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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
M. v. H.
- Ontario Family Law Act, case cited re definition of "spouse" (Plant) 5642, 5737
McAlpine Bridge
- Condition of bridge (Barisoff) 5209 (Boone) 5209
McArthur, Doug
- Meeting re conflict-of-interest legislation (Gingell) 4757
- Participation in Forest Sector Strategy Advisory Committee (Zirnhelt) 5023-4
McBean, Marnie
- Commended for athletic achievements (Throne speech) 2085
McClary Stockyards Ltd.
- Letter cited re regulated-area status for Fraser Valley (van Dongen) 5720-1
McDade, Greg
- Report cited on environmental conditions in water licences (Clark, C.) 6203
McDonald and Chamak v. School district 61
MacDonald Elementary School, Summerland, B.C.
MacDonald family
- Son's ski-lift death (Farnworth) 3710 (Waddell) 3708
McElligott, Paul (President and chief executive officer, B.C. Rail Ltd.)
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 5094-6, 5100
- Environment, environmental appeals, sulphur spill in Mackenzie area, disposition 5100
- Vancouver Wharves Ltd., rail yard project, loop track component 5095-6
- WesTel Telecommunications Ltd., operations 5094
Macey, Nancy
- Quoted on hospice care (Gingell) 4423
McGrath, Wayne
- Letter quoted on impact on Vernon of municipal grant reduction (Sanders) 2723
McGregor, Hon. Cathy (Kamloops)
Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks
- Aboriginal Affairs Committee, report and recommendations on Indians and wildlife management issues 5763-5
- Agriculture
- manure management on farms 5709-10
- pest control
- enforcement of pest control and pesticide-use regulations 5926
- environmental impact of pesticide use 5477
- pest management on private and public lands 3444-5, 3735, 5925-6
- pesticide use, permits 3444-5
- Air
- air quality
- monitoring and monitoring sites 5730
- pollution prevention 5476-7
- greenhouse gas levels
- Environment ministry action plan 5762
- Environment ministry action plan and commitment to reduce emissions 5725-8, 5730-2, 5756
- levels in lower mainland 5755-6
- reduction 5702-6
- AirCare program 5704-5
- Aquasource Ltd., water licence, future 5567
- Automobiles, alternative-fuel and zero-emission vehicles 5702-4
- Barnston Island, residents' concerns re garbage pile 5723
- Battery recycling 5710-2
- Bear Brewing Co. Ltd., business 2484
- Bears, handling by conservation staff 5702
- Biodiversity protection 5613-4
- Bison herd at Pink Mountain, management 5765-6
- B.C. Ferry Corporation vessels, fast ferries, emissions concerns 5706
- B.C. Ground Water Association, concerns re water information system 5571-2
- B.C. Hydro
- B.C. Paint Care Association, recycling and disposal work commended 5476
- B.C. Wildlife Federation, recommendations re angling fee increase 5664
- Brothers Creek, protection 6207
- Burns Bog, protection of area 5672-3, 5696-7
- Burrard Thermal power station
- emissions, impact on lower mainland air quality 5731-2, 5755-6
- environmental assessment 5731
- Campground reservation system, refund policy for cancellations 5839
- Cariboo-Chilcotin land use plan, socioeconomic concerns 5844-5
- Cartography, digital maps produced by government, access by non-government organizations 5771
- Cawston area, toxic waste dump, monitoring 2293-4
- Cheakamus River fish stocks, impact of B.C. Hydro activities 5545-9, 5602-3
- Cottonwood River property, land trade proposal 5838
- Crown land
- registry, transfer of responsibility for registry 3444, 3735-6
- sales, projected revenue 5772-3
- Cypress Provincial Park, issues 5797-9
- Dams
- applications for bank-to-bank dams, current applications 6167, 6172
- irrigation dams, restrictions 6170
- prohibition of new dams on protected rivers 6168, 6172
- Divers Lake area as potential park 5837-8
- Doerksen, George, tribute re bear habitat work 5701-2
- Education funding, inner-city school funding 2486
- Environment
- environmental protection
- environmental youth teams
- policies and actions of NDP government 5846
- pollution abatement improvements tax exemption incentive 5724, 5726
- sustainable environment fund, revenues and expenditures 5700-1, 5710-2, 5724-5
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry
- estimates debate 5475-83, 5505-23, 5541-52, 5565-72, 5597-614, 5632-8, 5659-73, 5696-712, 5722-32, 5755-73, 5793-9, 5830-46, 6567
- annual operating plans for regional offices 5543
- budget
- budget for environmental protection 5523
- reductions in regional and headquarters operations 5480-3
- changes to regulations and permitting system 5509-10, 5520-22, 5567, 5668-70
- corporate policy branch, mandate 5706
- funding
- access to Forest Renewal B.C. revenues 3279-80
- funding for youth employment 5515-7
- funding allocations for regions 5481-3, 5513-4, 5543-5
- Lands branch
- Fort St. John, workload backlog 5796-7
- workload backlog 5507-9
- workload backlog in Fort St. John office 5519-22
- legal disputes, internal assessment process 5567
- mapping branch, reorganization 5771-2
- minister
- office budget 5544-5
- role in fish protection, potential conflict 6207
- multiculturalism action plan 5569-70
- Parks branch
- advertising budget 5837
- budget for new park planning and implementation 5834-6
- staffing 5830-1
- pollution prevention officers, number 5511
- regional and headquarters operations, budget reductions 5505-14
- regional operations
- budget allocations 5513-4
- budget reductions 5506
- funding for enforcement activities 5509
- travel restrictions on field staff 5509
- reorganization
- resource stewardship branch, role 5514
- spending statistics on regulatory functions 5510
- staff reduction
- reductions 5517-8
- reductions in Omineca-Peace region 5518
- vehicles, number of natural-gas-powered vehicles 5702-3
- water management branch
- legal action re Freil Lake water licence 5567
- provision of service to public 5566-7
- staffing and budget 5566
- work of ministry 5475-8
- Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- Environment Week, celebration 3771-2
- Environmental Appeal Board
- 1996-97 annual report tabled 6109
- appeal process for environmental legislation
- changes 3445, 3735
- costs to appellant 5922
- notification to appellants of right of appeal 5926-7
- premediation provision 5922-3
- expertise of board 3735, 5923-4
- Ethanol production, economic viability 5635-6
- Eurasian milfoil, control 5609-13
- Fish Protection Act
- Fisheries
- B.C. fisheries strategy 5964
- fish habitat protection
- protection of endangered stocks at B.C. Hydro facilities 5636-7
- sport fishing industry
- angling fee increase 5662-7
- angling fee revenues, disposition 2153, 5663-5
- consultations with government on industry concerns 5665-7
- Forest Renewal B.C., funding
- allocations for displaced forest workers 5842
- funding for environmental organizations 6007-8
- redirecting of funds to non-forestry uses 3279-80
- use of funds by Environment ministry 5839-43, 5845
- Fraser Basin Council, work of council 5604
- Fraser Valley
- water levels in aquifers 5570
- water quality, Environment ministry agricultural practices guidelines 5570-1
- Fuel, alternative-fuel vehicles 5702-4
- Gillespie, Evelyn, role in consultations with sport fishing industry 5665-6
- Government purchasing, green purchasing policy, status 5672
- Gravel, availability in northeast B.C. 5550
- Guiding and packing activities
- Habitat conservation fund
- funding allocations, use 5542
- funding for kokanee enhancement program 5610
- purpose and operation of fund and Habitat Conservation Trust fund 5660-1
- revenue from angling fees to trust fund 5662, 5664-5
- Hazardous products
- industrial stewardship model 5476
- spills, cost recovery from polluters 3445, 3735
- Highways and roads
- provincial road data management system 5709
- rest stops, Deadmans Lake facility 5609
- Hunting
- limited-entry hunting 5632-4
- moose hunting, horn configuration requirement and inadvertent kills 5634
- offences committed by out-of-province hunters 5770
- revenues from licence fees 5762
- Hunting, game hunting on private land 5767
- Indians, hunting rights and entitlements 5632-3
- Kamloops
- community initiatives 2485
- economic development corporation, job creation initiatives 2484-5
- economic development in area 2484-5
- Kamloops constituency, issues and concerns 2484-6
- Kettle Valley area park 5832
- Lac du Bois Grasslands Park, establishment and allowable activities 5834-6
- Land Act, consequential amendments from Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997 3444
- Land use
- land set aside for protection, 12 percent figure 5929
- land use planning process
- community resources boards, role 5773, 5793-4
- environmental group involvement 5773
- protected-areas strategy 5476
- Lloyd George Elementary School, building renovation 2486
- Mahood, F.R., land leasing case 5770
- MLAs, behaviour in Legislature 2483-4
- Metalex Products Ltd.
- Meziadin Lake Provincial Park, campground construction, impact on fish habitat 5845
- Mission Creek, flooding 5605-6
- Morrison Petroleums Ltd., pipeline application 5708-9
- Mount Assiniboine Lodge Ltd., management contract 5833
- Multiculturalism, use of multifaith calendar 5570
- Muskwa-Kechika area, management of area 5635, 5770
- Naramata, irrigation district dispute 5567-8
- Nisga'a agreement-in-principle, land transfer process and public input 2294
- North American Free Trade Agreement, side agreement on environmental protection 5762
- North Enderby Timber Ltd., permit to burn latex paints 5728
- Observe, Record and Report program, purpose 5510
- Oil and gas industry
- guidelines for northeastern B.C. 5707-9
- permit applications, timeliness of approvals 5519-22
- wastewater disposal wells 5599
- Okanagan Lake, mysis shrimp and impact on kokanee salmon 5610
- Orange hawkweed, control 5613
- Osoyoos Lake, pollution concerns 5608-9
- Pacific Marine Heritage Legacy, purchase of Gulf Islands properties for future parks 5476
- Park Amendment Act, 1997
- Parks
- campground access policy for disabled persons 5838-9
- campground construction 5841-2
- management of parks system 6567
- new and expanded parks and protected areas
- new parks
- classification 5833-4
- classification of parks 5797
- planning and management 5834-6
- resource tenure compensation 5794
- park rangers, number 5837
- planning and management 5476-7
- Parksville flats wildlife management area 5697-8
- Parksville-Qualicum constituency, gravel operation at Englishman River 5551-2, 5565
- Peace Valley land set aside for Site C, disposition 5551
- Pesticide Control Act, consequential amendments from Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act (1997) 2586, 3444-5
- Plants, purple loosestrife, control 5610-1
- Provincial emergency program, work 5605
- Recreation
- back-country recreation, licences for hunting, guiding and fishing 5508
- commercial back-country recreation
- fishing resorts
- increase in assessed value of leased property 5768-9
- revenue to government 5769
- Recycling
- contractor services
- expenditures 5701
- monitoring of contractors 5701
- deposit-refund system for beverage containers 2487, 5476, 5757-61
- incentive plans for regional districts 5672
- plastic products, government standards and specifications 5672
- programs, industrial stewardship model 5725
- Revelstoke, snow disposal in Columbia River 5728
- Richmond mid-island dike, status 5604
- River-rafting on Tatshenshini River 5797
- Rivers and streams
- list of protected rivers in Fish Protection Act 6169-71
- protection of riverbanks and stream banks 5607-8
- river guardian program 5482-3
- stream flow protection
- determination of sufficient flow 6209
- licensing process 6209-10
- stream flow, temporary reductions in case of drought 6210-1
- streamside protection by municipalities, provincial directives 6212
- Roberts Lake, flooding 5667
- Royal Inland Hospital, day care centre 2485-6
- Sage Mesa water district, court case 5566
- Scrap It program, number of vehicles scrapped 5705-6
- Snakes, importation of venomous snakes 5763
- Throne speech debate 2483-7
- Tourism industry, Kamloops area attractions 2485
- Trucking industry, tanker trucks, scrubbers, regulations 5701
- Waste management
- community involvement 5729
- contaminated sites
- assessments 5723
- implementation of legislation and regulation 5699
- legislation 5511
- remediation plans 5722
- landfills, bear fencing around sites 5766
- plan for greater Vancouver regional district 5671
- plans by regional districts 5670-1, 5671
- plans, cost impact on smaller communities 5729-30
- sewage pollution prevention, Victoria harbour and Gorge waterway 5699-700
- Waste Management Act, consequential amendments from Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997 2586, 3445
- Water
- government action plan on water quality issues 5598-600
- groundwater
- groundwater protection maps 5598
- legislation and water quality issues 3063
- monitoring of industrial facilities and wastewater disposal 5598
- need for legislation 5598-600
- management, use and planning
- quality
- utilities, management models 5567-8
- water licences
- complaints re licensees, investigation process 5601-3
- consideration of upstream and downstream impact 6207
- environmental provisions 5545-9, 5603
- impact on fish 6174
- length of terms of licences 6208
- licensing decisions, regional water manager's considerations 6203-4
- monitoring by Environment ministry 5603
- number 5600-1, 6174-5
- proposals with adverse impacts, compensation measures 6208
- review of major licensees 5602-4, 6174, 6567
- review of major licensees and water use planning process 5545-9, 5636-7
- water systems used by B.C. Hydro, review by Peter Ward 5662
- well record system 5571-2, 5597
- well-driller certification 5597-8
- Water Act, "debris," definition 6213
- Water comptroller, power to attach conditions to licences 6204
- Watersheds
- Bootjack Lake watershed, logging and mining issues 5568-9
- restoration projects, Forest Renewal B.C. funding 3279-80
- Whistler Land Co., role in marketing of Crown land 5772, 5794-5
- Wildlife
- endangered species 5762-3
- wildlife management areas, designation and stream flow protection, concern re private land 6213
- Wildlife conservation officers
- Wood waste, beehive burner phase-out program 5702
- Youth
- Zebra mussels, spread in B.C. 5614
McInnes, Thomas R.
