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Province of British Columbia
1st Session, 36th Parliament
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
June 25, 1996 to March 24, 1997

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Hansard Sittings by Page Number

Oak Bay-Gordon Head constituency

Description (Chong) 358-9

Oakalla lands

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Burnaby, B.C.

Oaklands

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Burnaby, B.C.

Oakridge Centre, Vancouver, B.C.

Community liaison office, immigration settlement services (Anderson) 466 (Dosanjh) 466

Oatway, Bobby Gordon

Dangerous offender case (Dosanjh) 729 (Weisgerber) 729

Office of the child, youth and family advocate

Estimates approved 2049

Office of the police complaints commissioner

Estimates approved 2049

Office of the public trustee

Review, 1994-95, tabled (Dosanjh) 239

Oil and gas industry

Liquefied natural gas plant for northwestern B.C. (Hansen) 1215 (Miller) 1215
Natural gas pipeline taxes and royalties (Gingell) 537 (Petter) 537
Role in economy of Peace River region (Miller) 1258-9 (Nettleton) 1258-9
Vancouver Island natural gas pipeline project
- financial restructuring (Dosanjh) 936
- financial restructuring, impact on rates (Farrell-Collins) 1041-5 (Miller) 1041-5 (Plant) 1043-4
- liability settlement (Gingell) 29-30 (Petter) 29
- settlement payments included in 1994-95 budget (Gingell) 1132-3, 1135 (Petter) 1133, 1135

Okanagan area

Economy (Hawkins) 134

Okanagan East constituency

Issues and concerns (Weisbeck) 282-3
Jail construction project, site selection process (Dosanjh) 528 (Weisbeck) 528

Okanagan Landing Elementary School, Vernon, B.C.

Capital project, freeze (Sanders) 64

Okanagan University College

Campuses and funding (Sihota) 1598 (Weisbeck) 1597
Cathedral Lakes Lodge
- decision to purchase (Sihota) 1598-9 (Weisbeck) 1598-9
- leaseback to previous owner (Sihota) 1598 (Weisbeck) 1598-9

Okanagan Valley Tree Fruit Authority

Annual report, 1995-96, tabled (Evans) 395
Budget (Evans) 701-2 (Thorpe) 701-2
Budget, accountability (Evans) 702 (Thorpe) 701-2
Funding (Evans) 34 (Thorpe) 34
Market trends, involvement (Evans) 699-700 (Thorpe) 699-700
Programs (Evans) 699 (van Dongen) 699
Replant program (Evans) 701 (Thorpe) 701

Okanagan-Boundary constituency

Issues and concerns (Barisoff) 232-4

Okanagan-Penticton constituency

Issues and concerns (Thorpe) 223-4

Okanagan-Vernon constituency

Issues and concerns (Sanders) 214-5

Olympic Fine Meats

Plant closing, job loss (Hansen) 2079 (Miller) 2079

Olympic Games

1996 Atlanta Summer Games, B.C. medalists commended (Priddy) 1427

Ombudsman

Accountability (Dosanjh) 559 (Plant) 559
Estimates approved 2049
Quoted re child fatalities review commission (Plant) 920
Report quoted re social services applicants (Anderson) 349
Reports, presentation to Legislature 1880-1

Ontario

Electoral representation, criteria (Abbott) 1589, 1726 (Weisgerber) 1588
NDP government report on fair taxation (Gingell) 521
Social welfare policy (Petter) 322

Open Learning Agency

Funding for immigrant services (Anderson) 467 (Dosanjh) 467

Open Learning Agency Act

Amendments (Petter) 15, 435

Operation Go Home

Program (Coleman) 484

Oppal, Wallace T.

