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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
W.A.C. Bennett Dam
- Road from Hudson's Hope, maintenance responsibility (Neufeld) 2695
- Sinkhole
Waddell, Ian (Vancouver-Fraserview)
- Black, Dawn, commended for work on changes to Criminal Code's anti-stalking provisions 2783
- Budget, 1997-98 budget, content 2131-2
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2570-2, 3110-1
- Cambodia, political situation 5988
- Comments during conflict-of-interest motion debate (Clark, C.) 4768, 4770 (Penner) 4781
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4764-5
- selection of new commissioner 4764-5
- Crime, stalking and criminal harassment 2783
- Dalton, Jeremy, letter on behalf of wife, conflict-of-interest concerns 4764
- Drugs, federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2761-4
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5562
- Export trade and human rights 3276
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates debate 4465, 4467
- Fuel, propane, use as motor fuel, taxation 3110
- Gambling, government policy 2133
- Gordon, Peter, report on ski-lift accident, recommendations 3708-9
- Government, federal transfers to provinces, reduction 2570-1
- Income tax rate reduction 2130-1
- Indonesia, human rights 3276
- Knowles, Stanley, tribute 4035
- Legislature, debate on bills, relevancy requirement 5562
- Liberal Party, campaign contributions from pharmaceutical industry 2763-4
- MacDonald family, son's ski-lift death 3708
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4765
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3708-10
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 2570-1
- NDP government, vision 2130, 2133
- Patent Act Amendment Act, 1992 (federal), passage and nature of bill 2762-3
- Segal, Sydney, tribute 4787
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4764-5
- Seniors, needs and concerns of B.C.'s aging population 4033
- Ski-lift inspections, concerns 3708-9
- Throne speech debate 2130-3
- Timor, Indonesian occupation of East Timor 3276
- Vancouver-Fraserview constituency, issues and concerns 2132
- Weisgerber, Jack, proposal to select new conflict-of-interest commissioner concurrent with review of legislation 4764-5
- Women's Equality ministry, estimates debate 2783
- Youth, jobs for young people 2132
Wages and salaries
- Fair-wage policy
- Family-supporting wage (Smallwood) 4990
Wages and salaries
Walk the Talk Communications
- Contract for services (Abbott) 5575
Wallace, Steve
- Quoted re notice given for municipal grants, reduction (Abbott) 2961
Walsh, Erda (Kootenay)
- Alberta, debt elimination, impact on taxpayers 2521
- Ambulance service, history 2520
- Budget debate 2238-41
- Child care spaces for low-income families 2240
- Coal mining industry in B.C. 3606-8
- Columbia Basin Trust, activities 2239
- Dunant, Henry, role in establishment of Red Cross 5222
- Education, protection of B.C. system 2240
- Elk Valley, mining in region 3607-8
- Employment, job creation during NDP administration 2520
- Families, financial assistance for low-income families 2240
- Fernie Secondary School, replacement project 2240
- Food banks, use by those in need 2465
- Food Donor Encouragement Act, debate 2465
- Fording Coal Ltd., mining activity 3607
- Forest Renewal B.C., investments in Kootenay area 2239
- Gambling
- expansion in B.C., community referendums 2240-1
- Liberal Party position 2240-1
- Government spending, 1997-98 levels 2240
- Health care, protection of B.C. system 2239-40
- Kootenay area, issues and concerns 2239
- Ktunaxa-Kinbasket people, destination resort project 2239
- Labour legislation, flexibility 2520
- Liberal Party
- MLAs' funding requests 2521
- performance as opposition 2520-1
- Poverty
- being poor in Canada 2465
- needs of poor people 2240
- Red Cross Society, history and work 5222
- St. John Ambulance, work of organization 5991
- Throne speech debate 2520-1
- Youth, jobs for young people 2240
Walter Moberly Elementary School, Vancouver, B.C.
- Capital funding project (Anderson) 6175 (Ramsey) 6175
War
- Vimy Ridge victory by Canadian troops (Campbell) 2389 (Cashore) 2389-90
Ward, Peter
- Review of water systems used by B.C. Hydro
- "Water Diversions and Storage at Ten Sites: Review of Licenced Operations, Progress Report"
- cited and quoted on Cheakamus River diversions (Miller) 4874-5
- findings (Clark, C.) 5047 (Miller) 5047
Waste management
- See also Hazardous products; Recycling
- Community involvement in waste management (McGregor) 5729
- Contaminated sites
- assessments (Clark, C.) 5723-4 (McGregor) 5723
- legislation (McGregor) 5511
- legislation and regulation, implementation (Clark, C.) 5699 (McGregor) 5699
- remediation plans (Hansen) 5722 (McGregor) 5722
- retroactive legislation (Coleman) 3837
- Cost impact on smaller communities (Barisoff) 5729-30 (McGregor) 5729-30
- Landfills, bear fencing around sites (McGregor) 5766 (Neufeld) 5766
- Legislation See Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- Septic systems, rural septic fields, size (Barisoff) 3875
- Sewage disposal
- sewage pollution prevention, Victoria harbour and Gorge waterway (Gingell) 5699-700 (McGregor) 5699-700
- treatment technologies (Coleman) 2689-90
- Waste management plans by regional districts (Abbott) 5670-1 (McGregor) 5671
- Wastewater
- disposal wells for oil and gas sector See Oil and gas industry
- management (Farnworth) 3839 (Thorpe) 3839
- Worm composting (Sawicki) 2302
Waste Management Act
- Amendments See Local Government Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 1997
- Consequential amendments from Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997 (Clark, C.) 3446-7 (McGregor) 2586, 3445 (Wilson, J.) 3734
- "Protected person," definition (Abbott) 6217 (Farnworth) 6217
Water
- Conservation (Stevenson) 4032
- Exports (Doyle) 6383
- Groundwater
- groundwater protection maps (McGregor) 5598 (Stephens) 5598
- legislation and water quality issues (de Jong) 3063 (McGregor) 3063
- legislation, need (Clark, C.) 5599-600 (McGregor) 5598-600 (Stephens) 5599 (Wilson, G.) 5967
- quality, monitoring of industrial facilities and wastewater disposal (McGregor) 5598 (Stephens) 5598
- Management, use and planning
- information database (McGregor) 5571-2, 5597 (Stephens) 5572, 5597
- management plans, reduction of water rights (Clark, C.) 6211 (McGregor) 6211
- planning and recovery planning processes, public involvement (McGregor) 6174-5
- planning process (Clark, C.) 5545-9, 5636-7 (McGregor) 5545-9, 5636-7
- plans, progress to date (Clark, C.) 5046-7 (Miller) 5046-7
- Quality
- Rates in Naramata See Naramata, B.C.
- Riparian areas See Land use
- Rivers, streams, etc. See Rivers and streams
- United States access to B.C. water (Conroy) 2444 (Wilson, G.) 2437
- Water licences
- complaints re licensees, investigation process (Clark, C.) 5601-3 (McGregor) 5601-3
- consideration of upstream and downstream impact (McGregor) 6207
- environmental provisions (Clark, C.) 5603, 6203 (McGregor) 5603
- environmental provisions, enforcement (Clark, C.) 5545-9 (McGregor) 5545-9
- impact on fish (Clark, C.) 6173 (McGregor) 6174
- issues (Reid) 6566
- length of terms of licences (Clark, C.) 6208 (McGregor) 6208
- licensing decisions, regional water manager's considerations (Clark, C.) 6203-4 (McGregor) 6203-4
- licensing process (Clark, C.) 5966
- monitoring by Environment ministry (Clark, C.) 5603 (McGregor) 5603
- number (Clark, C.) 5600-1 (McGregor) 5600-1, 6174-5
- proposals with adverse impacts, compensation measures (McGregor) 6208 (van Dongen) 6208
- report by Peter Ward See Ward, Peter
- requirement for water use plans (Clark, C.) 6174
- review of major licensees (Clark, C.) 5545-9, 5602-4, 5636-7, 5966-7, 6172-4, 6203 (McGregor) 5545-9, 5602-4, 5636-7, 6174, 6567
- Water rights, public information (McGregor) 5566-7 (Thorpe) 5566-7
- Water supply protection, medical health officer's role (Hawkins) 3690-1 (MacPhail) 3690-1
- Water utilities, management models (McGregor) 5567-8 (Thorpe) 5567-8
- Waterborne organisms, cryptosporidium
- Health ministry report (Wilson, J.) 5535-7 (Zirnhelt) 5535-7
- impact on tourism in Kelowna area, government involvement (Pullinger) 4292 (Reitsma) 4292
- research (Wilson, J.) 5493 (Zirnhelt) 5493
- testing for presence in water supply (Hawkins) 3690-1 (MacPhail) 3690-1
- Watersheds See Watersheds
- Wells
- driller certification (McGregor) 5597-8 (Stephens) 5597-8
- well authorities, approval timeliness in Fort St. John (Neufeld) 5519-20
- well record system (McGregor) 5571-2, 5597 (Stephens) 5571-2, 5597
Water Act
- Consequential amendments from Fish Protection Act (Abbott) 6212-3 (McGregor) 6213
- "Debris," definition (McGregor) 6213 (van Dongen) 5968
Water comptroller
- Comptroller's power to attach conditions to licences (Clark, C.) 6204 (McGregor) 6204
- Performance of duties (Clark, C.) 5966
Waters, Bill
- Study of ferry subsidies cited and quoted (Miller) 4731 (Symons) 4730-1
Watersheds
- Bootjack Lake watershed, logging and mining issues (McGregor) 5568-9 (Wilson, J.) 5568-9
- Protection
- government policy (Nebbeling) 5531
- protection (Wilson, G.) 5962
- Restoration projects, Forest Renewal B.C. funding (Abbott) 3062 (Goodacre) 2421 (McGregor) 3279-80 (Nebbeling) 3061-2 (Wilson, J.) 5037-8 (Zirnhelt) 3061-2, 5037-8
- Runoff control, disposal and paving provisions (Abbott) 5921 (Farnworth) 5921
Watt, John
- Cardiac surgery wait-list case (MacPhail) 3821-2 (Penner) 3820-2
Watt, William
- Letter quoted on road access to ranch (Nebbeling) 5451-2
Waverly Group
- Investments, review by B.C. Securities Commission (Petter) 4512 (Thorpe) 4511-2
Weather
- B.C. and Yukon climate change report (Stevenson) 4030-2
- Global warming (Sihota) 6386
Wedley, William
- Property assessment case (Abbott) 3921 (Farnworth) 3921
Wee Watch Private Home Day Care, Vancouver, B.C.
