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Province of British Columbia
3rd Session, 36th Parliament -- Part 1: March - July 1998
Subject-Speaker INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
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Cabinet policy and communications secretariat See Finance and Corporate Relations, Ministry of
Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd.
- Letter re labour code changes
(Stephens) 9762
Cain, Vincent
Calder v. Attorney General of British Columbia
- Failure of court action
(Plant) 10607
Caledon Institute
- Comments on social services
(Pullinger) 6923
Calendino, Pietro (Burnaby North)
- Alberta, health care and education budgets 6693
- Australia, economy 9177
- Autism, treatment 8411-2
- Budget debate, 1998-99 budget 6690-4
- Budgets, 1998-99 budget, content and objectives 6691
- Business, business community's position on 1998-99 budget 6692-3
- Chong, Ida, comments on union collective agreements 9174
- Construction industry
- master collective agreements for major projects 9175
- residential sector, number of housing starts 9176-7
- Economy, B.C. economy, current conditions 9176-7
- Education
- funding 6692
- private education, charter schools 9906-8
- public education system, program diversity and parental involvement 9906-8
- Investment in B.C., private sector investment, comparisons with elsewhere 9175-6
- Krueger, Kevin, comments on workplace management 9174
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998, debate 9173-7
- Liberal Party, B.C. Liberal Party, position on organized labour 9173-4
- Mining industry, investment incentives 6691
- Morrison, Don, appointment as police complaint commissioner 6796
- New Zealand, economy 6693-4, 9177
- Ontario, education funding 6693
- Police complaint commissioner, powers and selection 6795-6
- Post-secondary education, tuition freeze 6692
- Special Committee to Appoint a Police Complaint Commissioner
- Taxation, 1998-99 levels 6691
- Trade unions, Liberal Party position on organized labour 9173-4
- Wages and salaries, wage levels in B.C. 9174-5
- Wilson, Gordon, position on labour relations code bill 9175
- Youth, programs and services, current initiatives 7654
Calgary framework for discussion on Canadian unity
- Amendability
(Clark, G.) 7921
- B.C. resolution
(Plant) 7842
(Wilson, G.) 7842
- B.C.'s position
(Campbell) 7883-4
(Neufeld) 7893
(Petter) 7879-82
(Plant) 7924
- Document referred to during debate tabled
(Campbell) 7885
- Next steps
(Petter) 7930
(Plant) 7930
- Principles and themes
- Public consultation
(Clark, G.) 7920
(Petter) 7929-30
(Plant) 7929-30
- Students' position
(Neufeld) 7893-4
- Timing of B.C. debate
(Campbell) 7883
Cambodia
- Khmer Rouge political regime
(Penner) 10636
Cameron, Ken
- Comments on light rapid transit and growth management
(Symons) 9366
Campaign 2000
- Child poverty study, findings
(Hogg) 9210
(Pullinger) 9212
Campbell, Gordon (Vancouver–Point Grey)
- An Act Respecting Firearms and Other Weapons, B.C. support for constitutional challenge, petition tabled 7878
- Alberta economy 8866
- Angus Reid Group Inc., survey on business community's reaction to 1998 budget 10336
- Arrowsmith Lodge, amalgamation issue 10257-9
- Attorney General, role 10661-3
- Auditor General Act, amendments 10352
- Auditor general, report on NDP government budgets, outcomes 10349, 10352
- Baby M., child abuse case, Children and Families ministry handling of case 7776-7
- Balanced Budget and Debt Reduction Act, debate 6612
- Barrett, David, appointment as commissioner of inquiry into condominium construction 6969-70
- B.C. Central Credit Union, comments on B.C. economy 7671
- B.C. Hydro International Ltd., Pakistan power project
- cancellation, recovery of B.C.'s investment 9443
- project 8049-50
- B.C. Utilities Commission, powers to review B.C. Hydro energy supply contracts 10663
- Budgets
- 1996-97 budget, balanced-budget claim and NDP election win 10348-9
- 1998-99 budget
- content and objectives 6635-6
- preparation of new budget 10757-8
- reaction of business community 10336
- balanced-budget legislation 6612
- budget process, truth in budgeting 6612
- Business
- business in B.C.
- consultations with government on taxation changes 10331-2
- costs, impact of changes to Workers Compensation Act on small and medium-sized business 7559-60
- small business
- impact of labour code changes 8951-2
- taxation 6605
- Business Council of B.C., report on 1998 budget 10336
- Business Task Force on Regulatory Impact, "First Report: Initial Consultations and Legislation" 9685
- Calgary framework for discussion on Canadian unity 7883-5
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, report on leaky condominiums 6970
- Canada, national unity
- B.C. Unity Panel, work of panel 7883
- key values 7883
- report by Gordon Wilson, referral to select standing committee 7884
- Celgar Pulp, Castlegar mill closing 10394
- Children
- child abuse, government handling of cases 7777
- child protection
- children at risk, risk assessment, qualifications of Children and Families ministry staff 8479-80
- keeping children safe 6653-4, 7491-2
- Children and Families ministry, funding needs 6653-4, 7491-2
- Clark, Glen, call for resignation 10349
- Comments on issues
- B.C. housing starts
(Lovick) 10031
- comments on public spending while mayor of Vancouver
(MacPhail) 6636
- forest industry
(Ramsey) 6838
- radio comments about Dale Lovick
(Lovick) 9664
- Commission of inquiry into child protection services, policies and practices of Social Services ministry (Gove commission), statements re decisions in child protection cases 8479
- Condominiums, leaky-condos issue, government action 6969-70
- Constitution, amendments, referendum requirement 7883
- Construction industry
- future of industry 8949-52
- impact of proposed labour code changes 8941
- issues 6607
- Coquitlam, role as urban centre 10699
- Corporation capital tax
- exemption threshold for financial institutions 6674-5
- impact on investment 6606
- Credit rating, B.C. rating, impact of 1998-99 budget 6758
- Cronk, Laird, labour history and appointment to employment standards branch 8549-50
- Crown corporations, conflict-of-interest guidelines 10352-3
- Crown land, leaseholders, purchase options 6862, 6890
- Delgamuukw cases, impact of decisions on Crown land sales 6890
- Dicey, A.V., comments in Law of the Constitution on rule of law 10661
- Dix, Adrian, role in Premier's Office 10342-5
- Economy, B.C. economy
- Education, funding 6604-5
- Elections, call for general election 10349
- Employment and unemployment
- employment levels, impact of economy and NDP government action 10331-2, 10334
- job creation 6604
- jobs for B.C. workers 9687-8
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, Crown lease application process, backlog 6794
- Evans, Corky, call for resignation 7379
- Ferries and ferry services, fast ferries construction program 6596
- Forest industry
- employment levels 8167, 8807-8
- industry during NDP administration 6607
- revenues to government
- amount given up as part of Nisga'a agreement 10138-9
- losses from log theft and fraud 8256-7
- Forest Practices Code, Liberal Party position 10342
- Forest Renewal B.C., hiring practices 9803
- Fraser Valley, light rail transit from Vancouver to Coquitlam and New Westminster, environmental assessment review 9557-8
- Freding, Bill and Darlene, Crown land purchase, government's obligation 6862, 6890
- Freedom of information, cost of requests for information, impact on accessibility 10354-5
- Gambling
- charity gaming
- future of charitable gaming in B.C. 6849-50
- province's licensing authority between 1986-98, retroactive immunity from legal action 10661-2
- expansion of gambling in B.C., social costs 10662
- legislation, proposed amendments re government's breach of Criminal Code, citizens' right to sue government 10195-6
- Gillespie, Evelyn, handling of situation involving constituency assistant 9803, 10342-5
- Glacier View Lodge
- amalgamation issue 10255-9
- legal action against government 10663
- Government
- accounting methods and practices 6612
- ministers, conduct guidelines, Premier's Office report 10351-2
- programs and initiatives, performance evaluations 10313
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Act, debate 10698-700
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, Rapid Transit Project, regional input 10699
- Gunton, Tom, role in preparation of 1996-97 budget 10349-50
- Harcourt, Michael, comments on needs of small business 7561
- Health care
- facilities, amalgamation issue 10255-9
- volunteers in health care system 10255
- Health ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 10255-9
- Hepatitis C, blood transfusion recipients infected prior to 1986, compensation for victims 7380, 7426, 7430-2, 7440
- Immigration, settlement services, funding 7875-6, 7885
- Indians
- land claims
- private property, exclusion from negotiations 9094
- resolution of outstanding claims 10103-4
- self-government, voting and other rights of non-Indians living on Indian land 9333-4
- treaties, use of Nisga'a final agreement as template for future treaties 10472
- treaty negotiations, public involvement 6609
- Investment in B.C.
- impact of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act 8950-2, 9685-6
- investment climate 6604
- private sector investment, comparisons with elsewhere 8951, 9687
- Jobs and timber accord, impact on number of forestry jobs 8167, 8807-8
- Justice system, citizen's right to bring legal action against government 10661-2
- Kincolith, road to highway, environmental assessment review 9557
- Krever, Horace, comments on compensation for all recipients of tainted blood 7431
- Kwan, Jenny, position on gambling prior to election as MLA 10662
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998, debate 8948-52, 9685-8
- Labour Relations Code changes
- Lee, Paul, work on youth employment advisory committee 10332-3
- Legislature
- committee system
- conducting of House business in an orderly and efficient manner 10313-4
- members, conduct of members 10344
- Liberal Party, B.C. Liberal Party
- MLAs' offer to work with government on funding for Children and Families ministry 6653-4
- position on Forest Practices Code 10342
- Lottery Act, amendment respecting deemed date of valid issue for gaming licences 10661-2
- McArthur, Doug, role in Premier's Office 10313
- Mahmood, Ali, Pakistan power project with B.C. Hydro International Ltd., involvement 8050
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, revision to include guidelines for Crown corporations 10352-3
- Mining industry, current state of industry 7292-4
- Mining Rights Amendment Act, 1998
- debate 7292-4
- retroactivity of compensation section 7293
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1998, debate 10660-3
- Morton, Cynthia, comments on audits in Children and Families ministry's Quesnel office 8479-80
- Motions
- Calgary framework for discussion on Canadian unity (Motion 48), debate 7883-5
- compensation for blood transfusion recipients infected prior to 1986 (Motion 46), debate 7430-2, 7440
- multilateral agreement on investment (Motion 43), debate 7209-10
- Multilateral agreement on investment 7209-10
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society
- breach of Criminal Code, Ujjal Dosanjh's position 6608
- repayment of money to charities 7539-40
- NDP government
- Nisga'a treaty, final agreement
- announcement 9668
- basis for other treaties 10472
- conclusion of negotiations 10103-4
- cost 10138-9
- creation of third order of government, issue 10472
- draft of final agreement tabled 10249
- government advertising 10353-4
- implications for Canadian constitution 10471-2
- public involvement 10309
- water reservation provisions 10543
- Northern and Rural Health Task Force, recommendations on fees for physicians' on-call services 8297-8
- Occupational health and safety, statutory requirements 7561-3
- Physicians, northern and rural physicians dispute
- Premier's Office
- Preston, Joyce, comments on child advocacy needs 7492
- Public debt, debt-servicing costs 6606
- Quesnel, child apprehensions, handling by Children and Families ministry staff 8479-80
- Recall and Initiative Act, need for changes 10355
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, report on forest crime 8256-7
- St. Joseph's Hospital, budget and affiliation agreement 10256
- Sashaw, Keith, comments on labour code changes 8941
- Schneider, Dean, contract with Forest Renewal B.C. 9803, 10343, 10345
- Science and technology, growth in high-technology sector 10332-3
- Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, report, government response to recommendations 10353
- Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, meetings 6596
- Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, role in modernizing of Auditor General Act 10352
- Six Mile Ranch development project, Agricultural Land Commission decision
- involvement of Adrian Dix 7312
- involvement of Cathy McGregor 7074
- involvement of Corky Evans 7379
- involvement of government members 7314, 7379
- SkyTrain expansion, environmental review 9467
- Smith, Brian R.D., comments on B.C. Hydro International Ltd.–Pakistan power project 8049
- Substance abuse/addiction, rehabilitation program for drivers displaying a drug dependency or alcohol-abuse lifestyle, petition tabled 9096
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1998, debate 6653-4
- Taseko Mines Ltd., Prosperity mine project, development of mine 7292
- Taxes in B.C. 6605
- Throne speech debate 6603-10
- Transit services, urban projects, environmental review requirement 9467
- Transportation, regional decisions, government role 10698-700
- Treaty Negotiation Advisory Committee, pre-release review of final Nisga'a agreement 9668, 10103-4
- Truth in Budgeting Act, debate 6612
- Vancouver, light rail system to Coquitlam 10699-700
- Volunteerism during NDP administration 6608
- Water rights included in Nisga'a treaty 10543
- Westbank Indian band, agreement with federal government, impact on non-Indians' voting rights 9333-4
- Workers Compensation (Occupational Health and Safety) Amendment Act, 1998
- Youth employment and unemployment 6606, 9687, 10329, 10331-3
- Youth Options B.C. program, web site, instant poll 10334-5
Campbell, Michael
- Comments on B.C. economy
(McKinnon) 9849
Campbell River and District Hospital, Campbell River, B.C.
Campbell River, B.C.
- Highway infrastructure projects
(Robertson) 6802
- Sewer system funding for Painter-Barclay subdivision
(Kwan) 8590
(Reid, L.) 8590-1
Campgrounds See Parks
Campgrounds B.C. See Campgrounds, new campsites under Parks
Canada
- Accomplishments and role in world
(Sihota) 7889-90
- Cultural diversity
(Anderson) 7897-8
- Diversity, "hyphenated Canadians"
(Walsh) 7927
- National unity
Canada Day
- Indians' involvement in Nanaimo celebrations
(Lovick) 9835
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
- Inspection requirement for insured loans
(Coleman) 8582
- Liability for leaky condominiums
(Coleman) 8582
- November 1996 study on leaky condominiums in B.C.
