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

Saanich North and the Islands constituency
• Description (Coell) 303
Safety
• Public safety initiatives (Dosanjh) 54 , 415-6 (Plant) 54
• Public safety, threat to national security (de Jong) 316-7
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.
• Geriatric unit downsizing, decision-making process (Hawkins) 1976-7 (MacPhail) 1977
• Work on AIDS (Pullinger) 186 (Sanders) 186 (Stevenson) 165
Salaries See Wages and salaries
Sales
• Negative-option offers, legislation (Dosanjh) 559 (Symons) 559
Sales tax
• Credit for children, elimination (Anderson) 326 (Coell) 325 , 331 (Gingell) 324 , 330 , 332-4 , 377-8 (Petter) 323 , 329-30 , 332-4
• Exemption for incorporated prototypes (Gingell) 436 , 533 (Petter) 15 , 435 , 533
Salmon farming See Aquaculture industry
Salmon fishing See Fisheries
Salmon River
• Fish kill (Clark, C.) 846 (Ramsey) 846
Salmonid enhancement program See Salmon resource under Fisheries
Saltspring Island
• Incorporation of island communities (Abbott) 1740 (Miller) 1740
San Pariel, B.C.
• Incorporation into Nanaimo regional district (Reitsma) 1739
Sanders, April (Okanagan-Vernon)
• AIDS conference in Vancouver 165-6 , 186
• AIDS, initiatives to combat 186
• B.C. Benefits, family bonus program 326-7
• B.C. Centre for Disease Control, operations 1985
• B.C. Medical Association, agreement re utilization of health care system 1933-4 , 1985
• B.C. Medical Association, clinical practice guidelines development 2032
• B.C. Teachers' Federation, comments re public education 1522-3
• B.C. Teachers' Federation, Inventing Crisis report tabled 1522
• Budget, 1995-96 budget, revenue forecasts 165
• Child deaths, causes 731
• Child poverty 326-7
• Child protection, critical injury or death, review 731
• Child protection workers, number 618
• Children, dental benefits, amount 480
• Dental care for income assistance recipients 480
• Education, audited funding 1433
• Education, basic reading and writing skills 1480
• Education, block funding 1432-3
• Education, capital funding projects freeze 1520-2
• Education, capital funding projects review and operating expenses 72
• Education, career and personal planning program 1482-3
• Education, computer skills 1481
• Education curriculum, health and nutrition 1482
• Education curriculum, needs of part-time and mature students 1482
• Education curriculum, physical education 1481-2
• Education, distance education, enrolment 1486
• Education, district-specific funding 1432-3
• Education, encouragement to stay in school, Stay in School program 1556
• Education, equity grants to schools 1485
• Education, essential service designation 1441
• Education, evaluation of results 1479
• Education, examination marking, teachers marking grade 12 provincial exams 1483-4
• Education, examination marking, teachers marking grade 12 provincial exams, remuneration 65
• Education, French immersion, funding 1555 , 1641
• Education, French instruction, enrolments 1555
• Education, French school board 1555
• Education, funding based on school enrolments 1433
• Education funding, determination of poor areas 1556-7
• Education funding, English-as-a-second-language program 1485
• Education, funding for technology 1451
• Education, funding for technology, gender equity issue 1487
• Education funding formula, adequacy for high-growth districts 1433
• Education funding, incentives for school districts to be under budget 1433
• Education funding, special needs funding, impact of school district amalgamation 1490
• Education funding, targeted funding 1432-3
• Education, fundraising by post-secondary schools 1519
• Education, home schooling program 1486
• Education, independent schools, funding 1554
• Education, independent schools, number and enrolment 1554
• Education, inner-city school program 1556
• Education, mathematics and science, B.C. students' performance 1479-80
• Education, per-pupil funding, K-to-12 1432
• Education, Programme Cadre, federal funding 1554-5
• Education, report cards 1451
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, advertising expenses 1444
• Education, Skills and Training ministry budget, covering of shortfall 1518-20 , 1522
• Education, Skills and Training ministry budget, impact of federal off-loading of costs 1443-4
• Education, Skills and Training ministry budget, savings from freeze on capital projects 1442
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, building occupancy charges 1445
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, communication with school districts 1492 , 1641
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, debt-servicing contributions 1442
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, deputy and assistant deputy ministers 1483
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 1431-7 , 1439-47 , 1449-51 , 1479-92 , 1518-23 , 1545 , 1554-7 , 1641
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, goals, measurement 1479 , 1641
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, mandate 1442
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, minister's dual role as Labour minister 1440
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, office operations, budget 1441-2
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, operating costs, breakdown 1443
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, sinking fund payment 1444
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, special programs, budget 1484-5
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, staff increase and transfers 1441-2
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, standard objects of expenditure 1445
• Education, special education, enrolment 1485
• Education studies, time required to implement recommendations 1480
• Education, testing 1483
• Employment Standards Act, impact of minimum-wage requirement on non-training facilities 1704-7
• Employment Standards Act, training programs, criteria 1705
• Employment Standards Act, work, definition 1704-7
• English-as-a-second-language program, student-teacher ratio 1485
• Fair-wage policy 1447
• Families, financial assistance for low-income families 326-7
• Federal off-loading of costs onto provinces 1443-4
• Forest industry revenue to province, shortfall, impact on budget 165
• Gender equity programs in Education ministry 1485-6
• Gerow, Jack, role in health care regionalization review 2071
• Government accountability 215
• GAIN benefits, reduced benefits for family bonus recipients 327
• Health care, New Directions program, implementation and costs 2065-7
• Health care practitioners, change in eligible professions 1036-7
• Health care, regional health boards, physician representation on northern boards 1934-5
• Health care regionalization, Closer to Home program 1934
• Health care regionalization, impact on services in northern and remote areas 1933-4
• Health care regionalization, implementation 2071-3
• Health care system, concerns 89-90
• Health care system, two-tier system, impact of provincial policies 2028-9
• Health care system, wait-lists as symptom of dysfunction 2023-4
• Health care, waiting times for appointments with specialists 2023
• Health ministry, estimates debate 1932-5 , 1977 , 1985 , 1987-90 , 2017 , 2023-4 , 2026-9 , 2031-2 , 2071-3
• Hospital Act, definition of practitioner changed to include member of prescribed health profession 1036-7
• Hospital admitting privileges, right of appeal when denied a permit to practise 1036-7
• Income Tax Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , debate 326-7
• Income Tax Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , Liberal Party support for bill 327
• Indians, education funding 1432
• Jericho Hill School for the Deaf, ministerial responsibility 1485
• Labour ministry, estimates debate 1704-8
• Lacroix, Bryan, homicide of baby known to Social Services ministry 1026
• Medical Services Commission, responsibility for clinical practice guidelines 2032
• Medical Services Plan, cost containment initiatives 2032
• Medical Services Plan, deinsured services 2027
• Medical Services Plan, ratio of physicians to administrative staff 2026
• Medical Services Plan, uninsured services 1987
• Medicare system, protection of system, guiding principles 2029
• Midwives, funding and registration issues 1987-9 , 2017
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 1996 , debate 1036-7
• NDP government, performance 215
• Okanagan Landing Elementary School, capital project, freeze 64
• Okanagan-Vernon constituency, issues and concerns 214-5
• Pender Islands Elementary-Secondary School, accreditation process 1450
• Physician supply in northern and remote areas 1932-4
• Politicians, public expectations of elected officials 215
• Poverty, support for the working poor 326-7
• Queen Elizabeth Senior Secondary School, capital project, impact of funding freeze 1449
• Quesnel hospital, operational issues 1934
• St. Paul's Hospital, work on AIDS 186
• School boards, meetings with Education minister 1520
• School computers, central purchasing 1557
• School construction projects, impact of fair-wage policy 1447
• School district 36 (Surrey), funding formula 1434
• School district 36 (Surrey), student spaces 1447
• School district 44 (North Vancouver), budget deficit 1446-7
• School district 44 (North Vancouver), firing of board 1446
• School district 44 (North Vancouver), meeting of Hon. Moe Sihota with local MLAs 1523
• School district 55 (Burns Lake), impact of amalgamation 1491-2
• School district amalgamation, appeal of decisions 1488-90
• School district amalgamation, bulletin published by B.C. School Trustees' Association and Education ministry 1488
• School district amalgamation, cancellations 1488
• School district amalgamation, estimated ancillary costs 1492
• School district amalgamation, funding reductions shared among all districts 1491
• School district amalgamation, impact on budgets 1446
• School district amalgamation, impact on instruction 1491
• School district amalgamation, severance packages 64
• School district amalgamation, transition funding 64
• School districts, amalgamated districts, administrative staff, early retirement incentive 1491
• School districts, amalgamated districts, board space allocation to Indians 1490
• School districts, amalgamated districts, funding 1490
• School districts, amalgamated districts, merging of labour contracts, cost implication 1490-1
• School districts, amalgamated districts, positions for displaced staff 1491
• School districts, budget deficits 1519
• School districts, budget deficits, elimination 1446
• School districts, capital expenditures, five-year planning 1447
• School districts, collective agreements, funding 65
• School districts, salaries and benefits 1487
• School districts, stock plans 1450-1
• School meals program 1485
• School portables, funding 1449
• School textbooks, tax-deductibility 1451
• School trustees elected at large and by ward 1489-90
• Schools, accreditation 1450
• Schools, capital funding projects, impact of funding freeze 1449
• Sihota, Hon. Moe, dual ministerial responsibilities 65 , 1440
• Skillen, Barbara, letter to Hon. Moe Sihota re impact of school district amalgamation 1491-2
• Skills development branch, staff 1441
• Skills programs, funding 1442
• Skills training programs, interministry funding 709
• Smoking, health risks 1760
• Social safety net, changes 326-7
• Social Services ministry, estimates debate 479-81 , 617-8 , 709 , 731
• Social Services ministry, staff changes, continuity 479-80
• Social workers, bachelor's degree requirement 617
• Social workers, training 618
• Students, graduation rate 1481-2
• Students, job expectations 1523
• Students, number 1486
• Students, number with English as their second language 1485
• Supply Act (No. 1), 1996 , debate 64-5 , 72 , 89-90
• Surgery wait-lists, prioritization of patients 2023-4
• Teachers, code of ethics 1486
• Teachers, collective agreement, funding for increase 1436
• Teachers, collective agreement, public notification 1555-6
• Teachers, collective bargaining, prevention of job action 1440
• Teachers, collective bargaining, role of local unions 1440
• Teachers, collective bargaining, seniority issue 1436-7
• Teachers, dismissal 1486
• Teachers, examination markers, income statements from government 1484
• Teachers, number and age 1486
• Teachers, provincewide bargaining 1439-40
• Teachers, role 1431
• Teachers, school days lost due to strikes 1440
• Teachers, two-year agreement 1435-6 , 1439
• Tobacco industry, legislation to ban advertising 1760
• Venture Training program, impact of Employment Standards Act 1704-7
• Vernon and District Association for the Mentally Handicapped, petition tabled re payment of wages in work programs 1667
