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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
Saanich Inlet
Saanich North and the Islands constituency
- Court facilities, closing (Coell) 2703 (Dosanjh) 2703
- Hospitals in riding, governance (Coell) 2334-5
- Issues and concerns (Coell) 2175-6
Saanich Peninsula General Hospital, Saanichton, B.C.
- Future (Coell) 3397 (MacPhail) 3397
- Services for Indians (MacPhail) 3648
Saanich South constituency
- Projects completed and undertaken in past year (Petter) 2546
SAFER
- See Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program
A Safer Future for British Columbia Women program
Safety
- Building safety issues See Construction industry
- Marine safety in B.C. (de Jong) 2317-8 (Janssen) 2317-8
- Natural gas systems, public safety issue (Hansen) 3611 (Hartley) 3610-2
- Private sector role (Abbott) 3587 (Farnworth) 3587
- Public safety, ministerial responsibility (Priddy) 2874-5
- Safety authority, establishment (Abbott) 3586-7 (Farnworth) 3586-7
- Safety compliance responsibility (Abbott) 3585-6 (Farnworth) 3585-6
- Safety registration system, establishment (Abbott) 3591 (Farnworth) 3591-2
- Safety systems review
- Security personnel, training and licensing (Dosanjh) 2829, 2831 (Neufeld) 2829 (Plant) 2830-1
Sage Mesa water district
- Court case (McGregor) 5566 (Thorpe) 5566
St. Ann's Academy, Victoria, B.C.
- Redevelopment of historical site (Brewin) 2373
- Restoration project (Coleman) 5088 (Miller) 5088
St. Columbia Presbyterian Church, Parksville, B.C.
- Letter from congregation quoted on gambling expansion (Reitsma) 4369
St. John Ambulance
- Work of organization (Coleman) 5990-2 (Walsh) 5991
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.
- Geriatric unit, downsizing (MacPhail) 3470 (Sanders) 3470
- Heart centre (MacPhail) 3578
- Programs (Stevenson) 2351
Sakalauskas, Al
- Capital spending management role (Gingell) 4478 (Petter) 4478
Sales tax
- Charitable donation case (de Jong) 5578
- Exemption for zero-emission vehicles (Gingell) 5704 (McGregor) 5704
- Provincial sales tax, rebates for foreign visitors (Chong) 4117 (Pullinger) 4117 (Reitsma) 4117
- Refunds, minimum refundable (Krueger) 2638 (Petter) 2564
- Tax on manufacturing inputs (Gingell) 2148
Salmon Arm, B.C.
- Municipal grant reduction (Abbott) 3034
- Railway taxation revenue and municipal grant (Abbott) 3000-1 (Farnworth) 3000-1
Salmon fishery
Salmon River
- Restoration work (Abbott) 5916
Saltspring Island
- Community issues and concerns (Coell) 2175
- Representation on capital health region board (Coell) 3397 (MacPhail) 3397
- Transition house, need (Coell) 2901
Saltspring Island Transition House, Saltspring Island, B.C.
Salvation Army
- Position on outside funding (Coell) 6403 (Priddy) 6403
Sanders, April (Okanagan-Vernon)
- AIDS
- Alcohol, liquor industry and sales, review of government policy 2981
- Ambulance service, fees 2426-7
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2981
- Auditor general, recommendations on mental health services 3467
- Automobile insurance, no-fault insurance 2168
- Barrass, Brenda, suicide case 3469
- Borden, John, work on forest pest management 5350
- Bowbrick, Graeme, role as chair of committee to review conflict-of-interest legislation 4756
- B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils, resolution on teaching tolerance for same-sex couples 6190-1
- B.C. Council for Families, work of council 3056-8
- 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
- position on school accreditation process 6036
- position on teaching school students tolerance for same-sex couples 6228
- Budget
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2723-5
- Canada Health Act, principles 3353
- Cancer assessment services, availability 3354
- Child protection, transition commission for child and youth services 2899
- Children and Families ministry
- estimates debate 6370-4
- accountability and monitoring of performance 2899
- availability of funds for adult programs and services 6370
- program and service transfers from other ministries 6235, 6373
- responsibilities
- child protection and community protection 2899
- integration of youth corrections with other government services in regional offices 2898-9
- College of Teachers of B.C., policy on certification of independent-school teachers 6077
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4756-7
- selection of new commissioner 4756-7
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2426-7
- Correction Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2898-9
- Corrections system
- anger management programs 6373-4
- probation officers for younger children 2899
- youth probation officers 2898-9
- Crime and criminals, young offenders, education services for youth in institutions 6037
- Debt, public debt during NDP administration 2425-6
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- office for disability issues, operations 6046-7
- summer education programs for blind and deaf children 6372-3
- Don Christian Elementary School, revisions to school catchment area boundaries 6236
- Drugs
- federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2766-9
- reference-based pricing 2766-9
- steroid use 3471-2
- Earl Marriott Secondary School, physical condition of school 6042
- Eating disorders
- provincial treatment program 3470-1
- treatment services 6373
- Education
- adult basic education, funding and service delivery in private and post-secondary institutions 6033-5
- class size, impact on student achievement 6186
- community-schools initiative 6235
- completion rate of grade 12 students 5976-7
- curriculum
- education advisory council, activities 6221
- English-as-a-second-language program 6070, 6075-6
- enrolment
- examination marking, qualifications of provincial exam markers 6049, 6069
- fees charged by school, impact of court case 6047-8
- foreign students, fees charged for public schooling 6038
- francophone system
- culture component 6420
- education of francophone children 6038, 6233
- management and control by francophones 6253
- provincewide collective bargaining by teachers 6425-6
- voting for school trustees, rights of parents 6420
- funding
- adequacy 2292-3, 3165-6
- debt servicing 5978
- distance education 6037
- funding 2427-8
- funding formula 5977, 6004-5, 6040, 6567
- Liberal Party position 6005
- non-partisan funding decisions 3355
- operating grants for K-to-12 system 5978, 6035, 6039-41, 6189
- special education 6006, 6045-6
- targeted funding and special purpose grants 6036, 6101-2, 6235
- graduation certificate (Dogwood Certificate) 5976-7
- home schooling, statistics 6189-90, 6235
- independent schools, enrolment and government funding 6038-9, 6077-8
- inner-city school programs 6372
- labour relations, work stoppages 2588
- parent advisory councils, role in fundraising and policy development 6190-1
- performance measurement
- accountability in the K-to-12 system, comptroller general's recommendations 6096-99, 6101, 6568
- mathematics and science, performance of B.C. students 5974, 6236
- social studies, performance of B.C. students 6221
- student testing and achievement 5974, 6099
- post-secondary education
- scholarships and bursaries, Passport to Education 6038, 6098
- tuition freeze 2326
- principals and vice-principals, reductions in job number and time spent on administrative duties 6074-5
- protection of B.C. system 2168
- school support contributions, definition and funding 5978-9
- services for children and youth in health care facilities 6037-8
- special education, programs and program funding for blind and low-vision children 6221-2
- summer programs for blind and deaf children 6372-3
- system
- mandate and goals 6099
- restructuring of B.C. system, 1996 report and recommendations 6004-5
- stability 5973
- teaching of tolerance for same-sex couples 6190-1, 6228-32
- technology grants program, five-year computer acquisition strategy 6218-20
- technology upgrade funding 2391
- Education, Skills and Training ministry
- estimates debate 5971, 5973-80, 5985, 6002-6, 6033-49, 6069-70, 6073-8, 6081, 6096-103, 6150-2, 6177-92, 6218-23, 6227-36, 6567-8
- budget, principles used in budget determination 6002
- comptroller general's report on Education ministry, release 2433
- corporate administration, operations 5977-9
- deputy minister's office, responsibilities 5985
- evaluation and accountability branch, mandate 6098
- forum on roles and responsibilities of Education ministry and school districts 6097-8
- funding, central administration 5978
- gender equity initiatives, funding 6102
- goals 5971, 5973
- policy on school construction and renovation announcements 6178-9
- staffing 5979-80
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, changes in ministers and ministry officials 2167
- Employment and unemployment
- job creation, government role 2401
- job loss, impact on communities 2401
- Families, importance of family in society 3056-8
- Family Day, purpose 3056-8
- 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
- Fetal alcohol effect/syndrome
- Forest industry
- experimental forests 5354
- logging on farmland, slope issue 5248
- negligence cases, prosecution 5250
- pest management 5349-54
- private forest land and logging 5248-50
- research 5354
- silviculture, cone production of large species, promotion 5354
- use of problem forest types 5353
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5248-50, 5349-54
- Francophone Education Authority of B.C., operations 6038, 6233, 6421-5
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling
- costs and consequences 2981
- costs and consequences, comparison with smoking 6114-5
- expansion in B.C. 2168
- impact on families 2753
- Government
- decision-making, non-partisan basis 3355
- revenues from alcohol, tobacco and gambling 2981
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2167-8
- Haldon, comparison with olanzapine and risperidone 3464-7
- Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1997
- debate 5895, 5898-9
- "service providers committee," repeal of definition 5895
- Health care
- costs, tobacco-related illness and disease 6114-5
- ethical issues advisory committee 3470
- facilities, private clinics 3471, 3640
- funding basis in regionalized system 3356
- lab services, Vernon situation 3355-6, 3463-4, 3640-1, 3865
- non-partisan funding decisions 3355
- opposition's input 3358
- practitioners, service fees 2426-7
- primary care system, reform 3356
- protection of B.C. system 2167-8
- regional health boards and community health councils
- appointments 3360, 5898
- conflict-of-interest guidelines 3359
- members, backgrounds 3463
- members, reimbursement of expenses 5898-9
- members, selection 2427
- representation concerns 3359-60
- service sector exclusions 5895
- regionalization
- community and government roles 3354-5
- consultation 3357-9
- impact on current service delivery system 3353-4
- impact on volunteerism 3361
- reproductive care, rural obstetrical program 3644-5
- services, intravenous therapy home program 3354
- system, volunteers 3360-1
- wait-lists and waiting times 2426, 3353
- Health ministry
- Highway 6, washout area west of Lumby 5466
- Hospitals
- emergency rooms, use by persons with mental illnesses 3468
- gender segregation policies 3703-4
- quick response teams 3354
- staff exposure to HIV/AIDS 3644
- Indians, education for Indian students 6046
- Jepson-Young, Peter, achievements as AIDS activist 5993
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2401-2
- Justice system, fees charged for courtwatching programs 6048-9
- Kelowna Secondary School, replacement 3956
- Kerley, Douglas, commended for work as job protection commissioner 2401-2
- Kidney disease, renal dialysis services 3353-4
- Kids at Risk program 6372
- Kingma, Daphne Rose, message of book Random Acts of Kindness 3056-7
- Klawe, Maria, work on women's role in science and technology 6102
- Langara College, student protest 2326
- Lask, Bryan, establishment of clinic to treat eating disorders 3471, 3640
- Law Courts Education Society of B.C., fee imposition for courtwatching programs 6048-9
- 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
- Magee Secondary School, physical condition of existing school 6042-3
- Mainland, Joyce, concerns re summer education programs for blind children 6221-2, 6373
- Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre, operations 6373
- Medical Services Commission
- policies on lab use 3865
- policy on funding of laboratories 3464
- Medical Services Plan
- coverage, smoking-cessation treatment programs 6114-5
- deinsuring of services 3701-2
- direct or extra billing by enrolled physicians 3640
- funding, responsibility 3355-6
- Medicare Protection Act, provisions on direct or extra billing for insured services 3640
- Medicare Protection Amendment Act, withdrawal from debate on grounds of possible conflict of interest 6195
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4756-7
- Mental health
- involuntary commitments, review provisions 3474-5
- public education re mental illness 3469
- services
- accountability 3472-3
- acute-care services for suicidal patients 3469
- mental health advocate 3473
- program review 3467
- programs, accreditation 3473
- psychiatric beds 3467-9, 3474
- services 3356-7
- use of electroconvulsive therapy 3641-2
- Mental Health Act, changes 3474
- Midwifery
- home birthing demonstration project 3700-1
- malpractice insurance for midwives 3699-70
- program and services 3698-701
- Misri, Shalla, work on post-partum depression 3641
- Municipalities, municipal grants, NDP MLAs' comments during 1994 debate 2724-5
- NDP government
- actions on conflict-of-interest legislation 4756-7
- performance 5971
- North Okanagan Neurological Association, mandate and funding 6370-2
- Okanagan area, tourism industry in area 3172-3
- Open Learning Agency, funding 5978-9
- Parksville, impact of sewage outlet near public school 6043
- Pharmacare program
- benefits, Vernon case 3704
- policies on use of risperidone and olanzapine 3465-7, 3641
- Physicians, malpractice insurance 3699-700
- Physiotherapy services, patient's share of fee 3865
- Quesnel, mental health services 3357
- Ramsey, Hon. Paul, experience as college instructor/administrator of adult basic education 6034
- Riverview Hospital
- downsizing 3357
- number of beds available and used 3468-9
- replacement project 3467
- site, future use 3474
- St. Paul's Hospital, downsizing of geriatric unit 3470
- Schizophrenia
- medications used for treatment 3464-7
- Pharmacare coverage for medication 5734-5
- School Act, provisions 6184-5, 6190
- School Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6253, 6420-7
- School boards/districts
- amalgamation
- Liberal Party position 6004-5
- sharing of services between non-amalgamated districts 6002-4, 6234
- annual reports, recommendations of auditor general 6101
- budgets 2427-8
- catchment area boundaries, responsibility for revisions 6236
- devolution of authority from Education ministry to school boards 6234
- financial problems, potential need for intervention of job protection commissioner 2402
- funding
- long-range planning 6181-2
- non-teaching staff
- purchasing function, recommendations of auditor general 6099-101
- smoking policies 6076
- technology standards and plans 6219-20
- vehicle leases 6045
- School district 36 (Surrey)
- collective agreements, teacher salaries and benefits 5976, 5985
- English-as-a-second-language program, funding and enrolment 6070
- position on teaching tolerance for same-sex couples 6232
- School district 38 (Richmond), English-as-a-second-language program, funding and enrolment 6070
- School district 39 (Vancouver)
- administration costs 2427-8
- career programs, funding and enrolment caps 6076
- English-as-a-second-language program, funding and enrolment 6070, 6076
- staff layoffs, impact 2293
- School district 40 (New Westminster), administration costs 6044
- School district 41 (Burnaby), administration costs 6044
- School district 50 (Haida Gwaii-Queen Charlotte), collective agreements, teacher salaries and benefits 5976
- School district 57 (Prince George)
- School district 61 (Greater Victoria), budget 2427-8
- School district 71 (Comox Valley), capital funding projects 6178-9
- School district 73 (Kamloops-Thompson), capital funding projects 6177-8
- School district 91 (Nechako Lakes), electronic delivery of curricula 6220-1, 6235
- School meals program
- program audits 6372
- program effectiveness and audits 6102
- Schools
- accreditation, funding and process review 6035-6
- capital funding projects
- efficiencies and cost-reduction strategies 6150-1, 6186-7
- security concerns 6074-5
- technology and equipment acquisition 6220
- Select Standing Committee on Education, Culture and Multiculturalism, work of committee 6097-8, 6103
- 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 4756-7
- Seniors, psychogeriatric services 3469-70
- Sexual orientation, legislative definition of "spouse" 6230-1
- Skills training, funding and staffing 5978
- Social Planning and Research Council of B.C., survey of special education teachers 6235
- Stay in School program 6102
- Strawberry Vale Elementary School, school design and cost of construction 6186-7
- Substance abuse/addiction, social costs 2981
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2167-8
- Task Force on Critical Issues in Financing Colleges and Institutions, work of task force 6568
- Taxation, tax reductions 2426
- Teachers
- age of current workforce, impact on education system 5975
- collective agreement
- impacts of district funding on full-time-equivalents 6187-9, 6567-8
- job satisfaction 6186
- loan forgiveness program for teachers in remote areas 6038
- performance measurement, teacher evaluation 6184-5
- Tobacco
- industry liability for smoking-related health care costs, recovery of costs 6114-5
- smoking
- use, social costs 2981
- Tobacco Damages Recovery Act
- Tourism British Columbia Act, debate 3172-3
- Tourism industry
- employment in industry 3173
- special operating agreement, funding for local projects 3173
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 5466-7
- Universities, colleges and institutes, enrolment capacity and targets 6568
- Vernon
- clinic for treatment of eating disorders 3471
- municipal grant reduction 2723-4
- tourism industry in area 3173
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital, amalgamation into regional health board 3360-1
- Volunteers, role in regionalized health care structure 5898
- Women, post-partum depression 3641
Sands, Dave
- Appointment as south coastal regional director (van Dongen) 4020
Sargeant Bay Park
- Redrooffs Road boundary, spelling of name in legislation (Dalton) 5959, 6214
Sarjeet Singh Jagpal
- See Jagpal, Sarjeet Singh
Saskatchewan
- Electoral division criteria (Weisgerber) 5560
- Impaired driving legislation (Hurd) 2845-7
Saskatchewan Film Classification Board
- Film classification agreement with B.C. See Film industry
Saunders, Cicely
- Role in hospice movement (Gingell) 4421
Sawicki, Joan (Burnaby-Willingdon)
- Burnaby-Willingdon constituency, issues and concerns 2301
- Education curriculum, career and personal planning program 2302
- Employment, changing nature of work 2301
- Environment, environmental youth teams, work of teams 2302
- Fish habitat protection, local government's role and powers 5916-7
- Land use
- land set aside for protection, NDP government action 5953-4
- protection of riparian areas, tax exemptions as incentive for landowners 5916
- LIFE (Leadership initiative for earth) program 2302
- Local Government Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5916-7
- Maywood Elementary School, community school program 2302
- Motor Vehicle Amendment (Motorized Cycles) Act, debate 6007
- Motorcycles, exemptions from Motor Vehicle Act provisions 6007
- NDP government, performance 2302-3
- Pacific NorthWest Economic Region, cooperation among region participants 5617-8
- Park Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5953-4
- Parks, new and expanded parks and protected areas, establishment and protection 5953-4
- Recycling, deposit system for beverage containers 2302-3, 2456-8
- Throne speech debate 2301
- Trans Canada Trail, establishment of national trail 4991-3
- Worm composting 2302
Sayward, B.C.
