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Province of British Columbia
2nd Session, 36th Parliament
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
March 24, 1997 to March 26, 1998
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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
Jaccard, Mark
- Inquiry into gasoline pricing See British Columbia Inquiry into Gasoline Pricing
- Role in reviewing energy markets (Farrell-Collins) 4933 (Miller) 4892, 4897-8, 4933
Jack, Ian
Jackman Manor, Aldergrove, B.C.
- Future of facility (Coleman) 3396 (MacPhail) 3396
Jagpal, Sarjeet Singh
- Becoming Canadians quoted on Sikh presence in B.C. (Hawkins) 5616
James, Carole
- Public education restructuring report See System, restructuring of B.C. system, 1996 report and recommendations under Education
Janssen, Gerard A. (Alberni)
- Alberni constituency, forest industry in area 4926
- Article re Ted Nebbeling's comments about Port Alberni mayor (Nebbeling) 5061
- Budget debate 2271
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 4926
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3576, 3777-9
- Jobs and timber accord, support 4926
- Liberal Party, policies and position in 1996 polls 2308-9
- Lighthouses, automation of coastal lighthouses 2317-8
- Parksville-Qualicum constituency, Liberal Party campaign contributors 2309
- Port Alberni, support for jobs and timber accord 4926
- Quoted from 1990 re use of interim supply (Weisgerber) 2158
- Safety, marine safety in B.C. 2317-8
- Throne speech debate 2308-10
Jantzen, Don
Janzen, James
- Quoted on Hon. Paul Ramsey's performance as Education minister (Sanders) 3165
Jarvis, Daniel (North Vancouver-Seymour)
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates debate 3484
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2703
- Automobiles
- insurance
- KPMG review 2153, 2186-7
- no-fault insurance for B.C. 2476, 4591, 4763
- no-fault insurance for B.C., costs incurred on advance advertising of option 4605-6
- no-fault insurance, impact on women 2787-8
- no-fault insurance system 2186-7
- private insurers, access to B.C. market 4673
- system 2476-8
- intersection safety cameras, use 6092
- photo radar use in speed monitoring
- traffic accidents
- accident and crash rates in B.C. 4607
- compensation paid to accident victims 6092
- mechanical failure as cause 4673
- prevention 4591
- Bonneville Power Administration, agreement for return of power to B.C. 4167
- B.C. Hydro
- dividend paid to government 6014
- power sales, surplus energy sales outside B.C. 4970
- rate freeze, impact 2475
- B.C., northern B.C., economic development strategy for region 4166-7
- B.C. Transit Corporation, operations, safety of drivers and passengers 5173
- Budget
- debate 2228-32
- 1996-97 budget, balanced-budget claim and NDP election win 2184
- 1997-98 budget, projected deficit 2185
- use of interim supply 4847
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2635-7, 3065-6, 3132-3
- Burnaby, municipal grant reduction 2636
- Business
- business climate in B.C. 2474-5
- competitiveness of B.C. companies 2229
- CanWest Gas Supply Inc., marketing role of company 4165-6
- Coal mining operations 4124, 4129-30
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4759-61, 4763-4
- selection of new commissioner 4759-61, 4763
- Consumers, tax and user fee increases 2476, 2636
- Corporation capital tax
- impact on investment 2229-30
- impact on mining industry 4146
- CounterAttack program 4632-3
- Cream Silver Mines Ltd., compensation case re cancelled mining project 4155
- Debt, public debt during NDP administration 2185, 2187, 2229-31
- Economy, changing nature of B.C. economy 2230-1
- Education
- funding, per-student funding 2475-6
- quality of B.C. system 2231
- Electric power
- cogeneration, use by B.C. companies 6014
- corridors shared with natural gas lines 4167
- energy markets, changes in structure of North America markets 6014
- independent power producers, projects 4971
- marketing and sale of B.C. power 4147-8
- surplus power, disposition 4970
- Employment and Investment ministry
- Employment, jobs strategy for B.C. 2228-32
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates debate 4591-6, 4605-8, 4630-3, 4650-1, 4671-4, 4676-7
- Fisheries
- bulltrout protection 4128-9, 4145-6
- fish habitat, riparian zones and mining activities 4152-3
- Forest industry
- Forest Practices Code policies and jobs for displaced forest workers 2230
- Fuel, propane use as motor fuel, expiration of tax exemption 2637
- Gambling on Indian land, application of provincial laws 3484
- Government
- accounting, shifting of costs to other areas 3132
- provincial-municipal relations, protocol agreement re consultation 2636-7
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2184
- Health care
- funding, adequacy 2475
- regional boards and community councils, representation concerns 3352
- regionalization, impact on current service delivery system 3352
- services, patient's share of practitioner fees 3865-6
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3352, 3865-6, 5172-3
- Highways, road improvements, funding 4592
- Impaired driving, penalties and deterrents 4632-3, 6092
- Indian land claims, impact on mining activities 4125-6, 4147
- Industry, role in B.C. economy 2474-5
- Insurance Corporation of B.C.
