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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
Rabbitt, Jim
- Candidacy supporters (Lali) 2516
Racism
- See Discrimination and racism
RADD
- See Recording Artists Against Drunk Drivers
Railways
- Property valuation (Abbott) 3883-4 (Farnworth) 3883-4
- Role of rail transport in B.C. economy (Miller) 4199-203, 5096-9, 5101 (Neufeld) 5101 (Penner) 4199-203 (Weisgerber) 5096-9
- Taxation See also Municipalities
- Taxation, legislation
- Tourism opportunities (Pullinger) 4289 (Reitsma) 4289
Raiwind project
- See Pakistan power project under British Columbia Hydro International Ltd.
Ramsey, Hon. Paul (Prince George North)
Minister of Education, Skills and Training
- A.L. Fortune Secondary School, renovation 6223-4
- Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd., negotiation with government following cancellation of Kemano completion project 6564
- Annieville Elementary School, capital funding project, assessment of needs 6177
- Apprenticeship
- programs
- apprenticeship scholarship program 5877
- assignment of costs to employees or employers 6255
- expansion into new occupations 5873
- funding allowances for regional coordinators 5876-7
- secondary school program 5876-7, 5972, 5977
Ramsey, Hon. Paul (Prince George North)
- Apprenticeship Act, repeal 6255
- Ballenas Secondary School, building addition and upgrade 6148
- Barbers Act, amendments 6255
- Baxter, David, participation in forum on extending school days 6181
- Bennett Road Elementary School, construction of new school 6146-7
- Boundary Park Elementary School, construction of new school 6144-5
- B.C. Benefits program, funding for skills development programs 5903
- B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils, resolution on teaching tolerance for same-sex couples 6190-1
- B.C. Institute of Technology
- position on framework agreement for sectoral bargaining 5942
- strategies used to acquire and upgrade technology 5906-7
- B.C. Public Schools Employers Association
- funding and membership 6035, 6183-4
- negotiations on provincial bargaining for B.C. teachers 6179-80, 6182
- B.C. Teachers Federation
- negotiations on provincial bargaining for B.C. teachers 6179-80, 6182
- participation in forum on roles and responsibilities of Education ministry and school districts 6080
- position on school accreditation process 6036
- position on teaching school students tolerance for same-sex couples 6229, 6232
- Budget debate 2369-71
- Business Training Institute, closing 5945
- Charbonneau, Arthur, commended for work as Education minister 5977
- Children
- child care
- Parksville alternate school-based child care program, funding for spaces 6148
- subsidies 5877-8, 5884, 5940
- speech and language pathology services 5983
- Children and Families ministry, transfer of responsibilities from Education ministry 6071, 6102, 6235
- Clayton Elementary School, design and construction of new school 6143
- College and Institute Act, amendments 6255
- College Heights Secondary School, extended school days 6151-2, 6224
- Corporations, corporate capital tax, elimination 2369-70
- Council of Tourism Associations, contract to provide job training for income assistance recipients 2507
- Courts, fees charged for courtwatching programs 6049
- Coyote Creek Elementary School, construction of new school 6144
- Crime, young offenders, education services for youth in institutions 6037
- Destinations program training funds, corporate recipients 2469-71
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- computer training program 5886
- ministerial responsibility 5872
- office for disability issues, operations 6046-7
- programs and program funding for blind and low-vision children 6221-2
- vocational rehabilitation services 5872, 5886
- Drugs, federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2775-6
- Earl Marriott Secondary School
- construction of building addition 6144
- physical condition of school 6042-3
- Education
- adult basic education, funding and service delivery in private and post-secondary institutions 5945, 6033-5
- applied education for the job market, strategies to integrate work and school 5875, 5972-3
- career planning, wood Link career-exploration tool, internet web site, use by B.C. students 5944
- community-schools initiative 6071-2, 6235
- completion rate of grade 12 students 5976-7
- curriculum
- career and personal planning 5875-6, 5942, 5972, 5977, 5983, 6098-9, 6190-1, 6220, 6229-32
- curriculum development, contracts with outside agencies 6081-2
- curriculum development, costs of integrated resource packages 5982
- home economics 6191-2
- music instruction 6223
- physical education 6227-8
- prescribed learning outcomes and recommended learning resources 6082-3, 6099
- second-language instruction 5888, 5901
- days of instruction, year-long schooling pilot project 6140
- education advisory council, activities 6221
- English-as-a-second-language program 5879, 5973, 6070-1, 6075-6
- enrolment
- examination marking, qualifications of provincial exam markers 6049
- fees charged by schools, impact of Victoria court case 6047-8, 6137
- foreign students, fees charged for public schooling 6038
- francophone system
- education of francophone students 6038, 6233
- management and control by francophones 4588, 6252-3
- provincewide collective bargaining by teachers 6426
- funding
- adequacy 2293
- distance education 6037
- funding 2369-70
- funding formula, operating grants for K-to-12 system 5871, 6035, 6039-42, 6188-9, 6568
- funding formula, per-pupil funding 5983-4, 6005, 6040
- fundraising efforts by parents and students 6039
- Liberal Party position 3166-7, 5932, 6004
- NDP government position 5871, 6136-7, 6568
- per-student funding 2652-4, 3165-6
- special education funding 6071-2
- special needs funding 2653
- targeted funding and special purpose grants 5871, 6036, 6080-1, 6101-2, 6236
- graduation certificate (Dogwood Certificate) 5976-7, 5982-3
- home schooling, statistics 6189-90, 6235
- independent schools 6038-9, 6077-8, 6189
- initiatives to reduce costs and improve efficiencies 6181
- issues, non-partisan approach 6106
- joint-facilities project between Kelowna Secondary School and Okanagan University College 6226-7
- labour relations, collective bargaining in the school system 2589
- parent advisory councils, role in fundraising and policy development 6190-1
- performance measurement
- accountability in the K-to-12 system, comptroller general's recommendations 5973, 6079-83, 6097-99, 6101
- accountability of government 5873
- mathematics and science, performance of B.C. students 5873, 6236
- social studies, performance of B.C. students 6221
- student testing and achievement 6082-3, 6099
- post-secondary education
- applied education for the job market, strategies to integrate work and school 5904-6, 5977
- baccalaureate student-outcome survey results 5873
- course offerings, changes 5934
- framework agreement for sectoral bargaining 5942
- funding 2371, 5871, 5904, 5906-8, 6411, 6568
- participation rates in B.C. 5905
- prior learning model 5905, 5942-3
- scholarships and bursaries 5931, 5948, 6038, 6098
- strategic plan 5905-6
- student financial assistance 5872, 5905, 5936-7
- tuition freeze 2326-7, 2371, 5871, 5905, 5931-4, 6568
- tuition freeze, Liberal Party position 5932
- principals and vice-principals, reductions in job number and time spent on administrative duties 6073, 6075
- programs for children living in poverty 6072-3
- provincial education committee, report and recommendations 6135
- provincial learning network (PLNet), internet system for schools and skills centres 5943-5, 6073, 6182, 6219
- school support contributions, definition and funding 5978-9
- services for children and youth in health care facilities 6037-8
- special education
- programs and funding for blind and low-vision children 6221-2
- services 5973, 6045-6
- system
- teaching of tolerance for same-sex couples 6190-1, 6229-32
- technology grants program 6218-20
- technology upgrade funding 2391
- Education, Skills and Training ministry
- estimates debate 5871-88, 5899-908, 5930-48, 5971-86, 6002-6, 6033-49, 6070-83, 6097-106, 6133-52, 6175-92, 6218-36, 6568-9
- accountability committees on special education, aboriginal education and administrative spending caps 5986, 6078, 6081
- budget, principles used in budget determination 6002
- central administration funding 5978, 5981
- comptroller general's report on Education ministry, release 2433
- corporate administration, operations 5977-9
- deputy minister's office, responsibilities 5985-6
- evaluation and accountability branch, mandate 6098
- forum on roles and responsibilities of Education ministry and school districts 6078-9, 6097-8
- gender equity initiatives, funding 6102
- goals 5871, 5972-3
- integration into single ministry of K-to-12 and post-secondary systems 5972
- minister's role 5982
- minister's role in disability issues 5872
- multiculturalism plan 5887, 5901
- policy on school construction and renovation announcements 6178-9
- programs for youth, contracting of services, ministerial responsibility 5902-3
- regional coordinators, mandate and funding 6142
- responsibilities shared with other ministries 5874, 5880-4, 5899-900, 5902-3, 5983
- staffing 5979-80
- transfer of responsibilities from Social Services ministry 5902-3
- Emily Carr Institute, position on framework agreement for sectoral bargaining 5942
- Employment, job creation 2369-70
- Enderby and District Credit Union, contribution toward construction of addition to A.L. Fortune Secondary School 6224
- Environment, environmental youth teams
- placement with environmental organizations and potential conflict with government forest policies 5805-7
- teams 5805-7
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry
- estimates debate 5799-807
- Parks branch, development and management of protected areas 5800-3
- Errington Elementary School, building addition 6146-8
- Experience as college instructor and administrator of adult basic education 6034
- Family Maintenance Enforcement Amendment Act, 1997, definition of "spouse" to include same-sex partner 6230-1
- Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997, definition of "spouse" to include same-sex partner 6230-1
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, responsibility re employers' associations 6179-80, 6183
- Financial Information Act, amendments 6255
- Francophone Education Authority of B.C.