(Coleman) 8469, 8475-6
(Kwan) 8469
- Report on leaky condominiums
(Campbell) 6970
(Farrell-Collins) 6970
Canada Pension Plan
- Changes, gender issues
(Hammell) 7401-2
- Disability benefits
- benefits for B.C. income assistance applicants and recipients
(Chong) 7107-10
(Pullinger) 7106-9
- benefits for hepatitis C victims
(Priddy) 7430
Canada–British Columbia Infrastructure Works program
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
- Discussions with government
(Miller) 7325
- Position on government initiatives for oil and gas industry
(Jarvis) 9234
- President See Manning, David
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Equality guarantees
(Dosanjh) 10783-5
(Plant) 10716
(Waddell) 10720-1
(Wilson, G.) 10727
- Protection against self-incrimination
(Penner) 8206
- Protection against unreasonable or arbitrary search and seizure
(Penner) 8205-8
- "Rights consciousness" and implications for justice system
(Plant) 6952-4
(Sihota) 6953-4
Canadian Coalition on the Rights of the Child
- Work of coalition
(McKinnon) 6739
Canadian Forces bases See Armed forces
Canadian Forest Products Ltd.
- Agreement with West Moberly Indian band
(Neufeld) 8750
(Zirnhelt) 8750
- Eburne mill, future
(Anderson) 6947
(Bowbrick) 6949
- President and chief executive officer See Emerson, David
- Safety record
(Robertson) 7505
Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- B.C. share of funding
(Petter) 7854-5
Canadian Grandparents Rights Association
- Work of association
(Reid, L.) 8271
Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind
- Guide dog programs and initiatives
(Reid, L.) 8991-3
Canadian Home Builders Association
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Tourism Commission
- Role in promoting of B.C. sport fishery
(Waddell) 8028
Cancer
- Breast cancer, mammography services See Breast health
- Clinics
- Prevention strategies
(Giesbrecht) 6957
(Hawkins) 6956-8
- Programs and services
(Hawkins) 6864-5
(Priddy) 6864
Canfor See Canadian Forest Products Ltd.
Can't Stop the Violence with Silence See Violence at school under Violence
Capital Financing Authority Repeal and Debt Restructuring Act
Capital health region
CAPP See Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
Cariboo area
- Health care services
(Priddy) 7736
- Movie and television production in area
(Zirnhelt) 6898
Cariboo Economic Action Forum
- Current activities
(Zirnhelt) 6899
Cariboo Memorial Hospital, Williams Lake, B.C.
- Emergency department concerns
(Hawkins) 10251-2
(Neufeld) 7736
(Priddy) 7736
- Services
(Hawkins) 9429
Cariboo North constituency and area
- Medical services, petition tabled
(Wilson, J.) 7845
- Mining activity
(Wilson, J.) 6945
Cariboo South constituency and area
- Capital improvements
(Zirnhelt) 6898-900
Carlow, Don
- Commended for work with cancer patients
(Reid, L.) 7858
Carpenters Union See United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Carpentier, Jacques
Carradice, Jack
- Review of Conservative Environmentalism: Reassessing the Means, Redefining the Ends
(van Dongen) 9650
Carrier Lumber Ltd.
- Court case re loss of forest licences
(Abbott) 8619
(Zirnhelt) 8619-20
- Lawsuit re Chilcotin plateau forest licence and Indians' permission
(Dalton) 6828-9
Casamiro Resources Inc.
- Mine expropriation
(Jarvis) 7622
Cashore, John (Coquitlam-Maillardville)
- B.C. Mental Health Review Panel, work of panel 9273
- Budget debate, 1998-99 budget 6817-9
- Budgets, 1998-99 budget, content and objectives 6817
- Democracy, public involvement in government 6818
- Environment, environmental protection, organochlorines in pulp effluent, petition tabled 10680
- Experience as MLA and cabinet minister 6818-9
- Hepatitis C, blood transfusion recipients infected prior to 1986, compensation for victims 6818, 7444-5
- Impaired driving, assessment and rehabilitation programs for impaired drivers, petition tabled 10680
- Infrastructure funding 6817-8
- Land use, private property used for non-commercial activities, owner's liability 7682
- Mental Health Amendment Act, 1998, debate 9273-4
- Mental health, mental illness
- detention of person with mental disorder, decision based on prediction of future actions 9274
- services for persons with mental disorders 9273-4
- Motions, compensation for blood transfusion recipients infected prior to 1986 (Motion 46), debate 7444-5
- Muskwa-Kechika area, management of area 9903-4
- Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Act, debate 10289-90
- Occupiers Liability Amendment Act, 1998, debate 7682
- Politicians, personal values, influence on behaviour in Legislature 6743-4
- Racism, prevention of racism, government action 8697
- Riverview Hospital, downsizing of service capacity 9273
- Trans Canada Trail, project 7682
- Underwood, Matt, tribute 6818
Catamaran Ferries International Corp.
- Construction of non-aluminum vessels
(Wilson, G.) 8093
- Role in B.C. Ferry Corporation's fast ferry construction
(Symons) 8085
- Share structure
(Miller) 8092
(Wilson, G.) 8092
Cayoosh ski resort See Raine, Al, and Nancy Greene Raine
Celgar Pulp
Central Cariboo–Chilcotin health region
- Budget
(Hawkins) 10215
- Physician's letter re emergency care
(Hawkins) 10251-2
Central Okanagan school district See School district 23 (Central Okanagan)
Central Vancouver Island health region
- Funding
(Priddy) 10218
- Residential facility for mentally ill seniors
(Hawkins) 10223
(Priddy) 10223
Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia
- Comments on 1998-99 budget
(Penner) 6710
Certified Management Accountants Society of British Columbia
- Comments on B.C. economy
(Reid, L.) 6766
CFI See Catamaran Ferries International Corp.
Chair and Deputy Chair
- Mental Health Amendment Act, 1998
- definitions, replacement of "mentally disordered person" with "person with a mental disorder" 10694
Chair and Deputy Chair, Rulings and statements See Rulings and statements by Chair or Speaker
Chapman, Lola See Ridge Meadows Youth and Justice Advocacy Association
Chaps Enterprises
- Case re culturally modified trees
(Krueger) 8487-9
(Zirnhelt) 8488-9
- Forestry contract bid
(Krueger) 6872
- Logging operation shutdown, case
(Krueger) 9838-9
- Payment for roadbuilding in Fraser Canyon
(Krueger) 6805
Charities
- Organizations applying for funds from gambling, number
(Dalton) 8985
(Farnworth) 8979-81
(Nebbeling) 8979-81
Charleyboy, Ervin
- Letter to Chilcotin forest district
(Dalton) 8614
Charlottetown accord
- Rejection by Indians, application to B.C. treaty negotiations
(Krueger) 9837
(Lovick) 9837
Charmley, Delphine
Charter of Rights and Freedoms See Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Chase Creek
- Flood damage restoration, role of Forest Renewal B.C.
(Abbott) 9296
(McGregor) 9296
- Watershed work
(Abbott) 8656
Cherryville Community Club
- Television transmitter shack, tax assessment
(MacPhail) 10396
(Sanders) 10396
Chetwynd, B.C.
- Health care services, petition tabled
(Weisgerber) 8052
- Physician supply
(Hawkins) 10271, 10547
(Priddy) 10546-7
(Weisgerber) 10546
Chicken industry See Poultry industry
Chief electoral officer
- Second annual report, 1997, tabled
(Speaker) 10760
Chilcotin forest district
Chilcotin military reserve See Armed forces
Child Care Month
- Celebration
(Boone) 7495
(Clark, C.) 7495
Child, youth and family advocate See also Preston, Joyce
Children See also Youth
- B.C.'s child population
(Boone) 8784
- Child abuse
- Child care
- Child care subsidies
- ministerial responsibility
(Petter) 7828
- subsidies to day care centre owners
(Weisbeck) 7828
- Child custody and access See Families
- Child development
- Child literacy See Literacy
- Child prostitution See Child and youth prostitution under Prostitution
- Child protection
- at-risk minor services, mandate
(Masi) 7821
- child apprehension case
(Anderson) 8819-20
(Boone) 8820
- child apprehension system, issues and concerns
(Anderson) 10055-6
(Boone) 10055-6
- child apprehension system, time required for decision on returning child to family
(Stephens) 7166
- child apprehensions, Quesnel case See Quesnel, B.C.
- children at risk, risk assessment, qualifications of Children and Families ministry staff
(Boone) 8480
(Campbell) 8479-80
(Clark, C.) 8480
- early intervention programs
(Anderson) 10054-5
(Boone) 10055
- government handling of cases
(Boone) 8812-6
(Clark, C.) 8812-6
(McKinnon) 8814-5
- identification of children at risk
(Boone) 8820-1
(Clark, C.) 8821
(McKinnon) 8820
- keeping children safe
(Boone) 6654-5, 6663-4, 7491-4
(Campbell) 6653-4, 7491-2
(Clark, C.) 6623-6, 7492-3
(de Jong) 7494
(Farrell-Collins) 7493-4
(McKinnon) 6626
(Miller) 8273-4
(Sanders) 6631-2
(van Dongen) 6650-1
(Wilson, J.) 6689
(Zirnhelt) 6899
- Child protection workers
- handling of family violence cases
(Dosanjh) 7170
(Stephens) 7170
- new hirings
(Boone) 8784
- recruitment of new workers
(Boone) 8818-9
(Clark, C.) 8818-9
- training programs
(Boone) 10050-2
(McKinnon) 10050-2
- Child support See Family maintenance under Families
- Children in government care
- 1997-98 expenditures
(Anderson) 6665
(Boone) 6655-8, 6660, 6665
(Clark, C.) 6655-8
(Gingell) 6658-9
- children-in-care allowance
(Anderson) 9000
(Boone) 9000
- complaints involving care providers, investigations
(Boone) 10037-8
(Clark, C.) 10037
- contracted service providers, issues and concerns
(Boone) 10057-63, 10067-8
(Clark, C.) 10057-63
(Stephens) 10067-8
- contracted service providers, number
(Boone) 10033-6
(Clark, C.) 10033-6
- contracted service providers, wage levels for unionized and non-unionized workers
(Boone) 10069-73, 10075
(Clark, C.) 10069-73
(Sanders) 10073-5
- funding, federal contribution
(Anderson) 8999-9000
(Boone) 8889-92, 8894, 8999-9000, 9002-3
(Clark, C.) 8889-92, 8894, 8998-9, 9002-3
- high-needs children, specialized care requirements
(Boone) 9316-8, 10033-6
(Clark, C.) 9316-7, 10033-6
- institutional placements
(Boone) 8878
(McKinnon) 8878
- length of stay in care
(Boone) 9314-5, 9319-20
(Clark, C.) 9314-5, 9319-20
- number
(Boone) 6662-3, 6667, 8810-1
(Clark, C.) 6667, 8810-1
(Wilson, G.) 6662-3, 6719
- number, projections for 1998-99
(Boone) 8891-4
(Clark, C.) 8891-4
- special needs children
(Boone) 8869-74
(Clark, C.) 8869-74
- termination of B.C. Benefits family bonus
(Anderson) 9215
(Pullinger) 9215
- use of hotels as residential accommodation
(Boone) 10068
(Clark, C.) 10068-9
- Child's rights and interests
- government responsibility for children's rights
(Anderson) 10678
(Boone) 10678
- rights and interests
(Gillespie) 6740
(McKinnon) 6739-41
- Grandparents' role See Families
- Infant claimants in personal injury cases, limit on size of settlements
(Dosanjh) 7358, 7612
(Plant) 7612
- "Keeping B.C.'s Kids Safe"
(Boone) 8786
- National child benefit
(Anderson) 8999-9000
(Boone) 8999-9000
(Hogg) 9210, 9212
(Pullinger) 7097, 8418, 8725, 9209-10, 9212-3
- Needs of B.C. children
(Clark, C.) 8786-7, 8789
- Needs, prioritization
(Anderson) 9211-2
- Programs and services
- Prostitution See Child and youth prostitution under Prostitution
- Special needs children
(Clark, C.) 8873-4
(Krueger) 6872
Children and Families, Ministry for
- 1998-99 Estimates
- debate 8783-94, 8809-36, 8869-95, 8998-9005, 9312-22, 10032-40, 10044-84
- speakers
(Anderson) 8819-20, 8883, 8999-9001, 10052-6
(Boone) 8783-6, 8789-94, 8809-35, 8869-95, 8999-9005, 9312-22, 10033-40, 10044-73, 10075-84
(Chong) 8878-9, 10077-8
(Clark, C.) 8786-94, 8809-19, 8821-35, 8869-76, 8882-95, 8998-9, 9001-5, 9312-22, 10033-40, 10056-73, 10081-4
(McKinnon) 8814, 8820, 8835-6, 8876-8, 9001, 10050-2
(Neufeld) 10075-7
(Plant) 10078-81
(Sanders) 10073-5
(Stephens) 10067-8
(Thorpe) 8879-82
(Wilson, G.) 10044-50
(Wilson, J.) 8826-7
- Special warrant debate 6655-67
- 1998-99 budget
- Budget, allocation of interim supply funds
(McKinnon) 6846
- Community support services for Quesnel
(Boone) 8831-3, 8885
(Clark, C.) 8831-3
- Contract and program restructuring
- contracted services restructuring
(Clark, C.) 7091-2
(Dosanjh) 7091-2
(Gingell) 6910
- cost savings
(Boone) 10063
(Clark, C.) 10063
- cost savings objectives
(Anderson) 6666
(Boone) 6658-62, 6666-7
(Clark, C.) 6659-62, 6666-7
- process
(Boone) 10056-63, 10068
(Clark, C.) 10056-63
(Stephens) 10068
- process, termination
(Boone) 9668-9
(Clark, C.) 9668-9
(Masi) 9669
- review
(Boone) 8785
(Clark, C.) 8788
- Cultural sensitivity training for ministry employees
(Anderson) 10053-4
(Boone) 10044-5, 10053-4
(Wilson, G.) 10044-5
- Effectiveness
(Clark, C.) 8787-8
- Expenditures
- adult residential services
(Boone) 8791
(Clark, C.) 8791
- children in government care, amount per child
(Boone) 8810-1, 9003-5, 9314-5
(Clark, C.) 8810-1, 9003-5, 9314-6
- contracted-care providers
(Boone) 10033-6
(Clark, C.) 10033-6
- legal costs
(Anderson) 6665
(Boone) 6664-5, 8811-7
(Clark, C.) 8811-7
(Neufeld) 6664-5
- operating costs
(Boone) 8791
(Clark, C.) 8791-2
- overtime for child protection workers
(Boone) 8818
(Clark, C.) 8818
- professional services contracts
(Boone) 8791-3, 8826-7
(Clark, C.) 8791-3
(Wilson, J.) 8826-7
- residential care programs and services
(Boone) 6655-8, 6660
(Clark, C.) 6655-8
(Gingell) 6658-9
- salaries
(Boone) 8793-4
(Clark, C.) 8793-4
- wage increases for unionized service providers
(Boone) 10069-75
(Clark, C.) 10069-73
- Funding needs
(Anderson) 6628-30
(Boone) 7491-4
(Campbell) 6653-4, 7491-2
(Clark, C.) 6623-6, 7492-3, 8786-7
(Coell) 6627
(Farrell-Collins) 7493-4
(Kasper) 6722
(McKinnon) 6626-7
(Weisgerber) 6632-3
(Wilson, J.) 6647-8
- Headquarters streamlining
(Boone) 6662
(Clark, C.) 6662
- Liability for actions of children in government care
(Boone) 8888-9
(Clark, C.) 8888-9
- Operations, effectiveness
(Anderson) 9119, 9605
(Boone) 8783-4
(Reid, L.) 9996
(Sanders) 6631-2
(van Dongen) 6650-1
- Performance monitoring, audit process
(Boone) 8821-2, 8827-31
(Clark, C.) 8821-2, 8827-31
- Plans of care, auditing by children's commissioner
(Clark, C.) 7085-7
(Dosanjh) 7085-7
- Policies, implementation, involvement of other ministries
(Hogg) 7111-2
(Pullinger) 7111-2
- Programs and services, integration of programs transferred from other ministries
(Clark, C.) 7089-90
(Dosanjh) 7089-90
- Rapid response teams
(Boone) 8829, 8835
(Clark, C.) 8829, 8835
- Regional offices
- audits subsequent to child fatality, number requested by children's commissioner
(Clark, C.) 7090-1
(Dosanjh) 7090-1
- Quesnel office, children's commissioner request for audit
(Clark, C.) 7085
(Dosanjh) 7085
- Quesnel office, new hirings
(Boone) 8827
(Wilson, J.) 8827
- South Fraser region, service contract renewals
(Boone) 10059-62, 10067-8
(Clark, C.) 10059-62, 10068
(Stephens) 10067-8
- workload issues
(Boone) 8822-5, 8827-8
(Clark, C.) 8822-5, 8827-8
- Relationship with Human Resources ministry
(Anderson) 8999-9001
(Boone) 8999-9001
(Clark, C.) 9001-2
- Responsibilities of front-line workers
(Boone) 6654, 6663-4
(Clark, C.) 8788
(Wilson, G.) 6663-4
- Responsibility for problem gambling
(Farnworth) 9010
(Krueger) 9010
- Staffing
- Workload assessment tool
(Boone) 8828, 8833-5
(Clark, C.) 8828, 8833-5
- Workloads
(Clark, C.) 7084-5
(Dosanjh) 7085
Children's Commission
- Auditing of Children and Families ministry operations See Children and Families, Ministry for
- Commissioner See also Morton, Cynthia
- reporting to Attorney General
(Dosanjh) 7092
(Plant) 7092
- Complaints review process
- complaint volumes, impact of Children and Families ministry operations
(Clark, C.) 7084-7
(Dosanjh) 7087
- complaints, number made directly to commissioner
(Clark, C.) 7091
(Dosanjh) 7091
- notification requirement in case of investigation into child fatality
(Clark, C.) 7089
(Dosanjh) 7089
- privacy protection, balancing with need for openness
(Dosanjh) 7089
(Plant) 7088-9
- Office computer systems, year 2000 compliance
(Dosanjh) 7088
(McKinnon) 7088
- Recommendations to government, implementation
(Clark, C.) 7092
(Dosanjh) 7092
- Role in placing of foster children in culturally appropriate homes
(Clark, C.) 7088
(Dosanjh) 7088
Children's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.