- Quoted from 1898 on completion of Parliament Buildings (Throne speech) 6582
McKinnon, Bonnie (Surrey-Cloverdale)
- Adoption
- Adoption Act, 1995 amendments 6292-3
- Attorney General ministry
- estimates debate 2676-7
- relationship with children's commissioner 2677
- Automobiles, photo radar use in speed monitoring, cost 2336
- Barnston Island, residents' concerns re garbage pile 5723
- Boundary Park Elementary School, construction of new school 6144-5
- B.C., northern B.C., needs of residents 2338
- Budget debate 2336-8
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2729-30
- Child, Family and Community Service Amendment Act, 1997
- Children
- child abuse, ministry handbook on case handling 6468
- child care
- child-staff ratios 6332
- fee and wage subsidy programs 6331-2
- weekend and 24-hour care 6331
- child deaths, prevention, recommendations for future action by social workers 2676
- child development centres, status of establishment of community-based centres 6472
- child poverty 4989-90
- child protection
- complaints mechanism re delivery of child welfare services 6470
- conflict resolution in family conferences 6489
- file transfer policy and information sharing 6469-70
- Gove commission recommendations 6467-72
- Gove commission recommendations, implementation 6489
- national child-history database 6469
- NDP government's actions 2251, 2536
- quality assurance plan 6470
- supervision order time limits and procedures 6488
- child protection workers 6469-71
- proposed federal-provincial programs for early intervention and enrichment 6471-2
- Children and Families ministry
- estimates debate 6268-70, 6292-3, 6325-7, 6331-2, 6467-72, 6536-7
- contract reform project 6472
- establishment of ministry 2893
- information systems, compatibility of computer systems among staff 6327
- information systems, computerized information management system 6468-9
- mandate, status of Gove commission's mandate recommendations 6472
- relationship with children's commissioner 2677
- responsibilities
- integration of youth corrections with other government services in regional offices 2893
- Children's Commission
- commissioner
- independence 2676, 3957, 3973
- informing individuals of decisions 3998
- investigation powers, multidisciplinary team 3996
- mandate and powers 3992-3
- term of office 3972
- deputy commissioners 3972, 4004
- guiding principles, provision of services 3992
- Children's Commission Act, debate 3957-8, 3972-3, 3992-3, 3996, 3998, 4004, 4007
- Civil service size, staff numbers 2336
- Clayton Secondary School, design and construction of new school 6143
- Cloverdale Heights Day Care Centre, closing 6332
- Commission of inquiry into child protection, recommendations 2893
- Consumers
- tax and user fee increases 2730
- taxes and user fees 2336-7
- Cornerstone Manor, residential addictions-treatment program 4617-8
- Correction Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2893
- Corrections system, probation officers, training for handling children and youth 2893
- Coyote Creek Elementary School, construction of new school 6144-5
- Crown corporations, debt 2336
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- adult programs and services 6326
- special needs children 6325-6
- support workers, qualifications and training standards 6326
- youth transition to adult programs 6325-6
- Earl Marriott Secondary School, building addition 6144
- Eden, Christine, recovery house case 6507
- Education funding
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 5983-5, 6142-5
- Elections, allocation and setting of electoral boundaries 5581-2
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1996, purpose of 1996 legislation 5581
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5581-2
- Electoral Boundaries Commission, appointment of commission, timing requirements 5581
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5723
- Flanders, Mavis, monitoring of case by Children and Families ministry, internal review of case 2251
- Foster care
- Indian children in non-Indian foster homes 2853
- issues 6268-70
- violent children and youth 6270
- Fraser Heights Secondary School, construction of new school 6143-4
- Gambling
- expansion in B.C., impact on local economy 2337
- recording of MLAs' support for gambling expansion 2337
- Government accounting, off-budget recording of expenditures 2336
- Guardianship, regionalization of authority to decide issues of guardianship 6472
- Highway 19, Island Highway construction project, fair-wage policy and workers' pension contribution 2337
- Human Resources ministry
- estimates debate 4488-9, 4617-9
- client confidentiality and release of information 4489
- regional offices, attitude of staff toward income assistance recipients 4488-9
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Act, debate 6256-7
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Commission, operations 6256-7
- Legislature
- legislative calendar 4833
- recall of House
- Mental health, services for mentally ill parents with mentally ill children 6537
- Municipalities
- grants from provincial government 2338, 2729-30
- services provided to provincial facilities 2729
- Murphy family, foster care for Indian child 2853
- NDP government
- consultations with public and others 6256
- financial management 2205-6
- performance 4833
- Pelletier, Sean, suicide case 2536
- Poverty, being poor in B.C. 4989-91
- Princess Margaret Secondary School, building reconstruction 6145
- Provincial Apprenticeship Board, effectiveness 6256
- Queen Elizabeth Senior Secondary School, building demolition and reconstruction 6145
- Recovery houses, government role 6507
- School district 36 (Surrey)
- Schools, efficiencies and cost-reduction strategies, use of modular buildings in school construction 6142-3
- Social welfare system
- financial assistance workers, recruitment and training 4488-9
- income assistance
- Social workers
- caseload review project 6468, 6537
- field equipment upgrade 6537
- occupational health and safety 6536-7
- staffing and turnover 6537
- supervision and performance assessment 6470
- Substance abuse/addiction, residential treatment programs 4617-8
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2205-6
- Supply Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 4833-4
- Surrey, municipal grant reduction 2729
- Surrey-Cloverdale constituency
- growth, impact on education facilities 2337-8
- schools, capital projects freeze 2206
- Teachers, collective agreement, government funding for salaries and benefits 5983
- Technical University of B.C., operation 6277
- Technical University of British Columbia Act, debate 6277
- Trades, provincial credentialling 6256
- Wee Watch Private Home Day Care, request to change child-staff ratio 6332
- William F. Davidson Elementary School, school reconstruction 6145
- Women in poverty 4989-90
McLachlin, Beverley M.
- Quoted on right to vote in Canada (Plant) 5553
McLeod Lake Indian band
- Land claim negotiations (Weisgerber) 2503
- Treaty
- certainty language (Cashore) 3490 (Weisgerber) 3490
- negotiated settlement (de Jong) 3492
- settlement, federal-provincial cost-sharing agreement (Cashore) 3490-1 (Weisgerber) 3490-1
- status of negotiations (Cashore) 3489-92 (de Jong) 3489 (Weisgerber) 3489-92
McLintock, Barbara
- Article quoted on grandparents' rights re access to grandchildren (Reid) 3271
- Comments on economy of B.C. cited (Waddell) 2131-2
McLure, Leonard
- 1866 speech of former B.C. MLA cited (Abbott) 6583
McMaster, Herb
- Dispute with MacMillan Bloedel re mining activity (Jarvis) 4156-7 (Miller) 4156-7
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.
- Annual report, 1996, quoted on logging costs (Weisbeck) 2522
- Investment plans (Gingell) 3061 (Zirnhelt) 3061
MacMillan, H.R.
- Quoted re independent forest companies (Wilson, G.) 5139, 5144
MacMinn, E. George
- Parliamentary Practice in British Columbia
- cited on question period (Speaker) 3039
- gender-neutral language (Speaker) 2252
- quoted on privilege matters (Speaker) 2315
McMorran, Bud
- Quoted re economic growth (Miller) 2559
McNeil, Gordon
- Drug for multiple sclerosis, case cited (Robertson) 2303
MacPhail, Hon. Joy K. (Vancouver-Hastings)
Minister of Health and Minister Responsible for Seniors
- Abbotsford, transit services 5009-11
- AIDS
- HIV/AIDS programs and services for women 3581-2
- provincial strategy 3643-6, 3691
- Alcohol, mandatory warning/advisory labelling of products 3664-5
- Ambulance service
- air ambulance services 3876-7
- paramedic services 3868-70, 3895
- response times and hospital emergency services 3857-9
- response times and hospital waiting times 3872-4
- services fees 2153
- use for alcohol- and drug-related cases 3866, 3874-5
- vehicle reliability 3877
- Armstrong, bus service between Armstrong and Vernon 5197
- Auditor general
- recommendations on mental health services 3467
- reports
- B.C. Transit Corporation 5129-30, 5160, 5162
- collection of personal information by Ministry of Health 5854
- severance practices in government ministries and Crown corporations 5695
- study of 1990-95 severance packages 5168
- Automobile insurance, no-fault insurance, government plans 4763
- Barrass, Brenda, suicide case 3469
- BarriŠre, representation on regional health board 3671
- Better Teamwork, Better Care model for health care services delivery 3282-3, 3298-9, 3342-4
- Blood supply system
- Bombardier Inc., contract with B.C. 5013, 5159-60
- Braemore Lodge, staff work stoppage 3479
- Brewin, Gretchen, appointment as Deputy Speaker 2089
- B.C. Ambulance Service
- administration of provincial services 3770-1
- call volumes and staffing levels 3874-5
- dispatch system 3871, 3874
- emergency calls vs. transfer services 3875-6
- equipment needs 3877
- first-responder protocols 3876
- operations 3874
- patient safety 3877-8
- staffing issues 3868-71
- B.C. Association of Private Care Facilities (Pricare), meeting with Health minister 3351, 3386
- B.C. Breast Cancer Foundation 3580
- B.C. Cancer Agency
- B.C. Centre for Disease Control
- conference on flesh-eating disease 3573
- languages used by centre 3669
- status under regionalized health care system 3902
- B.C. Chiropractic Association, study of chiropractic services 3827
- B.C. Ferry Corporation, bus services to ferry terminals 5197
- B.C. Housing Management Commission, role 3514-5
- B.C. Medical Association
- agreement on proration of physician overbillings 3707-8
- physician supply measures 6196, 6201, 6320-1
- physicians' agreement with government, cost 2217
- B.C., northern B.C.
- B.C. Renal Council, role 3426-8
- B.C. Transit Corporation
- 1996-97 annual report tabled 6508
- accident in Vancouver involving bus wheel 5163-4
- accounting practices 5175-6
- administration costs
- expenses of senior personnel 5172
- reductions 5123
- annual report, 1995-96 report 5121
- awards from public transit industry 5129
- budget overview 5121
- bus driver absenteeism
- absenteeism 3629
- action to alleviate 4039
- level and cost 4143
- business relationships with light rail industry 5127-8
- chair's role 3564
- expenditures
- capital expenditures 5127, 5172
- capital spending recommendations, actions taken 5127-8
- chair's 1996-97 office expenditures 5167
- fare evasion issues 5008-9, 5125-6
- involvement in transportation demand management activities 5128-9, 5198
- labour relations
- collective agreement 4143-5
- collective agreements, negotiations 5160, 5162
- disciplinary actions against transit workers 5165, 5175
- mutual gains bargaining arrangement 5198-9
- union members' concerns re transit operations 5160-1, 5164-5
- use of consultants for labour relations advice 5167-8
- marketing activities 5170
- operations
- bus maintenance and safety issues 5163-5
- effectiveness, evaluation 5129-30, 5160, 5162
- employee productivity, issues and concerns 5160-2
- safety of drivers and passengers 5165, 5173
- security measures for park-and-ride facilities 5166
- performance reporting 5124, 5166-7
- planning
- expansion options, cost-benefit analysis 5122
- funding and governance negotiations with Greater Vancouver Regional District 5121, 5124, 5126, 5129, 5157-9, 6571
- ten-year transit development plan 5007, 5121, 5124, 5128, 5157, 5170-1
- policies
- hiring of relatives 5170
- parking of unattended buses 5164
- revenues 5124-5
- service
- 1997-98 service expansion 5121
- spare-board system 4144
- staffing
- management turnover rate 5169
- severance, issues and concerns 5168-9
- vehicle-leasing policy 3167
- Bruce Denning Bone Marrow Society 3639
- Budget, 1996-97 budget, balanced-budget claim challenged as deliberate misleading of House 2092-3
- Business, limited liability companies, legislative provision 6343
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, charge for transfer of health care facility mortgages 3394-5
- Canadian Blood Agency, funding 3582
- Cancer
- breast cancer
- assessment and diagnostic partnership program 3789
- biopsy surgery wait-lists 3787-9
- programs and services 3580-1
- clinics
- expanded hours, impact on capital equipment 3779-81
- Kelowna clinic support services 3778
- Victoria clinic expansion project 3398, 3835
- Victoria clinic, funding 3835
- lung cancer among women 3578-9
- patients travelling to Bellingham for treatment 3779, 3835
- wait-lists for services 3786, 3823
- Capilano College, Brain Train program for commuters 5011
- Capital health region board
- Capital regional district, role in regionalized health care system 3399-400
- Caregivers Association of B.C., funding 3568
- Centre for Evaluation of Medicines, position on reference pricing of heart drugs 3900-1
- Charities, role of service clubs as health care providers 3349-50, 3395-6
- Chase, health care facility 3461
- Child, Youth and Family Advocacy Act, amendments 6242
- Child, youth and family advocate, precedence of child's interests when in conflict with interests of adult family member 6242
- Children and Families ministry
- mandate and role 3664
- responsibilities shared with Health ministry 3512-3
- responsibility for gambling addiction programs 3688
- special committee to monitor work of ministry 2753
- Children, programs and services 2118-9
- Chilliwack General Hospital board's dismissal of administrator, Health minister's response 3388-91
- Chilliwack, representation on regional health board 3387
- Chiropractic
- accreditation of foreign-trained practitioners 3031
- services 3826-7
- Civil service employees
- Civil service, public sector
- employers councils, voluntary severance guidelines 5860
- employment contracts, termination provisions for exempt employees 3018, 5694-5, 5860, 5889-94
- re-employment of terminated employee 5894
- Clarke, Moffat, work on AIDS strategy 3644-6, 3691
- Clearwater, health care facility 3572
- Cochrane Institute, research role 3899-900
- College of Midwives, role 3583-4, 3695-6
- Columbia View Lodge, funding for special care unit 3520, 3543
- Community health services societies
- Comox Valley Nursing Centre, funding 3817-8
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4737-8, 4759, 4763
- Continuing Care Act, changes 3523, 3548
- Corrigan, Derek
- lease of vehicle while chair of B.C. Transit 3167-8
- severance payment from B.C. Transit 3460, 3564-5
- work and severance arrangements with B.C. Transit 5167-8
- Credit rating, B.C.'s rating 3232
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, link to blood transfusions 3692
- Criminal Code, decriminalization of illegal drug use 3645
- Crown corporations, vehicle-leasing policy 3167, 3565
- Cull, Elizabeth, contract with capital health region board 3422-4, 4737
- Delcan Corp., feasibility study for B.C. Transit 5171
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- public transportation services 5197-8
- services for community living 3546-7
- Disease, heart disease among women 3578-9
- Drugs
- cost of drugs 2754-5, 2777
- costs, impact of federal Bill C-91 3569-70
- drugs provided to patients while in hospital 3875
- federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2753-7, 2776-7
- generic substitutions for proprietary medications 3572-3, 3895-6, 3898-902
- imitation drugs 2754
- national drug program, B.C.'s role 2753-4, 2757
- NDP government initiatives on pharmaceuticals 2756
- patent protection 2754-6
- pharmaceutical use by elderly 3477-8
- reference-based pricing
- research 2754
- steroid use 3472
- Eating disorders
- Economy of B.C., comparison with elsewhere 6539-40
- Education
- funding, non-partisan decisions 3355
- language instruction, instruction of third languages 2118
- post-secondary tuition freeze 2118
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5558
- Elk Valley area, representation on community health council 3327
- Emergencies
- emergency operations and communications centre 3871
- provincewide 911 number 3895
- review of medical emergency services 3872-4
- Employment, jobs in B.C., impact of government policies 6539
- Family caregivers, unpaid care provided by women 3548, 3577
- Fetal alcohol effect/syndrome 3472, 3664-5
- Film industry in B.C. 2119
- Forest Renewal B.C., funds, use 5158
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5339, 5346
- Fort St. John
- ambulance garage and hospital funding 3770-1, 3859
- ambulance garage construction 4145
- Fort St. John General Hospital, capital equipment needs 3828-9
- Fraser Valley
- health services 3386-7
- health services funding for South Fraser Valley 3383-4
- regional health board 3386-8
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, appointment of select standing committee to review act 6514-5
- Gambling addiction, costs and consequences 3672-5, 3688-9
- Glendale Lodge, closing 3398
- Government
- accounting policies, recording of revenues from corporate income tax 2091-2
- consulting services agreements, terms and conditions 5890-1
- non-partisan basis for decision-making 3355
- recoveries of unauthorized severance pay-outs 5695
- spending, capital spending, funding priorities 5124
- use of funds recovered in legal actions against tobacco companies 6312
- G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital
- Greater Vancouver regional district, report on mental illness among elderly 3475-7
- Greater Victoria Hospice Society, funding 3398
- Guardianship, adult guardianship legislation 3567, 3570
- Haldon, comparison with olanzapine and risperidone 3466-7
- HandyDART
- role in dial-a-ride service 5012
- use of service 5198
- Hartley, William, appointment as Deputy Chair 2089
- Hastings Elementary School, renovation 2118
- Hawkins, Sindi, comments on changes to health care system 3424
- Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1997
- Health care
- access to medical services 3269, 6196, 6321
- accountability framework, performance measures 3282-3, 3298-9, 3342-5, 3383, 3401-3, 3649-50, 3825
- capital projects
- funding review 3829, 3862
- funding review, projects released from freeze 3863-4
- capital projects planning 3295-6, 3299-300, 3546, 3572
- community care facilities 6008-9, 6109
- community care, integration of services 3352, 3578
- community health centre service delivery model 3347-9
- continuing and long-term care
- costs 2654
- cost to system of expanded gambling in B.C. 3672-5
- tobacco-related illness and disease 6110, 6118, 6310-6
- CT scanner for northern Vancouver Island 3816-7
- ethical issues advisory committee 3470
- facilities
- funding
- acute care funding formula 3777-8, 3817
- funding 2153, 3858
- funding basis in regionalized system 3356
- funding for central Vancouver Island 3955
- Liberal Party position 6563
- non-partisan funding decisions 3355
- transitional special account 3292
- governance structure
- health care societies and hospital societies
- amalgamation of hospital societies 2223
- asset transfers 3349-50, 3393-7
- monitoring by Health ministry 3834
- role in regionalized health care system 3395-6, 3568
- role of health care societies in regionalized system 3287, 3296-7
- health care workers
- lab services, Vernon situation 3355-6, 3463-4, 3641
- labour accord
- availability of skilled workers 3770-1
- cost and savings 3770
- savings vs. costs 3773-4
- medicare system
- protection of system 3269
- universality principle 6201
- multicultural health needs 3668-9
- neighbourhood health centres 3461
- New Directions program, review and modification of health care model 3298, 3423-4
- New Horizons program, funding 3571
- out-of-country medical treatment 3702-3
- primary care system, reform 3356
- regional health boards and community health councils
- accountability 3287-9, 3421-4
- advisory committees 3289, 3291, 3296
- appointment process 5860-1, 5896-8
- appointments 3285-6, 3327-8, 3360
- autonomy 3300, 6244
- balanced-budget requirement 3402
- community participation 3294, 3302-3, 3345, 3397, 3399, 3401, 3462
- comparison 3301, 3319, 3387
- compensation 3291-2
- conflict-of-interest guidelines 3359
- funding 3293-4, 3384
- health plans 3419-20
- Indian representation 3648
- member selection, role of community 6243-4
- members' backgrounds 3463
- members' expenses, reimbursement 5898-9, 6243
- membership 5895
- representation concerns 3225-8, 3352, 3359-60, 3382, 3387-8, 3393-4, 3461
- resource allocation decisions 3512, 3671
- service sector exclusions 5895
- size and jurisdiction 3301-2
- staff management skills 3384-5
- structure 3290
- terminations 3328
- regionalization
- administrative cost savings 3292, 3384, 3388, 3390, 3421-2
- amalgamating of hospital districts 3832
- community and government roles 3354-5
- consultation 3358-9, 3424, 3462
- effectiveness 6246-7
- expropriation issue 6244-5
- funding and transfer agreements with regional authorities, audit provisions 3289-90
- funding model 3544
- impact on community fundraising 3395
- impact on current service delivery system 3512, 3873
- implementation planning 3423
- models used in other jurisdictions 3301
- objectives 3342, 3347
- review 3501, 5860-1
- transition resource teams 3420-1
- reproductive care
- respite services for family caregivers 3548, 3566-8
- services
- chelation therapy 3704-5
- core programs, responsibility 3295
- drug-related use of medical emergency services 3866-7
- home ventilation service 3707
- innovative services 3344, 3826-7
- patient feedback 3825
- patient's share of practitioner fees 3866
- regional equitability 3385
- services for homeless people 3518
- user as consumer 3693
- West Kootenays beds-designation issue 3544
- system
- future needs 3345
- future of public health system 3345
- government commitment to system 2392
- Liberal Party position 3955
- provincial health goals 3290
- reform and number of administration personnel 3290-1, 3322
- two-tiered system 3575
- volunteers 3350, 3360-1
- travel for treatment 3823
- travel for treatment by rural and northern residents 3868
- user fees 3705-7
- wait-lists and waiting times
- Health Employers Association
- physician recruitment program 3830
- role in regionalized health care system 3320, 3324-5
- Health ministry
- estimates debate 3281-3, 3285-303, 3319-28, 3342-61, 3382-403, 3419-29, 3461-4, 3466-80, 3504-24, 3543-52, 3566-85, 3639-50, 3663-75, 3688-708, 3773-89, 3815-36, 3862-78, 3895-902, 5004-13, 5121-30, 5157-76, 5196-9, 6571
- 1994-95 annual report tabled 2915
- 1997-98 budget 3281-2
- employee transfer to regionalized health services authorities 3321, 3324
- estimates debate
- opposition's role in process 3782
- staff time required to answer questions 3778
- minister's certificate as evidence of tobacco-related health care costs 6310-2
- multiculturalism committee 3668
- program responsibilities 3398-9
- role in regional health board operations 3402, 3420-2
- role in regionalized health care system 3322-3, 3345, 3346
- staff commended 3902
- Healthy Communities program, role in regionalized health care system 3666-8
- Hepatitis C
- database of blood transfusion recipients 3691-2
- incidence 3582
- information mailout 3827-8
- services for children 3828
- Highway 11, upgrading 5010-1
- Highway 99, hospital services for Sea to Sky corridor communities 3391-3
- Home care
- funding 3546
- housekeeping services, eligibility criteria 3551
- nursing services 3824
- personal assistant guidelines 3827
- service providers, standards 3545
- support services
- support workers
- Hospitals
- acute-care beds, availability 3824-5, 3872-3
- culturally sensitive services 3648, 3668-9
- disposition of revenues 3383
- emergency rooms
- use by persons with mental illnesses 3468
- use for alcohol- and drug-related cases 3520, 3866-7
- utilization issues 3824-5
- funding
- gender segregation policies 3704
- hospital boards, amalgamation with community health councils and regional health boards 3287, 3295
- hospital foundations, future 3383
- maternity and perinatal services 3663-4
- severance for displaced executive personnel 3290, 3670
- staff exposure to HIV/AIDS 3644
- Housing
- Hughes, Ted, commended for work as conflict-of-interest commissioner 2111
- Indians
- AIDS treatment programs and services 3646
- health care
- needs 3566
- services on reserves, responsibility 3647-8
- travel expense program 3648
- role in regionalized health care system 3325
- Information, computerized information systems, auditing of access 5853-4
- Infrastructure, federal funding for transportation projects 5157, 5171
- Iron Workers Memorial (Second Narrows) Bridge, north end expansion 5173
- Jackman Manor, future of facility 3396
- Jantzen, Don, contract with B.C. Transit 5167-8
- Jeune, Paul, contract with Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry 5892-3
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997
- debate 2409
- impact of revised statutes of B.C. not yet being in force 2415
- legal advice on out-of-order status of bill 2415
- Juzwishin, Donald, report on Chilliwack General Hospital board 3388-9
- Kamloops water supply, testing responsibility 3672, 3690-1
- Keane, Tom, work with B.C. Cancer Agency 3779
- Kelowna General Hospital, funding 3776-8
- Kelowna, transit services, expansion 5197
- Keremeos, health care facility 3875
- Kidney disease
- Kiwanis Care Centre, multilevel care facility 3350-1
- Kiwanis Lodge of West Vancouver, use for seniors housing 3350
- Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society, role as provider of seniors housing 3350-1
- Labour
- economic value of unpaid work 3548
- workers injured on the job, access to medical care 3897-8
- Labour Relations Board
- authority re provisions of Health Authorities Act 6248-52
- decisions re transit labour dispute 5165, 5175
- Labour Relations Code amendments, release of legislation to special interest groups prior to introduction in House 5110
- Lady Minto (Gulf Islands) Hospital, amalgamation with capital health region board 3397
- Laxton, John, employment arrangements 5889
- Legislature
- bills debate, relevancy requirement 5558
- estimates debate, length of debate 5011
- select standing committee for tobacco, alcohol and gambling issues, proposal 2089
- Magee Secondary School, construction 2118
- Maple detox centre, status 3665
- Medical Services Commission
- 1994-95 annual report tabled 2915
- monitoring of physician billings 3707-8
- orders against practitioners, appeals process 6196
- policies on lab use 3865
- policy on funding of laboratories 3463-4
- Medical Services Plan
- benefits, payment limits on supplementary benefits 3705-7, 3826-7
- budget 3820
- coverage, alternative medical procedures 3704-5
- deinsuring of services 3692-3, 3701-2
- direct or extra billing by enrolled physicians 3640
- enrolment
- information campaign on options 6321
- non-participation option 6316-7, 6319
- waiting period for persons who withdrew or elected not to participate 6318-9
- fee-for-service payments to physicians 2217-8, 3692
- funding responsibility 3355-6
- out-of-country services 3702-3
- payment of workers compensation claims 3897-8
- payments to practitioners, auditing of claims made by agencies 6196, 6321
- premiums, collection of overdue accounts 6196-7, 6319-20, 6321
- premiums, collection system 3703
- reserve account 3695
- residency requirement 6317-8, 6320
- restrictions on amounts billed by physicians 3693, 3707-8, 3833
- Medicare Protection Act, provisions on direct or extra billing for insured services 3640
- Medicare Protection Amendment Act, 1997, debate 3269, 6196-7, 6201, 6316-21
- MLAs
- constituency newsletters, content 3686
- constituency offices, use for political or election campaign purposes 3685-6
- pensions, implementation of Citizens' Panel recommendations 6242-3
- Menno Hospital, future of facility 3386
- Mental health
- children and youth, children's programs 3520-1
- deinstitutionalization of mentally ill persons 3507
- involuntary commitments, review provisions 3474
- involuntary treatment vs. patients' civil rights 3507
- public education re mental illness 3469
- services
- accountability 3472-3
- acute-care services for suicidal patients 3469, 3511
- adequacy 3505-6
- anger management programs 3516, 3519
- case management responsibility 3573-4
- eligibility for financial support 3510
- ethnic group counselling services 3512
- mental health advocate 3473, 3508, 3518
- ministerial responsibility 3398
- program review 3399, 3467
- programs, accreditation 3473
- psychiatric beds 3467-9, 3474, 3508
- psychiatric care, committal process 3831
- residential care for severely ill, New Westminster case 3670
- services 3356-7
- services for northern areas 3519
- services for Okanagan area 3512
- services for school-age children 3508-9
- services for women 3574
- use of electroconvulsive therapy 3641-2
- Mental Health Act
- Midwifery
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 5791-2
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6242-3, 6343-4
- Misri, Shalla, work on post-partum depression 3641-2, 3649
- Mission Air Transportation Network, funding 3868
- MSA Hospital, construction project 3863
- Mulchey, Ron, severance package 5695
- Multicultural B.C., health services delivery project 3668-9
- Multiculturalism, use of multifaith calendar 3669
- Municipalities, transit costs 5123, 5157, 5159
- Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, wait-lists 5487
- Nemetz, Nathaniel T., recommendations on public sector termination standards 5891-2
- NDP government
- management of health care system 5869
- performance 2119-20
- policies, evidence-based decision-making 3896
- North Okanagan regional health board
- North Shore regional health board
- chief executive officer's severance arrangements 2654
- public consultations 3347
- work on regionalization 6247
- North Vancouver, transit services for North Shore 5172-3
- Nurses
- continuing-care nurses, qualifications 3571
- definition of term for bargaining purposes 6248
- representation on community health councils and regional health boards 3382
- rural nursing 3664
- Oak Bay Lodge, renovations 3863
- Oliver-Osoyoos transit services, taxiDART system 5198
- Osteoporosis, bone density testing 3826
- Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry, review of drug-pricing legislation 2753
- Parry, Penny, role in implementation of drug use harm-reduction strategy 3867
- Patent Act Amendment Act, 1992 (federal), changes to allow for national drug program 2753-5
- Peace River Haven, funding 3543
- Peace-Liard regional hospital district, future of amalgamation 3832, 3868
- Peary, George, position as regional health board chair 3389-90
- Pharmacare program
- benefits, Vernon case 3704
- coverage for drug Urised 3824, 3826-7
- PharmaNet computer system
- claims, value of prescription payments 3898
- prescription information, access by hospitals and physicians' offices 4027, 5692-3, 5853-5
- policies on use of risperidone and olanzapine 3466-7, 3479, 3505-6, 3511, 3571, 3641
- special authority prescription approvals 3901
- therapeutics initiative 2756, 3899-900
- viability of program 2754
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmacists
- compensation for increased workload 3902
- role in monitoring prescription drug use 3478
- Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Amendment Act, 1997, debate 4027, 5692-4, 5853-5
- Physicians
- billing numbers
- numbers for out-of-country physicians 3694
- residence requirement 3574-5
- extra billing for medical services, penalties 6196
- malpractice insurance 3699-700
- physician supply plan
- regionalization of services 3692
- respite services, northern and rural locum program 3694
- retirement 6196
- role on regional health boards and community health councils 3352
- supply and recruitment
- community designation policies 3519, 3832-3
- recruitment of foreign-trained physicians, Royal College of Physicians position 3830
- rural areas 3663-4
- Plain, Hilton, cardiac surgery wait-list case 3822
- Plant, Geoff, withdrawal from debate on Tobacco Damages Recovery Act 6110
- Police complaints commissioner, appointment of select standing committee to select a commissioner 6515
- Premier's Office, estimates debate 6539-40
- Prince George Regional Hospital
- operating facilities 4429
- services for substance addictions 3520
- Privacy, confidentiality of personal medical information 5693, 5853-5
- Prostitution, incidence among street youth 3867
- Provincial health officer, 1996 annual report tabled 4039
- Provincial Rental Housing Corporation, role in social housing 3514-5
- Public health
- inspectors, transfer 3297
- reporting of flesh-eating disease cases 3573
- standards, accountability issue 3649-50
- Public Sector Employers Act, termination provisions, timeliness of proposed amendments 5860
- Public Sector Employers Amendment Act, 1997
- Public Sector Employers Council
- monitoring of employment contracts 5695
- severance standards
- Pullinger, Hon. Jan, use of constituency office for federal election campaign 3685-6
- Queen Alexandra Hospital for Children, impact of health care regionalization 3396-7
- Quesnel, mental health care services 3357
- Quoted
- future of Healthy Communities program (Anderson) 3666
- health care commitment (Sanders) 3464
- opposition input into health care decisions (Sanders) 3358
- Real property tax deferment program for seniors 3571
- Recovery houses, review of issues and concerns 6561
- Regional hospital districts
- boards' replacement by appointed administrator 5791-2
- Registrar of companies, power to suspend registry services 6344
- Responsibilities as government House leader (de Jong) 4546
- Revelstoke, consultations on health care regionalization 3462
- Richmond
- alcohol and drug treatment programs, future 3511
- No. 3 Road, congestion 5161
- representation on regional health board 3461
- transit services, service improvements, status 5169-70
- Richmond Alcohol and Drug Action Team, regionalization concerns 3461
- Richmond, Etta, dismissal and severance arrangements 3388-9
- Richmond General Hospital
- Riverview Hospital
- discharge planning 3517-8
- downsizing
- number of beds available and used 3468-9
- patient admission times 3479
- residents' allowances 3517
- review and recommendations 3518
- site, future use 3474, 3504-5, 3513-4
- Royal Inland Hospital
- emergency ward upgrade 3671
- severance for former chief executive officer 3670
- Royal Jubilee Hospital, redevelopment project 3398, 3836, 3862
- Saanich Peninsula Hospital
- St. Paul's Hospital
- geriatric unit, downsizing 3470
- heart centre 3578
- Saltspring Island, representation on capital health region board 3397
- Schizophrenia
- Science and technology, reproductive and genetic technologies, legislation 3584-5
- SeaBus
- Select Standing Committee on Forests, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
- addition of powers 6514
- meetings when House sitting 5911
- substitution of members 6515
- Select Standing Committee on Health and Social Services, role 3357-9
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4738
- Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, addition of powers 6514
- Seniors
- elder abuse 3567
- ethnic needs 3668
- federal areas of responsibility, issues and concerns 3569-71
- funding for services and programs 3568-9
- health care
- funding levels 3572
- institutional vs. home care 3545, 3547
- needs, Coquitlam long term care case 3546
- user fees and income testing 3567
- housing 3548-50
- interministry committee 3524
- peer counselling program 3569
- psychogeriatric services 3470, 3475-7, 3512
- service directories 3552
- transportation needs 3552
- Seniors Health Promotion Network, funding 3568, 3570
- Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER), program 3549-50
- Shuswap area representation on regional health board 3325-8
- Sir William Macdonald Elementary School, concerns 2118-9
- Skeleem Village treatment centre
- children in government care as patients 6009
- conditions, Health ministry handling of issue 6008-9, 6108
- SkyTrain system
- SMILE (seniors medication information line), use 3477
- Smith, Brian R.D., employment arrangements 5889
- Societies, housing societies, operating agreements 3514-5
- South Fraser Valley regional health board
- South Okanagan-Similkameen regional health board, membership 3400-1
- Squamish General Hospital, services 3392-3
- Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of B.C.
