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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
Waddell, John
- Quoted re third-party spending limits on election campaigns (Dalton) 16843
Wages
- Assignment of wages (de Jong, M.) 14730 (Miller) 15623-4 (Streifel) 14733 (Wilson) 15623-4
- Fair wages
- fair wages (Dosanjh) 16186 (Wilson) 16185-6
- fair-wage policy (Campbell) 13222 (Lovick) 13223-5 (Weisgerber) 13097
- fair-wage policy, cost (Fox) 13182 (Serwa) 13284, 13819
- fair-wage policy, impact (Campbell) 13009
- fair-wage policy, Judge Scarth's decision (Reid) 13853
- fair-wage policy, Liberal Party position (Giesbrecht) 13258
- fair-wage policy on highway construction (Hanson) 13226 (Lovick) 13224-5
- Four-hour minimum (Farrell-Collins) 15627-8 (Miller) 15627-8
- Liberal Party position (Doyle) 13428-9 (Randall) 13335
- Minimum wage (Anderson) 14850 (Miller) 13293, 14713, 15613 (Wilson) 14738-9, 14756
- Minimum wage for babysitters (Anderson) 13030 (Dalton) 13021 (Hanson) 13014 (Hurd) 13031 (Symons) 13064
- Minimum wage, rate increase (Jackson) 13373 (Stephens) 14740
- Minimum wage rates and employment levels (Farrell-Collins) 14718 (Miller) 14745-6 (Pullinger) 14725
- Pay equity (Priddy) 13566 (Stephens) 13566
- Pay equity in public sector (Cull) 15138, 15144-5 (Farrell-Collins) 15144-5
- Payment method (Farrell-Collins) 15622-3 (Hanson) 15623 (Miller) 15622-3
- Regular wage, definition (Miller) 15590 (Tyabji) 15590 (Wilson) 14739
- Statutory holiday pay (Farrell-Collins) 15796 (Fox) 15796-7 (Miller) 15795-7 (Serwa) 15795-7
- Unpaid wages, liability (Clark) 14827 (Farrell-Collins) 15840-1, 15843 (Miller) 15839-43 (Mitchell) 14724 (Tyabji) 15839-40, 15843-4
- Wage parity for women (Priddy) 13566 (Stephens) 13566
Wages
Wai, Hayne
- Multiculturalism work cited (Dosanjh) 16516
Walker, Michael J.
- Quoted re electric vehicles (Chisholm) 16220
Walsh, John
- Position as chief of staff (Harcourt) 16445-6 (Mitchell) 16445
Walters, Dr. Carl
- Quickstart program, article re problems cited (Chisholm) 15647
Walzer, Michael
- Quoted re nature of power (Tyabji) 16001
Waneta Dam. See also Dam construction projects under main heading Columbia Basin Trust
- Ownership (Hurd) 13347
- Power-generating facility (Harcourt) 13001
Wansbrough, Les
- Sewer infrastructure in Western Communities, letter quoted (Harcourt) 16417
War
War Veterans' Allowance Act
- Name change for act (Marzari) 15068
Ward, Barbara
- Quoted re environmental protection (Perry) 13767
Ward, Tom (Vice-president, B.C. Ferry Corporation)
Wards. See Guardian and ward
Warfield, B.C.
Warnke, Allan (Richmond-Steveston)
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, advocacy role 13940
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates 13811-4, 13905, 13907, 13931-42, 13944-6, 13963, 13965-7, 13972, 13987-8, 14006, 14194-8, 14208-9, 14211, 14302-3, 14316-8, 14329-30, 14363-4, 14373-4, 14379-81, 14541-6, 14554-5
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, Indian treaty negotiations expenditures 14365
- Adams Lake blockade 15402, 15998-9
- Adams River salmon stocks 13802
- Address in Reply 13309-11
- Agriculture industry, changes 14673-4
- Agriculture industry, impact of Employment Standards Act 14824-5
- Apex Mountain Resort, blockade of access road 13583
- Attorney General ministry, estimates 13583-4
- Barlee, Hon. Bill, commended as Tourism minister 13832
- Bears, penalties for sale of bear parts 17009
- Blencoe, Hon. Robin, dismissal as Government Services minister 13279
- Blockades of roads through Indian lands 15998-9
- Boldt, Menno, homelands for Indians 14006
- Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14483-6
- Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of agreement with B.C. 14484
- B.C. Ferries, debt limit 13712-3
- B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition, position on Nisga'a fishery allocations 14195
- B.C. Real Estate Association, position on land claims 13942
- B.C. society, role 13309-10
- B.C. Treaty Commission, negotiation process 13934, 13938
- B.C. Treaty Commission, negotiation process and interim measures agreements 14318
- B.C. Treaty Commission, prior commissioners, legislative amendment to align with federal legislation 16999
- B.C. Treaty Commission, statements of claim 13937-8
- Budget, 1995-96 budget 13229
- Budget debate 13227-30
- Budget, Finance ministers' comments re budget and debt 13227-8
- Budget leaks, resignation of Finance minister 13227
- Budget Measures Implementation Act (1995) 13712-3, 13897
- Budget speech, purpose 13309
- Lord Byng Elementary School, parents' concerns 13842
- Canada Health Act, principles 14655
- Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry report 13584
- Child abuse, incidence 15899
- Citizenship rights, dual standards for Indians and non-Indians 14208
- Clark, Hon. Glen, call for resignation 14486
- Clark, Hon. Glen, performance as Employment and Investment minister 14485
- Class Proceedings Act 15073
- Columbia Basin Trust Act 13531-2
- Columbia River, McNaughton plan, NDP position 13532
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, consideration in 1995-96 budget, advice to Finance minister and timing of budget 15192
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue considered in 1995-96 budget 14483, 14485
- Columbia River Treaty, House of Commons debate 13531-2
- Confederation, entrance of B.C. 14302-3
- Conservation of archeological sites, policy 15996
- Corporation Capital Tax Act, amendments 13897
- Corporation capital tax, impact 13713
- Council of Forest Industries of B.C., position on interim measures agreements with Indians 13965-6
- Court decisions in cases re Indians 14546
- Craig Bay Estates, development project on heritage site 15996
- Crime, accused persons' rights and offenders' rights, differentiation 15767
- Criminal Injury Compensation Amendment Act (1995) 15767
- Criminal injury compensation for victims injured at work, pain-and-suffering awards 15767
- Criminal Records Review Act 15890, 15899-900
- Criminal Records Review Act, applicability to private sector 15899
- Criminal Records Review Act, applicability to volunteers 15899
- Criminal Records Review Act, Liberal Party position 15890, 15900
- Criminal Records Review Act, referral to select standing committee 15890
- Criminal-record checks for child workers 15899
- Crown corporations, debt limits, increase 13712-3
- Crown land leaseholds, purchase rights 13413
- Crown land leases and licences, status in land claims negotiations 14373-4
- Debt during NDP administration 13228
- Debt management, economists' views 13228
- Delgamuukw decisions 14546
- Delgamuukw decisions, interpretations 13946, 13963, 13966
- Democratic freedom 14055-6
- Douglas Lake Cattle Co. lands, blockade 15110-1
- East coast fishery, decline 13802
- Economic prosperity and environmental protection 14025-6
- Economy, competition 14892
- Economy, government role in economy 13227
- Economy of Canada, competition 14892
- Education ministry, estimates 13798, 13841-4
- Education system in B.C. 13310-1
- Election Act 16283-5, 16645-7, 16649, 16653-8, 16660, 16662, 16664, 16672, 16863-4
- Election Act offences, prosecutions 16863-4
- Election candidates, death before election 16649
- Election candidates, leave from employment 16653
- Election candidates, nominations 16645-6
- Election candidates, party endorsement 16647
- Election candidates, requirement for official agent 16285
- Election voting stations, who may be present 16662, 16664
- Elections, ballot-marking 16283, 16660
- Elections, ballots, information included on ballot 16657-8
- Elections, special voting opportunities 16655-6
- Elections, write-in ballot 16654
- Electoral reform 16284-5
- Elk, killing of elk in Kootenays 13930
- Elk research project in Kootenays 16254-5
- Employment Standards Act 14824-5
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 16254-6
- Environmental protection and economic sustainability 14025-6
- Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 14673-4
- Farmers, problems 14673-4
- Farming, right-to-farm legislation 14673-4
- Federal transfer payments to B.C., reductions 14655-8
- Federal transfer payments to provinces, reductions 13228
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates 15192
- Fish stocks, protection 14195
- Fisheries, aboriginal fishery entitlements 14192
- Fisheries, policing by Indians on Fraser River 13583
- Fishery allocations for Indians and non-Indians 14195
- Fishing industry, international fishery 13802
- Fishing industry, loss of fish stocks 13801-3
- Forest industry, impact of interim measures agreements with Indians 13965-6
- Forest industry, resources inventory information 14913, 15120-1
- Forest Practices Code, Liberal Party position 14913
- Forest Practices Code, Liberal Party support for code 14912-3
- Forest Practices Code of B.C. Act, amendments 14912-3
- Forest Practices Code of B.C. Amendment Act (1995) 14912-3, 15120-1
- Forest Service campgrounds, Meager Creek hot springs area, complaint cited 15824
- Forest Service campgrounds, policing needs 15824-5
- Forests ministry, estimates 15824-5
- Forests ministry, negotiations with McLeod Lake Indian band 13940
- Gardiner, Brian, appointment 13930
- Gold River-Tahsis road 14878-9
- Government, provincial secretary position 13929-30
- Grazing rights, impact of Indian land claims 14373-4
- Guide-outfitters 16255
- Health care, future of medicare system 14655-8
- Health care system, universality principle 14655-8
- Health care, two-tier system 13229
- Health ministry, estimates 14655-8
- Home Owner Grant Amendment Act (1995) 15068
- Indian Act, repeal 13811
- Indian Affairs, elimination of federal department 13811
- Indian health care professionals 14379-80
- Indian land claims and private property rights 13413, 13813, 13940-2
- Indian lands, leasing arrangements on band land 13940-2
- Indian leadership 14379
- Indian policing areas, treatment of non-Indians 13583
- Indian self-government 13811, 13813, 14303
- Indian treaty negotiations, confidentiality 13907, 14192
- Indian treaty negotiations, consultations 13813
- Indian treaty negotiations, guiding principles 14303
- Indian treaty negotiations, historical background 14302-3
- Indian treaty negotiations, information dissemination 13936
- Indian treaty negotiations, legitimacy of sector representation 13933
- Indian treaty negotiations, Liberal Party policies 13813-4
- Indian treaty negotiations, model 13966-7
- Indian treaty negotiations, negotiating framework 13905
- Indian treaty negotiations, openness 13812, 13905, 13907, 13931, 16915
- Indian treaty negotiations, participation 15110-1
- Indian treaty negotiations, public confidence 13936
- Indian treaty negotiations, public involvement 13907, 13931
- Indian treaty negotiations, representation of B.C.'s interests 13813, 13963
- Indian treaty negotiations, role of court decisions 14546
- Indian treaty negotiations, secrecy issue 13905, 13931, 13934, 16915
- Indian treaty negotiations, televising of negotiating sessions 13907
- Indian treaty negotiations, third-party interests 13811-2, 13907, 13931
- Indian treaty negotiations, timetables 13813
- Indian treaty negotiations with bands involved in illegal activities 15110-1, 15998-9
- Indian treaty settlements, affordability 13813
- Indian treaty settlements and climate of uncertainty in B.C. 13811, 13813
- Indian treaty settlements, benefits 13946
- Indian treaty settlements, cash component 13945
- Indian treaty settlements, compensation, Reform Party position 13972
- Indian treaty settlements, costs 13944-5
- Indian treaty settlements, enrolled claimants 13945
- Indian treaty settlements, entrenched provisions 14546
- Indian treaty settlements, federal-provincial cost-sharing agreement 13988
- Indian treaty settlements, finality of agreements 14197, 14364, 16915
- Indian treaty settlements, fishery allocations 14195-6
- Indian treaty settlements, fishery protection requirement 14195
- Indian treaty settlements, focus on future needs 14544, 14546
- Indian treaty settlements, land component, 5 percent figure 14541-3
- Indian treaty settlements, post-settlement B.C. 13937
- Indian treaty settlements, public referenda 13935, 14329-30
- Indian treaty settlements, "surrender" of land by government 14541-3
- Indians, aboriginal interest, remedy for loss 14544
- Indians, aboriginal justice system 13583-4
- Indians, aboriginal rights and aboriginal title 14303
- Indians, aboriginal rights, definition 13946, 13963, 13966
- Indians, aboriginal title 13813
- Indians as percentage of prison population 13583-4
- Indians, Douglas treaties and current treaty negotiations 14302
- Indians, dual standards for Indians and non-Indians 14195-6
- Indians, fishery entitlements 14192, 14195-6
- Indians, historic issues, resolution 14544
- Indians, historic responsibilities of federal government 13811, 14303
- Indians, homelands for aboriginal peoples 13812, 14006
- Indians, inherent right to self-government 13966
- Indians, interim measures agreements 13814, 13965-6, 13972, 14317-8
- Indians, interim measures agreements, negotiations 14316-7
- Indians levying fees illegally, Prince George pine mushroom case 14380
- Indians, policing services 13583
- Indians, population figures 14543
- Indians, sovereignty 13812-3
- Indians, special rights and status 13812, 14546
- Indians, survey of opinions 14379
- Indians, treatment in Canada, comparison with South Africa 13812
- Indians, Treaty 8 negotiations 13939
- International Registration Plan Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 15782
- Justice system, class actions 15073
- Justice system, decisions in cases re Indians 14546
- Land, leaseholder rights 13940-2
- Land, underlying title held by province 14303
- Legislation, preambles, nature 13532
- Legislative process, reform 16743-4
- Legislative process, reform of standing orders 16744
- Legislature, adjournment motions 16809
- Legislature, concurrent sittings in House and Committee A 14426
- Lheit Lit'en nation, interim measures agreement 14317
- Liberal Party governments in Canada 13309
- Liberal Party of Canada government, performance 13228-9
- Liberal Party philosophy 13309-10
- Charles E. London Junior Secondary School, fire damage 13842