Chile
- Industry, mining and forest activity
(Farnworth) 8781-2
(Nebbeling) 8780-1
Chilliwack, B.C.
- Chilliwack Lake road, maintenance, responsibility
(Lali) 7952-3
(Penner) 7952-3
- Courthouse, status
(Dosanjh) 7177-9
(Penner) 7177-9
- Economy, impact of closing of Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack
(Penner) 9775
- Health care issues and concerns
(Penner) 10458-61
Chilliwack constituency
- Constituent's letter re labour code changes
(Penner) 9632
Chilliwack General Hospital, Chilliwack, B.C.
- Capital improvements
(Penner) 10461
Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park
- Boundary change, responsibility for former Forests ministry campsites
(Penner) 8482
(Zirnhelt) 8482
Chilliwack River
- Flooding and runoff concerns
(McGregor) 6968
- Slesse Valley slides
- impact on fish habitat
(Clark, C.) 6891
(McGregor) 6891-2
(Penner) 6966-7
- impact on fish habitat and wildlife stocks, petition tabled
(van Dongen) 9096
Chilliwack school district See School district 33 (Chilliwack)
China
- B.C. tourism promotion offices
(Reitsma) 8161
Chong, Ida (Oak Bay–Gordon Head)
- Advanced Education, Training and Technology ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 7853-5
- Alberni-Clayoquot Continuing Care Society, donation to society 10262
- Arrowsmith Lodge
- amalgamation issue 10260-1
- legal action against government 10626
- Attorney General ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 7263-5
- residential tenancy branch arbitration system, operation and effectiveness 7263-5
- Auditor general, role in changes to government financial reporting system 6994
- B.C. Film Commission, budget 8327
- B.C. Government and Service Employees Union, representation on pension advisory board 7676
- B.C. Lottery Corporation, reports on gambling and the Asian community, freedom-of-information request 8421
- BC OnLine Act, debate 10417
- BC OnLine, sale to private sector operator 10417
- B.C. Principals and Vice-Principals Association, position on teachers' collective agreement 10502
- B.C. School Trustees Association, trustees' position on agreement-in-committee between government and B.C. Teachers Federation 10501
- B.C. Utilities Commission, powers to review B.C. Hydro energy supply contracts 10627
- Budget debate, 1998-99 budget 6773-6
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 1998, debate 6975-6
- Budgets
- 1998-99 budget, budgeted expenditures 9456
- balanced budgets 6774-5
- interim supply, use 9421-4
- Business
- business in B.C., companies leaving province 9620, 9925
- company's obligation to report unclaimed customer credit 9279
- cooperatives, access to government-sponsored venture capital funding 7615-6
- costs, impact of changes to Workers Compensation Act on small and medium-sized business 7542-3
- management-worker cooperation 7543
- small business
- Canada Pension Plan, disability benefits for B.C. income assistance applicants and recipients 7107-10
- Capital Financing Authority Repeal and Debt Restructuring Act, debate 6993-4
- Capital health region
- capital planning and projects 10481
- long term care beds 10480
- Carpentier, Jacques, legal action against government 10626
- Children and Families ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 8878-9, 10077-8
- Civil service
- job-share registry 7412
- public sector pension plans
- advisory boards, composition and remuneration 7676-7
- contribution and benefit payout provisions 7631, 7675-6
- College Pension Advisory Board, membership 7676
- College-Institute Educators Association, representation on pension advisory board 7676
- Comments on union collective agreements 9619
(Calendino) 9174
(Conroy) 9178
(Lali) 9104
- Commission of inquiry into the quality of condominium construction in B.C. (Barrett commission), mandate 10569
- Comptroller general, unclaimed property office, disposition of unclaimed moneys 9227, 9278-9
- Condominiums, leaky-condos issue 10569-70
- Conroy, Ed, personal experience as organ transplant recipient 10625
- Construction industry
- collective bargaining, changes in bargaining structures 9750, 9752
- review panels, findings and recommendations 9618
- taxpayer-supported projects 9620
- Corporation capital tax
- applicability to research and development expenditures 9197-8
- exemption threshold for financial institutions 6976
- impact on business 6975-6
- Credit rating, B.C. rating, impact of 1998-99 budget 6774-5
- Economy
- Employment and Investment ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 8899-900
- Employment and unemployment
- job loss, companies leaving B.C. 6985-6
- job-share registry 7412
- Ferries and ferry services, fare levels 6854
- Film industry, movie and television production costs in B.C., income tax credit on labour expenditures 8327
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry
- Finance and Corporate Relations Statutes Amendment Act, 1998, debate 7353
- Food Donor Encouragement Act, support for act 9387
- Forest industry, silviculture, union membership of workers 6854
- Foster homes, placement of child in home of relative 8878-9
- Gambling
- charity gaming, province's licensing authority between 1986-98, retroactive immunity from legal action 10625-6, 10628
- gambling preferences of Asian community, studies 8899-900
- Glacier View Lodge
- amalgamation issue 10260-1
- legal action against government 10626
- Government
- accounting
- independent accounting opinions, use 9227
- treatment of borrowings for public education sector capital projects 6993-4
- financial management 9748-9
- nominations to public sector pension plan boards 7676-7
- publications, interministerial approach 7414
- spending, 1998-99 levels 6776
- Greater Victoria Film Council, membership 8327
- Health care
- capital projects, projects 10405
- facilities, amalgamation issue 10260-1
- health care societies and hospital societies
- volunteers in health care system 10261
- Health ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 10260-3, 10415, 10480-1
- Heritage
- archaeological assessments
- payment responsibility 8217-20
- residential development sites, protection for future home owners 8216-7, 8220
- heritage sites, protected sites within municipal boundaries, awareness by local authorities 8218-9
- Heritage Conservation Act, compliance, issues and concerns 8220
- Highways and roads, devolution of maintenance responsibilities to municipalities 8118
- Homeowner Protection Act
- debate 10569-70
- appropriateness of bill's title 10570
- impact on house prices in interior and northern B.C. 10569
- Human Resources ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 7106-10
- Human Tissue Gift Act, changes to increase consent and donation rates 10625
- Income Tax Amendment Act, 1998, debate 6984-6
- Income tax, personal and corporate rates 6976
- Industrial Relations Reform Act, 1987, debate, position of NDP when in opposition 9923-4
- Internet, accessibility, training for women 7411
- Investment Dealers Association of Canada, reports on provincial economies 9749
- Investment in B.C.
- Justice system, citizen's right to bring legal action against government 10625-6
- Krueger, Kevin, role in removal from order paper of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act (1998) 9481-3
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998
- Labour Relations Code, changes 9617-20, 9748-50
- Labour, workplace safety
- workers killed or injured on the job 7517
- worker's responsibility for a safe work environment 7543-4
- Legislature
- committee system, use 6852-3, 9385, 9751-4
- conducting of House business in an orderly and efficient manner 9384-7, 9423-4
- estimates process, time needed to complete all ministries 9421-2
- legislative calendar and sitting schedule 9421-2, 9456
- opposition, role 9884
- rules for conducting of House business, purpose 9481-3
- Lottery Act, amendment respecting deemed date of valid issue for gaming licences 10625-6
- Lovick, Dale, comments on 1987 debate on Industrial Relations Reform Act 9923-4
- Manufactured homes, homesite rental, rent reviews, retroactivity issue 7263
- Miller, Sylvia, archaeological site on private property, case 8219
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1998, debate 10625-7
- Motions
- motion that the House at its rising stand recessed until 6:35 p.m. and thereafter sit until adjournment, debate 9384-7
- reinstatement of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998, on order paper (Motion 50), debate 9481-4
- Municipalities, responsibility for maintenance of area roads 8118
- NDP government
- management of 1998 legislative agenda 9384-7
- performance 6851-3
- priorities for 1998 legislative session 9754-5
- Occupational health and safety, statutory requirements 7517, 7542-5
- Palmer, Vaughn, comments on issues
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No.3) 10626
- purpose of parliamentary rules 9482
- Pension Benefits Standards Act, changes, economic security for women 7402
- Pension Statutes Amendment Act, 1998
- Peterson, Kate, appointment as Victoria film commissioner 8326
- Port Alberni, women's crisis centre, future 6776
- Post-secondary education
- research, B.C. knowledge development fund 7853-5
- tuition freeze, impact on institutions 7282-3
- Property rights, archaeological sites on privately owned land 8217-21
- Property transfer tax, applicability, issues and concerns 9193-4
- Public debt
- debt during NDP administration 6774-5
- impact on social safety net 6852-3
- incorporation of school and post-secondary capital project debt 6993-4
- Public Education Collective Agreement Act, debate 10501-2
- Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health, agreement with capital health region 10261-3
- Real estate special compensation fund, establishment of corporation and fund 7353
- Real property tax, assessment of property, impact of protected site designation on assessed values 8221
- Residential Tenancy Act, dispute resolution amendment re mobile home park tenancies 7263
- Royal B.C. Museum, operations and special exhibits 8293-4, 8294
- Royal Jubilee Hospital, capital project 10415
- Saanich, responsibility for maintenance of area roads 8118
- St. Ann's Academy, redevelopment project, archaeological assessment requirement 8220
- Select Standing Committee on Economic Development, Science, Labour, Training and Technology, review of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act 9751-5
- Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, consideration of debt-reporting methods for public education sector capital projects 6994
- Signs on highways for services and attractions, oversized signs 8118-9
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 8216-21, 8293-4, 8326-7
- Small Business Venture Capital Amendment Act, 1998
- Small business venture capital program, objectives 7356-7, 7615-6
- Social welfare system, income assistance, disability benefits
- allowable levels of other income 7106-7
- replacement by federal benefits, recovery of overpayments 7107-10
- Supply Act (No. 2), 1998, debate 9421-4, 9455-6
- Taxation
- 1998-99 levels 6775-6
- marginal tax rate for high-income earners, rate during NDP administration 6985
- revenues, impact of job loss to other provinces 6985-6
- tax avoidance, prevention measures 6984-5
- tax credits for eligible venture capital investments 7357
- Teachers
- agreement-in-committee between government and B.C. Teachers Federation 10501-2
- collective bargaining, government intervention 10502
- Throne speech
- Throne speech debate 6851-4
- Trade unions
- certification votes, secret ballot 9752
- sectoral bargaining 9754
- Transportation and Highways ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 8118-9
- vehicles, emissions reduction issue 8119
- Tuition Fee Freeze Act, debate 7282-3
- Unclaimed Money Act, changes 9227, 9278-9
- Vandermale, William, archaeological site on private property, case 8218-9, 8221
- Victoria Foundation Amendment Act, 1998
- Volunteers and volunteer sector, future of sector 6776
- Wilson, Gordon, position on labour relations code bill 9619
- Women
- economic equality 7403
- employment
- government strategy 7410-1
- opportunities, availability of day care services and variable work hours 7411-2
- opportunities in non-traditional areas 7405
- wage parity, statistics 7412-3
- pension issues 7402
- women in business
- opportunities and issues 7413-4
- women's business advocate, position 7414
- Women's Equality ministry advocacy 7402
- Women's Equality ministry
- Workers Compensation (Occupational Health and Safety) Amendment Act, 1998
- Youth
- special needs youth, transition to adult programs 10077-8
- unemployment rate 9750
- Zirnhelt, David, comments on government powers 9481, 10625
Chow, Suezone
- Commended for work in science and technology
(Reid, L.) 7852
Christian Labour Association of Canada
- Position on labour code changes
(Giesbrecht) 8961
(McKinnon) 9098
(Wilson, G.) 8954-5
Churchill, Randolph
- Comments on parliamentary dropped orders
(Abbott) 9486
Churchill, Winston
- Position on opposition's use of dropped order to terminate debate
(de Jong) 9350
(Penner) 9353-4
(Symons) 9520
CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Inc.
