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

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Hansard Sittings by Page Number

Task Force into Illicit Narcotic Overdose Deaths in British Columbia (Cain task force)
• Recommendations, implementation (MacPhail) 1986
Tatchell, Mark
• Position as government liaison for Skills Development and Fair Wage Act (Dalton) 1711 (Sihota) 1711
Tatshenshini area
• Land use decision (Clark, G.) 1964
• Royal Oak Mines project See Royal Oak Mines Inc.
Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park
• Expropriation of land for park (Miller) 1697 (Neufeld) 1697
• Placer mines, expropriation values (Clark, G.) 1964 (Neufeld) 1964-5
Tattooing See Public Health
Tax and Consumer Rate Freeze Act
• (Bill 3) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 15; 2R, 437-45; C, 534-9; 3R, 540; RA, 1151
• Debate, speakers (Gingell) 438-40, 534-9 (Neufeld) 442-3 (Petter) 15, 437-8, 443-5, 534-9 (Thorpe) 537 (Weisgerber) 440-1 (Wilson, G.) 441-2
• Average, use of term in bill (Gingell) 535 (Petter) 535
Taxation See also particular taxes, e.g., Income tax
• Consumer rate freeze See Consumers
• Fairness issues (Gingell) 520-1 (Petter) 520-1
• Federal child tax benefit, applicability (Anderson) 336 (Petter) 336
• Integrated federal-provincial tax (Wilson, G.) 305-7, 442, 449
• Tax collection from Alberta companies (Neufeld) 1965
• Tax collection in northeastern B.C. (Neufeld) 1965
• Tax cuts (Campbell) 265-6 (Farrell-Collins) 266 (Lali) 140-1 (Petter) 12, 266
• Tax freeze
  • freeze (Kasper) 256 (Orcherton) 131 (Petter) 12
  • three-year extension (Gingell) 438-40, 539 (Neufeld) 443 (Petter) 15, 437-8, 444-5, 539 (Weisgerber) 441 (Wilson, G.) 441
• Tax levels (Clark, G.) 2037 (van Dongen) 2037
• Tax load (Farnworth) 127
• Tax rates in B.C., comparisons with elsewhere (Miller) 1264-5 (Reid) 1264-5
• Taxation of middle class (Chong) 358
• Taxes during 1996-97 fiscal year (Boone) 149-50 (Bowbrick) 179 (Brewin) 253 (Giesbrecht) 214 (Hartley) 218 (Kasper) 256 (Pullinger) 259 (Ramsey) 249 (Randall) 228-9 (Reid) 117-8 (Throne speech) 3 (Waddell) 175
Taxpayer Protection Act
• Social Credit government tax-freeze legislation (Gingell) 438 (Neufeld) 442
Teachers
• Code of ethics (Sanders) 1486 (Sihota) 1486
• Collective agreement
  • funding for increase (Barisoff) 1554 (Sanders) 1436 (Sihota) 1436
  • public notification (Sanders) 1555-6 (Sihota) 1556
• Collective bargaining
  • class size issue (Dalton) 1445 (Jarvis) 1515 (Sihota) 1445
  • days of instruction (Hurd) 1549 (Sihota) 1549
  • learning and working conditions (Masi) 1437 (Sihota) 1437
  • prevention of job action (Sanders) 1440 (Sihota) 1440
  • provincewide bargaining (Sanders) 1439-40
  • role of local unions (Sanders) 1440 (Sihota) 1440
  • seniority issue (Sanders) 1436-7 (Sihota) 1436-7
• Dismissal (Sanders) 1486 (Sihota) 1486-7
• Examination marking See Education
• Flexible scheduling (Masi) 1487 (Sihota) 1487-8
• Merit pay (Barisoff) 1552
• Multiculturalism training (Anderson) 464-5 (Dosanjh) 464-5
• Number and age (Sanders) 1486 (Sihota) 1486
• Role (Sanders) 1431
• School days lost due to strikes (Sanders) 1440
• Two-year agreement (Sanders) 1435-6, 1439 (Sihota) 1435-6, 1439
• Upgrading education through U.S. universities (Wilson, G.) 1958
Technology See Science and technology
Therapeutics initiative See Pharmacare program
Thomas, Elijah
• Death while in care of Social Services ministry
  • cause of death, Social Services ministry's comments (Campbell) 1787-8 (Coell) 1788 (Streifel) 1787-8
  • death (Coell) 1152 (de Jong) 920 (Hawkins) 1153 (McKinnon) 919
  • referral of case to Child and Family Review Board (Coell) 1788 (Streifel) 1787-8
• Release of mother's confidential medical data (de Jong) 1993 (MacPhail) 1992 (Plant) 1992-3 (Streifel) 1993
Thorpe, Rick (Okanagan-Penticton)
• Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates debate 1839-40
• Agricultural Land Commission administration, benchmarks 655
• Agricultural Land Commission, appeal process on decisions 656
• Agricultural Land Commission, mandate 628
• Agricultural Land Commission, regulations, regional needs 655
• Agricultural land reserve, impact on land values 626-7
• Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates debate 626-8, 654-6, 699-704
• Apex Mountain Resort, alternative access road to resort 1167
• Apex Mountain Resort, environmental requirements, status 948
• Apex Mountain Resort, future operations, petition tabled 1430
• Apex Mountain Resort, government loan 729
• Apex Mountain Resort, restructuring plan, Arthur Andersen and Co. report 729
• Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 430, 493-8