• Welfare to Work program, funding 709 , 1444
• Women, needs of female lone-parent families 327
• Youth, steroid abuse 1004-6
• Youth Works program, funding 709 , 1641
Saskatchewan
• Domestic violence policies (Dosanjh) 501 (Stephens) 501
• Government loan to B.C. company, job-poaching issue (Hansen) 1256 (Miller) 1256
• Impaired-driving laws (Hurd) 555
• Job creation agreement with meat packing company (Hansen) 2079 (Miller) 2079
Save-On-Foods and Drugs See Overwaitea Foods
Savona Bridge
• Environmental monitoring during construction (Coleman) 1056
Sawicki, Joan (Burnaby-Willingdon)
• B.C. Benefits, family bonus program 328
• Burnaby Hospital, birthing unit construction project, review 196
• Burnaby Works, job creation pilot project 196
• Burnaby-Willingdon constituency, description 196
• Business, government role 196
• Environment issues, NDP government action 197
• Fisheries, salmon habitat protection 197
• Government spending, capital spending freeze and review 196
• Income Tax Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , debate 328
• Job creation 196
• Parks Day, heritage conservation 610
• Parks Day, provincial parks and protected areas, achievements and goals 608-10
• Poverty, support for the working poor 328
• Provincial parks and protected areas, history 609
• Small business, tax freeze 196
• Throne speech debate 195-7
School Act
• Impact of provincewide bargaining on act (Hurd) 1549
• Review of act (Hurd) 1548-9 (Sihota) 1549
• Transitional provisions (Dosanjh) 936
School boards/districts
• Accountability (Hurd) 1550
• Administration costs, review by Education ministry (Hurd) 1471 (Sihota) 1471
• Amalgamated districts
  • administrative staff, early retirement incentive (Sanders) 1491 (Sihota) 1491
  • board space allocation to Indians (Sanders) 1490 (Sihota) 1490
  • funding (Sanders) 1490 (Sihota) 1490
  • merging of labour contracts, cost implication (Sanders) 1490-1 (Sihota) 1490-1
  • positions for displaced staff (Sanders) 1491 (Sihota) 1491
• Amalgamation See also Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 1996
  • amalgamation process (Abbott) 67 (Farrell-Collins) 67 (Krueger) 247 (Miller) 67 (Sihota) 1476 (Wilson, G.) 1476
  • appeal of decisions (Sanders) 1488-90 (Sihota) 1488-90
  • benefits (Masi) 1492 (Sihota) 1492
  • bulletin published by B.C. School Trustees' Association and Education ministry (Sanders) 1488
  • cancellations (Sanders) 1488 (Sihota) 1488
  • change in governance system, school-based management (Masi) 1492
  • consultation process (Krueger) 1046-7 (Sihota) 1046-7
  • cost savings (Dalton) 70 (Sihota) 70
  • estimated ancillary costs (Sanders) 1492 (Sihota) 1492
  • funding reductions shared among all districts (Sanders) 1491 (Sihota) 1491
  • impact on budgets (Sanders) 1446 (Sihota) 1446
  • impact on funding for special education (Barisoff) 67-8 (Sihota) 67
  • impact on instruction (Masi) 1492 (Sanders) 1491 (Sihota) 1491-2
  • Liberal Party position (Abbott) 66 (Sihota) 66
  • severance payments (Barisoff) 67 (Sanders) 64 (Sihota) 64-5 , 67
  • transition funding (Sanders) 64 (Sihota) 64
  • transitional issues (Abbott) 1045-6 (Plant) 1047 (Sihota) 1045-7
• Audits of accounts (Sihota) 1475 (Wilson, G.) 1475
• Boards, meetings with Education minister (Sanders) 1520 (Sihota) 1520
• Budget deficits
  • application to have deficits approved, letters from ministry (Sihota) 1708
  • deficits (Sanders) 1519
  • elimination (Sanders) 1446 (Sihota) 1446
• Capital expenditures, five-year planning (Sanders) 1447
• Collective agreements, funding (Sanders) 65 (Sihota) 65
• Contract negotiations, imposition of mediator's recommendation (Hurd) 1471-2 (Sihota) 1472
• Number of school districts, reduction (Dosanjh) 936
• Purchasing practices (Gingell) 1165 (Petter) 1165
• Salaries and benefits (Sanders) 1487 (Sihota) 1487
• School board amalgamation (Masi) 153
• Self-allocation of funding (Barisoff) 69 (Sihota) 69
• Stock plans (Sanders) 1450-1 (Sihota) 1451
• Trustees elected at large and by ward (Sanders) 1489-90 (Sihota) 1490
School district 14 (Southern Okanagan)
• Amalgamation with district 16 (Keremeos), impact on funding (Barisoff) 1438
School district 16 (Keremeos)
• Amalgamation with district 14 (Southern Okanagan), impact on funding (Barisoff) 1438
School district 21 (Armstrong-Spallumcheen)
• Amalgamation with school district 89 (Shuswap) (Abbott) 65-6 (Farrell-Collins) 66-7 (Sihota) 66
• Letter quoted re amalgamation (Sanders) 1489
School district 23 (Central Okanagan)
• Budget shortfall (Weisbeck) 69-70
• Funding (Weisbeck) 282 (Wilson, G.) 1473
School district 24 (Kamloops)
• Amalgamation with school district 26 (North Thompson) (Krueger) 382
School district 26 (North Thompson)
• Amalgamation with school district 24 (Kamloops) (Krueger) 382
• Elimination (Krueger) 1046-7 (Sihota) 1047
School district 36 (Surrey)
• Funding for district
  • funding (McKinnon) 1538-9 (Sihota) 1538-9
  • funding formula (Sanders) 1434 (Smallwood) 1434
  • funding per student (McKinnon) 72 , 1538 (Sihota) 1538-9
  • growth and funding needs (McKinnon) 245
  • NDP MLAs' statements (McKinnon) 1539
• Student spaces (Sanders) 1447 (Sihota) 1448
School district 38 (Richmond)
• Board's request for meeting with Hon. Moe Sihota (Symons) 1478
• Construction projects, freeze (Symons) 192
• Funding alternatives (Sihota) 1477 (Symons) 1477
School district 40 (New Westminster)
• Amalgamation question (Bowbrick) 1492-3 (Masi) 1492-3 (Sihota) 1493
School district 44 (North Vancouver)
• Audit (Jarvis) 1515
• Budget deficit (Dalton) 1517 (Sanders) 1446-7 (Sihota) 1446-7
• Firing of board (Dalton) 1516 (Jarvis) 1515 (Sanders) 1446
• Meeting of Hon. Moe Sihota with local MLAs (Jarvis) 1515 (Sanders) 1523 (Sihota) 1515 , 1523
School district 55 (Burns Lake)
• Impact of school district amalgamation (Sanders) 1491-2 (Sihota) 1491-2
School district 61 (Greater Victoria)
• Board members, education experience (Jarvis) 1516 (Sihota) 1516
School district 89 (Shuswap)
• Amalgamation with school district 21 (Armstrong-Spallumcheen) (Abbott) 65-6 (Farrell-Collins) 66-7 (Sihota) 66
Schools
• Accreditation (Sanders) 1450 (Sihota) 1450
• Capital projects
  • choice of designs (Sihota) 1546 (Stephens) 1546
  • impact of funding freeze (Sanders) 1449 (Sihota) 1449 (Wilson, G.) 1473
  • lowest-bid policy (Stephens) 1546
  • project managers (Stephens) 1546-7
• Community use (Sihota) 1448
• Community use, funding (Barisoff) 1553 (Sihota) 1553
• Computers, central purchasing (Sanders) 1557 (Sihota) 1557
• Construction
  • construction during NDP administration (Bowbrick) 366 (Farnworth) 126 , 128
  • fair-wage policy (Barisoff) 1554 (Sihota) 1554
  • fair-wage policy, impact (Sanders) 1447
  • project management vs. tender process (Coleman) 1628 (Miller) 1628
• Fine arts school, construction, air quality concern (Coleman) 70 (Sihota) 70
• Portables, funding (Sanders) 1449 (Sihota) 1449
Science and technology
• Assistance for knowledge-based companies (Miller) 1262 (Reid) 1261-2
• Biotechnology initiatives, government support (Miller) 1265-6 (Reid) 1265-6
• B.C. as science and technology centre (Reid) 116 , 118-9
• Communications plan (Miller) 75 (Reid) 75-6
• Economic growth, links to knowledge-based industry (Reid) 1757-9
• First Job in Science and Technology program See name of program
• Funding, special warrant funding (Miller) 75-6 (Reid) 75-6
• Management needs of high-tech businesses (Miller) 1260-1 (Reid) 1260-1
• National strategy, negotiations (Miller) 1266-7 (Reid) 1266-7
• Programs, evaluation criteria (Miller) 1264 (Reid) 1263-4
• Promotion of knowledge-based industry (Miller) 1263 (Reid) 1263
• Role in economy (Reid) 1259
• Role of science in forestry sector and job creation (Doyle) 1758
• Science and technology fund, status (Miller) 76 (Reid) 76
• Support for industry, education and research (Reid) 371-2 , 1757-9
• Taxation and future development (Miller) 1264-5 (Reid) 1264-5
Science and technology program
• Job creation (Sihota) 748
Science Council of British Columbia
• Annual report, 1994-95 , tabled (Miller) 123
• Annual report, 1995-96 , tabled (Miller) 165
• Forest Renewal B.C., application by Silvacom Industries (de Jong) 1389 (Zirnhelt) 1389
• Report on high-tech industries, recommendations (Miller) 1260-63 (Reid) 1259-63
Scrap-It program
• Program (Clark, C.) 906 , 909 (Ramsey) 909
Sea Island
• Connector crossing project (Plant) 157
Sea to Sky Highway See Highway 99
Sechelt Indian band
• Self-government model (Abbott) 1735 (Miller) 1734-5
Second Narrows Bridge See Iron Workers' Memorial Bridge
Securities industry
• Brokers as underwriters (Penner) 1183 (Petter) 1183
• Fraud, legal remedies against fraud (Penner) 1183 (Petter) 1183
• National regulatory regime, B.C. participation (Reid) 1262
• National regulatory regime, discussions, B.C. participation (Gingell) 1185-7 (Penner) 1183-5 (Petter) 1184-7
Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
• Establishment (Cashore) 1714-5 (de Jong) 1715
• Independence (Weisgerber) 1669
• Mandate (Cashore) 1667-8 (de Jong) 1668 (Waddell) 1669 (Wilson, G.) 1670
• Role in treaty negotiations process (Cashore) 1716-8 (de Jong) 1716-8
• Timing of hearings (Cashore) 1718 (de Jong) 1718
Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries
• Meetings (Campbell) 354
Select Standing Committee on Finance, Crown Corporations and Government Services
• Establishment (van Dongen) 389-90
• Meeting of committee (Clark, G.) 2037-8 (Symons) 2041 (van Dongen) 2037 , 2039-40
• Relationship with Crown corporations secretariat (Hansen) 1300-1 (Miller) 1301
• Role (Clark, G.) 1880 , 2037-9 (Hansen) 1949 (van Dongen) 2038
Select Standing Committee on Forests, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
• Responsibilities (Zirnhelt) 2080
Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives
• Appointment (Dosanjh) 1994
Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills
• Authority to select new conflict-of-interest commissioner (MacPhail) 1994-5 (Weisgerber) 1994-5
• Designation to examine statute revision (MacPhail) 1347
Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts
• Documents referred to committee (Petter) 357
• Meetings during off-session (Gingell) 1879
• Recommendations, implementation (Campbell) 1876-8 (Clark, G.) 1877
• Report
  • future (Gingell) 101
  • recommendations (Stephens) 207 (van Dongen) 174
  • report tabled (Gingell) and adopted 1993-4
• Work of committee (Clark, G.) 2038 (Gingell) 1993-4 (MacPhail) 2080 (Wilson, G.) 2080
Select standing committees See Legislature; names of particular committees
Seniors
• B.C. SMILE (Seniors medication information line) program (MacPhail) 2053
• Care facilities, standards (Coell) 1025-6
• Community-based programs for seniors, federal funding (MacPhail) 1983 (Whittred) 1983
• Concerns of elderly (Stevenson) 280-1
• Elder abuse, adult guardianship and trusteeship See Guardian and ward
• Health care needs
  • availability of acute-care beds (Hurd) 2063
  • continuing care (MacPhail) 1937-8 , 1975 (Stephens) 1937-8 (Whittred) 1973-5
  • continuing care facilities, residential accommodation rates (Hawkins) 1975-6 (MacPhail) 1976
  • facilities for seniors, impact of capital funding freeze (Barisoff) 1936 (Krueger) 1977-8 (MacPhail) 1898 , 1932 , 1975 , 1977-8 (Weisgerber) 1932 (Whittred) 1898
  • specialized geriatric services (MacPhail) 1976 (Whittred) 1976
• Housing for seniors
  • health-related housing (MacPhail) 1944-5 , 1975 (Whittred) 1944-5 , 1975
  • housing (MacPhail) 1025-6 (Reid) 118 , 190-2 (Smallwood) 191
• Security for seniors, interministry coordinating committee (MacPhail) 1944 (Whittred) 1943-4
• Senior women See Women
SEPCOL (Southern Electric Power Company Limited)
• Partnership venture with B.C. Hydro See references to SEPCOL under British Columbia Hydro International Ltd.
Septic systems See Waste management
Service clubs See Volunteers
Sheehan, John
• Membership on board of company involved in Pakistan power project (Farrell-Collins) 1464-5 (Miller) 1464-5
• Resignation from all corporate positions (Campbell) 1493-5 (Miller) 1494-5 (Smith) 1493-4
• Termination of employment (Farrell-Collins) 1304-5 (Miller) 1304-5
• Termination of employment, timing (Farrell-Collins) 1369 (Miller) 1369
Shipping industry
• Deservicing of federal docks, impact on coastal communities (Miller) 1026 (Wilson, G.) 1026
Showcase B.C. Promotions Inc.
• Use of government trademarks (Chong) 82 , 1864 (Miller) 80-1 , 1864 (Reitsma) 80
Shuswap constituency
• Issues and concerns (Abbott) 154-6
Shuswap people
• Heritage, preservation (McGregor) 106
Shuswap school district See School district 89
Sicamous, B.C.