- reprinting in gender-neutral language 2252
- standing order 9, Speaker's decision not subject to appeal 4234
- Stopping the Violence program, interministry committee 3577
- Substance abuse/addiction
- abuse of prescription medications 3583
- intravenous drug use and AIDS 3580-1, 3643-6, 3691
- services for intravenous drug users 3867
- treatment centres and programs 3520, 3583
- Summerland, ambulance service for area 3870
- Sunshine Coast, bus and ferry services 5197
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2217-8
- Surgery, wait-lists for cardiac surgery 3821-2
- Throne speech debate 2117-20
- Tobacco
- industry liability for smoking-related health care costs, recovery of costs 4427, 6110-1, 6118-9, 6310-6
- sales to minors, penalties 3579
- tobacco reduction strategy 3578-9, 3691
- use, revenues to government 6118-9
- Tobacco Damages Recovery Act
- Tobacco Sales Act, provisions on sales to minors, enforcement 3579
- Tolls on bridges and roads 5129
- Toronto, transit system, operating costs 5158
- Transit
- bus services
- B-Line system 5129, 5171-2
- integration of school bus and public transit systems 5197
- location of stops 5126-7
- public access to parked buses 5170
- RapidBus project 5169-71
- reliability 5163
- ridership levels 5005
- buses
- bike racks on buses 5174
- low-floor buses 5164-5
- Orion II minibuses 5165
- parking, use of wheel blocks 5164
- dial-a-ride service 5010, 5012
- government funding of municipal systems, comparison with elsewhere 5158
- initiatives 3460, 3565
- public transit
- rail systems, rail cars, types 5159-60, 5170
- Transplantation
- bone marrow transplants, unrelated donor registry 3639-40
- DNA database for organ transplants 3639-40
- organ transplants, donor television ad campaign 3823
- Transportation, incentives to decrease automobile use 5128-9, 5198
- University of B.C., transit services, U-Pass program 5129
- University of Northern B.C., nurse training program 3830
- Vancouver
- changes in East Vancouver 2117-8
- Hastings Park, future 2117-8
- transit
- bus service on Broadway route, use and costs 5171-2
- light rapid rail line for Broadway-Lougheed corridor 5159, 5171
- light rapid rail service in East Vancouver 2118
- transit services 5122-4, 5158, 5167
- transit commuter rail service for Vancouver area 5007-8
- Vancouver International Airport, bus services 5170
- Vancouver Island Cancer Centre, operations 3786-7
- Vancouver regional transit commission
- decision on funding priority for public transit services 5198
- fare changes 4790
- meetings with public on revenue generation 5174-5
- rider survey 4790
- Vancouver-Richmond regional health board
- membership 3461
- program responsibilities 3295
- size of board 3301
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital, amalgamation into regional health board 3360-1
- Victoria regional transit commission
- decision on funding priority for public transit services 5198
- public meetings on transit fares 5174-5
- Victoria, transit
- light rapid rail and commuter rail 5172, 5174
- transit services, cost per rider 5123
- Victoria-Beacon Hill constituency office, use as collateral for loan to finance incumbent's 1996 election campaign 4314
- Volunteers
- health care volunteers 3568
- role in regionalized health care structure 5898
- Water
- medical health officer's role in protection of public water supply 3690-1
- quality, responsibility for safe drinking water 3671-2
- waterborne organisms, cryptosporidium, testing for presence in water supply 3690-1
- Watt, John, cardiac surgery wait-list case 3821-2
- Werry, Brandon, anorexia case 3642
- West Coast Express
- capital acquisitions, locomotive and railcar contracts 5012-3
- financial operations 5004-7
- role in regional transit system 5007
- service, extension to area south of Fraser River 5009-11, 5173-4
- service use, ridership levels 5005, 5007-8, 5012
- system, comparison with United States commuter rail 5007
- ticketing system 5008, 5011-2
- West Coast General Hospital, condition of building 3863-4
- Women
- health issues, prescription drug use 3583
- leading causes of death 3578-9
- post-partum depression 3641-2
- responsibilities as family caregivers 3548, 3577-8
- Workers Compensation Board
- claimants' medical bills 3897-8
- executive severance pay-outs 5894
- Youth
Macpherson, Colin
- Letter quoted on reference-based pricing for pharmaceuticals (Hawkins) 2760
Maddocks, Keith
- Drainage canal on property, Agricultural Land Commission response (Evans) 4011-2 (van Dongen) 4011-2
Magee Secondary School, Vancouver, B.C.
- Capital project freeze (Anderson) 2199
- Construction (MacPhail) 2118
- Physical condition of existing school (Ramsey) 6042 (Sanders) 6042-3
- School reconstruction (Anderson) 6175 (Ramsey) 6175
Magna Carta
- Cited and quoted on freedoms (Anderson) 4803-5
Mahood, F.R.
- Land leasing case (McGregor) 5770 (Wilson, J.) 5770
MAI
- See Multilateral agreement on investment
Mainframe Entertainment Inc.
- Computer animation work (Miller) 4239
Mainland, Joyce
- Concerns raised about education programs for blind children (Sanders) 6221-2, 6372-3
- Letter quoted on comparison of B.C. and Ontario, per-pupil funding for blind and low-vision children (Sanders) 6221-2
Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, B.C.
- Tourism degree program (Reitsma) 4185
Man in Motion foundation
- Audit requirements (Dosanjh) 3217 (Plant) 3217
- Neurotrauma fund
- Operating guidelines (Dosanjh) 3214-5, 3233 (Plant) 3214-5, 3233
- World Tour, tenth anniversary (Throne speech) 2085
Manji, Irshad
- Risking Utopia quoted on value of compromise (Plant) 5746
Mann, Jim
- Letter quoted on highway sign fees
Manufactured homes
- Construction standards (Coleman) 3811
- Home parks
- development of new parks (Weisgerber) 3811-2
- land ownership issue (Coleman) 4747
- legislated reviews (Dosanjh) 2986 (Weisgerber) 2986
- location (Coleman) 3810
- rent increases, retroactivity (Coleman) 2950-1, 2981-2 (Dosanjh) 2950-1, 2981-2
- Report by industry (Coleman) 3810-1, 3836 (Farnworth) 3810-1
- Residential tenancy
- rent retroactivity legislation (Coleman) 3712
- retroactivity for rent-increase complaints (Weisgerber) 3812
- Role in housing supply (Coleman) 3810 (Farnworth) 3810
- Task force on industry (Coleman) 3836 (Farnworth) 3810-2, 3836
Manufacturing industry
- Technological upgrading at Fraser Valley company (Hansen) 2366
Maple detox centre, New Westminster, B.C.
Maple, Lynne
- Letter quoted on community projects program (Chong) 4365
Maple Ridge, B.C.
- Cottonwood corridor See Langley, B.C.
- Courthouse, future (Hartley) 2343 (Plant) 2620
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows constituency
- Capital improvements (Hartley) 2342
- Film and tourism industries' roles in area economy (Hartley) 2342
- Growth (Hartley) 2341, 2343
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows school district
Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre, Burnaby, B.C.
Mapping
Maps B.C.
- See Environment, Lands and Parks, Ministry of
Marchi, Sergio
- Comments on Infrastructure 2 program cited (Abbott) 3681-2 (Farnworth) 3681
Marine Link Transportation Ltd.
- Ferry service contract (Miller) 4818 (Symons) 4818
Marine parks
Marketing boards
- See also British Columbia Marketing Board
- Functioning and policies (Evans) 3982-3 (van Dongen) 3982-3
Marpole Shelter, Vancouver, B.C.
Marriage
Marriage Act
- Authority to amend definition of "spouse" in provincial legislation (Dosanjh) 5744-7 (Wilson, G.) 5650, 5742-3, 5746, 5779
Martel, Colleen
- Income assistance deduction case (Gingell) 4526
Martin, Keith
- Status as practising physician and Member of Parliament (Kasper) 3674-5 (Neufeld) 3676 (Sihota) 3675
Mascot mine site
Masi, Reni (Delta North)
- Aboriginal issues coordinating committee 3599
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates debate 4014-5
- Apprenticeship
- apprenticeship system
- changes, trade unions' position 3158
- expansion 3157-8
- number of apprentices in B.C. 3162
- programs
- apprenticeship scholarship program 5877
- funding allowances for regional coordinators 5876-7
- portability of credits 3158
- scholarships and bursaries 3161
- secondary school program 5876-7
- training institutes, accreditation 3159
- Bennett, W.A.C., performance as Premier 2364
- Berry farms, use of bird cannons 4014
- B.C. Benefits program, funding for skills development programs 5903
- Budget debate 2364-5
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2594-5
- Burns Bog, protection of area 2128-9, 5672-3, 5696-7
- Child care subsidies, changes to day care subsidies for low-income students 5877-8, 5884
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4777
- selection of new commissioner 4777
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2364-5
- Delta, Nordel completion project 5207-8
- Delta North constituency, issues and concerns 2129
- Education
- applied education for the job market, strategies to integrate work and school 5875
- curriculum
- English-as-a-second-language program 5878
- funding in Delta and Surrey 2365
- performance measurement, government accountability 5873
- post-secondary education
- athletic scholarships, ministerial responsibility and funding 4407-8
- scholarships and bursaries 5948
- secondary education credits, eligibility towards apprentice certification 3159-60
- skills development in schools 6256
- system, need for change 5873
- teaching of tolerance for same-sex couples 6231-2
- Education, Skills and Training ministry
- Employment, equity of opportunity 3159
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5672-3, 5696-7
- Government, intergovernmental relations, need for consultation 2595
- Hughes, Ted, recommendations while conflict-of-interest commissioner on changes to legislation governing MLAs' conduct 4777
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Act
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Commission
- Labour ministry, estimates debate 3157-62
- Legislature
- legislative calendar, fixed schedule for legislative sessions 2364
- legislative reform 4809-10
- Mehat, Inder, role in developing racial tolerance courses for children 6232
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4777
- Mining industry in B.C. 2364
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 2595
- NDP
- government, financial management 2364-5
- party conventions, delegate selection process 2364
- North Delta Senior Secondary School, assessment of capital needs 6177
- Politicians, ethical conduct of elected officials, public expectations 4777
- Provincial Apprenticeship Board, powers 6255
- School district 36 (Surrey), teaching of racial tolerance and tolerance for same-sex couples 6231-2
- School district 37 (Delta), capital funding projects 6177
- School districts
- conversion of junior-secondary schools, policy 6177
- performance measurement 5873
- Schools, capital funding projects, criteria for determining project requirements and priorities 6177
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4777
- Simon Fraser University, harassment policy 5947
- Skills training
- business-government partnership training programs 5900-1
- federal-provincial partnership agreement 5875
- funding and staffing levels 5899
- training consultants, qualifications and training 5874, 5881-3
- training programs, job-related practical and applied skills 3274
- workplace-based training 5879-80
- youth employment programs 2129
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry
- estimates debate 4406-11
- operations 4410
- sport branch, organization 4406
- sports funding 4408
- transfer of responsibilities from Education, Skills and Training ministry 5948
- Sport B.C., operations 4407-8
- Sports
- gender equity in minor sports 4409
- harassment policy and initiatives 4409-10
- multisport games in B.C. 4407
- Students, number completing high school 3274
- Supply Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 4809-10
- Surrey-North Delta area, farmland in area 4014-5
- Teachers, performance measurement, teacher evaluation 6184-5
- Throne speech debate 2128-30
- Tour bus operations, safety standards and regulations for drivers 5465-6
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 5207-8, 5465-6
- Trinity Western University, teacher-training program, certification 5945
- Universities, colleges and institutes, location criteria 5874
- Welfare to Work program
- adult basic education component of program 5878
- eligibility period 5878
- program effectiveness, Victoria study 5884, 5900
- Youth, harm reduction services, ministerial responsibility 5884
- Youth Works program
- adult basic education component of program 5878
- advertising and publicity 5903
- caseloads 5881, 5883-4
- compliance and appeals 5881-4
- effectiveness, Victoria study 5884, 5900
- eligibility and exemption 5878, 5880
- language and literary services 5883, 5903
- mandate and goals 5879
- need for program 5874
- placement capacity 5882
- service delivery provisions 5880-1, 5883-4, 5903
- training and employment programs, attendance requirements 5879
Masset, B.C.
Matkin, James
- Commission of inquiry into the Vancouver Stock Exchange and securities regulation See name of commission
Matsqui Elementary School, Abbotsford, B.C.
- Students' field trips, petition tabled (de Jong) 3612
Matsqui-Sumas-Abbotsford hospital
- See MSA Hospital, Abbotsford, B.C.
Matthew McNair Secondary School, Richmond, B.C.
- Capital funding project, issuance of certificate of approval (Ramsey) 6139
May Day
Mayne Island
Maywood Elementary School, Burnaby, B.C.
