1 (Perry) 13234-5, 14351-2 (Ramsey) 14350-1

Shaw, Gillian

Quoted re 1995-96 budget (Tanner) 13206

Sheehan, John P. (Chief Executive Officer, B.C. Hydro and Power Authority)

B.C. Hydro International Ltd., offshore business ventures 16030
Employment and Investment ministry, estimates 15984-5, 16029-30
Powerex, Palo Alto project 15984

Shellfish Growers' Association

Letter of resignation from Alex Munro quoted (van Dongen) 15498

Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program

Application process (Smallwood) 15307
Grants (Anderson) 14077 (Smallwood) 14077
Program (Smallwood) 14008, 14020, 14077-8
Staff, workplace review (Smallwood) 13973, 15307
Streamlining (Smallwood) 13126

Sherwin-Williams Co.

Paint recycling (Cull) 16161-2

SHIP.

See

Shipbuilding industry

Industry in B.C. (Clark) 16389 (Schreck) 16389

Shoppers Drug Mart

Tobacco manufacturer's ownership of company cited (Perry) 14973

Sidney, B.C.

Land use (Tanner) 14103

Sierra Legal Defense Fund

Burrard Inlet dumping case (Cull) 16193

Signs and signage

Highway sign restrictions, impact on Alaska Highway tourist facilities (Barlee) 13519 (Neufeld) 13518-9
Highway signs (Barlee) 13448 (Jones, K.) 13448, 15997
Highway signs on Indian land, government advertisement (Symons) 14976
Highway signs, policy (Barlee) 13519 (Fox) 14877-8 (Jones, K.) 14887-8, 14934, 15997 (Neufeld) 13518-9 (Pement) 14878, 14888, 14934
Highway signs, Stop of Interest program (Barlee) 13442, 13560-1 (Fox) 13561
Highway signs, tourism signage (Barlee) 13448, 13560 (Fox) 13560 (Jones, K.) 13448, 14888-9 (Pement) 14888-9
School warning signs (Pement) 14942 (Symons) 14942

Sihota, Hon. Moe (Esquimalt-Metchosin) Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism and Human Rights

Air, clean air policy 13918
Air pollution, impact 13922-3
Air quality, education 13960
Air quality standards, monitoring 13960
Alberta, deficit reduction measures 13196-7
Aquaculture industry, licensing of fish-farm operations 14686
Aquaculture industry, salmon farming 13961
Automobile emission standards 13918
Back-country recreation industry 13923, 13954
Back-country recreation operations, applications 13925-6, 13948, 13954
Back-country recreation operations, bank loans 13924
Back-country recreation operations, security of tenure 13923-4
Back-country recreation policy 13923
Back-country recreation policy, impact 13954
Ballard fuel cell bus 13918
Biodiversity protection 13917, 13919
Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14447-8
Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement, all-party task force 14447
Broughton Archipelago, fish farming in area 14686
Budget, balanced budget 13197
Budget debate 13196-8
Budget, financial industry reaction 13196
Budget Steel Ltd., wood stoves, recycling 13960
Business investment, impact of labour legislation 14797
Columbia River Treaty 14447
Colwood, community planning 13777
Commission on Resources and Environment process, Liberal Party position 16685
Commission on Resources and Environment process, public input 16685-6
Conservation officers, number of officers 14685
Corporation capital tax 14798
Credit rating of B.C. 14798
Crown land, lakeshore lot leases and Indian land claims 13953
Crown land, land alienated from other uses, cost recovery 13951
Crown land, rental fee for telecommunications sites 13650
Crown land, sale and lease, Lands branch and Finance ministry handling 13950
Crown land, valuation 13949, 13951
Crown land, waterfront lease policy 13950
Debt levels, affordability 13197
Delta Air Park 13961
Diking, funding 13957
Economic plan for B.C. 14797-9
Economic prosperity and environmental integrity 14687
Economy of B.C. 13196, 13776-7
Education curriculum, other languages 13848, 13920
Education ministry, estimates 13848
Elk, killing of elk in Kootenays 13930
Employment Standards Act 14797-9
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, 1992-93 annual report tabled 13886
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, audits 13958-9
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 13917-20, 13922-6, 13947-61
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, Parks branch staff, funding 13955-6
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, staff thanked 13920
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, time frames for application processing 13959
Environmental integrity 14559-61
Environmental legislation, applicability to projects on Indian land 13083
Environmental protection 14684-8, 14798
Environmental protection, Gordon Campbell's position 13918
Environmental protection, NDP government action 13776-7, 13917-9, 13961
Export trade, Asia-Pacific trade 13108-9
Fish habitat, protection 14683-7
Forest industry, elimination of beehive burners 13923, 13960
Forest industry, role in economy 13197
Forest Practices Code, impact on logging practices 16686
Forest practices, NDP government action 13919
Forest practices, regulation 14684
Forest Renewal B.C., investments in resource-based communities 16686
Forest resource, management practices 14828
Forest resource, sustainability 14560
Fraser River salmon stocks 13919
Government size, Liberal Party position 13951-2, 13955-6
Gowlland Tod Park, establishment 16684
Greater Vancouver Regional District, clean air policies, impact studies 13960
Greenhouse gas emissions 14687
Growth management, need in urban areas 13777
Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 13776-7
Guide-outfitters, access to grizzly bear area in Kitlope, case 13924
Guide-outfitters, permitting process 13923
Gunton, Tom, work on establishment of new parks commended 16687
Highway 1, Colwood crawl 13198
Highway corridors 13954
Indian treaty negotiations, time lines re consultations 13414
Indians, development projects on reserve land, environmental review requirement 13083
Indians, interim measures agreements, impact 13414
Indians, role in Crown land activities approval process 13954
Infrastructure investment 14798
International trade agreements, constitutional issues 14828-9
Investigation into Hon. Moe Sihota's activities (Harcourt) 14038 (Hurd) 14038
Investment climate for business 13196
Investment in B.C. from Asia-Pacific 13196
Island Highway construction project, benefits for Western Communities 13198
Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, establishment 16684
Juan de Fuca Marine Trail park, establishment 13198
Kemano completion project, cancellation 14685
Kersley, B.C. Rail property as park 13961
Labour Relations Code, impact on business investment 14797
Land use decisions, consultation with resource-based communities 16686
Land use planning 13917, 13925, 14560
Land use, preservation of green spaces 13961
Lands branch, Crown land activities, interministry process, delays 13949-50
Lands branch, evaluations 13949
Lands branch, Indian land issues, handling 13948, 13952
Lands branch, liaison with Aboriginal Affairs ministry 13948
Lands branch, performance 13948-9, 13951-2
Langford, Priory hospital, construction of new facility 13198
Languages, instruction of other languages in schools 13848, 13920
Liberal Party, economic policies 14798-9
Liberal Party, position on environmental issues 14687-8
Lower mainland, job creation 13777
Lower Mainland Nature Legacy, funding 13947-8
Lower mainland, protection of green spaces 13961
Military education, need 15574-5
Mining in parks, Liberal Party position 13918, 16685
Multiculturalism, funding 13108-9
Multiculturalism, funding increase 13108-9
Multiculturalism ministry staff thanked 13920
Multiculturalism policy, impact on economy 13920
Natural resources, jurisdictional control 14828
Nature legacy lands and Indian land claims 13957
NDP government, economic policies 13196
NDP government, financial management 13196, 13198
NDP government, support for business 14797-8
NDP government vision 13196-7, 13776-7, 13917-9, 14560
North American Free Trade Agreement and water exports 14828-9
Osburn Manufacturing Inc., wood stoves, marketability 13960
Park Amendment Act (1995) 16684-7, 16903
Parks branch, efficiency 13959
Parks branch, regional operations, elimination 13954-5, 13958
Parks brochure by NOW Communications 13955
Parks, creation and expansion 16684
Parks, funding 13108-9, 13955
Parks, impact on economy 13923
Parks in Victoria region, reverting of land to Crown, Indian land claim impact 13953
Parks, new parks 13955-6, 14687-8
Parks, new parks, Hon. Moe Sihota's position (de Jong, M.) 16690 (Wilson) 16697
Parks, new parks on Vancouver Island 16684
Parks, revenue 13955
Parks, user fees 13956-7
Prince George land lease cases, delays 13949-50
Pulp mills, effluent discharge, NDP government action 13918
Pulp mills, effluent discharge standards 14686
Recreation resource inventory 13925
Recreation zones 13925
Resignation (de Jong, M.) 14038 (Harcourt) 14038-9, 14907
Roberts Bank backup lands, farm leases, Hon. Michael Harcourt's comments 13957
Roberts Bank backup lands, farm leases, negotiations 13958
Royal Roads, preservation of facility 15574-5
Royal Roads site, use as post-secondary facility 13197-8, 13777
Royal Roads site, use of facilities 15575-6
Royal Roads University Act 15574-6
Royal Roads University, special programs for Western Communities 15576
Salmon, disappearance from Fraser River system 14683-7
Salmon resource, protection of stocks 13757, 13918, 14561, 14683-7, 14828
School administrators, compensation and sick leave 13848
Septic tanks, regulations 13960-1
Sewage treatment facilities, upgrade 14685
Sewer systems in Esquimalt-Metchosin area 13198
Ski industry, commercial alpine ski policy 13923
Social Credit Party administration, environmental protection policies 14684, 14686
State-of-the-environment report 13953
Stream protection in urban areas 13919
Suspension by Law Society of B.C. (Hurd) 14907
Tatshenshini River, heritage designation for area 16916
Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park, mining in park 16685
Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park, mining in park, Liberal Party position 13918
Tax freeze 13197
Telecommunication installations on Crown land, site fees 13650, 13953
Trading patterns, diversification 13196
Ts'yl_?os Park, establishment 16685
Vancouver, growth 13777
Vancouver Island, transportation system 13198
Vancouver, urban riparian zones 13919
Victoria, green spaces 13777
Victoria, planning in greater Victoria area 13777
View Royal Elementary School, replacement 13197
Visible minorities 13920
Water diversion and removal, prohibitions 13757, 14829
Water exports, environmental impact 14829
Water Protection Act 13757, 14559-61, 14683-9, 14828-9
Water resources 13757, 14559-61, 14828-9
Water resources, stewardship legislation 13757, 14559
Watershed restoration 14684-5
Western Communities, economic development potential 15576
Western Communities, investments 13197-8
Western Communities, planning 13777
Western Communities, transit service 13198
Wood stoves, emission regulations, impact 13960
Workers, protection 14798-9

Silver Coach Autobody Ltd.

Letter quoted from claims centre manager re service (Dalton) 15084

Simon Fraser University

Attendees (Jones, B.) 14236 (Warnke) 14236
Contribution (Jones, B.) 14236
Grants (Copping) 13203
History (Warnke) 14235
Student spaces, increase (Miller) 15372

Simonis, Guy

Responsibilities (Dosanjh) 16459-60 (Jones, K.) 16459-60

Simpson, Bernie (Vancouver-Fraserview)

Ayerst, Glenna, commended for work on bicycle helmet legislation 15973
Budget, balanced budget 13295
Budget debate 13294-7
Budget, financial industry reaction 13294-5
Budget, reaction to 1995-96 budget 13294-5
Cancer treatment facilities 13804
Chien, Cary, teaching award 13295
Columbia Basin Trust Act 13530
Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region 13530
Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region, redress 13530
Cycling, helmet use by cyclists 15973
Economy of B.C. 13295
Education funding 13296
Education, post-secondary student spaces 13296
Fair Haven Home for the Elderly, building project 13296
Finnish Home for the Elderly, building project 13296
Head injuries, cost of treatment 15973
Health care costs 13804
Health care funding 13297, 13804
Health care, regionalization 13804
Health care services, coordinated delivery 13803-4
Health care system, management efficiency 13804-5
Health care system, volunteers 13805
Holocaust, tribute to victims 14045-7
Holy Family Hospital, capital funding 13296
Immigrants to B.C. 13295
Infrastructure investments and public debt 13296
Job creation 13296
Jobs and investment strategy 13295-6
Khalsa Diwan Society Cultural and Resource Centre, building project 13296
Killarney Community Centre, building project 13296
Lewis, Gerald and Eleanor, Columbia River Treaty impact on property 13530
Medicare system, protection 13296-7
Walter Moberly Elementary School, upgrading 13296
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15973
NDP government, fiscal policies 13295
Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in Science, Technology and Mathematics, recipient commended 13295
Roberts, Ernie, Columbia River Treaty impact on property 13530
Royal Arch Masonic Home, building project 13296
St. Paul's Hospital, cooperative projects with Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre 13803-4
Skills Now program, business-education partnerships 13295
Skills Now program, funding to school districts 13295-6
David Thompson Secondary School, achievements 13295
Vancouver-Fraserview constituency, capital projects 13296
VE-Day, fiftieth anniversary remembrances 14045-7
War, human cost of war 14045-7
Working Group on Fiscal and Debt Benchmarks, recommendations 13295

Sinclar Enterprises Ltd.

Fibreboard plant proposal (Cull) 16256 (Fox) 13922, 16256

Singh, Gur

Liberal Party candidacy (Farnworth) 13121 (Harcourt) 13313 (Janssen) 13291 (Perry) 13069
Medicare system, position (Cashore) 13269 (Pullinger) 13273 (Schreck) 16769
Quoted re female physicians (Cashore) 13269
Quoted re health care system (Barlee) 13059 (Mitchell) 16764 (Wilson) 16767-8

Sivertson, Lorne (Assistant Deputy Minister, Employment and Investment ministry)

Dam construction projects, power-storage costs 16034
Employment and Investment ministry, estimates 16033-4
Keenleyside Dam construction project, environmental concerns 16034
Keenleyside Dam, cost of power generation 16033-4

Skeena Cellulose Inc.