• Attorney General ministry, gaming, audit and investigation function, funding increase 63
• Beer, U-Brew operations 498
• B.C. Systems Corporation, transfer of staff to Environment, Lands and Parks ministry 951
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, board members 997
• B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, financial model 996
• B.C. 21 program, review committee for community grants, membership and schedule 1820-1
• Budget, 1996-97 budget, goals 224
• Budget debate 223-4
• Buy B.C. program, evaluation 699, 702
• Buy B.C. program, funding 34
• Debt servicing costs 224
• Environment branch, budget, recoveries 951
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, communications budget 950-1
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 948-52
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, legislation impacting ministry 950
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, operations budgets, monitoring 949, 951
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, policy, planning and legislation department, budget 951
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, salaries and benefits 951
• Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, staffing levels 949-50
• Government agents, appointment process 1821
• Government bureaucracy, impact on business 223
• Government program review 496
• Habitat conservation fund, B.C. Wildlife Federation concerns 952
• Health care wait-lists, reduction 355
• Hedley Mascot mine, tourism restoration project 1821
• Heritage infrastructure program, monitoring of expenditures 1821
• Highways, moving 16-wides on roads 1167-8
• Highways, pullouts in Okanagan area 1168
• Legal aid services provided by out-of-town counsel 430
• Liquor control and licensing branch, J licences 497
• Liquor control and licensing branch, operations 497
• Liquor distribution branch, freeze on product markups 537
• Liquor distribution branch, income from operations 495-6
• Liquor distribution branch, product markups 493-4
• Liquor distribution branch, retail operations 494-5
• Liquor distribution branch, revenue projections, shortfall 63
• Liquor distribution branch, staffing 496
• Liquor distribution branch, warehouse distribution program 494
• Liquor industry, regulation 497
• Liquor taxes 493-4
• Liquor taxes and fees 63
• MLAs working together for the common good 224
• NDP government, advertising, report by auditor general 355
• NDP government, commitments 224
• NDP government, fiscal responsibility 223-4
• Okanagan transportation plan 995-6
• Okanagan Valley Tree Fruit Authority, budget 701-2
• Okanagan Valley Tree Fruit Authority, funding 34
• Okanagan Valley Tree Fruit Authority, market trends, involvement 699-700
• Okanagan Valley Tree Fruit Authority, replant program 701
• Okanagan-Penticton constituency, issues and concerns 223-4
• Penticton Indian band, status of Green Mountain situation 1839-40
• Politicians, public perception 224
• Provincial treasury, revenues from liquor 493-6
• Quality wine and grape development program, funding 34
• Recycling, deposit system for recyclables 948-9
• Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates debate 1820-2
• Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, regional economic development commissions 1822
• Supply Act (No. 1), 1996, debate 34, 63
• Tax and Consumer Rate Freeze Act, debate 537
• Transportation and Highways ministry, budget and expenditure review 1169
• Transportation and Highways ministry, communications budget 1169-70
• Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 995-7, 1167-70
• Transportation and Highways ministry, staff 1168-70
• Transportation and Highways ministry, statutes and regulations affecting ministry operations 1169
• Treasury Board, role in liquor distribution branch 493-6
• Tree fruit industry, problems of orchardists 700
• Wine, farm wineries 655
• Wine, U-Brew operations 498
Three Gorges project See British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority
Throne speech See Speech from the Throne
Times Colonist (Victoria)
• Article re tax-deductible school textbooks (Sanders) 1451 (Sihota) 1451
Tires See Automobiles
Tobacco
• Sale of tobacco products
  • enforcement of regulations (Hawkins) 1986 (MacPhail) 1986
  • sale to minors (Randall) 1759
• Smoking
  • health risks (Randall) 1759 (Sanders) 1760
  • incidence among young women (MacPhail) 1940
  • initiatives to prevent and reduce tobacco use (Randall) 1759-60 (Sanders) 1760
  • smoking as legal activity (Wilson, G.) 513
• Tobacco industry, legislation to ban advertising (Randall) 1759-60 (Sanders) 1760
Tourism B.C.