- Declassification of area roads (Abbott) 5394-5 (Boone) 5394-5
- Highway declassification, concerns (Abbott) 3889
- Letter quoted on road responsibility transfer (Abbott) 2234
Schamborzki, Inge
- Contract with North Shore regional health board (Hawkins) 2654
- Role on North Shore regional health board (Hawkins) 2392
- Severance package (de Jong) 5856 (Whittred) 5858
Schizophrenia
- Detection and treatment of schizophrenia psychosis in children and youth (Coell) 6437-8 (Priddy) 6437-8
- Pharmacare coverage for medication (MacPhail) 5734-5 (Sanders) 5734-5
School Act
- Definition and rights of parent advisory councils (Sanders) 6190
- Teacher evaluation provisions (Ramsey) 6184-5 (Sanders) 6184-5
School Amendment Act, 1997
- (Bill 45) (Minister of Education, Skills and Training) 1R, 4588; 2R, 6252-4; C, 6420-7; 3R, 6427; RA, 6579
- Amdts: sec. 9 (Sanders) 6420, negatived 6420; sec. 21 (6 amdts) (Sanders) 6420-3, negatived or ruled out of order 6421-5; sec. 67 (Sanders) 6426, negatived 6427; sec. 68 (Sanders) ruled out of order 6427
- Debate, speakers (Ramsey) 4588, 6252-3, 6420-7 (Sanders) 6253, 6420-7
School boards/districts
- Amalgamation
- Annual reports, recommendations of auditor general (Ramsey) 6099, 6101 (Sanders) 6101
- Budgets, balanced budgets (Ramsey) 3166
- Catchment area boundaries, responsibility for revisions (Ramsey) 6236 (Sanders) 6236
- Conversion of junior-secondary schools, policy (Masi) 6177 (Ramsey) 6177
- Devolution of authority from Education ministry to school boards (Ramsey) 6234-5 (Sanders) 6234
- Financial problems, potential need for intervention of job protection commissioner (Sanders) 2402
- Forum on roles and responsibilities of Education ministry and school districts See Education, Skills and Training, Ministry of
- Funding
- administration, funding for administration services in amalgamated districts (Ramsey) 6003 (Sanders) 6002-3
- administration, spending cap (Ramsey) 6044-5, 6075 (Sanders) 6044-5
- balanced-budget requirement (Ramsey) 6233 (Sanders) 6233
- fundraising (Gingell) 6080 (Ramsey) 6080, 6100 (Sanders) 6100
- long-term funding (Priddy) 6372 (Sanders) 6372
- multi-year funding and planning (Ramsey) 6234 (Sanders) 6233-4
- spending decisions and efficiencies (Ramsey) 6004, 6039-42, 6045, 6106, 6133-4, 6138, 6189 (Sanders) 6003-4, 6039-41, 6045, 6189, 6567
- Lands, sale of surplus sites (Gingell) 2143
- Long-range planning (Ramsey) 6181-2 (Sanders) 6181-2
- Non-teaching staff
- collective agreements, costs (Ramsey) 6003 (Sanders) 6003
- collective agreements, government funding (Ramsey) 5985 (Sanders) 5985
- impact of district funding on full-time-equivalents (Ramsey) 6187-9 (Sanders) 6187-9, 6567-8
- Performance measurement and accountability (Masi) 5873 (Ramsey) 5873
- Purchasing function, recommendations of auditor general (Ramsey) 6100-1 (Sanders) 6099-101
- School district budgets (Sanders) 2427-8
- Smoking policies (Ramsey) 6076 (Sanders) 6076
- Technology standards and plans (Ramsey) 6219-20 (Sanders) 6219-20
- Vehicle leases (Ramsey) 6045 (Sanders) 6045
School buses
School district 23 (Central Okanagan)
School district 28 (Quesnel)
- Funding reductions (Wilson, J.) 2488
School district 34 (Abbotsford)
- Funding (de Jong) 2418
- Growth and funding (de Jong) 2865
School district 35 (Langley)
- Revenue-generating programs (Stephens) 5982
- Spending decisions and efficiencies (Ramsey) 5980-1 (Stephens) 5980-1
School district 36 (Surrey)
- Capital funding projects (McKinnon) 6142-5
- Collective agreement, teacher salaries and benefits (Ramsey) 5976, 5985 (Sanders) 5976, 5985
- English-as-a-second-language program, funding and enrolment (Sanders) 6070
- Enrolment growth and student spaces (Ramsey) 6181
- Funding (McKinnon) 5983-5 (Ramsey) 5984-5
- Position on homosexuality (Smallwood) 3055-6
- Position on teaching tolerance for same-sex couples ("declaration of family rights") (Ramsey) 6229, 6232 (Sanders) 6232
- Positions on teaching racial tolerance and tolerance for same-sex couples (Masi) 6231-2
School district 37 (Delta)
- Capital funding projects (Masi) 6177 (Ramsey) 6177
School district 38 (Richmond)
- Board chair See Gwozd, Sylvia
- Budget (Symons) 2526
- Capital funding projects (Ramsey) 6139-40 (Symons) 6138-40
- Construction freeze (Symons) 2526
- English-as-a-second-language program, funding and enrolment (Reid) 6136 (Sanders) 6070
- Enrolment growth and student spaces (Ramsey) 6181
- Funding (Campbell) 2652 (Plant) 2653 (Ramsey) 2652-4, 6104-6, 6133-5, 6135, 6137-8, 6138 (Reid) 2653-4, 6104-5, 6132-5, 6135, 6137 (Symons) 6137-8
- Letter quoted on education funding (Sanders) 2292-3
- School tax, amount collected from city of Richmond (Ramsey) 6139 (Symons) 6139
- Spending decisions and efficiencies (Ramsey) 6140 (Symons) 6140
School district 39 (Vancouver)
- Administration costs (Sanders) 2427-8
- Capital funding projects (Anderson) 6175 (Ramsey) 6175
- Career programs, funding and enrolment caps (Ramsey) 6076 (Sanders) 6076
- English-as-a-second-language program
- funding and enrolment (Anderson) 6176 (Ramsey) 6076, 6176 (Sanders) 6070, 6076
- letter from teacher quoted on program funding (Anderson) 6176
- reorganization (Ramsey) 6040
- Funding
- per-pupil funding (Anderson) 6074 (Ramsey) 6074
- special education (Anderson) 6071, 6176 (Ramsey) 6071-2, 6176
- special education, letter from parent quoted on program funding (Anderson) 6176
- spending decisions and efficiencies (Anderson) 6175-6 (Ramsey) 5981, 6175-6
- spending decisions and efficiencies, letter from parent quoted (Anderson) 6175-6
- Microwave towers, policy re placement on school buildings (Anderson) 6175 (Ramsey) 6175
- Programs for children living in poverty, funding (Anderson) 6072 (Ramsey) 6072-3
- Staff layoffs, impact (Sanders) 2293
- Technology and equipment acquisition, public-private partnerships (Ramsey) 6073-4
School district 40 (New Westminster)
- Administration costs (Ramsey) 6044 (Sanders) 6044
- Budget (Clark, C.) 3166 (Ramsey) 3166
- Funding (de Jong) 3166-7
School district 41 (Burnaby)
- Administration costs (Ramsey) 6044 (Sanders) 6044
School district 42 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows)
School district 43 (Coquitlam)
- Capital projects (Cashore) 2383
School district 44 (North Vancouver)
- Capital funding projects (Dalton) 6141-2 (Ramsey) 6141-2
- Funding (Dalton) 2203 (Jarvis) 2185
- One-day work stoppage (Cashore) 3163 (Dalton) 3163
- Referendum re tax increase (Jarvis) 2475
- Technology program, funding (Dalton) 2298
School district 45 (West Vancouver)
- Capital funding projects (Dalton) 6142 (Ramsey) 6142
- Former board chair See Haycock, Ken
School district 49 (Central Coast)
- Administration costs (Ramsey) 6044
School district 50 (Haida Gwaii-Queen Charlotte)
- Funding, teacher salaries and benefits (Ramsey) 5976 (Sanders) 5976
School district 57 (Prince George)
- Capital funding projects (Ramsey) 6145
- Funding
- Unions' strike notice, mediation (Ramsey) 2588-9 (Sanders) 2588
School district 61 (Greater Victoria)
- Budget (Sanders) 2427-8
- Court case re school fees See McDonald and Chamak v. School district 61
School district 64 (Gulf Islands)
- Funding, per-pupil funding (Ramsey) 6005
School district 67 (Okanagan-Skaha)
- Capital funding projects (Thorpe) 6149-50
School district 69 (Qualicum)
- Amalgamation with school district 70 (Alberni) (Ramsey) 6146 (Reitsma) 6146
- Capital funding projects (Ramsey) 6148 (Reitsma) 6148
- Closing of French Creek Elementary school, public consultation (Ramsey) 6146-7, 6149 (Reitsma) 6146-9
School district 70 (Alberni)
- Amalgamation with school district 69 (Qualicum) (Ramsey) 6146 (Reitsma) 6146
School district 71 (Comox Valley)
- Capital funding projects (Ramsey) 6178 (Sanders) 6178-9
- Growth (Gillespie) 2472
School district 73 (Kamloops-Thompson)
School district 75 (Mission)
- Capital projects (Streifel) 2357
School district 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap)
- Amalgamation, progress and impacts on collective agreements (Abbott) 6225 (Ramsey) 6225
- Capital funding projects (Abbott) 6223-5 (Ramsey) 6223-5
- School accreditation process (Abbott) 6225 (Ramsey) 6225
School district 87 (Stikine)
- Funding, per-pupil funding (Ramsey) 6005
School district 91 (Nechako Lakes)
- Electronic delivery of curricula (Ramsey) 6221, 6235 (Sanders) 6220-1, 6235
- Long-distance learning initiatives (Dalton) 3155
School meals program
- Government funding and community support (Coell) 6377 (Priddy) 6377
- Program audits (Priddy) 6372 (Sanders) 6372
- Program effectiveness and audits (Ramsey) 6080 (Sanders) 6102
School tax on property
Schools
- Accreditation (Ramsey) 5973
- Accreditation, funding and process review (Ramsey) 6035-6 (Sanders) 6035-6
- Capital funding projects
- certificates of approval, ministerial responsibility (Ramsey) 6139 (Symons) 6139
- construction issues (Coleman) 2375-6
- criteria for determining project requirements and priorities (Masi) 6177 (Ramsey) 6177
- debt servicing (Ramsey) 5978, 6036-7 (Sanders) 5978, 6036-7
- freeze, impact of funding freeze during Social Credit Party administration (Ramsey) 6043
- freeze, selection of projects removed from spending freeze (Ramsey) 6103-4, 6140, 6148, 6150 (Reitsma) 6148 (Sanders) 6102-3 (Symons) 6139-40 (Thorpe) 6150
- funding and expenditures (Ramsey) 6036-7, 6103-4 (Sanders) 6036-7
- funding and expenditures, maintenance and renovations (Ramsey) 6042-3 (Sanders) 6042-3
- hiring of project managers (Ramsey) 5983 (Stephens) 5983
- ministerial responsibility (Ramsey) 6139 (Symons) 6139
- projects (Abbott) 6223-5 (Anderson) 6175 (Dalton) 6141-2 (Farnworth) 2434 (Hawkins) 6225-7 (McKinnon) 6142-5 (Masi) 6177 (Priddy) 2452 (Ramsey) 5872, 6139-52, 6175, 6177-81, 6186-7, 6223-5, 6226-7, 6568-9 (Reitsma) 6145-9 (Sanders) 2428, 6178-9, 6186-7, 6568 (Symons) 6138-40 (Thorpe) 6149-50 (Weisbeck) 6176-7
- projects released from freeze (Clark, C.) 2344-5
- school construction in Surrey (Hammell) 2349
- upgrades in Vancouver-Burrard (Stevenson) 2351-2
- Community use, fees for use (Ramsey) 2431-2 (Weisbeck) 2431-2
- Comparison of B.C. schools with United States schools (Ramsey) 6073
- Construction projects
- construction (Clark, G.) 3231
- cost of construction management (Coleman) 5681
- funding (Randall) 2493
- list of approved projects (Dalton) 2203-4
- Efficiencies and cost-reduction strategies
- Janitorial services (Jarvis) 2636
- Portables, use in lower mainland (Giesbrecht) 2278
- Security concerns (Anderson) 6072-3 (Ramsey) 6073, 6075 (Sanders) 6074-5
- Site acquisition legislation (Abbott) 3840-1 (Farnworth) 3840-1
- Student spaces, creation (Ramsey) 5872
- Technology and equipment
- acquisition, public-private partnerships (Anderson) 6073-4 (Ramsey) 6073-4, 6220 (Sanders) 6220
- impact of technology on delivery of education services (Ramsey) 6181-2
Science and technology
- Biotechnology industry
- impact of NDP government initiatives (Hawkins) 2761
- industry in B.C. (Hansen) 2770-1 (Sihota) 2772
- Canadian space program, current and future activities (Hawkins) 6385-6 (Sihota) 6385-6
- Centres of excellence, infrastructure funding (Miller) 4247-8 (Reid) 4247-8
- Computer technology expertise in B.C. (Miller) 4251-2 (Reid) 4251-2
- Cross-ministry programming (Reid) 4238
- Current activity (Reid) 2322
- Funding (Reid) 2243
- Funding reductions (Reid) 2181
- High-technology industry
- growth in sector (Weisbeck) 6276
- managerial competence (Miller) 4231 (Reid) 4231-3, 4235-6
- role in B.C. economy (Sihota) 2323
- Investment in technology, need (Reid) 2508-11
- Knowledge-based industry
- Liberal Party position (Reid) 2508
- Opportunities for women (Ramsey) 6102
- Programs, outcome measurements (Miller) 4240-2 (Reid) 4240-3
- Regional science councils, work (Reid) 2508
- Reproductive and genetic technologies, legislation (MacPhail) 3584-5 (Stephens) 3584-5
- Research and development
- Science policy, impact on sector activity (Miller) 4250 (Reid) 4250
Science Council of British Columbia
- Allocation of Forest Renewal B.C. funds for research projects (Miller) 4246 (Reid) 4246
- Annual report, 1996-97, tabled (Miller) 5488
- Current activities (Miller) 4232, 4250-1 (Reid) 4238, 4250-1
Scrap It program
Sea to Sky Highway
SeaBus
Seattle Times
- Article quoted on Pacific Salmon Treaty negotiations (Clark, G.) 3630-1
Sechelt Indian band
- Provincial grants (Abbott) 3680 (Farnworth) 3680
- Self-government model (Wilson, G.) 3881
Second Narrows Bridge
- See Iron Workers Memorial (Second Narrows) Bridge
Securities industry
- Fraud, investigation and prevention (Gingell) 4510, 4512 (Petter) 4510, 4512
- National regulatory regime (Gingell) 4503-4 (Petter) 4503-4
- Securities fraud office, establishment (Dosanjh) 2883 (Gingell) 2883
- "Sophisticated investor" issue (Petter) 4512 (Thorpe) 4511-2
Security
Segal, Sydney
Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
- Designation (Cashore) 2537-8
- Recommendations
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry response (Cashore) 6108 (Weisgerber) 6108
- free vote on treaties (Cashore) 5910-1 (Weisgerber) 5910-1
- government response (Campbell) 6574 (Clark, G.) 6575 (de Jong) 6574-5
- Indians and wildlife management issues (de Jong) 5763-5 (McGregor) 5763-5
- Reports
- cited on Indians' participation in forest industry (de Jong) 5333-4
- first report presented (Waddell) and taken as read 5109
- minority opinions in report (de Jong) 2538 (Farrell-Collins) 2538-9 (Weisgerber) 2538-9 (Wilson, G.) 2538
- report (de Jong) 5995
- Role in treaty negotiations process (Cashore) 5995 (de Jong) 3265-6