Gwoimt et al. v. Skeena Cellulose Ltd., the Attorney General of British Columbia and the Council of Forest Industries. See name of case

Ski industry

Alpine ski policy (Cull) 16148 (Hurd) 16148 (Sihota) 13923
Consultations re mountain resort legislation (Charbonneau) 13438 (Clark) 13863 (Mitchell) 13435, 13863 (Serwa) 13437
Injury waivers, legislation (Gabelmann) 13702 (Mitchell) 13702
Investment (Hurd) 13438
Okanagan area operations (Serwa) 13437
Resort facilities, year-round utilization (Serwa) 13437
Role in economy (Charbonneau) 13438 (Clark) 13433-4, 13439, 13862 (Mitchell) 13435, 13702

Skills Now program

Aboriginal training programs (Miller) 14291-2 (Tanner) 14291-2
Business-education partnerships (Miller) 15253, 15331 (Reid) 15253, 15288, 15330-1 (Simpson) 13295
Child care availability for program users (Priddy) 13986
Evaluation of program (Charbonneau) 13644 (Farrell-Collins) 15475 (Miller) 15254-6, 15277-9, 15328, 15331-2, 15361-3 (Reid) 15254-6, 15277-9, 15328, 15331-2, 15361, 15475 (Stephens) 13644
Financial assistance (Fox) 15334 (Miller) 15334
Funding (Charbonneau) 13683-4 (Lali) 13128 (Simpson) 13295-6 (Stephens) 13683-4
Impact (Streifel) 14581
Innovation fund program (Copping) 13203
K-to-12 component (Miller) 15290-1 (Stephens) 15290-1
Post-secondary institutions, links with program (Fox) 15332-4 (Miller) 15332-4
Post-secondary spaces (Miller) 15277-8 (Reid) 15277
Prior learning credits (Miller) 15374 (Reid) 15374
Program (Charbonneau) 13641, 13748 (Cull) 13074, 13078 (de Jong, M.) 14278-81, 16429-30 (Harcourt) 16430, 16496 (Jones, K.) 15362-3 (Miller) 13207, 14272-3, 14278-9, 14281, 15278-9, 15362-3, 15476 (Schreck) 12999 (Stephens) 13327
Projects in Chilliwack area (Chisholm) 15282-3 (Miller) 15282
Quick-response training (Miller) 15329-30, 15332, 15362-3 (Reid) 15329-30, 15332
Skills development centre for Clearwater (Jackson) 13372-3
Skills development centres (Dalton) 14288-9 (Fox) 15333-4 (Garden) 13275-6 (Miller) 14284-5, 14288-9, 15282-3, 15332-4 (Streifel) 13024 (Tanner) 14284-5
Staffing costs (Miller) 15280-1 (Reid) 15280-1
Student summer works program (Fox) 15364-5 (Miller) 15364-5
Student tracking system (Miller) 15290 (Reid) 15290
Welfare-to-work programs (Miller) 14282-6, 15253, 15280-1, 15288-90 (Reid) 15281, 15288-90 (Tanner) 14282-5
Welfare-to-work programs, assessment component (Miller) 15325-6 (Reid) 15325-6

Skills training

Access to training programs (Miller) 15366
Employability and skills (Miller) 13291-2
Facilities, role (de Jong, M.) 14278-9 (Miller) 14278-9
Federal role (Miller) 14285, 15289, 15326 (Reid) 15289 (Tanner) 14285
Funding (Copping) 13203 (Cull) 13077 (Harcourt) 16415 (Kasper) 13189 (Krog) 14585 (MacPhail) 13039 (Miller) 13207-8, 15334, 15476
Funding for training centres (Dalton) 14289 (Miller) 14289-90
Need (Charbonneau) 13398 (Cull) 13382 (Harcourt) 16414 (Jones, K.) 13056 (Miller) 13207-8, 15255 (Reid) 13395 (Throne speech) 12990
NDP government action (Hagen) 13024-5 (Harcourt) 16408
Post-secondary training, delivery (Miller) 14273, 14279, 14288-9
Skills training (Streifel) 13023
Skills training and retraining (Jackson) 13372
Skills training in K-to-12 (Miller) 15290-1 (Stephens) 15290-1
Skills training initiatives (Lali) 13128 (Stephens) 13327
Technical skills, employer demand (de Jong, M.) 14279 (Jones, K.) 14277 (Miller) 14277-8
Technical trades training (Miller) 13208, 14290-1
Training for B.C. workers (Fox) 15335-6 (Miller) 15335-6
Training for GAIN recipients (Miller) 14282-6 (Tanner) 14282-5
Youth training initiative (Anderson) 14603-5 (MacPhail) 14603-5 (Neufeld) 14603
Youth training initiative, job placements (MacPhail) 14604 (Neufeld) 14604
Youth training initiative, training centre location (Anderson) 14604 (MacPhail) 14604 (Neufeld) 14604

Skills, Training and Labour, Ministry of

Estimates 14272-92, 15206-16, 15243-57, 15277-91, 15325-38, 15360-76, 15474-6
Estimates, speakers (Chisholm) 15282-7 (Dalton) 14288-90, 14292, 15368-71 (de Jong, M.) 14278-82 (Farrell-Collins) 15207-15, 15244-5, 15247-9, 15250, 15475 (Fox) 15332-8, 15364-6, 15368 (Hanson) 15207, 15246, 15474 (Jarvis) 15243-4 (Jones, K.) 14274-7, 14280-1, 15249-52, 15255, 15284, 15362-3, 15367-8, 15375-6 (Miller) 14272-92, 15207-16, 15243-57, 15277-91, 15325-38, 15360-76, 15475-6 (Reid) 15212, 15215, 15252-6, 15277-82, 15287-90, 15325-32, 15360-1, 15363-4, 15367, 15371-5, 15475 (Schreck) 15257 (Stephens) 15290-1 (Tanner) 14282-7, 14291-2 (Wouters) 15373-4
Advertising expenditures (Miller) 15282 (Reid) 15282
Annual report, 1993-94, tabled (Miller) 15402
Capital debt, interest costs (Miller) 15280 (Reid) 15280
Disability issues office (Miller) 14273, 15208
Employment training for GAIN recipients, ministry responsibility (Miller) 14283-4 (Tanner) 14283-4
Offices, setup costs of new offices (Dalton) 15371 (Miller) 15371
Partnership initiatives (Miller) 15253 (Reid) 15253
Planning session at Qualicum Beach (Farrell-Collins) 14039
Programs (Reid) 15288
Programs, evaluation (Anderson) 14602-3 (MacPhail) 14603
Staff reclassification, cost (Reid) 15326
Staffing levels (Miller) 15280-2 (Reid) 15279-80, 15282
Work with Education ministry (Miller) 15290-1, 15327-8 (Reid) 15327-9 (Stephens) 15290-1

SkyTrain

Costs (Clark) 15947-8, 15950 (Symons) 15947, 15950
Debt-servicing costs (Blasetti) 15854
Extensions (Clark) 15914
Fare evasion (Clark) 15916, 15920
Fare-checking (Symons) 15920
Funding, surcharges (Clark) 15854-5
Park-and-ride facilities, damage and thefts, patrol (Pement) 15082 (Symons) 15082
Railcars, costs (Clark) 15920 (Symons) 15920
Ridership (Clark) 15948
Whalley station (Clark) 15919-20 (Symons) 15919-20

Sliammon Indian band

Taxation powers (Wilson) 14205

Slocan Forest Products Ltd.

Fort Nelson oriented strand board plant (Neufeld) 15107
Layoffs in Plateau division (Fox) 15818 (Petter) 15818-9
Transportation of equipment to Fort Nelson (Neufeld) 15537-8 (Petter) 15539

Small business

Business education programs in schools (Barlee) 13523 (Stephens) 13523
Business information services (Barlee) 13489-90
Capital needs (Barlee) 13441
Community investment pilot program (Barlee) 13442-3
Concerns (Gingell) 14736 (Neufeld) 14735, 14751-2
Economy and small business (Barlee) 13559-60 (Fox) 13559-60
Employers, impact of dismantling of medicare system (Beattie) 13287
Employment Standards Act, impact (Chisholm) 14799-800 (Farrell-Collins) 14720 (Hanson) 14721-2 (Jarvis) 14825-6 (Kasper) 14801 (Mitchell) 14722-4, 14820-1 (Randall) 14826 (Serwa) 14821-2 (Stephens) 14740-1 (Tyabji) 14818-20 (Warnke) 14824-5 (Wilson) 14755-7
Entrepreneurs, needs (Barlee) 13441
Experience as small business employer described (Tanner) 14749
Fees and licences (Serwa) 13285
Financing sources (Barlee) 13492 (Gingell) 13492
Home-based business program (Barlee) 13489-93 (Gingell) 13491-2 (Tanner) 13492-3, 13495-6
Information needs (Barlee) 13441
Job creation (Barlee) 13488 (Mitchell) 14723 (Symons) 13254, 13330 (Tanner) 13489-90
Labour Relations Code, impact (Farrell-Collins) 14716, 14718 (Garden) 14741
Microlending circles (Barlee) 13441
NDP administration and small business (Hurd) 13031 (Neufeld) 13041
Number of businesses (Barlee) 13491
Paperwork burden (Pullinger) 14727
Partnerships with post-secondary institutions (Dalton) 15370-1 (Miller) 15330-1, 15360-1, 15370 (Reid) 15330-1, 15360-1, 15363-4
Problems in rural areas (Fox) 13559
Problems of small and medium-sized business (Hurd) 14791-5 (van Dongen) 14795
Professional licensing, standardization (Chisholm) 13556
Programs for Indian women (Barlee) 13440, 13443, 13492-4 (Gingell) 13493-4 (Tanner) 13492-6
Programs, results measurement process (Barlee) 13488-9, 13491-3 (Gingell) 13488-9, 13491-2 (Tanner) 13492-3
Regional workshops and seminars (Barlee) 13442
Regulatory requirements (Barlee) 13441, 13443, 13494, 13553 (Farrell-Collins) 14718-9 (Gingell) 13553 (Neufeld) 14753-4 (Tanner) 14748
Risk-taking (Barlee) 13557 (Fox) 13557
Role in economy (Barlee) 13440, 13488, 15663 (Fox) 14795-7 (Tanner) 14749
Sector in B.C. (Harcourt) 16417
Services, availability on Internet (Barlee) 13441
Startups (Barlee) 13440
Survey (Barlee) 13494 (Tanner) 13495-6
Taxation (Barlee) 13557-8 (Chisholm) 13558 (Fox) 13557
Training programs for young entrepreneurs (Barlee) 13488
White Paper (Barlee) 13441 (Gingell) 13494
Women in business (Barlee) 13440, 13489 (Priddy) 13562
Workers' Compensation Board assessments, impact (Barlee) 13497-8 (Gingell) 13497-8

Small business forest enterprise program.

See

Small business incentive program

Funding transactions (Barlee) 13525 (Gingell) 13524-5, 13552-3 (Halkett) 13552-3

Small Business, Tourism and Culture, Ministry of

Estimates 13439-56, 13487-98, 13513-25, 13552-61, 15662-4
Estimates, speakers (Barlee) 13439-56, 13487-98, 13513-25, 13552-61, 15662-4 (Chisholm) 13553-6, 13558 (Fox) 13556-7, 13559-61, 15662 (Gingell) 13487-94, 13496-8, 13513-6, 13524-5, 13552-3 (Halkett) 13552-3 (Jones, K.) 13445-8 (Neufeld) 13516-23, 15663-4 (Perry) 13495 (Stephens) 13523-4 (Tanner) 13444-5, 13447-56, 13488-90, 13492-6, 13498, 15662
Annual report, 1993-94, tabled (Barlee) 13181
Business assistance programs (Barlee) 13489-94 (Gingell) 13489, 13491-4 (Tanner) 13489-90, 13492-6
Business education programs (Barlee) 13523 (Stephens) 13523-4
Consultations with first nations re scenic corridors (Chisholm) 13895
Cultural activities, expenditures (Barlee) 13454-5 (Tanner) 13454
Cultural industries, investments by government (Barlee) 13443
Intergovernmental small business discussions (Barlee) 13523
Organization of ministry, benefits (Barlee) 13439
Role in economic planning for province (Barlee) 13444
Small business division, activities (Barlee) 13440, 13442-3
Small business initiatives (Barlee) 13442-3
Telecommunication technology, use by ministry (Barlee) 13441-2
Tourism budget (Barlee) 13453 (Tanner) 13452-3
Tourism business managers (Barlee) 13450-1 (Tanner) 13450
Tourism division
- absorption by Environment ministry (Jarvis) 13830-1
- agreements with other jurisdictions (Neufeld) 13830
- budget (Jarvis) 13830
- expenditures (Warnke) 13833
- funding (Barlee) 13837 (Mitchell) 13835
- initiatives (Barlee) 13443
- mandate (Barlee) 13349, 13828 (Farrell-Collins) 13828 (Jarvis) 13830 (Mitchell) 13835 (Neufeld) 13830 (Warnke) 13832
- participation in Indian treaty negotiations (Barlee) 13895 (Chisholm) 13895
- role in land use planning and resource management (Barlee) 13828, 13893 (Jarvis) 13830 (Mitchell) 13835-6, 13893 (Neufeld) 13829 (Sawicki) 13834 (Serwa) 13831
- scenic corridors, role (Chisholm) 13895
- separate ministry (Barlee) 13894-5 (Mitchell) 13894
- staffing levels (Barlee) 13450-1

Small claims court

Caseload (Chisholm) 13598
Enforcement of court orders (Chisholm) 13597-8 (Gabelmann) 13598