Commission of inquiry into policing in B.C. See name of commission

Opportunities '96 program

Consultations with private sector (Hansen) 1204-5 (Miller) 1204-5
Expenditures (Hansen) 1211 (Miller) 1211
Goals (Clark, G.) 238-9 (Hansen) 238
Program (Clark, G.) 73 (Hansen) 73-4 (Miller) 73-4
Youth employment program (Clark, G.) 1967

Oral questions

1996-97 budget and Premier's deputy minister (Campbell) 201-2 (Clark, G.) 201-2 (Hurd) 202
Aboriginal hunting out of season (Ramsey) 1666 (Weisgerber) 1666
Apex Mountain Resort loan guarantee (de Jong) 728-9 (Miller) 728-9 (Thorpe) 729
Appointment of B.C. Hydro chair to ATS Canada board (Boone) 1536 (Clark, G.) 1536-7 (de Jong) 1536-7 (Miller) 1537
B.C. family bonus (Coell) 122 (Petter) 122
B.C. Hydro's partners in Pakistani power project (Campbell) 1535-6, 1665-6 (Miller) 1535-6, 1665-6
B.C.'s financial credibility (Campbell) 300 (Clark, G.) 300 (de Jong) 300-1 (Farrell-Collins) 301 (Petter) 300-1
Budget estimates and potential for lawsuits (Plant) 237
Burrard Thermal and Fraser Valley air quality (Clark, C.) 10-1, 1152-3 (Miller) 10-1 (Ramsey) 11, 1153
Child and Family Review Board (Plant) 806 (Streifel) 806
Cryptosporidium outbreak (MacPhail) 1788 (Weisbeck) 1788
Deaths of children in care or known to Social Services ministry (Campbell) 727-8, 805-6, 918-9, 1025, 1991-2 (Coell) 1152, 1993 (de Jong) 919-20, 1153, 1993 (Hawkins) 1027, 1153 (McKinnon) 728, 919 (Plant) 920, 1992 (Sanders) 1026 (Streifel) 728, 805-6, 918-20, 1025-7, 1152-4, 1991-3
Defence of B.C. interests at annual Premiers' conference (Clark, G.) 1901 (Wilson, G.) 1901
Draw-down of Williston Lake (Miller) 10 (Nebbeling) 10
Election promises in Yale-Lillooet (Clark, G.) 23 (de Jong) 22-3 (Waddell) 23
Elijah Thomas case (Campbell) 1787-8 (Coell) 1788 (MacPhail) 1992 (Plant) 1992-3 (Streifel) 1787-8, 1993
Fraser Valley groundwater contamination study (Clark, C.) 395 (Ramsey) 395
Funding cut to UBC Safer Campus program (Masi) 1900-1 (Sihota) 1900-1
Government advertising (Petter) 355-6 (Thorpe) 355 (Weisgerber) 355-6
Government docks in coastal communities (Miller) 1026 (Wilson, G.) 1026
Government official's opposition to Donation of Food Act (Dosanjh) 1788-9 (Plant) 1788-9
Health care regionalization review (de Jong) 1231 (Farrell-Collins) 1230 (Hawkins) 266-7, 1230 (MacPhail) 266-7, 1230-1
Heart surgery wait-lists (Hawkins) 1789 (MacPhail) 1789
Hiring of new police officers and photo radar program (Dosanjh) 1231 (Weisgerber) 1231
Incident at Vancouver Pretrial Services Centre (Dosanjh) 355 (Plant) 355
Interprovincial return of criminals (Dosanjh) 1537 (Hansen) 1537
Interprovincial trade and Vancouver job loss (Hansen) 2079 (Miller) 2079
Legal aid for adoption services (Dosanjh) 2079 (Neufeld) 2079
Municipal pension plan payments (Clark, C.) 356
NDP compliance with Election Act disclosure provisions (Clark, G.) 1900 (de Jong) 1899-900
North Island CT scanner (MacPhail) 1667 (Reitsma) 1666-7
Oatway case (Dosanjh) 729 (Weisgerber) 729
Participation of Premier's deputy minister in election campaign (Clark, G.) 237-8 (de Jong) 237-8
Photo radar program (Boone) 164-5, 1229-30 (Campbell) 1229 (Weisgerber) 164
Premier's election promise of income tax cuts (Campbell) 265-6 (Farrell-Collins) 266 (Miller) 265-6 (Petter) 266
Premier's election promises and 1995-96 budget (Campbell) 121 (Clark, G.) 121-2
Premier's election promises and June 1996 budget (Campbell) 21 (Clark, G.) 21-2 (Petter) 21
Recall legislation and Minister of Finance (Campbell) 163-4 (Clark, G.) 164
Release of report on child deaths (Coell) 806 (McKinnon) 1152, 1788 (Streifel) 806-7, 1152, 1788
Release of revenue forecasts for 1995-96 budget (Farrell-Collins) 97 (Gingell) 96-7 (Hurd) 97 (Petter) 96-7
Revenue forecasts and 1996-97 budget (de Jong) 202 (Nebbeling) 202-3 (Petter) 202-3
Revenue forecasts for 1995-96 budget (Campbell) 95-6 (Clark, G.) 96 (de Jong) 163 (Gingell) 122 (Hurd) 202 (Petter) 122, 163, 165, 202 (Sanders) 165
Revenue forecasts for 1996-97 budget (Penner) 238 (Petter) 238
Role of John Laxton in B.C. Hydro offshore projects (Campbell) 1345-6, 1428-9 (Clark, G.) 1347, 1428-30 (Coleman) 1430 (de Jong) 1347, 1430 (Dosanjh) 1430 (Farrell-Collins) 1346-7, 1429 (Miller) 1345-7
Royal Jubilee Hospital expansion (Chong) 22 (Petter) 22
Standards of care at Royal Crescent Lodge (Coell) 1025-6 (MacPhail) 1025-6
Student summer employment (Clark, G.) 238-9 (Hansen) 238
Use of Forest Renewal revenues (Abbott) 632 (Campbell) 393-4, 432, 529-30, 2078 (Clark, C.) 632 (Clark, G.) 433-4 (de Jong) 394-5, 432-3, 530, 631-2 (Farrell-Collins) 433-4 (Gingell) 356 (Hurd) 356, 434, 633 (Miller) 394 (Nebbeling) 394, 2078-9 (Petter) 356, 393-4, 432-3, 529, 632-3 (Ramsey) 632 (Wilson, J.) 530 (Zirnhelt) 356, 395, 432, 529-31, 631-3, 2078-9
Victoria General Hospital expansion (Chong) 267 (MacPhail) 267
Victoria Line funding (Miller) 807 (Symons) 807
W.A.C. Bennett Dam (Miller) 11 (Neufeld) 11
W.A.C. Bennett Dam and B.C. Hydro debt (Campbell) 9-10 (Miller) 9-10
Warehouse borrowing program (Gingell) 22 (Petter) 22
Water supply and fire protection in Westbank area (Ramsey) 531 (Wilson, G.) 531
West coast salmon fishery (Evans) 203 (Wilson, G.) 203