- Fraser Heights Secondary School, construction of new school 6143-5
- Fraser Valley College, strategies used to avoid closing 5908
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, amendments 6255
- French Creek Elementary School, closing, public consultation 6146-7, 6149
- Gambling expansion in B.C., Liberal Party position 2807-8
- George Elliot Secondary School, school reconstruction 6177
- Government, dual ministerial responsibility for programs and agencies 6392
- Hairdressers Act, amendments 6255
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2807-8
- Handsworth Secondary School, building upgrade 6142
- Health care funding 2369-70
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3689
- Highway 19, impact on student-pedestrian safety in Lantzville 6147, 6149
- Indians, education for Indian students 5985, 6046, 6081
- Industrial Development Act, purpose 6564
- Industrial Development Amendment Act, 1997
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Act
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Commission
- J.N. Burnett Secondary School, phase 2 construction 6139
- Kanaka Creek Elementary School, year-round schooling pilot project 6140
- Kelly Road Secondary School
- building renovation and addition 6145
- smoking policy 6076
- Kelowna Secondary School, construction 3956, 6226-7
- Kemano completion project, cancellation, impact 6564-5
- Kitimat, impact of Kemano completion project cancellation 6564
- Klawe, Maria, work on women's role in science and technology 6102
- Land and resource management process 5800-1
- Langara College, student protest 2326
- Law Courts Education Society of B.C., fee imposition for courtwatching programs 6049
- Legislature, estimates process, timeliness in providing answers to members' questions 5976
- Lloyd George Elementary School, building renovation 6178
- McDonald and Chamak v. School district 61, school fees case 6047-8
- MacDonald Elementary School, capital funding project 6149-50
- Magee Secondary School
- physical condition of existing school 6042
- school reconstruction project 6175
- Matthew McNair Secondary School, capital funding project, issuance of certificate of approval 6139
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6354
- Montroyal Elementary School, building addition 6141
- Mount Everest, expedition web site, use by B.C. students 5944, 6182
- Multiculturalism, use of multifaith calendar 5902
- Munroe, Don, role as facilitator, collective agreement for teachers 6180, 6183
- NDP government, financial management 2370
- North Delta Senior Secondary School, assessment of capital needs 6177
- Okanagan Mission, reclamation of gravel pit site for park use 5800
- Open Learning Agency, funding 5978-9
- Parks
- campground reservation system, credit-card-only policy 5803-4
- new parks, development and management 5801-2
- Parksville
- erosion of beach 5803
- impact of sewage outlet near public school 6043
- Parksville Elementary School, heating system upgrade 6148
- Performance as Education minister, Moe Sihota's comments (Farrell-Collins) 2293
- Pharmaceutical industry, marketing practices 2776
- Picasso Cafe, pre-employment program for youth 5885-6
- Position on gambling expansion (Farrell-Collins) 2808
- Prince George, health care and education services 2370
- Princess Margaret Secondary School, building reconstruction 6145
- Qualicum Beach Elementary School, construction of new school 6148
- Qualicum Beach Middle School, conversion from secondary school to middle school 6148
- Queen Elizabeth Senior Secondary School, building demolition and reconstruction 6145
- Quoted on gambling expansion (Krueger) 2264
- Real property tax, deferments for people with disabilities, eligibility change 4227-8
- Recreation, back-country recreation, commercial back-country recreation applications, price increase 5805
- Responses to questions during Education ministry estimates debate (Reid) 6135-6
- Royal Roads University, governance model 5938
- School Act, teacher evaluation provisions 6184-5
- School Amendment Act, 1997, debate 4588, 6252-3, 6420-7
- School boards/districts
- amalgamation 2371
- annual reports, recommendations of auditor general 6099, 6101
- budgets, balanced budgets 3166
- catchment area boundaries, responsibility for revisions 6236
- conversion of junior-secondary schools, policy 6177
- devolution of authority from Education ministry to school boards 6234-5
- funding
- administration services in amalgamated districts 6003, 6044-5, 6075
- balanced-budget requirement 6233
- fundraising 6080, 6100
- multi-year funding and planning 6234
- spending decisions and efficiencies 5980-3, 6004, 6039-42, 6045, 6106, 6133-4, 6138, 6189
- long-range planning 6181-2
- non-teaching staff
- collective agreements 5985, 6003
- impact of district funding on full-time-equivalents 6187-9
- performance measurement 5873
- purchasing function, recommendations of auditor general 6100-1
- smoking policies 6076
- technology standards and plans 6219-20
- vehicle leases 6045
- School district 23 (Central Okanagan), capital funding projects 6225-7
- School district 35 (Langley), spending decisions and efficiencies 5980-1
- School district 36 (Surrey)
- collective agreements, teacher salaries and benefits 5976, 5985
- enrolment growth and student spaces 6181
- funding 5984-5
- position on teaching tolerance for same-sex couples 6229, 6232
- School district 37 (Delta), capital funding projects 6177
- School district 38 (Richmond)
- capital funding projects 6139-40
- enrolment growth and student spaces 6181
- funding 2652-4, 6104-6, 6133-5, 6137-8
- funding, spending decisions and efficiencies 6140
- school tax, amount collected from city of Richmond 6139
- School district 39 (Vancouver)
- capital funding projects 6175
- career programs, funding and enrolment caps 6076
- English-as-a-second-language program 6040, 6076, 6176
- funding formula, per-pupil funding 6074
- microwave towers, policy re placement on school buildings 6175
- programs for children living in poverty 6072-3
- special education 6071-2, 6176
- spending decisions and efficiencies 5981, 6175-6
- technology and equipment acquisition, public-private partnerships 6073-4
- School district 40 (New Westminster)
- School district 41 (Burnaby), administration costs 6044
- School district 44 (North Vancouver), capital funding projects 6141-2
- School district 45 (West Vancouver), capital funding projects 6142
- School district 49 (Central Coast), administration costs 6044
- School district 50 (Haida Gwaii-Queen Charlotte), collective agreements, teacher salaries and benefits 5976
- School district 57 (Prince George)
- School district 64 (Gulf Islands), funding formula, per-pupil funding 6005
- School district 69 (Qualicum)
- amalgamation with school district 70 (Alberni) 6146
- capital funding projects 6148
- closing of French Creek Elementary School, public consultation 6146-9
- School district 70 (Alberni), amalgamation with school district 69 (Qualicum) 6146
- School district 71 (Comox Valley), capital funding projects 6178
- School district 73 (Kamloops-Thompson), capital funding projects 6177-8
- School district 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap)
- amalgamation, progress and impacts on collective agreements 6225
- capital funding projects 6223-5
- school accreditation process 6225
- School district 87 (Stikine), funding, per-pupil funding 6005
- School district 91 (Nechako Lakes), electronic delivery of curricula 6221, 6235