- Request to change child-staff ratio in day care centres (McKinnon) 6332 (Priddy) 6332
Weidmann, (Mr.)
- Letter quoted on fee imposition for courtwatching programs (Sanders) 6048
Weigh scales
Weisbeck, John (Okanagan East)
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry, estimates debate 3454-5, 3483-4
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates debate 4012
- Agriculture industry
- issues and concerns 2209
- role in B.C. economy 2445
- Air quality, clean air standards 4993-4
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2741
- Automobile insurance, no-fault insurance, government plans 2523
- Boat operators, certification 6505-6
- Boat Operators Certification Act, debate 6505-6
- B.C. Institute of Technology, position on framework agreement for sectoral bargaining 5942
- B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, operation 4411
- Budget
- debate 2445-6
- 1997-98 budget, projected deficit 2445
- budget process, integrity 2446
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2725-6
- Business
- investment 2445
- public-private partnerships, investment partnerships 2446
- taxation 2522
- Business Training Institute, closing 5945
- Child care subsidies
- changes to subsidies for low-income students 5939-40
- impact of post-secondary scholarships on child care subsidies 5940
- College of Midwives, role 3695-6
- Colleges and institutes, labour dispute 2209
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4765-7
- selection of new commissioner 4765-7
- Education
- adult basic education, funding and service delivery in private and post-secondary institutions 5945
- funding 2446
- post-secondary education
- baccalaureate student-outcome survey results 5941
- course offerings, changes 5934
- framework agreement for sectoral bargaining 5942
- funding 5906-8
- funding issues 2209, 2523
- participation rates in B.C. 5904, 6276
- prior learning model 5942-3
- scholarships and bursaries 5931
- strategic plan 5904-6
- student financial assistance 5904, 5935-7
- tuition fees 5931-2
- tuition freeze 2446, 5904, 5931-4
- tuition freeze, Liberal Party position 5932
- provincial learning network (PLNet), operations 5943-5
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, estimates debate 5903-8, 5930-48, 6176-7
- Emily Carr Institute, position on framework agreement for sectoral bargaining 5942
- Employment, job creation
- job creation during NDP administration 2445, 2522
- Netherlands model 2522
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5605, 5799-800
- Film studio in Kelowna, establishment 4394
- Forest industry
- current state of industry 2445
- jobs created 2522
- theft of cedar logs, police and Forests ministry action 5071-2
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5071-3
- Fruit, tree fruit industry, profitability 4012
- Fuel
- alternative motor fuels, environmental benefits 4993-4
- hydrogen fuel cell technology, commercial application 4993
- George Elliot Secondary School, school reconstruction 6176-7
- Government, spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2209-10
- Health care funding 2445-6
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3695-6
- Hughes, Ted, recommendations while conflict-of-interest commissioner on changes to legislation governing MLAs' conduct 4766
- Kelowna, municipal grant reduction 2725-6
- Lake Country area amalgamation, signage issue 3854-5
- Midwifery program and services 3695-6
- Mission Creek, flooding 5605
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3854-5
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 2209, 2523, 2725
- NDP government, financial management 2209
- Northwest Community College, university credit course reduction, petition tabled 2915
- Okanagan Mission, reclamation of gravel pit site for park use 5799-800
- Royal Roads University
- governance model 5938
- teaching staff, hiring and performance assessments 5939
- Schools, fees for use by community groups 2431-2
- Science and technology, high-technology industry, growth in sector 6276
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4766-7
- SHL Systemhouse Ltd., provincial learning network (PLNet), system integration 5943
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, estimates debate 4394, 4411
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2209-10
- Technical University of B.C.
- governance 6276-7
- impact on post-secondary participation rates 5945-6
- location 5946, 6276
- partnerships with other post-secondary institutions 5946
- Technical University of British Columbia Act, debate 6276-7
- Throne speech
- Universities, colleges and institutes
- adjudication panels, student appointments 5947
- boards of directors, appointments 5938
- capital funding projects, debt servicing 5931
- course credit transfer arrangements 5946-7
- funding, matching grants program 5930-1
- governance models 5938
- grading system standardization 5946
- labour adjustment fund 5935
- management policies, role of Education, Skills and Training ministry 5939
- rating of B.C. institutes by Maclean's magazine 5904
- student residences, availability and use by conference participants 5947-8
- student spaces, enrolment capacity and targets 5934-5
- teaching staff, academic tenure system 5939
- technology and equipment acquisition, funding for upgrading 5906-7, 5935
- textbooks, purchasing policies of institutions 5937-8
- University of Northern B.C., post-diploma nursing degree, program elimination 5934
- University of Victoria, political science department, course cuts 5934
- Westbank Indian band
- land transfer for road system improvements 3454-5
- reserve-land designation for Gallagher's Canyon land 3483-4
- Winfield correctional facility project 2741
- Youth, unemployment 5940-1
Weisgerber, Jack (Peace River South)
- Aboriginal Affairs Committee recommendations, Aboriginal Affairs ministry response 6108
- Aboriginal Affairs ministry
- Agriculture
- crop insurance 3977-8
- forage seed initiative 3980
- seed distributors, requirement to purchase B.C.-produced seeds 3980
- weed control on public lands 3979
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry
- estimates debate 3974-80
- agriculture budget for 1998 period 3975-7
- Air Canada, services in north 3623
- Alberta, electoral division criteria 5560-1
- Attorney General ministry
- estimates debate 2825-7, 2875-7, 2985-6
- residential tenancy branch, arbitration services, telephone/fax submissions 2985-6
- Auditor general quoted on information to use as basis for financial reporting 2224
- Automobiles, photo radar use in speed monitoring
- effectiveness 2502
- mandatory use, minister's comments 3812
- use 3860
- Bre-X Minerals Ltd., stock devaluation 3459-60
- B.C. Ferry Corporation
- debt, increase 6242
- fast-ferry costs and ferry rates 2225-6
- B.C. Hydro
- debt, estimate used in 1997-98 Finance ministry budget, revision 2433-4
- Peace Valley land purchased for Site C development, disposition 4944-5
- rates, industrial users located near generating facilities 4943-4
- B.C., northern B.C.
- agriculture industry issues 5096-9
- economic development strategy for region 5099
- electoral representation 5560-1
- road conditions 3860
- use of propane as motor fuel 3083
- B.C. Rail Ltd.
- grain cars, number allocated 5099
- role in development of northern B.C. economy 5096-9
- Budget
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 3083-5
- Canadian National Railways, commercial relationship with B.C. Rail 5096-9
- Children and Families ministry, child protection responsibility 5132
- Civil service
- public sector employment contracts, termination provisions for exempt employees 5857-8
- severance for public sector non-executive employees 5858
- Coal industry, volume and haulage costs in northeast 5097-8
- Company Act, amendments 6242
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4745-8
- proposal to select new commissioner concurrent with review of legislation (Clark, C.) 4770 (Jarvis) 4764-5 (Nebbeling) 4752-3 (Nettleton) 4754 (Reitsma) 4774 (Weisgerber) 4747-8 (Wilson, G.) 4750-1
- selection of new commissioner 4745-8
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2226
- Credit rating, B.C. rating 2225
- Crown corporations
- dividends to government 2225-6
- role in economic and social development 5097
- Crown land activities 3375-7
- Dawson Creek
- grain-handling facility proposal 5098
- referendum on gambling 3812-3
- Debt, public debt during NDP administration 2223-6
- Drugs
- federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2775
- reference-based pricing 2775
- Economy, globalization 3623
- Election Act, review of legislation 2875-7
- Elections
- allocation and setting of electoral boundaries 5560-1
- electoral reform, referral to select standing committee 2504
- regulation of activities, fairness concerns 2875-6
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, time limit expiration 2504
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5560-1
- Electoral Boundaries Commission, mandate and role 5561
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4279-83, 4941-5, 5096-100
- Employment, need for jobs strategy 2396
- Environment
- environmental appeals, sulphur spill in Mackenzie area, disposition 5100
- environmental protests, participants 2432
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5631-6
- Ethanol production, economic viability 5635-6
- Evans Forest Products Ltd., government action 3976
- Export trade, free trade agreements, impact on B.C. 3623
- Financial Administration Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2151
- Finlay Navigation Ltd., barging operation on Williston Lake 4942-3
- Firearms
- amnesty, disposition of surrendered weapons 2825-6
- gun control legislation, implementation agreement with federal government 2826-7
- legal ownership and use 2826
- Flanders, Mavis, case, accuracy of information provided to Hon. Penny Priddy by ministry staff 5132
- Forest industry, jobs for non-union workers 5403
- Forest Renewal B.C., forest renewal projects, first-priority hiring for displaced forest workers 5403
- Fort Nelson, chopstick plant closing 2396-7, 2432
- Fuel
- propane, use as motor fuel
- stockpiling of MMT for use following imposition of federal restrictions 6507
- Gambling
- casinos
- establishment, input from designated and adjacent communities 4282-3
- styles 2501-2
- expansion in B.C.