- Comments on B.C. debt levels
(MacPhail) 6714
Cities and towns
- Downtown revitalization and neighbourhood improvement programs
(Kwan) 8546-7
(Thorpe) 8546
Citizenship
Civil disobedience
- Blockades, government position on negotiation
(Zirnhelt) 8614
Civil service
- Employees
- licensed professionals, bargaining unit designation
(Boone) 10740
(Plant) 10740
(Symons) 10617-8
- number of employees
(Farrell-Collins) 6640
(Hansen) 6840-1
- Job-share registry
(Chong) 7412
(Hammell) 7412
- Public sector
- accountability
(Gingell) 6910
- labour relations, changes
(Dosanjh) 10604-5
(Symons) 10617-8
- wage settlement
(MacPhail) 9434
- Public sector pension plans
- advisory boards, composition and remuneration
(Chong) 7676-7
(MacPhail) 7676-7
- changes
(Dosanjh) 10604
- contribution and benefit payout provisions
(Chong) 7631, 7675-6
(MacPhail) 7631, 7676
- legislation See Pension Statutes Amendment Act, 1998; Pension Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 1998
- survivor benefits, entitlement rights of same-sex partners
(Dosanjh) 9013, 10715-6, 10730, 10783-91
(Farnworth) 10723
(Farrell-Collins) 10728-30
(Goodacre) 10721-2
(Nebbeling) 10721
(Petter) 10722-3
(Plant) 10716-20, 10783-91
(Priddy) 10723-4
(Sihota) 10726-7
(Stevenson) 10724-6
(Waddell) 10720-1
(Wilson, G.) 10727-8, 10788
Clark, Christy (Port Moody–Burnaby Mountain)
- Adoption
- number of placements 9321
- placement of Indian children, policy 8815
- special needs children, post-adoption government support 8869-72, 9313
- Air pollution caused by production of electric power 9129-32
- Alberta economy 9757-8, 10020
- Attorney General ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 7084-92
- provision of legal services to Children and Families ministry 8812-6
- Automobiles, photo radar, instruction manual for camera operators 8187-8
- Baby J., child abuse case, Children and Families ministry handling of case 8886
- Baby M., child abuse case, Children and Families ministry handling of case 7777, 8787, 8886
- Barrett, David, appointment as commissioner of inquiry into condominium construction 6971, 7541
- Boone, Lois
- comments on special needs day care funding 8367
- performance as MLA 9389
- B.C. Gas Inc., repurchase of gas sold to B.C. Hydro 9129-30
- B.C. Government and Service Employees Union, agreement with Children and Families ministry on workload assessment 8833-5
- B.C. Hydro, burglar alarm contract with Alberta company 6759
- B.C. Hydro International Ltd., Pakistan power project, cost to B.C. taxpayers 8122
- B.C., residents moving elsewhere 9681, 10021
- Budgets, special warrants, use to defray ministries' overexpenditures 6623-6
- Burrard Thermal power station, gas usage and power generation capacity 9128-32
- Business
- business in B.C., companies leaving province 9681
- costs, impact of changes to Workers Compensation Act on small and medium-sized business 7559-61
- Charmley, Delphine, fostering of special needs children, case 8869-74, 8876
- Child Care Month 7495
- Children
- child abuse, government handling of cases 7777, 8787-8, 10677-8
- child care
- child protection
- children at risk, risk assessment, qualifications of Children and Families ministry staff 8480
- government handling of cases 8812-6
- identification of children at risk 8821
- keeping children safe 7492-3
- child protection workers, recruitment of new workers 8818-9
- children in government care
- 1997-98 expenditures 6655-8
- complaints involving care providers, investigations 10037
- contracted service providers, issues and concerns 10057-63
- contracted service providers, number 10033-6
- contracted service providers, wage levels for unionized and non-unionized workers 10069-73
- funding, federal contribution 8889-92, 8894, 8998-9, 9002-3
- high-needs children, specialized care requirements 9316-7, 10033-6
- length of stay in care 9314-5, 9319-20
- number 6667, 8810-1, 8891-4
- special needs children 8869-74
- use of hotels as residential accommodation 10068-9
- needs of B.C. children 8786-7, 8789
- special needs children 8873-4
- Children and Families ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 8786-94, 8809-19, 8821-35, 8869-76, 8882-95, 8998-9, 9001-5, 9312-22, 10033-40, 10056-73, 10081-4
- 1998-99 budget
- community support services for Quesnel 8831-3
- contract and program restructuring
- effectiveness 8787-8
- expenditures
- adult residential services 8791
- children in government care, amount per child 8810-1, 9003-5, 9314-6
- contracted-care providers 10033-6
- legal costs 8811-7
- operating costs 8791-2
- overtime for child protection workers 8818
- professional services contracts 8791-3
- residential care programs and services 6655-8
- salaries 8793-4
- wage increases for unionized service providers 10069-73
- funding needs 6623-6, 7492-3, 8786-7
- headquarters streamlining 6662
- liability for actions of children in government care 8888-9
- performance monitoring, audit process 8821-2, 8827-31
- plans of care, auditing by children's commissioner 7085-7
- programs and services, integration of programs transferred from other ministries 7089-90
- rapid response teams 8829, 8835
- regional offices
- audits subsequent to child fatality, number requested by children's commissioner 7090-1
- Quesnel office, children's commissioner request for audit 7085
- South Fraser region, service contract renewals 10059-62, 10068
- workload issues 8822-5, 8827-8
- relationship with Human Resources ministry 9001-2
- responsibilities of front-line workers 8788
- staffing
- workload assessment tool 8828, 8833-5
- workloads 7084-5
- Children's Commission
- complaints review process
- complaint volumes, impact of Children and Families ministry operations 7084-7
- complaints, number made directly to commissioner 7091
- notification requirement in case of investigation into child fatality 7089
- recommendations to government, implementation 7092
- role in placing of foster children in culturally appropriate homes 7088
- Children's Hospital, waiting times 10553
- Chilliwack River, Slesse Valley slides, impact on fish habitat 6891
- Community Social Services Employers Association of B.C., role as bargaining agent for unionized employers 10069-73
- Condominiums, leaky-condos issue 6971
- Construction industry, residential housing sector, employment 9015
- Cotton, Mike, work against impaired driving 10454
- Crime, Nanaimo child abuse case, role of Children and Families ministry 10677-8
- D.E. Allen Consulting Ltd., report on Children and Families ministry 8793, 10067
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- community living services, standards monitoring, provincial review team 10038
- programs and services, compensation for unionized service providers 6662
- Doyle, Cassie, memo to staff on disclosure of confidential information 7426-7
- Economy
- B.C. economy
- Canada's economic performance, provincial comparisons 10021
- Education
- funding 8787
- public education system, priorities 9756-7
- Employment and Investment ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 9128-32
- Employment and unemployment
- jobs for B.C. workers 9679-81
- unemployment, impact on children and families 8893-4
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry, Crown lease application process, backlog 6851, 7426-7, 10759-60
- Evans, Corky, candidacy for leadership of NDP 9476-7
- Families, government assistance 9318-20
- Fehr, Ivan, transfer as cardiac patient to St. Paul's Hospital 9445
- Fetal alcohol effect/syndrome, newborns issues, handling by government 8821
- Fisheries, fish habitat, Environment ministry orders, property rights issue 6891
- Forest industry
- employment and jobs, jobs for Indians 8422-3
- revenues to government, losses from log theft and fraud 8258
- stumpage, rate reductions 10086
- Foster care
- family care payments, level for special needs children 8883-4
- foster children, high-risk children, Ministry's responsibility to inform caregiver 8887-8
- foster homes, number and kind, future needs 8885-6, 9005, 9316-8, 9321-2
- foster parents
- applicability of Workers Compensation Board regulations 10038-40
- contract requirements 8788-9
- recruitment program 9321-2
- service payments, expenses surplus deemed earned income 8869-76, 8882-3
- service payments, use, Nanaimo policy 9312-3
- support provided by resource workers 8894-5
- training program 10040
- turnover rate 8884, 8887
- funding
- group homes, monitoring 10036-7
- standards of care 10038
- system, concerns of foster parents 7087-8
- Gambling
- future of charitable gaming in B.C. 6863
- treatment services for persons with gambling addictions 10081-3
- Gillespie, Evelyn, role in Forest Renewal B.C.'s hiring of Dean Schneider 9910
- Government
- policy-making, public input 9755-7
- regulations and red tape, impact on business 7561
- Granger, Beth, medical services plan premium assistance case 10565-6
- Health care system, current state of B.C. system 9755
- Health ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 10553, 10565-6
- Housing starts 10022
- Human Resources ministry, income support policies, compatibility with Children and Families ministry policies 8875-6
- Impaired driving, strategies and programs to reduce impaired driving 10454-6
- Indians, employment, jobs for young people 8422-3
- Investment in B.C., impact of labour code changes 9680-1, 9964-7
- Jackson, Adrian, need for surgery 10553
- Justice system, public access to justice, legal costs issue 8812-6
- Kampman, Alison, legal action against director of child, family and community service 8815
- Krueger, Kevin, role in removal from order paper of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act (1998) 9474-6
- Labour Party (Britain), political ideology 9679
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998
- Labour Relations Code changes, support 9680-1
- Lawrence, Ken, Forests ministry summer job request 7673
- Lea, Graham, comments on current stumpage rates 10086
- Legislature
- committee system, use 8521, 9390, 9755-7
- conducting of House business in an orderly and efficient manner 9389-90
- estimates process, opportunity to examine government's priorities 8786
- language used in House, reference to member as having "a little bit of mental disability" 8881
- late-night sittings 8521-4
- rules for conducting of House business, purpose 9474-5
- Liberal Party, B.C. Liberal Party MLAs' offer to work with government on funding for Children and Families ministry 6623-6
- Lillooet River Watershed Society, watershed restoration projects, hiring and Forest Renewal B.C. funding 7981
- Medical Services Plan, premium assistance case 10565-6
- MLAs, role in estimates debates 8876
- Morton, Cynthia, comments on audits in Children and Families ministry Quesnel office 8480
- Motions
- motion that the House at its rising stand recessed until 6:35 p.m. and thereafter sit until adjournment, debate 8521-4
- motion that the House at its rising stand recessed until 6:35 p.m. and thereafter sit until adjournment, debate 9387-91
- reinstatement of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998, on order paper (Motion 50)
- debate 9474-7
- debate, government MLAs' contribution 9388
- Murphy family, foster care for Indian child, legal costs of case 8812-7
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, criminal activity 7541
- National Building Code, implementation 6971
- NDP government
- Occupational health and safety, statutory requirements 7559-61
- Parks
- campgrounds, new campsites 9151
- Forests ministry recreation sites, closing 9151
- Physicians, responsibility to notify authorities of children in need of protection 8821
- Politicians, accountability of elected officials 8813
- Preston, Joyce, comments on child advocacy needs 7492, 8787
- Public Sector Employers Council, funding of wage increases for social services employees 10069-73
- Quebec, economy 10021
- Quesnel Child and Youth Support Society, funding 8166
- Quesnel, child apprehensions
- Rankin, Murray, comments on Agricultural Land Commission in report on Six Mile Ranch development project 7206
- Reed, Jo-Anne, fostering of high-risk child 8887-9
- Road Sense program, youth promoters of program, cost of training conference 7844
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, report on forest crime 8258
- Salvation Army Cordova Detox, funding 10084
- Schneider, Dean, contract with Forest Renewal B.C. 9910
- Select Standing Committee on Economic Development, Science, Labour, Training and Technology, review of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act 9755-6, 9964
- Sihota, Moe, position on workplace safety legislation 7559
- Six Mile Ranch development project
- Agricultural Land Commission decision
- involvement of Adrian Dix 7075
- involvement of Cathy McGregor 7141-2
- involvement of Corky Evans 7206, 7272
- involvement of government members 7207
- contact between Pagebrook and Cathy McGregor 7143
- Smith, Brian R.D., role in negotiations between ATS Canada and B.C. government on photo radar contract 8122
- Societies, provision of care services to Children and Families ministry, contract amalgamations 10057-68
- Step-by-Step Child Development Society, work of society 7421-2
- Students, summer jobs 10020
- Substance abuse/addiction, treatment services 10083-4
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1998, debate 6623-6, 6655-62, 6666-7
- Surrey Association for Early Childhood Education, contracted funding levels 10065-6
- Vaudreuil, Matthew, child death case 8787-8
- Volunteers, community volunteerism 7421-3
- Workers Compensation (Occupational Health and Safety) Amendment Act, 1998, debate 7559-61
- Youth
Clark, Hon. Glen David (Vancouver-Kingsway)
- Agricultural land reserve, removal of land when deemed "in the provincial interest" 7271-2
- Aluminum smelting industry, smelters in B.C.