- School meals program, program effectiveness 6080
- Schools
- accreditation 5973, 6035-6
- capital funding projects
- certificates of approval, ministerial responsibility 6139
- criteria for determining project requirements and priorities 6177
- debt servicing 5978, 6036-7
- funding and expenditures 6036-7, 6103-4
- hiring of project managers 5983
- impact of funding freeze during Social Credit Party administration 6043
- maintenance and renovation funding 6042-3
- ministerial responsibility 6139
- selection of projects removed from spending freeze 6103-4, 6140, 6148, 6150
- comparison of B.C. schools with United States schools 6073
- efficiencies and cost-reduction strategies
- fees for use by community groups 2431-2
- security concerns 6073, 6075
- student spaces, creation 5872
- technology
- equipment acquisition 6073-4, 6220
- impact of technology on delivery of education services 6181-2
- Science and technology, opportunities for women 6102
- Select Standing Committee on Education, Culture and Multiculturalism, work of committee 6097-8
- Sentinel Secondary School, building upgrade 6142
- Sexual orientation, legislative definition of "spouse" 6230-1
- SHL Systemhouse Ltd., provincial learning network (PLNet), system integration 5943
- Shuswap Junior Secondary School, building renovation 6224
- Simon Cunningham Elementary School, construction of new school 6144-5
- Simon Fraser University, harassment policy 5947
- Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, capital funding project, assessment and planning 6175
- Skills Development and Fair Wage Act, amendments 6255
- Skills training
- business-government partnership training programs 5900-1
- federal-provincial partnership agreement 5875
- funding and staffing 5899, 5978
- industry training or apprenticeship programs, assignment of costs 6255
- retraining for displaced or job-threatened workers 5872
- training consultants, qualifications and training 5874-5, 5881-3
- vocational agriculture programs 5887
- workplace-based training 5873, 5879-80
- Snowden Elementary School, capital funding project 6149-50
- Sorrento Elementary School, sewage disposal and storm drainage upgrade 6225
- Stay in School program, program 6102
- Strawberry Vale Elementary School, school design and cost of construction 6186-7
- Student Summer Works program
- Task Force on Critical Issues in Financing Colleges and Institutions, work of task force 5933-5
- Taxation, tax burden 2369
- Teachers
- age of current workforce, impact on education system 5975
- collective agreement
- class size 6180, 6186
- job posting and filling provisions 6185, 6188
- progress of negotiations 6183-4, 6186
- provincial bargaining for B.C. teachers 6179-80
- salaries and benefits 5975-6, 5978, 5980, 5983, 5985, 6003-4, 6036, 6042, 6134
- education funding, impacts of district funding on full-time-equivalents 6187-9
- job satisfaction survey results 5975
- loan forgiveness program for teachers in remote areas 6038
- performance measurement, teacher evaluation 6083, 6184-5
- supports for teachers 5974
- Teaching Profession Act, teacher evaluation provisions 6184-5
- Technical University of B.C.
- applied career programs 5942
- cost-efficiency 6279
- establishment 4037, 6275-6
- governance 4037, 6275, 6415-9
- location 6279
- mandate 4037, 6275, 6411-2
- operations 5945-6
- outreach to secondary students 6412
- partnerships with industry 6275, 6412
- performance measurement 6413, 6415
- program advisory committees 6275-6, 6413, 6418-9
- research 6415, 6417-8
- response to industry's needs 6412
- student enrolment target 6414-5
- students organization 6416
- teaching staff, seniority and tenure 6410
- Technical University of British Columbia Act
- Tourism industry, availability of information on campgrounds 5804
- Toys "R" Us, participation in tourism training program 2508
- Trades, industry training or apprenticeship agreements 6254
- Trinity Western University, teacher-training program, certification 5945
- Universities, colleges and institutes
- adjudication panels, student appointments 5947
- boards of directors, appointments 5938
- capital funding projects
- course credit transfer arrangements 5946-7
- funding 5930-1, 5934
- governance
- grading system standardization 5946
- labour adjustment fund 5935
- management policies, role of Education, Skills and Training ministry 5939
- performance measurement 6414
- rating of B.C. institutes by Maclean's magazine 5873
- student residences, availability and use by conference participants 5948
- student spaces, creation 5871-2, 5904-5, 5932-5, 6568
- teaching staff, academic tenure system 5939
- technology and equipment acquisitions 5906-7, 5935
- textbooks, purchasing policies of institutions 5937-8
- University of Northern B.C.
- funding 5931
- post-diploma nursing degree, program elimination 5934
- University of Victoria, political science department, course cuts 5934
- Walter Moberly Elementary School, capital funding project 6175
- Welfare to Work program
- adult basic education component of program 5878
- caseloads 5900
- eligibility period 5878
- funding 5872
- goals 5872
- program effectiveness, Victoria study 5884, 5900
- West Vancouver Secondary School, building upgrade 6142
- Western Canada Wilderness Committee, environmental youth team 5807
- William F. Davidson Elementary School, school reconstruction 6145
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2807-8
- free-standing ministry, Liberal Party position 2807-8
- work on women's issues since establishment of free-standing ministry 2807
- Youth
- Youth Works program
- adult basic education component of program 5878
- advertising and publicity 5903
- caseloads 5881, 5883-5, 5899-900
- compliance and appeals 5881-4
- effectiveness 5884-5, 5900
- eligibility and exemption 5878, 5880, 5885-6
- funding 5872
- language and literary services 5883, 5887, 5903
- mandate and goals 5872, 5879
- placement capacity 5882
- service delivery provisions 5880-1, 5903
- tracking youth discontinued from program 5887
- training and employment programs, attendance requirements 5879
Randall, Fred G. (Burnaby-Edmonds)
- Budget, 1996-97 budget, content 2495
- Canadian Grandparents Rights Association, goals 3271
- Families, grandparent-grandchildren relationship 3272-3
- Gambling expansion in B.C. 2495
- Gasoline tax increase, proposal (de Jong) 4789
- Indians, school completion rate 6081
- Liberal Party
- campaign contributors 2495
- questionnaire mailout 2494
- Mining industry, future in B.C. 2494
- School construction, funding 2493
- Throne speech debate 2493-6
- Tobacco, flavoured smokeless tobacco as attraction for youth 2430-1
- Tobacco Sales Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2430-1
- Tourism industry, establishment of promotion agency, job creation 2494-5
- Unionization votes, intimidation 2495-6
Random Acts of Kindness See Kingma, Daphne Rose
Rangeland
- Forest Practices Code impact on range-users (Wilson, J.) 2488
- Funding for rangeland maintenance (Evans) 4022
- Grazing enhancement program
- Grazing leases
- leases (Evans) 4022-3 (Wilson, J.) 4022-3
- leases in Muskwa-Kechika area (McGregor) 5635 (Weisgerber) 5635
- Range development, funding (Wilson, J.) 4022-3
- Range improvement fund (Wilson, J.) 2732
- Range use plans, issues (Wilson, J.) 6493-4 (Zirnhelt) 6493-4
Rankin, Andrew
- Invention of urinal (de Jong) 2160
Rasmussen, Gary
- Quoted on B.C. information technology industry (Miller) 4245, 4251
R&B Contracting Services Ltd.