- Community school program (Sawicki) 2302
Media
- Newspaper carriers, applicability of employment standards legislation (Cashore) 3095-6 (Reitsma) 3095-6
Mediation and Arbitration Board
- Review of board operations (Miller) 4161 (Neufeld) 4161
Medical Post
- Article by Keith Martin quoted on private health care (Sihota) 3575
Medical Services Commission
- Annual report, 1994-95, tabled (MacPhail) 2915
- Monitoring of physician billings (Hawkins) 3707-8 (MacPhail) 3707-8
- Orders against practitioners, appeals process (Anderson) 6200 (MacPhail) 6196
- Policies
- funding of laboratories (MacPhail) 3463-4 (Sanders) 3464
- lab use (MacPhail) 3865 (Sanders) 3865
Medical Services Plan of British Columbia
- Benefits
- same-sex couples See Knodel v. British Columbia (Medical Services Commission)
- supplementary benefits, payment limits (Hawkins) 3705-7 (MacPhail) 3705-7, 3826-7 (Thorpe) 3826-7
- Budget (MacPhail) 3820 (Symons) 3820
- Coverage
- alternative medical procedures (Hawkins) 3704-5 (MacPhail) 3704-5
- out-of-country services (Hawkins) 3702-3 (MacPhail) 3702-3
- smoking-cessation treatment programs (Hawkins) 6111 (Sanders) 6114-5
- Deinsuring of services (Hawkins) 3692-3 (MacPhail) 3692-3, 3701-2 (Sanders) 3701-2
- Direct or extra billing by enrolled physicians (MacPhail) 3640 (Sanders) 3640
- Enrolment in plan
- information campaign on options (MacPhail) 6321 (Reid) 6321
- non-participation option (Abbott) 6319 (Hawkins) 6316-7 (MacPhail) 6316-7, 6319
- waiting period for persons who withdrew or elected not to participate (Hawkins) 6318-9 (MacPhail) 6318-9 (Reid) 6197, 6199, 6319
- withdrawals and cancellations (Abbott) 6201 (Anderson) 6200
- Fee-for-service payments to physicians (Hawkins) 3692 (MacPhail) 3692
- Fee-for-service payments to physicians, overexpenditures (Hawkins) 2217 (MacPhail) 2217-8 (Reid) 2217-8
- Funding, responsibility (MacPhail) 3355-6 (Sanders) 3355-6
- Payment of workers' compensation claims (MacPhail) 3897-8 (Reid) 3896-8
- Payments to practitioners, auditing of claims made by agencies (MacPhail) 6196, 6321 (Reid) 6321
- Premiums
- Reserve account (Hawkins) 3694 (MacPhail) 3695
- Residency requirement (Hawkins) 6320 (MacPhail) 6320
- Residency requirement, allowable absence criteria (MacPhail) 6317-8 (Reid) 6317-8
- Restrictions on amounts billed by physicians (Hawkins) 3693, 3707-8 (MacPhail) 3693, 3707-8, 3833 (Wilson, J.) 3833
Medicare Protection Act
- Provisions on direct or extra billing for insured services (MacPhail) 3640 (Sanders) 3640
Medicare Protection Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 21) (Minister of Health) 1R, 3269; 2R, 6196-201; C, 6316-21; 3R, 6321; RA, 6414
- Amdts: sec. 2 (two amdts) (MacPhail) 6317, approved 6317; sec. 12.1 (MacPhail) 6321, approved 6321
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 6201, 6319 (Anderson) 6199-201 (de Jong) 6319 (Hawkins) 6316-20 (MacPhail) 3269, 6196-7, 6201, 6316-21 (Reid) 6197-9, 6317-21
- Withdrawal from debate on grounds of possible conflict of interest (Hawkins) 6195 (Sanders) 6195
Meekison, J. Peter
- Role as acting conflict-of-interest commissioner (Weisgerber) 4746-8
Mehat, Inder
- Role in developing racial tolerance courses for children (Masi) 6232
Members' Conflict of Interest Act
Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- Absence from House, comment not permitted (Speaker) 2263, 2385
- Accommodation of other points of view (Plant) 5746
- Behaviour in Legislature (Dosanjh) 2281 (Farrell-Collins) 2124-5 (McGregor) 2483-4
- Chinese Canadians elected for first time (Dosanjh) 6584
- Constituency newsletters, content (MacPhail) 3686 (Miller) 3686 (Weisgerber) 3686
- Constituency offices
- Contributions of former MLAs (Abbott) 6583 (Chong) 6585 (Clark, G.) 6586 (Dosanjh) 6582 (Farrell-Collins) 6584 (Gillespie) 6584 (Pullinger) 6585 (Rose) 6585 (Stevenson) 6585 (Weisgerber) 6584 (Wilson, G.) 6583
- Financial interests, transfer to blind trust (Bowbrick) 4749-50 (Nebbeling) 4752
- Indo-Canadian MLAs (Sihota) 6583
- Liberal MLAs, caucus photograph (Farnworth) 2434-5
- Motivation (Gingell) 2298 (Priddy) 6487-8
- NDP MLAs' positions on gambling (Krueger) 2262-6
- NDP MLAs' statements while in opposition (Chong) 4843
- Number (Abbott) 5559 (Giesbrecht) 2280 (Reid) 5580-1 (Weisgerber) 5560
- Opportunity for debate on gambling expansion (Krueger) 2266
- Participation of all members in House business (Campbell) 6546, 6572-4 (Clark, G.) 6546-7, 6550, 6572-3 (de Jong) 4545-7 (Farrell-Collins) 4544-5 (Gingell) 6548
- Pensions
- implementation of Citizens' Panel recommendations (MacPhail) 6242-3 (Weisgerber) 6242
- legislative amendments (Dosanjh) 6241
- optional participation in plan (Wilson, G.) 6353
- right to pension plan (Wilson, G.) 6353-4
- Politics and House business (Wilson, G.) 2817
- Public service (Hurd) 2851
- Recording of MLAs' support for gambling expansion (McKinnon) 2337 (Wilson, G.) 2270, 2272
- Role (Abbott) 4798-9
- Roles and responsibilities in formation of public policy (Anderson) 5738-9 (de Jong) 5739-40 (Dosanjh) 5652 (Farrell-Collins) 5741-2 (Plant) 5644 (Stevenson) 5744
- Salaries, taxation (Weisgerber) 6242
- Support for government policies (Krueger) 3031
- Women MLAs
- encouragement of women to run for office (Clark, C.) 4840
- number of women MLAs and advancement of women's issues (Smallwood) 2810
- Working together for the common good (Abbott) 4553-4 (Brewin) 2371 (Campbell) 3632-3 (Farrell-Collins) 6450 (Miller) 6450 (Neufeld) 3636 (Orcherton) 2451
- Workload (Campbell) 6572 (Clark, G.) 6546-9 (Gingell) 6548-9 (Hansen) 4551-2 (Hawkins) 4557-9
Memorial Arena, Victoria, B.C.
- See also Construction of new arena under Victoria, B.C.
- Replacement of building (Coell) 5715
Mendelson Associates
- "Final Report: Review of Readiness of Youth Works Phase 3 Implementation" cited and quoted (Masi) 5878-83
- Study of B.C. family bonus cited (Streifel) 2358-9
Mennier, Roger
- Gambling addiction case, son's letter quoted (Krueger) 4370-1
Menno Hospital, Abbotsford, B.C.
- Future of facility (MacPhail) 3386 (Penner) 3387
Mental health
- See also Disabled and handicapped persons
- Acute-care services for suicidal patients (MacPhail) 3469, 3511 (Reid) 3511 (Sanders) 3469
- Adults with developmental disabilities, transition to community living (Priddy) 6259
- Advocate (MacPhail) 3473, 3508, 3518 (Sanders) 3473 (Symons) 3508
- Anger management programs (Hawkins) 3518 (MacPhail) 3516, 3519 (van Dongen) 3516
- Child and youth services
- behavioral support programs for autistic children (Coell) 6365-6 (Priddy) 6365-6
- care of special needs children (Priddy) 6295 (Wilson, G.) 6295
- children's programs (Hawkins) 3520-1 (MacPhail) 3520-1
- ethnic group counselling services (Barisoff) 3512 (MacPhail) 3512
- ministerial responsibility (Coell) 3398 (MacPhail) 3398
- Okanagan area services (Barisoff) 3511-2 (MacPhail) 3512
- project funding (Coell) 6438 (Priddy) 6438
- psychological services for young offenders (Coell) 6266-7
- psychological services for youth (Coell) 6266 (Priddy) 6266
- services (MacPhail) 3356-7 (Sanders) 3356-7
- services for school-age children (MacPhail) 3508-9 (Reid) 3508-9
- transition to adult programs (Anderson) 6338-9 (Priddy) 6338-9
- Deinstitutionalization of mentally ill persons (MacPhail) 3507 (Penner) 3506
- Dementia, incidence (Whittred) 3475
- Electroconvulsive therapy, use for mental illnesses (MacPhail) 3642 (Sanders) 3641-2
- Financial support for mentally ill persons, eligibility (MacPhail) 3510 (Reid) 3510
- Funding (Reid) 3510
- Involuntary committals of mentally ill persons, review provisions (MacPhail) 3474 (Sanders) 3474-5
- Involuntary treatment for mentally ill persons, patients' civil rights (MacPhail) 3507 (Symons) 3507
- Mental illness case management, responsibility (MacPhail) 3573-4 (Stephens) 3573-4
- Post-partum depression (Hawkins) 3642 (MacPhail) 3641-2 (Sanders) 3641
- Program review (Coell) 3399 (MacPhail) 3399, 3467 (Sanders) 3467
- Programs, accreditation (MacPhail) 3473 (Sanders) 3473
- Psychiatric beds, availability (MacPhail) 3467-9, 3474, 3508 (Sanders) 3467-9, 3474 (Symons) 3507-8
- Psychiatric care, committal process (MacPhail) 3831 (Neufeld) 3831
- Public education (MacPhail) 3469 (Sanders) 3469
- Residential care for severely mentally ill persons, New Westminster case (MacPhail) 3670 (Penner) 3670
- Schizophrenia, medications used for treatment (Barisoff) 3511 (MacPhail) 3466-7, 3479, 3505-6, 3511, 3573 (Penner) 3505-6 (Sanders) 3464-7 (Stephens) 3573 (Thorpe) 3479
- Services
- accountability (MacPhail) 3472-3 (Sanders) 3472-3
- adequacy (MacPhail) 3505-6 (Penner) 3505-6 (Whittred) 3479
- assessment services (Coell) 6337-40 (Priddy) 6337-40
- psychiatric services for northern areas (Hawkins) 3519 (MacPhail) 3519
- psychogeriatric services See Seniors
- respite services for caregivers (Coell) 6365 (Priddy) 6365
- services for mentally ill parents with mentally ill children (McKinnon) 6537 (Priddy) 6537
- women (MacPhail) 3574 (Stephens) 3574
- Supported work programs, funding and wages (Coell) 6374 (Priddy) 6374
Mental Health Act
Merritt, B.C.
- Court services (Dosanjh) 2620 (Plant) 2620
- Municipal grant reduction (de Jong) 3071
- Policing (Dosanjh) 2831 (Plant) 2831
Metalex Products Ltd.
M‚tis Family Services
Meunier, Arthur
- Father's problem gambling described in letter (Krueger) 2268-9
Meziadin Lake Provincial Park
- Campground construction, impact on fish habitat (Clark, C.) 5845 (McGregor) 5845
Middle River
- Water supply (Nettleton) 3433
Middleton, Steven Todd
- Accidental release from custody (Dosanjh) 3441-2 (Plant) 3441
Midwifery
- Home birthing demonstration project (MacPhail) 3700-1 (Reid) 3698 (Sanders) 3700-1
- Malpractice insurance for midwives (MacPhail) 3699-70 (Sanders) 3699-70
- Program and services
Milk Industry Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 12) (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) 1R, 2430; 2R, 3182-5; C, 3207-10; 3R, 3210; RA, 3627
- Amdt: sec. 17 (Evans) 3209, approved 3209
- Debate, speakers (de Jong) 3208 (Evans) 2430, 3182-3, 3185, 3207-10 (Gingell) 3185 (van Dongen) 3183-5, 3207-10 (Wilson, J.) 3207-8
- "Cattle," definition (Evans) 3207 (Wilson, J.) 3207
- "Inhibitor," definition (Evans) 3207 (van Dongen) 3207
Milk Marketing Board
- Milk inspection role (van Dongen) 3209
Millar, Aaron
- Mother's murder case cited (Sanders) 5735
Millar, John
- Letter quoted on impact of gambling expansion (Krueger) 4341
- Statements on social impact of legalized gambling (Krueger) 2266-7
Miller, Hon. Arthur Daniel (North Coast)
Deputy Premier and Minister of Employment and Investment
- Agreement on Internal Trade
- Alberta
- cooperation agreements with B.C. 4088
- economy and economic policies 4053, 4089-92
- work with B.C. on rail transport strategy 5097-9
- Alberta Heritage Fund, purpose 4249
- Alcohol, availability in gambling establishments 4309-10
- Aluminum smelting operations in B.C. 6016
- Angus Reid Group Inc., polls on gambling expansion 4283-4, 4728
- Auditor general reports
- Avcorp Industries
- contract for fast ferry interior design 4866
- government investment in company 4240, 6499
- Ballard Power Systems, hydrogen fuel cell technology, development funding 4052
- Bent Nail employment project 6495
- Bladerunners program 6495-6
- Bonneville Power Administration
- agreement for return of power to B.C. 4167
- transmission lines used to transport B.C. power into United States 4940
- B.C.
- history, preservation of public and private records 4269-71
- northern B.C.
- population growth 2558
- B.C. Buildings Corporation
- 1997 annual report tabled 6109
- current operations 5086-91
- B.C. Ferry Corporation
- 1996-97 annual report tabled 6563
- assured-loading and reservation services 4865
- availability of 1996-97 annual report 4733
- borrowing authority increase 6345-6
- capital projects, fast ferry program
- debt levels and debt-servicing costs 4731-3
- efficiency benchmarks on per-route basis 4732-3
- fares
- commuter rates on Powell River-Comox route 4828-9
- fare structure and tariff levels 4731-3, 4811, 4812-6
- premium fares on fast ferry routes 4867
- ferries as extension of highway system 4821, 4829-30
- ferry services and routes
- Comox-Powell River, vessel replacement 4827-8
- Gambier-Keats service, privatization 4816
- Gulf Islands, reservation system to facilitate loading and unloading 4864
- Inside Passage, summer schedule 4814
- Langdale service 4825-6
- midcoast and northern service 4729-30
- midcoast service 4815-8
- Port Hardy-Prince Rupert, shipboard casino gambling 4286
- route 2 licence requirement 4861
- Saltspring Island service 4864-5
- Sunshine coast, passenger-only service 4826
- Vancouver Island-mainland service 3441, 4819
- ferry terminals
- Duke Point terminal 4729, 4818-20
- Horseshoe Bay terminal, traffic volumes 4862-3
- Langdale terminal, commercial activities 4827, 4858
- location of terminal for Gabriola Island-Nanaimo route 4865
- Powell River terminal upgrade 4827
- grants in lieu of taxes to municipalities 4819-20
- operations
- business plans 4733
- efficiency goals and measures 4811
- losses 4730
- personnel, training 4862
- planning direction for ferry system 4830-1
- revenues, non-tariff revenues from terminal and on-board services 4858
- safety of ferry crews and travelling public 4860-3
- sale of ferry technology 4869
- stakeholder process for corporate decision-making 4815, 4822-3
- student summer apprenticeship program 4863-4
- subsidization
- traffic mix and volumes 4734
- vessels
- Century-class vessels 4729
- fast ferries design information 4870
- fast ferries, noise and pollution levels 4867
- fast ferries used for passenger service 4826
- fast-ferry construction, job creation 6344
- maintenance program, effectiveness 4859-60
- Nicola, leasing arrangement with Port Simpson Indian band 4814-6
- northern service vessels 4813-4
- Queen of the North, operational fitness 4863
- single-hulled vessels, passenger car deck access 4862
- vessels for service on minor routes 4830
- wildcat strike, disciplinary measures 3380, 3441
- work stoppage to protest non-union personnel at news-stand 4856-8
- B.C. Gaming Commission
- B.C. Hydro
- board appointments, qualifications 4934-6
- charitable contributions, corporate donation policy 4972-4
- disposition of Peace Valley land purchased for Site C development 4944-5
- dividend paid to government 5053-4
- domestic monopoly on B.C. supply, continuation 4933
- environmental expenditures 5045-6
- fish management program, environmental audit 5048
- fisheries habitat protection 4330
- guidelines on hiring of outside counsel 5040-1
- international projects, current activities 4982-5
- leadership 4899, 5052-3
- planning for contingencies 5054-5
- power sales
- market value of surplus energy 4940
- power marketing and American trade law 4905-6
- sale to United States company, price 4936, 4938
- surplus energy sales outside B.C. 4970, 5056
- surplus energy sales to other public utilities 6451-2
- power-generation capacity, future projections and requirements 4939-40, 4974
- preparedness for industry changes 4933-4
- rates
- industrial users 4892-6, 4898-9
- industrial users located near generating facilities 4943-4
- non-residential consumers 5055
- residential and consumer 4896-7
- rural differentials 4932
- surplus power for domestic and non-domestic use 4936-8
- three-year freeze on residential rates 5053-4
- sale of shares in Pakistan power project
- agreement on participation in future projects 4976-83
- water flow policies 5048
- B.C. Hydro International Ltd.
- board members 4984-5
- memorandum of understanding with China 5043-4
- memorandums of understanding for future projects 5049-50
- Pakistan power project
- Swat River and Malakand projects 4982-4
- B.C. Inquiry into Gasoline Pricing, preliminary report tabled 5911
- "B.C. Jobs Strategy: Themes and Next Steps," authorship and purpose of document 4044-6, 4187-8
- B.C. Lottery Corporation
- 1995-96 annual report tabled 5404
- advertising policies 4697, 4702-3
- B.C. Lottotech, role 4707-8
- conflict-of-interest policy 4698, 4729
- corporate offices, consolidation 4701-2, 4724, 4829
- cost of legal action against Vancouver 4700, 4729
- employee travel expenditures 4700-1, 4724, 4729
- executive compensation 4705-6, 4723
- funding of gambling addiction treatment programs 4706, 4727
- hiring of summer students to introduce Club Keno in bars and pubs 4736-7
- hosting costs for 1996 lottery convention 4708
- mandate and business goals 4705, 4723
- misconduct allegations against corporate personnel 4698-9, 4724
- office renovations, cost 4706-7
- participation in international lottery activities 4709, 4727-8
- Pollard Banknote ticket-printing contract 3956
- president's contract 4709
- revenues 4700
- staffing levels 4701
- B.C. Place, renovation proposals 4061, 4079
- B.C. Racing Commission, 1996 annual report tabled 5576
- B.C. Rail Ltd.