• Downtown revitalization program (Abbott) 1736
• Incorporation (Abbott) 1737-8
Sierra-Yoyo-Desan road See Highways and roads
Sihota, Hon. Moe (Esquimalt-Metchosin) Minister of Education, Skills and Training and Minister of Labour
• Albany, John, tribute to former Songhees chief 916
• Apprentices, business partnerships 1542-3
• Apprenticeship, ministerial responsibility 1713
• Apprenticeship programs, funding 1713
• Apprenticeship programs, funding and coordinators 1526
• Apprenticeship programs, K-to-12 programs 1540-1
• Apprenticeship programs, ministerial responsibility 1538
• Apprenticeship programs, promotion 1526
• Apprenticeships, number 1711
• B.C. Benefits, family bonus program 735
• B.C. Benefits program, interministry roles 854
• BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act, debate 432 , 735-7 , 746-8 , 808-31 , 851-7
• BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act, dependents, use of word in bill 855
• BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act, employability program, definition 808 , 810-1
• BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act, regulations 818-9
• BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act, regulations, minister's powers 808
• BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act, youth, definition 808-9 , 813
• B.C. Human Resource Development Project report, action 1714
• B.C. Labour Force Development Board, mandate 1604
• B.C. Labour Force Development Board, plan for colleges and institutes 1603
• B.C. Labour Force Development Board, Training for What? publication 1597 , 1603
• B.C. Labour Force Development Board, Training for Whom? publication 1603
• B.C. Public Schools Employers' Association, bargaining with teachers 1435 , 1437-8
• B.C. Teachers' Federation, comments re public education 1522
• Brown, Hans, appointment as vice-chair of Labour Relations Board 1645
• Budget debate 276-9
• Canadian Injured Workers Society, concerns about workers' compensation 1671
• Child care initiative 735
• Clearwater, consultations re school district amalgamation 1046-7
• Cloverdale, technical institute construction project 1605
• Cloverdale, technical institute, mandate 1605
• College of Teachers of B.C., handling of unethical conduct by teachers 1487
• College strategic report, release 1609
• Colleges and institutes, student spaces 1601-3
• Colleges, funding 1558
• Committee of supply, motion to permit chairman of B.C. Hydro to reply to questions 1451
• Construction industry, Kelleher-Ready report 1712
• Construction industry, review panel, cost 1712
• Cott, Don, role in government 1703
• Criminal Injury Compensation Act, Workers Compensation Board responsibility 1652 , 1714
• Debt and investment for future 276-7
• Disability Benefits Program Act, debate 937 , 956
• Disability benefits program, program separate from other forms of income assistance 937
• Dual ministerial responsibilities 65 , 91 , 1440-1 , 1642 , 1644 (Dalton) 91 , 1445 , 1642-4 , 1703-4 , 1711 (Sanders) 65 , 1440
• Economy of B.C. 747
• Education, adult education, funding 1524
• Education and Health Collective Bargaining Assistance Act, impact on future agreements with unions 1471
• Education, audited funding 1433
• Education, basic reading and writing skills 1480
• Education, block funding 1432-3
• Education, business partnership program, number of placements 69
• Education, capital funding projects, freeze 71
• Education, capital funding projects freeze, action at end of freeze 1521
• Education, capital funding projects freeze, selection of affected projects 1520-2
• Education, capital funding projects, funding acquired by increasing provincial debt, Hon. Moe Sihota's request for written approval from MLAs 1476 , 1539 , 1544-5 , 1553
• Education, capital funding projects, funding from cancelled projects to remain in Education budget 71
• Education, capital funding projects, review and operating expenses 72
• Education, career and personal planning program 1482 , 1541-2
• Education, career counselling skills 1546
• Education, career program, work requirement 69
• Education, career programs funding, impact of union agreements 68
• Education, computer skills 1481
• Education, corporate sponsorship in the classroom 1475
• Education, course materials 1552
• Education curriculum, career education, funding 1541
• Education curriculum, change 1480
• Education curriculum, health and nutrition 1481-2
• Education curriculum, introduction of new material 1477
• Education curriculum, needs of part-time and mature students 1482
• Education curriculum, physical education 1481-2
• Education curriculum, women's issues 1546
• Education, days of instruction, comparisons with elsewhere 1549 , 1552-3
• Education, distance education, enrolment 1486
• Education, district-specific funding 1432-3
• Education, employment-based education 1597
• Education, encouragement to stay in school 1550
• Education, encouragement to stay in school, Stay in School program 1556
• Education, equity grants to schools 1485
• Education, essential service designation 1441 , 1643-4
• Education, evaluation of results 1480
• Education, examination marking, teachers marking grade 12 provincial exams 1483-4
• Education, examination marking, teachers marking grade 12 provincial exams, remuneration 65 , 68
• Education, formula funding and non-formula funding 1559
• Education, French immersion, funding 1642
• Education, French instruction, enrolments 1555
• Education, French school board 1555
• Education, funding based on school enrolments 1433-4 , 1439
• Education funding, carrying forward of school district budget surpluses 1433 , 1439
• Education funding, determination of poor areas 1557
• Education funding, English-as-a-second-language program 1472-3 , 1485
• Education, funding for technology 1451
• Education, funding for technology, gender equity issue 1487
• Education funding formula 72
• Education funding formula, adequacy for high-growth districts 1433
• Education funding formula, review 1600
• Education, funding in rural districts 1439
• Education funding, learning-disabled students, assessment 1557
• Education funding, stepping formula 1438
• Education funding, targeted funding 1432-3
• Education, fundraising by post-secondary schools 1519
• Education, governance, New Brunswick model 1517-8
• Education, home schooling program 1486
• Education, independent schools, funding 1446 , 1554
• Education, independent schools, number and enrolment 1554
• Education, independent schools, staff under Labour Code 1446
• Education, mature students, grants 1597
• Education, non-instructional days 1549
• Education, non-instructional days and community interaction days 1445-6
• Education, parent advisory councils, meetings with ministry 1547
• Education, per-pupil funding, K-to-12 1432
• Education, post-secondary education, accessibility 1431
• Education, post-secondary education, funding 1901
• Education, post-secondary education funding, shortfall 1558-9
• Education, post-secondary education, grants and bursaries 1596
• Education, post-secondary education, links to vocational programs on Indian reserves 1600
• Education, post-secondary tuition fees, freeze 1558-9 , 1597
• Education, Programme Cadre, federal funding 1554-5
• Education, report cards 1451
• Education, school technology plans 1479
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, administrative support to Labour ministry 1713
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, advertising and publications, budget 1544
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, advertising expenses 1444
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, asset acquisitions, increase 1544
• Education, Skills and Training ministry budget, covering of shortfall 1518-9
• Education, Skills and Training ministry budget, current ministry status 1554
• Education, Skills and Training ministry budget, impact of federal off-loading of costs 1443-4
• Education, Skills and Training ministry budget, savings from freeze on capital projects 1442
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, building occupancy charges 1445
• Education, Skills and Training ministry combined with Labour ministry, impact on funding requirement 91
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, debt-servicing contributions 1442
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, deputy and assistant deputy ministers 1483
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 1430-51 , 1471-93 , 1515-26 , 1538-59 , 1596-609 , 1641-2
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, facilities review 1546
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, gender equity funding 1545
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, goals, measurement 1479-80 , 1642
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, grants and contributions 1543-4
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, learning resources branch, evaluation of course materials and technology 1552
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, office operations, budget 1441-2
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, relationship with teachers 1516
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, sinking fund payment 1444
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, skills and training functions, connections with Labour ministry 1523
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, skills and training functions, organization 1523-4
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, special programs, budget 1485
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, staff increase and transfers 1441-2
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, standard objects of expenditure 1445
• Education, special education, accountability and students moving to another district 1548
• Education, special education, enrolment 1485
• Education, special education funding 1438
• Education, special education funding, special purpose grants 1553
• Education, special needs funding for over-18-year-olds 1548
• Education, special needs funding, impact of school district amalgamation 1438
• Education, special needs funding, overexpenditures 1472
• Education, special needs students, job training 1548
• Education standards, establishment of national standards, B.C.'s role 1474
• Education, storefront schools, funding 1553
• Education system, Liberal Party position 1436
• Education, testing 1483
• Education, transferability of curriculum among provinces 1474
• Education, year-round schooling 1487-8
• Education-private sector partnerships, commercially produced materials in classrooms 1487
• Education-private sector partnerships, labour sector's position 1540
• Education-private sector partnerships, pilot project in Burnaby 1475
• Employment, compressed workweeks 1709
• Employment Standards Act, administration of act 1708
• Employment Standards Act, exemptions under act 1709
• Employment Standards Act, public input to bill 1710
• Employment Standards Act, purpose 1706
• Employment Standards Act, review 1646
• Employment Standards Act, review, minister's meeting with sectoral groups 1708
• Employment Standards Act, training programs, criteria 1706
• English-as-a-second-language program, student-teacher ratio 1485
• Environmental protection standards 278
• Esquimalt-Metchosin constituency, employability programs 819
• Fair Wage Act, purposes, monitoring 1711-2
• Fair-wage policy 1447-8 , 1711-2
• Federal off-loading of costs onto provinces 1443-4
• Firefighters, arbitration in Vernon case, status of Allan Hope's decision 1704
• Fisheries, Fraser River salmon resource, protection 277-8
• Fisheries, salmon fishery, protection 277-8
• Forest Renewal B.C., investment in stream restoration 278
• Government spending, capital funding projects, review, list 64
• Government spending, capital projects, list of "wasteful" projects 1477
• Government spending, capital spending freeze and review 276-7
• Guaranteed Available Income for Need program benefits, three-month residency requirement 735
• Hopkins, Peter, appointment as internal ombudsman for Workers Compensation Board 1652
• Independent Contractors and Businesses Association, comments on fair-wage policy 1447-8
• Indians, education funding 1432
• Infrastructure investment 277
• Investment in B.C. 277
• Jericho Hill School for the Deaf, ministerial responsibility 1485
• Job creation 277
• Job Fair, funding 72 , 1540
• Labour Force Development Board, budget 1713
• Labour ministry, estimates debate 1642-53 , 1671-88 , 1703-4 , 1706-14
• Labour policy and program development branch, functions 1712
• Labour Relations Board, "Certifications Granted by Size of Bargaining Unit" document 1651
• Labour Relations Board, communication with government 1703
• Labour Relations Board, number of certifications 1647
• Labour Relations Board, performance 1642
• Labour Relations Code, impact and review of code 1704
• Labour Relations Code, review 1643 , 1646
• Labour relations division, responsibilities 1703-4
• Labour relations, essential service designations 1703
• Labour relations legislation, revision 1440
• Labour relations, NDP government performance 1642-3
• Labour services branch, mandate 1704
• Langara College, student spaces 1597
• Liberal Party of Canada actions, impact on Canada's reputation 1443
• Liberal Party, position on provincial debt 1522 , 1545
• Magee Secondary School, capital project freeze 1544
• Malaspina College board, representation of Powell River area 1599
• Malaspina College, Powell River campus, funding for skills training 1599
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 1996 , amalgamating school district, definition 1046
• Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 1996 , debate 1045-7
• More Doors to College program, child care funding 1525
• Municipal Act amendments, purpose 1046
• Municipalities, role in school district elections 1045-6
• NDP government, commitments 278-9
• Okanagan University College, campuses and funding 1598
• Okanagan University College, Cathedral Lakes Lodge purchase 1598-9
• Pacific Marine Training Institute, status 1601
• Provincial Apprenticeship and Training Board, members 1713
• Quoted re NDP government actions (Neufeld) 208-9
• Royal Roads University, cost per student 1606
• Royal Roads University, federal-provincial funding 1606
• Royal Roads University, five-year agreement, budget 72
• Royal Roads University, mandate 1605-6
• School Act, review of act 1549