- Fine for timber harvesting on Crown land (Neufeld) 5499-500 (Zirnhelt) 5500
Ready, Vince
- Construction industry review See Review panel under Construction industry
Real Estate Act
Real estate sales tax
- See Property transfer tax
Real property
- Assessment categories, rate cap (Abbott) 3887 (Farnworth) 3887
- Assessment value, inclusion of goods and services tax (Abbott) 3921 (Farnworth) 3921
- Corporate and personal property registrations (Petter) 4682 (Reitsma) 4681
- Rescission rights of real estate purchasers (Dosanjh) 5718 (Plant) 5718
Real property tax
- Deferment program for seniors (Chong) 3571 (Hansen) 4440 (MacPhail) 3571 (Petter) 4440-1
- Deferments for people with disabilities
- accessibility to program (Dosanjh) 6241
- eligibility change (Campbell) 4227 (Ramsey) 4227-8
- Exemption for pollution abatement improvements See Environmental protection under Environment
- Increases, impact on fixed-income owners (Nebbeling) 2283 (Wilson, G.) 2698
- Rates in B.C. and elsewhere (Neufeld) 3107
- Revenue (Neufeld) 3107 (Petter) 3107
- School tax, amount collected from city of Richmond, B.C. (Ramsey) 6139 (Symons) 6139
- Tax (Campbell) 2866
- Taxing of property acquired as raffle prize (Gingell) 4387 (Miller) 4387
Reconnect program
- Program for street youth (Priddy) 6333, 6536
Recording Artists Against Drunk Drivers
Recreation
- See also Sports
- Back-country recreation
- Campgrounds See Parks
- Fishing resorts
- foreshore lease concerns (Chong) 4261-2 (Pullinger) 4262
- increase in assessed value of leased property (Krueger) 5768-9 (McGregor) 5768-9
- revenue to government (Krueger) 5769 (McGregor) 5769
- Guide-outfitters See Guide-outfitters
- Recreation industry, impact of fee increases (van Dongen) 3174-5
- Recreational activity and gambling (Krueger) 4349 (Miller) 4349
- Recreational injuries, liability of commercial operators (Dosanjh) 2944 (Hansen) 2944-5 (Plant) 2945
- Recreational vehicles See Automobiles
- Youth recreation strategy (Chong) 4414 (Pullinger) 4414
Recycling
- See also Waste management
- Battery recycling
- Contractor services
- expenditures (Clark, C.) 5701 (McGregor) 5701
- monitoring (Clark, C.) 5701 (McGregor) 5701 (Neufeld) 5701
- Deposit system for beverage containers
- Incentive plans for regional districts (Abbott) 5671-2 (McGregor) 5672
- Recycled plastic products, government standards and specifications (Abbott) 5320-1, 5672 (Boone) 5320 (McGregor) 5672
- Recycling programs, industrial stewardship model (McGregor) 5725, 5757-60 (Thorpe) 5757-60
- Returns of alcohol and beer containers (Dosanjh) 2992-4 (Thorpe) 2992-4
- United We Can container recycling project (Hansen) 6495 (Miller) 6495
- Work of Maple Ridge volunteers (Hartley) 2461
Red Cross Society
Reform Party of British Columbia
- Position on Forest Practices Code (Neufeld) 6132
- Position on trade barriers (Zirnhelt) 5497, 5499
Regional district of Okanagan-Similkameen
- Irrigation district control (Farnworth) 4417
Regional districts
- See also particular districts, e.g., Regional district of Okanagan-Similkameen
- Authority to vary tax rates (Abbott) 6087, 6217 (Farnworth) 6217
- Boundary changes (Abbott) 3881-2 (Farnworth) 3881-2
- Selection of regional board directors (Chong) 3596 (Farnworth) 3596
- Waste management plans See Waste management plans by regional districts under Waste management
Regional Film Commissions Association of British Columbia
- Establishment (Pullinger) 4394
Regional health boards
Regional hospital districts
Registrar of companies
- Power to suspend registry services (MacPhail) 6344 (Plant) 6343-4
Reid, Linda (Richmond East)
- Academy Awards 1997 winners, analogy with NDP government 2178
- Alberta Heritage Fund, purpose 4249
- Atira Transition House, residential program for women 2663-4
- Avcorp Industries Inc.
- apprenticeships 4238
- government investment in company 4240, 4242
- skills program 6391
- Ballard Power Systems Inc., hydrogen fuel cell technology work 2629-30
- B.C. Cancer Agency, funding from Workers Compensation Board 3256
- B.C. Institute of Technology, performance measurement 6413
- B.C. Medical Association, physician supply measures 6197-8, 6320
- B.C. Systems Corporation, sale of business and assets 4244-6
- Budget
- debate 2141, 2144, 2241-4
- 1996-97 budget, balanced-budget claim and NDP election win 2179
- budget process, public confidence 2180
- special warrants, use 2178-9
- use of interim supply 4851, 4854
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2592-4
- Business
- climate in B.C., confidence in economy 2243
- public-private partnerships 2180
- Canada Foundation for Innovation, funding of university infrastructure 4246-7
- Canadian Grandparents Rights Association, goals 3271
- Child protection, risk assessment 2537
- Children and Families ministry
- accountability and monitoring of performance 2894
- responsibilities, integration of youth corrections with other government services in regional offices 2893
- Chiropractic services, user fees 6198
- Cochrane Institute, research role 3900
- Correction Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2893-4
- Courthouse closings 2180
- Debt, public debt, current levels 2244
- Discrimination and racism, elimination 3055-6
- Drugs
- generic substitutions for proprietary medications 3895-6
- reference-based pricing
- Economy, B.C. economy, business climate 2243
- Education
- career planning, counselling in schools 6136
- curriculum, teaching of tolerance in schools 3055-6
- fees charged by schools, impact of Victoria court case 6137
- funding
- NDP government position 6136
- per-student funding 2653-4
- post-secondary education
- system, restructuring of B.C. system, 1996 report and recommendations 6135
- transition from school to workplace 6394
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 6104-5, 6132-7
- Elections, allocation and setting of electoral boundaries 5580-1
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5580-1
- Electoral Boundaries Commission, appointment of commission, timing requirements 5580-1
- Employment and Investment ministry
- estimates debate 4229-33, 4235-52
- business plans for science and technology programs 4239-43
- information technology access office, report 4243
- minister's role as champion of science 4236-7
- Employment, job creation, responsibility 2244
- Entrepreneurship chairs at universities 2511
- Environment, environmental protection technologies, commercial applications 4236
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry
- estimates debate 6566-7
- funding allocations for regions 6566
- Experience as special education teacher in Richmond 6136
- Exports of technological expertise and applications 4236-8
- Families, grandparent-grandchild relationship 3271-3, 5485
- Family Relations Act Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997 (Grandparents' Rights), debate 5485
- Family Relations Act, amendments re grandparents' rights 5485
- Film industry
- animators, workers compensation coverage 3045-6
- designation as occupation or trade 6391
- Fisheries
- resource protection and management 6566
- urban salmon habitat program 6566
- Forest Renewal B.C. funds, redirecting to non-forestry uses 2241-2
- Fuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology, commercial application 2629-30
- Government
- computerized information systems, millennium-compliance problem 4244
- policy-making process 2244
- provincial-municipal relations, local government perception of provincial government 2592-4
- public confidence in institutions of government 5580-1
- purchasing, information technology services 4244-6
- service delivery, coordination 2894
- spending
- accountability 4238-9
- authority provided through use of interim supply 2178-9
- Health care
- access to medical services 6197, 6321
- medicare system, protection of system 6197
- palliative care, funding 2511-2