- McDonald's Restaurants, employee training 14824-5
- McEachern, Allan, aboriginal title ruling 13946, 13963
- McLeod Lake Indian band, negotiations 13939-40
- Makah Indian band, annual grey whale kill 14555
- Medical Services Plan CareCards, number issued 13758
- Medical Services Plan, fraud 13758
- Medicare system, Liberal Party position 13229, 14655-8
- MLAs' compensation, public perception 14583-4
- MLAs, offices and equipment 14583
- MLAs, salary freeze 14583-4
- Military colleges, impact of "peace dividend" on colleges 15571-2
- Mining industry, capital tax, impact 13713
- Mining industry, status 13713
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16991, 16995, 16999, 17009, 17011
- Motion picture industry 13833
- Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 15067
- Munro, Connie, Workers' Compensation Board contract 13694
- Musqueam Indian band, land claim 16669-70, 16718-9
- Musqueam Indian band land claim, NDP government policy 16719
- Musqueam Indian band, leased land in Marine Drive area 13940-2, 14543
- Musqueam Indian land, leased land, rental fees 13811
- Nanoose first nation, heritage site at Craig Bay 15996
- National Citizens' Coalition, work 16284
- New Zealand economy 13227
- Nisga'a agreement in principle, public review 13988
- Nisga'a agreement-in-principle negotiations, deadline 13987-8, 14196-7
- Nisga'a commercial fishery entitlement 14192
- Nisga'a fishery allocations 14195-6
- Nisga'a government, taxing authority 14208-9
- Nisga'a land claim, leaked documents 13987-8
- Nisga'a land claim settlement, acreage 14198
- Nisga'a land claim settlement, deadline 13984-5
- Nisga'a land claims, inclusion of subsurface rights 14208
- Nisga'a land claims negotiations, confidentiality issue 13985
- Nisga'a negotiations 13934, 13966-7
- Nisga'a negotiations, federal government position 14197
- Nisga'a negotiations, federal government role 13988
- Nisga'a people, governing powers 14211
- Nisga'a people, nationhood 14208
- Nisga'a settlement lands, access for non-Nisga'a 14208
- Nisga'a treaty, escalator clause 14543
- Nisga'a treaty, finality 14543
- Nisga'a treaty, fiscal arrangements 14211
- Nisga'a Tribal Council, position on aboriginal title 13813
- Nuu-chah-nulth people, whale hunt proposal 14555
- Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, position on sovereignty 13813
- Ontario, debt during NDP administration 13228
- Pacific coast fisheries, future 13801-3
- Pacific Racing Association, society status, impact on directors 16995
- Park Amendment Act (1995) 16718-9, 16893, 16901, 16904
- Parks, acquisition policy 16669-70
- Parks, impact of new parks on Indian land claims 16893
- Parks, international park proposal, Alaska-Yukon-B.C. 16901, 16904
- Parks, new parks and Indian land claims 16893
- Parliamentary Calendar Act (1995) 16743-4
- Patronage appointments 13929-30
- Political party contributions, tax deductibility 16285
- Political party system 16283
- Political polling, use in politics 16284-5
- Premier and Cabinet Office, estimates 16509-10
- Premier's office, executive federalism issue 16509
- Premier's office, organization 16509-10
- Prison population, percentage of Indians 13583-4
- Private property, definition 13940-2
- Radiant-heating ceiling panels, liability 17011
- Rangelands, access to Crown rangeland 14373
- Real estate industry, impact of Indian land claims 13942
- Richmond School District, Garry Street school proposal 13843-4
- Richmond School District, issues 13798, 13841-4
- Richmond School District, learning resources 13844
- Richmond School District, overcrowding in schools 13842-3
- Richmond School District, portables 13842-3
- Richmond School District, school construction, Hon. Anita Hagen's comments 13842, 13844
- Richmond schools, Doug Symons's comments 13229-30
- Richmond schools, Liberal Party position 13229-30
- Royal proclamation of 1763, applicability to B.C. 14302
- Royal Roads Military College, history 15571-2
- Royal Roads University Act 15571-2, 15902, 15904, 15923-6
- Royal Roads University, board of governors, composition 15923-4
- Royal Roads University, board of governors, quorum at meetings 15924-5
- Royal Roads University, fundraising 15904
- Royal Roads University, impact on local institutions 15572
- Royal Roads University, president's powers 15925-6
- Royal Roads University, removal of professors, appeal process 15926
- Royal Roads University, role 15572, 15902
- Safety in communities 13311
- Safety in workplace 13799-800
- Salmon fishery, revenues 13802
- Salmon resource, protection of stocks 13803
- Schools, use of portables 13311, 13842-3
- Sechelt Indian band, 1987 treaty agreement, finality 14364
- Sechelt Indian band, ratification 14329-30
- Sechelt Indian band settlement lands, subsurface rights 14363-4
- Sechelt Indian band, treaty negotiations 14363-4
- Sechelt Indian band, treaty ratification, non-Indian voting rights 14330
- Sechelt Indian band treaty settlement, costs 14330, 14363
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 14933, 14951
- Securities industry 14951
- Securities industry in Ontario 14951
- Sexual harassment allegations against cabinet minister 13279
- Shady Island, park status 14026
- Simon Fraser University, attendees 14236
- Simon Fraser University, history 14235
- Small business, impact of Employment Standards Act 14824-5
- Social welfare system 13311
- Society, future of society 13310
- South Africa homelands for non-whites, comparisons with Canada 13812, 14006
- Speech from the Throne, content 13309
- Speech from the Throne, purpose 13309
- Standing order 34, two adjournment motions 16809
- Steveston Senior Secondary School, expansion 13842
- Supreme Court of Canada, sexual harassment criteria used in decisions 13279
- Tatshenshini area, world heritage site designation 16901
- Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park, administration 16904
- Tax exemptions for Indians 14381
- Tax fairness 13311
- Taxation, standardized system in Canada 14381
- Tobacco quotas for Indians 14380-1
- Toronto Stock Exchange, performance 14951
- Tourism Act 13832-3
- Tourism Act, minister's powers, use of word "may" 13832
- Tourism industry 13832-3
- Tourism ministry, expenditures 13833
- Tourism ministry, mandate 13832
- Traffic fines, revenue returned for local policing initiatives 16991
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates 14878-9
- Treaty Negotiation Advisory Committee, confidentiality requirement 13932
- Trucking industry, taxation formula for multijurisdictional carriers 15782
- Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, treaty negotiation process, double-bilateral negotiations 13938
- U.S. economy 14892
- Upper Nicola Indian band, blockade 15110-1
- Upper Nicola Indian band, discussions 15110-1
- Vancouver Stock Exchange, reputation 14951
- VE-Day, fiftieth anniversary remembrances 14055-6
- Victims of Crime Act 15761-2
- Victims of Crime Act, victim, definition 15761
- Victims of crime, legal representation 15762
- Victims of crime, victims' rights and offenders' rights 15761-2
- Victims' right to information 15762
- Victims' rights advocacy, personal role 15761
- Victims' rights legislation and supporters commended 15761
- War, human cost of war 14055-6
- Whale-hunting, Indian bands' proposals 16256
- Whales, protection of grey whale population 14555
- Wildlife poaching, use of electronics 16254-5
- Wildlife, road kills 16255
- Withdrawal from chamber required 13230
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act (1995) 16851-2, 16857
- Workers' Compensation Board annual report, tabling requirement 13591
- Workers' Compensation Board, appointment of administrators 16857
- Workers' Compensation Board, executive compensation, payments to Connie Munro 13694
- Workers' Compensation Board, management 16852
- Workers' Compensation Board operations, public consultation by Liberal Party 13799, 16852
- Workers' Compensation Board, problems 16857
- Workers' Compensation Board, replacement of board of governors, severance pay 16857
- Workers' Compensation Board, role 13800
- Workers' Compensation Board, unfunded liability 13591-2, 13694
- Workers' Compensation Board, workplace issues 16851-2
- Workers killed, injured on job, day of mourning 13799-800
- Workplace injuries, deaths 13799-800
Washington
- Environmental issues, cooperation with B.C. (Sawicki) 13780
- Makah Indian band, annual grey whale kill (Cashore) 14555 (Warnke) 14555
- Sex offenders registry (Dalton) 13607 (Gabelmann) 13607
- Water from Canada, need (Wilson) 14515-9
Waste management. See also Recycling
- Biomedical waste (Cull) 16191 (de Jong, M.) 16191
- Composting (Cull) 16189
- Household hazardous waste depots, accessibility (Cull) 16161
- Incineration (Cull) 16202 (Wilson) 16202
- Municipal solid waste program, distribution of funds (Cull) 16189-90 (de Jong, M.) 16189-90
- On-site sewage disposal, regulation (Fox) 14769-70 (Ramsey) 14765-8, 14770-1 (van Dongen) 14764-8
- Regional districts, waste management plans (Cull) 16188-90, 16202-3, 16224 (de Jong, M.) 16188-90
- Septic systems (Jones, K.) 14768-9, 14771 (Ramsey) 14768-9
- Septic systems, approval process (Fox) 14769-70
- Septic tanks, regulation (Sihota) 13960-1
- Sewage disposal on agricultural land (Gingell) 13929, 14667 (Jones, K.) 14672 (Ramsey) 13929, 14768 (van Dongen) 14643, 14768, 15651-2 (Zirnhelt) 15652
- Sewage disposal on agricultural land, Fraser Valley cases cited (van Dongen) 15651
- Sewer systems in Esquimalt-Metchosin constituency (Sihota) 13198
- Sewer systems in Malahat-Juan de Fuca constituency (Kasper) 13188-9
- Solid waste generation in Vancouver area, levies (Marzari) 15067
- Treatment facilities, upgrade (Sihota) 14685
- Waste treatment on industrial land farms (Stephens) 16205
Waste Management Act
- Amendments (Gabelmann) 16721 (Mitchell) 17003
- Powers re farm practices (Zirnhelt) 15676
- Regulations resulting from amendments (Cull) 17002 (Symons) 17002
Waste Management Amendment Act, 1992
Water. See also Groundwater
- Arsenic levels in rural well water supplies (Ramsey) 14571 (Wilson) 14571
- California situation (Mitchell) 14265-6
- Chloramine as water treatment (de Jong, M.) 16268
- Continental water-sharing proposals (Clark) 14833-4 (Perry) 14829
- Crown agencies, prohibited activities (Cull) 15262 (Tyabji) 15262
- Diversion and removal, prohibitions (Clark) 14833-4, 15259-60 (Cull) 14263, 15239-40 (de Jong, M.) 14263-4, 15259-60 (Farnworth) 14830-1 (Hurd) 14556 (Jackson) 14830 (Jarvis) 15239 (Perry) 14829 (Serwa) 14831-2 (Sihota) 13757, 14829 (Tyabji) 15240, 15260-1 (Weisgerber) 14267
- Diversion within watersheds (Cull) 15262 (de Jong, M.) 15262
- Drawdowns from lakes and rivers (Edwards) 14225-6 (Jarvis) 14225-6
- Drawdowns from Williston Lake (Edwards) 14226-7, 15429, 15431, 15433-4 (Jarvis) 14226, 15431 (Neufeld) 15433-4 (Weisgerber) 15398-9
- Exports (Clark) 15259-60 (Cull) 14263 (de Jong, M.) 14263-4, 15259-60 (Hurd) 14556 (Mitchell) 14264-7 (Tyabji) 14435-6, 15260 (Weisgerber) 14267-8 (Wilson) 14270-1
- Exports, authority for B.C. to set tariff (Tyabji) 14436
- Exports of water obtained outside B.C. (Cull) 15262 (de Jong, M.) 15262
- Fluoridation of community water supplies (Ramsey) 14571 (Wilson) 14570-1
- Impoundment and release, regulation (Cull) 15236-7, 15240-1 (Jarvis) 15236-7 (Tyabji) 15237, 15240
- Jurisdictional issues (Clark) 14833-4, 15259-60 (de Jong, M.) 15259-60 (Serwa) 14832 (Sihota) 14828-9 (Tyabji) 14557-8
- Levels of lakes and rivers (Edwards) 15434 (Neufeld) 15434 (Wilson) 14271-2
- Levels of lakes, setting (Evans) 13175
- Licences (Wilson) 14271-2
- Licences, conditional licence holders (Cull) 15263-4 (de Jong, M.) 15263 (Tyabji) 15263-4
- Licences, prohibition on issuing by comptroller (Cull) 15262 (Tyabji) 15262
- Licensing issues (Edwards) 15433-4 (Neufeld) 15433-4
- Quality, safety of water (Hurd) 15118 (Petter) 15118
- Reservoirs in B.C., U.S. drawdowns (Wilson) 14517-8
- Reservoirs, legal status (Tyabji) 14556-7
- Resources
- aboriginal entitlement (Cull) 15237-8 (de Jong, M.) 15237-8
- B.C. situation (Mitchell) 14265, 14267 (Sihota) 14559-61 (Tyabji) 14558-9 (Wilson) 14271-2
- conservation (Clark) 15259-60 (de Jong, M.) 15259-60
- ownership vested in Crown (Cull) 14263, 15237-8, 15241-3 (de Jong, M.) 14263-4, 15238, 15241-2 (Evans) 14269-70 (Mitchell) 14266 (Tyabji) 15238 (Weisgerber) 14268 (Wilson) 14271
- protection. See also Water Protection Act
- (Jackson) 13372 (Sihota) 13757 (Tyabji) 16710 (Wilson) 14518
- role in economy (Clark) 14833
- sharing of resource with U.S. (Evans) 14268-9
- stewardship, legislation (Chisholm) 14831 (Clark) 14832-4 (Cull) 14263 (de Jong, M.) 14263-4 (Farnworth) 14830-1 (Jackson) 14830 (Mitchell) 14265-7 (Perry) 14829 (Serwa) 14831-2 (Sihota) 13757, 14559 (Weisgerber) 14268
- sustainable use (Cull) 15236, 15265-6 (Mitchell) 14266 (Tyabji) 14558-9, 15236, 15265-6 (Wilson) 14271
- Transfers between major watersheds (Cull) 14263, 15262 (de Jong, M.) 14264 (Tyabji) 15262
- Transports by tanker truck (Cull) 15239 (Neufeld) 15239
- U. S. access to B.C. water (Chisholm) 14831 (Clark) 14833-4 (Farnworth) 14830-1
- Users, registration requirement (Cull) 15263-6 (de Jong, M.) 15264-5 (Tyabji) 15262-4, 15266
- Water as product and good for trade (Cull) 15242-3 (de Jong, M.) 15242-3
- Water from Canada, need in U.S. Pacific Northwest (Farnworth) 14519-20
- Watersheds
Water Act
- Domestic purpose and waterworks purpose provisions (Petter) 15125-6 (Wilson) 15125-6
- Water Protection Act, carryover definitions (Cull) 15235 (Tyabji) 15235
- Watershed provisions (Wilson) 14911
Water and Free Trade
Water Protection Act
- (Bill 9) (Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks) 1R, 13757; 2R, 14263-72, 14556-61, 14683-9, 14828-34; C, 15234-43, 15259-68; 3R, 15268; RA, 15879
- Amdts: sec. 10 (Cull) 15263, approved 15263; sec. 22 (Cull) 15267, approved 15267
- Speakers (Chisholm) 14831 (Clark) 14832-4, 15259-60 (Cull) 14263, 15234-43, 15261-8 (de Jong, M.) 14263-4, 15234, 15237-8, 15241-3, 15259-67 (Evans) 14268-70 (Farnworth) 14830-1 (Hurd) 14556 (Jackson) 14830 (Jarvis) 15236-7, 15239 (Mitchell) 14264-7 (Neufeld) 15239 (Perry) 14829 (Serwa) 14685, 14831-2 (Sihota) 13757, 14559-61, 14683-9, 14828-9 (Tyabji) 14556-9, 14685, 15234-40, 15260-8 (Weisgerber) 14267-8 (Wilson) 14270-2, 14559