- advertising expenditures, allocation 4605-6
- auto-theft reduction initiative 4633, 6092
- brokers, qualifications 4676-7
- claims
- adjusters, use of independent contractors 4671-2
- annual costs 2186
- awards to women 2787-8
- bodily injury claims 4593, 4606
- bodily injury claims, cost breakdown 4673-4
- bodily injury claims, number litigated 4650-1
- property damage claims 4631
- costs, legal and medical costs 4671
- courtesy cars and rates paid to repair shops 4672-3
- financial performance 4605-6
- investment earnings, accounting treatment 4593-6
- mandate, legislated changes 4608
- operations, effectiveness of current policies and practices 4591-2
- pension fund, surplus 4595
- personnel, compensation and benefits 4594, 4677
- policy changes, public consultations 4606-7
- premiums
- affordability 4631
- freeze, value of forgone rate increase 4632
- rates based on distance travelled 4672
- refunds 4595
- responsibility to represent interests of parties alleged to be at fault 4672
- road safety program
- road safety responsibilities transferred from Transportation and Highways ministry 3132
- software development costs 4594-5, 4606, 4630-1
- special investigations unit 4677
- Iron Workers Memorial (Second Narrows) Bridge, expansion and repairs 5173, 5265
- Kiwanis Care Centre, multilevel care facility 3352
- Land Title Act, statement of citizenship requirement 2703
- Legislature, legislative calendar 4759-61, 4764, 4847-8
- Lions Gate Bridge, issues 5265-7
- Lions Gate Hospital, operations review 3352
- McMaster, Herb, dispute with MacMillan Bloedel re mining activity 4156-7
- Mines and mining
- environmental assessment process for mining projects 4125-6, 4128-9, 4146
- land available for mining operations 4129-30, 4132
- mineral development agreement with federal government 4128-9
- mineral exploration code, status 4151
- mineral tenures
- compensation for cancelled Tatshenshini projects 4132
- compensation for expropriated tenures 4155
- mining industry
- Mining Jobs 2000 initiative 4129
- prospectors assistance grants 4128
- reclamation of former mine sites 4153-4
- Mission, municipal grant reduction 2636
- Motor vehicle branch, transfer of functions to Insurance Corporation of B.C. 4606-7
- Municipalities
- grants from provincial government
- amount of grant in future, certainty 2636-7
- reduction 2635-6
- reduction, announcement by provincial government 3065
- survey on NDP government 2637
- NDP government, performance 2231, 3065-6, 4759-61, 4763-4
- North Vancouver
- Parks, mining in parks 4156
- Peat Marwick reports on Insurance Corporation of B.C. 4592, 4605-6
- Physicians, role on regional health boards and community health councils 3352
- Power for Jobs Development Act, debate 6013-4
- Power for Jobs program, program objectives 6013-4
- Prosperity Gold Corp., mining project 4128-9
- Pullinger, Hon. Jan, use of constituency office for federal election campaign 4760
- Resources, resource-based communities, future 2230
- Royal Oak Mines Inc., compensation for cancellation of Tatshenshini project 4132
- School district 44 (North Vancouver)
- funding 2185
- referendum on tax increase 2475
- Schools, janitorial services 2636
- SeaBus, service levels 5172-3
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2184-7
- Supply Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 4847-8
- Taxation
- NDP government claim of no new taxes 2636-7
- policies 4146
- Throne speech debate 2474-8
- Traffic Safety Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6091-3
- Transportation and Highways ministry
- estimates debate 5265-7
- highway maintenance, recording of expenditures 3132
- Tulsequah Chief, mining project proposal 4125-6
- Utah Mines Ltd., mine site on northern Vancouver Island 4154
- Women's Equality ministry, estimates debate 2787-8
- Workers Compensation Board assessments, decision criteria 4154-5
Jeggo, Mike
- Article quoted on expiration of propane tax exemption (Petter) 3077
Jenstad, Earl
- Commended for work on dairy farm inspections (van (Dongen) 3184
Jepson-Young, Peter
- See also Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation
- Achievements as AIDS activist (Sanders) 5993 (Stevenson) 5992-3
Jet fuel
Jeune, Paul
- Contract for communications services (Abbott) 5575 (de Jong) 5574-5 (Farrell-Collins) 5574
- Contract with Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry (Dalton) 5892-3 (MacPhail) 5892-3
J.H. Fraser and Associates
- "A Snapshot of the B.C. Value-Added Industry" cited (Zirnhelt) 5287, 5300
Jiany family
- Gambling addiction case (Hammell) 3381 (Krueger) 3381
J.N. Burnett Secondary School, Richmond, B.C.