- services, specialty services available in non-urban areas 6198, 6320
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3508-11, 3696-8, 3895-900
- Hopkins, Peter, role as Workers Compensation Board ombudsman 3224
- Hospice construction in Richmond 2511
- Housing
- emergency housing and shelters 2663-4
- supported housing for people with mental illnesses 3510
- Industry, technological innovation in traditional industries 4233
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Act
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Commission, operations 6390, 6392, 6394-8
- International Business Machines Corp., negotiations re facility for B.C. 4243
- Justice Institute of B.C., suicide assessment and intervention training 3200
- Justice system, staff, risk assessment training 2894
- Kipling, Rudyard, poem "If" paraphrased by journalist 2242
- Klopfer, Alex, "High Technology Industries in B.C.: The Agenda for Growth," report and recommendations 4231-3, 4235-6
- Labour ministry
- estimates debate 3190-202, 3222-7, 3253-9
- advisers for workers and employers, workload 3194-6
- information, need for multi-language material 3196
- information request by member 3190-1
- Labour, workers injured on the job, access to medical care 3896-8
- Legislature
- legislative calendar 4851-4
- legislative reform 5580
- question period, time limit 4851, 4853
- Medical Services Plan
- enrolment
- enrolment and de-enrolment, waiting periods 6197, 6199, 6319
- information campaign on options 6321
- fee-for-service payments to physicians, overexpenditures 2217-8
- payment of workers compensation claims 3896-8
- payments to practitioners, auditing of claims made by agencies 6321
- premiums, collection of overdue accounts 6197, 6319-20, 6321
- residency requirement, allowable absence criteria 6317-8
- Medicare Protection Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6197-9, 6317-21
- MLAs, number 5580-1
- Mental health services
- acute-care services for suicidal patients 3511
- eligibility for financial support 3510
- funding 3510
- services for school-age children 3508-9
- Midwifery
- home birthing demonstration project 3698
- services on Indian reserves 3696-8
- Mining applications, process 2510
- Moody's Investors Service Inc., B.C. credit review 2225
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government, consultation 2593-4
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, repayment of funds to charities 2241
- NDP government
- O'Brien, Michael, role on Workers Compensation Review Board 3223-4
- Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, service for teachers 2509
- Parker, Dale, role as chairs of B.C. Cancer Agency and Workers Compensation Board 3256
- Parks, new parks, maintenance, enforcement and funding issues 6566-7
- Patents, harmonization of patent process and protection 2510-1
- Peggy's Place, women's residential treatment program 2663
- Pharmacare program, therapeutics initiative 3899-900
- Physician supply plan, differentiated payment schedule for new doctors 6197-8, 6320
- Physiotherapy services, user fees 6198
- Politicians, public perception 4851, 4853
- Position on appointing women to government board vacancies 2814
- Ramsey, Hon. Paul, responses to questions during Education ministry estimates debate 6135-6
- Research and development
- Richmond
- alcohol and drug treatment programs, future 3511
- municipal grant reduction, concerns 2593-4
- Richmond Chinatown Lions Club, work 2512
- Richmond District Parents Association, request for meeting with Education minister re district funding 6104, 6134, 6136
- Riverview Hospital downsizing, transfer of funding to community 3509-10
- Royal Bank of Canada, business loans in Newfoundland 2510
- School district 38 (Richmond)
- School district 57 (Prince George), per-pupil funding 6105, 6132-3
- Science and technology
- centres of excellence, infrastructure funding 4247-8
- computer technology expertise in B.C. 4251-2
- cross-ministry programming 4238
- current activity 2322
- funding 2243
- funding reductions 2181
- high-technology industry, managerial competence 4231-3, 4235-6
- knowledge-based industry, role in economy 4229-33
- Liberal Party position 2508
- need for investments 2508-11
- programs, outcome measurements 4240-3
- regional councils, work 2508
- research and development
- science policy, impact on sector activity 4250
- Science Council of B.C.
- allocation of Forest Renewal B.C. funds for research projects 4246
- current activities 4238, 4250-1
- Sexual orientation, tolerance 3055-6
- Skills training
- industry training or apprenticeship programs, assignment of costs 6396
- programs, enrolment levels 4241-2
- training for displaced workers 6394
- training programs, quick response to industry's needs 6391
- Substance abuse/addiction
- treatment centres and programs 2663-4
- treatment programs, need 2512
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2178-81, 2217-8
- Supply Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 4850-4
- Teachers
- collective agreement, salaries and benefits 6134
- exchange program participants, workers compensation coverage 3255, 3258
- Technical University of B.C.
- governance 6415-8
- outreach to secondary students 6411
- performance measurement 6413, 6415
- program advisory committees 6418-9
- research 6415, 6417
- response to industry's needs 6412
- student enrolment target 6414-5
- students organization 6415-6
- teaching staff, seniority and tenure 6410
- Technical University of British Columbia Act
- debate 6410-9
- "assembly," use of term 6410, 6415
- "teaching staff member," use of term 6410
- Throne speech debate 2508-12
- Trade unions
- certification votes, elimination of secret ballot 2243
- role in workers compensation system 3195-6
- Universities, colleges and institutes
- capital funding 4246-7
- performance measurement 6413
- university-industry liaison program 4248-9
- Water licences for hydroelectricity, issues 6566
- Women's Equality ministry, estimates debate 2663-4
- Workers compensation
- claims
- automated information line 3227
- claimant representatives, single-rep pilot project 3227
- claimant suicides 3200
- claimants' litigation rights 3253-4
- disallowal criteria 3225-6
- electronic files 3226-7
- repeat and multiple claims 3202
- coverage for out-of-country exchange program participants 3255, 3258
- effectiveness of current system 5217-9
- pensions, benefit basis 3256-7
- Workers Compensation Board
- accountability and governance 5217-9
- adjudicators
- powers re claimant access to medical services 6198
- qualifications and training 3198-200
- administrators
- claimants' medical bills 3896-8
- classifications 3255-6
- client satisfaction survey 3200-2
- funding for cancer research 3256
- governance structure 3198
- inventories and studies 3226
- investigators, qualifications 3257-8
- medical review panel, qualifications 3258-9
- ombudsman's office 3224
- performance, accountability 3191-4, 3259
- policies and procedures, training programs 3195-6
- royal commission
- vocational rehabilitation services 3224-5, 3254-5
- Workers Compensation Review Board 3222-4
- Worral, Ken, workers compensation pension reduction case 3256-7
Reid, Norma
- Commended for work on behalf of income assistance clients in Penticton (Thorpe) 4615
Reitsma, Paul (Parksville-Qualicum)
- Alberta government purchasing policy, preferential treatment for Alberta companies 4678-9
- Armed forces, Nanoose Bay test range lease agreement with United States, notice of termination by B.C. 3636
- Artificial Reef Society, government funding for ship sinkings 4115
- Assessment Authority of B.C., appeals process
- cost, impact on local governments 2922
- transfer of operating costs from Municipal Affairs ministry 2604
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2704-6, 2885-6, 2953
- Automobiles, photo radar use in speed monitoring, effectiveness 2551