• School boards, application to have deficits approved, letters from ministry 1708
• School boards, meetings with Education minister 1520
• School boards, self-allocation of funding 69
• School computers, central purchasing 1557
• School construction and fair-wage policy 1554
• School district 26 (North Thompson), elimination 1047
• School district 36 (Surrey), funding 1538-9
• School district 36 (Surrey), student spaces 1448
• School district 38 (Richmond), funding alternatives 1477
• School district 40 (New Westminster), amalgamation question 1493
• School district 44 (North Vancouver), budget deficit 1446-7
• School district 44 (North Vancouver), meeting of Hon. Moe Sihota with local MLAs 1515 , 1523
• School district 55 (Burns Lake), impact of school district amalgamation 1491-2
• School district 61 (Greater Victoria), board members, education experience 1516
• School district amalgamation 1476 , 1492
• School district amalgamation, appeal of decisions 1488-90
• School district amalgamation, cancellations 1488
• School district amalgamation, consultation process 1046-7
• School district amalgamation, cost savings 70
• School district amalgamation, estimated ancillary costs 1492
• School district amalgamation, funding for special education 67
• School district amalgamation, funding reductions shared among all districts 1491
• School district amalgamation, impact on budgets 1446
• School district amalgamation, impact on instruction 1491 , 1492
• School district amalgamation, Liberal Party position 66
• School district amalgamation, severance payments 64-5 , 67
• School district amalgamation, transition funding 64
• School district amalgamation, transitional issues 1045-7
• School districts 21 (Armstrong-Spallumcheen) and 89 (Shuswap), amalgamation 66
• School districts, administration costs, review by Education ministry 1471
• School districts, amalgamated districts, administrative staff, early retirement incentive 1491
• School districts, amalgamated districts, board space allocation to Indians 1490
• School districts, amalgamated districts, funding 1490
• School districts, amalgamated districts, merging of labour contracts, cost implication 1490-1
• School districts, amalgamated districts, positions for displaced staff 1491
• School districts, audits of accounts 1475
• School districts, budget deficits, elimination 1446
• School districts, collective agreements, funding 65
• School districts, contract negotiations, imposition of mediator's recommendation 1472
• School districts, salaries and benefits 1487
• School districts, stock plans 1451
• School meals program 1485
• School portables, funding 1449
• School trustees elected at large and by ward 1490
• Schools, accreditation 1450
• Schools, capital funding projects, impact of funding freeze 1449
• Schools, capital projects, choice of designs 1546
• Schools, community use 1448 , 1553
• Schools, fine arts school construction, air quality concern 70
• Skillen, Barbara, letter re impact of school district amalgamation 1491
• Skills Now program, end of program 68
• Skills Now program, end of program, replacement 1524-5
• Skills training centres 1525 , 1538
• Skills training, employment training programs 1525
• Skills training for new immigrants 1540-1
• Skills training, ministerial responsibility 1542
• Skills training programs, cohesion among programs 810
• Skills training, stand-alone trade and technology schools 1542
• Small business, performance 1709
• Social services legislation, Offence Act application to acts 853
• Social Services ministry, responsibilities, changes 956
• Social welfare system, changes by NDP government 735-6
• Student loan program 1607-8
• Student Summer Works program, job creation 748
• Students, job expectations 1523
• Students, number 1486
• Students, number with English as their second language 1485
• Students, time taken to graduation 1481
• Supply Act (No. 1), 1996 , debate 64-73 , 91
• Tatchell, Mark, position as government liaison for Skills Development and Fair Wage Act 1711
• Teachers, code of ethics 1486
• Teachers, collective agreement, cost 69 , 71
• Teachers, collective agreement, funding for increase 1436
• Teachers, collective agreement, public notification 1556
• Teachers, collective bargaining, class size issue 1445
• Teachers, collective bargaining, days of instruction 1549
• Teachers, collective bargaining, learning and working conditions 1437
• Teachers, collective bargaining, prevention of job action 1440
• Teachers, collective bargaining, role of local unions 1440
• Teachers, collective bargaining, seniority issue 1436-7
• Teachers, dismissal 1486-7
• Teachers, flexible scheduling 1487-8
• Teachers, number and age 1486
• Teachers, two-year agreement 1435-6 , 1439
• Trade unions, number of unionized workers in B.C. 1642-3
• Universities, colleges and institutes, business community input re job availability 1597
• Universities, colleges and institutes, co-op programs 1600-1
• Universities, colleges and institutes, efficiency of operation 1597
• Universities, colleges and institutes, number of campuses 1597-8
• Universities, colleges and institutes, private sector funding 1559
• Universities, colleges and institutes, private sector funding and matching-grant program, Education ministry's role 1607
• Universities, colleges and institutes, student spaces 1559 , 1597
• Universities, graduate programs, student spaces 1601
• University College of the Fraser Valley, Chilliwack campus, phase 3 funding 1609
• University colleges 1599
• University of B.C., private sector funding 1607
• Venture Training program, impact of Employment Standards Act 1706-8
• Violence on television 1474
• Wages, minimum wage increase, impact 1647
• Walsh, John, role at Royal Roads University 1606-7
• Welfare to Work program, funding 1444
• West Coast Express, amortization period for capital costs 1685
• West Coast Express, budget 1683
• West Coast Express, capital costs, infrastructure usage fees paid to CP Rail 1686
• West Coast Express, cost compared to other forms of transit 1686
• West Coast Express, cost of land acquisition and station construction 1687
• West Coast Express, debt-servicing costs 1685
• West Coast Express, operating budget 1688
• West Coast Express, ridership 1683-4
• Workers Compensation Board, 1995 annual report and statistics tabled 531
• Workers Compensation Board adjudicators, qualifications and selection 1677-8
• Workers Compensation Board, administration costs 1679
• Workers Compensation Board, appeals process 1653
• Workers Compensation Board, back pain claims, handling 1672-3
• Workers Compensation Board, budget 1671
• Workers Compensation Board, client complaints 1648 , 1653
• Workers Compensation Board, communication with public 1653
• Workers Compensation Board, customer surveys 1681-2
• Workers Compensation Board, death of workers, handling 1676-7
• Workers Compensation Board, determination of disability 1673-4
• Workers Compensation Board, electronic file process 1679
• Workers Compensation Board, ergonomic regulations 1680
• Workers Compensation Board, financial statement, cash payouts 1682
• Workers Compensation Board, health and safety regulations process, public input 1679-80
• Workers Compensation Board, internal ombudsman 1652
• Workers Compensation Board, job search and retraining 1672
• Workers Compensation Board, medical review panel, appointment of members 1675-6
• Workers Compensation Board, ongoing review 1672 , 1679
• Workers Compensation Board, pre-royal commission panel, term of office 1678-9
• Workers Compensation Board, previous changes by NDP government 1649
• Workers Compensation Board, recent appointments 1651
• Workers Compensation Board, recommendations for board's improvement, implementation 1649
• Workers Compensation Board, request for auditor general to conduct performance audit 1651
• Workers Compensation Board, royal commission, appointments to commission 1648-50
• Workers Compensation Board, royal commission, establishment 1643
• Workers Compensation Board, royal commission recommendations, implementation 1672
• Workers Compensation Board, service level at different offices 1679
• Workers Compensation Board, service quality 1680-1
• Workers Compensation Board, small business project, status 1682
• Workers Compensation Board staff, length of terms 1651
• Workers Compensation Board, staff performance, measurement 1681-2
• Workers' compensation claims, time until receipt of first payment 1679
• Workers' compensation, criminal injuries, qualification for compensation 1652
• Workers' compensation, disability awards and employability 1671
• Workers' compensation, long-term disability cases 1681
• Workers' compensation, stress-related injuries, compensability 1680
• Workers, death rate 1676
• Youth employment programs, job creation 748
• Youth, skills training 735-6
• Youth, welfare eligibility and mandatory training programs 432 , 736 , 747
• Youth Works program 737
• Youth Works program, allowances and benefits 822-3
• Youth Works program, appeals 817 , 829-30
• Youth Works program, certification of completion 811
• Youth Works program, community training programs, funding 814-5
• Youth Works program, consequences of not disposing of assets 828-9
• Youth Works program, consequences of not participating 823-4 , 827-8
• Youth Works program, counselling services 819
• Youth Works program, designation of minister's powers and duties 830
• Youth Works program, disposal of assets, allowable retention limit 829
• Youth Works program, effectiveness 827 , 855-6
• Youth Works program, eligibility and dependents 811-2
• Youth Works program, employability programs 815-8
• Youth Works program, employability programs and grants 813-4
• Youth Works program, flexibility 808 , 811
• Youth Works program, individuality issue 808-9
• Youth Works program, information from applicant 829
• Youth Works program, information-sharing agreements, protection of privacy 851-2
• Youth Works program, information-sharing agreements with Indian communities 851-2
• Youth Works program, information-sharing agreements with other jurisdictions 830-1 , 851
• Youth Works program, initial screening process 821
• Youth Works program, measurement of success 737
• Youth Works program, outside earnings, allowable retention limit 853
• Youth Works program, passive resistance and enforceability 809
• Youth Works program, process 821-2
• Youth Works program, repayment agreements 830
• Youth Works program, seven-month independent job search period 737 , 819-21
• Youth Works program, staff 1441
• Youth Works program, training opportunities 810
• Youth Works program, training programs, matching skills with needs 736-7
• Youth Works program, training programs, transportation and clothing allowances 813
• Youth Works program, training spaces 736 , 811
• Youth Works program, training spaces, number of resulting job placements 856
Silvacom (North America) Industries Inc.
• Forest Renewal B.C., application (de Jong) 1389 (Zirnhelt) 1389
Simon Fraser University
• Taxes and grants (Gingell) 519
Sing Tao school of journalism
• School (Hawkins) 1010 (Kwan) 1009-11
Skagit endowment fund
• Payment to B.C. Parks (Ramsey) 888
Skeena constituency
• Issues and concerns (Giesbrecht) 212-3
Skeena River
• Fish resource, allocation (Evans) 603 (van Dongen) 603
Skeena Watershed Committee
• Work of committee (Ramsey) 833
Skillen, Barbara
• Letter to Hon. Moe Sihota on impact of school district amalgamation (Sanders) 1491-2 (Sihota) 1491
Skills Development and Fair Wage Act
• Changes (Dalton) 1710
• Purposes, monitoring (Dalton) 1711 (Sihota) 1711-2
Skills Now program
• End of program (Masi) 68 (Sihota) 68
• End of program, replacement (Masi) 1524-5 (Sihota) 1524-5
• Program (Lali) 142
Skills training See also Apprentices
• Community skills centres (Sihota) 1538
• Employment training programs (Sihota) 1525
• Funding (Masi) 1525
• Government role (Wilson, G.) 743-4
• Ministerial responsibility (Masi) 1542 (Sihota) 1542
• Need (Stephens) 391
• Programs
  • cost (Wilson, G.) 826
  • interministry funding (Sanders) 709 (Streifel) 709
• Skills training centres (Masi) 1525 (Sihota) 1525
• Stand-alone trade and technology schools (Masi) 1542 (Sihota) 1542
• Technical programs in B.C. schools (Masi) 153-4
• Training programs
  • cohesion among programs (Hansen) 810 (Sihota) 810
  • training for new immigrants (Masi) 1540-1 (Sihota) 1540-1
• VIATEC program (Miller) 1815
• Youth Works program See name of program
SkyTrain
• Costs per ride and per service-hour (Miller) 1868
• Fare evasion (Miller) 1869 (Symons) 1868-9
Sludge dumping See Pulp and paper industry
Small business See Business
Small business forest enterprise program
• Cutting permits, backlog (Hurd) 87 (Zirnhelt) 87
Small Business, Tourism and Culture, Ministry of
• Estimates, debate 1808-30 , 1852-74 , 1951-3
• Estimates, speakers (Barisoff) 1859 (Chong) 1808-20 , 1822 , 1862-7 , 1952 (Farrell-Collins) 1829 (Gingell) 1815 (Miller) 1809-30 , 1852-74 , 1952-3 (Neufeld) 1814 , 1821 , 1856-9 , 1861 , 1865 , 1951-2 (Reitsma) 1820 , 1825-30 , 1852-6 (Stephens) 1822-5 (Symons) 1867-74 (Thorpe) 1820-2 (van Dongen) 1860-2
• Administration and support services, cost savings and recoveries (Chong) 1810-1 (Miller) 1810-1
• Annual report, 1994-95 , tabled (Miller) 531
• Budget, monitoring (Chong) 1867 (Miller) 1867
• Community and regional development program, budget and operations (Chong) 1811-2 (Miller) 1811-2 , 1822 (Thorpe) 1822
• Role in interministry committee on fishing allocation issues (Miller) 1861 (van Dongen) 1861
• Small business division, role (Chong) 1812 (Miller) 1812
• Special warrant debate 79-82
• Staff reductions (Chong) 80 (Miller) 80
• Tourism division
  • budget (Miller) 1828-9 , 1853 (Reitsma) 1828-9 , 1853
  • special operating agency (Chong) 1809 (Miller) 1828-30 , 1852 (Reitsma) 1828-30 , 1852
Smallwood, Joan K. (Surrey-Whalley)
• Budget debate 150-2
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 1434
• Government accounting methods, inclusion of public assets 152
• Government services, access 151
• Liberal Party governments in Canada, achievements 151
• NDP government, goals of second-term administration 151-2
• Quoted re children in care of Social Services ministry (Anderson) 611
• School district 36 (Surrey), funding formula 1434
• Seniors' housing 191
• Social programs, future 151-2
• Volunteerism, service clubs 1761-2
Smith, Bob
• Report on school district 44 (North Vancouver) (Dalton) 1516-7
Smith, Brian R.D.
