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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

V

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Hansard Sittings by Page Number

Vacation B.C.

Marketing program (Barlee) 13554-5 (Chisholm) 13555

Van De Kamp, Harold (Mr. and Mrs.)

Chilliwack area hog farmers, concerns cited (Chisholm) 15644

van Dongen, John (Abbotsford)

Abbotsford agriculture centre 15651
Abbotsford, commuter bus service 15099
Abbotsford, MSA hospital construction project, redesign of facility 14758-60
Adoption Act 16134
Adoption, placement of children in same-sex families 16134
Adoption, private adoptions 16134
Adoptions by same-sex couples, petition tabled 16231
Agricultural Environmental Protection Council, funding 15638
Agricultural Land Commission, auditing methods 15557
Agricultural Land Commission, auditor general 1994-95 report 15556-7
Agricultural Land Commission, farm advisory committees, policy 15560
Agricultural Land Commission, farm wineries policy 15563
Agricultural Land Commission, Harbours Board land, management 15564
Agricultural Land Commission, homesite severance policy 15561-2
Agricultural Land Commission, involvement in Iberg farm and B.C. Gas case 15563-4
Agricultural Land Commission, mandate 15557
Agricultural Land Commission, policy on gravel removal from land reserve 15564
Agricultural Land Commission, policy on non-farm use 15561
Agricultural Land Commission, policy on non-farm use at Mount Thurston 15603
Agricultural Land Commission, powers 15558
Agricultural Land Commission, regulations, regional needs 15559
Agricultural Land Commission, representation of Fraser Valley 15560-1
Agricultural Land Commission, subdivision of agricultural land, applications 15559-60
Agricultural land development assistance program, cancellation 15494, 15556
Agricultural land development assistance program, cost 15495
Agricultural land reserve, ancient subdivisions, development rights 15562
Agricultural land reserve, exclusions 15558
Agricultural land reserve, farming in reserve 14642
Agricultural land reserve, Land Owners' Rights Association's concerns 15592
Agricultural land reserve legislation, constitutional challenge by Okanagan farmers 15592
Agricultural land reserve, realignment of land parcels 14765-6
Agricultural land reserve, retail operations on reserve land 15563
Agricultural land reserve, review by Agricultural Land Commission 15558
Agricultural producer's liability for wages of contract workers 14795
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, allocation of funds 15637
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, auditing methods 15557
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, budget 15494, 15671
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates 15493-501, 15556-64, 15592, 15601-3, 15610, 15634-8, 15651-2, 15671
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, loan guarantee programs 15497
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, operations 15557
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, programs 15671
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, staffing 15635-6
Agriculture industry, impact of government bureaucracy 15497
Agriculture industry, impact of international trade agreements 15495
Agriculture industry, input costs, comparison with elsewhere 15602
Agriculture industry, role in economy 15494
Agriculture industry, supply management 15494
Agrifood policy, results of consultation process 15603
Aquaculture industry and government bureaucracy 15498
Aquaculture industry, impact of Crown leases on Indian land claims 15500
Aquaculture industry, shellfish farming 15493
B.C. Assessment Authority, policy re farms in agricultural land reserve 15651
B.C. Marketing Board, membership on Farm Practices Board 14642-3, 15681
B.C. Marketing Board, policy on appeal panels 15635
B.C. Marketing Board, role 15634-5
Business, impact of bureaucratic red tape 14795
Canadian Standards Association, public concerns re agency 17011
Capital project expenditures by government, value analyses 14759
Chilliwack, village status for river valley region 15759
Class Proceedings Act, proclamation 17011
Colony Farm, land use plan 15563
Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, impact on agriculture industry 15602
Dairyland Foods, governance structure 14760
Davie, Ken, subdivision application case 14764
Drugs, comparisons of patent medications and generic drugs 14758
Election (Law Clerk) 14469
Employee hours of work, notice requirement 15783
Employer-employee relations, regulation 14795
Employers' rights 14795
Employment Standards Act 14795-7, 15783, 15792
Employment Standards Act, notice provisions re hours of work 15783
Environmental health and sewage system failures 14767-8
Families, importance of traditional family 16134
Farm business management program extension 15637
Farm crop insurance program 15495-6
Farm equipment, transportation 14642
Farm Practices Board hearings, closed hearings 15672, 15678
Farm Practices Board, membership 15680-1
Farm Practices Board, role as mediator 14642
Farm Practices Board, vice-chair issue 15681
Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 14642-3, 15672, 15678, 15680-1, 15684
Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, penalty provisions 15684
Farm practices, regulation 14642
Farm practices regulation, Agriculture minister's involvement 14642
Farm property, farmer's liability re trespassers 14643
Farming, normal farm practices, liability issue 15684
Farming, right to farm 14642-3
Farming, sustainable farming groups, Agriculture ministry involvement 15637-8
Farmworkers, contracted farm labour, payment for work performed 14795
Farmworkers, hours of work 15792
Floris, Albert and Jim, subdivision application case 14764-5
Fraser Valley, waste disposal concerns 14764-8
GAIN program, handicapped benefits 15316
Golf courses, applications for exclusion from agricultural land reserve 15558
Grain, growth revenue income program 15497
Grazing leases, cattle industry concerns 15651
Grazing permits in parks 16708, 16896
Health care facilities, private institutions, ownership of assets 14761-2
Health care facilities, value analyses of proposed designs 14758-60
Health care regionalization, cost savings projections 14762
Health care, religiously affiliated service providers, governance 14760-1
Health care system, reform 14760
Health ministry, estimates 14758-68
Health ministry, local health units, powers 14643
Health ministry, public health staff, responsibilities 14766-8
Highway 1, Fraser Valley area, widening 14881-2
Highway 1, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes for Chilliwack to Vancouver section 14882
Hog industry concerns 15494
Home-care support services, policy issues 14763-4
Impaired driving, sentencing, petition tabled 16748
Indians, interim measures agreements 15501
Loewen Welding and Manufacturing Ltd., towing of farm equipment 15098-9
Maplewood House, future of facility 14760-2
Matsqui village, traffic 15098-9
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16961-2, 16992, 17011
Motor Carrier Commission, operations review 15099
Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 15759
Municipalities, sewage system approvals, liability re site contamination 14766-7
Net income stabilization account program, application process 15497
New Directions in Health Care program, coordination of health care resources 14760
Okanagan Valley Tree Fruit Authority 15601-2
Pacific National Exhibition relocation, Agriculture ministry involvement 15563
Park Amendment Act (1995) 16708, 16896
Parker, Dale, work at Workers' Compensation Board commended 16853
Peace River area, seed industry 15636
Pharmacare program, low-cost alternative drugs 14758
Port Mann Bridge, twinning 14881-2
Regional districts, amalgamations in Fraser Basin area 15759
Roberts Bank backup lands, impact on communities 16708
Sewage disposal on agricultural land 14643, 14768, 15651-2
Sewage disposal on agricultural land, Fraser Valley cases cited 15651
Small business, problems of small and medium-sized business 14795
Social Services ministry, estimates 15315-6
Subdivision approvals, sewage disposal issue 14764-6
Traffic fines, revenue-sharing 16992
Transit, long-term planning 14882
Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates 14881-2, 15098-9
Tree fruit industry, concerns 15494, 15602-3
Tree fruit industry, forum on financial viability 15603
Truck and trailer licence, processing time, Abbotsford case 15099
Waste management, on-site sewage disposal 14764-8
West Coast Express, cost-sharing, Abbotsford involvement 16961-2
Wine industry, concerns re J licence 15651
Workers Compensation Amendment Act (1995) 16852-3
Workers' Compensation Board, chief appeal commissioner, role 16853
Workers' Compensation Board, governance 16852-3