- Ballenas Secondary School, building addition and upgrade 6148
- Bennett Road Elementary School, construction of new school 6146
- B.C. Ferry Corporation, service provision security, impact on tourism industry 4293
- B.C., use of province in name of company or society 4681
- Budget
- balanced-budget legislation 2602
- deficit budgets, number 2206
- ten-dollar votes 4681
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2601-4, 2922, 3067-9
- Campgrounds, 1-800 reservation service 4220
- Chief forester's office, staff 5306-8, 5331
- Child care, Parksville alternate school-based child care program, funding for spaces 6148
- Christian Labour Association of Canada, claims re pensions for workers on Island Highway construction project 3096-7
- Commission into policing (Oppal commission), recommendations on high-speed police pursuits 2885-6
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4771-4
- selection of new commissioner 4771-4
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2207
- Council of Tourism Associations, position on member selection for Tourism B.C. 4175-6
- Courthouse closings 2206-7
- Crown land, recreational use, tenure issue 4110
- Cull, Elizabeth, contract with capital health region board 4773
- Debt, public debt, management 2550
- Dunant, Henry, role in establishment of Red Cross 5221
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 6145-9
- Election campaign advertising, cost limit 2551
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4369
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5551-2, 5565-6, 5697, 5803-5, 5807
- Environmental youth teams 5805, 5807
- Errington Elementary School, building addition 6146, 6148
- Film industry, B.C. locations for film shoots 2207
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry
- estimates debate 4677-81
- government services and registries division, operations and activities 4678-81
- Fisheries
- Pacific salmon fishery, protection and preservation of resource 3636
- Pacific Salmon Treaty, B.C. response to United States position on negotiation of new treaty (Motion without notice), debate 3636
- sport fishing industry, angling fee increase 3144, 4263
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5295, 5306-8, 5331, 5533-5
- French Creek Elementary School, closing, public consultation 6146-9
- Fuel, propane use as motor fuel, expiration of tax exemption 2604
- Gambling
- expansion in B.C., petition to prohibit certain kinds of facilities 4369
- impact on tourist numbers 4287
- Government
- accounting methods 2550
- downloading of costs to other government agencies 2550
- postal and distribution costs 4681
- protocol and events program, objectives 4681
- provincial-municipal relations
- purchasing, preferential treatment for B.C. companies 4678-9
- registration services, business objectives of government registries 4681
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2206
- travel by government employees 4679
- vehicles, fleet management services 4680
- warehousing and asset investment recovery 4681
- Government House, program objectives 4680-1
- Guide-outfitters, registration 4291
- Handel, George Frideric, creation and history of Messiah oratorio 2318-20
- Highway 19
- impact on student-pedestrian safety in Lantzville 6147-9
- Island Highway construction project
- benefits to Island communities 3097
- pension coverage for workers 3096-7
- Highway Constructors Ltd. employees, pension benefits 3096-7
- Highways, declassification, transition to municipal funding 2604
- Hotels and travel accommodation
- accommodations program 4255-8
- hotel room tax
- collection by hotel operators 3935
- Vancouver convention centre proposal and tax 3935
- Housing, rental housing, rent levels and vacancy rates 2953
- Hughes, Ted, recommendations while conflict-of-interest commissioner on changes to legislation governing MLAs' conduct 4773-4
- Labour ministry
- estimates debate 3095-8, 3150
- consultation and information-sharing 3097
- employment standards branch investigations staff, number 3097-8
- Lighthouses
- automations and destaffing 2208
- destaffing by federal government, NDP government action 2551
- tourism potential 4221-2
- Malaspina University College, tourism degree program 4185
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4771-4
- MLAs, constituency offices, operations 4773
- Mitchell, David, appointment as conflict-of-interest commissioner 4772
- Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5587-8
- Mount Washington condominium project, concerns, government involvement 4292
- Municipalities
- budgets, balanced-budget requirement 2602, 4772
- grants from provincial government
- 1994 debate, NDP MLAs' comments 2603
- revenues from traffic fines 3069
- services provided to provincial facilities 2602
- Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, wait-lists 5487
- Nanoose Conversion Campaign committee, environmental youth team workers 5805, 5807
- NDP government
- consultations with public and others 2207
- financial management 2208
- performance 4772-3
- trust issue 2206
- Newspaper carriers, applicability of employment standards legislation 3095-6
- Olympic Games, Vancouver bids to host games 4289
- Open Skies program, performance measurement 4255-6
- Pacific Rim Institute of Tourism
- board members, selection 4185, 4221
- mandate and funding 4177-8
- report on labour force development for tourism industry 4253-4
- Parks, campground reservation system, credit-card-only policy 5803-4
- Parksville
- Parksville Elementary School, heating system upgrade 6148
- Parksville flats wildlife management area 5697-8
- Parksville-Qualicum area, court services 2704-6
- Parksville-Qualicum constituency
- Peace River-Alaska Highway Tourist Association meeting, attendance of Tourism ministry staff 4288-9
- Pension Benefits Standards Act, amendments 3150
- Police high-speed chases, pursuit guidelines 2885-6, 5587-8
- Politicians, ethical conduct of elected officials, public expectations 4773-4
- Port Alberni, economy 5535
- Property rights, corporate and personal property registrations 4681
- Purchasing Commission, role 4677-8
- Qualicum Beach Elementary School, construction of new school 6148
- Qualicum Beach Middle School, conversion from secondary school to middle school 6148
- Queen's Printer, privatization 4681
- Recreation, back-country recreation 4109-10
- commercial applications 5804-5
- review of policy 5804
- Red Cross Society, history and work 5221-2
- Residential Tenancy Act, changes 2953
- Royal B.C. Museum, operations 4218-20
- Sales tax, provincial sales tax, rebates for foreign visitors 4117
- School district 69 (Qualicum)
- amalgamation with school district 70 (Alberni) 6146
- capital funding projects 6148
- closing of French Creek Elementary school, public consultation 6146-9
- School district 70 (Alberni), amalgamation with school district 69 (Qualicum) 6146
- School districts, amalgamation, public consultation on amalgamation and restructuring 6146
- Schools, capital funding projects freeze, selection of projects removed from spending freeze 6148
- Signs on highways for services and attractions
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry
- estimates debate 4104-7, 4109-10, 4115-7, 4132-6, 4142, 4168-9, 4172-8, 4181-5, 4218-25, 4252-8, 4263-4, 4266-7, 4287-9, 4291-3
- corporate planning, staff 4223
- corporate policy and planning branch, operations 4266
- need for ministry 4264
- relationship with tourism counterparts in federal and other provincial governments 4115-6
- staffing and work environment 4173
- Tourism ministry
- advocacy role 4133
- goals of minister 4176
- government vehicles 4175
- memorandum of understanding with Tourism B.C. 4175
- operations in offshore offices 4183
- use of telecommunications 4288
- Storm-watching, tourism potential 4291-2
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2206-8
- Throne speech debate 2549-50
- Tourism B.C.