- gambling establishments on Indian land 2222-3, 4283
- government-sponsored gambling 2225
- illegal or "grey" electronic gaming machines 4281-2
- income levels of players 4280
- revenues to government 4279
- slot machines in bars and other licensed establishments 4282
- video lottery terminals 4282
- Government
- accounting, off-budget recording of expenditures 2226
- spending
- authority to spend funds not passed during estimates 2151
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2158-9
- spending levels since 1991 election of NDP 2223-4, 2226
- Grain handling and transportation in Peace River area 5097-8
- Highways, secondary highways, withdrawal of provincial funding 6242
- Housing, rental housing records, maintenance requirement 2985-6
- Hughes, Ted, recommendations while conflict-of-interest commissioner on changes to legislation governing MLAs' conduct 4745-8
- Hunting, limited-entry hunting 5631-4
- Hurd, Wilf, commended for work as MLA 2852
- Indians
- aboriginal heritage, language and culture program, funding 3370-1
- hunting rights and entitlements 5632-3
- Indian land, management and land use planning 3411
- issues, federal government funding 3373-4
- land claims
- overlapping claims, responsibility to resolve 3412-3
- settlements, cost 3491-2
- third-party interests, compensation 3411
- preservation of culture and language 3370
- self-government
- treaties
- amendment provisions 3410
- certainty and finality 3409-10
- treaty negotiations
- overlapping boundaries 2503
- regional approach to issues 3404
- treaty settlements
- cash and land components 3413-4
- enrolled claimants 3415
- federal-provincial cost-sharing agreement 3415
- Infrastructure investments 3860
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2396-7
- Job protection commissioner, position and role 2396-7
- Knowledge Network, role 3623
- Legislature
- legislative calendar, fixed schedule for legislative sessions 2159
- legislative reform 2503, 6573
- McLeod Lake Indian band
- Manufactured homes
- Meekison, J. Peter, role as acting conflict-of-interest commissioner 4746-8
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4745-8
- MLAs
- constituency newsletters, content 3686
- contributions of former MLAs 6584
- number 5560
- pensions, implementation of Citizens' Panel recommendations 6242
- salaries, taxation 6242
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6242
- Moody's Investors Service Inc., B.C. credit review 2225
- Moose hunting, horn configuration requirement and inadvertent kills 5634
- Multilateral agreement on investment, B.C. request that government of Canada withdraw from negotiations (Motion 52), debate 3623-4
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3811-3
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government, reduction 2225
- Muskwa-Kechika area, management of area 5634-5
- Nisga'a people
- agreement-in-principle
- impact on other treaty settlements 2503
- per-capita costs and number of enrolled members 3020
- provisions on gambling on Nisga'a lands 2222-3
- gambling casinos on Nisga'a land 4283
- treaty
- certainty language 3406-7, 3409
- comparison to Yukon Indian treaty 3418, 3496-8
- government mandates re Indian treaty settlements 3403-15
- Patent Act Amendment Act, 1992 (federal), need for B.C. motion and debate 2775
- Peace River area
- crop damage, government response 3974-6
- funding for rural road repairs 3340-1
- grain industry viability 3976
- river flow issues 2800
- road bans 5322
- road conditions and need for rehabilitation 5322
- road construction projects and fair-wage policy 5323-4
- spot maintenance of low-use roads 5321-2
- Peace River South constituency, size 5561
- Premier's Office, estimates debate 6573
- Public Sector Employers Amendment Act, 1997
- Railways, role of rail transport in B.C. economy 5096-9
- Residential Tenancy Act, revision 3811-2
- Resource industries, job protection commissioner's intervention 2306
- Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, recommendations, government response 3371-4
- Saskatchewan, electoral division criteria 5560
- Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
- minority opinions in report 2538-9
- recommendation to allow free vote on treaties 5910-1
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4745-8
- Senate
- election of B.C. Senator 2292, 2503
- election of B.C. Senator, petition tabled 2295
- Senatorial Election Act, debate 2292
- Signs on highways for services and attractions, cost to small business 4329
- Social welfare system, residency requirement to receive benefits, removal of requirement 2502
- Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of B.C., revision, referral to select standing committee 2503-4
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2158-9
- Taxation during NDP administration 2502
- Throne speech
- Transportation and Highways ministry
- estimates debate 5321-4
- budget reduction, impact 5323
- expenditures 2226
- Transportation, northwest corridor, east-west connection across B.C. to coastal ports 5096-9
- Vancouver, casino for city 4280
- W.A.C. Bennett Dam, sinkhole, repair work 4941
- Wages, fair-wage policy and highway construction projects 5323-4
- Williston Lake
- Yukon Indian treaty, amendment provisions 3410-1
Welfare
- See names of particular programs, e.g., B.C. Benefits program; Human Resources, Ministry of; Social welfare system
Welfare to Work program
- Adult basic education component of program (Masi) 5878 (Ramsey) 5878
- Caseloads (Coell) 4692-3 (Ramsey) 5900 (Streifel) 4483-4, 4518-9, 4693
- Eligibility period (Masi) 5878 (Ramsey) 5878
- Funding (Ramsey) 5872
- Goals (Ramsey) 5872
- Program effectiveness, Victoria study (Masi) 5884, 5900 (Ramsey) 5884, 5900
- Youth services See Youth Works program
Wells
Werry, Brandon
- Anorexia case (Hawkins) 3642 (MacPhail) 3642 (van Dongen) 3512
West Coast Express
- Brain Train program See Capilano College, North Vancouver, B.C.
- Capital acquisitions, locomotive and railcar contracts (MacPhail) 5012-3 (Symons) 5012-3
- Financial operations (MacPhail) 5004-7 (Symons) 5004-6, 5008
- Role in regional transit system (MacPhail) 5007
- Service
- System, comparison with United States commuter rail (MacPhail) 5007
- Ticketing system (de Jong) 5011 (MacPhail) 5008, 5011-2 (Symons) 5008, 5012
West Coast General Hospital, Port Alberni, B.C.
West Fraser Mills Ltd.
West Vancouver, B.C.
West Vancouver school district
West Vancouver Secondary School, West Vancouver, B.C.
- Building upgrade (Dalton) 6142 (Ramsey) 6142
West Vancouver-Garibaldi constituency
Westbank area
- Irrigation district concerns, local decision (Farnworth) 3655-6 (Hawkins) 3655-6
- Restructuring (Abbott) 3847 (Farnworth) 3848
Westbank Indian band
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
- Multicultural resource library (Priddy) 6476
- Work of centre (Priddy) 6332
Westcoast Energy Inc.
- Amalgamation with Westcoast Energy and B.C. Trade Development Corporation See IPC Group
WesTel Telecommunications Ltd.
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
- Environmental youth team (Clark, C.) 5807 (Ramsey) 5807
Western Governors Association
- Memorandum on multilateral agreement on investment quoted (Wilson, G.) 3615
Western Grain Transportation Act (federal)
Western Premiers Conference
Westside, B.C.
Westview, B.C.
- Flooding in village, health concerns (Cashore) 3489 (Hawkins) 3488-9
Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd.
Whales
- Hunting of grey whales by Nuu-chah-nulth people (Cashore) 3494-5 (de Jong) 3494-5
- Whale-watching industry, government promotion (Pullinger) 4291 (Reitsma) 4291
Whale's Tale Skills Centre, Ucluelet, B.C.
Whistle-blowing
- Legislation, need (Symons) 2526
- Legislative protection for forest industry scalers (Wilson, G.) 5145
Whistler, B.C.
- Funding for roads (Boone) 6351 (Nebbeling) 6351
- Growth (Nebbeling) 2284
- Municipal grant reduction (Nebbeling) 2608, 2610
- Taxation (Nebbeling) 3249
Whistler Land Co.
