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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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Hansard Sittings by Page Number
Kadlec, Bob
Kadonaga, Ken
- Letter quoted on well authorization turnaround times (Miller) 4150
Kaiser Energy Ltd.
- Drilling site, public concerns, petition tabled (Neufeld) 2753
- Oil and natural gas exploration, proximity to residential areas, petition tabled (Neufeld) 3381
- Sour gas well proposal for Fort St. John area (Miller) 4159-61 (Neufeld) 4159-60
Kamloops, B.C.
- B.C. Lottery Corporation head office, potential location (Krueger) 4701-2, 4724 (Miller) 4701-2, 4724
- Child care centre, future (Priddy) 4429 (Stephens) 4429
- Community initiatives (McGregor) 2485
- Health unit testing for disease-causing substances, funding (Krueger) 3604
- Municipal grant reduction (Krueger) 2638-9, 3031-2
- Tourism industry, area attractions (McGregor) 2485
- Water supply, testing responsibility (Hawkins) 3690-1 (Krueger) 3671-2 (MacPhail) 3672, 3690-1
Kamloops constituency
- Issues and concerns (McGregor) 2484-6
Kamloops Daily News
- Quoted on B.C. economy (McGregor) 2484
Kamloops economic development corporation
- Job creation initiatives (McGregor) 2484-5
Kamloops-Thompson school district
Kampman family
- Foster parents' request for mediation with Children and Families ministry (Anderson) 6288-90 (Priddy) 6289
Kanaka Creek Elementary School, Maple Ridge, B.C.
- Year-round schooling pilot project (Ramsey) 6140
Karlsen, Erik
- Quoted on future of B.C. economy (Nettleton) 4424
Kasper, Rick (Malahat-Juan de Fuca)
- B.C. Benefits program, family bonus program 2338-9
- Budget debate 2338-41
- Business, small business
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2338
- Economy, economic development 2339
- Environment, environmental protection initiatives of NDP government 6386-8
- Families, support for B.C. families 2338-9
- Film industry, Vancouver Island opportunities 2340
- Fisheries, management role for B.C. 2340
- Forest industry, jobs 2340-1
- Government bureaucracy and red tape, impact on business 2339-40
- Health care system, two-tiered system 3574-5
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3574-5
- Highway 19, Island Highway construction project, future economic benefits 2339
- Impaired driving, penalties and deterrents 2846-7
- Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, visitors, projected volumes 2340
- Martin, Keith, status as practising physician and Member of Parliament 3674-5
- Motor Carrier Commission, future of commission 2339
- Physicians, billing numbers, residence requirement 3574-5
- Taxation, tax reductions 2338
- Tourism industry, public-private partnership 2340
- Trucking industry, deregulation 2339
- Wine industry, wineries in Malahat-Juan de Fuca constituency 2340
- Workers Compensation Board, problems 2341
- Youth, work on environmental issues 6386-8
Keane, Tom
- Work with B.C. Cancer Agency (Hawkins) 3779 (MacPhail) 3779
Keenleyside Dam
- Hydroelectric project (Farrell-Collins) 6011, 6448 (Miller) 6448
- Water use plan (Clark, C.) 5047 (Miller) 5047
Keith, Rollie
- Quoted on regional health board appointments (Penner) 3387, 3390
Keith Wilson Bridge
- Condition of bridge (Penner) 5214
Kelleher-Ready report
- Construction industry review panel, first interim report See Construction industry
Kelly Road Secondary School, Prince George, B.C.
- Building renovation and addition (Ramsey) 6145
- Smoking policy (Ramsey) 6076
Kelowna, B.C.
- Housing, single-room-occupancies (Coleman) 6124
- Joe Rich area, exclusion from agricultural land reserve (Evans) 4010 (van Dongen) 4010
- Municipal grant reduction (Hawkins) 2862 (Weisbeck) 2725-6
- Rural roads in area, maintenance (Boone) 5434 (Hawkins) 5434
- Transit services, expansion (MacPhail) 5197 (Symons) 5196-7
Kelowna General Hospital, Kelowna, B.C.
Kelowna Secondary School, Kelowna, B.C.
- Building renovation and reconstruction (Hawkins) 6225-7 (Ramsey) 6226-7
- Joint-facilities project with Okanagan University College (Hawkins) 6226-7 (Ramsey) 6226-7
- Need for building improvements (Hawkins) 4849
- Replacement (Ramsey) 3956 (Sanders) 3956
Kemano power project
- Completion project
- cancellation, impact (Giesbrecht) 6565 (Ramsey) 6564-5
- settlement agreement, cost (Gingell) 2141
Kempf, Jack
- Statements on softwood lumber cited (Miller) 5055
Keremeos, B.C.