Orcherton, Steve (Victoria-Hillside)

Budget debate 128-31
Crime prevention 130
Education, post-secondary tuition fees, freeze 130
Employment opportunities in Victoria area 129-30
Employment Standards Act, impact 385
Employment Standards Act, purpose 131
Employment strategy for the future 130-1
Environmental protection 130
Government, role 384
Government spending, capital spending freeze and review 385-6
MLAs, "new role" 386
NDP government, performance 383-5
Nights Alive community safety initiative 130
Political polarization 130
Poverty, incidence in Victoria area 130
Tax freeze 131
Throne speech debate 383-6
Victoria-Hillside constituency, issues and concerns 128-31
Wages, minimum-wage jobs 130
Women's Equality ministry, importance 131
Workers Compensation Board, review of operations 385
Workers Compensation Board, royal commission, establishment 131
Workplace safety 385

Osoyoos, B.C.

Health care facility for seniors (Barisoff) 1936 (MacPhail) 1936

Osoyoos Lake

Water quality (Barisoff) 953 (Ramsey) 953

Outdoor recreation

Back-country recreation
- policy (Neufeld) 884
- policy, implementation and review (Miller) 1853-4 (Reitsma) 1853-4
Guiding and packing regulations (Neufeld) 884

Overwaitea Foods

Strike, Labour ministry handling (Dalton) 1644

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