• Appointment as chair of B.C. Hydro and investigator of Pakistan power project, potential for conflict of interest (Campbell) 1907-9 (Clark, G.) 1908-9 , 1911 (de Jong) 1536 (Gingell) 1317-9 (Miller) 1318-9 , 1537
• Appointment as chair of B.C. Hydro and investigator of Pakistan power project, public expectations (Campbell) 1565
• Appointment as investigator of B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project (Campbell) 1428-9 (Clark, G.) 1347 , 1428-30 (de Jong) 1347 (Farrell-Collins) 1429 (Miller) 1346-7 , 1535-6
• B.C. Hydro, buyback of Pakistan power project shares 1461-3
• B.C. Hydro, role in Pakistan power project 1461
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, board changes, prohibition during share offering 1464
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, briefing notes, availability 1567
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, Cayman Islands location for company 1566-7
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, financial and accounting information 1509
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, information on project, availability 1502-3
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, review team inquiry into events 1494-5
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, review team inquiry into events, testimony of witnesses 1565-6
• B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project shareholders, identity of SEPCOL directors who own shares 1502
• Communications with World Bank re future of B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project 1461 (Farrell-Collins) 1458-61 (Miller) 1458-61
• Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 1461-5 , 1493-4 , 1497 , 1501-3 , 1509 , 1564-7 , 1573
• Handling of investigation into B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, concerns re capability (Campbell) 1407-10 (Farrell-Collins) 1407-14 (Miller) 1407-13
• Investigation into B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, release of information (Farrell-Collins) 1467
• Law Society of B.C., action against John Laxton for activities while member 1564
• Laxton, John, involvement in B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project 1461 , 1503
• Laxton, John, involvement in B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project, professional conduct issue 1564
• Mahmood, Ali, role in B.C. Hydro - Pakistan power project 1502
• Mahmood, Ali, shares received re B.C. Hydro - Pakistan power project 1463-4
• Mahmood, Ali, support for John Laxton's continued involvement in B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project 1465-6
• McClellan Rubenstein and Parolin, role of firm in resignation of John Sheehan 1493-4
• Pathfinder Enterprises Ltd., role in B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project 1463-4
• Position as chair of B.C. Hydro, salary (Campbell) 1911 (Clark, G.) 1911
• Position on board of ATS Canada (Boone) 1536 (Clark, G.) 1536 (de Jong) 1536-7 (Miller) 1537
• Ridley, Stanley, role in B.C. Hydro - Pakistan power project 1502-3
• Role in John Laxton's continuation on SEPCOL board (Farrell-Collins) 1370-2 (Miller) 1370-2
• Sheehan, John, resignation from all corporate positions 1493-4
• World Bank, role in B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project 1461
Smoking See Tobacco
Social Credit Party
• Fishery policies (Zirnhelt) 896
• Government expenditures and tax increases, 1990-92 figures (Petter) 444
• Government fiscal policies, Hon. Glen Clark's comments when in opposition (Gingell) 98
Social housing See Housing
Social service tax See Sales tax
Social Service Tax Act
• Amendments (Petter) 15 , 435
Social Services, Ministry of
• Estimates, debate 395-415 , 471-92 , 612-20 , 633-51 , 707-17 , 730-5
• Estimates, speakers (Abbott) 637-8 , 640 (Anderson) 399-400 , 403 , 405 , 412-5 , 477 , 487-8 , 490 , 634-7 , 730 , 733-4 (Chong) 715-6 (Coell) 397-9 , 408-10 , 413-4 , 476-9 , 488-91 , 612 , 638-40 , 643-5 , 712 , 730 , 734-5 (Coleman) 483-7 , 491-2 , 645-8 (de Jong) 401-5 , 410-2 , 731-3 (Farrell-Collins) 472-3 (Gingell) 734 (Hawkins) 709-12 (Hurd) 481-3 (Krueger) 619-20 , 633-4 (MacPhail) 633-6 , 733-4 (McKinnon) 471-2 , 612 , 615-9 , 731 (Neufeld) 475-6 , 478-9 , 648-51 , 707-8 (Reid) 641-2 (Sanders) 479-81 , 617-8 , 709 , 731 (Stephens) 405-8 , 712-5 (Streifel) 395-415 , 471-92 , 612-20 , 636-51 , 707-17 , 730-4 (Symons) 489 , 642-3 (Weisbeck) 708-9 (Whittred) 486-7 (Wilson, G.) 473-4
• Accountability (Stephens) 715 (Streifel) 614-6 , 715
• Annual report, 1993-94 , tabled (Streifel) 531
• Audit and review division (MacPhail) 635 (Streifel) 615 , 715
• Audit process (Anderson) 635
• Budget
  • breakdown (Coell) 397 (Coleman) 645-8
  • breakdown for child and family services (Anderson) 490 (Streifel) 490
  • communications budget (Coell) 490-1 (Streifel) 490-1
  • monitoring (Coell) 486 (Streifel) 486
  • savings, use (Coell) 479 (Streifel) 479
• Building leased by ministry in Quesnel (Miller) 1637-8 (Wilson, J.) 1637-8
• Case management (Stephens) 714 (Streifel) 615 , 714-5
• Children in care See Children
• Financial assistance workers (Coell) 398 (Streifel) 398
• Initiatives (Streifel) 396
• Letter to welfare recipients re family bonus (Anderson) 325-6 , 333-4 (Farrell-Collins) 333 (Neufeld) 333 (Petter) 323 , 329 , 333-4
• Management exclusions (Coell) 398 (Streifel) 398
• Minister's knowledge of issues (Farrell-Collins) 1306
• Prevention, compliance and enforcement division (Coell) 409-10 (Streifel) 409-10 , 483 , 649-50
• Program transfers (Anderson) 1980-1 (MacPhail) 1980-1
• Report on administrative error and fraud, recommendations, implementation (Coell) 92 (Neufeld) 648-50 (Streifel) 92
• Responsibilities, changes (Coell) 937 (Sihota) 956
• Service providers, "unregulated" staff (Anderson) 636
• Special warrant debate 91-3
• Staff
  • staff changes, continuity (Sanders) 479-80 (Streifel) 479-80
  • staff suggestions (Stephens) 712-3 (Streifel) 713
  • staffing (Coell) 409-10 , 490 (Neufeld) 651 , 707 (Streifel) 409-10 , 490 , 651 , 707
• Whistle-blower protection for staff (Stephens) 713 (Streifel) 713
Social welfare system See also particular programs, e.g., B.C. Benefits program
• Advocates between benefit recipients and aid workers (Anderson) 973 (Streifel) 973
• Assistance for 19- to 24-year-olds See BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act
• Benefits for single parents, disincentive to work (Streifel) 867
• Caseloads and funding (Anderson) 93 (Streifel) 93
• Caseloads, reduction (Petter) 12
• Changes to system, impact on persons with disabilities (Streifel) 937
• Changes to system, legislation See BC Benefits (Appeals) Act; BC Benefits (Child Care) Act; BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act; BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act; Disability Benefits Program Act
• Community agencies initiative (Neufeld) 650 (Streifel) 650-1
• Community-based organizations, core funding (Streifel) 972 (Wilson, G.) 971-2
• Criminal activity by social assistance recipients (Penner) 1970
• Disability benefits program See name of program
• Examination by standing committee (de Jong) 405
• Financial aid workers, training (Anderson) 972-3 (Streifel) 972-3
• Fraud (Wilson, G.) 868
• Fraud and abuse prevention (Streifel) 866-7
• Funding, national standard (Anderson) 403 (de Jong) 403-4 (Streifel) 402-3
• Identification card, link with driver's licence (Neufeld) 650 (Streifel) 650
• Income assistance, cause for need (Krueger) 633-4
• Interministry work (Anderson) 961 (Streifel) 961
• Issues (Anderson) 349-50
• Legislation
  • nature of wording (Anderson) 972
  • Offence Act application to acts (Sihota) 853 (Wilson, G.) 853
• Liberal Party position (Clark, G.) 1972-3 (Penner) 1972
• Meeting for social services ministers (de Jong) 404 (Streifel) 403
• Ministerial responsibility (Anderson) 962
• Need for assistance, elimination (Wilson, G.) 869-71
• NDP government action (Clark, G.) 825 (Sihota) 735-6
• Offices, nature (Anderson) 973-4 (Streifel) 973-4
• Ontario's workfare legislation cited (Wilson, G.) 825-6
• Role of government (Wilson, G.) 868-71
• Social programs, future (Hansen) 111-2 (Smallwood) 151-2
• Social safety net, changes (Anderson) 325-6 (Coell) 325 (Penner) 1971 (Petter) 322-3 , 329 (Sanders) 326-7 (Stephens) 325 (Weisgerber) 327-8 (Wilson, G.) 328-9
• System in Canada (Clark, G.) 1970
• Young people on social assistance, handling (Wilson, G.) 868-9
Social workers
• Access to GAIN information (Anderson) 634 (MacPhail) 635 (McKinnon) 615-6 (Streifel) 615-6
• Access to UN convention on the rights of the child (Anderson) 634 (MacPhail) 634
• Bachelor's degree requirement (Sanders) 617 (Streifel) 617
• College, establishment (Streifel) 618
• Computerized information system (McKinnon) 615 (Streifel) 614-5
• Professional body (Anderson) 635 (MacPhail) 635 (McKinnon) 618
• Salaries (McKinnon) 619
• Task force on standard requirements (MacPhail) 636
• Training (Anderson) 634 (MacPhail) 634 (McKinnon) 619 (Sanders) 618 (Streifel) 614 , 618-9
• Workload (McKinnon) 613
Societies
• Non-profit agencies as health care service providers (Coleman) 1631-2 (Miller) 1631-2 (Truss) 1632
• Non-profit societies, management of B.C. Housing units (Coleman) 1747-52 (Miller) 1747-52
Society
• Social well-being (Wilson, G.) 110-1
Somerville v. Canada
• Canada Elections Act and third-party spending limits (Plant) 339-41
Sookinchute Utility Corporation
• Use of water, fire protection concerns (Wilson, G.) 531
South Fraser perimeter road See Highways and roads
Southern Okanagan school district See School district 14
Speaker and Deputy Speaker
• Auditor general reports tabled See Auditor general
• Brewin, Gretchen, appointment as Deputy Speaker 7
• B.C. Legislative Library, 1995 annual report tabled 239
• Chief electoral officer, report on statement of votes of May 28 , 1996 , general election tabled 2083
• Child, youth and family advocate, 1995 annual report tabled 239
• Conflict-of-interest commissioner, acting commissioner's report on alleged conflict of Hon. Moe Sihota tabled 2083
• Information and privacy commissioner, 1995-96 annual report tabled 239
• Lovick, Dale, election as Speaker 1 (Campbell) 1 (Clark, G.) 1 (Weisgerber) 1-2 (Wilson, G.) 2
Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Rulings and statements
• Bills
  • advancement more than one stage in one day 2081
  • closing of estimates and final supply bill 2081
  • procedure for supply bills 2081
• Bills, second reading
  • keeping to principle of bill 933
• Language
  • "con" 194
  • inappropriate language 433
  • parliamentary language 315
  • unparliamentary language 317
  • unparliamentary language, documents containing unparliamentary language may be tabled but not read into record 374
• Members
  • behaviour 203
  • cannot do indirectly what they cannot do directly 374
  • should address remarks through Chair 932
• Privilege
  • application fails to meet necessary conditions 378-9
  • motions 339
Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act
• Amendments (Petter) 15 , 435-6
Special Committee of Selection
• First report tabled (MacPhail) and adopted 185
Special Committee on the Response to the Gove Report
• Meeting of committee (Clark, G.) 2001-2 (Reid) 2001-2
Special Committee to Monitor Transition Commissioner on Gove Inquiry Recommendations
• Appointment (MacPhail) 1994
Special Committee to Select a Conflict-of-interest Commissioner
• Mandate (Clark, G.) 1883 (Weisgerber) 1882-3
Special warrants See also Supply Act (No. 1), 1996

• Abolition See also Financial Administration Amendment Act, 1996
  • (Campbell) 1883 (Weisgerber) 631 , 1881
• Use of special warrants
  • use (Campbell) 1883-4 (Clark, G.) 1884-5 (Farrell-Collins) 86 (Gingell) 27-8 (Petter) 28
  • use by Social Credit Party administrations, NDP comments (Gingell) 27
Speech from the Throne 3-6
• Moved (Conroy) 17-8 ; seconded (Gillespie) 18-9 ; amdt. (Anderson) 351 , negatived 351 ; approved 392
• Divisions: amdt. negatived 351 ; motion approved 392
• Throne speech debate (Address in Reply)
  • Debate 23-7 , 192-7 , 287-98 , 302-22 , 346-51 , 357-77 , 381-92
  • Speakers (Abbott) 293-5 (Anderson) 348-51 (Boone) 290-2 (Bowbrick) 364-6 (Campbell) 23-7 (Cashore) 310-2 (Chong) 357-9 (Clark, C.) 193-5 (Coell) 302-4 (Conroy) 17-8 (Dalton) 307-10 (de Jong) 316-9 (Farnworth) 287-90 (Giesbrecht) 361-4 (Gillespie) 18-9 (Gingell) 359-61 (Hartley) 386-7 (Hawkins) 387-8 (Hurd) 373-7 (Jarvis) 292-3 (Kasper) 295-8 (Krueger) 377 , 381-3 (Kwan) 346-8 (Lali) 312-5 (Neufeld) 366-70 (Orcherton) 383-6 (Reid) 370-3 (Sawicki) 195-7 (Stephens) 390-1 (Symons) 192-3 (van Dongen) 388-90 (Weisgerber) 319-22 (Wilson, G.) 304-7
• Content (Anderson) 349 (Bowbrick) 365 (Chong) 358 (Giesbrecht) 363-4 (Hartley) 387 (Kwan) 347-8 (Neufeld) 369 (Stephens) 390 (Weisgerber) 319-22
Speed radar cameras See Automobiles
Sport fishing See Fisheries
Sport Fishing Institute
• Letter quoted re moratorium on sport fishing in Rivers Inlet and Hakai Pass area (van Dongen) 980
Sports
• B.C. games family (Gillespie) 1005
• Community sports, value (Gillespie) 1005
• Regional sports delivery program (McGregor) 342
Squamish, B.C.