Whistler Resort Association
- Taxation ability (Nebbeling) 3249-50
Whittred, Katherine (North Vancouver-Lonsdale)
- Alberta, electoral division criteria 5563-4
- B.C., rural regions, political representation 5563-4
- Budget debate 2352-4
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2722-3
- Caregivers Association of B.C., funding 3568
- Charities, role of services clubs as health care providers 3349-50
- Civil service
- public sector employment contracts, termination provisions for exempt employees 5858
- severance for public sector non-executive employees 5858
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4775-7
- selection of new commissioner 4775-7
- Consumers, taxes and user fees 2352-3
- Corporations, capital tax, impact on small business 2353
- Crown corporations, dividends to government 2353
- Democracy, democratic right to free speech 2354
- Disabled persons, services for community living 3546-7
- Drugs
- drug costs, impact of federal Bill C-91 3569-70
- pharmaceutical use by elderly 3477-8
- Education
- funding 2353
- post-secondary education, student costs 2353
- Education, Skills and Training ministry, management 2204-5
- Elections, allocation and setting of electoral boundaries 5563-4
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, purpose of 1989 legislation 5564
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5563-4
- Electoral Boundaries Commission, appointment of commission, timing requirements 5563-4
- Employment, jobs for B.C. workers 2353
- Family caregivers, unpaid care provided by women 3548
- Fisheries, sport fishing industry, angling fee increase 2352-3
- Forest industry, J-grade lumber 5331
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5331
- Gambling
- impact on women 2752
- link with family violence 2712
- Government
- accounting, off-budget recording of expenditures 2253
- policy
- conflicts between ministries 2667
- conflicts between social and economic policies 2813-4
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2204-5
- Greater Vancouver regional district, report on mental illness among elderly 3475-7
- Guardianship, adult guardianship legislation 3567
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2813-4
- Health care
- capital projects planning 3546
- community care, integration of services 3351-2
- community health centre service delivery model 3347-9
- continuing and long-term care
- facilities
- governance structure, roles and relationships 3345-6
- health care and hospital societies
- asset transfers 3349-50
- role in regionalized health care system 3567-8
- health care workers, classification issues 3351
- regionalization
- funding model 3544
- impact of Closer to Home program goals on women 2667
- objectives 3347
- respite services for family caregivers 3548, 3566-8
- services, fee increases 2352
- system, volunteers 3350
- wait-lists and waiting times 3545
- Health ministry
- Highways maintenance, cancellation of snowplowing 2352
- Home care
- Housing
- availability in lower mainland and capital regional district 3763
- registries 3764
- rental housing, low-rent units 3763
- secondary suites 3761-2
- Indians, health care needs 3566
- Kimberley Special Care Home Society, funding 3475
- Kiwanis Care Centre, multilevel care facility 3350-1
- Kiwanis Lodge of West Vancouver, use for seniors housing 3350
- Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society, role as provider of seniors housing 3350-1
- Kootenay area, health care services, West Kootenays beds-designation issue 3544
- Legislature
- conducting of House business in an orderly and efficient manner 4568-9
- legislative reform 2205
- select standing committees, use for legislative business 4569
- Lions Gate Bridge
- rehabilitation or replacement, NDP government handling 2722-3
- status 2205
- Mental health
- adequacy of services 3479
- incidence of dementia 3475
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3759-64
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 2722-3
- NDP government
- financial management 2204-6
- public relations activities 4568
- North Shore regional health board, public consultations 3346-7
- North Vancouver-Lonsdale constituency, issues and concerns 2205, 2352-4
- Pharmacists, role in monitoring prescription drug use 3478
- Public Sector Employers Act, termination provisions, timeliness of proposed amendments 5858
- Public Sector Employers Amendment Act, 1997
- debate 5858
- termination provisions, effectiveness 5858
- Retirement, impact of wage gap and family responsibilities on retirement income for women 2666-7
- Schamborzki, Inge, severance package 5858
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4775-7
- Seniors
- elder abuse 3567
- federal areas of responsibility, issues and concerns 3569-70
- funding for services and programs 3568-9
- health care
- Coquitlam long term care case 3546
- funding of care facilities 3547
- institutional vs. home care 3545, 3547
- needs, adult children caring for aging parents 2666-8
- Seniors Health Promotion Network, funding 3568
- user fees and income testing 3567
- housing 3548-50, 3551-2, 3759-61
- interministry committee 3524
- needs and concerns of B.C.'s aging population 4032-4
- peer counselling program 3569
- psychogeriatric services 3475-7
- service directories 3552
- transportation needs 3552
- Seniors Week, recognition of seniors' role in society 4033-4
- Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program
- SMILE (seniors medication information line), use 3477
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2204-5
- Tolls on bridges, impact on businesses 2723
- Volunteers, health care volunteers 3567-8
- West Vancouver, representation on North Vancouver regional health board 3352
- Women
- career and family responsibilities, leave of absence from work to care for aging parents 2666-8
- impact of government actions and policies 2667, 2813-4
- leaves of absence from work to care for family members 2666-8
- responsibilities as family caregivers 3548
- Women's Equality ministry, estimates debate 2666-8, 2813-4
- Youth, jobs for young people 2353
Wildlife
- Bears
- bear fencing around landfill sites (McGregor) 5766 (Neufeld) 5766
- handling by conservation staff, policy (McGregor) 5702 (Neufeld) 5701-2
- Conservation officer service
- budget allocation (Clark, C.) 5512-3, 5541-3 (McGregor) 5512-3, 5541-3
- conservation officers, functions (Clark, C.) 5482-3 (McGregor) 5482-3
- gun replacement (Clark, C.) 5543 (McGregor) 5543
- maintenance of service (McGregor) 6567
- number of officers (Clark, C.) 5481, 5541-3 (Krueger) 5768 (McGregor) 5481, 5541-3, 5768, 5770 (Neufeld) 5769-70
- Deer, rotation of mule deer winter range (Wilson, J.) 5503-5
- Endangered species (Clark, C.) 5762-3 (McGregor) 5762-3
- Habitat conservation fund, use of funds (Clark, C.) 2344 (Gingell) 2146
- Problem wildlife
- government action (Evans) 3986-7 (van Dongen) 3986
- ungulate populations and fencing (Wilson, J.) 4025
- Wildlife management areas, designation and stream flow protection, concern re private land (McGregor) 6213 (van Dongen) 6213
Wildlife Act
- Consequential amendments from Fish Protection Act (McGregor) 6213 (van Dongen) 6213
Wildlife branch
- See Fisheries and wildlife branches under Environment, Lands and Parks, Ministry of
William F. Davidson Elementary School, Surrey, B.C.
- Expropriation issue (Priddy) 2452
- School reconstruction (McKinnon) 6145 (Ramsey) 6145
Williams, Bryan
- Cited re report and recommendations on Cypress Provincial Park (Dalton) 5797-9 (McGregor) 5798-9
Williams, John
- Quoted re Tourism B.C. Act (Pullinger) 3180
Williams Lake, B.C.
- Housing needs (Zirnhelt) 2245
Williams Lake Junior Secondary School, Williams Lake, B.C.
- Replacement project (Zirnhelt) 2245
Williams, Ron
- Letter quoted on mining in Bootjack Lake watershed (Wilson, J.) 5568-9
Williamson, Tom
- Letter quoted on provincial policy on smoking in schools (Sanders) 6076
Williston Lake
Willow Cottage, Vancouver, B.C.