Smallwood, Hon. Joan (Surrey-Whalley) Minister of Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services

Abbeyfield housing, funding 14114
Aboriginal marketing cooperative model 13976
Abortion, access zones 16007-9
Abortion, anti-abortion protests 16007-8
Abortion, choice for women 16008
Access to Abortion Services Act 16007-9
Alberta, deficit reduction measures 13126
Atira Transition House Society, work 13973
Automobile industry, compensation fund 14009
Automobile leasing, consumer protection regulations 14015-6
Automobile leasing, Consumer Services ministry staff 14016
Bankruptcies per capita 13981
Better Business Bureau, relationship with Consumer Services ministry 14008
Bracken Heights Housing Cooperative, privatization proposal 13760, 13973
B.C. Housing Management Commission, 1993-94 annual report tabled 14247
B.C. Housing Management Commission, construction proposals, evaluation 14020
B.C. Housing Management Commission, performance 14118
B.C. Housing Management Commission, privatization, Liberal Party position 14118, 15307
B.C. Housing Management Commission, relationship with government and community groups 14114
B.C. Housing Management Commission, relationship with Housing ministry 14121
B.C. Housing Management Commission, role 14121
B.C. Housing Management Commission, staffing levels 14021
B.C. Housing Management Commission, work 13974
B.C. 21 program, funding for housing 14117
Budget debate 13125-7
Budget, federal budget, impact 13125
Bulkley Valley Housing Society, funding for housing forum 13973
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, consultation with Housing ministry re cooperative housing 15113, 15115
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, performance 14079
Canadian Home Builders' Association, Housing ministry partnership 13974
Canadian Home Builders' Association, new home warranty 14009
Canadian Motor Vehicle Arbitration Plan 14018-9
Canadian Standards Association, role 14010, 14019
Consumer complaints to Consumer Services ministry 13980
Consumer complaints to Consumer Services ministry, investigations 13980, 15307
Consumer complaints to Consumer Services ministry, service in regions 14007-8
Consumer debt 13975
Consumer protection 13974-5
Consumer Protection Act, amendments 14663
Consumer Protection Amendment Act (1995) 14663, 14834-5, 14837, 15020-6
Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, commencement date 15026
Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, consent, definition 15024
Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, enforceability for companies based outside B.C. 15025
Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, goods, definition of term 15022
Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 1995, retroactivity 15022, 15024
Consumer protection legislation 14009, 14663, 14834-5, 15022-3
Consumer protection, multilevel or pyramid marketing, investigations 14012-5
Consumer protection, real estate transactions 13903-4
Consumers, redress for consumers 14023, 15307
Cooperative Association Act, amendments 15018-19
Cooperative Association Amendment Act (1995) 15018-20, 15112-16
Cooperative Association Amendment Act, 1995, first reading date specified 15112
Cooperative Association Amendment Act, 1995, retroactivity of commencement date for section (1) 15116
Cooperative Association Amendment Act, 1995, time spent on bill's passage through House 15116
Cooperatives 13975-6
Cooperatives, superintendent of cooperatives, role as registrar of housing co-ops 15115
Credit unions in B.C. 13975
Crown corporations, privatization, Liberal Party position 14118
Cycling, CSA-approved helmets 14019
Debt collection practices, consumer awareness 13975
Debtor assistance branch, recoveries to creditors 13003
Debtor assistance branch, work 13975
Debtor assistance program, Kamloops office 14007
Debtor assistance program, number of clients 13981, 15307
Earthquake preparedness, Housing ministry role 14021
Emergencies, federal role 14115
Everywoman's Health Centre, anti-abortion protests 16007-8
GAIN recipients, debt collection immunity 13003
Government services, cost 13126
Government spending per capita, reduction 13126
Health care services, access to legal medical services 16007, 16009
Homes B.C. program, community housing initiatives 13973
Homes B.C. program, job creation 14120
Housing, affordable housing 14019-20, 14077
Housing, affordable housing supply 13973
Housing, affordable housing supply, protection 15113-5
Housing, conference on affordable housing 13973
Housing construction by non-profit groups, rent subsidies 14116
Housing, conversion of rental stock to fractional interest complexes 13403
Housing cooperatives, changes to constitution re distribution of assets 15115
Housing cooperatives, concerns 14022
Housing cooperatives, dissolution and distribution of assets 15113-5
Housing cooperatives, government liability 15116
Housing cooperatives, non-profit co-ops, equity issues 15114
Housing cooperatives, privatization 13760
Housing cooperatives, privatization case in Squamish 13760, 13973, 15019
Housing, federal funding reduction 13973, 14079, 14112, 14117
Housing for homeless people, bridging programs 14122
Housing for people in need, waiting list 14121
Housing for young people 13974, 14123
Housing, funding 14116-19
Housing, government partnerships with business 13974
Housing, land trusts for social housing 14022
Housing market in B.C. 13973
Housing ministry, communication with housing cooperative groups re legislative changes 15113, 15115
Housing ministry, meetings with federal government 14079-80
Housing, national housing strategy 14079
Housing, need 14119
Housing, non-market housing, availability 14019
Housing, non-market housing, impact on market housing 14121
Housing, non-profit housing stock, protection 15019
Housing, partnerships between government and community groups or municipalities 14080
Housing policy 14113, 14116
Housing policy, Liberal Party position 14112-3, 14118, 15307
Housing, provincial housing strategy 13973-4, 14079
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, 1993-94 annual report tabled 16429
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, administrative cost reduction and staff increase 14076
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, advertising expenditures 14021
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, business plan 13972, 14008
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, Consumer Services staff 14017, 14120
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, corporate services branch 14008
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, establishment of new ministry 14017
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, estimates 13972-81, 14007-23, 14076-84, 14111-24, 15307
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, grants 14077
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, information systems, budget 14077
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, mandate 13972, 14113, 14121
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, multiculturalism initiatives 14122
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, Municipal Affairs ministry cooperation 14115, 15307
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, performance 13973, 13979, 14008
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, polling and research 13979, 14011-2, 14077
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry programs, funding 14078-81
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, residential tenancy branch, staff 14120
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, residential tenancy issues, budget 14112
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, residential tenancy offices 14022-3, 14076
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, staff 13980, 14076-7
Housing, Recreation and Consumer Services ministry, workplace partnership programs 15307
Housing, residential rehabilitation program 14121
Housing, social housing task force 13974
Housing, special needs housing committee 14122
Housing, special needs housing, funding, interministry cooperation 14115-6
Housing, special needs housing, need 13973
Housing statistics 14113
Housing, social housing task force 13974
Indians, marketing cooperatives 13976
Indians, outdoor leadership program for youth 13974
Infrastructure investments 13127
Investment by government, benefits 13125, 13127
Landlord and tenant disputes 13977
Landlord and tenant disputes, arbitration 13978-9, 14081, 14112
Landlord and tenant disputes, arbitrators, performance 14082
Landlord and tenant disputes, impact of legislation 14017-8
Landlord and tenant relationship, legislative amendments 13975, 14111
Manufactured homes, dispute mediation 14122
Medicare system, Liberal Party of Canada position 13125
Mitchell, Margaret, leadership commended 14122
Nanaimo Cooperative Community Health Centre, funding 13976
NDP government, fiscal policies 13125-7
Offence Amendment Act, 1995, direct sale and direct seller, definitions 14835, 15020-1
Offence Amendment Act, 1995, exemptions from act 14835
Offence Amendment Act, 1995, time-share contract, definition 15020-1
Physical fitness, benefits 13974
Progressive Inter-cultural Community Services Society, funding re housing needs 13973
Provincial emergency program, Housing ministry role 14021
Provincial emergency program, ministries' policy 14115
Public Housing Tenants' Advisory Committee 14122
Radiant-heating ceiling panels 13975, 14009-11, 14022
Radiant-heating ceiling panels, federal role 14019
Real estate agents, disclosure requirements 13904
Real Estate Amendment Act (1995) 13903-4
Real estate, shared-interest ownership 13903-4
Real property tax, exemption for first-time homebuyers 14120
Recreation, administration grants to communities 13974
Recreation, More Than an Open Door initiative 13974
Recreation, strategic plan 13974
Registrar of direct sellers, delegation of authority 14835, 15021
Rent controls 13977
Rent increases, consultation 13977-8
Rent increases, disputes 13975, 14112
Rent protection formula 13977-8
Rent subsidies, provincial funding 14117, 14119
Rental housing, conversion to shared-interest buildings 13903-4
Rental Housing Council, letter re consultation on legislation 13977, 14084
Rental Housing Council of B.C., role 14083
Rental housing, land, taxation 14115
Rental housing, mortgage interest 13977, 14083
Rental housing, private sector development 14082-3, 14113
Rental housing, secondary suites, building standards 14124
Rental housing, secondary suites, complaints from renters 14113-4
Rental housing, secondary suites, illegal suites 14113
Rental housing, secondary suites, issues 14083, 14123
Rental housing, secondary suites, report recommendations 14013-4
Rental housing, secondary suites, Union of B.C. Municipalities role 14013-4
Rental housing supply, protection of stock 13904
Rental supply program, five-year program 14117
Rentalsman's office 13976
Residential Tenancy Act, tenant protection provisions 13904
Residential Tenancy Amendment Act, 1994, consultation 13977
Residential Tenancy Amendment Act, 1994, implementation 13975, 14112
Residential Tenancy Amendment Act, 1994, retroactivity 13978, 14112
Rogers Cable Communications Ltd., negative-option services issue 15022
Sales, door-to-door sellers, complaints and mandatory registration and photo ID 13975, 14015, 15307
Sales, multilevel or pyramid marketing, investigations 14012-5
Sales, negative-option legislation elsewhere 15022-3, 15025
Sales, negative-option offers, disclosure requirements 14835, 15024-6
Sales, negative-option sales, refunds on payments 14663, 14835
Seniors' housing 14020, 14077-8
Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program 14008, 14020, 14077-8, 15307
Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program staff, workplace review 13973, 15307
Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program, streamlining 13126
Social and economic policy, integration 13127
Sports, Premier's sports award program 13974
Surrey, growth 13127
Television cable services, packaging of multiple channels for rent 15023
Tenants' rights in shared-interest conversions 13903-4
Time-share contracts 14663, 14835, 15021
Transition houses for women with substance dependencies, needs assessment 13973
Transportation policy 13127
Underground economy 14009
Woodlands, deinstitutionalization of residents, housing issue 14123-4

Smienk, Josh

Columbia River Treaty Committee participation (Boone) 13467 (Clark) 13475

Smith, Michael

Nobel prize winner (Serwa) 13387

Smoking.

See

Social Credit Party

Conflict-of-interest issues during administration (Harcourt) 16439
Environmental protection policies during administration (Sihota) 14684, 14686
Forest policy during administration (Petter) 14924-5
Government actions, NDP government position (Serwa) 13386
Government, capital expenditures (Giesbrecht) 13258
Government, fiscal policies (Janssen) 13290 (Serwa) 13282-3, 13284
Government performance (Krog) 13102 (Serwa) 13387
Government policies (Beattie) 13285
Health care commission (Lovick) 13224
Highways rehabilitation, funding during Social Credit Party administration (Symons) 13329
MLAs, number (Harcourt) 13145 (Weisgerber) 13145
Public money used to fund re-election, NDP allegations (Campbell) 15304 (Gingell) 15306
Restraint policies during administration (Cull) 13298 (Hammell) 13287-8
School construction, funding during administration (Charbonneau) 15171
Tobacco advertising, position of W.A.C. Bennett government (Mitchell) 14971-2
Vision (Serwa) 13388

Social service tax.

See

Social Service Tax Act

Amendments (Cull) 13080, 13711, 14905, 15401-2, 15780-1, 15940-1 (Gingell) 15781

Social services.