- annual report, time extensions 3904-5
- board members, selection 4175-6, 4178
- business plan 4176
- directors, disclosure of interests 3914-5
- establishment of agency 4104
- funding
- goals
- incorporation of subsidiary corporations 3741
- investments, placing with Finance minister 3911-2
- operations 4181
- performance measurement of agency 4177
- programs 4254
- promotion of regional tourism 4289
- public input into operations 4182
- revenues, retention by agency 3906-7
- Tourism ministry's role in agency 3741, 4177
- training programs 4184
- transfer of property from Tourism ministry 3912-3
- Tourism British Columbia Act
- Tourism industry
- 1-800 service 4172, 4185
- availability of information on campgrounds 5804
- degree program 4185
- ecotourism
- industry in B.C. 4110
- Tourism ministry's policy and role 4221-2
- employment in industry 3143-4, 4181-2
- entry to Canada by foreign drivers with impaired-driving record 4292
- funding 2207-8, 3904, 3907, 3910, 4104-6, 4116, 4293
- guidebooks, cost recovery 4292
- Indian cultural heritage, tourism opportunities 4292
- industry during NDP administration 4105
- industry in B.C. 4104, 4106
- marketing of non-urban sites 4116
- policy-setting 4264
- promotion 4183
- railway tourism opportunities 4289
- special operating agreement 4172-5
- statistics 4182-3
- SuperHost program 4185, 4258
- Time to Play program 4258, 4288
- tour company vehicle inspections 4293
- Tourism North program 4288
- visitor information centres 4224-5, 4252-3
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 5371-5
- Vancouver convention centre proposal, hotel room tax 3907
- Vancouver, Gastown area crime, impact on cruise ship industry 4291
- Vancouver Island, central island communities, municipal grants, reduction 3068
- Victoria, bicycle trails, potential for major events 4288-9
- Waterborne organisms, cryptosporidium, impact on tourism in Kelowna area, government involvement 4292
- Weisgerber, Jack, proposal to select new conflict-of-interest commissioner concurrent with review of legislation 4774
- Whale's Tale Skills Centre
- Whale-watching industry, government promotion 4291
- Work in tourism industry 4104
- Youth employment initiatives 5805, 5807
- Zirnhelt, Hon. David, performance during Forests ministry estimates debate 5307, 5331
Rempel family
- Impact of 1997-98 budget on family (de Jong) 2388, 2417-8
Repap British Columbia Inc.
- Fibre suppliers (Wilson, J.) 5257 (Zirnhelt) 5257
- Financial situation
- assistance from Forest Renewal B.C. (Wilson, J.) 5488 (Zirnhelt) 5488
- assistance from Forest Renewal B.C. and banks (Nebbeling) 4951 (Zirnhelt) 4951-3
- debt (Miller) 2407-8
- government intervention (Nebbeling) 4910
- Potential closing
- impact on community (Goodacre) 5259 (Nebbeling) 5259
- recovery of lost revenues for government and creditors' costs (Wilson, J.) 5488 (Zirnhelt) 5488
- "Repap proposal" See Forest industry
- Restructuring plan, clawback provision (Hansen) 4206-8 (Miller) 4206-8
- Stumpage fees (Nebbeling) 5255 (Zirnhelt) 5255
- Stumpage owed for log chipping (Wilson, J.) 5257-8 (Zirnhelt) 5257-8
- Viability of company (Nebbeling) 5137-8 (Zirnhelt) 5137-8
Research and development
- See Science and technology
Residential Tenancy Act
- Amendment to eliminate retroactive manufactured home park rent increases (Coleman) 2950-1, 2981-2 (Dosanjh) 2950-1, 2981-2
- Changes (Dosanjh) 2953 (Reitsma) 2953
- Dispute resolution and security deposit provisions (Streifel) 4616
- Liberal Party's position (Streifel) 4611
- Purpose of legislation (Coleman) 2983 (Dosanjh) 2983
- Revision (Farnworth) 3812 (Weisgerber) 3811-2
Residential tenancy branch
- See Attorney General, Ministry of
Resources and resource industries
- Benefits for people of province (Miller) 4155
- Natural resource community fund (Hansen) 4057-8 (Miller) 4057-8
- Resource development by Indians (Miller) 4125
- Resource industries
- funding for industries and ministries (van Dongen) 5993-4
- job protection commissioner's intervention (Weisgerber) 2306
- return of revenues to resource communities (Chong) 2501 (Wilson, G.) 2121
- role in B.C. economy (Hurd) 2398-9 (Orcherton) 2556 (Wilson, G.) 2435-8
- security of tenure, requirement to encourage investment (Gingell) 2398
- Resource roads See Forest roads under Forest industry
- Resource-based communities
- availability of low-cost housing (Farnworth) 3764
- economic concerns in northwest B.C. communities (Hansen) 4208-9 (Miller) 4208
- future (Jarvis) 2230
- political representation (Wilson, G.) 5556
- status (Nebbeling) 4882
- Sustainability (Sihota) 2483
Restaurant and Foodservices Association
- Comments during 1995 convention cited (Dalton) 3124-5
Retirement
- Impact of wage gap and family responsibilities on retirement income for women (Hammell) 2666-7 (Whittred) 2666-7
Revelstoke, B.C.
- Consultations on health care regionalization (Abbott) 3462 (MacPhail) 3462
- Municipal grant reduction (Abbott) 2965 (Farnworth) 2965
- Railway taxation revenue and municipal grant (Abbott) 3034
- Snow disposal in Columbia River (Abbott) 5728 (McGregor) 5728
Richmond Alcohol and Drug Action Team
- Regionalization concerns (MacPhail) 3461 (Symons) 3460-1
Richmond, B.C.
- Alcohol and drug treatment programs, future (MacPhail) 3511 (Reid) 3511
- Community well-being and level of provincial services (Plant) 2157
- Court services (Dosanjh) 2617-8 (Plant) 2612-3, 2617-8
- Courthouse closing (Dalton) 3051
- Food bank (Symons) 2464
- Mid-island dike, status (McGregor) 5604 (Plant) 5604
- Municipal grant reduction (Plant) 2858 (Reid) 2593-4 (Symons) 2600, 3064
- No. 3 Road, congestion (MacPhail) 5161 (Symons) 5161
- Recovery of back taxes on leased federal property (Farnworth) 3845 (Plant) 3845
- Representation on regional health board (MacPhail) 3461 (Symons) 3460-1
- Transit services, status of improvements (MacPhail) 5169-70 (Symons) 5169-70
Richmond Chinatown Lions Club
Richmond, Claude
- Quoted while member of Social Credit government on cabinet powers to appoint acting conflict-of-interest commissioner (Weisgerber) 4746
Richmond District Parents Association
- Request for meeting with Education minister re district funding (Reid) 6104, 6134, 6136
Richmond, Etta
- Dismissal and severance arrangements (Hawkins) 3423 (MacPhail) 3388-9 (Penner) 3389-90
Richmond General Hospital, Richmond, B.C.
- Molestation case (MacPhail) 3508 (Symons) 3508
- Operations (MacPhail) 3820 (Symons) 3820
Richmond Nature Park Society
- Impact on society of school fees court ruling, letter quoted (Reid) 6137
Richmond school district
Ridge Meadows Hospital and Health Care Centre, Maple Ridge, B.C.