- Role as mental health assessment facility (Coell) 6337 (Priddy) 6337
Wills
Wilson, Gordon F. (Powell River-Sunshine Coast)
- Adoption Act, 1995 amendments 6293-5
- Adoption, issues 6293-5
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry, estimates debate 4061-7
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 3793-4
- Alaska, fisheries policy 3634
- Aquaculture
- industry
- salmon moratorium, petition tabled 6508
- Armed forces, Nanoose Bay test range lease agreement with United States, notice of termination by B.C. 3633-5, 6554-5
- Attorney General ministry, corrections branch probation officers, reclassification costs 2213
- Automobiles
- recreational vehicles, braking system requirements 5397
- traffic safety programs, consolidation under single administrative body 5970
- Blood supply system, national system 3639
- BC Benefits Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6031-2
- B.C. Ferry Corporation
- borrowing authority increase 6345
- capital projects, fast ferry program 4869-70
- establishment of for-profit Crown corporation 6345
- fares
- basis for setting of tariff levels 4812-6
- commuter rates on Powell River-Comox route 4828
- ferries as extension of highway system 4821
- ferry terminals
- Langdale terminal, commercial activities 4827
- Powell River terminal upgrade 4827
- revenues, non-tariff revenues from terminal and on-board services 4824
- routes and services
- Comox-Powell River service, vessel replacement 4827-8
- Langdale service 4825-6
- passenger-only service for Sunshine Coast 4826
- stakeholder process for corporate decision-making 4824, 4826
- subsidization
- commuter fare subsidies 4828
- future of current subsidy 4480, 4820-3
- government subsidy 6345
- incorporation of subsidy and debt increase 3737
- vessels, fast ferries
- design information 4870
- use for passenger service 4826
- B.C. Gaming Commission, mandate and role 4331-3
- B.C. Hydro
- B.C. domestic monopoly, continuation 4933, 6013
- power marketing and American trade law 4905-6
- rates, rural differentials 4932
- B.C. Provincial Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, restructuring issue and local-hire provision 3564
- Broughton Archipelago, fish farming, issues 4064
- Bruce Denning Bone Marrow Society 3639
- Budget
- debate 2269-75, 2435-8
- 1996-97 budget projections, accuracy 2163
- 1997-98 budget, projected deficit 2435
- budget process
- change 2273-4
- four-year-based financing 2275
- multi-year budgeting 2700
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2697-701
- Business, gross domestic product of large companies 3616
- Canada
- B.C.'s annual financial contribution 2699
- economy
- national unity
- project, papers tabled 6563
- work on issue 2123
- Canada-United States free trade agreement, impact on Canada 2124
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- equality provisions for homosexuals 5651-2
- society's responsibilities 2589
- Catamaran Ferries International, partnership with B.C. Ferry Corporation 4869-70
- Child, youth and family advocate
- precedence of child's interests when in conflict with interests of adult family member 6341
- recommendations, implementation 3967
- reporting to Legislature 3990
- Children
- child protection legislation, enactment 3967
- children in poverty 3967
- child's interests, public policy re government's responsibility 6031-2
- Children and Families ministry, estimates debate 6293-5
- Children's Commission
- commissioner
- access to information 3997
- access to information in resolving complaints vs. child's privacy 3994
- accountability 3993
- annual and special reports, publication 4001-2
- informing individuals of decisions 4001
- investigation powers, multidisciplinary team 3996-7
- mandate and powers 3993
- obligation to report 3999-4000
- recommendations from investigations 3993
- reporting publicly 3996
- setting of standards for government 3994
- complaint review process
- complexity 3968
- discretion to deal with complaint 3995
- making a complaint 4002
- no reprisals against complainants 4004
- refusal and deferment of complaints 4003
- effectiveness 3966
- guiding principles, decisions about children, families' involvement 3990-1
- investigation of other government agencies 3995-6
- privacy issues and families' direct intervention 3968
- Children's Commission Act
- Clark, Peter, role as Chair of lottery advisory committee 4331-3
- Commission into policing (Oppal commission), recommendations, implementation 5691
- Commission on Resources and Environment, mining zone designations 4130-1
- Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- conflict-of-interest commissioner and Members' Conflict of Interest Act (Motion 63), debate 4750-1
- selection of new commissioner 4750-1
- Corporations, taxation legislation, national standardization 4095
- Corrections system
- youth custody centres, planning costs for suspended capital projects 2213-4
- youth probation officers, transfer to Children and Families ministry 5575
- Criminal Code of Canada, Bill C-41 amendments, links with B.C. family maintenance enforcement legislation 5656-8
- Crown corporations
- powers 5970
- role in economic and social development 4094
- Crown land registry, transfer of responsibility for registry 3449-50
- Debt, personal debt, family maintenance arrears, disclosure of information to credit-reporting agencies 6065
- Debt, public debt
- current levels 2272
- debt as percentage of gross domestic product 4092, 4479-81, 4825
- debt during NDP administration 2435
- Desolation Sound Marine Park, protection of park 5962-3
- Divorce Act (federal)
- "child of the marriage," definition and use of term 5755, 5775-6
- custody and maintenance provisions 5656-8
- Drugs, federal drug-pricing legislation (Motion 56), debate 2771-2
- Economy
- B.C. economy
- continentalization of economy, impact on jobs 2395
- impact of global change on national economies 4093-4
- limits-to-growth economic strategy 2438
- "new world order" 3616
- Elections, proportional representation 5556-7
- Electoral Boundaries Commission
- mandate and role 5556-7
- services of retired judge, remuneration 5557
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1997
- Electric power price, B.C.'s right to regulate 2437
- Employment and Investment ministry, estimates debate 4092-5, 4130-1, 4331-40, 4820-8, 4869-70, 4929-33
- Employment Standards Act, impact on employers 2273
- Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 3449-50
- Environmental Appeal Board, appeal process for environmental legislation, costs to appellant 3449
- Equality Day, celebration 2589
- Exports and imports
- international trade agreements 4092-4
- trade policies and domestic needs 4930-2
- Families
- assets, division 5656, 5658
- family maintenance
- marriage as sacrament 5650-1, 5742-3
- relationship breakdown
- responsibility for well-being 3967
- Family court, counsellors' disclosure of confidential information 5780-3
- Family Maintenance Enforcement Amendment Act, 1997
- Family maintenance enforcement program 5782
- collection of unpaid balances
- claims, inclusion of liens for wages due to workers 6065
- enforcement of arrears against payer's personal or family corporation 5657, 6062
- default fees 6064-5
- effectiveness of program 5656-7
- payments, links with custody and access 5656, 5658
- Family Relations Act, custody and maintenance provisions 5656-8
- Family Relations Amendment Act, 1997
- debate 5649-52, 5741-3, 5746-52, 5754-5, 5775-83, 5786-7, 5790, 6051-9
- definition of terms used in bill 5650-1, 5657, 5742-3, 5754-5, 5778-9, 6051-2, 6054-6, 6058-60
- "in a marriage-like relationship," use of phrase 5650-1, 5743, 5786-7
- "spouse," replacement with term "domestic partner" 5743
- Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, implementation and three-year review by local government 3793-4
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, decision on B.C. power marketing certificate application 4929-33
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, estimates debate 4479-81
- Fish Protection Act, debate 5967
- Fisheries
- cod species, risk of extinction 6025
- federal powers 2586
- fish processing industry, dumping of effluent 4065-6
- fishing industry
- future of Pacific coast fishery 4062
- role in economy 2122
- international fishing agreement, need 2122
- labelling of fish as wild or farmed 4064-5
- Pacific salmon fishery
- Canada-B.C. agreement 2586
- claims of United States overfishing 6026
- dispute between United States and Canada 6275, 6553-6
- dispute between United States and Canada, Alaska ferry blockade, Hon. Glen Clark's position 6299
- protection and preservation of resource 3633-5
- rehabilitation of wild stock 4063
- Pacific Salmon Treaty, B.C. response to United States position on negotiation of new treaty (Motion without notice), debate 3633-5
- protection of marine ecosystem 6024-5
- resource protection 6024
- stream rehabilitation and eelgrass enhancement, cooperation with federal Fisheries and Oceans department 4067
- Fisheries and Oceans department (federal), mandate re west coast fishery 6024
- Fisheries Renewal Act
- Fisheries Renewal B.C.
- board operations 6026
- funding surplus, investment in communities 6025-6, 6364
- Food banks, comments of Val Anderson 3967
- Forest industry
- forest land, foreign ownership of private lands 4095
- log salvage, revenue potential 2122
- open log market 5144-5
- remanufacturing industry
- companies' independence vs. wood supply 5140
- government commitment to industry 5143
- wood supply 5139
- salvage log operations, direct sales to salvage loggers 5143
- scalers, whistle-blowing legislative protection 5145-6
- scaling 2122
- stumpage rates, level compared with log market values 2395
- tenure reform 2121, 2395, 5144
- value-added industry in B.C. 2121-2
- Forest Practices Code
- changes to code 5142-3
- environmental audit to measure code's results 5142
- review and revisions 5141-3
- Forest Renewal B.C.
- funds, use 2121
- investments in local communities 2273-4, 2438
- power to impose stumpage levy 3247
- revenues, depositing in credit union system in communities 3177
- Forests ministry, estimates debate 5138-46
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling, costs and consequences, comparison with smoking 6117
- bingo
- electronic bingo 3230
- linked bingo and other new technologies 4338-9
- types of bingo games available in B.C. 4334
- charity casinos, sharing of revenues with government 2588
- expansion in B.C.