- Cancellation of Bonneville Power Administration agreement and bill (Evans) 14269 (Wilson) 14270
- Compliance (Cull) 15268 (Tyabji) 15267-8
- Groundwater protection provisions (Cull) 15235 (Tyabji) 15235
- International trade agreements and bill (Clark) 15259-60 (Cull) 15241-3, 15261 (de Jong, M.) 15241-3, 15259-61 (Tyabji) 15260-1
- Large scale project, definition (Cull) 15267 (Mitchell) 14266 (Tyabji) 15266-7
- Penalty provisions (Cull) 15266-7 (de Jong, M.) 15266-7
- Powers (Cull) 15238 (Tyabji) 15238
- Provisions, applicability (Cull) 15236 (Tyabji) 15236
- Public support for bill (Mitchell) 14266
- Purpose of bill (Clark) 15259 (Cull) 14263, 15240 (de Jong, M.) 14263-4 (Evans) 14269 (Mitchell) 14265-7 (Sihota) 14683 (Weisgerber) 14267-8
- Sustainable use provisions (Cull) 15265-6 (Tyabji) 15265-6
- Timeliness of bill (Tyabji) 14558-9
Waterfield, Donald
- Quoted re compensation for expropriated property (Mitchell) 13425
Watts, George
- Quoted re Indians in Canada (Harcourt) 16473
- Quoted re sovereignty of aboriginal peoples (Warnke) 13813
Weiler, Paul
- Labour relations, letter re final-offer selection (Miller) 15852 (Weisgerber) 15852
Weins, Margaret
- Work as anti-smoking activist cited (Reid) 14968
Weisgerber, John S. (Jack) (Peace River South)
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates 13989-93, 14325-9, 14368-72, 14381-2
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, policy guidelines, consultations with Indians 14369-70
- Abortion, access zones 16006
- Abortion, anti-abortion protests, use of court injunctions 16006-7
- Abortion, choice for women 16006
- Abortion services in freestanding clinics, problems 16006
- Access to Abortion Services Act 16006-7
- Access to Abortion Services Act, Health minister's sponsorship 16006
- Access to Abortion Services Act, MLAs' position on bill 16007
- Actions while Native Affairs minister (Cashore) 14712
- Adams Lake blockade 16430
- Adams Lake blockade, removal 15999
- Adams Lake, right-of-way issue 16482
- Address in Reply 13047-50
- Adoption Act 16141
- Adoption, eligibility to adopt 16141
- Affirmative action 16065, 16184
- Alberta, deficit reduction measures 13048
- Arnold, Leslie, severance costs 13180
- Automobile driving without a licence, learning situations 15447
- Automobile speeding violations, maximum fine 15455
- Automobile speeding violations, owner's liability 15449
- Blockades, government response 16482
- Blockades, illegal blockades 15015
- Blockades of roads, handling when Native Affairs minister 15017 (Harcourt) 15017
- Blockades of roads through Indian lands 15999
- Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14410-1
- Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of agreement with B.C. 14293, 14315-6
- Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of agreement with B.C., provisions re power rates 15397-8
- B.C. Council of Human Rights, advocacy role 16065, 16183
- B.C. Federation of Labour, political contributions 16249
- B.C. Human Rights Commission, commissioner of investigation and mediation, powers of investigation 16065
- B.C. Human Rights Commission, commissioners, fixed-term appointments 16065, 16207-9
- B.C. Human Rights Commission, commissioners, selection process 16207-8
- B.C. Human Rights Commission, research and education 16186
- B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, employment equity programs used as remedy for discrimination 16064-5, 16183-4
- B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, fixed-term appointments 16065
- B.C. Hydro, avoided costs 15989
- B.C. Hydro, chairman's travel expenses 14539-40
- B.C. Hydro, energy plan under Social Credit Party administration 13044
- B.C. Hydro, power requirements 15392-5
- B.C. Hydro projects, environmental assessment requirements 16540
- B.C. Hydro rates for industrial consumers in power-generation areas 15990
- B.C. Hydro, supply of power 15987-8
- B.C. Pavilion, staff telephone calls to 1-900 numbers 14246
- B.C. Securities Commission, powers 14932
- B.C. Trade Development Corporation, employment of Bob Williams 16747
- B.C. Treaty Commission, negotiation process 15111
- B.C. 21 program, purpose 13049
- Budget, balanced-budget legislation 13048-9, 13095-6
- Budget comments, release to media (de Jong, M.) 13104, 13110
- Budget debate 13094-7
- Budget leak, debate 13086-7
- Budget leak, impact 13086-7
- Budget, NDP budgets 13094
- Budget, security for budget document 13086-7
- Budgetary process and interim supply 13131-2
- Cabinet documents, security 13145
- Canadian Taxpayers' Federation, position on employees' non-partisanship 16249
- Charlottetown accord, process used 14326
- Child care, licensing of home-based services 14465-7
- Chilton, Chris, appointment to Health ministry 16438
- Chilton, Chris, office accommodation 15220
- Civil service, cost 13095
- Civil service, morale 13087
- Civil service, public confidence 13072
- Civil service, size 13095
- Columbia Basin accord, legal status 14361
- Columbia Basin Trust 13360
- Columbia Basin Trust Act 13360-1
- Columbia Basin Trust, dam construction projects 15394-5
- Columbia Basin Trust, initial investment from government 13360
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefit entitlement, value of power generated on Columbia system 15396-8
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, Columbia-Kootenay region's share 14361
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, NDP government handling 14410-1
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, notes of sale 15151-2
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue considered in 1995-96 budget 14410, 15221
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue considered in 1995-96 budget, advice to Finance minister 15149-52
- Columbia River Treaty, impact on Columbia-Kootenay region 15397
- Conservation of archeological sites, policy 15996
- Construction industry contractors, reputability 16670
- Craig Bay Estates, development project on heritage site 15996
- Criminal Injury Compensation Amendment Act (1995) 15939
- Criminal injury compensation for victims injured at work, pain-and-suffering awards 15939
- Criminal Records Review Act 15889, 15894, 16041, 16043, 16046, 16055, 16059
- Criminal Records Review Act and Teaching Profession Act 16059
- Criminal Records Review Act, applicability to municipal employees 15894
- Criminal Records Review Act, applicability to volunteers 15894, 16041
- Criminal Records Review Act, consequential legislation 16059
- Criminal Records Review Act, employer, definition 16041
- Criminal Records Review Act, referral to select standing committee 15889
- Criminal-record checks for child workers, liability issue 15894, 16055
- Criminal-record checks for child workers, mistaken identities 15894, 16046
- Criminal-record checks for child workers, notification procedure 16046, 16048
- Criminal-record checks for child workers, procedure 15894
- Crown corporations, privatization 13050, 13097
- Crown land activities, consultations with area Indian bands 14368-9, 14372
- Crown land activity permit approvals, allegations of unfair conduct 14369-72
- Crown land, logging on Crown land 15810-2
- Cull, Hon. Elizabeth, resignation 15566
- Dams, cost of power generation 13361
- Debt during NDP administration 16435
- Debt, impact 13094
- Debt levels 13094
- Debt levels, sustainability 13047-8
- Debt management plan 13048, 13094
- Debt, payback period 13094
- Delgamuukw decisions, interpretations 15778
- Discrimination, elimination 16064
- Douglas Lake Cattle Co. lands, blockade 14664-5, 14711-2, 14906, 15015, 15017, 15111
- Dueck, Peter, resignation as minister 16440-1
- Duffey Lake Road, blockade 15017, 15999
- East Pine, pulp mill 15813-4
- Education costs 13050, 13097
- Education, essential service designation 13097
- Election Act 16248-50, 16615, 16630-2, 16641-2, 16645-7, 16650, 16663, 16817-8, 16831-3, 16873, 16875-7, 16881, 16884-6
- Election Act and Referendum Act provisions 16876-7
- Election Act, revision of old act 16248
- Election Advisory Committee, establishment 16248
- Election campaign advertising by government 16831-3
- Election campaign advertising, limits on third-party advertising 16249
- Election campaign contributions, disclosure requirements 16248
- Election campaign spending, disclosure requirements 16248
- Election campaign workers, paid leave from other jobs 16248-9
- Election candidates, death before election 16650
- Election candidates, nominations 16645
- Election candidates, party endorsement 16646-7
- Elections, audit requirements 16248
- Elections, chief electoral officer, appointment 16248, 16615
- Elections, chief electoral officer, auditing powers 16873
- Elections, district registrars of voters 16630-1
- Elections, fixed election date 16631-2
- Elections, voters list, currency and accuracy 16641-2
- Elections, voting accessibility 16248
- Elections, voting stations, who may be present 16663
- Electric power, cost 15988-92
- Electric power, independent power producers 15988
- Electric power, independent power producers, NDP government position 13044
- Electric power, independent power producers, power prices 15992
- Electric power, independent power producers, proposals for power generation 13044
- Electric power, markets for Kootenay-generated power 15394-5
- Electric power supply in B.C. 15392-5, 15398-9
- Electric power, transmission costs of Kootenay-generated power 15398
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates 15987-93
- Energy consumption in B.C. 15392-5
- Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ministry, estimates 15392-9
- Energy needs in northern B.C. 15393-4
- Energy resources, supply forecast 15392-5
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 16203-4
- Environmental Assessment Act, requirements 16540
- Ethanol industry, support 16481
- Federal transfer payments to B.C. 13050
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates 15149-52, 15221
- Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act 15546, 15848-50, 15852-3
- Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act, reaction to bill 15546
- Firefighters, arbitrator's decisions, criteria 15853
- Firefighters, final-offer arbitration 15546
- Firefighters, final-offer selection 15850, 15852
- Firefighting services, essential service designation 15546, 15848-9
- Fording Coal Ltd., coal waste project 15990
- Forest industry, protection of interests 13378
- Forest industry, pulpwood agreements 15812
- Forest industry, wood imports from Alberta 15810, 15813
- Forest Renewal B.C., funds returned to source communities 16601
- Forestry, aspen harvesting in Dawson Creek area 15810
- Forests ministry, estimates 15810-5
- Fruman, Sheila, severance package 16438
- Fuel, alternative motor fuels, impact on air quality 16203-4
- Fuel, alternative motor fuels, taxation 16203, 16481
- GAIN, cost reductions 13050-1
- GAIN program, single mothers, employability 13096
- GAIN recipients, vehicle ownership policy 13694
- Gardiner, Brian, attendance at cabinet committee meeting to discuss Parks report 16441-2
- Gardiner, Brian, memo re NDP re-election plans 15881
- Gasoline tax, revenues dedicated to highway construction 14816
- Gathercole, Dick, financial settlement 16435-7
- Government accounting 13094
- Government assets, amortization of costs 14816
- Government borrowing for highway construction 13094
- Government borrowing restrictions 13049, 13096
- Government communications budget 13048
- Government, fiscal reform, Reform Party proposal 13048-50
- Government, interim supply, use of practice 13131-2
- Government, resignation of ministers during investigations 16440
- Government, security of confidential information 13145
- Government, security of confidential information and public confidence, emergency debate, timing 13072
- Government spending 13094-5
- Government spending levels 13048-50
- Government spending overruns 13131-2
- Government spending, position (Cull) 13298
- Government telephone system, abuse by employees 14246
- Grohmann, Norm, promotional work 13402
- Gun control campaign advertising, Election Act impact 16817-8
- Gun control legislation 13304-5, 15403
- Gun-related crime 13304
- Guns, handgun registration 13304
- Guns, national gun registry 13304-5
- Guns, Reform Party policy 13305
- Guns, registration for shotguns and hunting rifles 15403
- Harcourt, Hon. Michael, use of U.S. advisers 16440
- Health care, accessibility 13097
- Health care, cost reduction measures 13050
- Health care costs, cap on physicians' billings 13097
- Health care funding reductions 13097
- Health care, private services 13097
- Health care system reform 13097
- Health care workers labour accord 13097
- Health ministry, estimates 14465-7
- Health ministry memo re unauthorized Pharmacare inquiry 16122
- Heritage Conservation Act, provisions re development of heritage sites 15996
- Highway expenditures, government reporting 13094
- Highway regulations, national harmonization 14943-4
- Highway tolls 14816
- Highways, moving wide and heavy loads on northern roads 14939-40, 14944
- Highways, Peace River area roads, maintenance of gravel surface 14944-5
- Highways, right-of-way issues, order-in-council 1036 as legal remedy 16482-3
- House of Commons, free votes 13305-6
- Human Rights Amendment Act (1995) 16064-5, 16183-4, 16186, 16207-9, 16233
- Human Rights Amendment Act, 1995, purpose 16183
- Human rights, collective and individual rights in a free society 16006-7
- Human rights complaints, investigations 16065
- Immigrants to B.C., provincial controls 13050
- Impaired driving causing death or injury, prosecutions 16230
- Indian Act, section 87 tax exemptions 13992-3
- Indian land claim negotiations 14382
- Indian land claim negotiations, government position 14406
- Indian land claim settlements, cost 13095
- Indian land claim settlements, federal-provincial cost-sharing agreement 14406
- Indian reserve land, fee simple status 13984, 13989-90
- Indian treaty negotiations, equality issues 14381
- Indian treaty negotiations, funding 16602
- Indian treaty negotiations, openness 14327
- Indian treaty negotiations process 13046-7, 13218