Kerley, Doug
Kettle Valley area
- Land purchase for park in Myra canyon area (Hawkins) 5832-3 (McGregor) 5832
Kettle Valley Railway Heritage Society
Key, Adel
- Cardiac surgery wait-list case (Hawkins) 2362
Khrushchev, Nikita
- Soviet leader's rise to power (de Jong) 2160
Kidney disease
Kids at Risk program
Kids in the Hall program
- Liquor distribution branch program (Thorpe) 2993
Kienlein, Kevin
- Letter quoted on Vernon lab services (Sanders) 3463
Kilshaw, Dr. Miles F.
- Report on primary health care system See Primary care system under Health care
Kimberley Special Care Home Society
Kin House, Salmon Arm, B.C.
- Youth group home, closing (Abbott) 6479
Kincolith, B.C.
- Connecting road to Greenville See Greenville, B.C.
- Road construction project (Miller) 4816
King, Rob
- Commended for work on behalf of Penticton income assistance clients (Thorpe) 4615
Kingma, Daphne Rose
- Random Acts of Kindness, message of book (Sanders) 3056-7
Kingsley, Cherry
- "Finding Our Way" report on youth
- Work on youth issues (Anderson) 2628, 4566-7, 5620-2 (Gillespie) 5621
Kipling, Rudyard
- Poem, "If," paraphrased by journalist (Reid) 2242
Kitimat, B.C.
- Impact of Kemano completion project cancellation (Giesbrecht) 6565 (Ramsey) 6564
Kiwanis Care Centre, North Vancouver, B.C.
Kiwanis Lodge, West Vancouver, B.C.
- Use for seniors housing (MacPhail) 3350 (Whittred) 3350
Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society
- Role as provider of seniors housing (MacPhail) 3350-1 (Whittred) 3350-1
Klawe, Maria
- Work on women's role in science and technology (Ramsey) 6102 (Sanders) 6102
Klein, Ralph
- Quoted on tobacco taxation (Thorpe) 6116
Klemtu, B.C.
- Ferry service (Miller) 4815
Klopfer, Alex
- "High Technology Industries in B.C.: The Agenda for Growth," report and recommendations (Miller) 4232, 4235 (Reid) 4231-3, 4235-6
Knodel v. British Columbia (Medical Services Commission)
- Medical Services Plan coverage for same-sex couple, case cited (Plant) 5642
Knowledge Network
- "Learning a Living" program (Cashore) 3156, 3190 (Dalton) 3156
- Role (Weisgerber) 3623
Knowledge-based industry
- See Science and technology
Knowles, Stanley Howard
Kootenay area
- Economy (Conroy) 2443-4
- Health care services, West Kootenays beds-designation issue (MacPhail) 3544 (Whittred) 3544
- Issues and concerns (Walsh) 2239
Kootenay School of the Arts
- Training program for value-added industry (Nebbeling) 5303 (Zirnhelt) 5303
Korbin, Judith
- Commission of inquiry into the public service and public sector See name of commission
KPMG
- See Peat Marwick and associated companies
Krueger, Kevin (Kamloops-North Thompson)
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates debate 3437, 3484-7
- Adoption
- disabled adult adoptees, identification of birth parents 6329
- special needs children, post-adoption support 6327-9
- Alcohol, availability in gambling establishments 4309-10
- Ambulance service fees 2554
- Angus Reid Group Inc., polls on gambling expansion 4283-4, 4728
- Attorney General ministry
- Auditor general, report on gambling quoted 2949
- Automobiles
- automobile insurance, no-fault insurance for B.C.
- costs incurred on advance advertising of option 4597-8
- system for B.C. 4601
- driver's licences, minimum age 3965
- traffic safety
- initiatives 2553
- programs in elementary schools 3966
- Barrière, representation on regional health board 3671
- B.C.