- Work of committee (Campbell) 6546 (Cashore) 2384 (Clark, G.) 6546 (de Jong) 2538
- Work of committee commended (Cashore) 5995
Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations
Select Standing Committee on Education, Culture and Multiculturalism
Select Standing Committee on Forests, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
- Addition of powers (MacPhail) 6514
- Community hearings, requests (Lali) 2256-7
- Meetings when House sitting (MacPhail) 5911
- Substitution of members (MacPhail) 6515
- Work of committee (Nebbeling) 4751
Select Standing Committee on Health and Social Services
Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills
- Members commended (Bowbrick) 6563-4 (Campbell) 6564 (Clark, G.) 6564
- Recommendation to select conflict-of-interest commissioner, report presented (Bowbrick) and adopted 6563-4
- Report on progress of Bill Pr401 and Bill Pr402 presented (Bowbrick) and adopted 5135
- Selection of conflict-of-interest commissioner (Bowbrick) 6563
- Selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation (Anderson) 4782-4 (Bowbrick) 4748-50 (Clark, C.) 4767-70 (Coleman) 4754-5 (Farnworth) 4774-5 (Farrell-Collins) 4741-5 (Gingell) 4758-9 (MacPhail) 4738 (Masi) 4777 (Nebbeling) 4751-3 (Nettleton) 4753-4 (Penner) 4779-81 (Sanders) 4756-7 (Stephens) 4770-1 (Symons) 4739-40 (Thorpe) 4738-9 (van Dongen) 4778 (Waddell) 4764-5 (Weisbeck) 4766-7 (Weisgerber) 4745-8 (Whittred) 4775-7 (Wilson, G.) 4750-1
Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts
- Addition of powers (MacPhail) 6514
- First report for second session of 36th parliament presented (Gingell) and adopted 6508
- Meetings (Clark, G.) 6547-9 (Gingell) 6547-9
- Second report for first session of 36th parliament presented (Gingell) and adopted 4145
Select standing committees
- See Legislature; names of particular committees, e.g., Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts
Self-employment
- See Employment and unemployment
Senate
- Election of B.C. Senator (Weisgerber) 2292, 2503
- Election of B.C. Senator, petition tabled (Weisgerber) 2295
Senatorial Election Act
- (Bill M202) (Weisgerber) 1R, 2292
- Debate, speakers (Weisgerber) 2292
Senes Consultants Ltd.
- Report on cryptosporidium (Wilson, J.) 5536 (Zirnhelt) 5536
Senior, Michael
- Murder victim (Penner) 5987
Seniors
- Care facilities for the elderly (Krueger) 2173-4
- Concerns (Thorpe) 2310
- Day care (Coleman) 3721 (Farnworth) 3721
- Elder abuse (MacPhail) 3567 (Whittred) 3567
- Ethnic needs (MacPhail) 3668
- Federal areas of responsibility, issues and concerns (Chong) 3570-1 (MacPhail) 3569-71 (Whittred) 3569-70
- Funding for services and programs (MacPhail) 3568-9 (Whittred) 3568-9
- Health care needs
- adult children caring for aging parents (Hammell) 2666-7 (Whittred) 2666-8
- Coquitlam long term care case (MacPhail) 3546 (Whittred) 3546
- funding levels (Krueger) 3572 (MacPhail) 3572
- funding of care facilities (Whittred) 3547
- institutional care vs. home care (MacPhail) 3545, 3547 (Whittred) 3545, 3547
- user fees and income testing (MacPhail) 3567 (Whittred) 3567
- Housing
- adequacy (Farnworth) 3761 (Whittred) 3759-60
- assisted-living projects (Farnworth) 3760 (Whittred) 3759
- banks' role (Farnworth) 3762
- housing for seniors (MacPhail) 3548-50 (Whittred) 3548-50, 3551-2
- land value (Whittred) 3759
- low-cost housing in former resource-based communities (Farnworth) 3764
- managers, training (Farnworth) 3761 (Whittred) 3761
- number of units (Coleman) 3758 (Farnworth) 3758
- public-private partnerships (Farnworth) 3762
- strategy (Farnworth) 3760 (Whittred) 3760
- universal design, inclusion in Building Code (Farnworth) 3762-3 (Whittred) 3762
- In-home health care (Coleman) 3758
- Interministry committee (MacPhail) 3524 (Whittred) 3524
- Needs and concerns of B.C.'s aging population (Waddell) 4033 (Whittred) 4032-4
- Number in B.C. and need for special services (Symons) 5198
- Number of seniors in B.C. (Symons) 3550
- Peer counselling program (MacPhail) 3569 (Whittred) 3569
- Psychogeriatric services (Barisoff) 3512 (MacPhail) 3470, 3475-7, 3512 (Sanders) 3469-70 (Whittred) 3475-7
- Service directories (MacPhail) 3552 (Whittred) 3552
- Services provided by government, reductions (Hawkins) 2177
- Transportation needs (MacPhail) 3552 (Whittred) 3552
Seniors Advisory Council
- "Shelter and Beyond: The Housing Needs of Seniors" report, recommendations quoted (Whittred) 3760
Seniors Health Promotion Network
Seniors Lottery Association
- Letter from Ted Nebbeling cited and quoted (Farrell-Collins) 2806, 2808-9 (Hammell) 2805
Seniors Week
- Recognition of seniors' role in society (Whittred) 4033-4
Sentinel Secondary School, West Vancouver, B.C.
- Building upgrade (Dalton) 6142 (Ramsey) 6142
SEPCOL (Southern Electric Power Company Ltd.)
Septic systems
Sewage disposal
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Sexual orientation
- Discrimination See Discrimination and racism
- Equal rights for homosexuals See also Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- equal rights (Stevenson) 5649 (Wilson, G.) 5651-2
- Liberal Party MLAs' positions (Farrell-Collins) 5741-2 (Sihota) 5741
- NDP government position (Sihota) 5741
- Same-sex couples
- definition of "spouse" in legislation See also Family Relations Act; Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997 (Ramsey) 6230-1 (Sanders) 6230-1
- definition of "spouse" in legislation, court challenges See Egan and Nesbit; M. v. H.
- legislation See Family Maintenance Enforcement Amendment Act, 1997; Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997
- marriage, use of term in homosexual community (Stevenson) 5744
- Medical Services Plan coverage for same-sex couples, case See Knodel v. British Columbia (Medical Services Commission)
- parents' acceptance (Neufeld) 5648 (Stevenson) 5648
- relationship breakdown See Families
- teaching school students tolerance for same-sex couples
- traditional families and expanded rights and responsibilities for homosexuals (Stevenson) 5648-9
- Tolerance (Reid) 3055-6 (Smallwood) 3055-6
Sexuality
- Courses in schools See Curriculum under Education
Shaw, John N.
- Position with SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Farrell-Collins) 4977 (Miller) 4977
Shawnigan Lake area
- Amalgamation, non-residents' concerns re voting (Chong) 3848-51 (Farnworth) 3848-51
Sheaves, Donna
- Commended for community work (Smallwood) 2133
Sheehan, John
- Role in B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project (Farrell-Collins) 5052
Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters Act
Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program
- Income limit (Farnworth) 3763 (Whittred) 3763
- Ministerial responsibility (Farnworth) 3130 (Gingell) 3130
- Program (MacPhail) 3549-50 (Whittred) 3549
- Transfer of responsibilities to B.C. Housing Management Commission (Abbott) 3529-30 (Farnworth) 3130-1, 3530 (Gingell) 3130
Sheppard, Robert
- Article quoted on B.C. university enrolment levels (Miller) 4193
SHL Systemhouse Ltd.
- Provincial learning network (PLNet), role in system integration (Ramsey) 5943 (Weisbeck) 5943
Showcase B.C. Promotions Inc.
- Use of government trademarks (Chong) 3248
Shuswap area
- Forest industry in area (Abbott) 5339
- Representation on regional health board (Abbott) 3325-8 (MacPhail) 3325-8
Shuswap Junior Secondary School, Salmon Arm, B.C.
- Building renovation (Abbott) 6224 (Ramsey) 6224
Sicamous, B.C.
- Consultation with provincial government (Abbott) 3034
- Downtown revitalization (Abbott) 3843
- Lakemount Estates development, homeowner grant issue (Abbott) 3921-2 (Farnworth) 3922
- Main Street resurfacing (Abbott) 5321 (Boone) 5321
- Railway bridge, tax revenue (Abbott) 3885
- Railway taxation revenue and municipal grant (Abbott) 2999-3000 (Farnworth) 2999
- Water systems authority (Abbott) 3661
Sidney, B.C.
Siemens Electric Ltd.
- Commuter rail service trial offer (MacPhail) 5174 (Symons) 5174
Sierra Legal Defense Fund
- Position on B.C. Hydro activities (Miller) 4901
- Study of stream damage (Nebbeling) 5453-4 (Zirnhelt) 5453-4
Sierra-Yoyo-Desan road
Signs and signage
- Signs on highways for services and attractions
- consultation of government with tourism organizations (Chong) 4118, 4137 (Pullinger) 4118, 4133-5, 4137-8 (Reitsma) 4133
- cost to businesses (Barisoff) 5370-1 (Boone) 4329, 5357-9, 5370-3, 5397, 5427-9 (Chong) 5427-9 (Evans) 5374-5 (Neufeld) 5357-9 (Reitsma) 5371-5 (Weisgerber) 4329 (Wilson, G.) 5397
- fee for businesses, exemptions (Thorpe) 4118
- fee for businesses, impact (Reitsma) 4142
- government policy (Chong) 4136 (Reitsma) 4132-3
- government policy, businesses' concerns (Barisoff) 4138
- government policy, reaction of accommodation owners (Reitsma) 4142, 4168-9
- ministerial responsibility (Chong) 4136-7
- signage (Barisoff) 5370-1 (Boone) 5357-9, 5370-3 (Evans) 5374-5 (Neufeld) 5357-9 (Reitsma) 5372-5
- study in 1994, recommendations (Chong) 4136
- wine tour signs in Okanagan, billing issue (Evans) 4070 (Thorpe) 4070
Sihota, Moe (Esquimalt-Metchosin)
- Air quality, clean air standards 4993-4
- Association of Former M.L.A.s of British Columbia Act, debate 6583
- Automobile insurance, current system, need for changes 2483
- Ballard Power Systems Inc., hydrogen fuel cell technology work 2323, 2629-30, 4994
- The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company Act, 1997, debate 4417
- Biotechnology industry in B.C. 2772
- B.C., northern B.C., economic development 2482
- Budget debate 2242, 2380-2
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2595-8
- Business
- advertising on violent television programs 2382
- public-private partnerships 4096
- Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, role in reduction of television violence 2381-2
- Capital Region Water Supply and Sooke Hills Protection Act, debate 3188-9
- Capital regional district
- parkland 3189
- water supply 3189
- water supply commission, membership 3189
- Central Guaranty Trust Co., transfer of business to Toronto-Dominion Bank 4417
- Children, behaviour and impact of television 2380-2
- Commended for work as Education minister (Cashore) 3156
- Comments on Hon. Paul Ramsey's performance as Education minister (Farrell-Collins) 2293
- Drugs
- federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2772-4
- reference-based pricing
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4096, 4379-80
- Environment, environmental protection, industry regulation 2629-30
- Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997
- debate 5740-2
- "spouse, replacement with term "domestic partner" 5741
- Forest industry, protection of resource, NDP government action 4908
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 4908
- Fuel
- alternative motor fuels, environmental benefits 4993-4
- hydrogen fuel cell technology, commercial application 2629-30, 4993-4
- Gambling
- Kevin Krueger's position 2481
- policy changes by NDP government 4380
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2812-3
- Hayward, Steve, work on establishing unrelated bone marrow donor registry 4030
- Health care
- spending, Liberal Party position 3781
- system
- Health ministry
- estimates debate 3575, 3781-2
- estimates debate, opposition's role in process 3781-2
- Industry Training and Apprenticeship Act, debate 6392-3
- Insurance Corporation of B.C. claims, deductibility and double-recovery issues 2483
- Liberal Party
- actions taken to raise women's issues during House debate 2813
- campaign contributions
- contributions from media 2597-8
- contributions from pharmaceutical industry 2772-3
- performance as opposition 2481-2
- research department 2597-8
- role of women caucus members 2813
- Martin, Keith, status as practising physician and Member of Parliament 3675
- MLAs
- Montreal Trust Co., transfer of business to The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Co. 4417
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government, Liberal Party campaign statements 2596
- NDP government, consultations with public and others 3188-9
- Patent Act Amendment Act, 1992 (federal)
- Liberal Party position 2773-4
- political nature of issue 2772
- Perry, David, commended for work on Victoria area water supply 3189
- Politicians, public perception 2597
- Position while in opposition on appointment of acting conflict-of-interest commissioner (Weisgerber) 4746
- Quoted
- debate on Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Clark, C.) 4769
- gambling in B.C. (Krueger) 4272
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Coleman) 4755
- Research and development, activity 2322-3
- Resources, sustainability of natural resources 2483
- Role in regional development policy-making (de Jong) 2363
- Science and technology
- Canadian space program, current and future activities 6385-6
- role of high-tech industries in B.C. economy 2323
- Sexual orientation, equal rights for homosexuals, party positions 5741
- Skills training
- opportunities for young people 6392-3
- training for displaced workers 6393
- TD Trust Company Act, 1997, debate 4417, 5870
- Throne speech debate 2480-3
- Transplantation of bone marrow, national registry of unrelated donors 4029-30
- Victoria, municipal grant reduction and administrative efficiencies 2596
- Violence, television violence 2380-2, 5219-21
- Weather, global warming 6386
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2809, 2812-3
- free-standing ministry, Liberal Party position 2812-3
Silviculture
Simon Cunningham Elementary School, Surrey, B.C.