- Indian treaty negotiations with bands involved in illegal activities 14712, 15111, 15999
- Indian treaty settlements and climate of uncertainty in B.C. 14381
- Indian treaty settlements, cash and land components 13993
- Indian treaty settlements, federal-provincial cost-sharing agreement 13993, 16602
- Indian treaty settlements, finality of agreements 14381-2
- Indian treaty settlements, public referenda 14325-6, 14328
- Indian treaty settlements, ratification process 14326-8
- Indians, interim measures agreements 13046-7, 13050, 13218
- Indians, interim measures agreements, openness 14327-9
- Indians, role in Crown land activities approval process, guidelines for line ministries 14369-70
- Indians, role in Crown land activities approval process, non-participation 14368-9
- Indians, sharing agreements re subsurface resources 13991-2
- Indians, tax exemptions, elimination 13992-3
- Indians, Treaty 8 adhesion issues 13991-2
- Indians, Treaty 8 negotiations 14382
- Initiatives, application to become opponent of an initiative 16885-6
- Island Highway construction project agreement 13097
- Island Highway construction project, payment methods 14816
- Johnson, Ron, work with Hon. Michael Harcourt 16437
- Justice system, dual standard for Indians and non-Indians 14906, 15017
- Justice system, equality before the law 15017
- Justice system, one law for all 15015
- Keenleyside Dam, impact of generator 13361
- Keenleyside Dam power-generating costs 15395-6
- Kemano completion project, cancellation 13097, 16668
- Kemano completion project cancellation, impact on power supplies 15392, 15394
- Kemano power project, 1952 agreement 16668
- Kootenay power projects 15394-5
- Labour relations, Vernon dispute 15546, 15848
- Land, underlying title held by province 13990
- Land use, areas set aside for preservation, 12 percent figure 16698, 16900
- Land use planning, competing values 16699-700
- Laxton, John, B.C. Hydro chairmanship 14539-40
- Laxton, John, travel expenses 14539-40
- Legislative Assembly Management Committee, meetings 16976
- Legislative Assembly Management Committee, review of MLAs' compensation 16976-7
- Legislative precincts study 15220
- Legislative process, reform 16742
- Legislative sessions, fixed schedule and budget approval process 13131-2
- Legislature, Committee A, designation 13315-6
- Legislature, Committee A, participation of independent MLAs 13315
- Legislature, Committee A, results of use 13316
- Legislature, Committee A, televising of proceedings 13316
- Legislature, Committee of the Whole House, splitting for estimates debates 13315-16
- Legislature, question period, orderliness 15472
- Louisiana Pacific Corp., Dawson Creek oriented strand board plant, level of harvest 15810-4
- McLeod Lake Indian band, negotiations 13984, 13991-2
- McLeod Lake Indian band, self-government 13993
- McLeod Lake Indian band, Treaty 8 adherence negotiations 14382
- Manitoba, balanced-budget legislation 13049
- Manufactured homes industry, moving 16-foot-wides on highways, impact of pilot project 14940
- Mellman Group, B.C. involvement with company 13352
- MLAs, compensation 13049, 16971
- MLAs' compensation, legislation and conflict of interest 16729
- MLAs' compensation, public perception 16723
- MLAs, office expenses 13096
- MLAs, party leaders, salary reductions 13095
- MLAs' pension plan eligibility rules, age requirement 16971-2
- MLAs' pensions, letter to Hon. Michael Harcourt tabled 16979
- MLAs, severance plan 13096
- MLAs' severance plan, elimination 16971
- Mining in parks 16699-700, 16901
- Ministers, salary reductions 13095
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14999
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15002
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16723, 16971-2, 16976-7
- Motor transport regulations, regional variations 14943
- Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (1995) 15447, 15449, 15453-5
- Multiculturalism, funding increase 13108
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, investigation into activities, Parks report, handling 16441-4
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation, Parks report, release 15566
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, public inquiry into activities 15469, 15471
- Nanoose first nation, heritage site at Craig Bay 15996
- Natural gas prices 15393-4
- Natural resource extraction, revenue to impacted region 13360-1
- Natural resource extraction, revenue to northern B.C. 13360-1
- Natural resources, subsurface resources, sharing agreements with Indians 13991-2
- Nechako Valley, impact of Kemano power project 13360
- NDP advertising campaign, funding 15881
- NDP government, electronic town hall meeting 13094, 16438-9
- NDP government, public confidence 13087
- Nisga'a land claim area, vote 14327
- Nisga'a land claim, inclusion of subsurface rights 13984, 13991-2
- Nisga'a land claim, leaked documents 13989
- Nisga'a land proposal 13989-91
- Nisga'a negotiating framework agreement, availability 13991
- Nisga'a negotiating framework agreement, confidentiality clause 13990, 14327
- Nisga'a negotiations, openness 14327
- Nisga'a people, self-government 13993
- North American Free Trade Agreement and water exports 14267
- NOW Communications, government contracts 13352, 14425, 16437-9
- NOW Communications government contracts, conflict-of-interest commissioner, investigation 13352, 13460, 16437-8
- NOW Communications-Shawn Thomas memo tabled 16671
- Oil and gas industry, transport regulations, impact 14943-4
- Parasiuk, Wilson, severance package 16435-6
- Park Amendment Act (1995) 16698-700, 16887, 16890-3, 16897-8, 16900-1, 16903
- Park development, Coopers and Lybrand cost benefit analysis 16891
- Parks, closing of existing parks 16699
- Parks funding 13108
- Parks, new parks and Indian land claims 16700
- Parks, number of new parks 16897-8, 16900
- Parks, third-party compensation costs re new parks 16890-3
- Parliamentary Calendar Act (1995) 16742
- Parliamentary Calendar Act, 1995, impact on budget approval process 13131-2
- Patronage appointments 13072
- Peace River area roads, dust control 14945
- Peace River damming, revenues 13361
- Peace River, issues in area 13360
- Pharmacare claims database, confidentiality 16122
- Physicians, cap on billings 13097
- Plebiscites 16875-6
- Police, arbitrator's decisions, criteria 15853
- Police, final-offer arbitration 15546
- Police, final-offer selection 15850, 15852
- Political patronage 13087
- Political polling, legislative rules 16249-50
- Politicians holding dual offices 16881
- Power Smart program, rate design 15392-4
- Power Smart promotional brochure 13402
- Premier and Cabinet Office, estimates 16435-44, 16481-3
- Premier's office, payments to U.S. advisers 13352, 13377
- Premier's office, staff changes 14425
- Private sector investment in public projects 13049
- Propane as automotive fuel 16203
- Public sector compensation, reductions 13049
- Radar cameras, use in automobile speed monitoring 16827, 16915
- Radar cameras, use in automobile speed monitoring, Insurance Corporation of B.C. report 16915
- Radar cameras, use in automobile speed monitoring, loss of points 15455
- Radar cameras, use in automobile speed monitoring, results elsewhere 15453-4
- Recall and Initiative Act, adequacy 16884-6
- Responsible Firearms Owners' Coalition advertising, Election Act restrictions 16817-8
- Rigaux, Joyce, Social Services ministry employment 13180
- Road construction, funding 14816
- St. Petersburg land registry project 16747
- Salmon resource, Alaska's actions 16749
- School boards, number and amalgamation 13097
- Schools, capital projects, funding approval process 14126
- Sechelt Indian band, comprehensive claim, negotiations with federal government 16482
- Sechelt Indian band, negotiations framework agreement 14329
- Sechelt Indian band, self-government 16481
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 14931-2
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, debate on bill, public input 14931-2
- Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, sitting out of session 17014
- Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, travel powers 17014
- Sex crimes, registry of convicted sex offenders 16043
- Sexual harassment allegations against cabinet minister 13313-4
- Social Credit MLAs, number in Legislature 13145
- Social Services ministry, staff increase 13095
- Social welfare costs 13095-6
- Speaker and Deputy Speaker, salary reductions 13095
- Special warrants, retroactive approval for funds already expended 13131-2
- Speech from the Throne, content 13048
- Standing order 35 adjournment motion, withdrawal of Bonneville Power Administration from Columbia River Treaty 14293
- Stave Lake hydro project 16540
- Struble, Karl, consultant work for government 16437-9
- Struble, Karl, correspondence 13460
- Struble, Karl, payments from Premier's office 13352, 13377
- Struble, Karl, telephone calls 13352, 13528
- Student aid, eligibility 13694
- Sudeten Park, closing 16699
- Supply Act (No. 1) (1995) 13131-2
- Tatshenshini area, mine development review process 16901
- Tatshenshini land use decision, prior knowledge 13528
- Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park, establishment 16700, 16901
- Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park, mining in park 16699
- Tax increases 13048
- Taxation during NDP administration 13095
- Taxation exemptions for Indians 13992-3
- Thomas, Shawn, memo re construction industry contractors 16670-1
- Traffic fines, revenue 16827, 16915
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates 14939-40, 14943-5
- Transportation and Highways ministry, staff telephone calls to 1-900 numbers 14246
- Treaty Negotiation Advisory Committee, involvement in negotiation process 13218
- Trucking industry, interprovincial transport, load size regulations 14943-4
- United Nations, Canada's support for work 16120
- United Nations, fiftieth anniversary 16120
- Upper Nicola Indian band, blockade 14664-5, 14711-2, 14906, 15015, 15017, 15111
- Upper Nicola Indian band, discussions 15111
- Vancouver Stock Exchange Amendment Act (1995) 14927, 14995-6
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, chair selection from among public governors 14995-6
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, number of public governors 14927
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, recommendations of commission of inquiry 14927
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, selection of public governors 14927
- Victim services, fine surcharge levy 15936-7
- Victims of Crime Act 15936-7
- Wages, fair-wage policy 13097
- Water diversion and removal, prohibitions 14267
- Water exports 14267-8
- Water Protection Act 14267-8
- Water resources, ownership vested in Crown 14268
- Water resources, stewardship legislation 14268
- Water, U.S. access to Columbia River water 14268
- Williston Lake, water level 13361, 15398-9, 15992-3
- Windy Craggy mine, NDP government decision 13097
- Wood waste, power generation 15988-90
- World Wildlife Fund Endangered Spaces Progress Report, B.C. rating 13458
Welfare. See Guaranteed Available Income for Need program; Social welfare
Wells. See entries under Groundwater
Wells Gray Park
Wenger, John
- Quoted re 1994 Penticton area forest fire (Hurd) 14246
West Arm Park
West Arrow Lake community
- Compensation for land acquired by B.C. Hydro (Chisholm) 15967-8 (Clark) 15967-8
West Coast Aggregates Ltd.
- Gravel removal case cited (van Dongen) 15564
West Coast Express. See entries under British Columbia Transit Corporation
West Coast Trail
West Fraser Mills Ltd.
- Quesnel plant, establishment (Garden) 13275
West Kootenay Power and Light Co. Ltd.
- Columbia Basin Trust investment (Hurd) 13500
- Power shortage in Okanagan (Clark) 15991
- Purchase of power from Columbia River generators (Clark) 13470 (Tyabji) 13473
West Vancouver Family Court-Youth Justice Committee
- Brochure to prepare for court appearances (Mitchell) 13701-2
West Vancouver School District. See School District 45 (West Vancouver)
West Vancouver-Garibaldi constituency
- Population growth and tourism in Sea to Sky corridor (Mitchell) 13762
Westar Mining Ltd.
Westbank, B.C.
Westbank Indian band
- Condominium proposal for Okanagan Lake (Wilson) 13083, 13100
- Development on band land (Serwa) 14091-2 (Wilson) 14107
Westbank Indian band
- Land acquisition from band for road system improvements (Tyabji) 15965
Westcoast Energy Inc.
- Joint venture in B.C. International Power Group. See British Columbia International Power Group
Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd.
- Gas-generating plant near Merritt, discussions with Bonneville Power Administration (Wilson) 14518-9
WesTel Telecommunications Ltd.
Western Communities, B.C.
- Economic development potential (Sihota) 15576
- Infrastructure funding (Kasper) 13188-90
- Investments (Sihota) 13197-8
- Planning (Sihota) 13777
- Special programs at Royal Roads University (Sihota) 15576
Western Rubber Products Ltd.
- Access to used tires (de Jong, M.) 16158
Western Star Trucks Ltd.
- Performance of company (Serwa) 13263
Westwood Plateau housing project
- Provision of school sites (Charbonneau) 13880 (Farnworth) 13880 (Serwa) 13911
Whales
- Conservation (Cull) 16256
- Hunting, Indian bands' proposals (Cull) 16256 (Warnke) 16256
- Protection of grey whale population (Cashore) 14555 (Warnke) 14555
- Whaling industry, policy (Cull) 16155 (de Jong, M.) 16155
Whatshan Falls Upper Bridge
- Contract tender and cancellation (Symons) 14937
Whipsaw Creek, B.C.
- Bridge project, funding (Lali) 13129
Whistle-blowing
- Protection for Attorney General ministry staff (Gabelmann) 13605
- Protection for public servants (Gabelmann) 13703 (Mitchell) 13703
Whistler, B.C.
- Community, infrastructure development (Clark) 13864 (Mitchell) 13864
- Community, popularity as destination resort (Clark) 13433-4 (Mitchell) 13435 (Serwa) 13436-7
- Resort development, investment of public funds (Clark) 13863 (Mitchell) 13863
White, David
- Comments re Coquitlam area MLAs (Cashore) 13269
White Rock, B.C.
- School-site land, alternatives (Charbonneau) 13877 (Hurd) 13876-7
Whitfield, Michael
- Commended for work in medical ethics (Reid) 14388
Wild Stone Resources Ltd.