• Shopping mall development, project financing (Miller) 1662-3 (Nebbeling) 1662-3
Squamish nation
• Land claim, impact on B.C. Rail Ltd. (Miller) 1688-9 (Wilson, G.) 1688-9
Stalking See Crime and criminals
Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
• Standing order 9 , Mr. Speaker's duties
  • order and decorum will be maintained (Speaker) 203
• Standing order 35 , adjournment to discuss matter of urgent public importance
  • review of deaths of children in care or known to Social Services ministry, moved (Campbell) 1003 ; debate (MacPhail) 1003-4 ; ruling 1017
• Standing order 40 , language allowed in House
  • members reminded of need for order and decorum (Speaker) 203
• Standing order 81 , bill advanced through more than one stage in a day
  • final supply act to be advanced in one day (Speaker) 2081
  • urgency of interim supply bill (Petter) 19 ; ruling 20
Stanley Park See Vancouver, B.C.
Stephens, Mary Lynn (Langley)
• AIDS/HIV education and prevention programs for women 1938
• Air quality in Fraser Valley, improvement initiatives 890
• Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 498-504
• Attorney General ministry, sexual assault policy 501
• Automobiles, impounded and abandoned vehicles, costs 1065-6
• Automobiles, impoundment of vehicles for driving offences 1065
• BC Benefits (Child Care) Act, child care setting, definition 857
• BC Benefits (Child Care) Act, debate 784-5 , 857-66
• BC Benefits (Child Care) Act, offences under act, time restrictions 866
• BC Benefits (Child Care) Act, parent, definition 858
• BC Benefits (Child Care) Act, regulations 857-8 , 864
• B.C. Benefits, family bonus program 325
• B.C. Ground Water Association, concerns 760-1
• Budget, 1995-96 budget, deficit 206-7
• Budget debate 206-7 , 279-82
• Business, small business tax rate 207
• Child and Family Review Board 713
• Child and Family Review Board, reporting 715
• Child apprehensions, policy 407
• Child care, education system's role 1547
• Child care, federal-provincial strategic initiative 565 , 567 , 589-90 , 1011
• Child care funding 36
• Child care, funding for non-profit organizations 590
• Child care, grants and subsidies 857 , 863
• Child care, infant/toddler incentive 566
• Child care, national child care program 565
• Child care, regional delivery of services 566 , 590
• Child care, security at child care centres, person standing in for parent 858-9
• Child care services, one-stop access 565 , 590
• Child care services, role in economy 784-5
• Child care spaces 591 , 1011
• Child care spaces for infants and toddlers 566
• Child care, special needs children 591-2 , 860-1
• Child care subsidy program 591
• Child care subsidy program, eligibility 860
• Child care subsidy program, information-sharing agreements, privacy issues 864-5
• Child care subsidy program, overpayments, repayments and assignments 864
• Child care subsidy program, verification of child care providers' information 863-4
• Child care support program 566
• Child care workers, wage supplement 566-7
• Child custody and access, link with maintenance obligations 499-500
• Child prostitution 596
• Child protection, prevention of sexual exploitation 500
• Children, grandparents' custody rights 500
• Children, importance of early childhood care 1940
• Children in government care, federal funding 408
• Children in government care, monitoring of quality of care 407-8
• Corrections system, mandatory treatment programs for substance abusers 501-2
• Debt, control of debt and deficit 205-6
• Education, career counselling skills 1546
• Education, child care spaces 1547
• Education, curriculum, women's issues 1545-6
• Education funding 391
• Education, parent advisory councils, meetings with ministry 1547
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, decentralization 1547
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 1545-7
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, facilities review 1546
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, gender equity funding 1545
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 760-2 , 890-1
• Families, financial assistance for low-income families 325
• Family law, family justice centres 503-4
• Family maintenance enforcement program, interest charges on outstanding maintenance 499
• Family maintenance enforcement program, payment enforcement provisions 498-9
• Family maintenance enforcement program, payments and visitation rights 499-500
• Family violence among Indians 595
• Family violence, central registry of protection orders and peace bonds 502
• Family violence, federal legislation 592
• Family violence, procedures for handling of incidents 501-2
• Family violence, Saskatchewan legislation 592-4
• Family violence, social costs 1938-9
• Family violence, victim assistance 593-4
• Federal Business Development Bank, training programs for women 1823
• Fetal alcohol syndrome, access to information 713-4
• Forest industry, jobs 390-1
• Forest Renewal B.C. funds, use 390-1
• Government spending, capital spending freeze and review 206
• Groundwater management 761-2
• Groundwater quality in Fraser Valley 760
• Groundwater regulations 760
• GAIN recipients, under-19-year-olds living independently 405-7
• Health care costs and poverty 1938-9
• Health care, goals and priorities 1940
• Health care, information systems 1940
• Health care, patients, early discharge 391
• Health care, preventive programs for women and children 1939
• Health care, regionalization 391
• Health ministry, estimates debate 1936-40
• Health ministry, provincial health officer's report 1940
• Highway 1 , 88th Avenue and 200th Street interchange 1063-4
• Highways, Cottonwood corridor, status 1064
• Highways, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes, number of people in vehicles 1064
• Highways, roundabouts 1063-4
• Hospitals, equipment funding 1937
• Income Tax Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , debate 325
• Income Tax Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , Liberal Party support for bill 325
• Judges, sexual abuse sensitivity training 500-1
• Justice system, child witness preparation program 501
• Justice system, gender bias, elimination 503
• Justice system, sentencing in violence-against-women cases 502-3
• Langley Developmental Preschool, funding 860
• Langley Memorial Hospital, funding for projects 1936-7
• Langley railway crossings, safety concerns 1064-5
• Langley, transportation initiatives 1064
• Liberal Party governments, record on social initiatives 325
• Money's Mushrooms Ltd., Surrey facility, enforcement of Waste Management Act 890-1
• NDP government, fiscal policies, impact on poor 325
• NDP government, performance 390
• Poverty, support for the working poor 325
• Provincial Child Care Council, appointment and replacement of members 863
• Provincial Child Care Council, establishment and representation 862-3
• Provincial Child Care Council, members, appointment 784
• Revenue Canada, information access guidelines and family maintenance obligations 499
• Saskatchewan domestic violence policies 501
• Schools, capital projects, choice of designs 1546
• Schools, capital projects, lowest-bid policy 1546
• Schools, capital projects, project managers 1546-7
• Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts report, recommendations 207
• Seniors, continuing care in different types of facilities 1937-8
• Skills training, need 391
• Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates debate 1822-5
• Social safety net, changes 325
• Social Services ministry, accountability 715
• Social Services ministry, case management 714
• Social Services ministry, estimates debate 405-8 , 712-5
• Social Services ministry, staff suggestions 712-3
• Social Services ministry staff, whistle-blower protection 713
• Stalking 596
• Stopping the Violence program 1011
• Supply Act (No. 1), 1996 , debate 35-6
• Surrey, upgrading of 16th Avenue or 32nd Avenue 1064
• Teen mothers and youth in care, handling 714
• Teen mothers, income assistance 407
• Throne speech, content 390
• Throne speech debate 390-1
• Transition house workers, wage supplement 566-7
• Transition houses 594-5
• Transition houses, funding 36
• Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 1063-6
• Violence against women in relationships 501-3
• Violence against women, legislation 592-4 , 1011
• Violence against women, prevention 593
• Violence against women, remedies 501-3
• Violence against women, victim support services 595
• Violence, programs for assaultive men 595-6
• Violence, youth violence, prevention 596-7
• Water legislation, public input 760
• Well drillers, certification 761
• Well record system 761
• Women, economic equality 597 , 1011
• Women, economic opportunities and equality 503
• Women, education and training 597-8 , 1011
• Women, health care costs 1938-9
• Women in business 1822-5
• Women, needs of female lone-parent families 325
• Women, pay equity in private sector 597
• Women, services for seniors 596
• Women's Equality ministry, April 1996 expenditures 35-6
• Women's Equality ministry, estimates debate 564-7 , 589-98 , 1011
• Women's Equality ministry, mandate 35
• Women's Equality ministry, operations funding 36
• Women's Equality ministry, performance 1011
• Women's Equality ministry, program evaluation 565
• Women's Equality ministry, regional program coordinators 566
• Women's Equality ministry, travel and publications budgets 566
• Women's Equality ministry, work with other ministries 566 , 597
• Youth, sexual exploitation of young people 500
Sterile insect release program
• Program (Evans) 664
Stevenson, Tim (Vancouver-Burrard)
• AIDS conference in Vancouver 165
• AIDS strategy for B.C. 281
• Barnes, Emery, commended for work as MLA 279
• Budget, 1996-97 budget, goals 280-1
• Democracy, social democratic vision for B.C. 280-1
• Election campaign 1996 , homosexual candidates 279
• Environmental protection 281
• Housing, social housing 281
• Human rights, equality for homosexuals 281
• Liberal Party, policies 280-1
• Lions Gate Bridge, rehabilitation or replacement 281-2
• Medicare, protection 281
• MLAs, homosexual MLAs 279-80
• Residential Tenancy Act, purpose of act 280
• St. Paul's Hospital, AIDS research 165
• Seniors' concerns 280-1
• Sexual orientation as basis for discrimination 281
• Stanley Park, preservation 281
• Vancouver-Burrard constituency, issues and concerns 279-81
Steves, Harold
• Commended for work as MLA (Plant) 156
Steveston Secondary School, Richmond, B.C.
• Replacement (Reid) 119
Sto:lo nation
• Treaty negotiations process, status (Cashore) 1846-7 (Penner) 1846-7
Stopping the Violence program
• Program (Hammell) 595 (Stephens) 1011
Streifel, Hon. Dennis (Mission-Kent) Minister of Social Services
• Adoption Act, proclamation date 475
• Adoption Act, public notice of changes, national advertising campaign 475
• Adoption Act regulations, implementation 476
• Adoption Act regulations, public input 477-8
• Adoption, privacy regulations 475
• Adoption support services, funding breakdown 477
• Adoptions by same-sex couples, regulations 475-6
• Adoptions since passage of new act 475-6
• B.C. Benefits Appeal Board, appeals process 1074-5
• B.C. Benefits Appeal Board decisions, opportunity to appeal in court 1074
• B.C. Benefits Appeal Board decisions, public access 1075
• B.C. Benefits Appeal Board, membership 1074-5
• BC Benefits (Appeals) Act, debate 630 , 956 , 960 , 1070-6
• BC Benefits (Appeals) Act, tribunal, definition 1070
• B.C. Benefits appeals process, appeals resolved by administrative review 1076
• B.C. Benefits appeals process, consolidation of appeals 1076
• B.C. Benefits appeals process, cost-effectiveness 1074
• B.C. Benefits appeals process, need for legal representation 1074
• B.C. Benefits appeals process, pending appeals, regulations 1075-6
• B.C. Benefits appeals process, time limit to appeal 1071-2
• B.C. Benefits appeals process, tribunal system 1071-5
• B.C. Benefits, family bonus, amount 398
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, applicant, definition 961
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, benefit, definition 961-2
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, confidentiality and freedom of information 867
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, consequential amendments to Child, Family and Community Services Act 867 , 978
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, debate 630 , 866-8 , 871-2 , 961-78
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, focus 630 , 866
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, links with Healthy Kids program 867
• BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, links with Youth Works program 867
• B.C. Benefits program 396 , 404 , 482
• B.C. Benefits program, accountability of program 969-70
• B.C. Benefits program, appeals process, continuation of benefits 975
• B.C. Benefits program, appeals process, supply of information 975
• B.C. Benefits program, benefit recipients, consequences of accepting or not disposing of property 975
• B.C. Benefits program, benefits 961-5
• B.C. Benefits program, benefits denied or reduced 867
• B.C. Benefits program, benefits for mentally handicapped 963-4
• B.C. Benefits program, comfort allowance 963
• B.C. Benefits program, design and operational issues 331
• B.C. Benefits program, eligibility, supply of information or verification 969
• B.C. Benefits program, employability programs for youth 968
• B.C. Benefits program, employment programs 967-8
• B.C. Benefits program, employment suitability and not searching for or accepting employment, criteria and consequences 970-4
• B.C. Benefits program, family maintenance orders assigned to government 976-7
• B.C. Benefits program, financial assistance to service providers 967
• B.C. Benefits program, fraud and abuse prevention 866 , 969-70