- dividend paid to government 5104-6, 5107-8
- Fort St. John-Fort Nelson line, maintenance and upgrade activities 5101-2
- operations 5103-8
- profitability 5095
- rail car acquisitions 5100-3
- role in development of northern B.C. economy 5096-9, 5106
- switching fees 4203
- traffic volumes 4200, 5098
- B.C. Rail Ventures, projects 5103
- B.C. Railway Group
- B.C. Railway Properties Ltd., investments, 1997-2001 strategic plan 5093
- B.C. Systems Corporation
- 1995-96 annual report tabled 5404
- 1996-97 annual report tabled 6009
- sale of business and assets 4244-6
- B.C. Telephone Co. Ltd., telecommunications infrastructure in northern B.C. 5094
- B.C. Trade and Investment Office
- B.C. Transit, joint ventures with private sector 4096
- B.C. 21 program
- committee makeup and decision-making process 4195-6
- community projects program, funding 4704
- B.C. Utilities Commission, B.C. Hydro rate-setting process, deadline for interventions 4928-9, 4933
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2604-5
- Build B.C. special account, operation 4195-6
- Builders Lien Act
- Burnaby Mountain multi-use school project 4079
- Business
- Canada Foundation for Innovation, funding of university infrastructure 4247
- Canada-B.C. Infrastructure Works program, project completion deadline and review committee 4204-5
- Canadian National Railways, commercial relationship with B.C. Rail 4199-203, 5096-9
- Canadian Wheat Board, role 4200
- CanWest Gas Supply Inc., marketing role of company 4165-6
- Cassiar Mining Corp., future of mine 4149
- Catamaran Ferries International, partnership with B.C. Ferry Corporation 4865-6, 4869-70
- Centra Gas B.C. Inc., return-on-investment agreement with government 4084
- Cheakamus River
- China, hydroelectric power projects 4975, 4983, 5044-5
- Clark, Peter
- "Gaming Review: Expansion Options and Implications"
- role as Chair of lottery advisory committee 4331-3
- Clipper Navigation Ltd., acquisition of Victoria Line business operations 4871-2
- Coal industry
- mining operations 4124, 4130-1
- volume and haulage costs for northeast coal 5097-8
- Coast Ferries Ltd., dispute with B.C. Ferry Corporation 4817-8
- Coglon, Richard, appointment as legal adviser for B.C. Hydro 5040-1
- Columbia River Treaty downstream benefits
- entitlement agreement, power returned to B.C. 5055
- revenues from sale of B.C. portion accrue directly to Crown 6447
- Cominco Ltd., smelter viability 2407
- Commission on Resources and Environment, mining zone designations 4130-1
- Communities' role in preservation of historical documents 4270-1
- Construction industry
- Corporations
- capital tax, impact on mining industry 4146
- taxation legislation, national standardization 4095
- Corrections system, facilities planning and use 5089
- Cream Silver Mines Ltd., compensation case re cancelled mining project 4155
- Crown corporations
- charitable donations policy, tracking requirements 4973-4
- financial involvement in Four Corners Community Savings 6502-3
- role in economic and social development 4040, 4087-8, 4094
- Daisy Lake Dam, impact on area fishery 4874-7
- Dams, operation and maintenance, safety issues 4968-70
- Debt, public debt as percentage of gross domestic product 4043, 4081-2
- Denhoff, Eric, position with SNC-Lavalin Inc. 4977
- Economy
- B.C. economy
- Canada's international competitiveness 3621
- economic development, regional policies 4166-7
- impact of global change on national economies 4094
- Education
- curriculum, science-based programs 4231-2
- funding, return on investment 4250
- post-secondary education, tuition freeze 4193-4
- Elections, 1997 federal election, campaign role of ministry political staff 3729-31
- Electric power
- corridors shared with natural gas lines 4167
- cost of electricity 4129
- energy markets, changes in structure of North America markets 4892-9, 4938
- independent power producers, projects 4939, 4971
- marketing and sale of B.C. power 4147-8
- surplus power, disposition 4939-40, 4970, 6448
- Eliesen, Marc
- Employment and Investment ministry
- estimates debate 4039-61, 4079-100, 4122-32, 4146-67, 4187-208, 4231-3, 4235, 4269-71, 4273-86, 4303-14, 4327-52, 4331-51, 4369-79, 4381-90, 4696-709, 4723-34, 4811-31, 4856-77, 4891-902, 4927-45, 4968-85, 5039-56, 5086-108, 6495-504
- annual reports, timeliness 4196-7
- archives and records service, current and future operations 4269-71
- "British Columbia, Canada: The Place to Be" promotional pamphlet 4198-9
- budget reductions, impact on ministry divisions 4041-2
- business plans for ministry divisions 4041
- business plans for science and technology programs 4239-42
- community development branch, operations 4208, 6495-6
- directive re staff contact with media 4100
- energy and mines division, staffing levels 4124
- funding for Four Corners Community Savings 6501-2
- geological survey branch activities 4126-8
- information technology access office, report 4243
- mandate 4040-1
- mineral titles branch audit 4148-9
- responsibility for science and technology 4231
- responsibility for skills training projects 6495-6
- role in development of B.C. jobs strategy 4044-8, 4187, 4191-2
- role in provision of youth employment programs 4197-8
- Employment and unemployment
- B.C. jobs strategy 2505-7, 4042-8, 4187-94
- employment standards for low-income workers 2819
- job creation
- employment levels in B.C. 2325-6
- government role 2407
- job creation and investment in B.C. 5810-1
- job creation during NDP administration 2406
- number of jobs created and protected 4040-1
- policies 4192, 4194
- regional job strategies 4205
- role of interministerial working group 4187-8
- targets 4188-90
- targets, statistical base for measurement purposes 4045-6, 4048-9
- job equity 3622
- job-poaching by other provinces 4086-7
- labour force participation rates 4048-52
- local-hiring policy 5498
- Employment Standards Act
- Liberal Party position 2819
- provisions on standards for low-wage workers 2819
- variances for oil and gas industry 4161-4
- Environics Research Group Ltd., poll on gambling expansion 4278, 4308
- Environment
- environmental appeals, sulphur spill in Mackenzie area, disposition 5100
- environmental movement, relationship with B.C. political parties 4900-1
- environmental protection, scrubbers required on tanker trucks 4159
- environmental protests, participants 2432
- Evans Forest Products Ltd., expansion of operations 2407
- Exports and imports
- Asia-Pacific trade 4085, 4199
- B.C.'s dealings with United States 4905
- exports of B.C. products and services 4052
- exports of technological expertise and applications 4237-8
- international trade agreements 4093-4
- Team Canada trade missions
- objectives 4085-6
- promotion of B.C. during 1997 mission 4198-9
- trade agreements, softwood lumber agreement with United States 3621, 4930, 5055-6
- trade barriers 5498
- trade policies and domestic needs 4930-2
- United States trade practices 3621
- west coast ports as departure point for Canadian products 4200-3
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, decision on B.C. power marketing certificate application 4929-33, 5055
- Film industry, current activity 4044
- Financial Institutes Commission, review of Four Corners Community Savings 6496-7
- Finlay Navigation Ltd., barging operation on Williston Lake 4943
- Fisheries
- B.C. salmon fishery, protection and preservation of resource 4190
- bulltrout protection 4129
- fish habitat, riparian zones and mining activities 4152-3
- Pacific salmon revitalization plan (Mifflin plan), impact on communities 2413
- resource protection, managing hydro systems for fisheries values 4872-5, 4900-1
- strategic fisheries study, participation 5048
- Fisheries and Oceans department (federal), minimum flow order for Cheakamus River 4874-7
- Fisheries Protection Act, impact on B.C. Hydro activities 4872-4
- Fontas bridge, status 5102
- Forest Act, consequential amendment re Job Protection Commission mandate extension 2393
- Forest industry
- cyclical nature of industry 4093
- deactivation of forest roads 4156-8
- exports 4051
- forest land, foreign ownership of private lands 4095
- government intervention in industry 2407
- jobs, Liberal Party position 4590
- pulp prices 5095
- softwood lumber quota system 3621, 5095
- value of forest licences 4207
- Forest Practices Code, impact on resource industries planning 4149-50
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5498
- Fort Nelson, chopstick plant closing 2432
- Four Corners Community Savings, current and future operations 6496-504
- Fraser Valley, urbanization 4160-1
- Fuel, propane use as motor fuel, expiration of tax exemption 2605
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling
- bingo
- electronic bingo 3230-1
- linked bingo and other new technologies 4312-3, 4338-9
- types of bingo games available in B.C. 4334
- casinos
- advertising standards 4379
- alcoholic beverage service 4309-10
- automatic teller and Interact machines 4310, 4312
- casinos 4273-5
- destination casinos, source-of-wager projections 4304
- establishment, input from designated and adjacent communities 4282-3, 4347-8
- jobs for B.C. workers 4312
- number for B.C. 4285
- Windsor experience 4276, 4303-4, 4306-7, 4346
- charity gaming
- bet limits and hours 2588
- raffles 4386-8
- sharing of revenues with government 2588
- Club Keno
- comments (de Jong) 2866
- crime and gambling 4276, 4342-4, 4347, 4388-9
- expansion in B.C.
- basis for decision to expand 4386
- community referendums 2507
- costs for physical improvements to existing facilities 4336-7
- expansion 4629
- government plans 6409
- hard-core vs. soft-core gaming 4277
- impact on charitable gaming operations 4334-5, 4344-6
- implementation 2713
- interministerial activities 4379, 4381
- job creation projections 4351, 4369
- legislative authority 4342-4
- Liberal Party position 4286
- ministerial responsibility 4332-3
- NDP position while in opposition and as government 4273-4
- petition to prohibit certain kinds of facilities 4369
- prior consultations 4333-4
- public input and referendums 4306-7
- request-for-proposal process 4284-5
- social and economic impacts 4310-2, 4341, 4346-7, 4349
- trust fund for additional revenues 4337-8
- facilities on Indian land 4283, 4311
- illegal or "grey" electronic gaming machines 4281-2, 4343
- income levels of players 4280-1, 4349
- information, centralized resource database 4381
- internet gambling 4213
- jurisdictional authority of province 4340, 4345-6, 4348-51, 4381-2, 4704-5
- Kevin Krueger's position 3622
- Liberal Party position 2713
- lotteries
- children as purchasers or recipients of lottery tickets 4709
- international and interjurisdictional lotteries 4709, 4727-8
- lottery advisory committee, role and terms of office 4331-3
- morality and gambling 4384-5
- policing of gaming facilities, jurisdictional concerns 4390
- revenues
- projected increase 4351
- retaining and attracting of gambling dollars 4275
- revenues to government 4279-80, 4284-5, 4347
- revenues to government, allocation 4704
- revenue-sharing between local and provincial governments 4348
- revenue-splitting between government and charities 4335-8, 4344-6
- security against theft in gaming establishments 3281
- slot machines
- social costs 4707
- video lottery terminals
- Windsor experience 4373
- Glendale Lodge site, land use plan 5089
- Gold River, economy 4058
- Golden Eagle power project, memorandum of understanding with B.C. 5049-50
- Government
- accommodation costs 5087
- capital spending financed with dedicated revenue stream 4821-2
- computerized information systems, millennium-compliance problem 4244
- provincial-municipal relations, protocol agreement re consultation 2605
- purchasing, information technology services 4244-6
- revenues, dividends from Crown corporations 5104
- spending, Liberal Party policy 2558
- Grain
- Gravel extraction, permitting 4164
- Greater Vancouver regional district, debt increase for infrastructure investment 2559
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2818-20
- Helms-Burton act (United States), purpose 4098-9
- Highway 19, Island Highway construction project
- Horse-racing industry, impact of gambling expansion 4349
- Hotel room tax, use of revenues to recover capital costs 4060
- Housing, emergency housing and shelter, Victoria safe house 4206
- Huckleberry copper mine project 4123, 4146
- Hughes Aircraft of Canada Ltd., work at Richmond facility 4232
- Hughes, Ted, position while conflict-of-interest commissioner on use of constituency offices for partisan political activities 3729-30
- Human Resources ministry, use of Kelowna building 5089
- Immigration, business immigration program 4054-7
- Indians
- artifacts, return to B.C. 4269
- land claims, impact on mining activities 4125-6, 4147
- Industrial Development Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6539
- Industry
- competitiveness 4088-92
- industrial incentive fund 4099-100
- technological innovation in traditional industries 4235
- Information, Science and Technology Agency, role 4231
- Infrastructure, investments 2559, 4043-4
- Intalco Aluminum Corp., purchase of B.C. power 4936
- International Business Machines Corp., negotiations re facility for B.C. 4243
- Investment
- IPC Group, projects 2587-8
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997
- Job Protection Commission
- Kadlec, Bob, "Building Partnerships" report 4080-1
- Kaiser Energy Ltd., sour gas well proposal for Fort St. John area 4159-61
- Kamloops, location potential for B.C. Lottery Corporation head office 4701-2, 4724
- Keenleyside Dam
- hydroelectric project 6448
- water use plan 5047
- Kerley, Douglas, commended for work as job protection commissioner 2393
- Kincolith, road construction project 4816
- Klemtu, ferry service 4815
- Klopfer, Alex, "High Technology Industries in B.C.: The Agenda for Growth," report and recommendations 4232, 4235
- Labour, workplace safety, mining industry record 4122
- Land use, planning and allocation issues 4129-32
- Laxton, John, role in B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project 5039
- Legislature
- estimates debate, sequencing of topics 4096
- role of opposition 4205-6
- Liberal Party
- disciplinary action taken against caucus members 2819
- federal party's handling of Pacific salmon negotiations 3621
- performance as official opposition 2819-20
- policies, comparison with NDP 4190
- position on current policies re assistance for resource communities 4208
- Lions Gate Bridge, rehabilitation or replacement 4081-4
- Lipsey, Richard, report on gambling expansion 4629
- Local government, scope of responsibilities 2605
- Lottery Act
- reporting requirements re administration of act and lottery operations 4339-40
- statutory authority for lottery advisory committee 4331
- McMaster, Herb, dispute with MacMillan Bloedel re mining activity 4156-7
- Mainframe Entertainment Inc., computer animation work 4239
- Marine Link Transportation Ltd., ferry service contract 4818
- Masset, economy 4057-8
- Mediation and Arbitration Board, operations review 4161
- MLAs
- constituency newsletters, content 3686
- working together for the common good 6450
- Mines and mining
- environmental assessment process for mining projects 4125-6, 4129, 4146
- mineral development agreement with federal government 4129, 4148
- mineral exploration code, status 4151
- mineral tenures, compensation for cancelled and expropriated tenures 4132, 4155-6
- mining industry
- capital investment 4190
- current and future activities 4053-4, 4122-6
- exploration and development 4126-8
- exploration funding 4152
- impact of Forest Practices Code 4149-50
- Kootenay area activity 4130
- land access issues 4129-30
- placer operations near fishbearing streams 4152-3
- regulatory requirements 4148
- road deactivation case in Port Alberni area 4156-7
- taxation and investment 4046
- workers compensation claims 4154-5
- Mining Jobs 2000 initiative 4129
- prospectors assistance grants 4128, 4152
- reclamation of former mine sites 4153-4
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 5790-1
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6344-6
- Mount Polley copper-gold mine project 4123
- Multilateral agreement on investment
- agreement 4093-4
- B.C. participation 2363
- B.C.'s request that government of Canada withdraw from negotiations (Motion 52), debate 3620-2
- consultations 3622, 4097
- impact on B.C. interests 4098
- May 14 draft, public access 3956
- Municipalities
- authority to approve or restrict gambling within own boundaries 4313-4, 4340, 4345-51, 4381-2, 4704-5
- budgets, balanced-budget requirement 2605
- grants from provincial government 2558-9
- provision of power to industrial users at rates set by province 6432, 6448, 6452-3
- National Centre for Advanced Wood Products Processing, role 4043
- National Railway Historical Society, leasing agreement with B.C. Rail 5103
- NDP, links with organized labour 5811
- Nisga'a lands, gambling casinos 4283
- Oil and gas industry
- activity authorizations, turnaround times 4150-1
- B.C. jobs filled by Alberta workers 4087
- costs to operate in B.C. 4161-4
- impact of Forest Practices Code 4149-50, 4158
- natural gas sales outside B.C. 4165
- pipelines across private land, owner's rights 6427-8, 6430
- regulatory requirements 4159
- revenues to province 4053
- role in economy of northwest B.C. 4089-92, 4164
- sour gas wells, siting 4159-61
- workers' overtime 4162-4
- Opportunities '96 program 4204
- Parks, mining in parks 4156
- Peace River flow issues 2800
- Peat Marwick report on gambling expansion
- Pollard Banknote Ltd., lottery ticket printing contract for Kamloops firm 2433, 3956, 4274
- Port Simpson, ferry service 4814-6
- Power for Jobs Development Act
- Power for Jobs program
- administrator's role and mandate 6430-1, 6451, 6454-5
- confidentiality of applicant information 6454-5
- eligibility 4891-8, 6431-2, 6450-1, 6454
- legal issues re two-tiered pricing structure 4899-902, 4927-8, 5055-6, 6449-50
- monitoring of progress 6448-9
- program objectives 4904, 4937, 6009-10, 6016-7
- reduced power rates, setting of rate 6451-3
- Power Smart program, expenditures 5046
- Powerex Corporation
- access to United States energy markets 5055
- access to United States energy markets, approval process 4899, 4928-33
- customer base, size 4940
- marketing expertise 4971
- power sales to Mexico 4971
- Premier's Advisory Council on Science and Technology, role in setting of budget for science and technology fund 4247-8
- Priddy, Hon. Penny, commended for work to establish child care centre 2819
- Prince Rupert
- bridge link between Digby Island and Kaien Island 4815-6
- port facilities, current and future use 4199-203
- Prosperity Gold Corp., mining project 4129
- Pullinger, Hon. Jan, use of constituency office for federal election campaign 3729-30
- Quoted on gambling (Krueger) 2265-6, 4272, 4388
- Railways, role of rail transport in B.C. economy 4199-203, 5096-9, 5101
- Real property tax, taxing of property acquired as raffle prize 4387
- Recreation, recreational activity and gambling 4349
- Repap B.C. Inc.