- Forestry studies cited (Campbell) 14126 (Petter) 14247
Wilderness tourism. See entries under Outdoor recreation
Wildlife
- Agricultural damage caused in Chilliwack area (Chisholm) 16225-6
- Conservation and aboriginal title (Cashore) 15111 (Hurd) 15111
- Conservation in B.C. (Cashore) 14198-200 (Serwa) 14198-9
- Conservation issues (Cashore) 14200
- Conservation officers, number (Sihota) 14685
- Conservation officers, workload (Cull) 17007 (Tyabji) 17007
- Conservation, regulations and farming (Zirnhelt) 15597
- Deer and elk problems in Peace River and Okanagan (Neufeld) 15597 (Zirnhelt) 15597
- Habitat protection, Fort St. John area wetlands case (Barlee) 13517 (Neufeld) 13517
- Poaching, use of electronics (Cull) 16255 (Fox) 16256 (Warnke) 16254-5
- Problem wildlife, impact on farming (Neufeld) 15597
- Problem wildlife task force, work (Zirnhelt) 15598
- Road kills (Fox) 16256 (Warnke) 16255
- Ungulate habitat (Serwa) 14670-1
Wildlife Act
Williams Lake, B.C.
- Skills training centre (Zirnhelt) 13239
Williams, Robert A. (Bob)
- Appointments (Harcourt) 13695 (Hurd) 13695
- B.C. Trade Development Corporation, employment (Harcourt) 16747, 16828 (Neufeld) 16747 (Weisgerber) 16747
- Employment with B.C. government (Harcourt) 16828
- Letter to Asian Development Bank (Harcourt) 16747, 16828 (Neufeld) 16747
- Letter to Asian Development Bank tabled (Neufeld) 16748
- St. Petersburg land registry project. See entries under St. Petersburg, Russia
- Work re parks commended (Cashore) 16718
Willingdon Youth Detention Centre
- Beating incident (Gabelmann) 13675 (Jones, K.) 13675
Williston Lake, B.C.
Wilson, Gordon F.D. (Powell River-Sunshine Coast)
- Abbott, George, position on Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act 15548
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates 13993-4003, 14200-2, 14205-7, 14330-3
- Aboriginal fishery entitlements 13999-4001, 14200-2
- Abortion, access zones 16004, 16166, 16178-81
- Abortion, anti-abortion protests, use of court injunctions 16003-6
- Abortion, anti-abortion protests, use of court injunctions, Ontario case 16003-5, 16166
- Abortion, choice for women 16003
- Abortion services in freestanding clinics, problems 16002-3, 16005
- Access to Abortion Services Act 16002-6, 16166, 16178-82
- Access to Abortion Services Act, gender bias in bill 16003
- An Act To Protect Medicare 16766-8, 16982-3
- Adams Lake blockade 13352-3
- Adams Lake blockade, federal government role 14332
- Address in Reply 13010-4
- Adoption, access to adoption records 16137-8
- Adoption, access to adoption records, disclosure veto 16382-3
- Adoption Act 16137-41, 16382-3
- Adoption, child's best interests, placement of children in same-sex families 16138, 16140-1
- Adoption, discrimination issues, racial and cultural 16138-9
- Adoption, discrimination issues, sexual orientation 16140-1
- Affirmative action 16065, 16067
- Africa, growth, impact 13743
- Agricultural chemicals, use 14675-7, 15674-5
- Agricultural land banks 13744-5, 14677
- Agricultural land base, protection 14675
- Agricultural land reserve, farming outside reserve 15674, 15683
- Agricultural land reserve, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party's White Paper 13744-5
- Agricultural producer's liability for wages of contract workers 15634
- Agriculture, aerial spraying 14675-6
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates 15604-9
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, special warrant funding 13139-40
- Agriculture, genetic manipulation of seed stocks 14676
- Agriculture industry, global importance 14675
- Alberta, deficit reduction measures 13098
- Alcohol and drug abuse counsellor for Powell River 14570
- Alcohol and tobacco use, tax revenues 15942-3
- Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd., agreement re cancellation of Kemano completion project 16668-9
- Ambulance attendants, operating protocols 14571-2
- Animals, standards for humane treatment of food animals 15609
- Apex Mountain Resort emergencies, funding 13156
- Aquaculture industry 15609
- Aquaculture industry, diseased farm stock, impact on wild stock 15604-5
- Aquaculture industry, fish-farm locations 15604, 15607
- Aquaculture industry, fish-farm practices 14677, 15676
- Aquaculture industry in Broughton Archipelago, concerns 15604
- Aquaculture industry, licensing of tilapia farms 15608
- Aquaculture industry, salmon farming 14677, 15605-6
- Aquaculture industry, use of antibiotics by fish farms, enforcement of regulations 15604
- Assessment Authority of B.C. as agent for self-taxing Indian authorities 15184
- Assessment Authority of B.C., association with Finance ministry 15185
- Attorney General ministry, estimates 13652-3
- Bawlf, Sam, employment with Crown corporations secretariat 14665
- Bawlf, Sam, role as adviser to B.C. Ferries 13822-3
- Blockades of roads through Indian lands 14332
- Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement 14362, 14418-9, 14515-9
- Bonneville Power Administration, failure to ratify Columbia River Treaty entitlement agreement, all-party task force 14419
- Bonneville Power Administration, memorandum of understanding with B.C. 14270, 14294
- Brant, Randy, role in Adams Lake blockade 13353
- B.C. Ferries, business with catamaran-building companies 13822-4
- B.C. Ferries, construction of high-speed catamarans 14665
- B.C. Ferries, debt limit, increase 13821-4
- B.C. Ferries, deficit 13821-4
- B.C. Ferries, fast ferries 13013-4, 13821-4
- B.C. Ferries, new vessels 13013-4
- B.C. Ferries, stakeholder committee process 13823
- B.C. Ferries, subsidization 13013
- B.C. Ferries vessels, aluminum construction 13822, 13824
- B.C. Ferries vessels, catamaran purchase 13822-4
- B.C. Human Rights Commission, appointments 16182
- B.C. Human Rights Commission, research, consultation and communication 16186-7
- B.C. Hydro, privatization 14516-8
- B.C. Marketing Board, membership on Farm Practices Board 15682
- B.C. population growth and rural regions 13745
- B.C. population growth, impact 13742-3
- B.C. Securities Commission, borrowing powers 14180
- B.C. Securities Commission, compliance reviews of self-regulatory bodies 16334-5
- B.C. Securities Commission, executive director, role 16334
- B.C. Securities Commission, hearing and review procedure 16334
- B.C. Securities Commission, number of members 15946-7
- B.C. Securities Commission operations, NDP action 14928
- B.C. Securities Commission Policy Advisory Committee, establishment 14933
- B.C. Securities Commission Policy Advisory Committee, mandate 16333
- B.C. Securities Commission Policy Advisory Committee, reporting to Finance minister 16333
- B.C. Securities Commission, public control 14933
- B.C. Securities Commission, revenues directly to commission 14179
- B.C. Treaty Commission, negotiation process 13100, 14331
- B.C. Treaty Commission process 13013
- Broughton Archipelago, aquaculture in area 15604, 15607
- Budget, balanced budget 13101
- Budget, balanced-budget legislation 13011, 13131
- Budget debate 13097-101
- Budget, four-year-base budgeting, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party position 13132
- Budget, four-year-base funding period 13132
- Budget leak, debate 13087-8
- Budget leak, impact 13087-8
- Budget Measures Implementation Act (1995) 13820-4
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1995, impact 13820
- Budget, special warrants, retroactive approval for funds already expended 13132
- Building materials, dimension stone 15202-3, 15205-6
- Building materials, minerals used for construction purposes 15203
- Business, competitiveness of B.C. businesses 14755-6
- Cabinet meetings, attendance by non-members 15669-70
- Campbell, Gordon, Election Act debate participation 16291
- Campbell, Gordon, taxation during mayoralty of Vancouver 13011
- Canada Pension Plan benefits entitlement, waiving of entitlement 14999
- Canadian Forces Base, Chilliwack, role as emergency response centre 13012
- Cancat Catamarans Inc., involvement of Sam Bawlf 14665
- Caren Range, protection of area 16201-2
- Charitable status numbers 15186
- Charlottetown accord, campaign spending 16842, 16844-5
- Child abuse, prevention 15896-7
- Children, rights of minor children 14999-5000
- Citizenship rights, dual standards for Indians and non-Indians 14207
- Civil service, politicization 13087-8
- Civil service, powers of unelected officials 14069-70, 16583
- Class action awards, disposition of unclaimed moneys 15380-4
- Class actions, costs 15384-8
- Class actions, fees and disbursements 15388-9
- Class actions, representative plaintiffs 15383
- Class actions, statistical evidence 15379
- Class Proceedings Act 15074-5, 15379-89
- Class Proceedings Act, changes to bill 15389
- Coast-Garibaldi health unit, services for region 14572-3
- Collection agencies, legislation 13652
- Collection agencies, provision of legal services 13652-3
- Collective bargaining legislation in past 15547
- Columbia Basin Trust, accountability 13469
- Columbia Basin Trust Act 13462, 13465-70, 13472-4, 13476-9, 13482, 13532-4
- Columbia Basin Trust Act, memorandum of understanding, role 13462
- Columbia Basin Trust Act, preamble 13532-3
- Columbia Basin Trust, administration 13469
- Columbia Basin Trust, asset ownership 13473-4
- Columbia Basin Trust, assets transferred to corporation 13482
- Columbia Basin Trust, autonomy 13470
- Columbia Basin Trust, Financial Administration Act applicability 13472-3
- Columbia Basin Trust, growth fund, establishment 13478-9
- Columbia Basin Trust, guarantee of financing 13470, 13472
- Columbia Basin Trust, Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council board members, region represented 13465
- Columbia Basin Trust, Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council participation and land claim, Trust liability 13466
- Columbia Basin Trust, liability 13476-7
- Columbia Basin Trust, province's continuing role in region 13467-8
- Columbia Basin Trust, public consultation 13532-3
- Columbia Basin Trust, representation on board 13468-9
- Columbia Basin Trust, tax payment and exemptions 13482
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue considered in 1995-96 budget 14419
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits, revenue returned to Columbia-Kootenay region, allocation 13467
- Columbia River Treaty, impact 13532
- Columbia River watershed, definition 13467
- Columbia-Kootenay region, diversification of economy 13478
- Commission of inquiry into the Vancouver Stock Exchange and securities regulation, recommendations 14928, 15404
- Community charters 13744-5
- Community health councils, responsibilities 14572-3
- Community health councils, role 15425-7
- Company Act, applicability to Royal Roads University 15923
- Constitutional reform, conference 16471
- Creston Valley, wetland resource management 16696
- Criminal Records Review Act 15889-90, 15896-7
- Criminal Records Review Act, cost-benefit analysis request 15888
- Criminal Records Review Act, Liberal Party position 15889-90
- Criminal Records Review Act, referral to select standing committee 15889
- Criminal-record checks for child workers 15896
- Crown corporations, expenditures 13101
- Crown corporations, number 12992-3
- Crown land activities, consultation process, technical committee requirement 14330-2
- Crown land as government asset 13100
- Crown land, mineral extraction 15202-3, 15205-6
- Crown land, use in settling Indian land claims 13100
- Debt and deficit control 13010-1
- Debt management plan 13821
- Debt, payback period 13098
- Delgamuukw 2 ruling, impact on mining activity 16579
- Democratic freedom 14042-3
- Democratic process, protection 14029-31
- Denturists' college, establishment 14574
- Discrimination, elimination 16065-7
- Discrimination in purchase of property 16184-5
- Domestic workers, employment contracts 15621
- Douglas Lake Cattle Co., land dispute with area Indian band 13998
- Economic globalization, impact on B.C. 14755-6
- Education funding 13821
- Education funding allocations 14955
- Education funding, community control 14954-6
- Education funding, formula funding system 14955
- Education funding, four-year financing 13099
- Education, government role 14954-5
- Education, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party policy 14955
- Education Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14954-6, 15079-81
- Election Act 16289-94, 16606-8, 16610, 16612-24, 16625-30, 16632-44, 16646-9, 16654-6, 16659-62, 16672-4, 16778-9, 16781, 16785-6, 16789-90, 16792-5, 16797-9, 16804, 16806-7, 16812-5, 16819-20, 16830, 16834-6, 16841-2, 16844-5, 16864-5, 16869, 16871-5, 16877-80, 16882
- Election Act, candidate, definition 16649
- Election Act, consultation re bill 16289, 16292-3
- Election Act, due diligence, meaning of term in act 16864-5
- Election Act, election advertising limit, definition 16606-8
- Election Act, election proceedings, definition of term, absence in bill 16610
- Election Act, enforcement by court injunction 16873-4
- Election Act, financial agent and official agent, definitions 16612-3
- Election Act, referral to select standing committee 16292-4
- Election Advisory Committee and chief electoral officer, travel expenses 16626-8
- Election Advisory Committee, calling of meetings 16628-9
- Election Advisory Committee meeting minutes, publication 16628
- Election Advisory Committee, membership 16625-6, 16878-9
- Election Advisory Committee, role 16629
- Election campaign advertising by government 16830
- Election campaign advertising, limits on third-party advertising 16290-2, 16607-8, 16841-2
- Election campaign advertising, sponsorship 16834-6
- Election campaign advertising, sponsorship, level of spending requiring registration with chief electoral officer 16841
- Election campaign contributions 16779, 16792-5
- Election campaign funds, disposition of candidates' surplus funds 16798-9
- Election campaign spending before writ period 16789-90
- Election campaign spending in past 16291
- Election campaign spending limits 14030-1, 16290, 16293
- Election campaign spending limits, penalties 16804, 16806-7, 16812
- Election candidates, nomination 16643-4, 16648-9
- Election candidates, party endorsement 16646-8
- Election candidates, requirement for official agent 16654
- Elections, advance polls 16655
- Elections, audit requirements 16293
- Elections, ballot-marking 16659-62
- Elections, chief electoral officer, acting officer 16622-3
- Elections, chief electoral officer, appointment 16614-7
- Elections, chief electoral officer, auditing powers 16812, 16871-2
- Elections, chief electoral officer, impartiality 16618-21
- Elections, chief electoral officer, removal or resignation 16622
- Elections, chief electoral officer, remuneration and pension 16621
- Elections, chief electoral officer, reporting to Legislature 16623-4
- Elections, corrupt practices 16869
- Elections, district registrars of voters 16630
- Elections, enumeration of voters and electoral boundary changes 16640-1
- Elections, enumeration requirements 16623-4
- Elections, fixed election date 16632
- Elections, foreign-language voting assistants 16672-3
- Elections, general elections and by-elections, timing 16633
- Elections, requirement to vote 16654
- Elections, special voting opportunities 16656
- Elections, testing of new procedures in a by-election 16874-5
- Elections, time extensions in remote areas 16674
- Elections, voter qualifications 16633-5
- Elections, voter registration 16637-9
- Elections, voters list, accessibility 16630, 16643
- Elections, voters list, currency and accuracy 16636, 16642
- Elections, writ period 16613
- Electoral reform 14029-31
- Employee rights, statement of rights displayed in workplace 15615
- Employment, changes in meaning of work 14754-5, 14757
- Employment Standards Act 14737-40, 14754-7, 15589, 15613, 15615, 15617-8, 15621, 15623-4, 15634