• Advertising for northeast B.C. (Neufeld) 1856-7
Tourism industry
• Advertising
  • funding for special operating agency (Reitsma) 80
  • private sector use of government trademarks (Chong) 1864 (Miller) 1864
  • rolling billboard program (Chong) 1865 (Miller) 1865
  • "Stops of Interest" highway signs (Chong) 1864 (Miller) 1864
• Community tourism employment and training program (Chong) 1815-6 (Miller) 1815-6
• Employment (Reitsma) 1825
• Funding (Chong) 1952 (Miller) 1828-9, 1952 (Reitsma) 1828-9, 1852-3
• Growth (Chong) 1809 (Miller) 1826, 1828
• Industry in B.C. (Giesbrecht) 362
• Industry in Bulkley Valley-Stikine area (Goodacre) 104
• Industry on northern Vancouver Island (Robertson) 273
• Information kiosks at border crossings (Barisoff) 1859 (Miller) 1859
• Infrastructure program for interior of B.C. (Miller) 1827 (Reitsma) 1826-7
• In-province travel by B.C. residents (Miller) 1827-8 (Reitsma) 1827-8
• Investments in industry, impact of corporate capital tax (Chong) 1820 (Miller) 1820, 1826 (Reitsma) 1826
• Job creation (Hansen) 1203 (Miller) 1203
• Jobs (Zirnhelt) 220
• Marketing
  • expenditures, correlation with increased revenues (Reitsma) 1828-9
  • marketing of B.C. (Chong) 1809 (Miller) 1830, 1853, 1857-8 (Reitsma) 1825, 1830, 1853
  • regional themes (Miller) 1857-8 (Neufeld) 1858
• Northeast B.C. as tourist destination (Miller) 1857-9 (Neufeld) 1856-9
• Programs (Miller) 81 (Reitsma) 81
• Regional tourist districts, funding formula (Chong) 1865 (Miller) 1855, 1865 (Reitsma) 1855
• Revenues (Chong) 1865, 1952 (Miller) 1809, 1826, 1865 (Reitsma) 1825-6
• Small businesses, fees and taxes (Miller) 82 (Reitsma) 82
• Sport fishing promotional programs (van Dongen) 1860
• Summer employment program (Chong) 1813 (Miller) 1813
• Tourism resource planning (Miller) 1826, 1861 (Reitsma) 1825-6 (van Dongen) 1861
• Visitors with out-of-country impaired-driving convictions (Barisoff) 1859 (Miller) 1852-3, 1859-60 (Reitsma) 1852-3
Tourism North
• Funding, cost-sharing by Alaska, Yukon and B.C. (Miller) 1858 (Neufeld) 1858
Trade agreements
• See Exports and imports
Trade Development Corporation Act
• Amendment (Dosanjh) 936
• Repeal (Miller) 1041 (Penner) 1040-1
Trade unions
• Number of unionized workers in B.C. (Sihota) 1642-3
Trades See also particular trades, e.g., Electricians
• Certifications, interprovincial certification (Hansen) 1213 (Miller) 1213
Traffic fines, safety, violations, etc. See Automobiles
Trans-Canada Highway See Highway 1
Transit See also Transportation
• Light rapid transit, average vehicle speed (Miller) 1871 (Symons) 1871
• Public-private funding of transit projects (Miller) 1872 (Symons) 1872
Transition commissioner See Children; Motions; Special Committee to Monitor Transition Commissioner on Gove Inquiry Recommendations
Transition houses
• Client-usage data (Hammell) 594-5 (Stephens) 594-5
• Funding (Hammell) 36, 594 (Stephens) 36, 594-5
• Number (Hammell) 594, 1012 (Stephens) 594
• Second-stage housing (Coleman) 76
• Services for women with substance dependencies (Hammell) 594
• Social housing placements for transition house residents See Social housing under Housing
• Wage supplement for transition house workers (Hammell) 566-7 (Stephens) 566-7
Transportation See also Transit
• Alternative modes of transportation (Boone) 984-5, 1059
• Construction projects, funding from gasoline taxes (Gingell) 436, 531-2 (Petter) 15, 435, 531-2
• Improvement projects (Farnworth) 126, 128
• Okanagan transportation plan (Boone) 995-6, 1019, 1149 (Thorpe) 995-6