- Resources and resource industries
- benefits for people of province 4155
- natural resource community fund 4057-8
- resource development by Indians 4125
- resource-based communities in northwest B.C., economic concerns 4208
- Ridley, Stanley
- relationship with SNC-Lavalin and B.C. Hydro International 5050-2
- role in sale of B.C. Hydro's Pakistan power project shares to SNC-Lavalin Inc. 4977-8
- Riverview Hospital site, land use plan 5088-9
- Role in sale of B.C. Hydro's Pakistan power project shares (Farrell-Collins) 4979 (Miller) 4979
- Royal Oak Mines Inc.
- compensation for cancellation of Tatshenshini project 4132, 4155
- Kemess South project in northern B.C. 4123, 4157
- St. Ann's Academy, restoration project 5088
- Science and technology
- centres of excellence, infrastructure funding 4247-8
- computer technology expertise in B.C. 4251-2
- high-technology industry, managerial competence 4231
- knowledge-based industry in B.C. 2558, 2560, 4043, 4094, 4231-2
- programs, outcome measurements 4240-2
- research and development
- science policy, impact on sector activity 4250
- Science Council of B.C.
- 1996-97 annual report tabled 5488
- allocation of Forest Renewal B.C. funds for research projects 4246
- current activities 4232, 4250-1
- SEPCOL (Southern Electric Power Company Ltd.)
- Shaw, John N., position with SNC-Lavalin Inc. 4977
- Sierra-Yoyo-Desan road, maintenance and repairs 4151
- Simonis, Guy, availability to answer questions during estimates debate 4699
- Skills training, high-tech applications 4043, 4231-2
- Smith, Brian
- recommendations on B.C. Hydro governance 4934-5
- review of B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project
- SNC-Lavalin Inc.
- hiring of former B.C. Hydro personnel 5050-2
- options on future projects 4982-4
- purchase of shares in Pakistan power project 4976-81, 5043-4
- Squamish River estuary development, impact on fish stocks 4875
- Statements
- job creation (Nebbeling) 4951-3 (Zirnhelt) 4953
- NDP budgeting practices during 1972-76 administration (Coleman) 2187, 2190
- Stewart, economy 4057-8
- Students, summer jobs programs 4204
- Taxation
- policies 4146
- standardized system for international companies 4095
- Technical University of British Columbia 4043
- Telecommunications, electronic highway accord 4205, 4232
- Throne speech debate 2557-61
- Tolls, use to recover capital costs 4082
- Toyota Canada Inc., performance of Richmond plant 3621
- Transportation
- federal funding for west coast projects 4815-6, 4827
- infrastructure in northeastern B.C. 5101
- marine transportation system in B.C. 4732, 4821, 4830-1
- national transportation policy 5092
- northwest corridor, east-west connection across B.C. to coastal ports 4198-9, 5096-9
- subsidization 4830
- Trucking industry
- transport of hydrogen sulphide 4159
- transport of softwood lumber into United States 5095
- Tulsequah Chief, mining project proposal 4126
- United States, trade practices 3621
- Universities, colleges and institutes, capital funding 4247
- Utah Mines Ltd., mine site on northern Vancouver Island 4153
- Vancouver
- casino for city 4280
- international reputation 4275
- trade and convention centre, construction project 4059-61, 4079
- Woodward's redevelopment project 5089, 6496
- Vancouver Wharves Ltd.
- Victoria Line Ltd.
- 1994-97 financial operations 4870-1
- Royal Victorian, market value of former B.C. Ferries vessel 4871
- W.A.C. Bennett Dam, sinkhole 4968-70
- Ward, Peter, water licence report findings 5047
- Water use plans, progress to date 5046-7
- WesTel Telecommunications Ltd., operations 5093-4
- Western Grain Transportation Act (federal), elimination, impact on B.C. 4166, 4199-200
- Williston Lake
- Women, employment strategy 4206
- Women's Equality ministry, estimates debate 2815, 2818-20
- Woodlands site, land use plan 5089
- Workers Compensation Board assessments, decision criteria 4154-5
- World Cup Soccer lottery, B.C. participation 4709, 4727
- World Meet, conference of lottery organizations 4708
- World Wildlife Fund, donation from B.C. Hydro 4974
- Youth
- Youth Mentorship program 4197
Miller, Sherallyn
- Letter cited on pension benefits for Island Highway construction project workers (Cashore) 3097, 3157
Miller, Toto
Milligan Creek
Milligan, Tony
Mines and mining
- Environmental assessment process for mining projects (Jarvis) 4125-6, 4128-9, 4146 (Miller) 4125-6, 4129, 4146
- Gravel extraction, permitting (Miller) 4164 (Neufeld) 4164
- Mineral development agreement with federal government (Jarvis) 4128-9 (Miller) 4129, 4148
- Mineral exploration code, status (Jarvis) 4151 (Miller) 4151
- Mineral tenures
- compensation for cancelled Tatshenshini projects (Clark, G.) 6553 (Jarvis) 4132 (Miller) 4132 (Neufeld) 6553
- compensation for expropriated tenures (Jarvis) 4155 (Miller) 4155-6
- Mining applications, process (Reid) 2510
- Mining in parks See Parks
- Mining industry
- Prospectors assistance grants (Jarvis) 4128 (Miller) 4128, 4152
- Reclamation of former mine sites (Jarvis) 4153-4 (Miller) 4153-4
Mining Association of British Columbia
- Quoted on NDP government's job creation initiatives (Stephens) 2354
Mining Jobs 2000
Mining Tax Act
Ministerial statements
- Boone, Hon. Lois R. (Minister of Transportation and Highways)
- Cashore, Hon. John (Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Minister of Labour)
- National day of mourning for workers killed or injured on the job 2855 (Dalton) 2855
- Clark, Hon. Glen David (Premier and Minister Responsible for Youth)
- Hammell, Hon. Sue (Minister of Women's Equality)
- McGregor, Hon. Cathy (Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks)
- Petter, Hon. Andrew (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations)
- Revision of Hydro debt in budget estimates 2433 (Gingell) 2433 (Weisgerber) 2433-4 (Wilson, G.) 2434
- Priddy, Hon. Penny (Minister for Children and Families)
Minnesota
- Gambling legalization, costs and consequences (Krueger) 4375
Miracle Valley Rehabilitation Centre, Mission, B.C.
- Treatment program for substance abusers (Streifel) 4575
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 22) (Attorney General) 1R, 3379; 2R, 3937-44; C, 5622-31, 5713-9; 3R, 5812; RA, 6414
- Amdts: sec. 2 (Dosanjh) 5625, approved 5625; sec. 3 (Dosanjh) 5626, approved 5627; sec. 34 and 36 (Dosanjh) 5719, approved 5719
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 3943, 5715-6 (Bowbrick) 3941-2 (Coell) 5715 (Dosanjh) 3379, 3937-8, 5623-8, 5716-9 (Farnworth) 3943-4, 5715-6 (Gingell) 3942-3, 5628-31, 5713-4, 5716-8 (Plant) 3938-41, 5622-8, 5714-9 (Pullinger) 5628-31, 5713-5
- Nature of amendments (Plant) 3938-9
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997
- (Bill 42) (Attorney General) 1R, 4587; 2R, 5675-84; C, 5790-3; 3R, 5793; RA, 6414
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 5677-9, 5791-2 (Clark, G.) 5790 (Coell) 5679-80 (Coleman) 5681-2 (de Jong) 5680-1 (Dosanjh) 4587, 5675, 5791, 5793 (Hawkins) 5684 (MacPhail) 5791-2 (Miller) 5790-1 (Penner) 5682-3 (Plant) 5675-7, 5790-1, 5793
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997
- (Bill 51) (Attorney General) 1R, 6007; 2R, 6240-3; C, 6341-54; 3R, 6354; RA, 6414
- Amdts: sec. 3 (MacPhail) 6343, approved 6343; sec. 40 (Ramsey) 6354, approved 6354; sec. 45 (Dosanjh) 6454, approved 6354
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 6351-3 (Barisoff) 6347-9, 6351, 6354 (Boone) 6347-53 (Dosanjh) 6007, 6240-2, 6341-3 (Gingell) 6344-5, 6347 (Krueger) 6349-50 (MacPhail) 6242-3, 6343-4 (Miller) 6344-6 (Nebbeling) 6350-1 (Neufeld) 6346-7, 6349, 6352-3 (Plant) 6242, 6341-4 (Ramsey) 6354 (Weisgerber) 6242 (Wilson, G.) 6341-3, 6345, 6353-4 (Wilson, J.) 6346-7 (Zirnhelt) 6346-7
Misri, Shalla
Mission Air Transportation Network
Mission, B.C.
- Commercial development of area (Throne speech) 2086
- Highway interchange construction project (Streifel) 2357
- Municipal grant reduction (de Jong) 3006 (Jarvis) 2636
Mission Creek
Mission school district
Mission-Kent constituency
Mitchell, David J.
- Appointment as conflict-of-interest commissioner (Gingell) 4757-8 (Reitsma) 4772 (van Dongen) 4778
M.M. Dillon Ltd.
- Report on B.C. Transit productivity (Symons) 5160
Mobile homes
Molluscs
- Zebra mussels, spread in B.C. (Abbott) 5614 (McGregor) 5614
Money's Mushrooms Ltd.
- Mushroom composting issue See also Mushroom industry under Agriculture
- court case and Agriculture ministry involvement (Evans) 4015-6 (Stephens) 4015-6
Montreal Trust Co.
- Transfer of business to The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Co. (Sihota) 4417
Montroyal Elementary School, North Vancouver, B.C.
- Building addition (Dalton) 6141 (Ramsey) 6141
Moody's Investors Service Inc.
- B.C. credit review (Reid) 2244 (Weisgerber) 2225
- Cited on B.C. credit rating (Campbell) 2114
- Cited on B.C. credit rating downgrade (Chong) 3231 (Gingell) 3229-30
Morey Channel Bridge
Morin, Brian
- Appointment as chair of justice issues committee (Dosanjh) 2708 (Penner) 2708
Morning Star (Vernon)
- Article quoted on compensation for regional health board and community health council members (Sanders) 5898
Morrison Petroleums Ltd.
Morton, Ashley
- B.C. Youth Parliament, service goals of organization 6586
- Youth, opportunities for B.C. youth 6586
Morton, Cynthia
- Appointment as children's commissioner (Dosanjh) 2673 (Plant) 2673
- Commended for work as transition commissioner for child and youth services (Anderson) 3961
- Recommendations made while transition commissioner for child and youth services See Transition commission for child and youth services under Children, Child protection
- Report on death of Mavis Flanders See Flanders, Mavis
MOSAIC
- See Multilingual Orientation Services Association for Immigrant Communities
Motion picture industry
Motions
- Auditor general reports referred to Public Accounts Committee (Motion without notice)
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63)
- Federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56)
- Motion that the Chair do now leave the chair
- Motion that the House stand recessed until 6:35 p.m.
- Multilateral agreement on investment, B.C. request that government of Canada withdraw from negotiations (Motion 52)
- Pacific Salmon Treaty, B.C. response to United States position on negotiation of new treaty (Motion without notice)
- Public accounts for 1995-96 referred to Public Accounts Committee (Motion without notice)
- Reprinting of Standing Orders in gender-neutral language (Motion without notice)
- Rules for Sections A and B of Committee of Supply (Motion 53)
- Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs (Motion 54)
- Select Standing Committee on Forests, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, member substitutions (Motion 65)
- Special committee to monitor and evaluate work of Children and Families ministry (Motion without notice)
Motor Carrier Commission
- Annual report, 1995-96, tabled (Boone) 5017
- Annual report, 1996-97, tabled (Boone) 6563
- Budget and staffing (Barisoff) 5439 (Boone) 5439
- Future of commission (Kasper) 2339
- Licensing function
- granting of licences (Barisoff) 5439 (Boone) 5439
- impact of deregulation of interprovincial carriers (Barisoff) 5439-40
- Review of commission and recommendations (Boone) 5200
- Safety audits of carriers (Barisoff) 5440 (Boone) 5440
Motor fuel tax
- Increase for Victoria transit funding (Dosanjh) 5675
Motor Fuel Tax Act
Motor Vehicle Act
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 34) (Attorney General) 1R, 4036-7; 2R, 5583-91; C, 5851-3; 3R, 5853; RA, 6414
- Amdt: sec. 1 (Coleman) 5851, ruled out of order 5852
- Debate, speakers (Coleman) 5583-6, 5851-2 (Dalton) 5586-7 (Dosanjh) 4036-7, 5583, 5590-1, 5852-3 (Krueger) 5588-9 (Plant) 5589-90, 5852-3 (Reitsma) 5587-8
- Purpose of act (Dosanjh) 4036-7, 5583
Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997
- (Bill 40) (Boone) 1R, 4524; 2R, 5968-71; C, 6066-9; 3R, 6069; RA, 6414
- Debate, speakers (Barisoff) 5969-70, 6066-9 (Boone) 4524, 5968-9, 5971, 6066-9 (Clark, G.) 5970-1 (Plant) 6066 (Symons) 5970 (Wilson, G.) 5970
Motor Vehicle Amendment (Motorized Cycles) Act
- (Bill M209) (Sawicki) 1R, 6007
- Debate, speakers (Sawicki) 6007
Motor Vehicle Amendment (Substance Abuser Rehabilitation) Act
- (Bill M207) (Plant) 1R, 3165
- Debate, speakers (Plant) 3165
Motor vehicle branch
- Kelowna office
- service questionnaire (Hawkins) 4316
- waiting times for service (Boone) 5436 (Hawkins) 5436
- Transfer of functions to Insurance Corporation of B.C.
Motorcycles
- Legislation for motorized cycles, exemptions from Motor Vehicle Act provisions (Sawicki) 6007
- Motorcyclists' use of high-occupancy-vehicle lanes (Boone) 5392 (Symons) 5392
Mount Assiniboine Lodge Ltd.