See also

Accessibility in communities (Anderson) 14614 (MacPhail) 14614
Babysitter's supplement (MacPhail) 15313 (Stephens) 15312
Community development workers, Health and Social Services ministries cooperation (Anderson) 14899 (MacPhail) 14899
Community projects funding program (Anderson) 15349-50 (MacPhail) 15349-50
Community support services (Anderson) 14243 (MacPhail) 14241
Eligibility (MacPhail) 14904
Emergency social services (Anderson) 14859 (MacPhail) 14859, 15733
Emergency social services, ham radio network (Anderson) 15735
Homemaker services (Anderson) 14903 (MacPhail) 14903
Hostels, ministerial responsibility (Anderson) 14616 (MacPhail) 14616
Language and ethnic considerations (Anderson) 14903 (MacPhail) 14903
Need (Anderson) 14242-4
NDP government action (Anderson) 16488-9 (Clark) 15308
Non-residential services (Anderson) 14904 (MacPhail) 14904
Respite resource services (Anderson) 15309 (MacPhail) 15309
Social support enhancement services (Anderson) 15309 (MacPhail) 15309
Special services to children and families (Anderson) 15309 (MacPhail) 15309
Support for social work planning, program (Anderson) 15309 (MacPhail) 15309-10
Waiting lists (MacPhail) 14612-3, 15346-7

Social Services, Ministry of

Estimates 14240-4, 14588-95, 14600-21, 14840-59, 14898-904, 15308-25, 15343-60, 15664-5, 15731-8
Estimates, speakers (Anderson) 14242-4, 14600-11, 14613-7, 14840-2, 14849-59, 14898-900, 14903-4, 15308-11, 15318-25, 15343-56, 15664-5, 15735-8 (Chisholm) 15731-4 (Clark) 15308 (de Jong, M.) 14588-95 (Fox) 14902 (Hurd) 14617-21, 14842-9 (Jones, K.) 15357-60 (MacPhail) 14240-2, 14588-95, 14601-21, 14840-59, 14898-904, 15309-24, 15343-60, 15664-5, 15731-8 (Neufeld) 14602-5, 14610-2, 15310, 15314-5, 15322-4, 15357, 15736 (Stephens) 15311-3, 15316-7 (Symons) 14612-3 (Tanner) 14901-2 (van Dongen) 15315-6
Administration (Anderson) 14856-7, 15351 (MacPhail) 15351
Adoption services, budget (Anderson) 15321 (MacPhail) 15321
Adoptions by ministry (Anderson) 15321 (MacPhail) 15322
Annual report, 1992-93, tabled (MacPhail) 13047
Audit services division (Anderson) 15351-2 (MacPhail) 15352
Budget (Neufeld) 13714
Children, youth and families, interministerial committee (MacPhail) 14591-2
Client feedback (Anderson) 14606-7 (MacPhail) 14606-7
Community support services (Anderson) 15344, 15354 (MacPhail) 15344, 15354
Contracted services (MacPhail) 14858
Family and child services division, program management (Anderson) 14898-9 (MacPhail) 14899
Financial assistance workers (Anderson) 14605-6 (MacPhail) 14606
Financial planning division (Anderson) 14898 (MacPhail) 14898
Foster parent payments (MacPhail) 14901-2 (Tanner) 14901
Freedom-of-information requests (Anderson) 14615-6 (MacPhail) 14615-6
Front-line workers, role (Hurd) 14619-20 (MacPhail) 14620
Funding allocation (MacPhail) 14589
Information and privacy division (Anderson) 14857
Investigation unit (Anderson) 15736 (MacPhail) 15736
Investigation unit, staff qualifications (Anderson) 14039-40 (MacPhail) 14040
Multiculturalism report (Anderson) 15664
Office budget (Anderson) 14617 (MacPhail) 14617
Office relocation away from Surrey elementary school area (Jones, K.) 15359 (MacPhail) 15359
Policy, planning and research division (Anderson) 14859 (MacPhail) 14859
Prevention, compliance and enforcement division (MacPhail) 14592, 15358, 15736
Program and funding transfers among other ministries (Anderson) 14600-1, 14607-17 (MacPhail) 14601, 14607-17
Program and funding transfers for skills training for youth (Anderson) 14601-3 (MacPhail) 14601-3 (Neufeld) 14603-4
Program workers and volunteers, insurance coverage (Anderson) 15351 (MacPhail) 15351
Programs
- evaluation (Anderson) 14602-3 (de Jong, M.) 14590 (MacPhail) 14590, 14603, 14901, 15317-8
- income support programs (Anderson) 15352 (MacPhail) 15352
- programs (Stephens) 15317
- programs added to ministry (MacPhail) 15343-4
- programs and services, wait-lists (MacPhail) 14612-3, 15346-7
- programs transferred to other ministries (Anderson) 15343 (MacPhail) 15343 (Neufeld) 14602
Recordkeeping and freedom of information (Anderson) 14616 (MacPhail) 14616
Related legislation (Anderson) 14898 (MacPhail) 14898
Rental housing security deposits, amount recovered (Hurd) 14618-9 (MacPhail) 14618-9
Role in emergencies (Chisholm) 15733 (MacPhail) 15733
Social program renewal (Anderson) 14609-10 (MacPhail) 14610
Staff
- behaviour, complaint (Anderson) 15664
- compensation (Anderson) 14609 (MacPhail) 14609-10 (Neufeld) 14610
- compensation, pay equity (MacPhail) 14609
- criminal-record checks (Jones, K.) 15359 (MacPhail) 15359
- staff (Anderson) 15735 (MacPhail) 15735 (Weisgerber) 13095
- training (Anderson) 14858-9 (MacPhail) 14858-9
Systems services division (Anderson) 14898 (MacPhail) 14898
Work with Women's Equality ministry (Priddy) 13571, 13615 (Stephens) 13571, 13615

Social welfare.

See also

Costs (Weisgerber) 13095-6
Costs during NDP administration (Hanson) 13015
Federal funding reductions (Chisholm) 15732 (Harcourt) 16489 (MacPhail) 14609-10, 15313, 15731-3 (Stephens) 15313
Federal-provincial task force on social assistance (Anderson) 14609-10 (MacPhail) 14609-10
Income assistance system (MacPhail) 14191-2, 14837-8, 15275-6
Income assistance system, review (Anderson) 15720-1 (MacPhail) 15720-1
Income support programs (de Jong, M.) 14592
Minister's Advisory Council on Income Assistance (MacPhail) 14607
National standards (Anderson) 14610-1 (MacPhail) 14610-1
Social and economic policy, integration (Smallwood) 13127
Social policy review, federal-provincial discussions (Priddy) 13566 (Stephens) 13566
Social programs in Canada (Pullinger) 13325
Social safety net in Canada (Beattie) 13287, 13367-8
Students on welfare after graduation (Chisholm) 15734
System (Anderson) 13176-8 (Warnke) 13311
System, abuse of system (Campbell) 13222
Unemployment insurance benefits recipients moving onto income assistance (MacPhail) 14607

Social workers

Board of registration, powers (Gabelmann) 14999
Funding (MacPhail) 15317 (Stephens) 15317
Training (Anderson) 14858 (MacPhail) 14858, 15314 (Neufeld) 15314 (Stephens) 15316-7

Social Workers Act

Amendments (Gabelmann) 14999 (Wilson) 15000

Socialism

Socialist fiscal principles (Mitchell) 13052
Socialist principles and NDP policies (Symons) 13330-1

Societies

Non-profit societies, funding (Brewin) 13191
Non-profit societies, project funding, accountability (Priddy) 13616-7 (Stephens) 13616
Tax status and inactive societies (Cull) 15186 (Wilson) 15185-6

Society

Disadvantaged people (Anderson) 13028-31
Divisiveness in society (Miller) 15213
Fundamental guarantees (Wilson) 16766-7
Future of society (Warnke) 13310
Hunger as a social problem, action (Anderson) 16746
Social justice, activist's courage commended (Perry) 13067
Social problems, solutions (Miller) 15251
Social responsibility (Jackson) 13245
Social well-being (Farnworth) 13120 (Sawicki) 13320-1
Social well-being and gambling (Jones, K.) 13578-9
Spirit of community in society (Perry) 13068

Society Act

Amendments, need (Tyabji) 15020 (Wilson) 15185-6
Applicability of act to Royal Roads University (Miller) 15923 (Wilson) 15923

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Funding in Parksville-Qualicum (Krog) 13016

Sooke, B.C.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police staff, number (Gabelmann) 13602-3 (Kasper) 13602-3

Sooke School District.

See

South Africa

Homelands for non-whites, comparisons with Canada (Cashore) 14005-6 (Warnke) 13812, 14006

South America

Mining industry, foreign investment (Edwards) 14187-8 (Garden) 14188 (Neufeld) 14186-7

South Chilcotin Wilderness Society

Presentation on South Chilcotin land use (Perry) 13237, 13308 (Zirnhelt) 13237

South Fraser perimeter road (Lower mainland)

Construction project (Clark) 15910-1 (Jones, K.) 13056, 15910-1 (Lortie) 13573
Construction project, funding (Clark) 15968 (Jones, K.) 15968
Highway connections (Pement) 14873 (Symons) 14873, 14980

South Park Elementary School, Victoria, B.C.

Alternative school, letter grades versus anecdotal reporting (Charbonneau) 13915-6 (Fox) 13915

Southern Railway of British Columbia Ltd.

Fraser Valley service (Jones, K.) 15909 (Symons) 15909

Southwestern British Columbia Tourist Association

Cited re formula funding for Tourism ministry (Mitchell) 13835

Sparrow, Ronald Edward v. the Queen

Case cited (Warnke) 13963, 14546 (Wilson) 13999, 14200
Decision, policy implications (Cashore) 13964-5
Decision re aboriginal rights (Cashore) 13808

Speaker and Deputy Speaker

Auditor general and Deputy Ministers' council report Enhancing Accountability for Performance in the B.C. Public Sector, June 1995, tabled 16601
Auditor general, report No. 4, 1994-95 annual report tabled 13379
Auditor general, report No. 5 re compliance-with-authorities audits tabled 14641
Auditor general, report Nos. 1, 2 and 3 tabled 17017
Auditor general report on review of NOW Communications government contracts tabled 14408
Auditor general's office, financial statements for 1993-94 and 1994-95 tabled 17017
B.C. Legislative Library, 1994 annual report tabled 16405
Chief electoral officer, report tabled re May 3, 1995, Abbotsford by-election 17017
Conflict-of-interest commissioner, 1994-95 annual report tabled 15404
Conflict-of-interest commissioner, 1995-96 annual report tabled 17017
Deputy Speaker, election (Clark) 12991
Deputy Speaker, role (Lovick) 13034
Farrell-Collins, Gary, withdrawal from chamber ordered 13415
Gingell, Fred, withdrawal from chamber ordered 15471
Information and privacy commissioner, 1994-95 annual report tabled 16672
Legislative Assembly Management Committee, 1994-96 annual report tabled 17017
Legislature staff thanked 17014-5
MLAs' remuneration legislation and conflict of interest 16750
Ombudsman report on public school system tabled 14581
Ombudsman, special report No. 18 tabled 17017

Speaker and Deputy Speaker

Salary reductions (Weisgerber) 13095
Salmon resource, Alaska's actions 16809

Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Rulings and statements

Adjournment
- standing order 34, two adjournment motions 16917-8
- standing order 34, two adjournment motions, motion by bill's sponsor accepted without intermediate business 16917-8
- standing order 35, purpose 16809
Adjournment motion to discuss urgent public matter
- matter qualifies for debate 13702
- may not be a censure or non-confidence motion nor re maladministration of ministry 15689
- opportunity for debate available by other means 14314
Bills
- omnibus bills, splitting a section from bill for separate consideration 16750
Bills, first reading
- introductory remarks, limit 16405
Bills, second reading
- keeping to amendment under discussion 16295
- keeping to principle of bill 15272, 16130, 16289
Chair
- rulings of Chair not challengeable 13055
Committee A
- ministry estimates debates, report to House, time allowed 15478
- substitution of members, 1994 decision quoted re purpose of rule 15490
Committee of the Whole House
- matters of procedure arising in committee must be handled in committee 16918
Debate
- debate on previous vote prohibited 16550
- latitude 12996
- latitude in debate on matters of principle 14427
- relevancy 16296
Government House Leader
- responsibilities 16918
Government, security of confidential information and public confidence, emergency debate, timing 13072
Language
- "cheat" 14485
- "deliberately mislead" 15471
- inappropriate remarks 13415
- "lie" 13294
- "lied" 13230
- "scum" 14732
- "sleazy" 15469-70
- "stupid" 15888
- unparliamentary language 14485, 15890, 16917
Leave
- granting of requests for leave during appropriate order of business 16750
Legislature
- adjournment delay to allow printing of bills 16917
- concurrent sittings in House and Committee A to be allowed 14451, 15461, 15490
- non-members on floor of House 16665-6, 16693
- quorum not a matter of record 15461
Members
- behaviour 13224
- challenging Speaker's ruling not in order 13230
- decorum 12995
- may not speak from their seats 13716, 14412, 14427, 15222, 15341, 16771
- must be recognized before speaking 16771-2
- only one person to speak at a time 16289
- references to by name not in order 15767
- should address remarks through Chair 13092
- withdrawal of member from House 13230, 13458-9
- withdrawal of member from House ordered 13415, 15471
Motions
- amendment infringes on intent of motion 12992
- latitude in debate 15340-1
Oral questions
- bills as subject of question 15016, 15040
- conduct of question period 13930-1, 14538, 15471-2, 15565
- purpose of question period 13378, 14424
Points of order
- dispute between members not a point of order 13248, 16722
- purpose 14421
- use to enter debate or refute comments not permitted 13371
Private members' statements
- guidelines 14240
- non-argumentative nature 13170, 14238
- non-partisan nature 13307, 14582, 15295, 15490
Privilege, budget leak 13071
Speaker cannot express legal opinion on statutory interpretation 16750
Standing orders
- standing order 35, purpose 16809

Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act

Amendment (Gabelmann) 15002

Special Committee of Selection

Report tabled, adopted 13348

Special Committee to Appoint a Child, Youth and Family Advocate

Commended (Beattie) 13110
Recommendation (Beattie) 13109-10

Special Measures Committee (Canada)

Committee (Tyabji) 13138 (Zirnhelt) 13138

Special warrants

See

Speech disorders

Speech impediments, incidence (Gingell) 14513
Treatment services (Gingell) 14395-7, 14511-3 (Ramsey) 14395-7, 14511-3

Speech from the Throne

12989-91

Address in Reply
- Moved (Boone) 12995; seconded (Schreck) 12997. Approved 13399. Amdt. (Chisholm) 13311, negatived 13335-6
- Debate 12995-9, 13006-25, 13028-42, 13047-69, 13307-11, 13317-36, 13363-73, 13379-99
- Divisions: amdt. to negatived 13335-6, address in reply approved 13399
- Speakers (Anderson) 13028-31 (Barlee) 13058-61 (Beattie) 13365-8 (Boone) 12995-7 (Campbell) 12999, 13006-10 (Charbonneau) 13398-9 (Chisholm) 13379-81 (Cull) 13381-5 (Dalton) 13020-2 (de Jong, M.) 13368-71 (Farnworth) 13317-9 (Fox) 13396-8 (Garden) 13061-3 (Gingell) 13018-20 (Hagen) 13024-5 (Hanson) 13014-5 (Hurd) 13031-4 (Jackson) 13371-3 (Jarvis) 13065-7 (Jones, K.) 13042, 13055-8 (Krog) 13015-8 (Lali) 13331-4 (Lovick) 13034-7 (MacPhail) 13037-9 (Mitchell) 13050-4 (Neufeld) 13039-42 (Perry) 13067-9, 13307-8 (Pullinger) 13323-6 (Randall) 13334-5, 13363-5 (Reid) 13393-6 (Sawicki) 13319-21 (Schreck) 12997-9 (Serwa) 13385-8 (Stephens) 13326-7 (Streifel) 13022-4 (Symons) 13063-5, 13328-31 (Tanner) 13321-3 (Tyabji) 13388-93 (Warnke) 13309-11 (Weisgerber) 13047-50 (Wilson) 13010-4
Address in Reply, nature of debate (Serwa) 13385
Content (Anderson) 13029-30 (Chisholm) 13381 (Dalton) 13020, 13022 (Hanson) 13014-5 (Jones, K.) 13042, 13055-6 (Perry) 13068, 13307 (Schreck) 12997 (Streifel) 13022-3 (Symons) 13063-4 (Warnke) 13309 (Weisgerber) 13048
Purpose (Warnke) 13309
Throne speech, 1992 speech quoted (Hurd) 13031-2

Sports

Premier's sports award program (Smallwood) 13974

Springvalley Secondary School, Kelowna, B.C.