- costs for physical improvements to existing facilities 4336-7
- expansion 2122-3
- free vote in Legislature 2123
- impact on charitable gaming operations 4334-5, 4338
- implementation 2588, 2713
- issues and concerns 2269-70, 2272
- ministerial responsibility 4332-3
- prior consultations 4333-4
- Progressive Democratic Alliance position 4336
- trust fund for additional revenues 4337-8
- Liberal Party position 2270
- lottery advisory committee, role and terms of office 4331-3
- revenue-splitting between government and charities 4335-8
- Gibsons
- Government
- changes in design of government 2274-5
- federal responsibility to act on behalf of provinces 3634-5
- federal transfers to provinces, reduction 2274-5
- federal-provincial relations 6553-4, 6556
- revenues, gambling profits used to fund government programs 2269-70, 2272
- role of government 2273-4
- separation of church and state 5641
- spending authority provided through use of interim supply 2163
- G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital, surgical services 3833-4
- Hammell, Hon. Sue, performance as Women's Equality minister 2817
- Health Authorities Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5861-4
- Health care
- costs, tobacco-related illness and disease 6116-8
- governance structure, amalgamations of old boards and councils, asset and liability issues 5863-4
- preventative and alternative health care 2436-7
- regional health boards and community health councils
- member selection, role of community 5861-4
- membership 2164-5
- regionalization
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3638-40
- Highway 101, Rat Portage Hill construction project 5396
- Hospital boards, severance packages for board members 2165
- Hotel room rates 3935
- Infrastructure investment, financing requirements 4480-1
- Insurance Corporation of B.C., role as both insurer and licensing regulator 5970
- Investment in B.C. 6013
- Job Protection Amendment Act, 1997, debate 2395-6
- Job protection commissioner, extension of mandate 2395-6
- Jobs and timber accord
- announcement 4525
- forest companies' role 5134
- impact on independent loggers 5138-40
- impact on participants in small business forest enterprise program 5138
- impact on silviculture contractors 5138
- separation of accord and Forest Practices Code 5141
- Jumbo Pass proposal, environmental assessment 5397-8
- Kootenay area, mining activity 4130
- Labour ministry, estimates debate 3121-2
- Labour Relations Code amendments, release of legislation to special interest groups prior to introduction in House 5109-10
- Land use
- land available for mining operations 4130-1
- planning
- dispute resolution process 4131
- issues in establishment of parks and protected areas 5962
- plans, status after municipal restructuring 3880
- Lawyers and legal services, legal aid
- child support appeals 6058
- definition of term "legal aid" 6341-2
- Legal Education and Action Fund, work of group 2589
- Legal Services Society, governance, trustee provision 6342-3
- Legislation
- accessibility of bills on internet 2699
- retroactivity of bills, policy 3936-7
- Legislature
- legislative calendar 3937
- recall of House to consider revised estimates 2163-5
- select standing committee for tobacco, alcohol and gambling issues, proposal 2089, 2122-3
- Liberal Party
- federal party's handling of Pacific salmon negotiations 3615
- free trade policies 2437-8
- Lillard, Charles, tribute 2151
- Local Government Grants Act, province's obligations under act 2272-3
- Local government services, public expectations 2272-3
- Lottery Act
- reporting requirements re administration of act and lottery operations 4339-40
- statutory authority for lottery advisory committee 4331
- Marriage Act, authority to amend definition of "spouse" in provincial legislation 5650, 5742-3, 5746, 5779
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, changes to scope of act 4750-1
- MLAs
- contributions of former MLAs 6583
- pension plan, optional participation 6353
- politics and House business 2817
- recording of MLAs' support for gambling expansion 2270, 2272
- right to pension plan 6353-4
- Mental health services, care of special needs children 6295
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6341-3, 6345, 6353-4
- Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, (No. 2) 1997, debate 5970
- Multilateral agreement on investment
- agreement 2436-8, 3613, 4092-4
- B.C. participation 2363
- B.C. request that government of Canada withdraw from negotiations (Motion 52), debate 3613-7
- consultations 3613-4, 3617
- impact on jobs 2395
- impact on jobs and timber accord 3614
- May 14 draft, public access 3956
- monopoly section
- referral to all-party committee 3956
- restrictions on market access 3615
- Municipal Affairs and Housing ministry, estimates debate 3879-81
- Municipalities
- NDP government
- New Zealand, government reform 2274
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- continentalization of national economies 2436-8
- provisions on energy exports 4929-30
- Offence Act, applicability of section 5 provisions to Police Act 5691-2
- Park Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5962-3
- Parks
- marine parks, issues 5962-3
- new and expanded parks and protected areas, establishment and protection 5962-3
- Patent Act Amendment Act, 1992 (federal), political nature of issue 2771-2
- Pender Harbour
- restructuring of area, funding for study 3879
- secondary roads in area, condition 5396
- Pharmacare program, PharmaNet computer system, prescription information, access by hospitals and physicians' offices 5693-4
- Pharmaceutical industry profits and alternative treatments 2436-7
- Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5693-4
- Police Amendment Act, 1997, debate 5691-2
- Police complaints process, requirement that all complaints be investigated 5691-2
- Politicians, public perception 2124
- Poverty, impact on children of being poor 3966
- Powell River, legal services funding 4525
- Power for Jobs Development Act, debate 6013
- Power for Jobs program
- legal issues re two-tiered pricing structure 4930-1
- program objectives 6013
- Powerex Corporation, access to United States energy markets, approval process 4929-33
- Premier's Office, estimates debate 6553-6
- Preston, Joyce, commended for report to Legislature as child advocate 3990
- Privacy, confidentiality of personal medical information 5693-4
- Prostitution
- child prostitution 2112-3
- prostitution unit
- Quoted on Forest Renewal B.C. (Farrell-Collins) 2125
- Real property tax, increases, impact on fixed-income earners 2698
- Resources and resource industries
- resource industries
- return of revenues to resource communities 2121
- role in B.C. economy 2435-8
- resource-based communities, political representation 5556
- Roberts Creek, land use policy, status after municipal restructuring 3880
- Role as B.C. government's constitutional adviser (de Jong) 3020 (Petter) 3019-20, 3062-3, 4790-1, 4793 (Plant) 3019, 3062-3, 4790-1, 4793
- Sechelt Indian band, self-government model 3881
- Seed patenting, food hybridization issue 2437
- Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, minority opinions in report 2538
- Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, need for meetings 2434
- Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, selection of new conflict-of-interest commissioner and review of legislation 4750-1
- Sexual orientation, equal rights for homosexuals 5651-2
- Signs on highways for services and attractions 5397
- Social welfare system, income assistance
- benefits and services, guaranteed annual income 5651
- impact of changes on income assistance process 2165-6
- Society, equality for all members of society 5651-2, 5743
- Sunshine Coast area, governance and funding 3881
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1997, debate 2163-6, 2213-4
- Taxation
- revenue collection responsibility, change to existing system 4481-2
- standardized system for international companies 4094-5
- tax assessment base, capital improvements vs. market value 2698
- tax burden 2273
- tax reform 2274-5, 2438
- Throne speech debate 2120-4
- Tobacco
- industry liability for smoking-related health care costs, actions to recover past and future costs 6116-8
- smoking, addiction 6117-8
- Tobacco Damages Recovery Act, debate 6116-8
- Tourism B.C.
- autonomy and government policy 3177
- board, membership and operation 3239-41
- borrowing powers and debt liability 3736
- business plan, benchmarks 3749
- competition with existing tourism promotion agencies 3737
- establishment of agency 3176-9
- funding 3246-7, 3934-6
- impact on small operators 3738
- incorporation of subsidiary corporations 3737
- job creation goal 3245-6
- negotiation of agreements 3737
- powers
- power to borrow money and negotiate agreements 3252
- setting of fees and taxes 3246-7
- responsibility for industry standards 3244-5
- Tourism British Columbia Act
- Tourism industry
- funding for community-based organizations 3179
- impact of tax and fee increases 3177, 3179
- Transplantation
- bone marrow transplants, unrelated donor registry 3638-40
- DNA database for organ transplants 3639-40
- Transportation and Highways ministry, estimates debate 5395-8
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, hiring hall 3614
- Urbanization, impact on farmland 3793-4
- Vancouver waterfront casino project 2270
- Water
- groundwater, need for legislation 5967
- United States access to B.C. water 2437
- Watershed protection 5962
- Weisgerber, Jack, proposal to select new conflict-of-interest commissioner concurrent with review of legislation 4750-1
- Women's Equality ministry
- estimates debate 2817
- free-standing ministry, Progressive Democratic Alliance Party position 2817
- Workers Compensation Act, replacement 2166
- Zirnhelt, Hon. David, granting of leave to allow Jack Weisgerber's amendment on conflict-of-interest motion 4750-1
Wilson, John (Cariboo North)
- Agricultural Land Commission, role in regional district decisions 4013
- Agricultural land development fund
- fund 2916
- special account, elimination 2732
- Agriculture
- pest control, pest management on private and public lands 3734, 5925
- weed control, funding 4024-5
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ministry
- estimates debate 4013, 4022-5
- livestock brand inspection role 2833
- office closings, impact on service delivery 4023-4
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 3791-2
- Aquaculture industry, role in economy 6023
- Attorney General ministry, estimates debate 2833
- Beaver Creek, studies on creek 5493
- Beef industry, strategic planning 4023
- Biodiversity protection 5613-4
- Bressette, Bruce, logging contractor case 5418-21
- Budget
- debate 2446-7
- 1997-98 budget, projected deficit 2447
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1997, debate 2732-4, 2916, 2925-6
- Cariboo-Chilcotin land use plan
- Commission on Resources and Environment, process 5462
- Cottonwood River property, land trade proposal 5837-8
- Crown land, unauthorized timber harvesting 6511
- Dairy industry, regulation of milk and milk production 3207-8
- Education funding 2447
- Empire Valley, Churn Creek properties, government interest in purchase 5490-1
- Employment, job creation
- additional jobs 2488
- jobs for B.C. workers 2447
- Employment Standards Tribunal
- cement-finishing subcontract case 3121-2
- current and completed cases 3121
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, estimates debate 5568-9, 5613-4, 5770, 5837-8, 5844-5
- Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- Environmental Appeal Board, appeal process for environmental legislation 3734
- Evans Forest Products Ltd., legislative provisions 6513
- Fish Protection Act, debate 6207-8
- Fisheries
- fish habitat protection, designation of sensitive streams 6207
- resource protection, causes of fish kills 6208
- Fisheries Renewal Act, debate 6023
- Foley, Patrick, woodlot cancellation 5526-30
- Forest Act, administrative appeals and tribunals, evidence given under oath 6465
- Forest Appeals Commission, Forests minister's power to override commission 6155
- Forest industry
- annual allowable cut, undercut 4958-9
- creation of new jobs vs. more hours for existing jobs 4919-20
- credit system to offset production costs 5192
- forest licences, licence refusals 6459
- forest management, brushing treatments on restocked land 6510
- forest roads
- building of roads 5191
- Forest Renewal B.C. funding 6491
- maintenance 6492
- Fort St. John forest district, forest licence 4917-9
- job creation
- NDP government goals 4590
- target, ratio of workers to timber harvest 4916
- licence process 4918
- log markets 5186-7
- logging contract disputes, appeal process 5421
- market price for lumber during 1996-97 period 5189
- operating costs 6155
- operational plans, activity in areas subject to proposed amendments 6494
- participation of Indians 5034-5
- private forest land 5490-1
- Quesnel forest district, statistics 5502
- quotas and stumpage, calculation 5190
- remanufacturing industry, issues 4955-60, 5034
- resource management zones within land use plans 6467
- salvage logging
- pilot projects 5501
- removal of trees "in danger" 6457
- security for contractors 5488-90
- silviculture
- funding 2489
- jobs 4590
- not satisfactorily restocked areas 5538
- stumpage
- rates 5502
- stumpage for decked wood 5191-2
- stumpage for small operations 5189-91
- stumpage owing to government 5258
- system, revenue stability if stumpage changes 6346-7
- supply of chips to pulp mills 5257
- timber-cutting licences, district managers' power to alter a contract's timeframe 5419
- woodlot program, issues 5502-5, 5525-7, 6513
- Forest Practices Code
- Forest Renewal B.C.