- Phase 2 construction (Ramsey) 6139 (Symons) 6138-9
Job Protection Act
- Sunset provision, repeal See Commissioner, extension of mandate under Job Protection Commission
Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 6) (Minister of Employment and Investment) 1R, 2291-2; 2R, 2392-408; C, 2408-16; 3R, 2416; RA, 2455
- Amdt: sec. 1 (Hansen) 2409, ruled out of order 2409
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 2399-401, 2409 (Clark, C.) 2402-3 (de Jong) 2403-5, 2409-11, 2414-5 (Farrell-Collins) 2411-3, 2415-6 (Gingell) 2397-8 (Hansen) 2393-4, 2408-10, 2414 (Hurd) 2398-9 (MacPhail) 2409 (Miller) 2392-3, 2406-8, 2409-16 (Plant) 2414-5 (Sanders) 2401-2 (van Dongen) 2405-6 (Weisgerber) 2396-7 (Wilson, G.) 2395-6
- Impact of revised statutes of B.C. not yet being in force (de Jong) 2415 (Farrell-Collins) 2415-6 (MacPhail) 2415 (Miller) 2415 (Plant) 2415
- Legal advice on out-of-order status of bill (Farrell-Collins) 2415-6 (MacPhail) 2415 (Speaker) 2416
Job Protection Commission
- Annual report quoted on Innovative Waste Technologies Inc. (Hansen) 2409
- Commissioner
- "Fishing for Answers" report quoted on saltwater fishery (Clark, C.) 2403
- Legislation See Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997
- Work of commission (Abbott) 2399 (Miller) 2392-3
Job Start program
Job-poaching
- See Employment and unemployment
Jobs
- See Employment and unemployment
Jobs and timber accord
- Accord (Campbell) 6545-6 (Goodacre) 2421 (Orcherton) 2449 (Zirnhelt) 3129
- Advertising costs (Campbell) 5485-6 (de Jong) 5486-7 (Petter) 5486-7
- Announcements
- announcement of accord (Abbott) 4554 (Clark, G.) 4525 (Dalton) 4562 (Nettleton) 4563, 4565 (Wilson, G.) 4525
- announcements and incentives to support accord (Nebbeling) 4947-8 (Zirnhelt) 4947-8
- mayors' attendance (Nebbeling) 4950-2 (Zirnhelt) 4951-2
- meeting in Kamloops, attendees (Nebbeling) 5177 (Zirnhelt) 5177
- Communications strategy
- Development of accord
- Effectiveness (Nebbeling) 5539 (van Dongen) 2306
- Fibre transfer program (Zirnhelt) 5460
- Financial incentive for companies (Zirnhelt) 4922
- Forest companies' role (Wilson, G.) 5134 (Zirnhelt) 5134
- Forests ministry role (Thorpe) 5031-2 (Zirnhelt) 5031-2
- Four-month notice requirement for company layoffs (Nebbeling) 5111-4, 5119-20 (Zirnhelt) 5111-3
- Goals (Nebbeling) 4988 (Petter) 2107 (Robertson) 4987-9
- Government contribution (Nebbeling) 4884-6, 4888-9 (Zirnhelt) 4885-8
- Impact of accord
- impact on annual allowable cut in Shuswap forest district (Abbott) 5345-6
- impact on existing silviculture contracts (Nebbeling) 5146 (Wilson, J.) 5036-7 (Zirnhelt) 5036-7
- impact on independent loggers (Wilson, G.) 5138-40 (Zirnhelt) 5139-40
- impact on participants in small business forest enterprise program (Wilson, G.) 5138 (Zirnhelt) 5139
- impact on silviculture contractors (Wilson, G.) 5138 (Zirnhelt) 5139
- Investments
- investment in land base (Zirnhelt) 5540
- regional investment plans (Zirnhelt) 4948
- Job creation
- government target (Nebbeling) 5287-9
- government target, basis used (Hansen) 4999-5001 (Nebbeling) 4883-91, 4906-10, 4911-3, 5002 (Zirnhelt) 4884-8, 4890, 4907, 4910, 4911-3, 4999-5001
- government target, basis used, types of jobs (Nebbeling) 4913-5 (Zirnhelt) 4913-5
- impact on existing jobs (Nebbeling) 5117
- job creation (Zirnhelt) 5540-1