- Accreditation (Hartley) 2342
Ridley, Stanley
- Activities as president of B.C. Hydro International (Farrell-Collins) 4984 (Miller) 4984
- Relationship with SNC-Lavalin and B.C. Hydro International (Farrell-Collins) 5050-2 (Miller) 5050-2
- Role in sale of B.C. Hydro's Pakistan power project shares to SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Farrell-Collins) 4977-9 (Miller) 4977-8
Rifkin, Jeremy
- Comments on jobs for future workers (Hansen) 2366
- The End of Work cited (Calendino) 2333 (Campbell) 2098 (Jarvis) 2229 (Nebbeling) 2379
- Theories on future economy (Abbott) 4555 (Dalton) 3059
Rivers and streams
- Impact of subdivisions on streams (Farnworth) 5915
- List of protected rivers in Fish Protection Act (Clark, C.) 6168-71 (McGregor) 6169-71 (van Dongen) 6170-1
- Protection of riverbanks and stream banks (Abbott) 5607-8 (McGregor) 5607-8
- River guardian program (Clark, C.) 5541-2 (McGregor) 5482-3, 5542
- Stream bank erosion (van Dongen) 5958
- Stream Enhancement Guide quoted on stream bank erosion (van Dongen) 5958
- Stream flow protection See also Fish habitat protection under Fisheries
- designation of wildlife areas See Wildlife
- determination of sufficient flow (Clark, C.) 6209 (McGregor) 6209
- licensing process (Clark, C.) 6209-10 (McGregor) 6209-10
- pollution of "flow," enforcement issues (Abbott) 5919-20 (Farnworth) 5919-21 (Thorpe) 5919-20 (van Dongen) 5920-1
- protection licences, determination of community-based interest (van Dongen) 5967-8
- temporary flow reductions in case of drought, agricultural considerations (van Dongen) 5968
- temporary flow reductions in case of drought, decision by minister vs. front-line staff (Clark, C.) 6210-1 (McGregor) 6210-1
- Stream rehabilitation (Goodacre) 2096
- Streamside protection by municipalities, provincial directives (Abbott) 6211-2 (McGregor) 6212
- Urban stream protection
- government role (Farnworth) 5915
- legislation See Local Government Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- NDP government action (Clark, C.) 5967
Riverside Forest Products Ltd.
- Lavington area (Brewer Road) logging case (Sanders) 5248
Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam, B.C.
- Beds, number available and used (MacPhail) 3468-9 (Sanders) 3468-9
- Discharge planning (Anderson) 3517-8 (MacPhail) 3517-8
- Downsizing of hospital capacity
- Patient admission times (MacPhail) 3479 (Thorpe) 3479
- Replacement project (Sanders) 3467
- Residents' allowances (Anderson) 3517 (MacPhail) 3517
- Review, recommendations (Anderson) 3518 (MacPhail) 3518
- Site
Road safety programs
- See Traffic safety under Automobiles
Road Sense program
Roberts Bank
- Backup lands
- disposition of unused portion of expropriated farmland (Gingell) 4540
- land acquired through farmland expropriation, disposition of unused portion (Petter) 4540
- tenure, status of negotiations (Evans) 4073 (Gingell) 4072-3
Roberts Creek, B.C.
- Land use policy, status after municipal restructuring (Wilson, G.) 3880
Roberts, David
- Letter quoted on fee imposition for courtwatching programs (Sanders) 6049
Roberts Lake
Robertson, Ann
- Letter quoted on municipal voting requirements (Abbott) 3594
Robertson, Glenn (North Island)
- Betaferon, addition to Pharmacare list 2303
- Campbell River, economy 2303-4
- Cogeneration plant in Campbell River 2304
- Film industry in B.C. 2304
- Forest Renewal B.C., job creation role 4988
- Jobs and timber accord, goals 4987-9
- Labour movement in Canada 2304-5
- NDP government, performance 2303
- Quinsam Coal Corp., road access to mine 2304
- Strathcona Provincial Park, protection 2304
- Throne speech debate 2303-5
- Trade unions, Liberal Party position on unionized labour 2304-5
- Vancouver Island, economy and infrastructure of north Island 2304
Roffel, Mark
Rojas, Lavinia
- Case re funding for parental care of disabled adults (Chong) 6369-70 (Priddy) 6369
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver
- Letter quoted on church's position on Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997 (de Jong) 5739
Roosevelt Hotel, Vancouver, B.C.
Rose, Mark
- Association of Former M.L.A.s of British Columbia, purpose 6585
- MLAs, contributions of former MLAs 6585
Rosenbluth, Gideon
- Statements on B.C. credit rating cited (Gingell) 4431-2 (Petter) 4433
Rossland-Trail constituency
Roundtable on Ethics and Conflict of Interest
Royal Bank of Canada
- Business loans in Newfoundland (Reid) 2510
- Statements of senior economist quoted on B.C. economy (Miller) 4193
Royal British Columbia Museum
- Admission fees and free services (Chong) 4216-8 (Pullinger) 4216-8
- Annual report (Chong) 4213 (Pullinger) 4213
- Attendance levels (Chong) 4213 (Pullinger) 4213
- Budget and funding (Chong) 4211-2 (Pullinger) 4211-2, 4220 (Reitsma) 4220
- IMAX theatre construction (Chong) 4214-6 (Pullinger) 4215-6
- Long-term planning and marketing strategy (Pullinger) 4218-9 (Reitsma) 4218-9
- Mandate (Chong) 4209-10 (Pullinger) 4210
- Media relations (Chong) 4214 (Pullinger) 4214
- Multicultural collections and programming (Pullinger) 4296
- Museum activities (Pullinger) 4102
- Permanent and special exhibits (Chong) 4211, 4213-4, 4216 (Pullinger) 4211, 4213-4, 4216, 4218 (Reitsma) 4218
- Relationship with other museums (Pullinger) 4219 (Reitsma) 4219
- School programs (Chong) 4214 (Pullinger) 4214
- Space rentals and revenue (Chong) 4217 (Pullinger) 4217-8
- Staff
- skills upgrading (Pullinger) 4220 (Reitsma) 4220
- staff and directors (Chong) 4211-3 (Pullinger) 4211-3
- staffing (Chong) 4216 (Pullinger) 4216
- Tourism ministry role in operations (Chong) 4214 (Pullinger) 4214
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- See also Police and policing
- Agreements for provision of policing services (Dosanjh) 2831 (Plant) 2831
- Applicability of B.C. policing standards (Dosanjh) 5685, 5829 (Plant) 5829
- Auxiliary and reserve constable programs, review (Dosanjh) 2793-4 (Plant) 2793-4
- Drug enforcement role in northern areas of province (Dosanjh) 2829 (Neufeld) 2829
- Investigation procedures and practices (Farrell-Collins) 4527-9 (Petter) 4527-9
- Policing role in B.C. (Coleman) 5689 (Dosanjh) 2789-91 (Plant) 2790-1
- Report on investigative procedures used in Gakhal and Velisek murder cases (Stephens) 4450
- Truck weigh scales, access to scales (Boone) 5471-2 (Neufeld) 5471-2
Royal College of Physicians
- Position on recruitment of foreign-trained physicians (MacPhail) 3830 (Neufeld) 3829-30
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (Dussault-Erasmus commission, federal)
- Recommendations, government response (Cashore) 3371-4 (Weisgerber) 3371-4
Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs (1990) (Seaton commission)
- Report quoted on B.C. health care system (Hawkins) 3283
Royal Commission on Milk, 1954-55 (Clyne commission)
- Report quoted, referenced (van Dongen) 3183-4
Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops, B.C.
- Day care centre (McGregor) 2485-6
- Emergency ward upgrade (Krueger) 3671 (MacPhail) 3671
- Operations (Krueger) 2174-5
- Severance for former chief executive officer (Krueger) 3670 (MacPhail) 3670
Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, B.C.
Royal Oak Mines Inc.
- Compensation arrangement with province (Clark, G.) 6553 (Neufeld) 6553
- Compensation for cancellation of Tatshenshini project (Jarvis) 4132 (Miller) 4132, 4155
- Kemess South project in northern B.C. 4123 (Miller) 4157
Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C.
- Governance model (Ramsey) 5938 (Weisbeck) 5938
- Teaching staff, hiring and performance assessments (Weisbeck) 5939
R.S. Group Home, Maple Ridge, B.C.
Russell, Bertrand
- Quoted on need for factual information (de Jong) 2162
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