- northern B.C., road conditions 2554
- rural regions, political representation 5562
- B.C. Ferry Corporation, Port Hardy-Prince Rupert, shipboard casino gambling 4286
- B.C. Gaming Commission, policies on charity raffles 4386-8
- B.C. Lottery Corporation
- conflict-of-interest policy 4698, 4729
- costs of legal action against Vancouver 4700, 4729
- funding of gambling addiction treatment programs 4706, 4727
- misconduct allegations against corporate personnel 4698-9, 4724
- operations 4369, 4475, 4697-8, 4700-2, 4705-7, 4723-4, 4729
- B.C. 21 program, community projects program, funding 4704
- Budget
- debate 2262-9
- 1996-97 budget, balanced-budget claim and NDP election win 2172
- truth-in-budgeting legislation 2172
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2637-40, 3030-2, 3078-9, 3105-7, 3133
- Bulkley Valley-Stikine constituency, economy 2554
- Chapin, Paul, severance package 2174-5
- Charities, impact of commercial gambling on charitable gaming 2264
- Children
- abandonment of children by parents while gambling 4389
- child protection workers, number 2267
- special needs adopted children, services 3965
- Children and Families ministry
- Children's Commission
- commissioner, mandate and powers 3964-5
- complaint review process, no reprisals against complainants 3965
- Children's Commission Act, debate 3963-6
- Clark, Peter, "Gaming Review: Expansion Options and Implications"
- cost of report 4303, 4347
- input from experts on problem gambling 4304-5
- public consultations 4340-1
- purpose of review 4309
- recommendations 4390
- Clearwater, health care facility 2175, 3572
- Coquihalla Highway 5237
- C“te d'Ivoire, conditions 2553-4
- Crime, automobile theft 5588-9
- Crown corporations, car allowances for executives 3565
- Disease-causing substances, funding for testing 3604
- Drugs
- generic substitutions for proprietary medications 3572-3
- reference-based pricing policies 3572-3
- Elections, allocation and setting of electoral boundaries 5561-3
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5558, 5561-3
- Electoral Boundaries Commission, appointment of commission, timing requirements 5561-3
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4272-9, 4283-6, 4303-14, 4340-51, 4369-76, 4386-90, 4696-702, 4704-7, 4709, 4723-9
- Environics Research Group Ltd., poll on gambling expansion 4278, 4308, 4474
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5767-9
- Fetal alcohol effect/syndrome
- assistance and services available to adoptive parents 6327-9
- classification as a disability 6329
- handling of cases in school system 3965
- needs of affected children 2173
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry
- estimates debate 4474-5, 4596-605, 4642-7
- cabinet policy and communications secretariat, role in lottery advertising 4475
- Forest industry
- forest roads, concerns re water bars 5077
- job loss 6157
- remanufacturing industry, wood supply 5077
- salvage log operations
- Kamloops-North Thompson area case 6159-60
- pilot projects 5076
- regulatory requirements for operators 5076
- silviculture contractors, quality of workmanship 5076
- woodlot program, increase and goals 5078
- Forest Practices Code
- amendments, stakeholder consultation 6158-60
- impact on industry 6157-8
- Forest Renewal B.C.
- administrative costs 2555
- budget for recreational projects, reduction 2554
- fencing along roads to recreation areas 5500
- investment plans 3062
- projects, qualification of displaced workers, union membership question 5076
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5076-8, 5500
- Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- Fuel, propane use as motor fuel, expiration of tax exemption 2637-8, 3078-9, 3105-6
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling
- costs and consequences 2552, 2664-6, 3672-5, 3688-90, 4276, 4277-8, 4311-2, 4342, 4370-2, 6112-4, 6405-6
- impact on children 3963-5
- impact on families 2432
- impact on women 3381
- issues and treatment 6403-6, 6432-4
- treatment, ministerial responsibility 4576
- treatment programs 2949, 2952, 4305-6, 4372-5
- bingo, linked bingo 4312-3
- casinos
- charity raffles 4386-8
- Club Keno
- crime and gambling 2267, 2269, 2948-9, 4276, 4342-4, 4347, 4376, 4388-9, 5641
- expansion in B.C.