VanCity Credit Union

Williams, Bob, involvement (Harcourt) 16828

Vancouver, B.C.

Arbutus neighbourhood plan (Marzari) 15067
Bureaucracy during Gordon Campbell's mayoralty (Mitchell) 13763
Casino for city's waterfront (Anderson) 16460
Council minutes quoted re Riverview land redevelopment (Reid) 14308
Debt during Gordon Campbell's mayoralty (Marzari) 13214-5
Document delivery services, cost transferred from government (Dalton) 13709-10
Drug problem in city (Dalton) 13610
Gaglardi and Broadway-Hastings connectors, completion (Pement) 14983 (Symons) 14983
Growth (Sihota) 13777
Health care facilities, provincial mandate (Ramsey) 15428 (Reid) 15423
Heritage density bonuses (Marzari) 15067
Johnson-Mariner overpass, construction (Pement) 14984 (Symons) 14984
Liability insurance (Farnworth) 14895 (Fox) 14894
Pacific Spirit Park (Harcourt) 16670
Policing, funding (Dalton) 13708-9
Policing, incarceration costs, reimbursement from government (Dalton) 13709 (Gabelmann) 13709
Policing, report cited (Dalton) 13709
River crossings, privatization (Jarvis) 14975
Speed limits, setting of limits (Gabelmann) 17000
Urban riparian zones (Sihota) 13919
Vancouver action plan for street youth (Anderson) 15344 (MacPhail) 15344
Waste dumping at Island Copper Mine site (Cull) 16264 (Jarvis) 16264