Lunch program (Stephens) 13815

Springwood Middle School, Parksville, B.C.

Construction (Krog) 13017

Squamish, B.C.

Squamish estuary management plan, status report (Mitchell) 16262

Squamish Youth Advisory Committee

Petition re Squamish transit system presented (Mitchell) 13499

Squamish-Lillooet Regional District

Housing cooperative privatization case (Smallwood) 13973

Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Standing order 6, quorum call, cited (Warnke) 16278
Standing order 23, strangers on floor of House (Speaker) 16693 (Wilson) 16665
Standing order 25A, private members' statements (Speaker) 15490
Standing order 34, two adjournment motions (Speaker) 16917-8 (Warnke) 16809
Standing order 35, adjournment on matter of urgent public importance
- leak of budget information, moved (Farrell-Collins) 13071-2; (Clark) 13072; (Wilson) 13072; ruling 13072; debate 13084-90; speakers (Clark) 13085-6 (Farrell-Collins) 13084-5 (Hurd) 13088 (Petter) 13088-9 (Pullinger) 13090 (Reid) 13089-90 (Weisgerber) 13086-7 (Wilson) 13087-8
- release of Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society report by Hon. E. Cull, moved (Farrell-Collins) 15653; (MacPhail) 15653-4 (Weisgerber) 15653; ruling 15689
- salmon fishery situation, moved (Mitchell) 16748-9; (Gabelmann) 16749 (Farrell-Collins) 16749 (Weisgerber) 16749 (Wilson) 16749; ruling 16809
- withdrawal of Bonneville Power Administration from Columbia River Treaty, moved (Farrell-Collins) 14362; (Clark) 14362 (Weisgerber) 14362 (Hurd) 14362; ruling 14382 (Hurd) 14293; (Ramsey) 14293 (Weisgerber) 14293 (Wilson) 14293; ruling 14314
Standing order 35, purpose (Speaker) 16809
Standing order 35 quoted (Clark) 13072
Standing order 47, written questions on order paper (Farrell-Collins) 13005 (Mitchell) 13005
Standing order 47A, oral questions (Mitchell) 15018 (Serwa) 13377-8 (Speaker) 13378
Standing order 47A, oral questions, cited (Mitchell) 14040
Standing order 55, question under debate
- Legislature, concurrent sittings in House and Committee A, moved (Farrell-Collins) 14426-7; speakers (MacPhail) 14426 (Warnke) 14426; ruling 14451
Standing order 79, bills not read second time before printing of bill (Tyabji) 16917
Use in Legislature (Mitchell) 16809

Stanley Theatre, Vancouver, B.C.

Preservation, Gordon Campbell's position during mayoralty of Vancouver (Perry) 13236
Preservation, Liberal Party of Canada support (Perry) 13236

State of the Environment Report for British Columbia

Comments re environment during Social Credit Party administration (Serwa) 16716
Report (Serwa) 13952-3 (Sihota) 13953

Statistics Act

Amendments re freedom of information (Gabelmann) 16721

Statistics Canada

Forest industry stumpage formula (Fox) 15818 (Petter) 15818

Statute Revision Act

Amendment (Gabelmann) 15002

Statutes of British Columbia.

See

Revised Statutes of British Columbia

Stave Falls Dam

Cost of power generation (Edwards) 15432 (Jarvis) 15432
Generating station project (Cull) 16540 (Weisgerber) 16540
Generating station project, impact (Clark) 16028 (Jarvis) 16028 (Streifel) 13023-4

Stave Lake, B.C.

Rock quarry in area, impact on water supply, geotechnical report (Jarvis) 16265

Stellaquo Indian band

François Lake Road, negotiations with Highways ministry (Fox) 14876-7 (Pement) 14876-7

Stephens, Mary Lynn (Langley)

Abortion, access zones 15979
Abortion services, accessibility 15979
Access to Abortion Services Act 15979
Address in Reply 13326-7
Adoption Act 16343, 16371
Adoption Act, aboriginal child, definition 16343
Adoption Act, M‚tis, definition 16343
Adoption, placement of child for adoption, birth mother's consent 16371
Agricultural land reserve, farming in reserve 14647
Agriculture industry, waste treatment on industrial land farms 16205
Alcoholic beverage containers, health risk warning labels 14897
Apprenticeship scholarship program 13644
Attorney General ministry, estimates 13587-90
Attorney General ministry, work with Women's Equality ministry 13617
Automobile emission standards, regulation-making authority 16723-4
Babysitter's supplement 15312
Bingo, community service club charitable bingos 16358
Blencoe, Hon. Robin, dismissal as Government Services minister 13277
Blencoe, Hon. Robin, resignation 13004
B.C. Council of Human Rights, process re sexual harassment complaints 13401
B.C. Ferries, ten-year capital plan 13327
B.C. Gaming Commission, community charitable gaming policy re donations 16358
B.C. Public School Employers' Association, bargaining process 13790
Budget debate 13114-5
Budget surpluses 13114
Business education programs in schools 13523
Canadian Council of Ministers of Education, funding 13676
Canadian Education Association, funding 13676
Canadian Union of Public Employees, operation of school lunch program 13815
Chambers of commerce, business promotion initiatives in schools 13223-4
Child abuse, residential historical abuse program 15312
Child care facilities, evaluation protocols 13626
Child care, federal-provincial initiatives 13567
Child care for special needs children 13569, 13624
Child care funding methods 13568
Child care pilot projects, evaluation criteria 13568
Child care providers, registration 13568
Child care services for welfare recipients 15312-3
Child care services, need 16106
Child care services, one-stop access 13624-5
Child care services, regional delivery 13568
Child care, subsidy program 13624-5
Child care workers, wage supplement 13624
Child support payments, taxation issue 13621-2
Children, abuse while in care 15312
Children, prevention of violence against children 13617
Children, protection from known abusers 13622
Children Who Witness Abuse program 13616
Civil service, employment equity policies 13563
Clean air policy, regulations 16272
Community health councils, role 14696
Community services through schools 13723
Computers in schools, student-computer ratios 13719
Cottonwood corridor 14883-4
Cranbrook Regional Hospital, resignation of board chair 14540
Debt, manageability of public debt 13114
Debt management plan 13114-5
Debt, Treasury Board recommendations 13114
Debt-servicing costs 13114-5
Domestic Violence Prevention Act 16825
Economy of B.C. 13326
Education, alternative education 13577
Education as an Essential Services Act 16745
Education, assessment for learning disabilities, waiting time 13793
Education, career and personal planning curriculum 13687-9
Education, charter schools 13577, 13788-9
Education, choice and democratic ideals 13577
Education, community involvement 13786
Education, course materials 13684-6
Education curriculum, aboriginal education 13723-4
Education curriculum, development of new curriculum 13677
Education curriculum, implementation of new curriculum 13643, 13677-9, 13682
Education curriculum, relevance 13642-3
Education, distance education, electronic delivery 15079
Education, essential service designation 15225, 16745
Education funding allocations 13729-30, 14954
Education funding and administration costs 13314
Education funding, capital spending process 13731
Education funding, cash flow 13731
Education funding for fast-growing school districts 13732
Education funding formula, new formula 14954
Education, graduation rate 15225
Education, independent schools, health services funding 13794
Education, integrated resource package 13643
Education, K-to-12 skills training 15290-1
Education, Liberal Party position 13327
Education, life skills program 13688
Education ministry, advertising budget 13676
Education ministry, business education programs 13523
Education ministry, debt management plan 13730-1
Education ministry, debt-servicing costs 13730
Education ministry, education programs and evaluations, recoveries 13676-7, 13684-5
Education ministry, employee travel, funding 13644-5, 13676
Education ministry, estimates 13642-5, 13676-9, 13682-9, 13719-26, 13729-32, 13788-95
Education ministry, grants for services 13687
Education ministry, office furniture and equipment expenditures 13684
Education ministry, professional services expenditures 13676
Education ministry staff, 1992-95 numbers 13645
Education ministry, student services, grants 13689
Education ministry, work with Women's Equality ministry 13618
Education, national assessment 13677-9, 13684
Education, national assessment, B.C. rating 13677-8
Education, national assessment, B.C. results 13720-1
Education, parents' role 13722, 13786
Education, performance incentives 15225
Education, site-based management and decision-making 13789-90
Education, size of learning units 13724-5
Education, skills instruction for students, non-certified teachers 13725
Education, special education 13791-2
Education, standard achievement indicators program 13677
Education standards, international comparisons 13682-3
Education standards, national assessments 13677-9, 13684, 13720-1
Education Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14953-4, 15078-81
Education, student involvement in decision-making 13722-3
Education system, criminal-record checks for staff 13795
Education system, public system 13577
Education system, reform 13327
Education, training for administrators 13790
Education, two-tier system 13643, 13788
Education, voucher system 13643
Education, year-round schooling 13682
Employment Standards Act 14740-1
Employment Standards Act, regulations 14740
English-as-a-second-language program 13792
Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 16204-5, 16272
Families, support 16106
Family justice 13587-9
Family justice reform project 13587
Family law, mediation 13587
Family law, parenting plan in Washington State 13587
Family maintenance enforcement program, improvements 13622
Family violence, charging of both parties 13588
Family violence, prevention 16106, 16825
Family violence, prevention, Saskatchewan legislation 13588
Family violence, specialized court, Winnipeg system 13589
Family-friendly workplaces 13624
Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 14647
Farming, right to farm 14647
Farming, role in economy 14647
Federal-provincial municipal infrastructure program 14885
Fetal alcohol syndrome 14897
First Nations Women and Self-Government Conference 13565
Forest industry, role in economy 13326
Foster homes, abuse allegations, investigations 15311
Foster homes, children's safety 15311
Foster parents, criminal-record checks 15312
Fraser Valley, transportation planning 14883-4
French immersion, disbursement of federal funds 13794
French immersion, integrated resource packages in French 13793
French school board 13794
French-language instruction 13794
Gender bias, elimination 13588
Government restructuring, Liberal Party proposal 13115
Government retreats and meetings, guidelines 16827
Government Services ministry, estimates 16358
Government spending controls 13115
Greater Vancouver Regional Hospital District, role in regionalized health care system 14696
Groundwater, aquifer contamination 16204-5
Groundwater management 16204
Groundwater management, driller certification 16204
Health care expenditures by NDP government, impact on medicare system 13327
Health care facilities, capital funding and debt 14695
Health care, long term care facilities, upgrading 14698-9
Health care, regionalization of services 13327, 14540
Health care regionalization, transition process 14696-7
Health care workers, union representation 14697
Health Employers' Association of B.C., role 14697
Health ministry, estimates 14695-9
Highway 1, Langley area interchanges 14882-4
Hospital foundations, fundraising role 14696
Indian band-operated schools, work with local school boards 13724
Indians, education 13788-9
Indians, family violence 13617
Infrastructure investments, federal government role 13327
Island Highway construction project, costs 13327
Junior Achievement program 13725
Justice for women, role of Women's Equality ministry 13621
Justice system, class actions 15072
Justice system, drunkenness defence 13621
Kelleher, Stephen, investigation of sexual harassment allegations against Robin Blencoe 13277, 13401
Kettle Valley Railway heritage project, development issues 13524
Kids at Risk program 13721-3
Labour disputes, education system and disputes 16745
Langley, aquifer contamination 16204
Langley area farm operations 14647
Langley Memorial Hospital, budget overrun 14695-6
Langley Memorial Hospital, services 14695
Langley, transportation issues 14882-4
Local government, capital planning agreements with school boards 14960-1
McDonald, Gene, resignation from Cranbrook Regional Hospital board 14540
Mining industry, importance in economy 13326
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16723-4
Municipalities, farm regulatory bylaws 14647
Natural resource industries, role in economy 13326
NDP government, financial management 13114-5
NDP government vision 13327
Non-profit societies, project funding, accountability 13616
North Vancouver School District, funding 13721
Parenting skills of custodial parents 15316
Pay equity 13566
Population, B.C.'s aging population 14699
Protection orders, central registry 15693
Regional health boards, employer status 14697
Regional health boards, powers 14540, 14696
Rick Hansen and Associates, Education ministry contract 13686-7
Rights and freedoms of Canadians 15979
Royal Commission on Learning (Ontario), recommendations 13722
School accreditation, legislative provisions 14953
School Act amendments re other professional organization for teachers 13725-6
School boards, autonomy 14954, 15225-6
School boards, capital funding, unspent portion reverting to province 13792
School boards, number and amalgamation 13314, 15225
School boards, trust funds, minister's powers 14954
School construction, fair-wage policy impact 15225
School construction, private sector role 13730-1
School construction, private sector role, Hon. Michael Harcourt's comments 13730
School construction, project managers 13792-3
School meals program 13815
School portables, use 15225
School site acquisitions 14960-1
School Sites Acquisition Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14960-1
Schools, community/parent rooms 13722
Seniors, health care needs 14699
Seniors, supportive housing 14697-8
Sex crimes, victims, legislation 13589-90
Sexual harassment 13623
Sexual harassment allegations against cabinet minister 13242, 13277, 13401
Sexual harassment charges, committee process for handling of cases 13242
Sexual harassment in the workplace 13623
Sexual harassment prevention training for government staff 13623
Sexual harassment, standards of conduct 13242
Silicone gel breast implants, class actions against manufacturers 15072
Skills Now program 13327, 13644
Skills Now program, funding 13683-4
Skills Now program, K-to-12 component 15290-1
Skills, Training and Labour ministry, estimates 15290-1
Skills, Training and Labour ministry, work with Education ministry 15290-1
Skills training initiatives 13327
Small business, impact of Employment Standards Act 14740-1
Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, business education programs 13523-4
Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates 13523-4
Smoking, health risks 14897
Social policy review, federal-provincial discussions 13566
Social Services ministry, estimates 15311-3, 15316-7
Social Services ministry programs 15317
Social welfare, federal funding reductions 15313
Social workers 15316-7
Springvalley Secondary School, lunch program 13815
Stopping the Violence program 13616, 13619
Students, lost education time, action 16745
Students, skills training, accident insurance while at worksite 13794
Subdivision of land, provision for schools in new development 14960-1
Surrey School District, funding 13731-2
Task Force on Small Business, recommendations 13523
Tax levels 13115
Teacher training 13719
Teachers, disciplinary action against teachers in independent schools 14953, 15078
Teachers, early retirement incentive plans 13790
Teachers, non-mandatory membership in B.C. Teachers' Federation 13725-6
Teachers, professional development 13687, 13719-20
Teachers, salaries and benefits, school boards' contract obligations, budget allocation 13791
Teachers, salary adjustments 13790-1
Technology training in schools 13683
Technology training in schools, funding 13643-4
Transition house workers, wage supplement 13618
Transition houses 13618-9
Transport 2021 plan 14884-5
Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates 14882-5
Transportation and Highways ministry projects, federal funding 14885
Transportation, regional needs 14884
Treasury Board memo re provincial debt 13114
User charges, increase 13083, 13114
Victims legislation 13617
Victims of Crime Act 15693
Victims of Crime Act, victim, definition 15693
Victims of crime, impact statements 15693
Victims of crime, right to information 15693
Victims-of-violence counselling programs for women 13618
Violence against women and children, prevention 13617, 13619, 16106
Violence in Indian communities 13617
Violence in the media 13619
Violence, interministry committee 13617
Violence issues 13617
Violence, prevention initiatives 13619
Violence, Stopping the Violence program 13616
Wages, minimum wage, rate increase 14740
Winters, Alan, foster child abuse case 15311
Women, economic opportunity 16106
Women, employment equity 13563
Women, equality issues 13587
Women, wage parity 13566
Women, workforce participation 13563
Women's Equality ministry, contracted service providers 13625
Women's Equality ministry, estimates 13563-71, 13615-9, 13621-6, 16105-6
Women's Equality ministry, freestanding status 16106
Women's Equality ministry, grants and contributions 13625
Women's Equality ministry, in-school programs 13618
Women's Equality ministry, mandate 16106
Women's Equality ministry programs, evaluation criteria 13569, 13616
Women's Equality ministry, programs for Indian women 13564-5
Women's Equality ministry, publications 13626
Women's Equality ministry, regional program coordinators 13570
Women's Equality ministry, role in prevention of sexual harassment 13617-8
Women's Equality ministry staff, specialist-designated personnel 13571
Women's Equality ministry, staffing 13565
Women's Equality ministry, support services 13565
Women's Equality ministry, work with other ministries 13571, 13615, 13617-8
Working mothers, needs 16106
Youth, education re teen motherhood 15317
Youth, social services 15313