• Plan for lower mainland (Coleman) 181
• Provincial transportation system (Barisoff) 1947 (Boone) 984-5, 1947-8
• South coast transportation plan (Barisoff) 1142 (Boone) 1142
Transportation and Highways, Ministry of
• Estimates, debate 83-1001, 1018-23, 1050-68, 1100-30, 1140-9, 1167-79, 1947-8
  • divisions: motion that the committee rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again, negatived 1119; motion that the Chair do now leave the chair, negatived 1121
• Estimates, speakers (Abbott) 1114, 1149 (Barisoff) 985-9, 997-1001, 1019-23, 1058, 1066, 1105-10, 1113, 1141-3, 1148, 1174-6, 1179, 1947 (Boone) 983-1001, 1018-23, 1050-68, 1100-30, 1141-9, 1167-79, 1947-8 (Coleman) 994-7, 1052-7 (Dalton) 1060-2 (de Jong) 996-7, 1121 (Farnworth) 1108-9 (Gingell) 992-3, 997 (Hansen) 1174 (Jarvis) 989-90, 1018-9, 1050-2 (Krueger) 1057-9 (Masi) 1020-1 (Nettleton) 1173-4 (Neufeld) 1067-8, 1119-24, 1947 (Penner) 1066-7 (Reitsma) 1063 (Stephens) 1063-6 (Symons) 990, 993-4, 1021-3, 1062, 1109-19, 1121, 1124-30, 1175, 1177-9 (Thorpe) 995-7, 1167-70 (van Dongen) 1143-8, 1175 (Weisbeck) 1148-9 (Weisgerber) 1100-5, 1174, 1176-7, 1947 (Wilson, G.) 990-2, 1059-60 (Wilson, J.) 1170-3
• Administrative positions, update (Symons) 1113
• Automobiles in use at ministry head office (Boone) 1175 (Symons) 1175
• Budget
  • budget (Boone) 984
  • communications budget (Boone) 1169-70 (Thorpe) 1169-70
  • review of budget and expenditures (Boone) 1169 (Thorpe) 1169
• Computers, disposal of surplus (Boone) 1174 (Hansen) 1174
• Consultation programs re highways and roads projects (Boone) 1053 (Coleman) 1053
• Funding, ministry operations (Boone) 1111-2 (Symons) 1111-3
• Highway rehabilitation, notice to MLAs of area projects (Boone) 1067 (Neufeld) 1067
• Ministry operations, streamlining (Boone) 984
• Motor vehicle branch See name of branch
• Partnership agreements (Barisoff) 1947 (Boone) 984
• Research projects with UBC on berms and stormwater runoff (Boone) 1055 (Coleman) 1055
• Responsibilities and goals (Barisoff) 453 (Boone) 983-4
• Responsibility for safety of transportation system (Weisgerber) 583-4
• Special warrant debate 93-4
• Staff (Boone) 1168-70 (Thorpe) 1168-70
• Staff, qualifications and responsibilities of senior staff (Boone) 1125-30 (Symons) 1125-30
• Statutes and regulations affecting ministry operations (Boone) 1169 (Thorpe) 1169
• Strategic business plan (Boone) 1057 (Coleman) 1057
Travel Smart program
• Objectives (Petter) 1157 (Reitsma) 1157
Treasury Board
• Capital planning documents, availability (Hansen) 1214 (Miller) 1214
• Interaction with Premier's Office (Campbell) 1887 (Clark, G.) 1887
• Role in liquor distribution branch (Dosanjh) 493-6 (Thorpe) 493-6
Treaty Commission See British Columbia Treaty Commission
Treaty Negotiation Advisory Committee
• Third-party interests, discussions (Cashore) 1800-1
Tree fruit industry See Fruit and vegetables
TRIUMF (Tri-University Meson Facility)
• Funding (Hansen) 1255 (Miller) 1255
Trucking industry
• Competitiveness (Boone) 1144 (van Dongen) 1143-4
• Dead bunks issue, report (Boone) 1172-3 (Wilson, J.) 1172-3
• Drug testing for drivers (Boone) 1178 (Symons) 1178
• Grain shipments to Dawson Creek (Miller) 1661 (Neufeld) 1691 (Weisgerber) 1661
• Licences
  • H plates, change in allotment policy (Boone) 1172 (Wilson, J.) 1172
  • interprovincial hauling licence (Boone) 1171 (Wilson, J.) 1171
  • licensing of out-of-province drivers (Krueger) 382