- Construction of new school (Ramsey) 6144-5
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
- Harassment policy (Masi) 5947 (Ramsey) 5947
- Sexual harassment allegations case (Bowbrick) 4419 (Dalton) 4418
Simonis, Guy
- Availability to answer questions during estimates debate (Hansen) 4699 (Krueger) 4699-700 (Miller) 4699
Simpson, Bernie
- Business practices (Neufeld) 3576
Sinixt Indian band
- Land claim, status (Barisoff) 3482 (Cashore) 3482
Sir James Douglas School, Victoria, B.C.
- Replacement (Brewin) 2373
Sir William Macdonald Elementary School, Vancouver, B.C.
- Concerns (MacPhail) 2118-9
- Prostitution in area, bubble zone proposal (Dosanjh) 2798 (Plant) 2798
Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, Vancouver, B.C.
- Capital funding project, assessment and planning (Anderson) 6175 (Ramsey) 6175
Skeena Cellulose Inc.
- See Repap British Columbia Inc.
Skeena constituency
- Issues and concerns (Giesbrecht) 2280
Skeena Watershed Committee
- Operations (Evans) 4077 (van Dongen) 4077
Skeleem Village treatment centre, Cobble Hill, B.C.
- Children in government care as patients (Coell) 6009 (MacPhail) 6009 (Priddy) 6109
- Conditions, Health ministry handling of issue (Hawkins) 6008-9, 6108 (MacPhail) 6008-9, 6108-9 (Plant) 6109
- Government funding (Hawkins) 6108
Skelly, Ray
- Quoted on destaffing of coastal lighthouses (Janssen) 2317
Ski industry
- Injury waivers (Dosanjh) 2944 (Hansen) 2944-5
- Ski-lift inspections, concerns (Waddell) 3708-9
- Stumpage rate for tree harvesting (Wilson, J.) 5188-9 (Zirnhelt) 5189
Skills Development and Fair Wage Act
Skills training
- See also Apprenticeship; Trades
- Business-government partnership training programs (Masi) 5900-1 (Ramsey) 5900-1
- Federal-provincial partnership agreement (Masi) 5875 (Ramsey) 5875
- Funding and staffing levels (Masi) 5899 (Ramsey) 5899, 5978 (Sanders) 5978
- Industry training or apprenticeship programs, assignment of costs (Cashore) 6396 (Ramsey) 6255 (Reid) 6396
- "Laddering" of skills towards further education (Cashore) 6394
- Opportunities for young people (Sihota) 6392-3
- Programs
- enrolment levels (Reid) 4241-2
- job-related practical and applied skills (Brewin) 3273-5 (Masi) 3274
- programs in schools (Calendino) 2332
- quick response to industry's needs (Reid) 6391
- training in high-tech applications (Miller) 4043, 4231-2
- youth employment (Masi) 2129
- Retraining for displaced or job-threatened workers (Ramsey) 5872
- Skills development in schools (Masi) 6256
- Technical and trades training for young people (Bowbrick) 2320-2 (Penner) 2321
- Training consultants, qualifications and training (Masi) 5874, 5881-3 (Ramsey) 5874-5, 5881-3
- Training for displaced workers (Cashore) 6394 (Reid) 6394 (Sihota) 6393
- Upgrading for technological change (Hansen) 2365-6, 2368
- Vocational agriculture programs (Anderson) 5887 (Ramsey) 5887
- Welfare to Work program See name of program
- Workplace-based training
- metal-fabricator case cited (Ramsey) 5880
- performance measurement, results (Ramsey) 5873
- training (Masi) 5879-80 (Ramsey) 5879-80 (Streifel) 2498
- Youth Works program See name of program
Skoal Cherry Long Cut
- See Smokeless tobacco and snuff, flavoured tobacco under Tobacco
SkyTrain
Slasser, Janet
- Quoted on economy (Miller) 2559
Slesse Park
- Mudslide and flooding in area (van Dongen) 5958
Sloan, William
- Report quoted on fish resource (Clark, G.) 2585
Slocan Forest Products Ltd.
- Merger proposal (Neufeld) 5497 (Zirnhelt) 5497
Small business
Small business forest enterprise program
- 1995-96 revenue forecasts, projections vs. actuals (Gingell) 4711-2 (Petter) 4711-2
- Bidding system (Nebbeling) 5260, 5263-4 (Zirnhelt) 5260-1, 5263-4
- Early years of program (Nebbeling) 5261-4 (Zirnhelt) 5261-4
- Expenditures (Zirnhelt) 5037
- Extensions granted (Wilson, J.) 5188
- Fibre use, backlog inventory (Nebbeling) 5293-7, 5381-4 (Zirnhelt) 5293-4, 5296-8, 5381-4
- Harvest levels (Nebbeling) 5289 (Zirnhelt) 5289
- Improvement (Zirnhelt) 4881
- Job creation
- jobs created (Nebbeling) 5287-8
- number and types of jobs (Wilson, J.) 4954 (Zirnhelt) 4954
- Major licensees' participation (Nebbeling) 6456 (Zirnhelt) 6456-7
- Management of program, staffing (Nebbeling) 5297 (Zirnhelt) 5297
- Ministry's responsibilities re roadbuilding (Wilson, J.) 5191 (Zirnhelt) 5191
- Number of registrants (Nebbeling) 5288 (Zirnhelt) 5288-9
- Options for changes in program (Nebbeling) 5297-8 (Zirnhelt) 5297-8
- Percentage of annual allowable cut available (Zirnhelt) 4959
- Program (Nebbeling) 5260-4 (Zirnhelt) 5260-4
- Sales returned in Cariboo forest region (Wilson, J.) 5188 (Zirnhelt) 5501
- Takeback from major companies (Nebbeling) 5262-3 (Zirnhelt) 5262-4, 5292
- Temporary disqualifications of licence (Wilson, J.) 6458-9 (Zirnhelt) 6458-9
- Undercut (Wilson, J.) 5188 (Zirnhelt) 5188
- Wood allocation to program (Nebbeling) 5293 (Zirnhelt) 5293
- Wood harvested, inclusion in softwood tariff agreement (Wilson, J.) 5190-1
- Wood supply, credit system (Nebbeling) 5290-2 (Zirnhelt) 5290-2
Small Business, Tourism and Culture, Ministry of
- Estimates
- debate 4100-19, 4132-42, 4168-85, 4209-25, 4252-67, 4286-302, 4314-25, 4351-68, 4391-415
- speakers (Abbott) 4319-20, 4360-2 (Anderson) 4295-8 (Barisoff) 4138-40 (Calendino) 4293-4 (Chong) 4103-4, 4110-3, 4117-8, 4136-8, 4141, 4178-80, 4209-18, 4223-4, 4261-3, 4265-6, 4298-301, 4318, 4320-4, 4351-3, 4357-9, 4362-7, 4391-7, 4397-404, 4411-5 (Hawkins) 4301, 4314-7 (Krueger) 4286-7 (Masi) 4406-11 (Nebbeling) 4107-9 (Neufeld) 4289-90, 4294-5, 4367-8, 4403, 4406 (Pullinger) 4100-3, 4105-19, 4133-42, 4169-85, 4209-25, 4252-67, 4286-302, 4315-25, 4351-68, 4391-7, 4397-415 (Reitsma) 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 (Stephens) 4404-6 (Thorpe) 4108, 4113-5, 4117-9, 4169-72, 4175, 4354-7, 4359-60, 4398-400 (van Dongen) 4140-1, 4258-61 (Weisbeck) 4394, 4411
- Accounting system (Pullinger) 4172 (Thorpe) 4172
- Advocacy role for small business (Chong) 4322 (Pullinger) 4322
- Annual grants program (Chong) 4362-3 (Pullinger) 4362-3
- Annual report, 1995-96, tabled (Pullinger) 4630
- Arts and culture division, consultation with arts groups (Chong) 4414 (Pullinger) 4414
- Asset acquisition (Chong) 4324
- Budget and staff reductions (Chong) 4299-300 (Masi) 4410 (Pullinger) 4299, 4410
- Business plan (Chong) 4298 (Pullinger) 4169-70, 4298, 4355 (Thorpe) 4169, 4355
- Communications budget (Masi) 4410 (Pullinger) 4411
- Community grants branch, budget (Abbott) 4361-2 (Pullinger) 4361-2
- Conferences and workshops (Chong) 4357-8 (Pullinger) 4357-8
- Consultation with small business (Pullinger) 4357 (Thorpe) 4357
- Corporate policy and planning branch
- Cultural services branch
- awards book, publication (Chong) 4415 (Pullinger) 4415
- staff reduction (Chong) 4414 (Pullinger) 4414
- Expenditures for 1995-96 on highway signs (Chong) 4137 (Pullinger) 4137
- Grants and contributions budget (Chong) 4359 (Masi) 4410 (Pullinger) 4410
- Grants, number and types (Chong) 4365 (Pullinger) 4365
- Heritage branch
- In-province travel program, target of young people (Chong) 4363-4 (Pullinger) 4363-4
- Land use planning function See Corporate policy and planning branch above
- Multiculturalism, work of ministry (Anderson) 4296-8 (Pullinger) 4296-8
- Need for ministry (Pullinger) 4264 (Reitsma) 4264
- Operations budget (Chong) 4358-9 (Pullinger) 4359
- Policies to target "red tape" (Chong) 4353 (Pullinger) 4354, 4356-7 (Thorpe) 4354, 4356
- Professional services (Masi) 4410 (Pullinger) 4410
- Relationship with tourism counterparts in federal and other provincial governments (Pullinger) 4115-6 (Reitsma) 4115-6
- Reorganization and Small Business operations (Pullinger) 4298-300
- Responsibilities (Pullinger) 4263-4
- Role in special events (Chong) 4264-6 (Pullinger) 4264-5
- Sport branch, organization (Masi) 4406 (Pullinger) 4406-7
- Staff reductions (Chong) 4320 (Pullinger) 4323
- Staffing and work environment (Pullinger) 4173 (Reitsma) 4173
- Tourism ministry
- advocacy role (Chong) 4141 (Pullinger) 4141, 4259, 4262-3 (Reitsma) 4133 (van Dongen) 4259-60
- budget and staffing (Chong) 4141 (Pullinger) 4141-2
- expenditures, recording (Gingell) 2140
- goals of minister (Pullinger) 4176-7 (Reitsma) 4176
- government vehicles (Pullinger) 4175 (Reitsma) 4175
- input of tourism organizations into ministry decisions (Pullinger) 4118-9 (Thorpe) 4118-9
- memorandum of understanding with Tourism B.C. (Pullinger) 4169, 4175 (Reitsma) 4175
- offices, operations (Pullinger) 4113-5 (Thorpe) 4113-5
- offices, operations in offshore offices (Pullinger) 4119, 4183 (Reitsma) 4183 (Thorpe) 4119
- promotion of industry (Barisoff) 4139-40
- regional divisions and funding (Pullinger) 4114 (Thorpe) 4114
- relationship with tourism industry (Pullinger) 4135
- responsibility for accommodation and heritage signage (Pullinger) 4137
- training programs (Pullinger) 4138
- Transfer of responsibilities from Education, Skills and Training ministry (Masi) 5948
- Travel budget (Masi) 4410 (Pullinger) 4410
- Use of telecommunications (Pullinger) 4288 (Reitsma) 4288
- Working Opportunity Fund See name of fund
Small Claims Act
- Amendments (Bowbrick) 3941 (Dosanjh) 3938
Small claims court
- Appeals, requirement for new trial in Supreme Court (Bowbrick) 3941-2 (Dosanjh) 3938 (Plant) 5718-9
- Right of individuals to represent others in court (Gingell) 3942-3
- Role in dispute resolution (Plant) 5718-9
Smallwood, Joan K. (Surrey-Whalley)
- Armed forces, Nanoose Bay test range lease agreement with United States, notice of termination by B.C. 3635
- Crime prevention 6389-90
- Discrimination and racism, elimination 3055-6
- Education, teaching of tolerance in schools 3055-6
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4373-4
- Fisheries
- Pacific salmon fishery, protection and preservation of resource 3635
- Pacific Salmon Treaty, B.C. response to United States position on negotiation of new treaty (Motion without notice), debate 3635
- Fraser Valley transportation infrastructure, adequacy 6278
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2810-1
- Liberal Party
- B.C. Liberal Party, 1996 convention 2134-5
- federal party, handling of multilateral agreement on investment negotiations 3617
- MLAs, women MLAs 2810
- Multilateral agreement on investment
- agreement 3618
- B.C. request that government of Canada withdraw from negotiations (Motion 52), debate 3617-8
- impact on social policy and programs in Canada 3618
- NDP supporters 2134
- North American Free Trade Agreement 3618
- Policing, public support for law enforcement activities 6388-90
- Poverty, being poor in B.C. 4990
- School district 36 (Surrey), school board's position on homosexuality 3055-6
- Sexual orientation, tolerance 3055-6
- Sheaves, Donna, commended for community work 2133
- Technical University of B.C., transit service 6278
- Technical University of British Columbia Act, debate 6278-9
- Telecommunications, fibre-optics infrastructure for South Fraser region 6278
- Throne speech debate 2133-5
- Wages and salaries, family-supporting wage 4990
- Women
- employment, benefits for part-time workers 2810-11
- role of women in society, value placed on paid work done by women 2810
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2809-11
- mandate and responsibilities, advocacy for women's issues 2810-11
SMILE (B.C. seniors medication information line)
Smith, Adam
- Economic philosopher (Evans) 2419-20
Smith, Brian R.D.
- Employment arrangements (Gingell) 5889 (MacPhail) 5889
- Investigation into B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project (Farrell-Collins) 4530-1 (Petter) 4531
- Recommendations on B.C. Hydro governance (Farrell-Collins) 4934-5 (Miller) 4934-5
- Review of B.C. Hydro-Pakistan power project
Smith, Tanya
- Murder victim, case cited (Penner) 2630
Smoking
Snakes
- Venomous snakes, importation (Clark, C.) 5763 (McGregor) 5763
SNC-Lavalin Inc.