- job creation by major companies (Nebbeling) 5018
- jobs (Zirnhelt) 4880
- jobs already created by companies (Nebbeling) 5002 (Zirnhelt) 5002
- jobs for Indians (Zirnhelt) 5034
- jobs in log transport and other indirect jobs (Wilson, J.) 4919 (Zirnhelt) 4919
- jobs in remanufacturing sector (Wilson, J.) 4918 (Zirnhelt) 4918-9, 4924
- jobs in undercut areas (Wilson, J.) 4919
- new work arrangements (Wilson, J.) 5033-4 (Zirnhelt) 5033-4
- number and types of jobs (Nebbeling) 4920-1 (Wilson, J.) 4917 (Zirnhelt) 4917
- number of jobs from small business forest enterprise program, goal (Nebbeling) 5260 (Zirnhelt) 5260
- Jobs accord advocate
- implementation of advocate's recommendations (Nebbeling) 5119-20 (Zirnhelt) 5120-1
- position and role (Nebbeling) 5064, 5066, 5068-9, 5079, 5110-5, 5117-9, 5135-6 (Zirnhelt) 5063, 5068-9, 5135
- reporting by advocate and monitoring of work (Nebbeling) 5066 (Zirnhelt) 5066, 5120
- staff (Nebbeling) 5066, 5068, 5135-6
- Monitoring of government action (Nebbeling) 5063, 5066, 5068
- Pilot projects on community forest licences (Wilson, J.) 5034-5 (Zirnhelt) 5034-5
- Regulatory changes in Forest Practices Code See Forest Practices Code
- Role of accord in layoff procedure (Nebbeling) 5069-71 (Zirnhelt) 5069-71
- Separation of accord and Forest Practices Code (Wilson, G.) 5141 (Zirnhelt) 5141-2
- Statements by Hon. Glen Clark (Nebbeling) 4884, 4886-91, 4911 (Zirnhelt) 4887, 4890, 4911
- Strategic plan (Wilson, J.) 4917 (Zirnhelt) 4917
- Support for accord (Janssen) 4926 (Nebbeling) 4883, 4924, 4947, 5116-7 (Zirnhelt) 5116-7
- Unions' role (Nebbeling) 4922-4 (Zirnhelt) 4923-4
- Wood fibre transfer program (Zirnhelt) 5077
John Howard Society
- Letter quoted on access to employment programs for recently released offenders (Masi) 5878
John Nicol and Associates
- Contract for training of Nisga'a negotiators (Cashore) 3451 (de Jong) 3451
Johnson, Dave
Joplin v. City of Vancouver
- Case cited re police officer's right to counsel (Dalton) 5692
Jordan, Patricia Jane
- Tribute (Throne speech) 2085
Journal of Commerce
- Article cited and quoted on pensions for Island Highway construction project workers (Reitsma) 3096-7
Juan de Fuca Marine Trail
- Visitors, projected volumes (Kasper) 2340
Judges
- Itinerant judges for northern and rural regions (Dosanjh) 2827-8 (Neufeld) 2827-8
- Judiciary's position on changes in court services (de Jong) 2702 (Dosanjh) 2702
Jumbo Creek Road
- Jumbo Pass proposal, environmental assessment (Boone) 5397-8 (Wilson, G.) 5397-8
Jung, Henry
- Quoted on company's electronic bingo system (Krueger) 6113
Justice Institute of British Columbia
- Suicide assessment and intervention training (Cashore) 3200 (Reid) 3200
Justice system
- Alternatives to incarceration See Incarceration alternatives under Corrections system
- Askov decisions See Criminal justice system, criminal trials below
- Child support awards, judicial discretion See Child support guidelines, variances under Family maintenance
- Committee to examine Fraser Valley justice issues (Dosanjh) 2708-9 (Penner) 2708-9
- Costs, recovery levels (Dosanjh) 2644 (Plant) 2644
- Court order enforcement process, need for review (Plant) 3939-40
- Court services
- consolidation (Dosanjh) 2612-4, 2617, 2620 (Plant) 2612-4, 2617, 2620