- assistance to contractors holding Repap debt 5488
- budget 4917
- funding for projects, eligible activities 6512
- information and research, accessibility to public 5492-3
- operations 6023
- spending on land-based and watershed restoration projects 5037-8
- tracking of job creation 5492
- training programs for forest workers 3280
- Forests ministry
- estimates debate 4916-20, 4954-60, 5033-8, 5186-92, 5257-8, 5418-24, 5462-3, 5488-94, 5501-5, 5525-30, 5535-9
- enforcement responsibility 5492
- handling of concerns of small forestry contractors 5418, 5421
- office location in Dawson Creek vs. Chetwynd 5539
- revenue branch, bad-debt provisions 5258
- silviculture expenditures 5537-8
- staff in positions created by Forest Renewal B.C. 5535
- transfer of responsibility to Forest Renewal B.C., transfer of staff 5537
- Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, debate 6154-5, 6457-9, 6467, 6491-4, 6510-3
- Fuel, propane use as motor fuel, expiration of tax exemption 2733
- Government
- automobiles, sale of fleet 2447
- downloading of costs to other agencies 2733
- revenues, future and anticipated revenues 2447
- Hart, Bob, dispute with Forests ministry, case 5422-3
- Health care
- funding 2447
- health care societies and hospital societies, monitoring by Health ministry 3834
- health care system during NDP administration 2488
- Health ministry, estimates debate 3832-4
- Hospitals, funding for capital equipment 3834
- Hunting offences committed by out-of-province hunters 5770
- Industries in B.C. 2488
- Jobs and timber accord
- impact on existing silviculture contracts 5036-7
- job creation
- jobs in undercut areas 4919
- log transport and other indirect jobs 4919
- new work arrangements 5033-4
- number and types of jobs 4917
- remanufacturing sector 4918
- pilot projects on community forest licences 5034-5
- strategic plan 4917
- Land use
- coordinated access management plans 5462-3
- implementation of land use plans 2447
- local resource use plans, government role in process 5462
- rezoning of agricultural land, scrap yard case 4013
- special resource development zones, land use plan for Cariboo-Chilcotin area 5504
- Livestock industry
- brand inspections 3791-2
- issues 4022-3, 4025
- transport of livestock, compensation for costs incurred during transport 3792
- Livestock industry, branding of livestock 2833
- Mahood, F.R., land leasing case 5770
- Medical Services Plan, restrictions on amounts billed by physicians 3833
- Milk Industry Amendment Act, 1997
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6346-7
- Municipalities, grants from provincial government 2732-3
- NDP government
- financial management 2733
- trust issue 2733
- Oil and gas industry, exploration projects 2447
- Orange hawkweed, control 5613
- Park Amendment Act, 1997
- Parks, new and expanded parks and protected areas
- Pesticide Control Act, consequential amendments from Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997 3734
- Physicians, supply and recruitment, community designation policies 3832-3
- Rangeland
- Forest Practices Code impact on range-users 2488
- grazing enhancement fund
- grazing leases 4022-3
- range development, funding 4022-3
- range improvement fund 2732
- range use plans, issues 6493-4
- Repap British Columbia Inc.
- assistance from Forest Renewal B.C. 5488
- fibre suppliers 5257
- potential closing, recovery of lost revenues for government and creditors' costs 5488
- stumpage owed for log chipping 5257-8
- School district 28 (Quesnel), funding reductions 2488
- Ski industry, stumpage rate for tree harvesting 5188-9
- Small business forest enterprise program
- extensions granted 5188
- job creation, number and types of jobs 4954
- ministry's responsibilities re roadbuilding 5191
- sales returned in Cariboo forest region 5188
- temporary disqualifications of licence 6458-9
- undercut 5188
- wood harvested, inclusion in softwood tariff agreement 5190-1
- Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act, amendments 6513-4
- Throne speech debate 2487-9
- T\ks2il?os Park, change of spelling of park name 5959
- Unionization of B.C. forest workers 3280
- Waste Management Act, consequential amendments from Environment, Lands and Parks Statutes Amendment Act, 1997 3734
- Waterborne organisms, cryptosporidium
- issue, Health ministry report 5535-7
- research 5493
- Watersheds, Bootjack Lake watershed, logging and mining issues 5568-9
- Wildlife, problem wildlife, ungulate populations and fencing 4025
- Woodworker Lien Act, adequacy 5489
- Zirnhelt, Hon. David, performance as Forests minister 2488
Wilson Landing, B.C.
- Baird Road, use by fire trucks (Boone) 5326 (Hawkins) 5326
Wilson, Maxine
- Role on local school board (Cashore) 2383
Windsor, Ont.
- Casino See Casinos under Gambling
Wine
- See also Grapes under Fruit and vegetables
- Industry
- current issues (Evans) 4069-70 (Thorpe) 4069-70
- wineries in Malahat-Juan de Fuca constituency (Kasper) 2340
- U-vin operations
Winfield, B.C.
- Correctional facility project (Dosanjh) 2741-2 (Weisbeck) 2741
Women
- Appointments of women to government board vacancies (Kwan) 2814
- Confidentiality of information kept by government-funded support groups (Dosanjh) 2942-3 (Stephens) 2942-3
- Deaths, leading causes (MacPhail) 3578-9 (Stephens) 3578-9
- Economic equity See also Employment and unemployment; Employment, wage disparity below; Minimum wage under Wages and Salaries
- Emergency housing for women leaving violent relationships See Emergency housing and shelters under Housing
- Employment
- benefits for women working part-time (Smallwood) 2810-11
- employment equity See Employment and unemployment
- leaves of absence to care for family members (Hammell) 2666-7 (Whittred) 2666-8
- non-traditional trades (Hammell) 2655, 2657-8 (Priddy) 2821
- non-traditional trades training, worksite issues (Anderson) 3203-4 (Cashore) 3203-4
- strategy (Hansen) 4206 (Miller) 4206
- wage disparity (Bowbrick) 2823 (Hammell) 2780, 2788-9, 4458 (Stephens) 2656, 2788
- wage supplements for low-paid workers (Hammell) 2667-9, 4446 (Stephens) 2668-9
- Health issues
- hospital childbirth practices (Gillespie) 2816
- prescription drug use (MacPhail) 3583 (Stephens) 3583
- public education program (Hammell) 2655-6
- Impact of government actions and policies
- Loans for women in business (Gillespie) 2816
- Ombudsman for women's issues (Hammell) 4453 (Stephens) 4453
- Post-partum depression See Mental health
- Poverty (McKinnon) 4989-90
- Programs and services for women (Hammell) 2712-3, 2752
- Responsibility of government ministries to champion women's issues (Priddy) 2666
- Role of women in society
- career and family responsibilities (Hammell) 2666-7 (Whittred) 2666-8
- perception of women as victims (Anderson) 2781 (Hammell) 2781-2
- responsibilities as family caregivers (MacPhail) 3548, 3577-8 (Stephens) 3577-8 (Whittred) 3548
- value placed on paid work done by women (Smallwood) 2810
- value placed on unpaid work done by women (Hammell) 2781
- Senior women See Retirement; Seniors
- Violence against women See Violence
- Women MLAs See Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- Women's centres, programs and program funding (Hammell) 2668 (Stephens) 2668
Women Against Violence Against Women
- Funding from gambling revenues (Hammell) 2751
Women's Equality, Ministry of
- Estimates
- debate 2654-72, 2779-89, 2802-24, 4445-62
- division: motion that the Women's Equality minister's office budget allocation be reduced to $1 (Stephens) 2805, negatived 2824