- Employment Standards Act, comparison with existing legislation 14737-8
- Employment Standards Act, farm labour contractor, definition 15589
- Employment Standards Act, party positions on bill 14738, 14740
- Employment Standards Act, posting requirement re employee rights 15615
- Employment Standards Act, regular wage, definition 14739
- Employment Standards Act, review provisions 15617
- Employment Standards Act, wages assignment provision 15623-4
- Employment standards branch, director's liability 14757
- Employment standards branch, director's powers 14739
- Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources minister's powers to act in the public interest 16576-7
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates 16200-2
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, jurisdiction re mineral resources 15202-3
- Environmental contamination, health concerns 16767
- Environmental legislation, applicability to projects on Indian land 13083, 13100
- Family counsellors as witnesses, compellability 15196-7
- Family Relations Act, amendments 14999
- Farm Practices Board hearings, closed hearings 15675-6
- Farm Practices Board hearings on fish-farm practices 15676
- Farm Practices Board, powers 15682
- Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act 14674-8, 15674-6, 15682-4
- Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, comparisons with forest practices legislation 14676
- Farm practices, regulation 15674-5, 15683-4
- Farming, normal farm practices and fish-farming operations 14677
- Farming, normal farm practices and pesticide use 15674-5
- Farming, right-to-farm legislation 14675
- Farmworkers, contracted farm labour, payment for work performed 15634
- Federal-provincial fiscal relations, duplication 16471
- Federal-provincial municipal infrastructure program 14100
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates 15183-6
- Finance and Corporate Relations Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 15941-3
- Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act 15547-9
- Firefighters, final-offer arbitration 15548
- Firefighting services, essential service designation 15547-8
- Fish stocks conservation, federal government role 14202
- Fish stocks, protection 13999-4000, 14201-2, 15607
- Fishery allocations for Indians and non-Indians 14201
- Fishing industry, Indians' involvement 14000-1
- Fishing industry, Indians' involvement in commercial fishery 14201
- Fluoridation of community water supplies 14570-1
- Food production in B.C. 14675
- Forest Act, amendments 14920-2
- Forest Amendment Act (1995) 14920-2
- Forest industry, revitalization 16698
- Forest industry, royalty rates, adjustment to stumpage rate equivalencies 14921
- Forest industry, salvage operations, policy 14912
- Forest industry, timber harvest levels, sustainable levels 14920-1
- Forest industry, timber supply reviews, deadline for completion 14920-1
- Forest Practices Code, changes to code 14911-2
- Forest Practices Code, community watershed, definition 15123-5
- Forest Practices Code of B.C. Act, amendments 14911-2
- Forest Practices Code of B.C. Amendment Act (1995) 14911-2, 15123-6
- Forest Practices Code, purpose 14676
- Forest resource inventory, information requirements 14920, 14922
- Forest roads, rehabilitation 14911
- Forests, working forest 16697
- Fraser-Fort George regional district boundaries 13467
- Free miner certificate, elimination of Canadian citizenship requirement 16591-2
- Freedom-of-information policy, impact 15002-3
- GAIN program, single mothers, employability, Jack Weisgerber's comments 13097
- Gambling by Indians 14127
- Gardiner, Brian, attendance at confidential government meetings 15669
- Generation R 13742, 13744
- Gibsons bypass, land purchase 13817
- Gold commissioner, powers of chief commissioner 14069-70, 16582-5, 16595-6
- Gold commissioner to receive notice of mining activity on private land 16587
- Gold commissioner's power to refuse a mining claim 16589-92
- Goodfellow, Cathy, position on school financing 13821
- Government accounting 13100-1
- Government accounting, use of special accounts 14065-6, 15003
- Government borrowing 13098
- Government, cost of government 13098
- Government, fiscal reform, Reform Party proposal 13132
- Government ministers, accountability for budget overruns 13133
- Government reform 13012
- Government, security of confidential information and public confidence, emergency debate 13072
- Government, security of confidential information and public confidence in government 13087-8
- Government spending overruns 13131-2
- Government spending, single authority for government spending 13099
- Government, uncollected debt owed to government 15185
- Government, use of interim supply 13132-3
- Gravel operations, regulation 15202-3
- Grazing enhancement initiatives, local involvement 14066
- Grazing enhancement special account, accountability 14066
- Grazing Enhancement Special Account Act 14064-6
- Grazing enhancement special account, technical committee, local government input 14066
- Growth management, limits-to-growth strategy, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party position 13743-5
- Growth strategies and agreements with Indians 14075-6
- Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 13742-6, 14072-3, 14075-6, 14099-01, 14105, 14107-11, 14132-4, 14138, 14148-50
- Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, consultation with Aboriginal Affairs and Municipal Affairs ministries re bill 14107
- Growth Strategies Statutes Amendment Act, 1995, consultations 14099
- Gulf Islands lot-size minimums, bylaw validation by municipalities, retroactivity 15198-9
- Health Authorities Amendment Act (1995) 15425-7
- Health care, allocation of funds 16766
- Health care, community funding 13099
- Health care funding 15426
- Health care, preventive care 16766-8
- Health care regionalization, amalgamation process 15425-7
- Health care services, access to legal medical services 16002-4
- Health care system in Canada 16768
- Health care system, two-tier system 16766
- Health care user fees 16767-8
- Health care volunteers 13099
- Health care workers labour accord, impact on acute care sector 14575-6
- Health ministry, estimates 14568-76
- Heritage Conservation Act, aboriginal cultural heritage resources provisions 16575, 16579
- Heritage Conservation Act, heritage sites and heritage values provisions 16582-3
- Heritage Conservation Act, provisions re development of heritage sites 14333
- Heritage Conservation Statutes Amendment Act, 1994, impact of bill 16582
- Heritage sites, cultural heritage resources and mining activity 16575, 16578-9
- Highways, leasing of parts of highways to B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, public notice 16965
- Home-care support services in Powell River 14573-4
- Home-care support workers, funding 13099
- Home-care support workers' strike 13099
- Homeowner grant, eligibility of non-Indian residents on Indian land 16748
- Hospital budgeting, impact of labour accord on spending decisions 14575-6
- Hospital staff reductions 14575-6
- Housing, supportive housing for seniors 14573
- Human Rights Advisory Council, role 16187
- Human Rights Amendment Act (1995) 16065-7, 16182, 16184-8
- Human rights, collective and individual rights in a free society 16003, 16005, 16182
- Independent schools, disciplinary action against teachers, requirement to provide documentation 15080
- India, environmental remediation 16453
- India film industry, B.C. as location 16453
- India, trade initiatives with India 16452
- Indian Affairs and Northern Development department, budget appropriation 13100
- Indian heritage sites, development issues 14333
- Indian land claim negotiations, cost 13099-00
- Indian land claim settlements, cost 13100
- Indian land claims and mineral rights 15206, 16591-2
- Indian land claims, fee simple property as part of settlement 16473
- Indian land claims, forestry issues 14921
- Indian land claims, private property not on negotiating table 15486
- Indian land, leasing arrangements on band land 14205-6
- Indian land, leasing arrangements, tax deferments and assessments 15184
- Indian lands, environmental standards 13998-9
- Indian lands, leasing arrangements, land withheld from waterfront property, case 15185
- Indian reserve land, fee simple status 13994-5
- Indian self-government 14204-6
- Indian self-government, Charter of Rights applicability to non-Indians 16473
- Indian treaty negotiations process 13013
- Indian treaty negotiations, Treaty Commission process 13013, 14331
- Indian treaty settlement lands, highway rights-of-way 13995-6
- Indian treaty settlements, cash and land components 13994
- Indian treaty settlements, environmental protection requirements 13998-9
- Indian treaty settlements, federal-provincial cost-sharing agreement 13994
- Indian treaty settlements, fishery allocations 14201-2
- Indian treaty settlements, land management provisions 13995-6
- Indian treaty settlements, negotiated rights 13985
- Indians, aboriginal fishery entitlements 13999-4001, 14202-2
- Indians, adoption, discrimination issues 16138-9
- Indians, cultural heritage resources, protection 16575, 16578-9
- Indians, development projects on reserve land, environmental review requirement 13083, 13100
- Indians, discrimination, elimination 16066
- Indians, issues, federal involvement 16472
- Indians, jurisdictional powers of aboriginal governments 14002-3
- Indians, participation in health care system 15426
- Indians, self-government mandates 14002
- Indians, tax-funded services 14207
- Indians, taxing powers 14205
- Indians, tribal police officers, impersonation 13528-9
- Infrastructure funding 13013
- Insurance Act, amendments 14999
- Insurance money payable to minor beneficiary 14999
- International Catamarans Designs Inc., involvement of Sam Bawlf 14665
- International Forest Products Ltd., logging in Tetrahedron Peak area 16200
- Jericho Hill School for the Deaf, sexual abuse of students, government action 16321-2
- Jobs for B.C. workers 14756
- Job-sharing 15613
- Jury Act, amendments 15000
- Justice system, class actions, certification 15074-5
- Justice system, class actions, costs 15075
- Justice system, dual standard for Indians and non-Indians 13999-4000
- Kelowna, regional growth strategy for area, Westbank Indian band participation 14107
- Kemano completion project cancellation, impact on power supplies 16668-9
- Klein, Ralph, actions as Alberta premier to reduce province's debt and deficit 13098
- Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council, Columbia Basin Trust and boundary change 13533
- Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council, Columbia Basin Trust participation 13534
- Ktunaxa-Kinbasket Tribal Council, Columbia Basin Trust participation and land claim 13465, 13534
- Labour Relations Code, powers re Access to Abortion Services Act 16005, 16166, 16181
- Land Act, extraction of rock and natural substances, regulation 15202-3
- Land and resource inventory of province 14100-1
- Land, surface and mineral rights, priority concerns 15522-4, 16574-6
- Land, underlying title held by province 13994-5
- Land use, areas set aside for preservation, 12 percent figure 16695, 16698
- Land use management and planning secretariat 14065
- Land use planning process, public input 15206
- Land use, sustainable development 13743
- Law practised by non-lawyers 13653
- Law Reform Commission of Ontario, recommendations for B.C.'s class action legislation 15074-5
- Legal Profession Act, remuneration provisions, inclusion in class action legislation 15388-9
- Legal Professions Act, collection agency provisions 13652
- Legislative Assembly Management Committee, review of MLAs' compensation 16974
- Legislative Assembly Management Committee, work 16974
- Legislative reform 16743
- Legislative rules, request for leave 13055
- Legislature, Committee A, designation 13315-6
- Legislature, Committee A, participation of independent MLAs 13315
- Legislature, Committee A, results of use 13315-6
- Legislature, Committee of the Whole House, splitting for estimates debates 13315-6
- Legislature, direct delegation 13012
- Legislature, fixed calendar 13012
- Legislature, non-members on floor of House 16665
- Legislature, officers of the House, remuneration 16621
- Legislature, private members' statements 13028
- Legislature, private members' statements, Liberal Party position 13012
- Legislature, quorum 15461
- Legislature, select standing committees, use 12992
- Legislature sessions, fixed calendar and budget approval process 13132-3
- Legislature sittings concurrent in House and Committee A 15459
- Libel and Slander Amendment Act (1995) 16740-1
- Libel and Slander Amendment Act, 1995, support 16740-1
- Liberal Party, departure from party 13098
- Liberal Party, election campaign spending 16779
- Liberal Party, fundraising, tax-deductible donations 13593
- Liberal Party, involvement of former Social Credit Party workers 16291
- Liberal Party, labour policies 14756
- Liberal Party, links with business community 14928
- Liberal Party, position paper on legislative reform 16289-90
- Local government, autonomy in growth management 13744
- Local government role in Crown land activity decisions 14330-2
- MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. incinerator, combination with municipal system 16202
- Maple Ridge, land expropriation case 14149
- Marine ecosystems, protection 14677
- Marine ecosystems, use of triploid grass carp in lakes 15608
- Marktrend Research Inc., political poll 16819
- Matsqui by-election 16290
- Mayer, Roger, letter 14331
- Media, legislative press gallery, role 13011
- Medical and Health Care Services Act, change of name 16982
- Medicare system, guiding principles 16982-3
- Medicare system, Liberal Party position 16767-8
- Medicare system, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party position 16767, 16982
- Medicare system, protection 15426-7
- MLAs' compensation, public perception 16726, 16974-5
- MLAs' compensation, review 16974-5
- MLAs' pension plan eligibility rules, effective date 16974
- MLAs' pensions 16726
- MLAs, role 13012, 13014
- Military education, need 15576
- Mine reclamation trusts, harmonization with federal treatment 13821
- Mine reclamation trusts, tax deduction formula 13821
- Mineral claim maintenance requirements, forfeiture for non-performance 16595-6
- Mineral claims, availability of open ground 16590-2
- Mineral extraction for construction purposes, regulation 15202-3
- Mineral leases converted to mining leases 16597
- Mineral, legal designation, change 15488
- Mineral resources, tenure issues 14069, 15202-3, 15205-6, 15486
- Mineral rights and Indian land claims 15486, 16591-2
- Mineral rights on private land 15206, 15486
- Mineral Tax Act, amendments 15000, 15176
- Mineral tax, filing requirement 15000, 15176
- Mineral Tenure Act, definitions 15202
- Mineral Tenure Act, provisions re industrial minerals 16579
- Mineral Tenure Act regulations, consultation 16597
- Mineral Tenure Amendment Act (1995) 14069-70, 15202-3, 15205-6, 15485-6, 15488, 15522-4, 16574-9, 16582-92, 16595-7
- Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, dispute resolution provisions 14070
- Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, mineral, definition 15488, 16575
- Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, phrase "deliberately fails to comply" 16583, 16585
- Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, private land, definition 15486
- Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 1995, review of bill 14070
- Mineral tenure holders' legal obligations, impact of non-compliance 16582-6
- Mineral tenure holders, restrictions on rights 15522-4, 16574-9
- Mineral tenure system, changes 14069-70
- Mining activity on private land, notice requirement 16587