- energy for future facilities, availability and purchase price 10377
- promotion of smelter opportunities 10370-1
- status of negotiations on potential smelter 10377
- Anderson, David, role in Pacific salmon fishery dispute 10374
- Apology to Speaker of House 7979
- Armed forces
- Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack, use of land and facilities 10365
- Nanoose Bay test range, seabed licence agreement between B.C. and federal government, notice of cancellation 10373-4
- Auditor General Act, amendments 10352
- Auditor general, report on NDP government budgets, outcomes 10349, 10352
- Barrett, David, appointment as commissioner of inquiry into condominium construction 7541-2
- B.C. Hydro International Ltd., Pakistan power project, cost to B.C. taxpayers 8123
- B.C. Hydro, privatization 8300
- Budgets
- 1996-97 budget, revenue forecasts 10349-50
- 1997-98 budget, projections 6613
- 1998-99 budget
- projected revenues and expenditures 6612-3
- reaction of business community 10336
- Business, consultation with government on taxation changes 10332-3
- Calgary framework for discussion on Canadian unity 7920-3
- Call for resignation
(Campbell) 10349
- Canada, national unity
- Children, child protection, keeping children safe 6623-6
- Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, meeting with B.C. government re softwood lumber agreement 10371
- Comments on issues
- comments in 1992 on government commitments
(Hawkins) 6879
- comments while in opposition on committee system
(Anderson) 9884
- comments while in opposition on Social Credit government's 1991-92 budget
(Thorpe) 6779
- comments while in opposition on use of interim supply and special warrants
(Gingell) 6646
(Penner) 9450-1
- labour legislation
(Hansen) 8943-4
(Symons) 9077
- regional health board contract spending
(Hawkins) 10184
- Crown corporations
- Delgamuukw cases, ruling on aboriginal title 10366-7
- Dix, Adrian, role in Premier's Office 10342-5
- Dobbin, Lucy, appointment for northern and rural physicians dispute resolution 7842-4
- Economy, performance measurements 10336
- Edwards, Brenda, role in Premier's Office 10351, 10356
- Employment and unemployment
- employment levels, impact of economy and NDP government action 10330-1
- employment pattern of welfare recipients, statistics 10361-2
- job creation, number of new jobs since 1991 6612
- Ferries and ferry services, vessels
- fast ferries, construction costs 10325
- privatization and leaseback by corporation 10325-6
- Fisheries
- Pacific salmon fishery, dispute between United States and Canada, effectiveness of federal government actions 10374
- Pacific Salmon Treaty, meetings between B.C. and United States representatives 10372
- Forest industry, softwood lumber agreement with United States 10371-3
- Forest Practices Code
- impact of code, cost to industry 10341
- Liberal Party position 10342
- Forest Renewal B.C., Liberal Party position on agency 8423-4
- Freedom of information, cost of requests for information, impact on accessibility 10355
- Gillespie, Evelyn
- handling of situation involving constituency assistant 10342-5
- meeting with Premier's Office re constituency assistant 10196-7
- Government
- Guarantee for Youth program, status 10327
- Gunton, Tom, role in preparation of 1996-97 budget 10349-50
- Health care, funding 7919
- Hepatitis C, blood transfusion recipients infected prior to 1986, compensation for victims 6851, 7272
- Indians, taxation issues, federal policy 10370
- Investment climate in B.C. 10334
- Job Start program, status of program 10327
- Jobs and timber accord, job creation targets, outcomes 10336-8
- Keg Restaurants Ltd., marketing of wild salmon 10249
- Legislature
- committee system
- appointment of select standing committees 6595-6
- size of membership and workload of committees 10323-4
- use 10314
- conducting of House business in an orderly and efficient manner 10314-17, 10319-21, 10324
- legislative calendar and sitting schedule 10314, 10324
- Liberal Party
- B.C. Liberal Party, position on issues
- Liberal Party of Canada, decision to close Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack 10365
- McArthur, Doug, role in Premier's Office 10313
- Meetings with United States federal representatives on current issues 10371-3
(Wilson, G.) 10371-2
- Members' Conflict of Interest Act, revision to include guidelines for Crown corporations 10352-3
- Motions, Calgary framework for discussion on Canadian unity (Motion 48), debate 7920-3
- Muskwa-Kechika area, protection of area 8940
- Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Act, debate 8940
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society
- New Forest Opportunities Ltd.
- effectiveness 10340
- hiring policy, union membership requirement 10340-1
- Nike Inc. development campus, B.C. location 10370
- Nisga'a Final Agreement Act, politicization of debate on bill 10367-8
- Nisga'a treaty, final agreement
- approval process, public referendum, NDP position 10369
- government advertising 10353-4
- legal certainty 10366
- personal commitment to treaty
(Lovick) 9659-60, 9694-5
- public involvement 10309
- Northern Development Act, debate 9251
- Northern development commissioner, selection, opposition parties' position 9251
- Office of the United States Trade Representative, meeting with B.C. government re softwood lumber agreement 10371
- Penikett, Tony, role in negotiations with teachers 10375
- Performance as Premier
(Symons) 9418-9
- Petter, Andrew, comments while Finance minister on 1997-98 budget 6613
- Physicians, northern and rural physicians dispute, government action 7842-4, 7919
- Position on gambling expansion in B.C.
(Hansen) 10659
- Position on SkyTrain while in opposition
(Symons) 9370-1
- Post-secondary education, tuition freeze
- Powell River, site for aluminum smelter 10377
- Pratt, Russ, role in contract negotiations with teachers 10375-6
- Premier's Business Advisory Committee on Youth Employment, report recommendations 10360-1
- Premier's Office
- 1998-99 estimates debate 10312-7, 10319-21, 10323-77
- legal advisory services to Premier, policy 10351
- organization of office 10312-3
- Premier's briefing book, availability to opposition 10356
- role in monitoring of recall campaigns 10345-6
- role of deputy minister 10313
- Public debt during NDP administration 6612-3
- Recall and Initiative Act, need for changes 10355
- Reitsma, Paul, resignation as MLA before completion of recall vote count 10377
- Resources and resource industries, natural resource community fund, purpose 8808-9
- Rifkin, Jeremy, theories on future economy 10339
- Schneider, Dean, contract with Forest Renewal B.C. 10344-5
- Science and technology, growth in high-technology sector 10333
- Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, report, government response to recommendations 10353
- Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, meetings 10323
- Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, role in modernizing Auditor General Act 10352
- Six Mile Ranch development project
- Agricultural Land Commission decision
- involvement of Adrian Dix 7074-5, 7312-3
- involvement of Cathy McGregor 7074, 7076
- involvement of Corky Evans 7271-2
- involvement of government members 7314
- approval process 7075-6
- SkyTrain, extension of light rapid transit route using SkyTrain technology 8299
- Smith, Brian R.D., role in negotiations between ATS Canada and B.C. government on photo radar contract 8123
- Social Credit Party government, management of legislative agenda in 1980s 10320
- Social welfare system, Liberal Party position 10361-3
- Stupich, Dave, legal charges re Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society case 10348
- Taxation, Nisga'a treaty tax provisions, tax payment and exemption provisions 10366
- Teachers, agreement-in-committee between government and B.C. Teachers Federation
- negotiations 7037
- negotiations, role of Premier's Office 10375-6
- Technical University of B.C., establishment 10365
- Tobacco, meetings between Glen Clark and United States anti-tobacco advocates 10372
- Trade unions, free collective bargaining 10375-6
- Travel costs 10370-1
(Wilson, G.) 10370-1
- Tuition Fee Freeze Act, debate 7073
- Tumbler Ridge, job losses at local mines 8808-9
- Visit to China during 1997 Asian trade mission
(Farnworth) 8860-1
(Nebbeling) 8860-1
- Western Premiers Conference, comments on youth unemployment 10329
- Youth
- employment and unemployment
- unemployment rate, statistics 10329
- wage subsidy incentives 10327
- youth employment advisory committee recommendations 10333
- programs and services, current initiatives 7609
- Youth Community Action program 10357-8
- Youth Options B.C. program
- communications budget 10363
- web site, instant poll 10335
- Youth Works program 10359-61
Clayoquot Sound
- Logging jobs in area
(Jarvis) 6843
Clayton Elementary School, Surrey, B.C.
- Construction and portables
(McKinnon) 7708
(Ramsey) 7708
Clean Air Day
Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation
- Letter to Environment ministry re beverage container deposits
(McGregor) 9585
(Thorpe) 9555, 9585
Clearwater, B.C.
- Health care facility, funding
(Krueger) 10402-3
(Priddy) 10403
- Hospital construction project
(Krueger) 6873
- Hospital services, adequacy
(Krueger) 6806
Clinics See Community clinics under Health care
Coal industry
- Northeast coal, tonnage reduction for B.C. Rail
(Miller) 8000
(Neufeld) 8000
Coalition for Casual Custom Transit
- Advocacy for transit services for disabled people
(Symons) 9441
Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports
- Meeting with B.C. government re softwood lumber agreement
(Clark, G.) 10371
Coalition of British Columbia Businesses
- Comments on collective bargaining
(Barisoff) 9025
- Position on labour code changes
(Abbott) 9736
(Anderson) 9955-6
(Barisoff) 9611
(Hansen) 8944
(Sanders) 9614, 9616
Coalition of Progressive Electors
- Position on SkyTrain expansion
(Symons) 9370
Coalition to Save Public Education
- Comments on education funding levels
(Sanders) 6761
Coalmont, B.C.
Coast Mountains school district See School district 82 (Coast Mountains)
Coastal Community Network
- Work of members
(Robertson) 6937
Coell, Murray R. (Saanich North and the Islands)
- Advanced Education, Training and Technology ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 7798-800
- debt service contributions 7800
- grants in lieu of property taxes 7800
- Agriculture industry, fish-bearing waterways on farmland, Environment ministry regulations 9326
- Air
- air quality, government monitoring 9300-3, 9324
- emission trading initiative 9549
- greenhouse gas, emission reduction 9547-9
- Bamberton development proposal, review 9583
- Biologists, regulation, need for standards legislation 9462
- B.C. Assets and Land Corporation
- establishment 10660, 10733
- relationship with Environment ministry in sale of Crown lands 9592-3
- B.C. Hydro, power sales, pricing decisions 10660
- Budget debate, 1998-99 budget 6892-5
- Budgets
- balanced budgets 6894
- budget process, truth in budgeting 6877
- deficit budgets during NDP administration 9037
- Burrard Thermal power station, monitoring of water around plant 9462-3
- Business, role of entrepreneur in economy 9625-9
- Children and Families ministry, funding needs 6627
- Columbia Basin Trust, project funding 9457
- Cowichan Valley regional district, waste management plans, public input 9325
- Crown land
- exchanges of Crown land, accounting policy change 9594-5
- management authority, transfer to B.C. Assets and Land Corporation 9593, 10671
- sales, projected revenue 9594-5
- Crown land special account, transfer of funds to general revenue 9593-4
- Delgamuukw cases, impact of decisions on Crown land sales 9594
- Drugs, illegal drugs, national strategy 8699-701
- Economy
- Empire Valley Ranch, land acquisition by government, property appraisals 9502-3
- Employment and unemployment, jobs for B.C. workers 9035-8, 9626-9, 9805-7
- Environment
- environment youth teams 9529-31
- environmental assessment process 9549-50, 9581-4
- environmental assessment process, Sadler report recommendations 9457-8
- environmental protection
- environmental stewardship, industrial stewardship programs and eco-fees 9550-2
- issues, handling by NDP administration, environmental movement's report 9299
- pest control and pesticide use, aerial spraying against gypsy moth 9330-1
- pollution, AOX emissions from pulp mills 9461-2
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 9292, 9299-303, 9323-31, 9457-63, 9497-8, 9502-3, 9529-33, 9547-52, 9581-4, 9592-7, 9652-4, 10670-1
- budget reduction, impact on ministry 9597, 9652-4
- Crown lease application process, backlog 6794, 9592-3, 9595-7, 10733
- expenditures and staffing levels 9652-3
- LandData B.C., products and services 9323
- Parks division, publications budget 9533
- processing time for development proposals 6759
- relationship between ministry and Crown corporations re transportation issues and air quality 9549
- Environment Week 8188
- Film industry, movie and television production 6894
- Fish Protection Act, impact on small communities of stream setback and land development guidelines 9325-7
- Forest industry, forestry access roads in potential marine park site 9460
- Galiano Conservancy Association, management of Pebble Beach area 9459-60
- Gambling, charity gaming, province's licensing authority between 1986-98, retroactive immunity from legal action 10660
- Government
- financial management 6627-8
- public confidence in government 10660
- spending, advertising expenditures 9037-8
- Greater Vancouver regional district, waste management 7781-2
- Hazardous products, recycling of currently stored products 7756
- Health care system, current state of B.C. system 6894
- Heritage, archaeological assessments, payment responsibility 8216
- Heritage Conservation Act, compliance, issues and concerns 8215-6
- Highways and roads, recreational trails crossing public roads, liability issue 7718
- Hunting
- elk hunting in the Kootenays, Raedeke report 9328-9
- trapping, leghold traps 9329-30
- Impaired driving, assessment and rehabilitation programs for impaired drivers, petition tabled 10087
- Investment in B.C.