- Engineering work in B.C. (MacPhail) 5013
- Purchase of shares in Pakistan power project
- due diligence investigation (Farrell-Collins) 4979-81 (Miller) 4979-81
- equity split with B.C. Hydro (Farrell-Collins) 5043-4 (Miller) 5043-4
- hiring of former B.C. Hydro personnel (Farrell-Collins) 5050-1 (Miller) 5050-2
- options on future projects (Farrell-Collins) 4982-4 (Miller) 4982-4
- share acquisition process (Farrell-Collins) 4975-9 (Miller) 4976-9
Snowden Elementary School, Penticton, B.C.
Social Credit Party
- Government
- comments by Hon. Glen Clark (Symons) 2524
- restraint policies during 1975-91 period (Hammell) 2349
Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
- Report cited on income assistance rates and cost of living (Anderson) 4657 (Coell) 4623 (Streifel) 4623-5, 4658, 4664
- Survey of special education teachers (Sanders) 6235
Social service tax
Social Service Tax Act
Social Services, Ministry of
- Annual reports, 1994-95 and 1995-96, tabled (Streifel) 2277
- Transfer of programs and services to Children and Families ministry See Children and Families, Ministry for
- Transfer of programs and services to Human Resources ministry See Human Resources, Ministry of
Social welfare system
- Emergency social services program, operations (Anderson) 4516-7 (Streifel) 4516-7
- Financial assistance workers
- caseloads (Coell) 4486, 4491-2 (Streifel) 4421-2, 4486, 4491-2 (van Dongen) 4620-2
- job satisfaction issues (Anderson) 4487-8, 4521 (Coell) 4486, 4489-91, 4518-9 (Streifel) 4486, 4488-91, 4519, 4521
- recruitment and training (Anderson) 4486-7, 4516 (Coell) 4486, 4489-90 (McKinnon) 4488-9 (Neufeld) 4488 (Streifel) 4486-90, 4516, 4691
- role and responsibilities (Coell) 4490, 4610 (Streifel) 4490, 4610
- Hardship benefits for people ineligible for income assistance (Anderson) 4691-2 (Coell) 4571-3, 4665 (Hammell) 4458 (Stephens) 4458 (Streifel) 4571-3, 4665, 4691-2
- Income assistance See also B.C. Benefits program
- assistance for 16- to 19-year-olds (Priddy) 3341
- eligibility categories (Coell) 6164 (Streifel) 6164
- rates (McKinnon) 4990
- reduced payment levels for thalidomide victim receiving settlement compensation (Gingell) 4526 (Streifel) 4526
- Income assistance, administration and operations
- appeals system (Anderson) 4576-80 (Coell) 4576, 4578-81 (Hammell) 4458 (Stephens) 4458 (Streifel) 4576-80
- budget (Coell) 4492 (Streifel) 4492
- caseload-reduction strategies (Streifel) 4483, 4518, 4574, 5998
- client advocates, role (Anderson) 4612 (Streifel) 4612
- federal-provincial pilot program for single parents (Anderson) 4519-20 (Streifel) 4519-20
- forecasting caseload levels, model (Coell) 4496-7 (Streifel) 4496-7
- fraud investigations and convictions (Coell) 4663-4 (Streifel) 4663-4
- fraud prevention and early detection measures (Coell) 4500, 4513-4, 5998 (Streifel) 4483, 4500, 4513-4, 4662
- funding from federal and provincial governments (Bowbrick) 2606 (Neufeld) 4494-5 (Streifel) 4494-5, 4624
- recovery of overpayments and money owed to government (Coell) 4498-9, 4513, 4661-3 (Stephens) 4452 (Streifel) 4498-9, 4513, 4661-3
- tracking of former clients and ineligible applicants (Anderson) 4493 (Coell) 4519, 4572 (Streifel) 4493, 4519, 4572-3
- tracking service quality and client complaints (Coell) 4497-8 (Streifel) 4497-8
- Income assistance, applicants
- allowable-asset levels (Anderson) 4584 (Streifel) 4584
- criminal-records check (Plant) 4666-7 (Streifel) 4666-7
- eligibility of applicants with outstanding arrest warrants (Anderson) 4669, 4690 (Plant) 4666-8 (Streifel) 4666-9, 4690
- identification requirements (Anderson) 4584 (Coell) 4694 (Streifel) 4584, 4694
- requirement to use other sources of income before applying (Coell) 4660-2 (Streifel) 4660-2
- three-month residency requirement (Coell) 4492-3, 4496 (Neufeld) 4493-5 (Streifel) 4492-6
- three-month residency requirement, removal of requirement (Weisgerber) 2502
- Income assistance, benefits and services
- banking services See Banking industry
- child care subsidies See Child care under Children
- crisis grant program (Coell) 4665 (Streifel) 4665
- funding for school fees and camp fees (Coell) 4665-6 (Streifel) 4665
- guaranteed annual income (Wilson, G.) 5651
- housing benefits See Housing
- literacy services (Coell) 4610 (Streifel) 4610
- medical, dental and optical benefits (Anderson) 4586 (Coell) 4692-3 (Hammell) 4458 (Streifel) 4586, 4692-3
- payment levels and cost of living (Anderson) 4458, 4657-8 (Coell) 4623-5 (Streifel) 4515-6, 4623-5, 4652, 4654, 4658, 4660, 5998-9
- payment levels and earnings exemption (Anderson) 4495, 4516, 4586, 4659 (Coell) 4573-4, 4651, 4694-5 (Streifel) 4573-4, 4586, 4651, 4659, 4694-6
- payment levels for people receiving other forms of compensation (Coell) 4581
- reclassification of "unemployable" category (Anderson) 4458-9 (Hammell) 4459
- services for blind and hearing-impaired clients (Anderson) 4612 (Coell) 4610 (Streifel) 4610
- services in languages other than English (Coell) 4609-10 (Streifel) 4609-10, 4691
- shelter allowance (Anderson) 4615, 4658 (Coell) 4625 (Streifel) 4615, 4617, 4625, 4658 (Thorpe) 4617
- special allowances (Coell) 4664-5 (Streifel) 4664-5
- transition-to-work benefits for current and former clients (Streifel) 4484
- Income assistance, disability benefits
- aids for living, needs assessment and service delivery (Coell) 4608-9 (Streifel) 4608-9
- eligibility, changes (Anderson) 2443
- episodic illness provisions (Streifel) 4583-4
- letter from advocate for special needs case cited and quoted (Anderson) 4577-8
- medical transportation program (Coell) 4666 (Streifel) 4666
- payment levels and cost of living (Coell) 5998
- payment levels for people with AIDS and HIV infection (Coell) 4581 (Streifel) 4581
- reclassification of "unemployable" category (Anderson) 4584-6, 4656-7 (Coell) 4651-5, 4659-60 (McKinnon) 4619 (Streifel) 4584-6, 4618-9, 4651-7, 4660 (Thorpe) 4654
- Income assistance, recipients
- electronic deposits of funds (Anderson) 4584 (Coell) 4581-3 (Streifel) 4582-4
- number of cases due to relationship breakdown (Bowbrick) 5646
- number of families with dependent children (Coell) 4519 (Streifel) 4519
- number of recipients from out-of-province (Anderson) 4493 (Coell) 4492-3 (Neufeld) 4493-4 (Streifel) 4493-4
- System
- changes, impact on income assistance process (Wilson, G.) 2165-6
- Liberal Party position (Streifel) 2497, 6032, 6407-8
- Welfare offices See Regional offices under Human Resources, Ministry of
- Welfare-to-work initiatives (Streifel) 2359
Social workers
- Absence due to illness, numbers (Coell) 6538 (Priddy) 6538
- Caseloads
- Child protection workers See Children
- Field equipment upgrade (McKinnon) 6537 (Priddy) 6537
- Financial assistance workers See Social welfare system
- Integrated case management (Coell) 6438 (Priddy) 6438
- Occupational health and safety (McKinnon) 6536-7 (Priddy) 6536-7
- Responsibilities (Stephens) 3962
- Role of social workers under former Social Services ministry (Anderson) 4521 (Streifel) 4521
- Staffing and turnover (McKinnon) 6537 (Priddy) 6537
- Supervision and performance assessment (McKinnon) 6470 (Priddy) 6470
- Training
- aboriginal social worker training strategy (Priddy) 6290, 6471
- concentrated Bachelor of Social Work program (Coell) 6534-5 (Priddy) 6534-5
- training facilities and ongoing training (Coell) 6535 (Priddy) 6535
Socialism
- Socialist fiscal policies (Neufeld) 2258
Societies
- Health care and hospital societies See Health care
- Housing societies, operating agreements (Coleman) 3514-5 (MacPhail) 3514-5
Society
- Compassion for the less fortunate in society (Anderson) 2443
- Equality for all members of society (Neufeld) 5647 (Wilson, G.) 5651-2, 5743
- Malaise in B.C. society (Anderson) 2260-2
- Responsibility for safety of children (Priddy) 2453
- Social costs of gambling and use of alcohol and tobacco (Sanders) 2981
- Social injustice and inequality, elimination (Bowbrick) 4418-9 (Dalton) 4418-9
Society for Children and Youth of British Columbia
- Child-Friendly Housing book (Anderson) 3801
Society of British Columbia Conservation Officers
- Letter quoted on reduction in conservation officer positions (Clark, C.) 5541
Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents
- Proposal for amendments to Adoption Act (Priddy) 6295
Software Productivity Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
- Report quoted on computer technology expertise in B.C. (Reid) 4252
Solicitor General (federal)
- Discussions re B.C. police complaints process (Dosanjh) 5685, 5829 (Plant) 5686, 5829
Somers, Julian
Soo Coalition
- Letter re logging in Soo timber supply area quoted (Nebbeling) 2377
Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Park
Sorochan, Don
- Appointment as special prosecutor (Dosanjh) 2152 (Plant) 2152
Sorrento Elementary School, Sorrento, B.C.
- Sewage disposal and storm drainage upgrade (Abbott) 6225 (Ramsey) 6225
Sorrento Wellness Council
South Cowichan Restructure Study Committee
- Letter to Municipal Affairs ministry quoted on municipal grants (Abbott) 2979, 2997
South Fraser Valley regional health board
South Moresby Implementation Account Act
South Okanagan-Similkameen regional health board
"Southern Freeway Corridor Study"
Spahats Creek Park
- Status of park (Krueger) 5960-1
Spallumcheen, B.C.
- Consultation with provincial government re policing grants (Abbott) 3033
SPARC
- See Social Planning and Research Council
Speaker and Deputy Speaker
- Auditor general
- "Enhancing Accountability for Performance in the British Columbia Public Sector," tabled 6590
- office, audit for year ended March 31, 1997, tabled 5811
- report No. 1, 1997-98, "Earthquake Preparedness" and summary tabled 6590
- report No. 2, 1997-98, "Report on the 1996-97 Public Accounts," tabled 6590
- report No. 3, 1997-98, "A Review of Governance and Accountability in the Regionalization of Health Services," tabled 6590
- report No. 7 tabled 3128
- report No. 8 tabled 3128
- report No. 9 tabled 3958
- report No. 10, 1996-97 compliance audits, tabled 5811
- report No. 11, "Follow-up of Performance Audits Issued November 1993 to December 1995," tabled 6563
- Brewin, Gretchen, election as Speaker (Clerk) 6589
- "B.C. Legislative Assembly: An Introduction" pamphlet introduced 3729
- B.C. Legislative Library, 1996 annual report tabled 4526
- Chief electoral officer, report re May 28, 1996, general election tabled 6590
- Child, youth and family advocate, 1996 annual report tabled 3319
- Elections B.C., 1995-96 annual report tabled 6590
- Information and privacy commissioner, 1996-97 annual report tabled 6563
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997, legal advice on out-of-order status of bill 2416
- Legislative Assembly Management Committee, 1996-97 annual report tabled 2997
- Legislature sittings, special sitting on occasion of buildings' centenary 6581
- MacMinn, George A., Parliamentary Practice in B.C., gender-neutral language 2252
- Ombudsman
- 1996 annual report tabled 3279
- public report No. 36, "Getting There: A Review of the Implementation of the Report of the Gove Inquiry into Child Protection," tabled 6590
- special report No. 19, "An Investigation into the Instability and Recession of Willemar Bluffs," tabled 4330
- Parliament Buildings, celebration of 100th anniversary 6581
Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Rulings and statements
- Bills
- debate, relevancy requirement 5558, 5562-3
- reference in bill to legislative revision not yet in effect 2417
- Bills, committee stage
- recommitting of bill to take another vote 3134
- Bills, first reading
- motion on first reading not amendable 2151
- pro forma nature 4588
- Bills, second reading
- confine remarks to subject of legislation 6112, 6114
- keeping to principle of bill 5961
- keeping to topic during supply bill debates 4838
- miscellaneous statutes bills, debate on principle to be during committee stage 5678
- Deputy Speaker to take chair to deal with privilege matter involving Hon. Jan Pullinger 3731
- Language
- "keep your mouth shut" 2516
- language other than English, guidelines for use 2392
- offensive language 2102-3
- unparliamentary language 2180
- unparliamentary language cannot be quoted from other sources 2494
- Members
- cannot draw attention to a member's absence from House 2263
- heckling 2131, 2135
- must be in their seat to speak 2309, 2528
- naming of sitting MLAs not permitted 2499
- references to by Christian names not in order 2179
- references to members by name not permitted 2354, 5949
- responding to heckling 2560
- use of personal pronouns, "you" 2519
- withdrawal of member from House ordered 2103
- yelling 2420
- Motions
- conferring an obligation on the Crown 3613
- No requirement for minister to answer questions 4707
- Oral questions
- question taken on notice cannot be responded to 5810
- Petitions
- not necessary to read entire petition into record 3381
- Plant, Geoff, withdrawal from debate on Tobacco Damages Recovery Act 6110
- Points of order
- veracity of remarks not subject for point of order 2488
- Private members' bills
- Friday reserved for debate 2634
- Private members' statements
- content 6387-8
- length 5622
- partisan issues, acceptability for discussion 2633
- partisan remarks 4988
- Privilege
- dispute of facts between members does not establish a prima facie case of privilege 3480
- matter must be raised at earliest opportunity 2314
- no heckling during allegations of breach of privilege 3443
- procedure 2091-2, 2314
- Question period
- questions must deal with minister's administrative responsibility 3708
- Quorum
- bells rung at discretion of the Chair 4842, 4845
- Quotations
- quotations allowed during debate 2494
- Rules of the House
- Speaker
- prerogative to recognize next speaker 6155
- Speaker's rulings
- cannot adjourn the House for Speaker to make a ruling 3232
- matter dealt with by Speaker's decision ought not to be raised at a later date 2314
- out-of-order rulings cited (Farrell-Collins) 3026-7
- rulings of Chair not subject to appeal or debate 4330-1, 4848
- rulings on privilege matters See Privilege
- Standing order 35, adjournment on matter of urgent public importance
- matter does not qualify if it is an ongoing matter or if normal parliamentary opportunity is available to debate it 3253
- recent occurrence in an ongoing situation does not create matter of urgency 6286
Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act
Special Committee of Selection
- First report tabled (MacPhail), adopted 2364
Special Committee to Review Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
- Appointment and powers (MacPhail) 6514-5
Special Committee to Select a Police Complaints Commissioner
- Appointment and powers (MacPhail) 6515
Special warrants
- See Budget; Supply Act (No. 1), 1997; Supply Act (No. 2), 1997
Speech disorders
- Speech therapy services, withdrawal during school holidays (Gingell) 6009
Speech from the Throne
2085-8
- Moved (Kwan) 2093-5; seconded (Goodacre) 2095-7; amdt. (Jarvis) 2476, negatived 2491; subamdt. (Wilson, J.) 2489, negatived 2491; approved 2561
- Divisions: subamdt. negatived 2491; amdt. negatived 2491; motion approved 2561
- Throne speech debate (Address in Reply)
- debate 2093-8, 2113-37, 2277-89, 2295-314, 2471-91, 2493-504, 2508-33, 2540-61
- speakers (Anderson) 2498-500 (Barisoff) 2311-4 (Boone) 2547-9 (Campbell) 2097-8, 2113-7 (Chong) 2500-1 (Clark, C.) 2135-7 (Dalton) 2295-8 (de Jong) 2561 (Dosanjh) 2280-3 (Doyle) 2473-4 (Farnworth) 2287-9 (Farrell-Collins) 2124-8 (Giesbrecht) 2277-80 (Gillespie) 2471-3 (Gingell) 2298-300 (Goodacre) 2095-7 (Janssen) 2308-10 (Jarvis) 2474-8 (Krueger) 2551-5 (Kwan) 2093-5 (Lali) 2515-20 (McGregor) 2483-7 (MacPhail) 2117-20 (Masi) 2128-30 (Miller) 2557-61 (Nebbeling) 2283-4, 2489-90 (Nettleton) 2285-7 (Neufeld) 2540-3 (Orcherton) 2555-7 (Penner) 2512-5 (Plant) 2478-80 (Pullinger) 2527-30 (Randall) 2493-6 (Reid) 2508-12 (Reitsma) 2549-50 (Robertson) 2303-5 (Sawicki) 2301 (Sihota) 2480-3 (Smallwood) 2133-5 (Stephens) 2530-1 (Streifel) 2496-8 (Symons) 2523-7 (Thorpe) 2310-1 (van Dongen) 2305-8 (Waddell) 2130-3 (Walsh) 2520-1 (Weisbeck) 2521-3 (Weisgerber) 2501-4 (Wilson, G.) 2120-4 (Wilson, J.) 2487-9
- 1996 throne speech, community policing commitment (Plant) 2789-93
- Content (Plant) 2157-8 (Weisbeck) 2521 (Wilson, J.) 2487-8
- Nature of throne speech (Symons) 2523
- Omissions from throne speech (Krueger) 2551-2 (Neufeld) 2540 (Penner) 2512-3 (Weisgerber) 2501-2
- Special commemorative speech 6581-2
Sport B.C.