• B.C. Benefits program, hardship assistance 962-3 , 965-7
• B.C. Benefits program, job-hunting costs 962
• B.C. Benefits program, repayment of unemployment insurance advances 976
• B.C. Benefits program, shelter allowance 963-4
• B.C. Benefits program, transition benefits when moving from welfare to work 867
• Child abuse cases, investigation 615
• Child abuse, prevention programs elsewhere 637
• Child and Family Review Board 713
• Child and Family Review Board, establishment 731-2
• Child and Family Review Board, independence 734
• Child and Family Review Board, meetings 730
• Child and Family Review Board, members 650-1 , 730
• Child and Family Review Board, power to investigate child fatalities 805-6 , 917-20
• Child and Family Review Board, reporting 715
• Child apprehensions, policy 407
• Child care, support services for children with special needs 978
• Child deaths, Attorney General ministry involvement 641
• Child deaths, causes 731
• Child deaths, handling of cases 617
• Child deaths, ministry knowledge of cases 1153
• Child deaths, number of cases reported 805
• Child deaths, referral to Child and Family Review Board 732 , 806
• Child deaths, review of cases 639-40 , 728 , 733 , 916-20 , 1025-7 , 1152
• Child deaths, review of cases, report 806-7 , 1152 , 1788
• Child deaths since Gove commission 639
• Child deaths, Social Services ministry's knowledge of cases 1991-3
• Child prostitution 644
• Child protection, administrator's decision and child's views 617 , 714
• Child protection, all-party committee 612-3
• Child protection, changes to system, monitoring 637
• Child protection, confidentiality 616
• Child protection, critical injury or death, review 616 , 639
• Child protection, Gove commission recommendations 1153-4
• Child protection, Gove commission recommendations, implementation 396-7 , 471-2 , 614-5
• Child protection, Gove commission report tabled 531
• Child protection, interministry handbook 618
• Child protection, NDP government action 613-4 , 731
• Child protection, regional consultants and child abuse teams 614
• Child protection, transition commissioner 612-3 , 638
• Child protection, transition commissioner, budget 613
• Child protection, transition commissioner, power to make changes 637
• Child protection, transition commissioner, role 731
• Child protection workers, number 618
• Child, youth and family advocate, power to appoint legal counsel 616
• Children, community support services 715
• Children, dental and optical benefits 414-5
• Children, dental benefits 414 , 480
• Children in government care, caregivers, criteria 641-2
• Children in government care, federal funding 408
• Children in government care, monitoring of quality of care 407-8
• Children, programs and services, funding 471
• Children, programs and services, handling of complaints 617
• Children, programs and services, monitoring 616
• Children's centres 616
• Dental care for income assistance recipients 480-1 , 637-8 , 640
• Disability Benefits Advisory Council, establishment and functions 1069
• Disability benefits program 629-30
• Disability Benefits Program Act, debate 629-30 , 1047-9 , 1069-70
• Disability Benefits Program Act, enactment 1069
• Disability Benefits Program Act, information-sharing provision 1069
• Disability Benefits Program Act, medical practitioner, definition 1048
• Disability Benefits Program Act, offence provisions 1069
• Disability Benefits Program Act, person with disabilities, definition 1048
• Disability Benefits Program Act, purpose of bill 629-30
• Disability Benefits Program Act, regulations 1069
• Disability benefits program, allowances and benefits 1049
• Disability benefits program, appeals process, concerns 1069
• Disability benefits program, bus passes 1048
• Disability benefits program, eligibility, assessment process 1048
• Disability benefits program, program separate from other forms of income assistance 630
• Disability benefits program, recipients, bank account limit 1049
• Disability benefits program, recipients, earnings exemptions 1049
• Disability benefits program, recipients, property and asset ownership issues 1049
• Disability benefits program, reduced benefits for recipients with other income 1049
• Disability benefits program, training opportunities for recipients 1049
• Disabled persons, application for assistance 646
• Disabled persons, funding for multiple disabilities, mental handicaps, ventilated quadriplegics 490 , 645-7
• Disabled persons, group home design criteria 648
• Disabled persons, residential accommodation, design funding 647
• Disabled persons, severely handicapped in homes, funding 716
• Estimates debate responses (Coleman) 487
• Family maintenance, enforcement provisions in legislation 977
• Fetal alcohol syndrome, access to information 714
• Foster care, advance notice to foster parents of child's removal 636
• Foster care, number of foster homes and foster children 490
• Foster care, protocol 637
• Foster homes, capital costs 707-8
• Foster homes, number 707
• Gambling, addiction and problem gambling 620
• Glendale Lodge closing, reallocation of funding 715
• Glendale Lodge closing, staff reassignment 410
• GAIN Act, replacement 630 , 866-7
• GAIN program, caseload 396 , 399
• GAIN program, caseload management 413
• GAIN program, child benefits 398-9
• GAIN program, dental and optical benefits 637
• GAIN program, fraud 483
• GAIN program, fraud cases, decision to prosecute 411-2
• GAIN program, fraud convictions 412-3
• GAIN program, fraud, incidence 650
• GAIN program, fraud, money owed to government 644
• GAIN program, fraud prevention 408-11 , 648-50
• GAIN program, fraud, recoveries 413-4
• GAIN program, medical aids and equipment 646
• GAIN program, medical aids, provision and cost 734
• GAIN program, moving of 18- to 24-year-olds to Youth Works program 478-9
• GAIN program, residency requirement, federal funds withheld 400-2
• GAIN program, residency requirement, federal funds withheld, court case 400-1
• GAIN program, residency requirement, mentally handicapped returning home 644
• GAIN program, residency requirement, savings 643
• GAIN recipients, children 618
• GAIN recipients, children, visible minorities 619
• GAIN recipients leaving B.C. 405
• GAIN recipients, numbers 481
• GAIN recipients, single employable males 481-2
• GAIN recipients, under-19-year-olds 400-1
• GAIN recipients, under-19-year-olds living independently 406-7
• Handicapped, definition of term 487-8
• Healthy Kids program 414 , 637-8
• Home Owner Grant Act, person with disabilities, definition 1070
• Home Owner Grant Act, relative, definition 1070
• Income assistance advisory council, members 965-6
• Income assistance advisory council, work of council 965
• Income Tax Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , debate 331
• Indian children, funding 474
• Indians, delegation-enabling agreements with bands 474
• Lakeview Heights group home, public notice re offender and handling of case 710 , 712
• Mental health, deinstitutionalization, new group homes 489
• Mental health, group homes, funding 712
• Mental health, group homes, public notice of offenders in neighbourhood 709-10
• Mental health, group homes, review team 709-10
• Mental health institution closings, cost savings 397
• Mental health, offenders, cost to support 711
• Mental health, offenders, training and qualifications of care workers 711-2
• Mental health, programs for over-19-year-olds 642
• Mental health residential facilities, comfort allowance 488
• Mental health, support for former institutional residents 91-2
• Morton, Cynthia, appointment as transition commissioner for implementation of Gove commission report 396
• Motor Fuel Tax Act, person with disabilities, definition 1070
• Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , debate 515
• Preston, Joyce, appointment as child, youth and family advocate 615
• Skills training programs, interministry funding 709
• Social services, advocates between benefit recipients and aid workers 973
• Social services, community-based organizations, core funding 972
• Social services, financial aid workers, training 972-3
• Social services, former institutional residents, support 91-2
• Social services funding, national standard 402-3
• Social services ministers, meeting 403
• Social Services ministry, 1993-94 annual report tabled 531
• Social Services ministry, accountability 614-6 , 715
• Social Services ministry, audit and review division 615 , 715
• Social Services ministry budget, breakdown for child and family services 490
• Social Services ministry budget, monitoring 486
• Social Services ministry budget, use of savings 479
• Social Services ministry, case management 615 , 714-5
• Social Services ministry, communications budget 490-1
• Social Services ministry, estimates debate 395-415 , 471-92 , 612-20 , 636-51 , 707-17 , 730-4
• Social Services ministry, financial assistance workers 398
• Social Services ministry, initiatives 396
• Social Services ministry issues, knowledge (Farrell-Collins) 1306
• Social Services ministry, management exclusions 398
• Social Services ministry, prevention, compliance and enforcement division 409-10 , 483 , 649-50
• Social Services ministry, recommendations from report on administrative error and fraud, implementation 92
• Social Services ministry, staff changes, continuity 479-80
• Social Services ministry, staff increase 409-10
• Social Services ministry, staff suggestions 713
• Social Services ministry staff, whistle-blower protection 713
• Social Services ministry, staffing 490 , 651 , 707
• Social services offices, nature 973-4
• Social welfare, interministry work 961
• Social welfare system, benefits for single parents, disincentive to work 867
• Social welfare system, caseload and funding 93
• Social welfare system, changes, impact on persons with disabilities 937
• Social welfare system, community agencies initiative 650-1
• Social welfare system, fraud and abuse prevention 866-7
• Social welfare system, identification card, link with driver's licence 650
• Social workers, access to GAIN information 615-6
• Social workers, bachelor's degree requirement 617
• Social workers, computerized information system 614-5
• Social workers, establishment of college 618
• Social workers, training 614 , 618-9
• Street youth, services 484-6
• Supply Act (No. 1), 1996 , debate 91-3
• Teen mothers, income assistance 407
• Thomas, Elijah, cause of death, Social Services ministry's comments 1787-8
• Thomas, Elijah, death, referral of case to Child and Family Review Board 1787-8
• Thomas, Elijah, release of mother's confidential medical data 1992
• Vancouver action plan for street youth 485
• Welfare to Work program, funding 709
• Youth, substance abuse treatment services 484
• Youth Works program 478
• Youth Works program, funding 709
Student Summer Works program
• Evaluation (Clark, G.) 1996-7 (Hansen) 1996-7
• Job creation (Hansen) 73 (Sihota) 748
• Program (Hansen) 1202-3 (Miller) 1202-3
Students
• Academic achievements of B.C. students (Calendino) 159
• Employment See Youth
• Graduation rate (Sanders) 1481-2
• Job expectations (Sanders) 1523 (Sihota) 1523
• Number (Sanders) 1486 (Sihota) 1486
• Number with English as their second language (Sanders) 1485 (Sihota) 1485
• Student loan program (Hurd) 1607-8 (Sihota) 1607-8
• Student loan program, default rate (Hurd) 1608 (Sihota) 1608
• Student Summer Works program See name of program
• Summer jobs (Anderson) 147
• Summer jobs program (Clark, G.) 238-9 (Hansen) 112 , 238
• Time taken to graduation (Sihota) 1481
Summerland, B.C.
• Middle school construction project, status (Barisoff) 1553
Superannuation Commission See also Municipal Pension Board
• Commissioner's role as Municipal Pension Board chair (Chong) 1191 (Petter) 1191
• Inflation adjustment account (Chong) 1193 (Petter) 1193
Supply Act, 1996-97
• (Bill 18) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 2081 ; 2R, 2081-2 ; C, 2082 ; 3R, 2082 ; RA, 2082
• Debate, speakers (Petter) 2081-2
Supply Act (No. 1), 1996
• (Bill 5) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 19 ; 2R, 20 , 27-8 ; C, 28-94 ; 3R, 94 ; RA, 94
• Divisions: 2R approved 28 ; schedules 1 and 2 approved 94
• Debate, speakers (Abbott) 65-7 , 78-9 (Anderson) 62-3 , 93 (Barisoff) 67-9 , 93 (Boone) 93-4 (Cashore) 45-52 (Chong) 68 , 79-80 , 82 (Clark, C.) 82-5 (Clark, G.) 73 (Coell) 91-3 (Coleman) 70 , 76-8 (Dalton) 55 , 70-1 , 90-1 , 94 (de Jong) 45-52 (Dosanjh) 53-64 (Evans) 32-5 (Farrell-Collins) 59-61 , 66-7 , 90 (Gingell) 27-32 , 40-1 , 90 (Hammell) 35-6 (Hansen) 73-5 (Hawkins) 88-90 (Hurd) 58-9 , 61-2 , 71-2 , 87 , 89 (Jarvis) 31-2 , 34-5 (MacPhail) 88-90 (Masi) 68-9 (McKinnon) 72-3 (Miller) 37-44 , 67 , 73-82 (Nebbeling) 86-7 (Penner) 57-8 , 72 (Petter) 17-32 , 19 (Plant) 31 , 52-6 (Ramsey) 83-6 (Reid) 35 , 55 , 75-6 (Reitsma) 80-2 (Sanders) 64-5 , 72 , 89-90 (Sihota) 64-73 , 91 (Stephens) 35-6 (Streifel) 91-3 (Symons) 31 , 35-9 , 41-4 , 89 (Thorpe) 34 , 63 (van Dongen) 32-4 , 56-7 , 64 (Weisbeck) 69-70 (Wilson, G.) 38 (Wilson, J.) 86 , 93 (Zirnhelt) 87
Supported Child Care Service
• Letter cited re child care for special needs children (Wilson, G.) 859-60
Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Judgments, Internet availability (Dosanjh) 421 (Plant) 421
Surgery See Health care
Surrey, B.C.
• Charter as city (McKinnon) 1777-8 (Miller) 1778
• High-accident-frequency intersections (Barisoff) 1141 (Boone) 1141
• Highway infrastructure and projects (Barisoff) 1141-2 (Boone) 1141-2
• Scott Road, 96th Avenue to Grace Road section (Barisoff) 1141 (Boone) 1141
• South Fraser perimeter road See Highways and roads
• South Surrey interchange See Highway 99
• Transportation plan (Barisoff) 1142 (Boone) 1142
• Upgrading of 16th Avenue or 32nd Avenue (Boone) 1064 (Stephens) 1064
Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey, B.C.