Vancouver Board of Trade

Letter from Darcy Rezac quoted re budget (Randall) 13364
Quoted re B.C. fiscal record (Stephens) 13114

Vancouver Charter

Amendments (Gabelmann) 16721 (Marzari) 15067
Liability protection against damages from bylaw contravention (Campbell) 16913

Vancouver Community College

Skills training program, funding (Miller) 15279

Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.

Student nurses' residence, future of building (Perry) 14510-1 (Ramsey) 14510-1

Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver, B.C.

Cooperative projects with St. Paul's Hospital (Dalton) 13804 (Simpson) 13803-4
Patient transfers (Ramsey) 14562 (Reid) 14562
Redevelopment of nurses' residence building site (Perry) 14510-1 (Ramsey) 14510-1

Vancouver International Airport

Governance (Gingell) 15960
Revenue and funding (Clark) 16399

Vancouver International Airport Authority

Accountability (Clark) 15960

Vancouver Island, B.C.

Population growth (Tanner) 13737
Southern communities, amalgamation (Sawicki) 13781
Transportation system (Janssen) 13290
Urban development in lower Island area (Krog) 13765

Vancouver Island Helicopters Ltd.

Lease of former government air services hangar (Clark) 16117 (Jones, K.) 16117-8

Vancouver Island Highway.

See

Vancouver Island land use plan

Communication plans (Campbell) 16410
Compensation costs (Hurd) 16491-2
Impact (Campbell) 16411-2 (Harcourt) 16411
Implementation (Petter) 13349
Plan (Evans) 16702 (Harcourt) 16410-1 (Petter) 15531 (Pullinger) 13323-4
Timber harvesting rights and plan (Hurd) 14919, 15409-10 (Neufeld) 14922-3 (Petter) 14918, 15409-10

Vancouver Island Natural Gas Pipeline Act

Amendments (Gabelmann) 16721

Vancouver Island natural gas pipeline project.

See

Vancouver Port Corporation

Devolution of authority (Clark) 15960

Vancouver Region: Acute Care and Rehabilitation Services Study

Recommendations cited, quoted (Reid) 14389, 14398-9

Vancouver Regional Transit Commission

Commuter rail service between Mission and Vancouver. See West Coast Express under main heading Transit
Meeting costs (Clark) 15915-6 (Symons) 15915-6

Vancouver School Board

Feasibility study on aboriginal high school (Charbonneau) 13788

Vancouver Stock Exchange

Commission of inquiry into the Vancouver Stock Exchange and securities regulation (Matkin commission). See name of commission
Finance minister's powers (Wilson) 14994
Governors
- chair selection from among public governors (Cull) 14710, 14995-6 (Weisgerber) 14995-6 (Wilson) 14994
- chair's powers (Cull) 14994 (Wilson) 14994
- powers (Wilson) 14994
- public governors, impact (Wilson) 14994
- public governors, number (Cull) 14710, 14926, 14991-2 (Gingell) 14926, 14992-3 (Weisgerber) 14927 (Wilson) 14991-2
- public governors, selection (Cull) 14929, 14991-3, 14995 (Gingell) 14926-7, 14993 (Weisgerber) 14927 (Wilson) 14928, 14992, 14995
- timely filling of vacancies (Cull) 14993-5 (Gingell) 14927, 14993 (Wilson) 14995
Legislation. See Vancouver Stock Exchange Amendment Act, 1995
Need for exchange (Gingell) 13861
Problems, NDP action (Cull) 14929 (Tyabji) 14952 (Wilson) 14927-8
Public confidence (Cull) 14930 (Gingell) 14926 (Wilson) 14928, 14932, 14992
Reporting to Legislature (Cull) 14710, 14926, 14996-8 (Gingell) 14996 (Wilson) 14928, 14996-8
Reputation (Tyabji) 14951-2 (Warnke) 14951
Reviews by B.C. Securities Commission (Gingell) 16335
Role in economy (Cull) 14710, 14926