- Management contract (Abbott) 5833 (McGregor) 5833
Mount Everest
- Expedition web site, use by B.C. students (Ramsey) 5944, 6182
Mount Ida
- Logging proposal for area (Abbott) 5344, 5349
Mount Polley copper-gold mine
Mount Washington
- Condominium project, concerns, government involvement (Pullinger) 4292 (Reitsma) 4292
Mount Washington Ski Resort Ltd.
Mountain Springs Hatchery
MSA Hospital, Abbotsford, B.C.
- Construction project (Hawkins) 3863 (MacPhail) 3863
Mulchey, Ron
Multicultural Advisory Council
Multicultural B.C.
- Health services delivery project (Anderson) 3668-9 (MacPhail) 3668-9
Multiculturalism
- Culturally diverse health services and information, availability (Hawkins) 2458-60 (Stevenson) 2459
- Diversity of B.C., issues and concerns (Anderson) 2902-5 (Dosanjh) 2902-5
- Interministry committee (Anderson) 2906, 3599-601, 4457 (Dosanjh) 2906 (Farnworth) 3600-1 (Hammell) 4457
- Multiculturalism plans for ministries See particular ministries
- Multifaith calendar, use in ministries (Anderson) 3600, 3669, 4457, 4459, 4695, 5391, 5501, 5570, 5902, 6476 (Boone) 5391 (Farnworth) 3600 (Hammell) 4457, 4459 (McGregor) 5570 (MacPhail) 3669 (Priddy) 6476 (Ramsey) 5902 (Streifel) 4695 (Zirnhelt) 5501
- "Report on Multiculturalism," 1995-96, tabled (Dosanjh) 6109
Multilateral agreement on investment
- Agreement (Giesbrecht) 4424 (Miller) 4093-4 (Smallwood) 3618 (Wilson, G.) 2436-8, 3613, 4092-4
- B.C. government letter to Art Eggleton (Miller) 3620
- Consultation
- Definition of term "investment" (Smallwood) 3618
- Impact of agreement
- impact on B.C. interests (Hansen) 4097-8 (Miller) 4098
- impact on environmental and labour standards (Penner) 3624
- impact on jobs (Wilson, G.) 2395
- impact on jobs and timber accord (Wilson, G.) 3614
- impact on social policy and programs in Canada (Smallwood) 3618
- May 14 draft, public access (Miller) 3956 (Wilson, G.) 3956
- Monopoly section, restrictions on market access (Wilson, G.) 3615
- Referral of B.C. debate to select standing committee (Farrell-Collins) 3613
- Third World participation (Hansen) 3619
Multilingual Orientation Services Association for Immigrant Communities
- Translation and interpretation services for income assistance recipients (Streifel) 4609
Municipal Act
- Amendments See also Local Government Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997
- Building inspection liability provisions (Abbott) 3562 (Farnworth) 3562
- Charivaries provision (Farnworth) 3532
- Need for amendments to permit long-term public-private partnerships See also leasing agreement topics under particular locations, e.g., Victoria; Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act
- Public hearings provisions (Coleman) 3801 (Farnworth) 3801
- Revision
- Subdivision provisions (Abbott) 3847 (Farnworth) 3847
Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ministry of
- Estimates
- debate 3526-42, 3553-62, 3585-604, 3650-61, 3675-84, 3708-27, 3750-68, 3794-813, 3836-55, 3879-93, 3915-24, Report 5996-8
- speakers (Abbott) 3527-42, 3553-62, 3585-96, 3598, 3602, 3650-2, 3654-7, 3659-61, 3675-84, 3807-10, 3839-48, 3852-4, 3879, 3881-93, 3916-7, 3921-4, 5996-7 (Anderson) 3599-602, 3799-801 (Chong) 3592-3, 3596-8, 3601-2, 3656-7, 3676-7, 3848-52, 3919-20 (Coell) 3919 (Coleman) 3710-27, 3750-9, 3764-8, 3794-9, 3801-7, 3810-1, 3836-8 (Farnworth) 3526-42, 3553-62, 3585-604, 3651-60, 3675-84, 3710-27, 3750-68, 3794-813, 3836-55, 3879-93, 3916-24, 5997-8 (Gingell) 3916-9 (Hansen) 3652-4 (Hawkins) 3655-6 (Krueger) 3602-4 (Masi) 3598-9 (Plant) 3589-90, 3845 (Thorpe) 3657-9, 3838-9 (Waddell) 3708-10 (Weisbeck) 3854-5 (Weisgerber) 3811-3 (Whittred) 3759-64 (Wilson, G.) 3879-81
- Aboriginal affairs manager position (Abbott) 3602, 3678 (Farnworth) 3602, 3678
- Annual report for year ending June 30, 1997, tabled (Farnworth) 6409
- Budget reduction (Abbott) 3528 (Farnworth) 3528
- Building standards branch, elimination (Abbott) 3559-61 (Farnworth) 3559-61
- Employment equity (Farnworth) 3598-9
- Goals for 1997-98 (Abbott) 3530 (Farnworth) 3530
- Hiring complaint (Chong) 3601-2 (Farnworth) 3601
- Multiculturalism issues (Masi) 3598-9
- Programs and services, reduction (Abbott) 4802
- Relationship with water, irrigation and improvement districts (Abbott) 5913
- Responsibility for social housing (Streifel) 4611
- Role (Farnworth) 3526
- Staff and operations changes (Abbott) 3528-30 (Farnworth) 3528-30
- Staffing (Farnworth) 3598-9 (Masi) 3598
Municipal Finance Authority of British Columbia
- Legislation re group leasing (Abbott) 3558 (Farnworth) 3558
Municipalities
- See also Local government
- Amalgamation
- Authority to approve or restrict gambling within own boundaries (Anderson) 4383, 4385 (Campbell) 6577-8 (Clark, G.) 6577-8 (Farnworth) 3602-3 (Hansen) 4381-2 (Krueger) 3602-3, 4313-4, 4340, 4345-6, 4347-51, 4704-5 (Miller) 4313-4, 4340, 4345-6, 4347-51, 4381-2, 4704-5
- Budgets, balanced-budget requirement (Miller) 2605 (Reitsma) 2602, 4772
- Code of conduct for elected municipal officials (Coleman) 4755 (Nebbeling) 4752
- Declassification of highways within municipalities (Abbott) 5393-5 (Boone) 5393-5
- Employee pension plan, changes (Gingell) 5928 (Petter) 5928
- Grants from provincial government
- 1994 debate, NDP MLAs' comments (Abbott) 2567-8 (Chong) 2721 (Clark, C.) 2859 (Dalton) 2690, 2692 (Gingell) 2573-4 (Hansen) 2716 (Hawkins) 2861 (Neufeld) 2693-4 (Plant) 2857 (Reitsma) 2603 (Sanders) 2724-5 (Symons) 2599
- administration of grants (Abbott) 3024-5 (Farnworth) 3024-5
- amount of grant, changes during 1993-94 period (Nebbeling) 2608-9
- amount of grant in future, certainty (Abbott) 2931-3, 2961, 2979, 2998, 3004, 6087 (Clark, C.) 2960 (Farnworth) 2931-3, 2960-1, 3022 (Jarvis) 2636-7 (van Dongen) 3022
- annual unconditional grants, consultation (Abbott) 3024-6 (Farnworth) 3024-5
- conditional grants (Abbott) 3891 (Farnworth) 3891
- consultation (Abbott) 2565-7, 2980, 3033-4, 3527 (Anderson) 2641 (Clark, C.) 2935-7, 2960-1 (Coell) 3074 (Dalton) 2693 (de Jong) 3029-30 (Farnworth) 2935-7, 2960-1, 2980, 3023 (Farrell-Collins) 2980 (Gingell) 2574 (Hurd) 2569 (Krueger) 3030-2 (Neufeld) 2693-4 (Petter) 3072-4 (Plant) 2857 (Reid) 2593-4 (Reitsma) 2603 (Symons) 3064-5 (van Dongen) 3023
- consultation, added expense to the Crown (de Jong) 3028, 3071-2 (Farnworth) 3026-8, 3036 (Farrell-Collins) 3027-8 (Petter) 3072
- consultation with Union of B.C. Municipalities representatives (Coleman) 3036-7
- deduction for highways and bridges (Abbott) 2964 (Boone) 2964 (Farnworth) 2963-4 (Gingell) 2961-4
- deduction for highways maintenance (Dalton) 2690 (Gingell) 2572-3 (Neufeld) 2695
- determination of amount (Abbott) 2565, 2970-2, 2978-9 (Farnworth) 2970-2, 2978-9, 3023-4, 3069 (Gingell) 3002 (Reitsma) 3069 (Symons) 2600 (Thorpe) 2598-9 (van Dongen) 3023-4
- general grants (Abbott) 2930 (Farnworth) 2930
- grants (Abbott) 5559 (Coell) 4518 (Farnworth) 2931-2
- grants during Social Credit Party administration (Abbott) 2976
- grants for incorporated municipalities (Abbott) 3854 (Farnworth) 3854
- Liberal Party campaign statements (Sihota) 2596
- municipal equalization grants (Abbott) 3890-1 (Farnworth) 3890-1
- NDP government handling (Clark, C.) 2860
- purpose (Farnworth) 2966 (Nebbeling) 2966-7
- reduction (Abbott) 2170-2, 2233-4, 2564-6, 3075 (Anderson) 2640-1 (Barisoff) 2728 (Bowbrick) 2606-7 (Campbell) 2116, 2155-6, 2868 (Clark, C.) 2345, 2347 (Coell) 2335, 2730-1 (Coleman) 2689 (Dalton) 2296 (Farnworth) 2933-4 (Farrell-Collins) 2933 (Giesbrecht) 2279 (Gingell) 2141, 2146, 2573-4, 2590-1 (Hawkins) 2177, 2235, 2861 (Hurd) 2568 (Jarvis) 2635-6 (McKinnon) 2338, 2729-30 (Miller) 2558-9 (Nebbeling) 2283 (Neufeld) 2183, 2258, 2693 (Penner) 2718-9 (Petter) 2563, 2870-1, 2934 (Plant) 2423 (Reitsma) 2116 (Symons) 2193, 2525, 2600 (Thorpe) 2598 (Waddell) 2570-1 (Weisbeck) 2209, 2523, 2725 (Weisgerber) 2225 (Whittred) 2722-3 (Wilson, G.) 2164-5, 2272-4, 2698-9 (Wilson, J.) 2732-3
- reduction, amount of grant (Abbott) 2929, 2964-5 (Farnworth) 2965 (Gingell) 2961-2, 2963, 2965-6 (Petter) 2929 (Reitsma) 2602-3 (Sanders) 2724 (Stephens) 2869 (Symons) 3065
- reduction, announcement by provincial government (Abbott) 2929 (Clark, C.) 2860, 2935 (de Jong) 2863 (Farnworth) 2935 (Hawkins) 2862 (Jarvis) 3065 (Reitsma) 2604, 3068
- reduction, exemption for small communities (Abbott) 2971 (Farnworth) 2967-8, 2971 (Gingell) 2572, 2591 (Nebbeling) 2968-9
- reduction, impact on communities (de Jong) 2864-5 (Hawkins) 2862 (Masi) 2595 (Petter) 2871 (Sanders) 2724-5 (Symons) 2600-1, 3064
- reduction, impact on high-value home owners (Nebbeling) 2610
- reduction, impact on property taxes (Clark, C.) 2859 (Dalton) 2690 (Farnworth) 2967 (Hurd) 2568 (Nebbeling) 2609, 2634-5, 2967 (Reitsma) 2602-3
- sewer and water projects, conditional grants (Abbott) 3682, 3891 (Farnworth) 3682, 3891
- small community protection grants (Abbott) 3890 (Farnworth) 3890
- unconditional grants, allocation (Abbott) 3890 (Farnworth) 3890
- use of funds (Nebbeling) 2634
- Grants in lieu of taxes, impact on municipal grants (Farnworth) 3002-3 (Gingell) 3002-3
- Housing production targets (Coleman) 3801-2
- Joint council with provincial government See Provincial-municipal relations under Government
- Leasing arrangements
- lease of land (Abbott) 2977 (Farnworth) 2977
- long-term leases (Abbott) 3558-9 (Farnworth) 3558-9
- long-term leases and use of Municipal Enabling and Validating Act provisions (Abbott) 3844-5
- Legislative changes (Farnworth) 2975
- Municipal authority and provincial funding (Abbott) 2974-7 (Farnworth) 2974-7
- Population growth and policing responsibilities (Dosanjh) 2790-2 (Plant) 2790-2
- Property tax as revenue source (Nebbeling) 2608, 2634
- Provincial-municipal relations See Government
- Provision of policing and law enforcement services (Dosanjh) 5812-3 (Plant) 5812-3
- Provision of power to industrial users at rates set by province (Farrell-Collins) 6432, 6448, 6452-3 (Miller) 6432, 6448, 6452-3
- Railway taxation revenues and municipal grants (Abbott) 2999-3002, 3007 (de Jong) 3004-6 (Farnworth) 2999-3002, 3004-6
- Requirement for provincial approvals (Abbott) 3531-2 (Farnworth) 3531-2
- Restructuring process
- Revenues
- calculation of total (Abbott) 2998-9 (Farnworth) 2999
- impact of Power for Jobs program See Provision of power to industrial users at rates set by province above
- public-private partnerships (Farnworth) 3537
- traffic fines (Abbott) 2974, 2976 (Farnworth) 2974, 2976 (Reitsma) 3069
- Services provided to provincial facilities (McKinnon) 2729 (Reitsma) 2602
- Site contamination, regulatory role (Abbott) 6217 (Farnworth) 6217
- Survey re NDP government (Jarvis) 2637
- Transfer of responsibilities from provincial government, funding allocation (Abbott) 3536-7 (Farnworth) 3537-8
- Transit costs (MacPhail) 5123, 5157, 5159 (Symons) 5123, 5157-9
Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act
- See also Leasing under Municipalities; leasing agreement topics under particular locations, e.g., Victoria
- Local government authority (Farnworth) 3530
- Scope and intent (Abbott) 3558 (Farnworth) 3558
Municipalities Enabling and Validating (No. 2) Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 35) (Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing) 1R, 4417; 2R, 5911-4; C, 5914; 3R, 5914; RA, 6414
- Amdts: sec. 1 (Farnworth) 5914, approved 5914
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 5912-3 (Farnworth) 4417, 5911-4 (Thorpe) 5912, 5914
- "Boundaries of the irrigation district," definition (Farnworth) 5914 (Thorpe) 5914
Munro, Connie
Munro, Jack
- Position on Forest Practices Code (Neufeld) 6132
Munro, John
- Paper on national unity project tabled (Wilson, G.) 6563
- Qualifications to write study on constitution (Plant) 3129
Munroe, Don
- Role as facilitator between B.C. Teachers Federation and B.C. Public Schools Employers Association (Ramsey) 6180, 6183
Murphy family
- Foster care for Indian child, Child and Family Review Board case
- case (McKinnon) 2853 (Priddy) 2853, 4039
- Children and Families ministry handling of case (Coell) 6107 (Priddy) 6107
- child's transfer to Indian birth uncle (Coell) 3441 (Priddy) 3441
- decision on case (Priddy) 6107
- foster parents' right to appeal (Coell) 6487
- "gag" order against Murphys (Coell) 4039
- independent investigation by children's commissioner (Farrell-Collins) 6107-8
- information provided to board by Children and Families ministry (Campbell) 3501-2, 3627-8 (Coell) 3502, 3628 (de Jong) 3503 (Farrell-Collins) 3502-3 (Plant) 3503 (Priddy) 3501-4, 3627-8
Murray, John
- Work as dairy inspector (van Dongen) 3927
Museums
- See also particular museums, e.g., Royal British Columbia Museum
- Community museums funding program (Chong) 4391
- Student access (Chong) 4392
Mushroom industry
Muskwa-Kechika area
Musqueam Indian band
- Lands occupied by leaseholders, property tax issue (Hansen) 4440 (Petter) 4440-1
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