• Funding review (Hurd) 2063 (MacPhail) 2063
• Services (Hammell) 183
Surrey school district See School district 36
Surrey-Cloverdale constituency
• Issues and concerns (McKinnon) 244-5
Surrey-Green Timbers constituency
• Issues and concerns (Hammell) 183-4
Symons, Douglas R. (Richmond Centre)
• Adams Lake, blockade and cost of alternative forms of transportation 1114
• Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates debate 696-8
• AirCare program, revenue shortfall 582
• Alcohol abuse, treatment programs, funding 2061-2
• Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., contract for Century-class vessel 1580
• Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 508 , 556 , 559
• Auditor general's report on B.C. Ferries 1616
• Automobile drivers' records, electronic storage 512
• Automobile sellers, fine for operating without licence 1177-8
• Automobiles, emission testing for buses and commercial vehicles 939
• Automobiles, use of electric vehicles by Environment ministry staff 913
• Bridge and road system improvements 1118-9
• B.C. Ferries, accident at Bowen Island terminal 1613
• B.C. Ferries, accident at Departure Bay terminal 1614-5
• B.C. Ferries, apprenticeship programs 1621
• B.C. Ferries board meetings, compensation for union observers 1578
• B.C. Ferries court case, funding of appeals 1620-1
• B.C. Ferries, debt and capital planning 1579
• B.C. Ferries, Discovery coast route 1610-2
• B.C. Ferries, dock repair personnel, travel time 1578
• B.C. Ferries, Duke Point terminal construction project 1579-80 , 1621
• B.C. Ferries, fare increase 37
• B.C. Ferries, fare structure, issues and concerns 1418-20
• B.C. Ferries fares, regular and discount rates 1578-9
• B.C. Ferries, ferries as part of highway system 1420
• B.C. Ferries, ferry improvement program 37
• B.C. Ferries, funding 37
• B.C. Ferries, Gulf Islands routes, future service requirements 1578 , 1619
• B.C. Ferries, information office at Nanaimo 1618-9
• B.C. Ferries, Langdale terminal, parking lot improvements 1579
• B.C. Ferries, maintenance procedures, fleet and terminal operations 1616
• B.C. Ferries, operating costs per route 1420-1
• B.C. Ferries, revenues and expenses 1417-8
• B.C. Ferries routes, subsidies for minor routes 1579
• B.C. Ferries, safety and health committee 1614
• B.C. Ferries, safety and training of ferry personnel 1613-4
• B.C. Ferries service, passenger-only ferries 1416
• B.C. Ferries, student summer employment programs 1621
• B.C. Ferries subsidization, provincial and federal contributions 1416-7
• B.C. Ferries, traffic volumes 1421
• B.C. Ferries vessels, charters and special-event sailings 1621-2
• B.C. Ferries vessels, construction of catamarans, aluminum purchase 39
• B.C. Ferries vessels, crew suspension incident 1578
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, business plan 1422 , 1577-8
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, construction costs 1618
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, construction in B.C. 41-2
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, construction projects and job creation 1580
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries construction site, cleanup 1617
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries construction site, environmental assessment 940
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, cost-benefit analysis 1616
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, emissions concern 939-40
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, horsepower requirement 1616-7
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferries, time savings vs. capital costs 1618
• B.C. Ferries vessels, fast ferry training program 1619
• B.C. Ferries vessels, new vessels vs. refits 1580 , 1610
• B.C. Ferries vessels, procedures, passengers with special needs 1619-20
• B.C. Ferries vessels, Queen of New Westminster refit 1610
• B.C. Ferries vessels, Queen of Saanich refit 1580
• B.C. Ferries vessels, Spirit-class vessels, operational fitness 1612-3
• B.C. Ferries vessels, superferries, construction costs 41-2
• B.C. Ferries vessels, superferries vs. fast ferries 1416
• B.C. Ferries, voyage recorders for ferries 1612
• B.C. Transit, absenteeism 1869
• B.C. Transit, debt servicing 42
• B.C. Transit, fare collection and payment issues 1868-9 , 1872
• B.C. Transit, funding of traffic light at Surrey exchange 1872-3
• B.C. Transit, initiatives and ten-year plan on hold 43
• B.C. Transit, Malaysia construction project, public-private partnership 1872
• B.C. Transit, rapid and express bus service to Richmond 1871-2 , 1874
• B.C. Transit, ridership, method of determining 1868
• B.C. Transit, wages and salaries 1869-70
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, chief executive officer, appointment 1125
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, contract with Highway Constructors Ltd. 1115
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, debt, current status 1021
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, expenditures and revenues, 1995-96 period 1021
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, funding sources 1114
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, objectives, measuring of effectiveness 990
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, staffing 990
• Budget, 1996-97 budget, balanced-budget claim 193
• Capital Regional District, ten-year transit plan 1873-4
• Capital spending, public-private partnerships 43-4
• Children, access by non-custodial parent 643
• Children in government care, number 643
• Coast Ferries Ltd., service to coastal communities 1610-1
• Coquihalla Highway, cost overrun 1117
• Coquihalla Highway, tollgate area toilets, water supply 1117
• Corrigan, Derek, remuneration for work with B.C. Transit 1869
• Crown Corporations Committee, meeting 2041
• Cypress Provincial Park, user fees and free access 941
• Disabled persons, parking places for disabled drivers 512
• Dixon, Frank, hiring by B.C. Transit and subsequent firing 2041-2
• Dixon, Frank, wrongful dismissal suit against B.C. Transit 1869
• Drug abuse, treatment programs, funding 2061-2
• Earthquake preparedness 556
• Education, school technology plans 1478
• Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 1477-8
• Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1996 , debate 1730
• Electoral districts, number of seats in House and fair representation for all areas of province 1730
• Electoral representation for non-urban areas 1730
• Electric vehicles, availability 939
• Electromagnetic rays from power transmission lines, safety concerns 1577
• Emergency preparedness expenditures 556
• Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 1416-22 , 1577-80 , 1610-24
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 913 , 939-42
• Environmental regulations, application to public sector projects 940-1
• Expropriation of private property for highways use 1115-6
• Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates debate 1091 , 1099 , 1234-5
• Finnyard, involvement in building of fast ferries 1617
• Fisheries, bilateral agreement with U.S., inclusion of B.C. waters transit fee and Nanoose Bay test range lease in negotiations 698
• Fisheries ministry, role in memorandum of understanding with federal government 696-7
• Fisheries, Pacific salmon revitalization plan (Mifflin plan) 697
• Fisheries, provincial and federal responsibilities 35
• Fisheries, salmon resource protection, interministry coordination 697
• Fishery allocations for Indians and non-Indians, impact of land claims 698
• Fraser Valley, commuter rail 1687
• Fuel, alternative fuels, incentive for changeover to less-polluting motor fuel 913
• Gasoline tax revenues to Transportation Financing Authority, impact on general revenues 31
• Government accounting methods, charge-off system for appointments coordination services 1099
• Government vehicles, use of electric vehicles by Environment ministry staff 939
• HandyDART system and taxi service 1873
• Health care funding, special warrant funding 89
• Health ministry, estimates debate 2061-2
• Highway 1 , construction project in lower mainland, environmental assessment 941
• Highway 97 , four-laning in Peachland area 1117
• Highway 99 , South Surrey interchange project 1117
• Highway Constructors Ltd., funds for training purposes 1175
• Highway gravel, size of aggregate used 1111
• Highway paving, asphalt recycling methods 1110-1
• Highway speed limits, determination and assessment 1179
• Highway tolls 994
• Highways, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes 1178
• Highways, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes, number of people in vehicles 1109
• Highways, litter control along highways 1121 , 1124-5
• Highways, maintenance and rehabilitation 1022
• Highways, moving 16-wides on roads 1177
• Highways, property acquisition, Maple Ridge area 1119
• Highways, property expropriation, disposition of excess lands 1115
• Insurance Corporation of B.C., claim settlement costs 1235
• Insurance Corporation of B.C., funding of motor vehicle branch operations 582
• Insurance Corporation of B.C., funding responsibility re photo radar program 1234-5
• Insurance Corporation of B.C. policyholders, low-risk categories, "creaming off" by private insurers 1235
• Insurance Corporation of B.C., rate structure 1235
• Island Highway construction project, cost 1114
• Island Highway construction project, environmental issues 1116
• Island Highway construction project, exemption from environmental assessments 940-1
• Island Highway construction project, property expropriation 1022-3 , 1115-6
• J.N. Burnett Junior Secondary School, capital projects, impact of funding freeze 1477-8
• Job creation 193
• Kozyniak, Sheryl, qualifications as government appointments coordinator 1099
• Labour ministry, estimates debate 1683-8
• Legislature, night sittings 489 , 1124
• Lions Gate Bridge, future plans 1062
• Lions Gate Bridge, maintenance and costs 1062
• Lions Gate Bridge, renewal planning, status 1062 , 1118
• Log salvage from Fraser River, regulations 941-2
• Mental health, involuntary treatment vs. patients' civil rights 2062
• Mental health, programs for over-19-year-olds 642
• Morgan, Keith, request for information from West Coast Express 1684
• Motor Carrier Commission, appointment of chairperson 1125
• Motor Carrier Commission, response time on commercial applications 1177
• Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 1996 , debate 582 , 586
• Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2), 1996 , debate 512
• Motor vehicle branch, administrative positions, update 1126
• Motor vehicle branch, senior staff, qualifications and responsibilities 1126-7
• Motor vehicle branch, transfer of functions to Insurance Corporation of B.C. 582
• Motor vehicle registration, proof of financial responsibility required 586
• Nanaimo, impact of Duke Point ferry terminal project 1579-80
• NDP government, election campaign statements 43
• NDP government, performance 192-3
• NDP government projects, viability 1478
• Paint disposal 940
• Patricia Bay Highway, Island View-Keating Cross Road connector 1118
• Penticton Indian band, road access through lands to Apex Mountain 1113
• Photo radar cameras, locations 1178
• Pollard, John, qualifications as government appointments coordinator 1099
• Port Mann Bridge, expansion 1118
• Port Mann Bridge, twinning 994
• Portland Transit Authority, light rail system 1870-1
• Powell River-Sunshine Coast ferry terminal, relocation or replacement 1622
• Premier's Office and Ministry Responsible for Youth, estimates debate 2041-2
• Prince George, stabilization of Cranberry Hill road 1117
• Richmond, light rapid transit services 1870-2
• Richmond, Middle Arm bridge project 1118
• Riverview Hospital, former residents, support in communities 89
• Roads on Indian reserve lands, expropriation negotiations 1113
• Sales, negative-option offers, legislation 559
• School district 38 (Richmond), board's request for meeting with Hon. Moe Sihota 1478
• School district 38 (Richmond), construction project freeze 192
• School district 38 (Richmond), funding alternatives 1477
• SkyTrain, fare evasion 1868-9
• Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates debate 1867-74
• Social Services ministry, estimates debate 489 , 642-3
• South Fraser perimeter road, Serpentine corridor addition 1117-8
• Supply Act (No. 1), 1996 , debate 31 , 35-9 , 41-4 , 89
• Throne speech debate 192-3
• Transit, light rapid transit, average vehicle speed 1871
• Transit, public-private funding of projects 1872
• Transportation and Highways ministry, administrative positions 1113
• Transportation and Highways ministry, automobiles in use at head office 1175
• Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 990 , 993-4 , 1021-3 , 1062 , 1109-19 , 1121 , 1124-30 , 1175 , 1177-9
• Transportation and Highways ministry, funding 1111-3
• Transportation and Highways ministry, senior staff, qualifications and responsibilities 1125-30
• Trucking industry, drug testing for drivers 1178
• Trucking industry safety standards, incentives to meet standards 1178
• Trucks, long combination vehicles 1177
• Upper Levels Highway, accident site and pavement condition 1111
• Vancouver Regional Transit Commission, costs and funding 1868-70
• Vancouver Regional Transit Commission, vehicles 1869-70
• Vehicle fraud, stolen vehicles registered using identification numbers of irreparable and salvage vehicles 512
• Victoria Line Ltd., business plan 1422
• Victoria Line Ltd., employee wage levels 1624
• Victoria Line Ltd., funding 39
• Victoria Line Ltd., ridership 42
• Victoria Line Ltd., Seattle-Victoria service 807
• Victoria Line Ltd., Seattle-Victoria service, comparison with B.C. Ferries midcoast service 1612
• Victoria Line Ltd., Seattle-Victoria service, current and future operation 1622-4
• Waste management, list of contaminated sites 940
• West Coast Express, amortization period for capital costs 1685
• West Coast Express, arrangement for trackage 39
• West Coast Express, budget 1683
• West Coast Express, capital costs, infrastructure usage fees paid to CP Rail 1686
• West Coast Express, cost compared to other forms of transit 1686
• West Coast Express, cost of land acquisition and station construction 1687
• West Coast Express, debt-servicing costs 1684-5
• West Coast Express, establishment, B.C. Transit's proposal 1684
• West Coast Express, financing of service by taxpayers 1686-7
• West Coast Express, government share of operating and debt-servicing costs 1867-8
• West Coast Express, impact on road traffic 42
• West Coast Express, impact on Vancouver regional transit system and on private sector 1687
• West Coast Express, infrastructure lease, length and renegotiation 1687
• West Coast Express, ministerial responsibility 1683
• West Coast Express, operating budget 1688
• West Coast Express, operating costs 1684-5
• West Coast Express, reporting of capital costs 1687
• West Coast Express, ridership 1683-4
• West Coast Express, route 43
• Wood waste in rivers, handling 942
• Work Plus program, federal program 642-3

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