- speakers (Anderson) 2779-82, 4455-60 (Boone) 2808, 2811 (Bowbrick) 2823 (Chong) 2824 (Clark, C.) 2802-4, 2811-2 (Coleman) 2820 (Farrell-Collins) 2805-10, 2819 (Gillespie) 2816-7 (Gingell) 2665 (Hammell) 2654-72, 2779-89, 2802-6, 4445-62 (Hawkins) 2814-6 (Jarvis) 2787-8 (Krueger) 2664-6 (Kwan) 2814 (Miller) 2815, 2818-20 (Nebbeling) 2810, 2822-3 (Neufeld) 2671 (Penner) 2783-7 (Priddy) 2666, 2820-2 (Ramsey) 2807-8 (Reid) 2663-4 (Sihota) 2809, 2812-3 (Smallwood) 2809-11 (Stephens) 2656-62, 2664-5, 2668-72, 2779, 2788-9, 2804-5, 2817-8, 4445-55, 4457-62 (Streifel) 2809 (Thorpe) 2782-3 (Waddell) 2783 (Whittred) 2666-8, 2813-4 (Wilson, G.) 2817
- Annual report, 1995-96, tabled (Hammell) 5735
- Budget, reductions (Hammell) 2656
- Contracts with outside service providers, contract reform project (Hammell) 2659-62, 2660, 4446-7 (Stephens) 2659-62, 4446-7
- Free-standing ministry
- Liberal Party position (Bowbrick) 2823 (Chong) 2824 (Kwan) 2814 (Priddy) 2820-2 (Ramsey) 2807-8 (Sihota) 2812-3 (Stephens) 2818
- Progressive Democratic Alliance Party position (Wilson, G.) 2817
- Saskatchewan NDP government position (Stephens) 2818
- Management information system (MIS), data collection and performance measurement of programs and services (Hammell) 2659, 2661, 4448 (Stephens) 2662
- Mandate and responsibilities
- advocacy for women's issues (Gillespie) 2816-7 (Smallwood) 2810-11
- components of mandate (Hammell) 2655-6, 2664, 2784-5, 2802
- review of government programs and policies (Anderson) 2781 (Clark, C.) 2802-4, 2812 (Hammell) 2658, 2781-2, 2784-5, 2802 (Hawkins) 2816 (Penner) 2784-5 (Stephens) 2656, 2658, 2788, 2805
- role in transition of services to Children and Families ministry (Hammell) 4449 (Stephens) 4449
- role of ministry (Clark, C.) 2800 (Coleman) 2820 (Hammell) 2800
- Minister's role as champion for women's issues (Clark, C.) 2812 (Hawkins) 2815-6 (Krueger) 2665 (Nebbeling) 2822 (Stephens) 2664-5, 2818
- Multiculturalism plan (Anderson) 4455-7 (Hammell) 2672, 4455-7 (Stephens) 2672, 4455
- Policy, planning and evaluation branch, mandate and role (Clark, C.) 2802, 2812 (Farrell-Collins) 2805-6 (Hammell) 2802 (Hawkins) 2815 (Stephens) 2657, 2664, 2805
- Regional offices (Hammell) 2655
- Transfer of programs and services from Children and Families ministry See Children and Families, Ministry for
- Work on women's issues since establishment of free-standing ministry (Hammell) 2655-6, 2665 (Priddy) 2821 (Ramsey) 2807
- Work with other ministries (Anderson) 2781-2 (Hammell) 2657-8, 2661, 2669-71, 2781-2, 2784, 4453-4 (Priddy) 2821 (Stephens) 2661, 2669-71
Women's Resource Centre, Comox, B.C.
- Role in development of women's lending circle (Gillespie) 2816
Wong, Milton
- Statements on Indian land claims cited (Cashore) 2384, 3265
Wood Gundy Ltd.
- Quoted on B.C. budget (Petter) 2111
Wood, Josiah
- Report on police procedures in domestic violence cases (Dosanjh) 2881 (Hammell) 4451 (Stephens) 2881, 4451
Wood Link career-exploration tool
- See Career planning under Education
Wood waste
- See also Cogeneration under Electric power
- Beehive burners, phase-out program (Abbott) 2455-6, 5300-2 (Lali) 2456 (McGregor) 5702 (Neufeld) 5702 (Zirnhelt) 5301-2
Woodlands, New Westminster, B.C.
- Living conditions at institution (Coell) 6259 (Priddy) 6260
- Site, land use plan (Bowbrick) 3270-1 (Coleman) 5089 (Miller) 5089
Woodward Stores
- Vancouver store redevelopment project See Vancouver, B.C.
Woodworker Lien Act
- Adequacy (Wilson, J.) 5489 (Zirnhelt) 5489
Workers compensation
- Claimants
- claimant representatives, single-rep pilot project (Cashore) 3227 (Reid) 3227
- litigation rights (Cashore) 3253-4 (Reid) 3253-4
- medical bills, payment (MacPhail) 3897-8 (Reid) 3896-8
- suicides (Cashore) 3200 (Reid) 3200
- Claims
- Coverage
- coverage concerns, case cited (Anderson) 3203-4 (Cashore) 3203-4
- foster parents (McKinnon) 6270 (Priddy) 6270
- out-of-country exchange program participants (Cashore) 3255, 3258 (Reid) 3255, 3258
- volunteer workers (Cashore) 3260 (van Dongen) 3260
- Effectiveness of current system (Orcherton) 5218 (Reid) 5217-9
- Governance of system, 1996 report quoted (Reid) 5217
- Pensions, benefit basis (Cashore) 3257 (Reid) 3256-7
- Permanent disability benefits (Cashore) 3261 (van Dongen) 3260-1
- Rates, comparison with Alberta (van Dongen) 4022
Workers Compensation Act
- Replacement of act (Wilson, G.) 2166
Workers Compensation Board
- Accountability
- accountability and governance (Orcherton) 5218 (Reid) 5217-9
- "Enhancing Accountability for Performance" report cited (Reid) 3192-3, 4238, 4241-2
- Activities during 1996 (Cashore) 3047
- Adjudicators
- powers re claimant access to medical services (Reid) 6198
- qualifications and training (Cashore) 3198-200, 3253 (Reid) 3198-200
- Administrators
- Annual report, 1996, tabled (Cashore) 2433
- Appeals process (Cashore) 3261 (van Dongen) 3261
- Assessments, decision criteria (Jarvis) 4154-5 (Miller) 4154-5
- Classifications (Cashore) 3256 (Reid) 3255-6
- Client satisfaction survey (Cashore) 3200-2, 3261 (Reid) 3200-2 (van Dongen) 3261
- Concerns re agency (Clark, C.) 2136-7
- Executive severance pay-outs (de Jong) 5856 (Gingell) 5894 (MacPhail) 5894
- Fines, number (Cashore) 3204-5 (Neufeld) 3204-5
- Fund, investment activity (Gingell) 4531-2 (Petter) 4531-2
- Funding for cancer research (Cashore) 3256 (Reid) 3256
- Governance structure (Cashore) 3198 (Reid) 3198
- Inventories and studies (Cashore) 3226 (Reid) 3226
- Investigators, qualifications (Cashore) 3257-8 (Reid) 3257-8
- Medical review panel, qualifications (Cashore) 3258-9 (Reid) 3258-9
- Ombudsman's office (Cashore) 3224 (Reid) 3224
- Performance, accountability (Cashore) 3191-4, 3259 (Reid) 3191-4, 3259
- Policies and procedures, training programs (Cashore) 3196 (Reid) 3195-6
- Problems (Kasper) 2341
- Role in operation of criminal injury compensation program (Dosanjh) 2610-1 (Plant) 2610-1
- Royal commission to review operations
- Safety equipment requirement for working at heights (Cashore) 3205-6, 3218-9 (Neufeld) 3205-6, 3218-9
- Staff
- employee attitudes (Cashore) 3204 (Neufeld) 3204
- performance appraisals (Cashore) 3261 (van Dongen) 3261
- staffing levels and productivity (Cashore) 3261-2 (van Dongen) 3261-2
- Submission to Employment Standards Tribunal on oil and gas industry application (Cashore) 3219 (Neufeld) 3219
- "The Management Review of the Compensation Advisory Services," quoted on training for advisory services providers (Reid) 3195
- Vocational rehabilitation services (Cashore) 3225, 3254 (Reid) 3224-5, 3254-5
- Worksafe campaign (Cashore) 2855 (Dalton) 2855
Workers Compensation Review Board
Working Opportunity Fund
- Access by business partnerships (Pullinger) 5630
- Appeal process (Pullinger) 4398 (Thorpe) 4398
- Operation of fund (Chong) 4397-8 (Pullinger) 4397-8
World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention
- B.C.'s hosting of 1997 convention (Kwan) 2093 (Throne speech) 2085
World Cup
World Meet
- Conference of lottery organizations (Hansen) 4708 (Miller) 4708
World Trade Organization
- Position on domestic subsidies (Gingell) 5055-6
World Wildlife Fund
- Donation from B.C. Hydro (Farrell-Collins) 4974 (Miller) 4974
Worm composting
Worral, Ken
- Workers compensation pension reduction case (Cashore) 3256-7 (Reid) 3256-7
Wright, Leanne
- Quoted on ability of Indians to obtain financing (de Jong) 3429-30
Wright, Ron
- Operation of group home (de Jong) 6443
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