Sterile insect release program

Program (Beattie) 14644
Status (Chisholm) 15601 (Zirnhelt) 15601

Steveston Senior Secondary School, Richmond, B.C.

Crowding (Warnke) 13842
Expansion (Warnke) 13843

Stocks.

See

Stone Electronics Ltd.

Working Opportunity Fund investment cited (Barlee) 13496

Stoney Creek people

Heritage sites, significance (Cashore) 14297

Stopping the Violence program

Expenditures (Priddy) 13615-6 (Stephens) 13616
Program (Priddy) 13562, 13615-6, 13619 (Stephens) 13616, 13619
Support staff (Priddy) 13571 (Stephens) 13571

Strahl, Chuck

Quoted re seismic studies of lower mainland (Chisholm) 13379

Strategic highway improvement program

Federal funding (Pement) 14885

Strathcona Park

Mining activities (Cashore) 14297 (Jarvis) 14297
Timber supply area in park (Cull) 16900 (Hurd) 16900

Streifel, Dennis (Mission-Kent)

Address in Reply 13022-4
Alberta, deficit reduction measures 13023
B.C. Hydro, community hiring and purchasing 13024
Child labour 14732
Dual Elected Office Prohibition Act 13027
Economy of B.C. 13023
Education, Joint Project in Mission 13023
Education, post-secondary education, NDP government action 14581-3
Education, post-secondary federal funding reduction 14581, 14583
Election Act 16660
Elections, ballot-marking 16660
Employment Standards Act 14731-4, 14803
Forestry issues, NDP government action 13023
Fraser Valley, commuter rail system, jobs 13023
Funding, federal funding 13024
Health ministry, estimates 14460
Manning, Preston, policies 13023
Medicare system, protection 13022-3
MLAs, double-dipping legislation 13027
MLAs, language used in House 14732
Mineral Tenure Amendment Act (1995) 15510
Mission-Kent constituency, projects 13023
Natural resource industries, lost jobs, retraining for workers 13024
Nesbitt Burns Inc., comments on B.C. finances 13023
Skills Now program, impact 14581
Skills training 13023
Skills training centres, establishment 13024
Statutory holidays and unpaid leave for workers 14732-3
Stave Falls Dam construction, impact 13023-4
Throne speech, content 13022-3
Wages, assignment of wages 14733
Workers' Compensation Board, back injury claims 13799
Workers' Compensation Board, safety-in-workplace initiatives 13799
Workers killed, injured on job, day of mourning 13799
Workers, protection 14732-4
Workers' rights 14732-3
Workplace injuries 13799

G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Vancouver, B.C.

Mandate (Ramsey) 14392 (Reid) 14452-3

Struble, Karl.

See also

Consulting charges to Forests ministry (Hurd) 15703 (Petter) 15703
Consulting work for government (Harcourt) 16437-9 (Weisgerber) 16437-9
Correspondence (Weisgerber) 13460
Government policy, knowledge (Harcourt) 13461 (Neufeld) 13461
Payments from Premier's office (Gingell) 13460 (Harcourt) 13377, 13460-1 (Hurd) 13415 (Weisgerber) 13352, 13377
Role in appointment of Forests minister (Neufeld) 13378
Telephone calls (Weisgerber) 13352, 13528

Struble-Totten

Services, use by Johanna den Hertog (Farrell-Collins) 13461

Students

Concerns about future (Symons) 13329
Foreign students (Chisholm) 15284 (Miller) 15284
Jobs after graduation (Fox) 13783-4
Lost education time, action (Stephens) 16745
Skills training, accident insurance while at worksite (Charbonneau) 13794 (Stephens) 13794
Student aid
- defaulted loans (Fox) 15337-8, 15365-6 (Miller) 15337-8, 15366
- determination of loan in default (Cull) 15189 (Gingell) 15189
- eligibility (Fox) 15334, 15337 (Miller) 15338 (Weisgerber) 13694
- loan collection (Cull) 15185
- loan program (Cull) 15138
- loan program, role of banks (Fox) 15338 (Miller) 15338
- loan repayment provisions (Miller) 15367 (Reid) 15367
- loans outstanding, amount (Cull) 15189 (Gingell) 15189
- social objectives of loan programs (Fox) 15366
- student financial assistance program, effectiveness (Fox) 15365-6 (Miller) 15365-7
- student financial assistance review (Cull) 15181 (Fox) 15368 (Miller) 15368

Stupich, David

Activities re Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society (Farrell-Collins) 13649-50 (Hurd) 13650
Comments re NDP links with Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society cited (Serwa) 13282
Cooperation with Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society audit (de Jong, M.) 13181 (Harcourt) 13181, 15670 (Hurd) 15670
Quoted re Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society (Hurd) 16563

Sudeten Park

Closing (Weisgerber) 16699

Sullivan, Barry

Royal Commission on Education. See name of commission

Sullivan mine

Life expectancy of mine (Edwards) 14181-2 (Jarvis) 14181-2

Sullivan, Wayne

Verdict in wife's death, appeal by Crown (Dalton) 14127

Summerland, B.C.

Research station, funding (Tyabji) 13138-9 (Zirnhelt) 13138
Research station, work (Beattie) 13800
Sewage plant project (Beattie) 13286

Sun Peaks Resort at Tod Mountain

Development (Charbonneau) 13398, 13438 (Clark) 13434 (Hurd) 13438 (Jackson) 13436 (Mitchell) 13435 (Serwa) 13436-7

Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, Vancouver, B.C.

Mandate (Ramsey) 14389-90 (Reid) 14389-90
Role (Ramsey) 14692-3 (Symons) 14693

Sunshine Coast, B.C.

Dependence on ferry system (Wilson) 13821-3
Separate municipality for Pender Harbour area (Marzari) 14105 (Wilson) 14105

Sunstein, Cass

Quoted re freedom of expression (Wilson) 16004

Superannuation Commission

Pension plan investments, diversification (Cull) 15139

Superintendent of brokers.

See

Superintendent of motor vehicles

Powers (Hanson) 16236 (Mitchell) 16236

Superintendent of real estate

Powers (Chisholm) 14172 (Cull) 13900, 14172
Powers, changes, industry support (Chisholm) 14172 (Cull) 14172
Role (Cull) 14177-8 (Schreck) 14177

Supply Act, 1995-96

(Bill 52) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 16513; 2R, 16513; C, 16513; 3R, 16513; RA, 16513

Supply Act (No. 1), 1995

(Bill 6) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 13131; 2R, 13131-6; C, 13136-42, 13146-67; 3R, 13167; RA, 13170
Speakers (Charbonneau) 13156-8 (Chisholm) 13137 (Cull) 13131, 13136 (Dalton) 13141-2, 13146-7, 13155-6 (Farrell-Collins) 13133 (Fox) 13151-5, 13157, 13164-6 (Gabelmann) 13140-2, 13146-56 (Hurd) 13135 (Jones, K.) 13150-1 (Mitchell) 13133-5, 13147-50, 13153 (Reid) 13156-7, 13159-63, 13166-7 (Serwa) 13135 (Symons) 13150 (Tyabji) 13135-6, 13138-9, 13153-5 (Weisgerber) 13131-2 (Wilson) 13132-3, 13139-40, 13156, 13158 (Zirnhelt) 13137-40
Debate, conflict-of-interest issue (de Jong, M.) 13141
Urgency (Cull) 13131

Supply management.

See

Supreme Court Act

Amendments (Gabelmann) 14999, 15178, 16721 (Neufeld) 15178

Supreme Court of British Columbia

Chief Justice position (Gabelmann) 14999, 15178 (Neufeld) 15178
Judges, increase in number (Gabelmann) 16721

Supreme Court of Canada

Sexual harassment, criteria used in decisions (Warnke) 13279

Surgery.

See

Surich, Jo (Public Service Employee Relations Commissioner)

Civil service, long-term disability plan, comparison with private plans 15143-4
Civil service, long-term disability plan, rate of use 15143
Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates 15143-4

Surrey, B.C.

Amenities (Jones, K.) 13058
City Council meeting, Hon. Art Charbonneau's attendance (Charbonneau) 13915 (Hurd) 13914
City Council meeting, MLAs' attendance (Charbonneau) 13875 (Hurd) 13874-6
Construction costs, fair-wage legislation, impact (Campbell) 13009
Growth (Jones, K.) 14784-5, 15910 (Smallwood) 13127
Growth, impact (Jones, K.) 13058, 13795-6
Health care services (Jones, K.) 14352 (Ramsey) 14352
Health care workers transferred from Shaughnessy Hospital (Jones, K.) 14350-1 (Ramsey) 14350-1
Health centre proposal (Jones, K.) 14352-4, 14567-8 (Ramsey) 14352-4, 14567-8
Highway intersection traffic accidents (Symons) 14980-1
Public meeting re schools (Hurd) 13230-3
Social needs of area (Jones, K.) 13253
Softball facilities and tourism (Barlee) 13447 (Jones, K.) 13447
South Fraser perimeter road. See name of road
Surrey Bend wetlands, preservation (Jones, K.) 13058

Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey, B.C.

Expansion (Jones, K.) 14784-5 (Ramsey) 14785
Fraser Valley Cancer Centre, opening (Dalton) 14028-9 (Hammell) 14028-9
Shortages (Jones, K.) 13057, 13253

Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, Surrey, B.C.

Administration (Dalton) 13528, 13581 (Gabelmann) 13528-9 (Hurd) 13529
Administration, acting positions (Dalton) 13544, 13581 (Gabelmann) 13544
Impact on community (Gabelmann) 13543, 13633
Inmates, sexual assault allegations (Dalton) 13528 (Gabelmann) 13528
Inmates, sexual assault allegations, report (Dalton) 13544, 13580-1 (Gabelmann) 13581
Release of Douglas Fetterley (Chisholm) 13003 (Gabelmann) 13003, 13529 (Hurd) 13529 (Jones, K.) 13058
Release of Douglas Fetterley, report on case (Dalton) 13544 (Gabelmann) 13544

Surrey School District.