- Labour legislation, fairness 6877
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998, debate 9035-8, 9625-9, 9791-2, 9805-7, 9938-41
- Land use, private property used for non-commercial activities, owner's liability 7682, 7715-6
- Legislation, miscellaneous statutes bills, use 10660
- Legislature
- late-night sittings and cooperation between government and opposition 8528
- legislative calendar and sitting schedule 9407-8
- legislative reform 9408-10
- quorum calls, members must be in their seats to be counted 9301
- right to sit and act without leave of the Crown 10660
- Liberal Party, B.C. Liberal Party MLAs' offer to work with government on funding for Children and Families ministry 6627
- Lottery Act, amendment respecting deemed date of valid issue for gaming licences 10660
- Miller, Sylvia, archaeological site on private property, case 8215-6
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1998, debate 10660, 10733
- Motions
- motion that the House at its rising stand recessed until 6:35 p.m. and thereafter sit until adjournment, debate 8528
- motion that the House at its rising stand recessed until 6:35 p.m. and thereafter sit until adjournment, debate 9407-10
- Muskwa-Kechika area, management of area 9903-4
- Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Act, debate 10293-4, 10296-7
- NDP government
- Occupiers Liability Amendment Act, 1998, debate 7682, 7715-6, 7718
- Oil and Gas Commission Act, debate 9235
- Oil and Gas Commission, establishment of agency 9235
- Oil and gas industry 9235
- Pacific Marine Heritage Legacy, purchase of Gulf Islands properties for future parks 9458-60
- Park Amendment Act, 1998, debate 8267, 8383-5
- Parks
- boundary definition, replacement of metes-and-bounds descriptions with maps 8267, 8383-4-5
- campsite construction, costs and services 9530-2, 9547
- Forests ministry recreation sites
- closing 9531
- ministerial responsibility 9547
- new and expanded parks and protected areas, resource tenure compensation 9460
- Park Legacy panel, report 9533
- visitors, number 9532-3
- Property rights, private property, archaeological sites on privately owned land 8215-6
- Public debt during NDP administration 6627-8
- Recreation, trails system for B.C. 7682
- Recycling, battery and tire recycling initiatives 9497-8
- Select Standing Committee on Economic Development, Science, Labour, Training and Technology, review of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act 9791-2, 9805-7
- Sidney, John Dean Park, garbage collection 9532
- Sihota, Moe, position while Environment minister on Galiano Conservancy Association's management of Pebble Beach 9459
- Skeena Cellulose Inc., pollution issues, compliance with government regulations 9460-1
- Skills training programs 7799-800
- SkyTrain expansion
- impact on air quality 9583-4
- role of Environment ministry in environmental assessment process 9549-50, 9584
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 8215-6
- Substance abuse/addiction, treatment services for abusers who cause car accidents and death, petition tabled 9016
- Supply Act (No. 1), 1998, debate 6627-8
- Taxation
- Throne speech debate 6876-8
- Throne speech, NDP government throne speeches 6876-8
- Trans Canada Trail 7682, 7715-6, 9327-8
- Transit services
- buses and bus service, impact on air quality 9324
- urban transit projects, environmental assessment reviews 9557
- Waste management
- regional district's access to records of businesses 7780
- regulation of industry, costs 7757
- solid waste reduction, provincial target 7684
- waste hauling, setting of fees 7780-1
- waste management plans by regional districts
- approval of electorate 7756-7
- public consultation 9324-5
- regional district powers 7684
- staff's powers 7781-2
- stakeholder consultation 7757
- Waste Management Amendment Act, 1998
- debate 7684, 7756-8, 7780-2
- consultation with stakeholders on bill 7684
- definitions
- consultation on definitions section 7756
- "district director" 7756
- "refuse" 7756
- "stakeholders" 7757, 7781
- impact on consumers' costs 7684
- retroactivity 7782
- Water, groundwater protection pilot project 9462
- Welfare to Work program 7798-9
- Wildlife
- management, wildlife tracking and counts 9329
- marmots, protection of Vancouver Island marmot population 7429
- Wood waste, beehive burners, phase-out program 9299-303
- Youth
- Youth Works program 7798-9
Coetzee, Chris
- Comments on surgery wait-lists
(Neufeld) 7918
Coleman, Rich (Fort Langley–Aldergrove)
- Advanced Education, Training and Technology ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 7932-7
- Agricultural land reserve, use of covenants on reserve land 7067
- Agriculture and Food ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 7067, 7069-72
- Agriculture industry
- agricultural land
- removal of topsoil for intensive farming operations 7067, 7069
- traditional uses and current restrictions 7071
- use for intensive farming operations and greenhouses 7069
- ditches and leave-strips, MLAs' meeting with federal, provincial and local authorities 7069
- industrialization of agriculture 7069-70
- mushroom industry, composting issue 7070
- Alberta, labour laws 10025-6
- Architects, role and responsibility in building construction 8585
- Attorney General ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 7262-3
- residential tenancy branch, arbitrator's powers 7693-4, 7739-40
- Attorney General Statutes Amendment Act, 1998, debate 7693-4, 7739-41, 7743-4, 7747-9
- Autism, educational costs 10518
- Bertram Creek, watershed issue 7071
- B.C. Building Code
- B.C. Buildings Corporation, operations 7932-5, 7937
- B.C., residents moving elsewhere 9742-3, 10009, 10023
- Business
- business in B.C., companies leaving province 9742-3
- costs, impact of changes to Workers Compensation Act on small and medium-sized business 7557-8
- management-worker cooperation 10008
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
- inspection requirement for insured loans 8582
- liability for leaky condominiums 8582
- November 1996 study on leaky condominiums in B.C. 8469, 8475-6
- Condominium Act, revision 8537
- Condominiums
- bare-land stratas 10380
- changes to strata lot 10534
- construction drawings, provision of final drawings to strata council 10533
- contingency funds
- developer's contribution 10380
- establishment and amount 10532
- management and cost 10534
- disclosure of information 10380
- interim budget after first conveyance 10532-3
- leaky-condos issue
- leasehold strata plans 10535
- licensing of property managers 10535
- owner-developer's expenses after conveyance of first strata lot 10531
- owner-developer's standard of care 10531
- owners' access to records 10533
- rental units 10534-5
- restriction of owner-developer's contracting powers 10532
- strata management
- management 8587-8
- provision of information certificates to owners and buyers 10534
- training for strata councils 10381, 10533-6
- Construction industry
- activity 10007
- building design and construction issues 8583-8
- collective bargaining, changes in bargaining structures 9741
- future of industry 9741-3, 9888-9, 10023-4
- impact of charge on residential developments for school site acquisition 10526-7
- licensing of residential builders 10590-1
- new-home warranty program 10577
- pensions for workers 10024
- warranties and warranty system 8585, 10577
- D.M. Griffith and Associates, role in disposition of government vehicle fleet 9207
- Economy, B.C. economy, current and future conditions 9741-3, 9888-91, 10006-9, 10024-6
- Education
- Education ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 7536-7
- Education Statutes Amendment Act, 1998, debate 10526-7
- Electric power, wood residue power conversion plant, proposal 8564-5
- Employment and unemployment
- Engineers, role and responsibility in building construction 8585
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry
- 1998-99 estimates debate 9652
- land expropriations, compensation issue 6752, 6890-1
- Farrell-Collins, Gary, comments on precedents for dropped orders 9478
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 9204-7
- Fisheries, fish habitat
- ditches on agricultural land 7069-71
- land expropriation for habitat protection 6890-1
- Forest industry
- current state of industry 8429-31, 10007
- employment and jobs
- forest roads, impact of deactivation 8563-5
- government role in industry, impact of government policies 8431
- Liberal Party recommendations 8430-1
- red tape 6751
- resource inventory program 8661
- salvage logging, liability issue 8562-5
- shake and shingle industry
- silviculture, backlog silviculture program 8661
- timber supply, use of salvage wood 8562
- Forest Renewal B.C.
- "Beyond Boards" directory 8738
- business plan, program targets 8640-1
- establishment and original mandate 8659-60
- funding for projects, distribution of funds 8635
- program funding 8661
- projects
- land resources and environmental programs 8660-1
- silviculture work 8660
- Forests ministry, 1998-99 estimates debate 8429-31, 8561-6, 8640-1, 8659-62, 8711-2, 8737-8
- Fraser Valley
- farmland-urban interface concerns 7069
- wood residue power conversion plant in area, proposal 8564-5
- Government
- accommodation costs and per-person space requirement 7932-3
- vehicles, sale and leaseback combined with fleet management services 9204-7
- Health care, funding 6751
- Homeowner Protection Act
- Homeowner protection office, mandate and powers 10590
- Horner, Heinz, homesite severance case 7071
- Housing
- agencies' responsibilities, consolidation in one agency 8581
- costs, impact of school site acquisition charge on residential developments 10527
- housing starts 9741-2
- rental housing
- landlord's right of entry 7739-40
- tenancy agreements, assignment and subletting 7741
- tenancy agreements, setting aside of termination notice on grounds of unreasonable hardship 7693-4, 7747-8
- Human Resources ministry, regional offices, disposition of former office facilities 7934-5
- Investment in B.C.
- Justice system, courthouse closings, disposition of vacant facilities 7934
- Krueger, Kevin, role in removal from order paper of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act (1998) 9477-80
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998
- Labour Relations Code changes 9741, 9889-90, 10023-4
- Langley, local mushroom farming operation, moratorium and bylaw 7070
- Legislature
- committee system, use 8511-2, 9890-1
- late-night sittings and cooperation between government and opposition 8510-3
- orders of the day, dropped orders 9478-9
- standing order 34, adjournment of House or debate, intermediate proceedings must take place before second adjournment motion can be made 9479
- Lindstrom family, impact of traffic from neighbouring grow operation 7069
- Manufactured homes
- home parks
- landlord and tenant disputes, resolution process 7694, 7743-4
- standards of operation, setting by regulation 7741
- homesite rental
- rent reviews, retroactivity issue 7262-3
- tenancy agreements, assignment and subletting 7741
- Mining industry
- Mining Rights Amendment Act, 1998, debate 7318-20
- Money's Mushrooms Ltd., mushroom composting issue, status 7070
- Motions
- motion that the House at its rising stand recessed until 6:35 p.m. and thereafter sit until adjournment, debate 8510-3
- reinstatement of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998, on order paper (Motion 50), debate 9477-81
- Municipal Affairs ministry
- Municipalities, planners' role in building construction 8583
- Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, repayment of money to charities 6751
- National Building Code (federal), consideration of B.C.'s coastal climate, Municipal Affairs ministry action 8468-9
- New Forest Opportunities Ltd., training and work contracts 8711
- Northern Development Act, debate 9249, 9255
- Northern development commissioner
- Occupational health and safety
- statutory requirements 7557-9
- unsafe work, worker's right to refuse unsafe work 7557-8
- Penticton, personal experiences growing up in Penticton 10023
- PHH Vehicle Management Services, contract with B.C. government 9204-6
- Police complaint commissioner, appointment 9249
- Post-secondary education, student financial assistance, debt load of graduating students 7281-2
- Property management industry, standards 8587
- Public debt during NDP administration 6751-2
- Public Education Collective Agreement Act, debate 10518-9
- Residential Tenancy Act
- dispute resolution amendment re mobile home park tenancies 7263
- plain-language rewrite 7262-3
- Riverview Hospital, site, land use plan 7936
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, auxiliary and reserve officers, carrying of firearms 7262
- St. Ann's Academy, restoration project 7935
- School boards/districts, breakdown of funding allocations 7536
- Schools
- capital funding projects, project management by B.C. Buildings Corporation 7937
- site acquisition, charge on residential developments 10527
- Select Standing Committee on Economic Development, Science, Labour, Training and Technology, review of Labour Relations Code Amendment Act 9888-91
- Selkirk Building, capital project 7933-4
- Shiell, Jim
- land expropriation for fish habitat protection 6890
- restriction on use of farmland near ditch 7070-1
- Sihota, Moe, position on workplace safety legislation 7559
- Skeena Cellulose Inc., government intervention in financial situation 6751
- Strata Property Act
- Teachers
- agreement-in-committee between government and B.C. Teachers Federation 7537, 10519
- collective bargaining, government intervention 10518
- Throne speech debate 6750-3
- Trade unions
- certification votes, secret ballot 10026
- rank and file concerns, 10008
- Tuition Fee Freeze Act, debate 7281-2
- Victoria accord, status 7935
- Volunteers, role 6751
- Woodlands site, land use plan 7937
- Workers Compensation Board, general authority of board 7558-9
- Workers Compensation (Occupational Health and Safety) Amendment Act, 1998
- debate 7557-9
- penalties for workers who violate safety regulations, inclusion in bill 7557
- Youth
- age of consent 6752
- opportunities for B.C. youth 10023
College of Teachers of British Columbia
College Pension Advisory Board
College-Institute Educators Association
- President See Lavalle, Ed
- Representation on pension advisory board
(Chong) 7676
(MacPhail) 7676
Collins, Bill
- Comments on labour code changes
(Hawkins) 9604
Columbia Basin Trust
- Project funding
(Coell) 9457
(McGregor) 9457
Columbia Cellulose Co. Ltd. See Skeena Cellulose Inc.
Columbia Power Corporation
- Power purchase from Enron Capital and Trade Resources
(Farnworth) 9087-8
(Jarvis) 9087-8
(Nebbeling) 9088
Columbia River basin
- Issues in area, regional approach
(Evans) 6857-9
Columbia River Treaty
Comdex computer trade show
- Participation by B.C. businesses, selection process
(Reid, L.) 7855
Commission of inquiry into child protection services, policies and practices of Social Services ministry (Gove commission)
- Recommendations
(McKinnon) 6626
- Report
(Anderson) 10056
(Boone) 10056
- Statements re decisions in child protection cases
(Campbell) 8479
Commission of inquiry into policing in British Columbia (Oppal commission)
- Position on role of auxiliary and reserve police
(Dosanjh) 7120
(Plant) 7120
Commission of inquiry into the quality of condominium construction in British Columbia (Barrett commission)
- Budget
(Kwan) 8450-1, 8601
(Reid, L.) 8450-1, 8601, 10673
- Cost of commission
(Kwan) 10582
(Reid, L.) 10582
(Thorpe) 8545-6
- Establishment of commission
(Farrell-Collins) 10579
- Liberal Party submission
(Jarvis) 10575
(Reid, L.) 8588-9
- Mandate
(Chong) 10569
(Coleman) 8529, 8582
(Kwan) 8529, 8531, 8541, 8582
(Nebbeling) 8541
- Recommendations
- Report
- publication
(Kwan) 8452
(Reid, L.) 8452
- report tabled
(Kwan) 8919
Commission of inquiry into the Vancouver Stock Exchange and securities regulation (Matkin commission)
- Recommendations on B.C. Securities Commission
(Gingell) 6976-7
Commissions of inquiry
- Selection of commissioners
(Kwan) 8468
(Reid, L.) 8468
Communities
- Community charters, Liberal Party position
(Anderson) 10299
(Reid, L.) 10298
- Community services
- government responsibility
(Kwan) 10781
(Reid, L.) 10781
- programs
(Whittred) 9904-6
- Community sustainability, role of government
(Gillespie) 10456-8
(Reid, L.) 10457
- Healthy Communities initiative, funding
(Anderson) 6813
- Projects funded through government grants program
(Abbott) 8252-3, 8280-5
(Krueger) 8284-5
(Thorpe) 8283, 8285
(Waddell) 8252-3, 8280-5, 8322
- Responsibility for well-being of children
(Anderson) 10055
(Boone) 10055
- Small community protection grant
(Kwan) 8547
(Thorpe) 8547
Community Futures program
- Funding
(Wilson, G.) 7962
Community living See Disabled and handicapped persons
Community Social Services Employers Association of British Columbia
- Government involvement
(Hammell) 7409
(Stephens) 7409
- Policy on wage differentials between union and non-union agencies
(MacPhail) 9287-8
(Sanders) 9286-8
- Role as bargaining agent for unionized employers
(Boone) 10069-73, 10075
(Clark, C.) 10069-73
(Sanders) 10073-5
Comox Valley area
- Community sustainability project
(Gillespie) 10456, 10458
(Reid, L.) 10457
- Economy
(Gillespie) 6600
Comox Valley Nursing Centre, Courtenay, B.C.