• Long combination vehicles (Barisoff) 1176 (Boone) 1176-7 (Symons) 1177 (Weisgerber) 1177
• Permits for small logging operators to haul logs (Boone) 1172 (Wilson, J.) 1172
• Safety standards, incentives to meet standards (Boone) 1178 (Symons) 1178
• Weigh scales
  • Alberta-Montana weigh scale, joint operation (Weisgerber) 1177
  • Highway 1 weigh scale being bypassed (Barisoff) 1141 (Boone) 1141
  • Osoyoos weigh scale, status (Barisoff) 1175 (Boone) 1175
  • policy re empty trucks (Barisoff) 1176 (Boone) 1176
  • Pouce Coupe weigh scale (Boone) 1177 (Weisgerber) 1177
  • weighing system for logging trucks, case cited (Boone) 1171 (Wilson, J.) 1171
• Weight of vehicles and damage to roads (Boone) 1143-4 (van Dongen) 1143-4
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
• Quoted re cooperative federalism (Waddell) 177
Truss, Dennis (President and Chief executive officer, B.C. Buildings Corporation)
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, 1996-97 revenue projections 1630-3
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, awards for energy management 1630
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, business income 1638
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, capital planning, use of outside sources for project financing 1627, 1637
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, dividend paid to government 1631-2
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, energy management consulting services 1629
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, leasing management programs 1629
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, major projects completed during 1995-96 fiscal year 1625
• B.C. Buildings Corporation projects, own vs. lease 1626
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, property management services to public sector 1630
• B.C. Buildings Corporation services, core services 1637
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, strategic objectives 1636-7
• B.C. Buildings Corporation, tendering guidelines for services procurement 1638
• B.C. Housing Management Commission, role in housing project on legislative precincts land 1635
• Corrections services, cost per inmate 1636
• Crown corporations secretariat, report on B.C. Buildings Corporation 1626
• Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 1625-33, 1635-9
• Glendale Lodge, land use plan for site 1626
• Government accommodation costs 1636
• Health care, regional health boards, leasing arrangements with B.C. Buildings Corporation 1631
• Oaklands land, redevelopment project 1625
• Riverview Hospital, replacement project 1625
• Societies, non-profit agencies as health care service providers 1631-2
• Victoria accord, progress to date 1635
Truth in Budgeting Act
• (Bill M202) (Campbell) 1R, 201
• Debate, speakers (Campbell) 201
Tsatsu Shores development project (Tsawwassen)
• Concerns (Gingell) 359-60
• Project (Cashore) 1808, 1844-6 (de Jong) 1808, 1844-5 (Gingell) 802-3, 1845-6 (Ramsey) 803
Tsawwassen, B.C.
• Ferry causeway, public access issues See Tsawwassen terminal under British Columbia Ferry Corporation
Tsawwassen Indian band
• Roberts Bank terminal project, concerns (Gingell) 831 (Ramsey) 831-2
• Tsatsu Shores development project See name of project
Twain, Mark
• Quoted re cigarette smoking (Sanders) 1759
Ty-Crop Manufacturing
• Competitiveness and red tape (Miller) 1222 (Penner) 1221
Tysoe, Charles
• Quoted re monitoring of Workers Compensation Board (Reid) 1648

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