See

Surrey-Cloverdale constituency

Health care services (Jones, K.) 13251
Roads, condition of area highways (Jones, K.) 13253

Surrey-Newton constituency

Emergency health care facility (Jones, K.) 13253

Swainson, Neil

Conflict Over the Columbia: The Canadian Background to an Historic Treaty quoted (Mitchell) 13423

Sweanor, David

Tobacco products regulation, letter quoted (Perry) 14974

Symonds, Hilda

Growth strategies act, work (Marzari) 13457

Symons, Douglas R. (Richmond Centre)

Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates 13943-4, 14298-302
An Act to Promote the Reuse of Construction and Demolition Materials 16738-9
Address in Reply 13063-5, 13328-31
Adoption, access to adoption records, confidentiality issues 16381-2
Adoption Act 16381-2
Adoption, personal experience as adoptee 16381-2
Air transport assistance program, funding 16397-8
AirCare program, budget 15087
AirCare program, contract with government 15092-3
AirCare program fee, province's share 15093
AirCare program, funding 15093
AirCare program, startup problems 15093
AirCare testing 15093-5
Airport devolution and Crown land issue 16398-9
Alberta, deficit reduction measures 13254
Attorney General ministry, estimates 13603-4
Automobile collision repair shops, technician certification 15090
Automobile driver's licences, duration and traffic-fine collection 15972
Automobile driver's licences, suspension and licensing under another name 15088
Automobile drivers, probationary licensing program for new drivers, provision for driving-course graduates 15447-8
Automobile drivers, restrictions on new drivers 15270, 15448
Automobile drivers, testing, language assistance 15088
Automobile driving instructors, examining authority 15447
Automobile emission standards 16725, 17004-5
Automobile impoundment, period of impoundment 15457
Automobile impoundment, police officer's powers 15457
Automobile insurance against underinsured drivers 15047
Automobile insurance, Autoplan 12 plan 15083, 15086
Automobile insurance, benefits to accident-free drivers 15049
Automobile insurance for additional drivers 15053
Automobile insurance for commercial vehicles, purchase elsewhere 15053
Automobile insurance grant, use 15052-3
Automobile insurance of drivers from other jurisdictions 15047
Automobile licence plate or decal theft 15047, 15081
Automobile sales, emission control warranty and AirCare requirement 17005
Automobile sales, fee to transfer title 15087
Automobile speeding violations, owner's liability 15450
Automobiles, commercial vehicle drivers, certification 15089
Automobiles, conversion to low-emission vehicles 15094-5
Automobiles, electric vehicles 16725
Automobiles, fuel tax incentive to buy alternative-fuel vehicles 17008
Automobiles, passing of cyclists, safety 16240
Babysitters, minimum wage requirement 13064
Ballard bus 15919
Barnet-Hastings highway project, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes 14982, 15870
Blockades of roads through Indian lands 14300-1
B.C. Ferries, advertising on ferries 16071
B.C. Ferries, century-class vessels, cost 16086
B.C. Ferries, collision between Queen of Alberni and Shinwa Maru 16087
B.C. Ferries, Cusheon Cove terminal, proposal 16085
B.C. Ferries, Duke Point terminal 14980, 16083-4
B.C. Ferries, fare increases 16073-4
B.C. Ferries fare schedules, publication 16073
B.C. Ferries, fast ferries, aluminum construction 16076, 16082
B.C. Ferries, fast ferries, construction 16081-2
B.C. Ferries, fast ferries, design costs 16084
B.C. Ferries, fast ferries, emissions 16082-3
B.C. Ferries, fast ferries, fare premium 16074
B.C. Ferries, fast ferries, speed and load 16083
B.C. Ferries, ferry routes, circle package 16075
B.C. Ferries, leased vessels 16073
B.C. Ferries, "operating like a business" 16071-2
B.C. Ferries, Passage magazine 16090
B.C. Ferries, payment of taxes 16072, 16085
B.C. Ferries, private sector involvement 16071
B.C. Ferries, privatization 16071
B.C. Ferries, Queen of Burnaby, refit to become Royal Victorian 16037-8
B.C. Ferries, Queen of Cumberland, safety test of crew 16088
B.C. Ferries, Queen of New Westminster refit 16076
B.C. Ferries, Queen of the North door-welding job after Estonia sinking, compensation claims for resulting delays 16086
B.C. Ferries, safety concerns 16087
B.C. Ferries, salary agreement 16072
B.C. Ferries, staff sick leave 16072
B.C. Ferries, superferries, scheduling and passenger loads 16075
B.C. Ferries, superferry construction, selection of Canadian bidder 16076
B.C. Ferries, ten-year capital plan 16075
B.C. Ferries terminals, transportation from terminals 16084
B.C. Ferries, trucks denied passage, picketing incident 16089
B.C. Ferries vessels, collisions 16087-8
B.C. Ferries vessels, integrated voyage recorders 16086
B.C. Ferries vessels, keeping on schedule 16088
B.C. Ferries vessels, loading of cars 16088
B.C. Ferries vessels, passenger limits 16089
B.C. Ferries vessels, replacement 16076
B.C. Ferries vessels, reservation system for commercial vehicles, pilot project 16090
B.C. Hydro, dividends 13329
B.C. Hydro, wrongful dismissal action 14598
B.C. Rail Ltd., Cariboo area schedule cutbacks 15005-6
B.C. Rail Ltd., comparison to U.S. companies 15005
B.C. Rail Ltd., dividends 15004
B.C. Rail Ltd. employees, number 15004
B.C. Rail Ltd., expenses and revenue 15004
B.C. Rail Ltd., Fort Nelson extension 15004
B.C. Rail Ltd., locomotive purchase 15005
B.C. Rail Ltd., passenger service 15004, 15006
B.C. Rail Ltd., payment of train crews 15005
B.C. Rail Ltd., port site at Squamish estuary 15005
B.C. Rail Ltd., privatization studies 15009
B.C. Rail Ltd., rate of return on shareholders' equity 15004
B.C. Rail Ltd., safety committee 15007
B.C. Rail Ltd. trucking operations, competition with private sector 15043-5, 15092
B.C. Rail Ltd., value of properties owned 15005
B.C. Transit, absenteeism 15863
B.C. Transit Act, amendments to definitions 16956
B.C. Transit, award from Canadian Urban Transit Association 16671
B.C. Transit, bus drivers and routes 15913
B.C. Transit bus drivers, split shifts 15906
B.C. Transit bus fare boxes, replacement 15916
B.C. Transit, bus fumes problem in Surrey 15919
B.C. Transit buses, bike racks 15915
B.C. Transit buses, group passes 15917-8
B.C. Transit, capital costs 15854
B.C. Transit commuter rail office, staff and costs 15905
B.C. Transit, commuter railcars, purchase 15873-4, 15877, 15905
B.C. Transit, debt-servicing costs 15855
B.C. Transit, emission testing of buses 15093-4
B.C. Transit, Ernst and Young study 15861
B.C. Transit fare increases 15916
B.C. Transit, financial performance 15913
B.C. Transit funding through taxes, levies 15914
B.C. Transit, general manager position 15872
B.C. Transit, Harvard Business School courses for managers 15872-3
B.C. Transit, labour relations 15865-6
B.C. Transit layoffs, severance packages 15907
B.C. Transit, maintenance schedule 15861
B.C. Transit, North Shore transit recommendations 14977
B.C. Transit, Oakridge transit centre, overtime costs 15906
B.C. Transit, old interurban cars, restoration 15920-1
B.C. Transit, productivity 15861, 15863
B.C. Transit, relationship-by-objectives program 15906-7
B.C. Transit, report by Sam Ahad 15857-9
B.C. Transit, ridership 15871-2, 15907-8
B.C. Transit, SeaBus service expansion 15915
B.C. Transit, sick leave 15905-6
B.C. Transit, sporting event tickets including transit fare 15915
B.C. Transit, transfer of responsibility to Greater Vancouver Regional District 15912
B.C. Transit, wages 15862
B.C. Transit, work stoppage 15863
B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, borrowing 13256
B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, chief executive officer appointment 14907, 15018
B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, funding for highways 14864, 14866-7
B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, highway construction, role 14872
B.C. Transportation Financing Authority reports, availability 16965
Budget, comparison with previous NDP budgets 13329-30
Budget debate 13253-7
Burnaby, Marine Way-Nelson Avenue traffic signal 14983-4
J.N. Burnett Junior Secondary School, seismic upgrading 13916
Burns Bog, land ownership 14873-4
Bus lanes, use by van pools 14982
Buses, alternative fuels 15864
Business investment in B.C. 13254
Caregivers' Association, work of organization 14690-1
Castlegar airport funding 16398
Cawood, Brian, contract with B.C. Transit 16230-1
Charlottetown accord, NDP position 13330
Chilton, Chris, appointment to Health ministry 14472
Civil service, size 13254-6, 13328, 13846
Closer to Home program 13255
Closer to Home program, implementation, heart case cited 13255
Commission of inquiry into the Public Service and Public Sector, impact on Transportation and Highways ministry 14869-70
Commission on Resources and Environment, land use plans 13064
Commuter rail, Liberal Party position 16401
Commuter rail service, cost-sharing 16724, 16957-8
Commuter rail service in Fraser Valley 15869-70, 15909-10
Commuter rail service, operating agreements 16956
Commuter rail system 15859, 15867-8
Commuter rail system, project analysis 15875
Cook Creek Upstream Bridge, construction 14978
Coquihalla Highway, dangerous-zones signage 14985
Coquihalla Highway, labour disputes 14979, 15959
Coquihalla Highway, maintenance 14985
Coquihalla Highway, toll system, operating cost 14985
Corporation capital tax, elimination 13254
Correctional facilities, double-bunking 13150
Craig Bay Estates development project, Hon. John Cashore's comments 14298
Craig Bay Estates, development project on heritage site 13943-4, 14298-9
Cycle paths, municipal laws 16237-8
Cycling, hand signalling and hand brakes 16239
Cycling, helmet use by cyclists 15088, 15972
Cycling, helmet use by cyclists, fine for non-compliance 15972
Cycling, safe cycling program for children 15972
Cycling, safety equipment on bicycles 16238
Debt as percentage of gross domestic product 13257
Debt during NDP administration 13846
Debt levels 13253
Debt load 13065, 13329-30
Debt management plan 13255
Debt-servicing costs 13256
Deficits 13256-7
Disabled and handicapped persons, taxi-saver program 15918
Dixon, Frank, wrongful dismissal suit against B.C. Hydro 14598
Economic plan for B.C. 13063, 13329
Economy of B.C. 13253-4
Education, examinable second languages 13848
Education funding for non-teaching contract settlements 13848-9
Education ministry, estimates 13845-9
Election Act 16781, 16788, 16790, 16793
Election campaign spending, valuation of equipment and signs 16790
Election campaign workers, valuation of time worked 16781
Emergency response outside community's jurisdiction, liability insurance 15083
Emergency response outside community's jurisdiction, responsibility for expenses 15054
Employment and Investment ministry, estimates 15854-63, 15865-77, 15905-10, 15912-22, 15947-50, 15952, 15955-9, 15961, 16037-9, 16070-6, 16081-90, 16397-401
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, responsibility for Vancouver Island passenger service 15044, 16401
Expropriation of property and Indian land claims 13943
Federal-provincial municipal infrastructure program, funding 14862
Ferry service as part of highway system 16070
Ferry service for midcoast area, private proposal 16085
Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act 15567-9
Firefighters, arbitration 15568-9
Fort St. James road closing, impact on area mining operations 14246
Fort St. John, Milligan Creek Road, road surfacing 14945
Fraser Bridge, rehabilitation 14984
Fraser River crossings, additional crossings 14980
Gaglardi and Broadway-Hastings connectors, completion 14983
GAIN recipients, number 13253, 13330
Ganges road runoff case, ministry handling 14942-3
Gibsons bypass, status 14943
Good Roads Cost Less, recommendations of report 14860-1, 14863
Government accounting methods 13256, 13329
Government advertising 13328-9
Government buildings, construction projects, use of recycled materials 16738-9
Government contractors, harassment-free workplaces 14937
Government, financial reporting 13256
Government, fiscal policies, sustainability 13256-7
Government spending 13328
Greater Vancouver Regional District, transit planning 15948-50
Gulf Islands, road-width policy 14942
HandyDART system and taxi service 15918
Health care, continuity of universal system 13328
Health care, family caregivers 14690-1
Health care, long term care services 14692-3
Health care, private services 13255
Health care services 13064
Health care system, changes 13255
Health care, wait-lists 13255
Health care workers labour accord 13328
Health care workers, unionized and non-unionized workers 14691-2
Health care workers, wage equity issue 14691-2
Health ministry, estimates 14690-3
Heffley Creek, leakage from Highways ministry storage site 14936
Heritage Conservation Act, provisions re development of heritage sites 14299-300
Highway 1, Upper Levels Highway, Westview interchange project 14980
Highway 1A, repaving of 208th to 240th Streets section 14874
Highway 6, Coldstream area 14986
Highway 11, construction 14984
Highway 17, Patricia Bay Highway, Lands End Road overpass, funding 14978
Highway 17, Patricia Bay Highway, rehabilitation 14978
Highway 19, Helmcken interchange, agricultural land reserve area 14948
Highway 19, Millstream Road connection 14948
Highway 29, seal coating and paving work 14945
Highway 95A, Marysville area upgrading 14987
Highway 97, Quesnel bypass 14986
Highway 99, 24th Avenue project, completion 14980
Highway 99, earth-moving in Queensborough Bridge area 14982-3
Highway 99, paving work 14937
Highway 99, van-pool lanes 14982
Highway 117, impact on Sooke reservoir 14941-2
Highway construction contracts, bonuses 14872
Highway construction projects, environmental assessments 14947
Highway construction purchases, bidding process 14979
Highway Constructors Ltd., chief executive officer 15956
Highway Constructors Ltd., Island Highway construction agreement 13328, 14865
Highway Constructors Ltd., staff 15956
Highway intersections, safety concerns 14948-9
Highway maintenance and rehabilitation, funding 14862
Highway maintenance contracts, extensions 14879-80