- Pilot project
(Gillespie) 6601
Comox Valley school district See School district 71 (Comox Valley)
Comox-Strathcona regional hospital district
Comptroller general
- Interim financial statements for ten-month period ending January 31, 1998, tabled
(MacPhail) 6614
- Report on accountability in the K-to-12 education system
(Ramsey) 7638-42
(Sanders) 7638-42
- Unclaimed property office, disposition of unclaimed moneys
(Chong) 9227, 9278-9
(MacPhail) 9227, 9278-9
Computers
Conair Aviation Ltd.
Condominium Act
Condominium Home Owners Association of British Columbia
Condominiums
- Bare-land stratas
(Coleman) 10380
- Changes to strata lot
(Coleman) 10534
(MacPhail) 10534
- Commission of inquiry into condominium construction See Commission of inquiry into the quality of condominium construction in British Columbia (Barrett commission)
- Construction
- 1996 report and recommendations, government action
(Reid, L.) 10382-6
- construction drawings, provision of final drawings to strata council
(Coleman) 10533
(MacPhail) 10533
- Contingency funds
- developer's contribution
(Coleman) 10380
- establishment and amount
(Coleman) 10532
(MacPhail) 10532
- management and cost
(Coleman) 10534
- Disclosure of information
(Coleman) 10380
- Interim budget after first conveyance
(Coleman) 10532-3
(MacPhail) 10533
- Leaky-condos issue
- air quality and moulds, health impact
(Kwan) 8531-2
(Sanders) 8531-2
- bank foreclosures on repair loans
(Reid, L.) 10386
- cause of leakage
(Coleman) 8529-30
(Janssen) 8473-4
(Kwan) 8474, 8529-31
- commission to provide recommendations
(Kwan) 8039
- compensation for homeowners
(Kwan) 8455
- expert panel See Building Safety Advisory Council
- government action
(Bowbrick) 6950
(Campbell) 6969-70
(Clark, C.) 6971
(de Jong) 6928-9
(Farrell-Collins) 6928, 6970
(Kwan) 6928-9, 6970-1
(Penner) 6965-6
- handling
(Randall) 6867-8
- impact on owners
(Coleman) 8468, 10577
(Farrell-Collins) 10578
(Jarvis) 10573-4
(Krueger) 10391
- implementation of January 1996 report's recommendations
(Coleman) 8536-7
(Reid, L.) 8446-9
- involvement of environmental consultants
(Sanders) 8531
- issue
(Orcherton) 6870
- lack of financial assistance if repairs already completed
(Chong) 10569
- liability
(Wilson, G.) 6992
- Liberal Party's addressing of issue
(Penner) 6965-6
- no-interest loans for repair costs
(Weisgerber) 10572
- reconstruction program, funds available through program
(Bowbrick) 10387-8
(Chong) 10569
(Coleman) 10586-8
(Farrell-Collins) 10580
(Kwan) 10584-8
(Reid, L.) 10382, 10385, 10584-5
(Wilson, J.) 10570
- reduced assessment value for homes
(Kwan) 8455
(Reid, L.) 8455-6
- responsibility for problem
(Coleman) 10575-8
(Farrell-Collins) 10579
(Jarvis) 8589, 10574-5
(Kwan) 10582
- role of Building Code
(Coleman) 8536-7
(Farrell-Collins) 8532
(Kwan) 8532, 8536-7, 8589
- studies and Municipal Affairs ministry action
(Coleman) 8537-8
(Farrell-Collins) 8532-5
(Kwan) 8532-5, 8537-8
(Nebbeling) 8543
- tax concessions on building repairs
(Anderson) 10572
(Chong) 10569-70
(Coleman) 10577
(Farrell-Collins) 10579-80
(Kwan) 10582, 10585-7
(Reid, L.) 10384-6, 10585-6, 10595
- time for owners to file assessment appeals
(Kwan) 8382
(Reid, L.) 8382-3
- use of term "leaky condo"
(Anderson) 10571
- work on issue
(Kwan) 8446-52
(Reid, L.) 8446-52
- Leasehold strata plans
(Coleman) 10535
- Legislation See Strata Property Act
- Licensing of property managers
(Coleman) 10535
(MacPhail) 10535
- Owner-developer's expenses after conveyance of first strata lot
(Coleman) 10531
(MacPhail) 10532
- Owner-developer's standard of care
(Coleman) 10531
(MacPhail) 10531
- Owners' access to records
(Coleman) 10533
- Rental units
(Coleman) 10534-5
(MacPhail) 10535
- Restriction of owner-developer's contracting powers
(Coleman) 10532
(MacPhail) 10532
- Strata management
- management
(Coleman) 8587-8
(Kwan) 8587-8
- provision of information certificates to owners and buyers
(Coleman) 10534
(MacPhail) 10534
- training for strata councils
(Coleman) 10381, 10533-6
(MacPhail) 10533-4
- Warranty protection
(de Jong) 6929
Confederation
Conflict of interest
Conflict-of-interest commissioner
- Reports tabled
- report
(Speaker) 7920
- report pursuant to section 19(1) of the Members' Conflict of Interest Act tabled
(Speaker) 8343
Connolly, Rick
- Letter to school boards re class size reduction
(Ramsey) 10793
(Sanders) 10792
Conroy, Ed (Rossland-Trail)
- B.C. Transplant Society, role 10605
- Business, small business, impact of labour code changes 9179
- Cancer clinics, location of new clinic 6881
- Chong, Ida, comments on union collective agreements 9178
- Commended for work on amendments to Human Tissue Gift Act
(Dosanjh) 10603
- Dalton, C. Jeremy, comments on fair-wage policy 9178
- Economy, B.C. economy
- Education, provincial learning network (PLNet), implementation 6954-6
- Employment levels during NDP administration 6882
- Farrell-Collins, Gary, comments on replacement workers 9179
- Hepatitis C
- blood transfusion recipients infected prior to 1986, compensation for victims 7438-9
- impact of disease, physical and financial costs 7438-9
- Highway 19, Island Highway construction project
- Human Tissue Gift Act, changes to increase consent and donation rates 10605-6
- Intrawest Corp., letter re investment in B.C. resort projects 9177
- Keenleyside Dam construction project, labour agreement 6882
- Kimberley, resort development project 9177
- Krueger, Kevin, comments on workplace management 9179
- Labour legislation, Liberal Party position 6882
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 1998, debate 9177-80
- Liberal Party, B.C. Liberal Party, position on issues
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1998, debate 10605-6
- Motions, compensation for blood transfusion recipients infected prior to 1986 (Motion 46), debate 7438-9
- Ontario, compensation for pre-1986 hepatitis C victims 7439
- Personal experience as organ transplant recipient 10605-6
(Chong) 10625
(de Jong) 10630
(Hawkins) 10614
- Personal experience with hepatitis C 7431-2
(Thorpe) 7448
- Railways and rail services, rail line from Salmo to Troup Junction, petition tabled 10680
- Rossland-Trail constituency and area
- economy and industrial projects 6883
- impact of Internet access 6954-6
- Symons, Douglas, comments on Island Highway construction project labour costs 9179
- Throne speech, content 6883-4
- Throne speech debate 6881-4
- Trade unions, Liberal Party position on organized labour 9177-8
- Transplantation of organs, number of donor organs available 10605-6
- Wages and salaries, fair-wage policy 9178-9
Conservative Environmentalism: Reassessing the Means, Redefining the Ends
Considine, Chris
- Comments on B.C. Hydro International Ltd.–Pakistan power project
(Farnworth) 8050-1
- Letter re fees or commissions paid by B.C. Hydro for Pakistan power project
(Farnworth) 8122
Constitution
- Amendments, referendum requirement
(Abbott) 7891
(Campbell) 7883
(Petter) 7879
(Plant) 7924-5
(Wilson, G.) 7889
- Constitutional discussions, history
(Waddell) 7895-7
- Constitutionality challenges to Election Act provisions See Election Act
Constitution Act (federal)
- Definition of municipal government
(Wilson, G.) 10300
Construction industry
- Activity
(Coleman) 10007
(Hansen) 9942-3
(Masi) 9998
(Neufeld) 9782-3
(Whittred) 9928
- Builders lien legislation See Builders Lien Amendment Act, 1998
- Building design and construction, roles and responsibilities of participants
(Coleman) 8583-8
(Kwan) 8583-4
- Building inspections
- best-practices guides, implementation
(Farrell-Collins) 8534
- insured loans from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
(Coleman) 8582
- municipal inspections and use of best-practices guides
(Kwan) 8041-2
(Reid, L.) 8041-2
- training and certification of inspectors
(Coleman) 8584-5
(Kwan) 8584-5
- Building standards for residential developments
(Throne speech) 6594-5
- Collective bargaining
- Competitiveness and labour costs
(Farrell-Collins) 10013-4, 10028-9
- Consideration of B.C.'s coastal climate See British Columbia Building Code
- Definition of industry
(Anderson) 9884
(Hansen) 9860, 9953-4
- Future of industry
(Abbott) 8968
(Campbell) 8949-52
(Coleman) 9741-3, 9888-9, 10023-4
(Dalton) 10018
(Hansen) 9943-9
(Jarvis) 9160-1, 9816-7
(McKinnon) 9848
(Masi) 9101-3
(Sanders) 9977-8
(Stephens) 9979-80
(van Dongen) 9045
- Impact of charge on residential developments for school site acquisition
(Coleman) 10526-7
(Sanders) 10525
- Impact of legislative regulation
(Krueger) 10389-90, 10390
(Reid, L.) 10382
(Thorpe) 10573, 10575
(Wilson, J.) 10570
- Impact of proposed labour code changes
(Campbell) 8941
(Lovick) 8941
- Industrial, commercial and institutional sector
- bargaining councils for craft bargaining units
(Hansen) 10129-50
(Lovick) 10129-50
- certification requirement for evidence of fresh support
(Hansen) 10147
(Lovick) 10147-8
- collective agreements, length of term
(Hansen) 10149-50
(Lovick) 10149-50
- collective agreements, validity
(Hansen) 10143-4
(Lovick) 10143-4
- ICI and non-ICI mixed projects
(Hansen) 10142-3
(Lovick) 10142-3
- ICI project classification, basis for designation
(Hansen) 10089-92, 10094-8
(Lovick) 10089-98
(Miller) 10090-1
(Plant) 10090, 10092-4
- master collective agreements for major projects
(Anderson) 9118-20
(Barisoff) 9025
(Boone) 9024
(Calendino) 9175
(Doyle) 9017
(Giesbrecht) 8961-2
(Gillespie) 9154-5
(Hansen) 8945-6, 9563-4, 9568, 9571
(Lali) 9103
(Lovick) 8865-6, 8921-2, 9580-1
(McKinnon) 9098
(Nettleton) 9107-8
(Orcherton) 8956-7
(Penner) 9029-30
(Randall) 8969-70
(Robertson) 9164-5
(Sanders) 9074-5
(Stephens) 9115-8, 9689
(Streifel) 9042
(Symons) 9076-8
(Walsh) 9080
(Weisgerber) 9084
(Wilson, G.) 8953
- strikes and lockouts
(Hansen) 10149
(Lovick) 10149
- unionization of existing project
(Hansen) 10145-7
(Lovick) 10145-7
- workers' right to ratify collective agreements
(Hansen) 10133
(Lovick) 10133
- Investment levels
(Hansen) 9945
- Issues
(Campbell) 6607
- Labour relations
- collective agreements, duration
(Dalton) 10115
(Hansen) 10113-4
(Lovick) 10113-6
(Wilson, G.) 10115
- collective agreements, ratification requirements
(Hansen) 10115-8
(Lovick) 10115-8, 10141
(Plant) 10117-8
- collective agreements, special arrangements to enable employer bidding
(Hansen) 10125-9
(Lovick) 10125-9
(Plant) 10127-8
- collective agreements to include project owners
(Hansen) 10101, 10106-7
(Lovick) 10101, 10107
- current regulatory environment
(Hansen) 9572-5, 9942-3
(Krueger) 9541
(McKinnon) 9097
(Neufeld) 9542
(Plant) 8962-3
(Robertson) 9162
- definition of construction work
(Hansen) 10106
(Lovick) 10106
- general legislative provisions for unionized industry
(Lovick) 8920-1
(Miller) 9039
(Pullinger) 9112
- jurisdictional disputes
(Hansen) 9863, 9952-3
(Lovick) 10141
- jurisdictional disputes, mandatory jurisdictional assignment plans
(Hansen) 10120-3
(Lovick) 10120-4
(Plant) 10121-4
- jurisdictional disputes, trade union different from union
(Hansen) 10124
(Lovick) 10124
(Plant) 10124
- master collective agreements for major projects
(Dalton) 10115
(Hansen) 9856-7, 9951-4, 10118-20
(Krueger) 9990
(Lovick) 10115-6, 10118-20
(Plant) 9972
(Sanders) 9874
(Thorpe) 9991
(Wilson, G.) 10115
- "orderly collective bargaining"
(Hansen) 10107
(Lovick) 10107
- raiding period
(Hansen) 9862, 9952, 10109-10, 10112-3
(Lovick) 10110-3
(Plant) 10111-3
- union applying for certification, requirement to show evidence of fresh support
(Hansen) 10113-4
(Lovick) 10114
- union certifications, transfers
(Hansen) 10105-6
(Lovick) 10105-6
- union requirement to provide evidence of current membership
(Hansen) 9860
- unionization
(Lovick) 10031
(Orcherton) 8956-8
(Randall) 8970-1
- Legislation, relationship with local government
(Anderson) 10300
- Licensing of residential builders
(Bowbrick) 10388
(Coleman) 10590-1
(Krueger) 10391-2
(Kwan) 10590-1, 10594-5
(Reid, L.) 10594-5
- Licensing of residential builders, use of licence fee revenue
(Kwan) 10593
(Reid, L.) 10593
- Mandatory home warranty
- program
(Bowbrick) 10388
- warranty on renovations
(Kwan) 10595
(Neufeld) 10595
- Marine construction See Marine construction
- New-home warranty program
(Coleman) 10577
(Reid, L.) 10383
- Non-unionized job site operated by unionized company
(Symons) 9077
(Wilson, G.) 8953
- Pensions for workers
(Coleman) 10024
- Projects
- Regional differences in construction requirements
(Weisgerber) 10572-3
(Wilson, J.) 10570
- Renovators, legislative regulation
(Kwan) 10589
(Reid, L.) 10584, 10588-9
- Reports on building envelope and leaky-condo problems, government action
(Farrell-Collins) 10578-9
(Reid, L.) 10383
- Residential housing sector
- building permits
(Lovick) 9015
- costs
(Weisbeck) 9109
- costs, impact of labour code changes
(Farrell-Collins) 10027
(Hansen) 9851
(Hawkins) 9937
- employment
(Clark, C.) 9015
- number of housing starts
(Anderson) 9120
(Calendino) 9176-7
(Hawkins) 9020
- residential construction, 1997 discussion paper
(Kwan) 8588
- Review panel (Kelleher-Lanyon) report
- comments on 1973 labour code
(Hansen) 9570
- comments on labour code changes
(Sanders) 9615
- report
(Hogg) 9546
(Masi) 9101-2, 9674
- Review panels, findings and recommendations
(Chong) 9618
(Dalton) 9970, 10016, 10018
(de Jong) 9575-6
(Giesbrecht) 8960
(Hansen) 8929-30, 8944-6, 9859-60, 9944, 9948-50, 10109
(Hogg) 9122, 9124, 9546, 9560, 9789, 9929
(Lovick) 8865-6, 8919, 10109
(McKinnon) 9098
(Masi) 9101-3, 9674-5
(Orcherton) 8956
(Plant) 8962
(Sanders) 9978-9
(Stephens) 9118
(Symons) 9608
(Whittred) 9641
- Roofers training and qualifications
(Janssen) 8475
(Kwan) 8475
- Self-regulation
(Kwan) 10581
- Site inspections, responsibility
(Kwan) 8443
- Skills development opportunities
(Hansen) 10108-9
(Lovick) 10108-9
- Wage rates for workers
(Hansen) 9566-8, 9571-2
- Warranties and warranty system
(Coleman) 8585, 10577
(Farrell-Collins) 10579
(Kwan) 8585-6
(Reid, L.) 10383
- Workers moving to Alberta
(Hawkins) 9936
Construction Labour Relations Association
- Administration of jurisdiction assignment plans
(Hansen) 10122-3
(Lovick) 10122-3
(Plant) 10123
- Contract administration fees charged to employers
(Hansen) 10100-1, 10148-9
(Lovick) 10100-1, 10148-9
- Position on labour code changes
(Sanders) 9616
- Role as bargaining agent for employers
(Hansen) 9861-3, 9954, 10131-2, 10134-6, 10141-50
(Krueger) 9987
(Lovick) 8921, 10131-2, 10134-6, 10141-50
(Sanders) 9978
- Trade divisions, establishment
(Hansen) 10142
(Lovick) 10142
Consumer Product Care Association
- Industrial stewardship program for solvents, thinners and pesticides
(McGregor) 9552
(van Dongen) 9552
Consumer Protection Act
Consumers
- Citizens' utility boards
(Plant) 10609
- Consumer product stewardship program eco-fees, petition tabled
(Barisoff) 6951
- Consumer protection
Consumers Glass Co. Ltd.