- Board selection and staff (Masi) 4408 (Pullinger) 4408
- Role and funding (Masi) 4407 (Pullinger) 4407
Sport fishing
Sports
- Funding
- Gender equity in minor sports (Masi) 4409 (Pullinger) 4409
- Harassment policy and initiatives (Masi) 4409-10 (Pullinger) 4409-10
- In-service travel program in secondary schools See Small Business, Tourism and Culture, Ministry of
- Multisport games See also particular games, e.g. North American Indigenous Games
- multisport games in B.C. (Masi) 4407
- Regional sport delivery program (Pullinger) 4102
- Teams, formation procedure (Chong) 4413 (Pullinger) 4413
- Use of term "elite athlete" (Masi) 4408 (Pullinger) 4408
Spotted owls
Squamish, B.C.
- Jobs for future (Nebbeling) 2284
- Seniors housing project, flood risk, liability issue (Coleman) 3710-1 (Farnworth) 3711
- Watershed committee, funding needs (Nebbeling) 3061
Squamish General Hospital, Squamish, B.C.
Squamish nation
- Gambling proposal, community consultation (Dalton) 2296
- Role in Lions Gate Bridge consultation process (Boone) 5268 (Dalton) 5268
Squamish River
- Estuary development, impact on fish stocks (Miller) 4875 (Nebbeling) 4875-6
Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- Reprinting in gender-neutral language (MacPhail) 2252
- Revision, referral to select standing committee (Weisgerber) 2503-4
- Standing order 2, sittings
- optional Wednesday sittings (Clark, G.) 6547-8
- quoted on ordinary meeting time (Dalton) 4560
- Standing order 9, Mr. Speaker's duties
- order and decorum to be maintained (Speaker) 3565-6
- Speaker's decision not subject to appeal (Chair) 5043 (Farrell-Collins) 5043 (MacPhail) 4234 (Speaker) 4330
- Standing order 25A, private members' statements
- Standing order 35, adjournment to discuss matter of urgent public importance
- B.C.'s credit rating downgrade, moved (Gingell) 3231-2; debate (MacPhail) 3232; ruling 3252-3
- fisheries dispute blockades and protest activities, moved (Wilson, G.) 6275; ruling 6286
- Standing order 40, disrespectful or offensive language forbidden, cited (Speaker) 2494
- Standing order 45A, time limit on speeches (Speaker) 2561
- Standing order 120, recording of debates, cited (Speaker) 2392
Stanyer, Roger
- Comments on community involvement in Forest Renewal B.C. (Nebbeling) 5060
- Quoted re forest job creation (Nebbeling) 2284
Staples, Lori
- Quoted re highway declassification (Abbott) 3888
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.)
- Article on Minnesota gambling expansion (Krueger) 2948, 4375
Stawamus Chief Park
Stay in School program
Step by Step Recovery House for Women, Surrey, B.C.
- Operator's qualifications (Plant) 6506
STEP program
- See Student tenant employment program under British Columbia Housing Management Commission
Stephens, Mary Lynn (Langley)
- An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (federal), provisions on disclosure of sexual assault counselling records 4454
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates debate 4015-6
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 3792-3
- Agriculture, mushroom industry, composting issue 3792-3, 4016
- AIDS
- HIV/AIDS programs and services for women 3581-2
- provincial strategy 3646
- provincial strategy, role of Women's Equality ministry 4461
- Alcohol, mandatory warning/advisory labelling of products 3664-5
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2877-82, 2889-90, 2941-3
- Automobiles
- insurance, no-fault insurance
- photo radar use in speed monitoring, effectiveness 2532
- Birds, spotted owls recovery team 5457
- Blood supply system, safety of system 3582
- B.C. Arts Council, operations 4405
- B.C. Association of Counsellors of Abusive Men, work of association 2850
- BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, provisions on reduced benefits and repayment 4457-8
- B.C. Benefits program, family bonus program 4458
- B.C. Ground Water Association, concerns re water information system 5571-2
- B.C. Heritage Trust, funding reductions 4405
- B.C. Housing Management Commission, policy on subsidized-housing priority for women leaving abusive relationships 2659
- B.C., northern B.C.
- health care services 3576
- issues and concerns 2531-2
- B.C.-Yukon Society of Transition Houses, mandate and funding 4448
- Budget
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2868-70
- Business climate in B.C. 2356
- Cancer
- breast cancer programs and services 3580-1
- lung cancer among women 3578-9
- Children
- child care services in Kamloops area 4429
- children in government care, suitability of placement 3962
- complaints investigated, policy 3962
- custody and access issues, ministerial responsibility 4459
- legislation, use of phrase "child's best interests" 3962
- speech and language pathology services 5983
- Children and Families ministry
- contract reform project, contracts with outside service providers 4447
- mandate and role 3664
- program and service transfers from Women's Equality ministry 2779
- Children Who Witness Abuse program, ministerial responsibility 2669
- Children's Commission Act, debate 3961-3
- Cities, downtown revitalization 2356
- College of Midwives, role 3583-4
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4770-1
- selection of new commissioner 4770-1
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2355
- Crime and criminals
- sex crimes
- right to privacy, disclosure of counselling records during criminal trials 4484
- sexual assault, programs and services 2661, 2669
- stalking and criminal harassment 2671, 4454-5
- Culture
- funding for local arts councils 4404
- government policy, time lines 4405-6
- NDP government commitment to arts and culture 4404-5
- support for young talent 4406
- Debt, public debt during NDP administration 2354-5
- Disease, heart disease among women 3578-9
- Domestic Violence Prevention Act, debate 2652
- Eating disorders
- education initiatives 3574
- ministerial responsibility 4461
- Economy, impact of NDP government's policies and legislation 2531-2
- Education
- curriculum, integrated resource packages, costs of development and implementation 5982
- graduation requirements 5982-3
- protection of B.C. system 2355
- system, effectiveness 2532
- Education, Skills and Training ministry
- estimates debate 5980-3
- responsibilities shared with Children and Families ministry 5983
- Employment and unemployment
- job loss during NDP administration 2531
- jobs for B.C. workers 2355
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5570-2, 5597-9
- Equality Day, celebration 2589
- Families
- family caregivers, unpaid care provided by women 3577
- family law, mediation 2881-2
- family maintenance
- Family court, proposal 2881
- Family maintenance enforcement program 2881-2
- enrolment process 2889
- payments, links with custody and access 2941-2
- Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act
- amendment re municipal bylaws for farmland use 4016
- proclamation 4015
- Fetal alcohol syndrome 3664-5
- Firearms registration 2879
- Fisheries Renewal B.C., establishment 2355
- Forest industry
- role of Forests and Environment, Lands and Parks ministries in timber harvesting 5456
- timber harvest, distribution around province, mitigation for job loss in lower mainland 5459
- Vancouver forest region, issues 5455-6, 5458-9
- Forest Practices Code
- impact on industry 2356
- impact on timeliness of licence application processing 5456
- regional templates 5457
- Forest Renewal B.C. funds used for forest-related purposes, petition tabled 2363-4
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5455-60
- Fraser Valley
- health care funding for South Fraser Valley 3383-4, 3665
- water levels in aquifers 5570
- water quality 5570-1
- Gakhal family
- anniversary of murder 2292
- murder case 2878, 2881
- recommendations of coroner's jury 2818, 4451, 4457
- report on RCMP handling of Vernon murder case 4450-1
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling, link with family violence 2712, 2799
- casinos, number in B.C. 2355
- expansion in B.C., consultation with interest groups 2818
- Government
- bureaucracy and red tape, impact on business 2356
- provincial-municipal relations, protocol agreement re consultation 2869
- regulations, consistency of administration 2532
- Greater Vancouver regional district
- livable region strategic plan 5276
- Transport 2021 program 5276
- Guaranteed Available Income for Need Act, provisions on income assistance repayment 4452
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2817-8
- Health care
- accountability framework, performance measures 3383
- community care, integration of services 3578
- continuing and long-term care, role of private institutions 3385-6
- protection of B.C. system 2355
- regional health boards and community health councils
- Indian representation 3648
- staff management skills 3384-5
- regionalization, administrative cost savings 3384
- reproductive care 3649, 3663-4
- services
- continuity of care for discharged hospital patients 3577
- regional equitability 3385
- system during NDP administration 2532
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3382-6, 3573-4, 3576-85, 3646-50, 3663-5
- Hepatitis C, incidence 3582
- Heritage, federal funding, B.C. share 4405
- Highway 1
- 200th Street overpass 5274-5
- 216th Street overpass 5275
- Highway 1A, 216th Street overpass 5275
- Home care support services 3577-8
- Hospitals
- acute-care beds, availability 3577
- culturally sensitive services 3648
- hospital foundations, future 3383
- maternity and perinatal services 3663-4
- revenues, disposition 3383
- Housing
- emergency housing and shelters for women leaving violent relationships 2658-62, 2804-5, 4445-9, 4452-4
- social housing, funding 4461-2
- supported housing for people with mental illnesses 3571
- Indians
- AIDS treatment programs and services 3646
- health care
- services on reserves, responsibility 3646-8
- travel expense program 3648
- Insurance Corporation of B.C., claims, awards to women 2818, 4445
- Justice system, family justice centres, services 2942
- Kamloops child care centre, future 4429
- Kidney disease, renal dialysis services 3385
- Kwan, Jenny, position on gambling expansion while on Vancouver city council 2818
- Land use
- land set aside for spotted owl habitat 5457
- protected-areas strategy, log-around strategy 5457
- Langley
- 16th Avenue, four-laning 5275
- arts council, work 4404
- Cottonwood corridor to Maple Ridge 5275
- municipal grant reduction 2869-70
- railway crossings, safety concerns 5275
- transportation issues 5274-7
- urbanization and right-to-farm issue 3792-3
- Langley Memorial Hospital, representation on regional health board 3382-3
- Legislature, estimates debates, use of sign-language interpreters 2658, 2666
- Liberal Party
- northern B.C. visit 2531
- role of women caucus members 2817
- Maple detox centre, status 3665
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4770-1
- Mental health services
- case management responsibility 3573-4
- services for women 3574
- Midwifery program and services 3583-4
- Mining industry, issues 2354
- Money's Mushrooms Ltd., court case and Agriculture ministry involvement 4015-6
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 2869
- National Crime Prevention Centre, B.C. participation 2942
- NDP government
- financial management 2354, 2870
- performance 2355-6
- policies, reviews to assess impacts on women 2658
- provincial debt and job opportunities for women 2818
- Nurses, rural nursing 3664
- Oil and gas industry
- wastewater disposal wells 5599
- workers' overtime variance 2532
- Peace River area, political representation 3576
- Pharmacare program, policies on use of risperidone and olanzapine 3571
- Physicians, supply and recruitment for rural areas 3663-4
- Police and policing
- information-sharing on violent offenders 2879
- investigation procedures in domestic violence cases 2878
- Politicians, ethical conduct of elected officials, public expectations 4771
- Poverty, children living in poverty 2656
- Prevention of Violence Against Women Week, purpose 2848
- Prostitutes Empowerment, Education and Recovery Society of Victoria, services project 4460
- Prostitution, government action 4460-1
- Provincial Child Care Advisory Council, ministerial responsibility 2779
- Public health
- reporting of flesh-eating disease cases 3573
- standards, accountability issue 3649-50
- Roundtable on Ethics and Conflict of Interest 4771
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, report on investigative procedures in Gakhal and Velisek murder cases 4450
- A Safer Future for B.C. Women program 4460
- Saltspring Island Transition House
- Schizophrenia, medications used for treatment 3573
- School district 35 (Langley)
- revenue-generating programs 5982
- spending decisions and efficiencies 5980-1
- School districts, amalgamation and sharing of services between non-amalgamated districts 5981
- Schools, capital funding projects, hiring of project managers 5983
- Science and technology, reproductive and genetic technologies, legislation 3584-5
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4770-1
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates debate 4404-6
- Social welfare system
- hardship benefits for people ineligible for income assistance 4458
- income assistance, administration and operations 4452, 4458
- Social workers, responsibilities 3962
- South Fraser Valley regional health board, operations 3382-3
- Stopping the Violence program 2670, 2779
- counselling-practice guidelines 2661-2
- interministry committee 3577
- ministerial responsibility 2669
- program 2659
- Substance abuse/addiction
- intravenous drug use and AIDS 3580-1
- prescription drugs 4461
- prescription medications 3583
- special treatment services for women leaving violent relationships 2662-3
- treatment centres and programs 3582-3
- Teachers, collective agreement, government funding for salaries and benefits 5980
- Throne speech debate 2530-1
- Tobacco
- sales to minors, penalties 3579-80
- tobacco reduction strategy 3578-9
- Tobacco Sales Act, provisions re sales to minors, enforcement 3579-80
- Transportation and Highways ministry
- estimates debate 5274-7
- ferry operations by ministry, Maple Ridge-Langley ferry service 5275
- Urbanization, impact on farmland 3792-3
- Vancouver Island land use plan, intensive-forestry areas 5458
- Vancouver region, transportation planning 5276
- Velisek, Sharon, murder case
- case 2881
- report on RCMP investigative procedures 4450-1
- Vernon and District Women's Centre, report on family violence study 4451
- Violence
- family violence
- early intervention and prevention 4457
- handling of cases 2652
- incidence 2848-50
- interministry initiatives 2942
- training for police and justice personnel 2878, 4452
- violence among Indians, programs and service delivery 2671
- violence against women
- actions by NDP government 2856
- counselling services, funding and service delivery 2669-71
- economic and social consequences 2656-7
- legislation, future legislation and current models 4449-52, 4457
- numbers of charges and convictions 4454
- prevention 2845
- prevention programs and services in languages other than English 2672
- risk assessment 2880-1, 4453
- treatment programs for assaultive men 2670-2, 4451
- violence against women in relationships 2848-50
- violence against women in relationships, policy 2877-81, 4450-2
- Wages
- Water
- groundwater
- groundwater protection maps 5598
- monitoring of industrial facilities and wastewater disposal 5598
- need for legislation 5599
- information database 5572, 5597
- quality, government action plan 5571
- wells
- Women
- confidentiality of information kept by government-funded support groups 2942-3
- economic equity, barriers to equality 2656
- health issues, prescription drug use 3583
- leading causes of death 3578-9
- ombudsman for women's issues 4453
- responsibilities as family caregivers 3577-8
- wage disparity 2656, 2788
- women's centres, programs and program funding 2668
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2656-62, 2664-5, 2668-72, 2779, 2788-9, 2804-5, 2817-8, 4445-55, 4457-62
- contracts with outside service providers, contract reform project 2659-62, 4446-7
- free-standing ministry, NDP and Liberal Party positions 2818
- management information system (MIS), data collection and performance measurement of programs and services 2662
- mandate and responsibilities, review of government programs and policies 2656, 2658, 2788, 2805
- minister, role as champion for women's issues 2664-5, 2818
- multiculturalism plan 2672, 4455
- policy, planning and evaluation branch, mandate and role 2657, 2664, 2805
- role in services transition to Children and Families ministry 4449
- work with other ministries 2661, 2669-71
- Wood, Josiah, report on police procedures in domestic violence cases 2881, 4451
- Youth
- anti-smoking initiatives for youth 3578-9
- teen pregnancies 3664
Sterile insect release program
Stevenson, Tim (Vancouver-Burrard)
- AIDS
- day centre for persons living with AIDS 5992-3
- funding to support AIDS-related work 2351
- Anglican Church of Canada, position on Family Relations Amendment Act (1997) 5744
- Budget debate 2350-2
- Canadian Airlines International Ltd., government assistance for company 2351
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, equality provisions for homosexuals 5648
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2352
- Crime, stalking 2845
- Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, activities 5992-3
- Drugs
- federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2766
- reference-based pricing 2766
- Education, post-secondary education funding 2352
- Employment, job creation 2350
- Environment, environmental stewardship 4030-2
- Families, relationship breakdown, arrangements 5648
- Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997
- Film industry, activities in Vancouver-Burrard 2350-1
- Health care services
- culturally sensitive services 2459
- services in Vancouver-Burrard 2351
- Hospice care in B.C. 4422-3
- Jepson-Young, Peter, achievements as AIDS activist 5992-3
- Liberal Party, campaign contributions from pharmaceutical industry 2766
- MLAs
- contributions of former MLAs 6585
- roles and responsibilities in formation of public policy 5744
- Multiculturalism, culturally diverse health services and information, availability 2459
- Pharmaceutical industry, profits 2766
- Prevention of Violence Against Women Week, purpose 2844-5
- Quoted on gambling expansion (Krueger) 2263
- St. Paul's Hospital, programs 2351
- Schools, capital funding projects, upgrades in Vancouver-Burrard 2351-2
- Sexual orientation
- equal rights for homosexuals 5649
- same-sex couples
- parents' acceptance 5648
- traditional families and expanded rights and responsibilities for homosexuals 5648-9
- use of term "marriage" in homosexual community 5744
- Tourism industry, initiatives in Vancouver-Burrard 2350
- United Church of Canada, B.C. Conference, position on Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997 5744
- Vancouver-Burrard constituency, issues and concerns 2350-2
- Violence against women, prevention 2844-5
- Water conservation 4032
- Weather, B.C. and Yukon climate change report 4030-2
- Youth
- jobs for young people 2350
- street youth drop-in centre at St. Paul's Hospital 2351
"Stewardship of the Water of British Columbia"
- See Water stewardship, 1993 review under Environment, Lands and Parks, Ministry of
Stewart, B.C.