- court facilities combined with private commercial space (de Jong) 2702 (Dosanjh) 2702
- court facilities, population basis for location (Dosanjh) 2709 (Penner) 2709
- judiciary's position on changes to services (de Jong) 2702 (Dosanjh) 2702
- Parksville-Qualicum area (Dosanjh) 2704-5 (Reitsma) 2704-6
- public expectations (de Jong) 2684-6 (Dosanjh) 2684-6
- staffing for rural areas (Neufeld) 2896-8
- Courthouse closings
- impact on women (Hammell) 2785 (Penner) 2783-5
- sexual assault case cited (Penner) 2785
- Courts See also particular courts, e.g., Small claims court
- ability of court to permit or require mediation as part of a proceeding (Petter) 6302-3 (Plant) 6094-5, 6302-3
- benchers, role (Dosanjh) 2882 (Gingell) 2882
- court fines, collectibility (Dosanjh) 2883-4 (Gingell) 2883 (Plant) 2883-4
- court reporters, replacement with audio technology system (Dosanjh) 2624-6 (Plant) 2624-5
- court system, cost (Neufeld) 2914
- disclosure courts, use (Dosanjh) 2645-7 (Plant) 2645-8
- fees charged for courtwatching programs (Ramsey) 6049 (Sanders) 6048-9
- hearings, preliminary hearings (Dosanjh) 2743
- procedures for ticketable offences, first appearance to set date of hearing (Dosanjh) 4007-8, 5591-3 (Plant) 5591-3
- sentencing, conditional sentences (Dosanjh) 2742 (Plant) 2742
- sittings, evening and weekend sittings (de Jong) 2701-2 (Dosanjh) 2701-2
- sittings, frequency in northern and rural areas (Dosanjh) 2827-8 (Neufeld) 2827-8
- trial by jury of one's peers (Plant) 5676-7
- Criminal justice system
- Crown counsel, workload and performance issues (Dosanjh) 2644-5 (Plant) 2644-5
- Dispute resolution
- use as alternative to courts in vehicle accident claims (Petter) 4638, 4651 (Plant) 4638
- use in civil and family law cases (Dosanjh) 2577
- Electronic technology
- remote appearances, consideration for personal advocacy (Plant) 5791
- use (Dosanjh) 5675 (Plant) 5675-6
- use for Offence Act proceedings (Dosanjh) 5793 (Plant) 5793
- use, impact on rules of evidence (Penner) 5683
- Equal vs. equitable access to justice (Dosanjh) 2616 (Plant) 2615-6
- Evidence seized during execution of a search warrant
- access by person with interest in thing detained (de Jong) 5596 (Dosanjh) 5595-6 (Plant) 5595-6
- detention period (Dosanjh) 4007, 5593-5 (Plant) 5593-5
- final disposition (Dosanjh) 5596-7 (Plant) 5596-7
- report of thing seized, form used to prepare report (Dosanjh) 5595 (Plant) 5595
- report of thing seized may replace thing itself (Dosanjh) 5593 (Plant) 5593
- retaining of copies of original records (Dosanjh) 5596 (Plant) 5596
- treatment of items not named in warrant (Dosanjh) 5594-5 (Plant) 5594-5
- Family justice centres
- Family law See also Family court
- Fugitives from justice See Crime and criminals
- Merging of Vancouver and Westminster judicial districts (de Jong) 5680-1 (Dosanjh) 5675, 5793 (Penner) 5683 (Plant) 5676-7, 5793
- Parole board See British Columbia Board of Parole; National Parole Board
- Public perception (de Jong) 5681
- Reform of system
- Regional justice centres (Dalton) 2620, 2691 (de Jong) 2686-7 (Dosanjh) 2619, 2686-7 (Plant) 2619
- Special prosecutors
- Staff
- risk assessment training (Reid) 2894
- training (Neufeld) 2896
Juzwishin, Donald
- Report on Chilliwack General Hospital board (MacPhail) 3388-9 (Penner) 3388-9
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