- Mining, extraction of mineral substances, regulation 15202-3
- Mining industry, appeal of refusal by gold commissioner to record a claim 16590-2
- Mining industry, appeal of restricted activities 16575-9
- Mining industry, appeal of suspension order 16583-4
- Mining industry, compensation re impact of change in definition of mineral 15488
- Mining industry, impact of Indian land claims 14069-70
- Mining industry, notification for non-compliance 16584-6
- Mining industry, overstaking of existing claim 16591-2
- Mining rights and North American Free Trade Agreement 14069
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (1995) 14999-5000, 15176
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 15002-3, 15196-200
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3) (1995) 16726, 16928, 16930, 16932-4, 16943-4, 16950, 16953-4, 16965, 16974-5
- Multicultural society in Canada 16066-7
- Municipal Affairs ministry estimates debate, length of debate 15459, 15461
- Municipalities, grants in lieu of school taxes, revenue to provincial government 13821
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society investigation, Parks report 15669
- Natural-gas-generating plant near Merritt, discussions between Bonneville Power Administration and Westcoast Transmission Co. 14518-9
- Natural resources, comprehensive resource inventory, need 13743
- Natural resources, subsurface resources, revenues to province 13997-8
- New Directions in Health Care program 13099
- Newhouse, Theresa, work in Progressive Democratic Alliance Party MLAs' office commended 14757
- Nisga'a commercial fishery entitlement 13985, 13999-4000, 14200-2
- Nisga'a fishery allocations 14200-2
- Nisga'a forest tenure agreement 13996-8
- Nisga'a land claim agreement in principle, public review 14003
- Nisga'a land claim agreement, mineral rights 15206, 15485-6
- Nisga'a land claim, inclusion of subsurface rights 13997-8
- Nisga'a land proposal 13994
- Nisga'a lands, ownership issues 13994-6
- Nisga'a people, citizenship rights 13995
- Nisga'a people, nationhood 14207
- Nisga'a settlement lands, access for non-Nisga'a 13998-9, 14001
- Nisga'a settlement lands, conservation practices 13998-9
- Nisga'a settlement lands, forest management practices 13997-8
- Nisga'a settlement lands, jurisdiction over wildlife 14001-2
- Nisga'a settlement lands, roads, access 13995-6
- Nisga'a territorial lands, timber harvesting 13997
- Nisga'a treaty, review by MLAs 14003
- North American Free Trade Agreement and water exports 14270-1
- NOW Communications Ltd., government contracts 13011
- Offence Amendment Act (1995) 15480-3
- Okanagan Valley Tree Fruit Authority, transition assistance funding 13139-40
- Park Amendment Act (1995) 16695-8
- Parks, class A parks, recreation use and water management in parks 16200-1
- Parks, Liberal Party policy on new parks 16698
- Parks, management costs of new parks 16696
- Parks, municipal water management in parks, community committees, Environment ministry role 16200-1
- Parks, new parks and Indian land claims 16696-7
- Parks, public input into new parks 16696
- Parks, wilderness parks, accessibility 16696
- Parliamentary Calendar Act (1995) 16743
- Parliamentary Calendar Act, 1995, benefits 13132-3
- Parliamentary Calendar Act, 1995, support 16743
- Parliamentary reform 14029-31
- Pender Harbour clinic, service levels 14571-2
- Penticton Indian band, environmental referrals 14330-1
- Penticton Indian band, road blockade removal agreement 14332
- Pesticide Control Act, powers 15674-5
- Pesticide control board, responsibilities 14675-6, 14678
- Pesticide use in farm operations 15674-5
- Pesticide use in residential areas 14675-6, 14678
- Petition tabled re school funding in Powell River 13652
- Petrochemical industry producers, involvement in agricultural industry 14676-7
- Police, final-offer arbitration 15548
- Police services, essential service designation 15547-8
- Political parties and constituency associations, registration 16293
- Political parties, audit requirements 16794, 16812
- Political parties, audit requirements and fraud 16793
- Political parties, campaign spending on public policy issues 16797
- Political party contributions, definition 16785-6
- Political party contributions, disclosure requirements 16291
- Political party contributions, who can donate 16795
- Political party deregistration 16815
- Political party leadership candidates, filing of financial report 16813-4
- Political party mergers, financial disclosure 16879
- Political polling, impact 16819-20
- Political polling, legislative rules 16293, 16820
- Political process, public trust 13087-8
- Politicians holding dual offices 16880, 16882
- Politicians, public perception 13011
- Politics and democratic ideals 14030-1
- Polling agencies, political affiliations 16835
- Polling by government 16836
- Population, increase in world population, impact on global food reserves 14675
- Powell River, education funding 13099
- Powell River, landfill site 16202
- Powell River, long term care facility, need 14573
- Powell River school enrolment increase, funding 13158
- Powell River-Sunshine Coast constituency, forest renewal plan funding for constituency 13013
- Powell River-Sunshine Coast constituency, grants to community service organizations 13013
- Powell River-Sunshine Coast constituency, infrastructure grants 13013
- Power of Attorney Act, amendments 15000
- Premier and Cabinet Office, estimates 16451-3, 16471-4
- Progressive Democratic Alliance Party, economic policies 14756
- Property tax deferments for leaseholders on Indian band land 14205
- Property tax, school tax 13011
- Provincial emergency program, CFB Chilliwack role 13156
- Provincial emergency program, responsibility 13012
- Psychiatric facilities 15426
- Psychiatric facility for Powell River 14568-70
- Quebec referendum on sovereignty, B.C. role 16471
- Railway taxation costs 16597
- Railway taxation, grants in lieu of taxes 16953
- Railway taxation, grants in lieu of taxes, projected amount 16954
- Railways, competitiveness 16451
- Railways, property tax assessment 16933-4
- Railways, property tax assessment, adjustment factors 16943-4, 16950
- Railways, property tax assessment, consultation with municipalities 16451-2
- Railways, property tax assessment, consultation with railway companies re investments 16950
- Railways, property tax assessment, municipal consultation 16928, 16930, 16932
- Ranching industry, ranchers' agreements with Indians 14066
- Real property tax rate 15183
- Real property tax rate and assessments in rural areas 15183-4
- Reform Party policies 13097-8
- Regional district boards, establishment 15426
- Regional growth strategies, cost to local government 14099-00
- Regional growth strategies, dispute resolution mechanism 14138
- Regional growth strategies, facilitators 14138
- Regional growth strategies, government role 14132-3
- Regional growth strategies, interministerial technical planning committees 14110-1
- Regional growth strategies, land use inventories 14100-1
- Regional growth strategies, legislative requirements 14099
- Regional growth strategies, need 13742, 13744-5
- Regional growth strategies, obligation to adopt, inclusion of Indians 14108-9
- Regional growth strategies, obligation to adopt, minister's powers 14111
- Regional growth strategies, planning for water and waste disposal 14109
- Regional growth strategies, requirement for official community plan or bylaw 14148-50
- Regional growth strategies, voting 14073, 14075-6
- Regional growth strategy for part of region, existing plans 14133-4
- Regional growth strategy for part of region, minister's role 14105
- Regional health boards, role 15425-7
- Regional planning, duplication between municipal and regional district plans 14100
- Rights and freedoms of Canadians 16003-6
- Road and bridge construction in interior 13014
- Royal Roads closing, retention of equipment 15577
- Royal Roads Military College Degrees Act, repeal of act, impact 15927
- Royal Roads, preservation of facility 15576-7
- Royal Roads University, academic council, membership election process 15926-7
- Royal Roads University Act 15576-7, 15903-4, 15923, 15925-7
- Royal Roads University, degree programs 15903
- Royal Roads University, president's powers 15925-6
- Royal Roads University, research and teaching role 15903
- Royal Roads University, role of registrar 15926-7
- Royal Roads University Society, employees 15923
- Royal Roads University, status as corporation for business purposes 15904, 15923
- Sales tax, harmonization of goods and services tax and provincial sales tax 16471-2
- Salmon fishery, aboriginal entitlement 14000
- Salmon resource, Alaska's actions 16749
- Savary Island, lot-size and highway rights-of-way issues 15199
- School Act, amendments 13821
- School boards, number and amalgamation 13099
- School boards, role 14955
- School enrolment increases, impact 13158
- School tax on property, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party position 13821
- Seal scarers, use by fish farmers 14677, 15604
- Sechelt Indian band, comprehensive claim, negotiations with federal government 16473
- Sechelt Indian band council, non-Indian representation 14206
- Sechelt Indian band, self-government 13013, 14108, 16184, 16473
- Securities Amendment Act (1995) 13879-81
- Securities Amendment Act, 1995, public investor and act 14179
- Securities Amendment Act, 1995, transitional provisions re funding 14181
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2) (1995) 14932-3, 15943-7, 16333-6
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, investor relations activities, definition 15943-5
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, private mutual fund, definition 15946
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, reaction to bill 15944
- Securities Amendment Act (No. 2), 1995, spouse, definition 15945
- Securities industry, disclosure of investor relations activities 14933
- Securities industry, investor relations, written commentaries 15944-5
- Securities industry, mutual fund management, standards 14933
- Securities industry, registration of salespeople, suspensions 14933
- Seniors, supportive housing 14573
- Shellfish harvesting, impact on native traditional fishery 15609
- Sihota, Hon. Moe, support for new parks 16697
- Silviculture commitments 14911-2
- Sliammon Indian band, taxation powers 14205
- Small business, impact of Employment Standards Act 14755-7
- Smoking as a legal activity in Canada 14970-1
- Smoking, health risks 15942-3
- Societies, tax status and inactive societies 15185-6
- Society Act, amendments, need 15185-6
- Society Act, applicability to Royal Roads University 15923
- Society, fundamental guarantees 16766-7
- Standing order 35 adjournment motion, withdrawal of Bonneville Power Administration from Columbia River Treaty 14294
- Statutory holidays for workers 15613
- Strathcona timber supply area, harvesting rights 14921
- Sunshine Coast area, dependence on ferry system 13821-3
- Sunshine Coast, separate municipality for Pender Harbour area 14105
- Supply Act (No. 1) (1995) 13132-3, 13139-40, 13156, 13158
- Tanner, Clive, denial of opposition members' opportunity to respond to ministerial statements 15461
- Taxation of corporate-industrial sector 13011
- Teachers, disciplinary action against teachers, requirement to provide documentation 15080
- Teaching Profession Act, amendments 14956
- Tener v. the Queen, park designation case 16577
- Tetrahedron Peak, recreational use of water 16201
- Tetrahedron Peak, watershed protection 16200-1, 16695
- Texada Island gravel operation 15203
- Times Colonist, budget leak, printing of story 13072
- TNL Construction, land sale re Gibsons bypass project 13817
- Tobacco products, accessibility, Liberal Party position 14970-1
- Tobacco, sale of untaxed tobacco 14971, 15942
- Tobacco Sales Amendment Act (1995) 14970-1, 15037-8
- Tobacco Sales Amendment Act, 1995, enforceability 14970-1, 15038
- Tobacco Sales Amendment Act, 1995, purpose of bill 15942
- Tobacco Sales Amendment Act, 1995, tobacco, definition 15038
- Tobacco sales, tax revenues 15942-3
- Tobacco sales to minors and loss of vendor's licence 14970-1, 15038
- Tourism industry, promotional postcards 16430-1
- Traffic fines, guilty plea and garnishee action 15481
- Traffic fines, serving of fine certificate 15480-3
- Transportation, coast of B.C. as marine highway 13745
- Transportation investments 13013
- Transportation strategies, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party's White Paper 13745
- Tsawwassen Indian reserve land, leaseholder rights 14206
- Underground economy 14755
- United Nations, Canada's support for work 16120
- Urban-farm interface 14674, 14677-8
- Vancouver Stock Exchange Act, amendments 15404
- Vancouver Stock Exchange Amendment Act (1995) 14927-8, 14991-2, 14994-8
- Vancouver Stock Exchange commission of inquiry, recommendations 15404
- Vancouver Stock Exchange, Finance minister's powers 14994
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, chair's powers 14994
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, chair's selection 14994
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, number of public governors 14991-2
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, powers 14994
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, selection of public governors 14928, 14992, 14995
- Vancouver Stock Exchange governors, timely filling of vacancies 14995
- Vancouver Stock Exchange, problems, NDP action 14927-8
- Vancouver Stock Exchange, public confidence 14928, 14932, 14992
- Vancouver Stock Exchange, reporting to Legislature 14928, 14996-8
- VE-Day, fiftieth anniversary remembrances 13760-1, 14042-3
- Wages, assignment of wages, authorization 15623-4
- Wages, definition of regular wage 14739
- Wages, fair wages 16185-6
- Wages, minimum wage 14738-9, 14756
- Wages, representation of wage rate 15617-8
- War, human cost of war 14042-3
- Waste management, incineration 16202
- Water Act, domestic and waterworks purpose provisions 15125-6
- Water Act, watershed provisions 14911
- Water exports 14270-1
- Water from Canada, need in U.S. Pacific Northwest 14515-9
- Water levels of lakes and rivers 14271-2
- Water licences 14271-2
- Water Protection Act 14270-2, 14559
- Water Protection Act and cancellation of Bonneville Power Administration agreement 14270
- Water quality in wells, responsibility 14571
- Water reservoirs in B.C., U.S. drawdowns 14517-8
- Water resources in B.C. 14271-2
- Water resources, ownership vested in Crown 14271
- Water resources, protection 14518
- Water, sustainable use 14271
- Water, U.S. access to Columbia River water 14270
- Watershed protection 16696
- Watersheds, community watersheds 14911, 15123-6
- Westbank Indian band, condominium proposal for Okanagan Lake 13083, 13100
- Westbank Indian band, development on band land 14107
- Work, definition 14738
- Work, regulated versus unregulated work 14754-5, 14757
- Workers Compensation Act, need for revision 16851
- Workers Compensation Act, need for revision, petition tabled 16748
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act (1995) 16851
- Workers' Compensation Board, accountability 16851
- Workers' Compensation Board, governance 16851
- Workers' Compensation Board, issues re injured workers 16851
- Workers' Compensation Board, problems 16851
- Workers' compensation claim file information, release restrictions, subpoenas by lawyers 15200
- Workers, protection 14756
- Workers' rights 14737-40
- Workplace-related injuries, need for ongoing medical care 16767
- World Commission on Environment and Development report, 12 percent set-aside figure 16695, 16698
- Write-offs of debt owed to government 15185
- Youth, age of majority 14999-5000
- Zlotnick, Martin, solicitation of political donations 13593
Wilson, J.W.