Stikine school district
Stockell, David
Stopping the Violence program
Storm-watching
- Tourism potential (Pullinger) 4291 (Reitsma) 4291-2
Strata developments
- Homeowner grant issue See Homeowner grant
- Tax deferment for seniors (Abbott) 3922
Strathcona Provincial Park
- Protection (Robertson) 2304
- TimberWest property acquisition See TimberWest Forest Ltd.
Strawberry Vale Elementary School, Victoria, B.C.
- School design and cost of construction (Ramsey) 6186-7 (Sanders) 6186
Streams
Streifel, Hon. Dennis (Mission-Kent)
Minister of Human Resources
- Actions taken in negotiating treatment clauses in collective agreements 4575
- Actions to include episodic illnesses in eligibility criteria for disability benefits 4583-4
- Asia Pacific Initiative, funding 4495
- Association of Neighbourhood Houses of Greater Vancouver, pre-employment program for immigrant women 4521
- Attorney General ministry, residential tenancy branch, office 4620
- Banking industry, policy on special accounts for income assistance recipients 4582-3
- Bent Nail employment project 4520
- BC Benefits (Income Assistance) Act, amendments 3954
- B.C. Benefits program
- BC Benefits Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- BC Benefits (Youth Works) Act, amendments 3954
- Budget debate 2356-60
- Business, small business taxation 2497
- Campbell, Gordon, actions taken on social housing while mayor of Vancouver 4611, 4658
- Canada Pension Plan, benefits for B.C. income assistance applicants and recipients 4660-2
- Canada-B.C. agreement on labour market development, purpose of agreement 4484
- Children
- child care
- child protection, Gove commission recommendations 4488-8, 4519
- children in poverty
- national child benefit, B.C. proposal 4483, 4693
- Children and Families ministry
- program and service transfers from Social Services ministry 4484-5, 4689-90
- responsibilities, funding of substance-abuse treatment centres 4618
- Collection agencies, use to recover income assistance overpayments 4514
- Community services fund, programs supported by fund 4520-1
- Cornerstone Manor, residential addictions-treatment program 4618-9
- Crime and criminals
- arrest warrants, need for interprovincial agreements on returnable warrants 4468
- correlation between crime and hardship benefit payments 4572
- Destinations program, program effectiveness 4493
- Disability Benefits Program Act
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- guide dog program 4665
- permanence of "handicapped" designation 4584
- Downtown Eastside Residents Association, work on social housing issues 4611
- Education
- adult basic education
- funding and service delivery 4613
- literacy training for income assistance recipients 4610
- community skill centres, establishment and mandate of centres 4613
- post-secondary education opportunities 2358
- Employment and unemployment
- employment standards for low-income workers 4624
- job creation
- goals of NDP government 2496
- initiatives 4484
- reduced workweek 4615
- Environment, environmental protection, NDP government action 2497
- Families
- family maintenance
- assignment of maintenance rights 6163-6
- enforcement of court orders for income assistance recipients 3954, 6029-30, 6165-6
- enforcement of maintenance orders 6166
- government's recovery of income assistance provided in place of maintenance 6165-6
- system in B.C. 6029-30
- single parents, government benefits 6030
- Family maintenance enforcement program 6030
- Family maintenance program, work of Human Resources ministry with Attorney General ministry 6029-30, 6165
- Family Services of Greater Vancouver, services for youth 4521
- Foley, Patrick, woodlot cancellation 5527
- Forest industry
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5387, 5502-5, 5525-30
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling, treatment, ministerial responsibility 4576
- expansion in B.C., impact on income assistance caseload 4576
- Guarantee for Youth program, mandate 4484
- Harrison Hot Springs, washrooms on public beaches 2359
- Healthy Kids program, program 4519
- Heritage Park Centre, completion 2357
- Housing
- cooperatives, eligibility of income assistance recipients 4613
- emergency housing and shelters 4612, 4614
- rental housing, security deposits for income assistance recipients 4616-7, 4619-20
- social housing
- funding 4611, 4615
- interministerial committee on special-needs housing 4611-2
- Human Resources ministry
- estimates debate 4482-501, 4513-21, 4571-86, 4609-25, 4651-69, 4689-96, 5998-9
- assistance for people ineligible for existing social welfare programs 4520
- budget 4492
- client confidentiality and release of information 4489, 4656
- establishment of new ministry, mandate and goals 4482-4, 4498, 4515-6, 4692-3, 5999
- health services branch, role and staffing 4609, 4654-5
- income support programs, 1996-97 overexpenditures 2218-9
- minister's office
- staffing levels and workload 4695
- work of staff commended 5998
- multiculturalism plan 4691
- performance measurement unit, mandate and operations 4517
- prevention, compliance and enforcement division, operations 4499-500, 4660-3
- regional offices
- responsibilities shared with other ministries 4483-4, 4489, 4519, 4584, 4692-3
- transfer of programs and services from Social Services ministry 4484-5
- Immigration
- eligibility of immigrants in B.C. for hardship benefits 4691-2
- federal funding allocation for immigrants in B.C. 4494-5
- Labour relations climate 4624-5
- Legislature, estimates process, timeliness in providing answers to members' questions 4665
- Marpole Shelter, operations 4612-3
- Miracle Valley Rehabilitation Centre, treatment program for substance abusers 4575
- Mission, highway interchange construction project 2357
- Mission-Kent constituency, capital improvements 2357, 2359-60
- MOSAIC, translation and interpretation services for income assistance recipients 4609
- Multiculturalism, use of multifaith calendar 4695
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 4518-9
- NDP government, performance 2356
- Niessen, Debra, government employee fraud conviction case 4228
- Oak Bay Beach Hotel, experience with Welfare to Work program 4518
- Physicians, role in assessing eligibility for disability benefits 4655
- Prostitution, youth prostitution, temporary housing and shelters 4689-90
- Recovery houses, government role 6407-8, 6506-8, 6507-8, 6561
- Residential Tenancy Act
- dispute resolution and security deposit provisions 4616
- Liberal Party's position 4611
- Roosevelt Hotel, closing 4658-9
- School district 75 (Mission), capital projects 2357
- Skills training, workplace-based training 2498
- Social services, Liberal Party policy 6032, 6407-8
- Social Services ministry, 1994-95 and 1995-96 annual reports tabled 2277
- Social welfare system
- emergency social services program, operations 4516-7
- financial assistance workers
- hardship benefits for people ineligible for income assistance 4571-3, 4665, 4691-2
- income assistance
- administration and operations, appeals system and client advocates 4576-80, 4612
- administration and operations, caseload-reduction strategies 4483, 4518-9, 4574, 5998
- administration and operations, tracking of former clients 4493, 4519, 4572-3
- administration and operations, tracking service quality and client complaints 4497-8
- applicants 4492-6, 4584, 4660-2, 4666-9, 4690, 4694
- benefits and services, literacy assessment and referral 4610
- benefits and services, medical, dental and optical benefits 4586, 4692-3
- benefits and services, payment levels and cost of living 4516, 4623-5, 4658
- benefits and services, payment levels and earnings exemption 4573-4, 4586, 4651, 4659, 4694-5
- benefits and services, payment levels, Liberal Party position 4495-6, 4515-6, 4624, 4652, 4654, 4660, 5998-9
- benefits and services, services for blind and hearing-impaired recipients 4610
- benefits and services, services in languages other than English 4609-10, 4691
- benefits and services, special allowances 4484, 4615, 4617, 4625, 4658, 4664-5
- disability benefits 4581-6, 4608-10, 4618-9, 4651-7, 4660, 4666
- eligibility categories 6164
- federal-provincial pilot program for single parents 4519-20
- fraud and recovery of overpayments and debts 4483, 4498-500, 4513-4, 4661-4
- funding from federal and provincial governments 4492, 4494-5, 4624
- Liberal Party position 2497
- number of offices 2219
- recipients 4492-7, 4582-4
- reduced payment levels for thalidomide victim receiving settlement compensation 4526
- welfare-to-work initiatives 2359
- Social workers, role under former Social Services ministry 4521
- Substance abuse/addiction
- programs and services, coordination among ministries 4575
- residential treatment programs 4575, 4618-9
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2218-9
- Throne speech debate 2496-8
- University College of the Fraser Valley, degree-granting status 2497
- Vancouver
- Wages, minimum wage
- "beginning" jobs 2359
- Liberal Party position 2496-7
- NDP government actions 4624
- Welfare to Work program, caseloads 4483-4, 4518-9, 4693
- West Coast Express service
- benefits for city of Mission 2357-8
- extension to Abbotsford, MLAs' cooperation 2496
- Women's Equality ministry, estimates debate 2809
- Youth
- jobs for young people 2496
- street youth, programs and services 4521, 4689-90
- Youth Works program
- 1996-97 expenditures 2219
- impact on income assistance caseloads 4483-4, 4693
- mandate and goals 4521
- program 2359
Student Summer Works program
Students
- Employment See also Employment and unemployment under Youth
- Foreign students, fees charged for public schooling (Ramsey) 6038 (Sanders) 6038
- Student aid See Student financial assistance under Education
Substance abuse/addiction
- Detox facilities in East Vancouver (Dosanjh) 2798
- Intravenous drug use and AIDS (Hawkins) 3645-6 (MacPhail) 3580-1, 3643-6, 3691 (Stephens) 3580-1
- Intravenous drug use, services for users (Coell) 3867 (MacPhail) 3867
- Library for alcohol and drug issues (Coell) 6403 (Priddy) 6403
- Methadone treatment programs (Coell) 6401 (Priddy) 6401
- Prescription drugs (Hammell) 4461 (Stephens) 4461
- Programs and services, coordination among ministries (Coell) 4575 (Streifel) 4575
- Social costs (Sanders) 2981
- Treatment centres and programs
- Youth
Sullivan, Brian
- Report on commuter rail (Symons) 5008
Summerland, B.C.
- Ambulance service for area (Hawkins) 3870 (MacPhail) 3870
Sun Peaks at Tod Mountain
- Access road to resort, need for fencing (Krueger) 5500
Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, Vancouver, B.C.
Sunshine Coast area
- Bus and ferry services (MacPhail) 5197 (Symons) 5197
- Governance and funding (Wilson, G.) 3881
SuperHost program
Supply Act, 1997-98
- (Bill 54) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 6579; 2R, 6579; C, 6579; 3R, 6579; RA, 6579
- Debate, speakers (Petter) 6579
Supply Act (No. 1), 1997
- (Bill 5) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 2149; 2R, 2154-76, 2177-211; C, 2211-9; 3R, 2219-20; RA, 2220
- Divisions: 2R approved 2211; 3R approved 2219-20
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 2168-72 (Anderson) 2198-201 (Barisoff) 2194-6 (Campbell) 2154-6 (Chong) 2208-9 (Coell) 2175-6, 2218-9 (Coleman) 2187-90 (Dalton) 2203-4 (de Jong) 2159-63 (Dosanjh) 2213-7 (Farrell-Collins) 2170-1, 2212-3 (Gingell) 2212, 2216 (Hawkins) 2177-8, 2217 (Hurd) 2166-7 (Jarvis) 2184-7 (Krueger) 2172-5 (McKinnon) 2205-6 (MacPhail) 2217-8 (Neufeld) 2181-4 (Penner) 2196-8, 2216-7 (Petter) 2149, 2154, 2186, 2210-2 (Plant) 2156-8, 2170, 2214-6 (Reid) 2178-81, 2217-8 (Reitsma) 2206-8 (Sanders) 2167-8 (Streifel) 2218-9 (Symons) 2190-3 (Thorpe) 2193-4 (van Dongen) 2201-3 (Weisbeck) 2209-10 (Weisgerber) 2158-9 (Whittred) 2204-5 (Wilson, G.) 2163-6, 2213-4
Supply Act (No. 2), 1997
- (Bill 49) (Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations) 1R, 4735; 2R, 4798-810, 4833-56; C, 4879; 3R, 4879; RA, 4991
- Division: 2R approved 4856
- Debate, speakers (Abbott) 4798-802 (Anderson) 4802-5 (Barisoff) 4834-8 (Boone) 4856 (Chong) 4841-4, 4879 (Clark, C.) 4838-41 (Coell) 4805-6 (de Jong) 4806-9 (Gingell) 4844-7 (Hawkins) 4848-50 (Jarvis) 4847-8 (McKinnon) 4833-4 (Masi) 4809-10 (Nettleton) 4854-6 (Petter) 4735, 4798 (Reid) 4850-4
Supreme Court Act
Surrey, B.C.