Vancouver Stock Exchange Act

Amendments (Cull) 14710, 15404 (Wilson) 15404

Vancouver Stock Exchange Amendment Act, 1995

(Bill 45) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 14710; 2R, 14926-30; C, 14991-8; 3R, 14998; RA, 15218
Division: 2R approved 14930
Speakers (Cull) 14710, 14926, 14928-9, 14991-8 (Gingell) 14926-7, 14992-3, 14996 (Weisgerber) 14927, 14995-6 (Wilson) 14927-8, 14991-2, 14994-8

Vancouver Sun,

Children in poverty, article quoted (Chisholm) 15734
Criminal-record checks, editorial cited (Dalton) 15886
Newspaper carriers, employment standards (Farrell-Collins) 15628 (Miller) 15628
Quoted re budget (Farrell-Collins) 13084

Vancouver Transit Commission

Employees (Clark) 15857-8 (Symons) 15857-8

Vancouver Wharves Ltd.

Debt (Pement) 15005 (Symons) 15005

Vancouver-Fraserview constituency

Capital projects (Simpson) 13296

Vancouver-Little Mountain constituency

Hospitals, additional funding (Perry) 13163-4

Vander Zalm, William N.

Government's actions, comparison with NDP government's (Jones, K.) 13251

Vanderhoof, B.C.

Railways, property tax changes, impact (Fox) 16941

Vaudreuil, Matthew

Manslaughter case, sentence reduction for convicted mother (Dalton) 13413 (Gabelmann) 13413
Public inquiry into death (Chisholm) 15733 (MacPhail) 14902

Veal calves

Humane treatment, petition (Symons) 13353

Vedal, Sverre

Air pollution study (Cull) 16219

Vedder River, B.C.

Flood protection (Chisholm) 16222-3

Venture capital

Funding for high-tech industry (Clark) 16387

Vernon and District Hospice Society

Funding (Fox) 14781 (Ramsey) 14781

Vernon, B.C.

Dialysis clinic, operation (Anderson) 13758 (Ramsey) 13758

Via Rail

Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway responsibility (Symons) 15044

Vickers, Pat

Position as advocate for mentally handicapped (MacPhail) 14614, 15351

Victims of crime.

See

Victims of Crime Act

(Bill 37) (Minister of Attorney General) 1R, 15303-4; 2R, 15689-94, 15760-4; C, 15930-8; 3R, 15939; RA, 16513
Amdt: sec. 9 (Gabelmann) 15936, approved 15936
Speakers (Chisholm) 15693-4 (Dalton) 15691, 15930-2, 15936, 15938 (de Jong, M.) 15930-3, 15936-8 (Farnworth) 15762-3 (Gabelmann) 15303-4, 15689-91, 15763, 15930-8 (Jones, K.) 15930-1, 15933-5, 15937-8 (Mitchell) 15691-3 (Neufeld) 15934-5 (Sawicki) 15934 (Serwa) 15760-1 (Stephens) 15693 (Warnke) 15761-2 (Weisgerber) 15936-7 (Zirnhelt) 15763-4
Administration of act, accountability (Gabelmann) 15690-1, 15764
Corrections and Conditional Release Act and bill (Gabelmann) 15690
Criminal Injury Compensation Amendment Act, 1995, and bill (Farnworth) 15763
Goals (Dalton) 15691 (Gabelmann) 15763 (Mitchell) 15692
Implementation and costs (Dalton) 15691
Implementation date (Gabelmann) 15763
Ombudsman's review powers (de Jong, M.) 15938 (Gabelmann) 15938
Powers of act re federal legislation (Mitchell) 15692-3 (Stephens) 15693
Purposes (Gabelmann) 15303-4
Relationship of act to federal young offenders legislation (Chisholm) 15693-4 (Mitchell) 15692
Significant emotional trauma, use of phrase (Dalton) 15930 (Gabelmann) 15930
Victim, definition (Gabelmann) 15690, 15764 (Stephens) 15693 (Warnke) 15761

Victoria accord

Accord (Clark) 16090
Cost (Hanson) 13015
Q lot plans (Clark) 16096 (Jones, K.) 16096

Victoria, B.C.