Highway maintenance contracts, length of contracts, rented equipment 14863
Highway maintenance, cost-effectiveness 15104-5
Highway maintenance privatization, monitoring 14870
Highway maintenance, spending level 14860-1
Highway operations budget 14862
Highway paving, type of asphalt 14874
Highway rehabilitation, amount being done 14865
Highway rehabilitation, expenditures 14862-4, 15223
Highway rehabilitation, hot-in-place method 14864-5, 15223-4
Highway rehabilitation projects, funding 13329
Highway rehabilitation, underspending 15957
Highway rest stops, Grand Forks facility 14986
Highway sign plant in Kamloops, jobs for employees from Victoria firm 14938
Highway signage policy, government advertising on Indian land 14976
Highways, capital expenses 16966
Highways, capital projects during NDP administration 14860
Highways, cycling policy 14983
Highways, design-build projects 14872, 14937, 15224
Highways, funding during Social Credit Party administration 13329
Highways, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes, restrictions on use 14879
Highways, leasing of parts of highways to B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, potential tolls 16964
Highways, moving wide and heavy loads on northern roads 14939, 15224
Highways, mowing 14862
Highways, national highway improvements 14869, 14941
Highways, pavement management 14864
Highways, property acquisition, Cottonwood corridor area 14879
Highways, property acquisition, Highways ministry errors, compensation 14880
Highways, property acquisition, Victoria area condominium construction case 14880
Highways, seal coating, private sector involvement 14871
Highways, seal-coating costs 14936-7
Highways, speed-reading boards 15049
Highways, volcanic ash used in aggregate 14941
Home care, nursing services 14692
Home-care support workers, wages 14692
Hospital employees, agreement with unions 13328
Hospital patient discharges, concerns 14692-3
Impaired driving legislation, ministerial responsibility 13603
Impaired driving, penalties 13603
Impaired driving, prevention, education 15270
Impaired driving, special licence plates for offenders 13603
Indian heritage sites, development issues 13943-4
Indian land claims and private property rights 13943-4
Indians, special rights and status 13944
Indians, tax exemptions 13944, 14301-2
Infrastructure, private investment 14871-2
Insurance Corporation of B.C., administration costs 15081
Insurance Corporation of B.C., automobile repairs and insurance claims 15048-9
Insurance Corporation of B.C. claim centres, operating costs 15081-2
Insurance Corporation of B.C. claims not taxable as income 15083
Insurance Corporation of B.C., monopoly 15053
Insurance Corporation of B.C., relationship with Autoplan agents 15049
Insurance Corporation of B.C., replacement value of vehicles 15048
Insurance Corporation of B.C., role 15047-8, 15052
Insurance Corporation of B.C., vehicle damage records, pilot project 15081-2
Insurance Corporation of B.C., written-off vehicles, number at end of fiscal year 15082-3
Insurance Corporation of B.C., written-off vehicles, resale 15082, 15090
International Catamarans Designs Inc., commissions for selection of company for ferry design 16084
International Catamarans Designs Inc., ferry design problems 16084
Investments by government 13254
Island Highway construction project 13004
Island Highway construction project, blasting supplies, purchase 14979
Island Highway construction project, bridges, scaledown 14978
Island Highway construction project, Campbell River section 14978
Island Highway construction project, cost of goods and services tax 15959
Island Highway construction project, costs 13328-9, 14866-8, 15961
Island Highway construction project, environmental assessments 14946-7
Island Highway construction project, expenditures for overtime pay 14978
Island Highway construction project, intersections replacing proposed interchanges, Nanaimo area 14948-9, 14977-8
Island Highway construction project labour agreement, challenge to agreement 15959
Island Highway construction project, local hiring 14865
Island Highway construction project, "on time and on budget" 14979-80, 15224, 15958-9
Island Highway construction project, property acquisition 14874
Island Highway construction project, property acquisition, Buckley Bay area case 14874
Island Highway construction project, property acquisition, cost impact 14948
Island Highway construction project, property acquisition, staff monitoring 14874
Island Highway construction project, renegotiation date 15959
Island Highway construction project, reserve fund 15104
Island Highway construction project, scaledown 14881, 14947, 15958-9
Island Highway construction project, Victoria to Courtenay section 14978
Johnson-Mariner overpass, construction 14984
Kelowna, bridge expansion 14985
Kelowna bridge, signage approaching bridge 14985-6
Kimber Cabs, decision by Hon. Anne Edwards 13928
Kimber Cabs, taxi service for disabled customers, Richmond city authorization 15092
Kuala Lumpur, rapid transit project 15950
Labour disputes during NDP administration 13064
Laidlaw bluffs accident cited 14881
Land title system, fee simple ownership rights 14298-300
Land, underlying title held by province 14298-9
N.D. Lea Consultants Ltd., pavement management project 14864
Legislation, changes to acts by order-in-council 16964
Legislature, length of sittings 15272
Legislature, night sittings, NDP government use 16724
Liberal Party, links with federal party 13330-1
Lions Gate Bridge, rehabilitation or replacement 14976-7
Masset airport funding 16398
Medical Services Plan, claims for out-of-province medical treatment 14693
Medicare system, protection 13255
Mentally handicapped older than 19 years, day care case 14612-3
Miller, Hon. Dan, statement by minister challenged 13293-4
Mining industry, impact of Fort St. James road closing 14246
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15198
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16724-5, 16928-9, 16944-5, 16948, 16953, 16956-7, 16960-1, 16964-7, 17002, 17004-5, 17008
Motor Carrier Commission, budget 15087
Motor Fuel Tax Act, exemption provisions for Indians 14301-2
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (1995) 15270, 15447-8, 15450, 15454-7
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15972, 16236-40
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, cycle, definition 16236-7
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, cycle path, definition 16237
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, emergency vehicle, definition 16236
Motor vehicle branch, commercial transport budget 15087
Motor vehicle branch, highway-related funding 14870
Motor vehicle branch, revenues 14871
Motorcycles, insurance rate 15083
Municipalities, grants from provincial government 14861-2
Nanaimo, Fifth Street-Highway 19 interchange 14949
Natural resource industries, role in economy 13064, 13254
NDP government, accomplishments 13063
NDP government, fiscal priorities 13328
NDP government, performance 13253
NDP government policies, Doug Symons^s statements (Giesbrecht) 13257
NDP, independence of provincial party 13330-1
New Haven Correctional Centre, public safety concerns 13604
Oak Street Bridge repairs 14872-3, 15221
Oak Street Bridge repairs, alternative routes 14937
Oak Street Bridge repairs, commuters using public transit during repair work 15860
Offence Amendment Act (1995) 15272-3, 15478-9, 15481-3
Political patronage 13329
Pitt River Bridge, cyclist lanes 14983
Police, arbitration 15568-9
Political parties, audit requirements and fraud 16793
Political parties, transfer of funds between provincial and federal parties 16788
Port Mann Bridge, twinning 14984
Port Renfrew bridge, contract expenses, compensation 14880, 14942
Port Renfrew bridge, replacement project 13815
Ports position within Transportation and Highways ministry 16400
Powell River area, highway work 14943
Private property rights, development rights on heritage sites 13943-4, 14298-300
Quinsam Coal Ltd. project, cancellation 15961
Radar cameras, use in automobile speed monitoring 15087, 15270, 15450, 15454-5
Radar detectors, use in automobiles 15087
Rail service between Seattle and Vancouver 15874
Railways, gas turbine technology 15005
Railways, property tax assessment 16928-9, 16944-5
Railways, property tax changes, impact 16724
Railways, taxation issues 14941
Redlin, Blair, appointment to B.C. Transportation Financing Authority 14907, 15018
Richmond area, schools 13328-9
Richmond development, Highways ministry restrictions 14981
Richmond, Middle Arm bridge, height above water 14981-2
Richmond School District, Henry Anderson elementary school construction project 13845
Richmond School District, capital funding needs 13255-6
Richmond School District, funding 13847
Richmond School District, portables 13328, 13846
Richmond School District, school construction, Education ministry's newspaper ad 13845
Roberts Bank container terminal development, impact on traffic 14980
San Juan River, bridge 13815
Saturna Island subdivision, road access 14942
School construction, budgeting process 13845-6
School construction, public-private partnerships 13847
School warning signs 14942
SkyTrain cars, costs 15920
SkyTrain costs 15947, 15950
SkyTrain, fare-checking 15920
SkyTrain park-and-ride facilities, damage and thefts, patrol 15082
SkyTrain, Whalley station 15919-20
Small business, job creation 13254, 13330
Social Services ministry, estimates 14612-3
Socialist principles and NDP policies 13330-1
South Fraser perimeter road, highway connections 14873, 14980
Southern Railway, Fraser Valley service 15909
Speech from the Throne, content 13063-4
Students, concerns about future 13329
Sunny Hill Hospital for Children, mandate 14693
Supply Act (No. 1) (1995) 13150
Surrey, highway intersection traffic accidents 14980-1
Tax freeze and fee increases 13329
Tax increases 13257
Teachers, collective bargaining 15568
Television cable companies, taxation changes, impact on municipal revenue 16924
Tow trucks, insurance 15104
Traffic accidents, Insurance Corporation of B.C. responsibility 14980-1
Traffic fines, collection 15272-3
Traffic fines, collection of fines from radar camera speed-monitoring 15483
Traffic fines, collection, use of collection agencies 15479
Traffic fines, enforcement responsibility 13604, 16725
Traffic fines, incentives to pay 15273, 15478
Traffic fines, interest on overdue fines 15478-9, 15483
Traffic fines, municipalities keeping revenue 15088
Traffic fines, outstanding fines, current handling 15479
Traffic fines, overdue fines, filing of certificate 15479
Traffic fines, serving of fine certificate 15481-2
Traffic lights, Smart Lite installation 13935
Traffic lights, study 14879
Traffic safety education, advertising costs 15454
Traffic safety initiatives 15087-8, 15270
Traffic safety, legislative amendments 14860
Transit costs 15854
Transit funding, cost-sharing 15912, 16724, 16957-8
Transit, funding through taxes and levies 15856
Transit, light rapid transit for Vancouver region 15921-2
Transit, rapid buses 15870
Transit, rapid transit to Coquitlam area 15948-9
Transit, rapid transit to Richmond 15948-9
Transit system, safety 15916-7
Transport 2021 plan 15869
Transportation and Highways minister's office, staff 14861
Transportation and Highways ministry, administration and support services, costs 14861
Transportation and Highways ministry budget, reporting 14861
Transportation and Highways ministry, compensation for ministry errors and lawsuits 14880-1
Transportation and Highways ministry contract process, value engineering concept 15224
Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates 14860-74, 14879-81, 14935-9, 14940-3, 14946-9, 14976-87, 15004-6, 15007, 15009, 15043-5, 15047-9, 15052-4, 15081-3, 15086-95, 15104-5, 15223-4
Transportation and Highways ministry ferries, Barnston ferry, funding 14863
Transportation and Highways ministry ferries, maintenance 14863
Transportation and Highways ministry ferries, privatization 14941
Transportation and Highways ministry, funding 14868
Transportation and Highways ministry, insurance 14881
Transportation and Highways ministry, lawsuits 14936-7
Transportation and Highways ministry, office equipment, expenditures 14866
Transportation and Highways ministry projects, budget 14861
Transportation and Highways ministry projects, contractors' requirements 14937-8
Transportation and Highways ministry projects, number of announcements 14984
Transportation and Highways ministry, salaries 14865
Transportation and Highways ministry, staff 14868
Transportation and Highways ministry, statutory notices, budget 14861
Transportation and Highways ministry, tendering process 14937
Transportation and Highways ministry, utilities, supplies and vehicles, budget 14866
Transportation and Highways ministry, value engineering pilot project at Mount Washington 14938
Transportation Financing Authority, auditor general's role 15957
Transportation Financing Authority, expenditures 15952
Transportation Financing Authority, operating budget 15955
Transportation Financing Authority, staffing 15955-6
Transportation Financing Authority, tabling of audit report 15952
Truck overloading, regulation enforcement 15089
Trucking industry, deregulation 15091-2
User fees, increases 13329
Vancouver Regional Transit Commission meetings, costs 15915-6
Vancouver Transit Commission, employees 15857-8
Vancouver Wharves Ltd., debt 15005
Veal calves, petition tabled re humane treatment 13353
Victoria harbour commission proposal 16400-1
Victoria Line Ltd., labour contract for summer workers, comparison to B.C. Ferries workers' contract 16038
Victoria Line Ltd., operations subsidy 16038
Victoria Line Ltd., ridership and revenue 16038-9
Victoria Line Ltd., staff 16037
Warfield, highway bypass 14987
Waste Management Act, regulations resulting from amendments 17002
WesTel Telecommunications Ltd., requirement to file information 15045
WesTel Telecommunications Ltd., taxation 15045
Whatshan Falls Upper Bridge, contract tender and cancellation 14937
Youth, involvement in health issues 14693

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