- Courthouse closing (Dosanjh) 2613 (Plant) 2613
- Growth during 1970s and 1980s (Hammell) 2349
- Men's shelters program (Coleman) 3796-7 (Farnworth) 3796-7
- Municipal grant reduction (McKinnon) 2729
- Participation in lower mainland emergency communications system (Dosanjh) 6516-7 (Plant) 6516-7
Surrey Child Poverty Committee
Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey, B.C.
- Children's health centre (Priddy) 2451
- Service levels (Hammell) 2350
Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, Surrey, B.C.
- Overcrowding (Dosanjh) 2735 (Plant) 2735
Surrey school district
Surrey-Cloverdale constituency
- Growth, impact on education facilities (McKinnon) 2337-8
- Schools
- capital projects freeze (McKinnon) 2206
- new schools (Hammell) 2349
Surrey-Green Timbers constituency
- Schools, new and renovated schools (Hammell) 2349
Surrey-White Rock constituency
- Schools, new schools (Hammell) 2349
Sustainable environment fund
Swoboda, Don
- Work with B.C. Hydro (Farrell-Collins) 4984 (Miller) 4984
Symons, Douglas R. (Richmond Centre)
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 3793
- Armstrong, bus service between Armstrong and Vernon 5197
- Assessment Authority of B.C., appeals process, transfer of operating costs from Municipal Affairs ministry, timing 2599
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2745-6
- Auditor general reports
- Automobiles
- defective or unsafe vehicles 5364
- insurance, no-fault insurance for B.C., petition tabled 2654
- vehicle plates, special plates for dangerous drivers 2746
- Avcorp Industries Inc., contract for fast ferry interior design 4866
- Bombardier Inc., contract with B.C. 5013, 5159-60
- B.C. Ferry Corporation
- assured-loading and reservation services 4865
- availability of 1996-97 annual report 4733
- board activities during past fiscal year 4813
- capital projects
- fast ferry program 4866-7
- fast ferry program, funding 4865-6
- fast ferry program, labour costs as percentage of total costs 4867-9
- debt levels 4731-2
- debt-servicing costs 4733
- efficiency benchmarks on per-route basis 4732-3
- fares
- ferry personnel, training 4861-2
- ferry terminals
- bus connections 4818-9, 5197
- Duke Point terminal 4818-20
- Langdale terminal, commercial activities 4858
- location of terminal for Gabriola Island-Nanaimo route 4865
- grants in lieu of taxes to municipalities 4819-20
- maintenance program, effectiveness 4859-60
- operations
- business plans 4733, 4810
- efficiency goals and measures 4811
- losses 4810-1
- performance reporting requirements 5124
- revenues and expenditures 4812
- passenger-only service between Vancouver Island and mainland 4819
- revenues, non-tariff revenues from terminal and on-board services 4824, 4858
- routes and services
- Gambier-Keats service, privatization 4816
- Gulf Islands service, reservation system to facilitate loading and unloading 4864-5
- Inside Passage route, summer schedule 4814
- midcoast service 4816-8
- route 2 licence requirement 4861
- Saltspring Island service 4864-5
- safety of ferry crews and travelling public 4860-3
- sale of ferry technology 4869
- student summer apprenticeship program 4863-4
- subsidization
- future of current subsidy 4730-2
- highway-equivalent subsidy 4813
- traffic mix and volumes 4733
- vessels
- fast ferries, noise and pollution levels 4867
- Nicola, leasing arrangement with Port Simpson Indian band 4814-6
- northern service vessels 4813-4
- Queen of the North, vessel's operational fitness 4863
- single-hulled vessels, passenger car deck access 4862
- wildcat strike, disciplinary measures 3380
- work stoppage to protest non-union personnel at news-stand 4856-8
- B.C. Lottery Corporation, advertising policies 4702-3
- B.C. Transit Corporation
- accident in Vancouver involving bus wheel 5163-4
- administration costs 5123
- administrative costs 5172
- annual report, 1995-96 report 5121-2
- awards from public transit industry 5129
- bus driver absenteeism 3629, 4039
- business relationships with light rail industry 5159-60
- expenditures
- capital expenditures 5127, 5172
- capital review recommendations, actions taken 5127-8
- chair, 1996-97 office expenditures 5167
- fare evasion issues 5008-9, 5125-6
- involvement in transportation demand management activities 5128-9, 5198
- joint ventures with private sector 4096
- labour relations
- collective agreement 4143-4
- disciplinary actions against transit workers 5165, 5175
- mutual gains bargaining arrangement 5198-9
- union members' concerns re transit operations 5160, 5164-5
- use of consultants for labour relations advice 5167-8
- operations
- bus maintenance and safety issues 5162-5, 6570-1
- effectiveness, evaluation 5121, 5128-9, 5160, 6570
- employee productivity, issues and concerns 5160-2, 6570
- safety of drivers and passengers 5165
- security measures for park-and-ride facilities 5166
- performance reporting 5124, 5166-7
- planning
- expansion options, cost-benefit analysis 5008, 5122
- funding and governance negotiations with Greater Vancouver Regional District 5157-9
- policies
- hiring of relatives 5170
- parking of unattended buses 5164
- revenues 5124-5
- service
- criteria for changes 5012, 5169
- use, measurement of ridership levels 5008
- spare-board system 4144
- staffing
- management turnover rate 5168-9
- severance, issues and concerns 5168-9
- Budget
- debate 2256
- 1996-97 budget projections, accuracy 2191
- deficit budgets 2192
- special warrants, use 2191-2
- use of interim supply, Hon. Glen Clark's 1990-91 statements 2191-2
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2599-601, 3064-5
- Buses
- bike racks on buses 5174
- low-floor buses 5164-5
- Orion II minibuses 5165
- parking, use of wheel blocks 5164
- Business, public-private partnerships 4096
- Catamaran Ferries International, partnership with B.C. Ferry Corporation 4865-6
- Children's Commission Act
- debate 4004-5
- offences under act, no penalty for a child's false information 4006
- Children's Commission, complaint review process, no reprisals against complainants 4004-5
- China, human rights 3275
- Civil service size, staff numbers, reductions 2524
- Clipper Navigation Ltd., acquisition of Victoria Line business operations 4871-2
- Coast Ferries Ltd., dispute with B.C. Ferry Corporation 4817-8
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4739-40
- selection of new commissioner 4739-40
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2193
- Corrigan, Derek
- lease of vehicle while chair of B.C. Transit 3167, 3564
- salary as part-time chair of B.C. Transit 2588
- severance payment from B.C. Transit 3460
- work and severance arrangements with B.C. Transit 5167-8
- CounterAttack program, effectiveness 2746
- Crown corporations, car allowances for executives 3564
- Debt, public debt, management plan 2192
- Delcan Corp., feasibility study for B.C. Transit 5171
- Disabled persons, public transportation services 5197-8
- Education
- days of instruction, year-long schooling pilot project 6140
- funding adequacy 2525-6
- restructuring of B.C. system, 1996 report and recommendations 6138
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 5901, 6137-40
- Elections, requirement for reporting of campaign contributions and spending, inclusion in Municipal Act 2601
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4096, 4702-3, 4730-4, 4810-20, 4856-72
- Export trade and human rights 3275-7
- Financial Administration Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2151
- Fish habitat protection, designation of sensitive streams 6206-7
- Fish Protection Act, debate 6206-7
- Food bank donors and distributors, liability issue 2464
- Food Donor Encouragement Act, debate 2464
- Forest industry
- Forest Renewal B.C.
- Liberal Party position on agency 2525
- use of funds 5158
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5460-2
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, exemptions 2526
- Fuel, propane use as motor fuel, expiration of tax exemption 2601
- Government
- accounting
- expenditures moved from consolidated revenue fund 2599
- off-budget recording of expenditures 2193
- advertising, need 2526
- federal transfers to provinces, reduction 2600
- financial management plan, replacement of debt management plan 2525
- provincial-municipal relations, protocol agreement re consultation 2600
- shifting of costs to other areas 2524
- spending
- capital spending freeze, review, recommendations re B.C. Transit 5127-8
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2191-2
- spending levels since 1991 election of NDP 2192
- HandyDART
- role in dial-a-ride service 5012
- use of service 5198
- Health care, neighbourhood health centres 3461
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3460-1, 3507-8, 3550-1, 3820, 5004-9, 5011-3, 5121-30, 5157-72, 5174-5, 5196-9, 6570-1
- Highway 1, Malahat-Okotoks Road intersection, bypass 5368
- Highway 7A, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes, travel times 5392-3
- Highway 19
- Island Highway construction project, Goldstream Park section 5369
- reflectors used on highway, safety concern 5369
- Highway 99
- approach to George Massey Tunnel, road-banking safety issue 5369
- on-ramp from Westminster Highway, road-banking safety issue 5369
- Richmond section, high-occupancy-vehicle lanes 5392
- Highway 101
- construction projects 5368
- Rat Portage Hill construction project 5368
- Highways and roads
- construction projects, public-private partnerships 5369-70
- funding levels 5365-6
- high-occupancy-vehicle lanes, use by motorcyclists 5392
- highway operations, costs 5366
- rehabilitation, pavement age and per-kilometre costs 5366
- responsibility for maintenance of arterial roads 5367
- seal-coating 5364
- Home care
- housekeeping services, eligibility criteria 3550-1
- support workers, training 3551
- Hotel tax refunds, responsibility for government errors 2599
- Housing, supported housing for people with mental illnesses 3507-8
- Hughes, Ted, recommendations while conflict-of-interest commissioner on changes to legislation governing MLAs' conduct 4739-40
- Impaired driving, penalties and deterrents 2745-6, 5970
- Indonesia, human rights 3275-6
- Infrastructure, federal funding for transportation projects 5157, 5171
- Insurance Corporation of B.C., role as both insurer and licensing regulator 5970
- Jantzen, Don, contract with B.C. Transit 5167-8, 6508
- J.N. Burnett Secondary School, phase 2 construction 6138-9
- Kelowna, transit services, expansion 5196-7
- Legislature
- estimates debate, length of debate 5011
- legislative calendar, fixed schedule for legislative sessions 2191
- night sittings 5364
- private members' bills, Fridays reserved for debate 2464
- recall of House, timing 2190-1
- select standing committees, use for legislative business 2190
- Liberal Party
- association with federal Liberal Party 4816
- position on commuter rail 5008
- Livestock industry, transport of livestock, animal welfare responsibility 3793
- Marine Link Transportation Ltd., ferry service contract 4818
- Medical Services Plan, budget 3820
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4739-40
- MLAs, constituency offices, operations 4740
- Mental health
- involuntary treatment vs. patients' civil rights 3507
- Mental health services 3507-8
- Motor Vehicle Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997, debate 5970
- Motor vehicle branch, transfer of functions to Insurance Corporation of B.C. 5970
- Municipalities
- grants from provincial government
- 1994 debate, NDP MLAs' comments 2599
- transit costs 5123, 5157-9
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society activities, NDP involvement 4740
- NDP government
- consultations with public and others 2525
- election campaign statements 2190
- financial management 2524-5
- media comments re government 2517
- Oliver-Osoyoos, transit services, taxiDART system 5198
- Politicians, public perception 2601
- Port Simpson, ferry service 4814-6
- Portland (Oregon)
- transit services for mobility-challenged 5197-8
- transit system performance measures 5166
- Prince Rupert, bridge link between Digby Island and Kaien Island 4815-6
- Richmond
- food bank 2464
- municipal grant reduction 2600, 3064
- No. 3 Road, congestion 5161
- representation on regional health board 3460-1
- transit services, service improvements, status 5169-70
- Richmond Alcohol and Drug Action Team, regionalization concerns 3460-1
- Richmond General Hospital
- School district 38 (Richmond)
- budget 2526
- capital funding projects 6138-40
- construction freeze 2526
- funding 6137-8
- school tax, amount collected from city of Richmond 6139
- spending decisions and efficiencies 6140
- Schools, efficiencies and cost-reduction strategies, extended school days 6140
- SeaBus, boarding system 5008
- Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, meetings 2523-4
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4739-40
- Seniors
- number in B.C. 3550
- number in B.C. and need for special services 5198
- SkyTrain system
- Social Credit Party government, comments by Hon. Glen Clark 2524
- Student Summer Works program, operations 5901
- Sunshine Coast, bus and ferry services 5197
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2190-3
- Taxation, NDP government claim of no new taxes 2601
- Taxpayer Protection Act, repeal 2524
- Throne speech
- Timor, Indonesian occupation of East Timor 3275-6
- Tobacco, tax increase on loose tobacco 2601
- 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
- public access to parked buses 5170
- RapidBus project 5170-1
- reliability 5162-3
- request-stop system 5197-8
- ridership levels 5005
- dial-a-ride service 5012
- public transit
- rail cars, types 5123, 5159-60
- Transportation
- federal funding for west coast projects 4816
- incentives to decrease automobile use 5128-9, 5166, 5197-8
- traffic management plan for lower mainland 5393
- urban traffic gridlock problem, impact on transit 5161
- Transportation and Highways ministry
- estimates debate 5327-9, 5364-70, 5392-3
- annual report, timeliness 5368-9
- asset acquisition 5366
- ferry operations by ministry
- Adams Lake ferry 5367-8
- inland ferries, loading policy 5392
- inland ferries, operating costs 5367
- organization of ministry 5327-8
- staff downsizing and severance packages 5328
- vehicles 5329
- University of B.C., transit services, U-Pass program 5129
- Uranium mining, prohibition 2712
- Uranium Moratorium Act, debate 2711-2
- Vancouver International Airport, bus services 5170
- Vancouver regional transit commission
- decision on funding priority for public transit services 5198
- fare changes 4789-90
- meetings with public on revenue generation 5174
- Vancouver, transit
- bus service, Broadway route, use and costs 5171-2
- commuter rail for Vancouver area 5006-8
- light rapid rail line for Broadway-Lougheed corridor 5159, 5171
- transit services 5122-4, 5158, 5167
- Vancouver-Richmond regional health board, membership 3460-1
- Victoria Line Ltd.
- 1994-97 financial operations 4870-1
- Royal Victorian, market value of former B.C. Ferries vessel 4871
- Victoria regional transit commission
- decision on funding priority for public transit services 5198
- public meetings on transit fares 5174
- Victoria, transit
- light rapid rail and commuter rail 5172, 5174
- services, cost per rider 5123
- West Coast Express
- Whistle-blower legislation, need 2526
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