Cancer clinic (Brewin) 13191 (Cull) 13384
Economy (Brewin) 13190
Green spaces (Sihota) 13777
Harbour commission proposal (Clark) 15959, 16401 (Gingell) 15959-60 (Symons) 16400-1
Heritage streetcar service (Clark) 16096
Jack Davis Building, claim settlements and total cost of building (Clark) 16114 (Jones, K.) 16114
Light rail transit (Cull) 13383
Parks in region, reverting of land to Crown, Indian land claim impact (Serwa) 13953 (Sihota) 13953
Planning in greater Victoria area (Sihota) 13777
Selkirk Building tenancy (Clark) 16091-2 (Jones, K.) 16091-2
Transit plan for future (Cull) 13382-3
Transit service to Western Communities (Sihota) 13198

Victoria Line Ltd.

Advertising on ferry (Clark) 16071
Annual report, 1994, tabled (MacPhail) 17014
Labour contract for summer workers, comparison to B.C. Ferries workers' contract (Clark) 16038-9 (Symons) 16038
Operations subsidy (Clark) 16038 (Symons) 16038
Ridership and revenue (Clark) 16038-9 (Symons) 16038-9
Royal Victorian, gambling facilities (Anderson) 16460 (Dosanjh) 16460
Seattle-Victoria service, billboard advertising (Jones, K.) 15997
Seattle-Victoria service, traffic (Clark) 15997
Staff (Peel) 16037 (Symons) 16037

Victoria Mortgage Corp. Ltd.

Class action by investors (Jones, B.) 15076-7

Victoria Women's Building Project

Objectives (Priddy) 13564

Victoria-Beacon Hill constituency

Aging population (Brewin) 13405
Capital projects (Brewin) 13192
Community health care services organizations (Brewin) 13406

Video lottery terminals.

See

View Royal Elementary School, Victoria, B.C.

Replacement (Sihota) 13197

Viewpoints Research Ltd.

Poll (Campbell) 14085 (Gingell) 14085-6

Vincent, Robert (Bob)

Quoted re budget (Edwards) 13267 (Pullinger) 13270 (Randall) 13364 (Simpson) 13294

Vintners' Quality Alliance

Program (Zirnhelt) 15492

Violence

Anti-violence initiatives (Gabelmann) 13601
Family violence
- central registry of protection orders (Gabelmann) 13585, 15764 (Gingell) 13586 (Stephens) 15693
- charging of both parties (Gabelmann) 13588 (Stephens) 13588
- incident cited (Zirnhelt) 15763
- incidents, tracking (Gabelmann) 13587
- prevention (Gabelmann) 13585-7 (Gingell) 13585-7 (Priddy) 16107 (Stephens) 16106, 16825
- prevention, legislation. See Domestic Violence Prevention Act
- prevention, Saskatchewan legislation (Gabelmann) 13588 (Stephens) 13588
- specialized court, Winnipeg system (Gabelmann) 13589 (Stephens) 13589
- victim support services, funding in North Vancouver (Dalton) 13582
- victim support services, volunteers (Dalton) 13582
Interministry committee (Priddy) 13617 (Stephens) 13617
Issues (Priddy) 13617 (Stephens) 13617
Prevention initiatives (Priddy) 13619 (Stephens) 13619
Protection of children from known abusers (Priddy) 13622 (Stephens) 13622
Sexual harassment. See Harassment under main heading Sexual misconduct
Spousal assault, incidence (Gabelmann) 13585
Stalking (Priddy) 13617
Stopping the Violence program. See name of program
Victims, counselling programs for women (Priddy) 13618 (Stephens) 13618
Violence against women, elimination (Neufeld) 13760
Violence against women, policy (Gabelmann) 13587-8, 13661
Violence against women, prevention (Priddy) 13562, 13616-7, 13619 (Stephens) 13616, 13619
Violence among youth, government action (Gabelmann) 13700 (Serwa) 13700
Violence in Indian communities (Priddy) 13564, 13617-8 (Stephens) 13617
Violence in the media (Priddy) 13619 (Stephens) 13619
Violence in schools, Education ministry action (Charbonneau) 13749 (Chisholm) 13749 (Fox) 15225
Violence in society (O'Neill) 13305

Visible minorities.

See

VLTs.

See

Volunteers

Commended (O'Neill) 13274
Community volunteers (Anderson) 13173-4
Health care system, volunteers (Dalton) 13805 (Ramsey) 14356 (Simpson) 13805

Voters and voting.

See

Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Printing (Gabelmann) 12991

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