- People in the Way: The Human Aspects of the Columbia River Project cited re relocation of people (Clark) 13430
- People in the Way: The Human Aspects of the Columbia River Project quoted re compensation for expropriated property (Mitchell) 13425
Windy Craggy mine project.
See also Tatshenshini area, B.C.
- Airstrip (Edwards) 14232 (Neufeld) 14232
- Airstrip, decommissioning, use as emergency airstrip (Cull) 16197-8 (Neufeld) 16197-8
- Cancellation (Serwa) 13357, 13386 (Weisgerber) 13097
- Cancellation, compensation, timely settlement (Jarvis) 16508
- Cancellation, cost (Serwa) 13283
- Compensation (Edwards) 14165-6 (Jarvis) 14165-6
- Future of project (Jarvis) 15523
- Project (Jarvis) 14295
Wine industry
- Agricultural land reserve and industry (Zirnhelt) 13139
- Estate wineries, competitiveness (Farrell-Collins) 14718-9
- Farm wineries within agricultural land reserve (van Dongen) 15563 (Zirnhelt) 15563
- J licence, concerns (van Dongen) 15651
- Marketing (Zirnhelt) 13239
- Vintners' Quality Alliance. See name of program
Winfield, B.C.
Winters, Alan
- Foster child abuse case (Stephens) 15311
Wolves
Women
- Construction skills training projects (Priddy) 13564
- Counselling programs for abused women (Priddy) 13618 (Stephens) 13618
- Economic opportunity (Priddy) 13561 (Stephens) 16106
- Employment equity (Priddy) 13563 (Stephens) 13563
- Equality issues (Stephens) 13587
- Equity initiatives (Stephens) 13563
- Fairness for women (Priddy) 13561, 13563
- Gender bias, elimination (Gabelmann) 13588 (Pullinger) 15980-1 (Stephens) 13588
- Health care initiatives (Priddy) 13561
- HIV testing, availability (Ramsey) 13928 (Reid) 13928
- Jobs in non-traditional trades (Priddy) 13563-4
- Needs of women in rural areas (Priddy) 13570
- Non-traditional trades, access (Priddy) 13563-4
- Pay equity in public sector (Cull) 15138
- Pregnant women, workplace rights (Farrell-Collins) 15799-800 (Fox) 15799-800 (Miller) 14715, 15798-800 (Tanner) 15800 (Tyabji) 14803, 15798-800
- Protection of rights in sexual harassment complaints (Farrell-Collins) 13279 (MacPhail) 13278-9
- Safety issues (Priddy) 13619
- Sexual harassment (Priddy) 13623 (Stephens) 13623
- Transition houses. See Transition houses
- Violence against women, prevention (Neufeld) 13760 (Priddy) 13562, 13617, 16107 (Stephens) 13617, 13619, 16106
- Wage parity with men (Priddy) 13566
- Women in business (Barlee) 13440, 13489 (Priddy) 13562
- Women's centres (Priddy) 13563
- Workforce participation (Priddy) 13563-4, 16106-7 (Pullinger) 14726-7 (Stephens) 13563
- Working mothers, needs (Priddy) 16107 (Stephens) 16106
- Workplace safety (Priddy) 13619
Women's Equality, Ministry of
- Estimates 13561-71, 13615-26, 16105-7
- Estimates, speakers (Priddy) 13561-71, 13615-26, 16106-7 (Stephens) 13563-71, 13615-9, 13621-6, 16105-6 (Tanner) 13618-23, 13626
- Annual reports, 1992-93 and 1993-94, tabled (MacPhail) 16672
- Appropriations, 1992-96 fiscal years (Priddy) 13626 (Tanner) 13626
- Attorney General ministry, work with ministry (Priddy) 13562, 13617 (Stephens) 13617
- Budget, allocation to communities (Priddy) 13561
- Community programs branch, responsibilities (Priddy) 13571
- Community-based activities (Priddy) 13570
- Contracted service providers, accountability (Priddy) 13625 (Stephens) 13625
- Coordination role (Priddy) 13617
- Day care responsibility (Priddy) 13626
- Education ministry, work with ministry (Priddy) 13618 (Stephens) 13618
- Expenditures (Priddy) 13623 (Tanner) 13622-3
- Freestanding status of ministry (Priddy) 16107 (Stephens) 16106
- Grants and contributions, funding criteria (Priddy) 13625 (Stephens) 13625
- In-school programs (Priddy) 13618 (Stephens) 13618
- Leadership role in prevention of sexual harassment (Priddy) 13623 (Stephens) 13623
- Mandate (Priddy) 16106 (Stephens) 16106
- Programs, evaluation criteria (Priddy) 13569-70, 13616-7 (Stephens) 13569, 13616
- Programs for Indian women (Priddy) 13564-5, 13617-8 (Stephens) 13564-5
- Publications (Priddy) 13626 (Stephens) 13626
- Regional program coordinators (Priddy) 13570 (Stephens) 13570
- Role (Priddy) 13561
- Salaries (Priddy) 13623 (Tanner) 13622-3
- Social Services ministry, work with ministry (Priddy) 13571, 13615 (Stephens) 13571, 13615
- Staff, specialist-designated personnel, role (Priddy) 13571 (Stephens) 13571
- Staffing (Priddy) 13565 (Stephens) 13565
- Support services (Priddy) 13565 (Stephens) 13565
- Transition houses, responsibility (Priddy) 13618-20 (Stephens) 13618 (Tanner) 13619-20
Wood Gundy Ltd.
Wood stoves
- Emission regulations, impact (Gingell) 13960 (Sihota) 13960
Wood waste
Woodlands, New Westminster, B.C.
Woodward, Greg
- Social assistance case cited (Anderson) 13884 (MacPhail) 13884
Woodward, Greg
Woodward, Ron
Woodward Stores
- Criminal-record check case. See McCartney v. Woodward Stores
Workers' compensation
- Computerization (Farrell-Collins) 15245 (Miller) 15245
- Coverage, extension to new employers (Farrell-Collins) 15247-9 (Miller) 15247-9
- Coverage, extension to small business (Barlee) 13497-8 (Gingell) 13497-8
- Coverage for not-direct family members (Jarvis) 13606
- Injured workers, issues (Farrell-Collins) 16847 (Wilson) 16851
- Medical expenses recoverable, alternative care practitioners (Ramsey) 13167
- Pensions, survivor benefits, continuation after remarriage (Jarvis) 15243-4 (Miller) 15243-4
- System, comparison with systems elsewhere (Hanson) 16849 (Miller) 16845-6
- System, effectiveness (Farrell-Collins) 15207-8 (Miller) 15207-8, 15211
- System in Saskatchewan, public consultation (Miller) 16854
- System, Liberal Party position (Jones, K.) 15251-2 (Miller) 15209, 15251
Workers Compensation Act
- Amendments (Gabelmann) 15002
- Need for repeal and revision (Wilson) 16851
- Need for revision, petition tabled (Wilson) 16748
Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 1995
- (Bill 56) (Minister of Skills, Training and Labour) 1R, 16760-1; 2R, 16845-53; C, 16853-8; 3R, 16858; RA, 17015
- Speakers (Farrell-Collins) 16846-9, 16853-7 (Hanson) 16849 (Jones, K.) 16852, 16857-8 (Miller) 16761, 16845-6, 16853-8 (Reid) 16849-51, 16856 (van Dongen) 16852-3 (Warnke) 16851-2, 16857 (Wilson) 16851
Workers' Compensation Board
- Accountability (Reid) 16850-1 (Wilson) 16851
- Administration (Farrell-Collins) 15245 (Miller) 15246
- Administration costs (Farrell-Collins) 15248 (Miller) 15248, 16846 (Reid) 13160-1
- Administrators, appointment of panel (Farrell-Collins) 16853-4 (Jones, K.) 16857-8 (Miller) 16761, 16846, 16853-4, 16856-8 (Reid) 16850 (Warnke) 16857
- Administrators, terms of reference (Miller) 16856 (Reid) 16856
- Annual report, 1994, tabled (Miller) 13652
- Annual report, availability (Miller) 13592
- Annual report, tabling requirement (Warnke) 13591
- Appeals process, time required to hear a case (Hanson) 15246 (Miller) 15247
- Babysitters, coverage (Campbell) 13459-60
- Back injury claims (Streifel) 13799
- Chief appeal commissioner, personal service contract (Farrell-Collins) 16855, 16857 (Miller) 16857
- Chief appeal commissioner, role (Farrell-Collins) 16855-6 (Miller) 16855-6 (van Dongen) 16853
- Claim file information, release restrictions, enforcement (Gabelmann) 15002
- Claim file information, release restrictions, impact on MLAs' receipt of information (Gabelmann) 15199-200 (Reid) 15199-200
- Claim file information, release restrictions, subpoenas by lawyers (Gabelmann) 15200 (Wilson) 15200
- Claimant suicides (Jones, K.) 15250-1 (Miller) 15250-1
- Claimants on income assistance (Jones, K.) 15358-9 (MacPhail) 15358-9
- Claims, problems (Jones, K.) 15249-2 (Miller) 15250
- Collective agreement, status (Farrell-Collins) 16854-5 (Miller) 16854-5 (Reid) 16850, 16856
- Decision-making process (Miller) 13460
- Decisions under Criminal Injury Compensation Act and Workers Compensation Act (Gabelmann) 13606
- Dye, Kenneth, contract with board (Farrell-Collins) 15214
- Employees (Farrell-Collins) 16847
- Executive compensation (Hurd) 13593 (Miller) 13593
- Executive compensation, payments to chief appeal commissioner (Miller) 13817 (Warnke) 13694
- Executive severance packages (Farrell-Collins) 13592 (Miller) 13592-3
- Governance review (Korbin/O'Callaghan) (Farrell-Collins) 15207-8, 15210 (Miller) 15207-8 (Reid) 16826
- Governance review (Korbin/O'Callaghan) cited, quoted (Farrell-Collins) 16847-8 (Miller) 16846, 16857 (Reid) 16850 (Warnke) 16857
- Governance structure, changes (Farrell-Collins) 15207-10, 15212, 16848-9 (Jones, K.) 16852 (Miller) 15207-9, 15211, 16845 (Reid) 16849-50 (van Dongen) 16852-3 (Wilson) 16851
- Governance structure, proposed review (Farrell-Collins) 16853-4
- Governors, replacement of board (Farrell-Collins) 16847-8 (Hanson) 16849 (Miller) 16761, 16845, 16856 (Reid) 16850, 16856
- Governors, replacement of board, severance pay (Miller) 16856-7 (Reid) 16856 (Warnke) 16857
- Injury prevention initiatives (Farrell-Collins) 15249 (Miller) 15249
- Leadership (Farrell-Collins) 16848
- Legislation. See Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 1995
- Liability, unfunded liability (Miller) 13592 (Warnke) 13591-2, 13694
- Liability, unfunded liability, comparisons with elsewhere (Miller) 16846
- McMillan, Hugh, involvement with board (Farrell-Collins) 15210, 15213-4 (Jones, K.) 15251-2 (Miller) 15209-10, 15212, 15214-5, 15251
- Magnetic resonance imaging services for WCB cases (Ramsey) 14564 (Reid) 14564
- Management (Farrell-Collins) 16847 (Miller) 16853 (Warnke) 16852
- Mandate (Farrell-Collins) 16847 (Reid) 16850 (Warnke) 13800
- Membership of board (Jones, K.) 16852
- Mineral extraction sites, jurisdiction (Edwards) 15204 (Neufeld) 15204
- Munro, Connie, contract with board (Farrell-Collins) 15210, 15213-5 (Miller) 13817, 15209-10, 15214-5 (Warnke) 13694
- Operations (Farrell-Collins) 15475 (Hanson) 15474
- Operations, criticism by politicians (Farrell-Collins) 15211 (Miller) 15211-3
- Operations, public consultation by Liberal Party (Jones, K.) 16852 (Miller) 16853 (Warnke) 13799, 16852
- Problems (Campbell) 16746 (Farrell-Collins) 16746-7, 16846-7 (Hanson) 16849 (Jones, K.) 16852 (Miller) 16746-7, 16826, 16846 (Warnke) 16857 (Wilson) 16851
- Problems, public attention (Farrell-Collins) 15208
- Problems, responsibility of former governments (Miller) 15209
- Public confidence in system (Farrell-Collins) 16848-9 (Miller) 16846, 16853-4
- Rates, assessment policy (Miller) 15248-9
- Rates, comparisons with elsewhere (Miller) 16845-6
- Rates for small and medium-sized business (Farrell-Collins) 14718
- Retail sector, apportionment of costs (Farrell-Collins) 15247 (Miller) 15247
- Revenue Canada audit (Miller) 13817
- Richmond office, employee petition (Jones, K.) 16852
- Safety in workplace, initiatives (Streifel) 13799
- Staff commended (Farrell-Collins) 15245 (Miller) 15246
- Staff morale (Farrell-Collins) 15214-5 (Miller) 15215-6
"Workers Compensation Board of British Columbia Board Governance Review: Report and Recommendations."
- See Governance review (Korbin/O'Callaghan) under main heading Workers' Compensation Board
Workers, workplace, etc. See Labour
Working Group on Fiscal and Debt Benchmarks
- Quoted re tax-supported debt (Simpson) 13296
- Recommendations on fiscal policy (Kasper) 13190 (Simpson) 13295
Working Opportunity Fund
World Commission on Environment and Development
World Meet '96
World War, 1939-45
World Wildlife Fund
- Endangered Spaces Progress Report, B.C. rating (Campbell) 13458 (Harcourt) 13457-8 (Weisgerber) 13458
Wouters, Garry (Deputy Minister of Skills, Training and Labour - Skills and Training)
- Royal Roads site, use as post-secondary facility 15373
- Skills, Training and Labour ministry, estimates 15373-4
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- Support from government (Barlee) 13455 (Tanner) 13455
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