- expansion 2639, 4629, 6404
- government policy 3437, 3484-7
- hard-core vs. soft-core gaming 4277
- impact on charitable gaming operations 4344-6
- impact on crime rate 5735
- impact on income assistance caseload 4575-6
- impact on jobs 4287
- impact on municipal costs 3603
- impact on police and court resources 2947-9
- impact on women 2664-6
- issues and concerns 2174, 2262-9
- job creation projections 4351, 4369
- legislative authority 4342-4
- Liberal Party position 4286, 4307, 4386
- ministers' input into government's plans 3966
- NDP MLAs' positions 3964
- opinion polling 4474
- petition tabled 2433
- prior consultations 4375
- public input and referendums 4307
- public position 6409
- request-for-proposal process 4284
- social and economic impacts 4310-2, 4341, 4346-7, 4349, 4371-2
- use of term "modest" to describe increased gaming opportunities 4369-70
- gambling by Indians 2953, 6404
- gambling on Indian land
- government policy 2113, 2262-8
- illegal or "grey" electronic gaming machines 4343
- impact on small businesses in area 4287
- income levels of players 4349
- internet gambling 4213
- jurisdictional authority of province 4310, 4340, 4345-6, 4348-51, 4704-5
- Liberal Party policy 2262, 2269
- link with family violence 2269
- lotteries, children as purchasers or recipients of lottery tickets 4709
- Minnesota gambling expansion, Star Tribune article 2948
- NDP MLAs' positions 2262-6
- NDP position while in opposition and as government 4272-4
- recreational activity and gambling 4349
- research 6406, 6433
- revenues
- benefits from gambling revenues 6405-6
- projected increase 4351
- retaining and attracting of gambling dollars 4275
- revenues to government 4284-5, 4347, 4369-70, 4704
- revenue-sharing between local and provincial governments 3604, 4348
- revenue-splitting between government and charities 4344-6
- role in tourism industry 4286
- security against theft in gaming establishments 3280-1
- slot machines
- video lottery terminals 4274, 4278, 4303
- Government
- accounting, off-budget recording of expenditures 2173
- regional communications offices, staffing 4475
- revenues, gambling profits used to fund government programs 2263, 2268
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2172
- Guiding and packing activities, concerns 5767-8
- Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5866-7
- Health care
- capital projects planning 3571-2
- continuing and long-term care, funding 3572
- costs to system of expanded gambling in B.C. 3672-5
- regional health boards and community health councils
- member selection, role of community 5866-7
- resource allocation decisions 3670-1
- regionalization
- wait-lists and waiting times, residential care for seniors 3571
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3571-3, 3670-5, 3688-90
- Heffley Creek, road-salt contamination of water wells 5319
- Highway 5
- Kamloops-Clearwater section, passing lanes 5236
- paving project north of Little Fort, case cited 5236-7
- Highway 24, Little Fort bypass 5236
- Highways and roads
- construction projects, contractor responsibilities 5236-7
- contractors, responsibilities 5237
- funding grants to municipalities 6350
- rehabilitation, pavement age and per-kilometre costs 5318-9
- secondary highways, withdrawal of provincial funding 6349-50
- Horse-racing industry, impact of gambling on industry 2264, 4349
- Hospitals, severance for displaced executive personnel 2174-5, 3670
- Hughes, Ted, ruling on right to ask questions on Insurance Corporation of B.C. during estimates process 4647
- Human Resources ministry, estimates debate 4575-6
- Insurance Corporation of B.C.
- advertising expenditures, allocation 4597-8
- brokers, number 4599-600
- claim reserves, amount 4643-4
- claims
- bodily injury claims 4598-9
- number 4597
- unpaid claims 4604
- windshield repairs and replacements 4642
- windshield repairs pilot project 4603-4
- costs, legal costs 4598-9
- financial performance 4601-2, 4643
- investment earnings, accounting treatment 4644-5
- management 2553
- management ombudsman, role 4647
- operations, expense ratio 4600
- parts purchases, prices paid as volume buyer 4642-3
- personnel
- costs of pay equity adjustments 4600-1
- employee absenteeism rate 4605, 4645-6
- performance incentives 4605
- post-retirement benefits 4601
- severance packages for managers 4646-7
- premiums
- freeze, administration costs 4645
- freeze, cost of reimbursement cheques 2638
- freeze, value of forgone rate increase 4596-7, 4643-4
- rates based on vehicle damageability 4602-3
- regional loss-experience rating system 4596-7, 4603
- road safety program, objectives 4598, 4601-2, 4604-5
- road safety responsibilities transferred from Transportation and Highways ministry 2638, 3133
- software development costs 4599
- vendor authorization policies, glass repairers 4642
- Jiany family, gambling addiction case 3381
- Kamloops
- location potential for B.C. Lottery Corporation head office 4701-2, 4724
- municipal grant reduction 2638-9, 3031-2
- water supply, testing responsibility 3671-2
- Legislation, omnibus bills, use by NDP government 2637
- Legislature
- estimates process, ministers' responses to opposition questions 4707
- language used in House, use of term "hypocrisy" 2262-3
- members, references to presence or absence of other members 5562
- Lipsey, Richard, report on gambling expansion 4629
- MLAs' opportunity for debate on gambling expansion 2266
- Meunier, Arthur, father's problem gambling described in letter 2268-9
- Millar, John, statements on social impact of legalized gambling 2266-7
- Minnesota, gambling legalization, costs and consequences 4375
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6349-50
- Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5588-9
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3602-4
- Municipalities
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, repayment of funds to charities 2262
- NDP government
- competency 5561-3
- consultations with public and others 3031, 6158-9
- financial management 2172-3
- management of health care system 5866-7
- MLAs' support for government policies 3031
- public perception 2637
- trust issue 3078
- Nurses, continuing-care nurses, qualifications 3571
- Park Amendment Act, 1997
- Parks, new and expanded parks and protected areas, consultation 5960-2
- Paul Creek Slicing Ltd., wood supply for value-added plant 5077
- Peat Marwick report on gambling expansion
- Police and policing
- high-speed chases, pursuit guidelines 5588-9
- policing costs and gambling 2267
- Pollard Banknote Ltd., lottery ticket printing contract for Kamloops firm 2555, 4274, 4287, 4728 (Miller) 2433, 3956, 4274
- Position on gambling (Boone) 2548-9 (Lali) 2517 (Miller) 3622 (Sihota) 2481
- Recreation, fishing resorts
- increase in assessed value of leased property 5768-9
- revenue to government 5769
- Request for meeting with Hon. Dan Miller 2555
- Road Sense program 4598, 4602
- Royal Inland Hospital
- emergency ward upgrade 3671
- operations 2174-5
- severance for former chief executive officer 3670
- Seniors
- care facilities 2173-4
- health care needs, funding levels 3572
- Simonis, Guy, availability to answer questions during estimates debate 4699-700
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates debate 4286-7
- Social service tax refunds, minimum refundable 2638
- Spahats Creek Park, status of park 5960-1
- Status as Insurance Corporation of B.C. employee, right to ask questions during estimates 4647 (Petter) 4647
- Sun Peaks at Tod Mountain, access road to resort, need for fencing 5500
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2172-5
- Throne speech
- Tobacco Damages Recovery Act, debate 6112-4
- Tobacco industry, liability for smoking-related health care costs 4373, 6112-4
- Transportation and Highways ministry
- University of B.C., centre for addiction studies 3674-5, 3688-9, 4374
- Vancouver, international reputation 4276
- Violence
- family violence and gambling 2269
- television violence 5220
- Water quality, safe drinking water, responsibility 3671-2
- Wildlife conservation officers, number of officers 5768
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2664-6
- minister, role as champion for women's issues 2665
- Youth, gambling by young people 2267, 2948, 2952, 6112-3
Ktunaxa-Kinbasket people
- Destination resort project (Walsh) 2239
Kunin, Roslyn
- Review of fair-wage policy cited (Boone) 5203, 5240
- Statement on skills upgrading cited (Hansen) 2365
Kwan, Jenny Wai Ching (Vancouver-Mount Pleasant)
- Abortion, positions of Liberal Party MLAs 2814
- APEC (Asia-Pacific economic cooperation), B.C. as host of 1997 conference 2093
- B.C., role as gateway to Pacific Rim 2093-4
- Canada, Chinese Canadians, contribution 5223-4
- Children, poverty among children 2095
- Citizenship, establishment of Canadian citizenship provisions, 50-year anniversary 3609
- Commemoration Week, recognition of Canada's Chinese pioneers 5222-4
- Crime, stalking and criminal harassment 2814
- Democracy, right to vote in Canada 3609
- Education, protection of B.C. system 2094
- Employment, jobs for B.C. workers 2094-5
- Eriksen, Bruce, tribute 2093
- Europe-East Asia Economic Summit, B.C. participation 2093-4
- Fisheries, protection and preservation of Pacific salmon fishery 2094-5
- Forest industry, future jobs 2094-5
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2814
- Health care, protection of B.C. system 2094
- Housing
- funding from federal government 6125-6
- social housing, urban needs 2632-4
- Immigration, Chinese immigration to Canada, history 3609, 5222-4
- Indians, future opportunities 2095
- Infrastructure investment for future growth 2094-5
- Portland Hotel, housing project 6125
- Position on gambling expansion while on Vancouver city council (Chong) 2824 (Stephens) 2818
- Privilege, reserving right to raise matter respecting comments by Ted Nebbeling 2111
- Quoted on gambling expansion (Krueger) 2264
- Recycling, deposit-refund system for beverage containers 2094
- Reid, Linda, position on the appointment of women to government board vacancies 2814
- Throne speech debate 2093-5
- Vancouver
- downtown area housing 2632-4
- housing
- protection of affordable housing stock 6125
- single-room-occupancies, condition 6125
- Woodward's redevelopment project 2632-4
- Vancouver Charter Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6124-6
- Violence, family violence 2849
- Wages, minimum wage 2814
- Women, appointments to government board vacancies 2814
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2814
- free-standing ministry, Liberal Party position 2814
- World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention, B.C. to host 1997 convention 2093
- Youth, jobs for young people 2095
Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C.
- Students turned away before 1991 election of NDP (Hammell) 2349
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