- Jobs, impact of expanded beverage container deposit system
(McGregor) 9587-8
(Thorpe) 9587
Contraventions Act (federal)
Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada
- Review of co-op housing situation
(Farnworth) 9062-3
(Reid, L.) 9062-3
Cooperatives
- Business cooperatives See Cooperatives under Business
- Cooperative housing See Cooperative housing sector under Housing
Coopers and Lybrand Consulting Group
COPE See Coalition of Progressive Electors
Copes, Parzival
Copper industry
- World prices
(Miller) 6935
Coquitlam, B.C.
- Role as urban centre
(Campbell) 10699
Corbett, Pat
- Letter re cancellation of highway signs program
(Waddell) 8337
Cordova Detox, Vancouver, B.C. See Salvation Army Cordova Detox
Corporation capital tax See Taxation, capital tax under Corporations
Corporation Capital Tax Act
- Amendments
(MacPhail) 6972
Corporations See also Business
- Taxation, capital tax
- applicability to research and development expenditures
(Chong) 9197-8
(MacPhail) 9198
- changes
(Randall) 6865
- exemption threshold
(Farrell-Collins) 6640
(MacPhail) 6615
(Waddell) 6700
- exemption threshold for financial institutions
(Campbell) 6674-5
(Chong) 6976
(de Jong) 6713
(Farrell-Collins) 6675, 6713-4, 6973-4, 6983-4, 7023-5
(MacPhail) 6674-5, 6713-4, 6972, 7023-4
(Stephens) 6705
(van Dongen) 6697-8
(Wilson, G.) 6977-8
- impact on business
(Abbott) 6980
(Chong) 6975-6
(Weisbeck) 6791-2
(Wilson, G.) 6977
- impact on investment
(Abbott) 8965
(Campbell) 6606
- Liberal Party position
(Abbott) 6980
(Farrell-Collins) 7023-4
- reduction
(Farrell-Collins) 6973-4
(MacPhail) 6972
(Wilson, G.) 6977
- reductions for small and medium-sized business
(Farrell-Collins) 7020-3
(MacPhail) 7020-2
- Taxation, income tax, refunds on international business activity income
(MacPhail) 6972
- Venture capital corporations See Business
Correction Act
- Amendments
(Dosanjh) 7358
Corrections system
- Correctional facilities
- drug-related activity in B.C. prisons
(Dosanjh) 7302-3
(Plant) 7302-3
- inmates, temporary absences
(Dosanjh) 7358, 7612
(Plant) 7612
- pretrial centres, use as holding facilities for persons with mental disorders
(Hawkins) 9263-4
(Priddy) 9275
(Sanders) 9272
- safety of nursing staff
(Hawkins) 10227
(Priddy) 10227
- shared facilities, operating agreements
(Dosanjh) 7611-2
(Plant) 7611-2
- tracking and collection of data on visitors to provincial facilities
(Dosanjh) 7303
(Plant) 7303
- Dangerous offenders, designation criteria
(Dosanjh) 7173-4
(Penner) 7173
- Incarceration alternatives for low-risk non-violent offenders
- alternative measures program
(Dosanjh) 7080-3
- community accountability initiative
(Dosanjh) 7123-4
(Plant) 7123-4
- diversion programs
(Dosanjh) 6908, 7122-3
(Plant) 7122-3
- diversion, use in violence-against-women cases
(Dosanjh) 7167
(Stephens) 7167
- Offenders serving conditional sentences, statistical data
(Dosanjh) 7300-1
(Plant) 7300-1
- Prisoner transfers, arming of corrections officers during transfers
(Dosanjh) 7299-301
(Plant) 7299, 7301
- Probation services
- northern communities, service delivery concerns
(Dosanjh) 7298
- separation of youth and adult services
(Dosanjh) 7298
(Plant) 7298
- youth probation services, issues and concerns
(Boone) 10078-81
(Plant) 10078-81
- Releasing authority, integrated model
(Dosanjh) 7614
(Plant) 7614
- Sheriffs, role in transportation of high-risk prisoners
(Dosanjh) 7299, 7301
(Plant) 7299, 7301
- Violent and sex offenders, conditional sentencing
(Dosanjh) 6907
- Women's corrections, availability of career planning programs for female inmates
(Dosanjh) 7302
(Plant) 7301-2
- Youth corrections
- community accountability programs for young offenders
(Dosanjh) 6908
- first-time offenders, handling
(Hansen) 6840
- transfer of responsibilities to Children and Families ministry
(Dosanjh) 7297-9
(Plant) 7297-9
- young offenders tried in adult court
(Dosanjh) 7299
(Plant) 7299
- Youth probation services See Probation services above
Corrigan, Derek
- Comments on light rapid transit costs
(Symons) 9368
Cory, Peter
- Comments on selection of commissioner for leaky-condos issue
(Reid, L.) 8468
Cotton, Mike
- Work against impaired driving
(Clark, C.) 10454
Council of Canadians
- Work of Kamloops chapter
(McGregor) 6967
Council of Haida Nation et al. v. the Minister of Forests et al.
- Impact of decision on Forests ministry policies
(Abbott) 8612
Council of Tourism Associations of British Columbia
CounterAttack program
- Cost of program
(Farnworth) 8762
(Jarvis) 8762
Country West Construction Ltd.
- Letter re labour code changes
(Anderson) 9606
Court Rules Act
- Amendments
(Dosanjh) 8268
Courtemanche, Douglas
- Letter to parents of dental surgery patients re waiting times
(Hawkins) 10552, 10554
Courthouses See Court services under Justice system
Courts See Justice system; particular courts, e.g., Supreme Court of British Columbia
Cowichan Valley regional district
- Waste management plans, public input
(Coell) 9325
(McGregor) 9325
Cowichan Valley school district See School district 79 (Cowichan Valley)
Cowichan-Ladysmith constituency and area
- Capital improvements
(Pullinger) 6920-1
Coyne, Vin
- Comments on Finning Ltd. relocation to Alberta
(Hogg) 9121
Coyote Creek Elementary School, Surrey, B.C.
- Construction project
(McKinnon) 7708
(Ramsey) 7708
Craig Bay, B.C.
- Development project on heritage site
(Dalton) 8214
(Reitsma) 8224-5
(Waddell) 8224-5
- Land acquisition by government
(Dalton) 9591
(McGregor) 9591
Cream Silver Mines Ltd.
- Mine expropriation
(Jarvis) 7622
Credit rating
Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd.
- Facilities in B.C.
(Walsh) 6602-3
Crime and criminals
- Crime
- auto theft
(Dosanjh) 7079
- commercial crime, action by director of trade practices
(Dosanjh) 7689
- crime rate in B.C.
(Dosanjh) 7083
- home invasions
(Dosanjh) 6907
- homicides, unsolved cases
(Dosanjh) 6906
- neighbourhood crime
(Bowbrick) 8409-10
(Plant) 8409-10
- organized crime, national strategy to combat
(Dosanjh) 7239
(Plant) 7239
- public safety issues
(Throne speech) 6594
- serious and violent crime
(Dosanjh) 7079
- sex crimes See Sex crimes below
- spousal murder
(Dosanjh) 7171
(Stephens) 7171
- stalking and harassment
(Dosanjh) 6907, 7079-80
- violent crime, measures to reduce
(Dosanjh) 7125
(Plant) 7124-5
- Criminal-record checks, review of system
(Dosanjh) 7122
(Plant) 7122
- Sex crimes
- government policy on sexual assault
(Stephens) 7347
- Nanaimo child sexual abuse case, role of Children and Families ministry
(Boone) 10677-8
(Clark, C.) 10677-8
- pedophiles, national registry
(Dosanjh) 6907
- sexual assaults reported to police, prosecution rates
(Dosanjh) 7124
(Plant) 7124
- sexual exploitation of children and youth
(Dosanjh) 7079
- Victims of crime
- services for abused men
(Dosanjh) 7171
- services funded by surcharge levy on fines for provincial offences
(Dosanjh) 7080
- services funded by surcharge levy on fines for provincial offences, impact of decline in levy revenues
(Dosanjh) 7229-30
(Plant) 7229-30
- translation and interpretation services
(Dosanjh) 7170
(Stephens) 7170
- Youth crime
- parental accountability and liability for property damage
(Symons) 7270
- prevention and early-intervention initiatives
(Dosanjh) 7081
Criminal Code of Canada
Criminal injury compensation program
Crippen Regional Park
- Sale of park to Bowen Island
(Nebbeling) 8598
Crohn's disease
- Rural patient case
(Nebbeling) 10403-4
Cronk, Laird
Crown corporations
Crown corporations secretariat
- Funding and staffing
(Nebbeling) 7937
(Petter) 7937
- Mandate and role
(Nebbeling) 7937-9
(Petter) 7938-8
Crown land
- Activities on Crown land
- impact of unresolved Indian land claims
(Krueger) 9838-9
(Lovick) 9838
- public consultation process for property sales and leases
(Hawkins) 9496-7
(McGregor) 9496-7
- referral to Indians for input, policy
(van Dongen) 10648
- Agricultural leases, costs and extensions, appeal process
(McGregor) 9598
(van Dongen) 9597-8
- Exchanges of Crown land, accounting policy change
(Coell) 9594-5
(McGregor) 9594-5
- Joint tenancy
(Wilson, G.) 8308
- Land grant applications, processing time
(McKinnon) 6846
(Neufeld) 10645
(Plant) 6831
- Leaseholders, purchase options
(Barisoff) 6863
(Campbell) 6862, 6890
(de Jong) 6861-2, 6905
(McGregor) 6861-3, 6890
- Leases, cost increases
- impact on tourism operations
(Thorpe) 8338
(Waddell) 8338
- review of impact on resort industry
(McGregor) 9596, 9599
(Thorpe) 9596
(van Dongen) 9598-9
- Logging rights of Indians
(Abbott) 8575-6
(de Jong) 8576
(Zirnhelt) 8575-6
- Management authority, transfer to B.C. Assets and Land Corporation
(Coell) 9593, 10671
(McGregor) 9593, 10671
- Management by municipalities
(Kwan) 8595
(Reid, L.) 8594-5
- Provincial versus federal jurisdiction over Indian land claims
(Wilson, G.) 6825
- Sales
- Value, determination process
(MacPhail) 9277-8
(Thorpe) 9277-8
Crown land special account
- Land acquisition by government, real estate revenues from Crown land
(Dalton) 9591
(McGregor) 9591
- Non-recoverable payment approval
(Dalton) 9590
(McGregor) 9590
- Transfer of funds to general revenue
(Coell) 9593-4
(McGregor) 9593-4
Crown Proceeding Act
- Amendments
(Dosanjh) 8268
- Annual report, 1996-97, tabled
(MacPhail) 10760
- Purpose
(Nebbeling) 10612
(Plant) 10606-7
Crowther, Roger
- Comments on unionization of B.C. workers
(Hansen) 8928
CSSEA See Community Social Services Employers Association of British Columbia
Cull, Elizabeth
- Comments on issues
- comments while MLA on government's management of legislative agenda
(Symons) 9420
- independence of B.C. Securities Commission
(Gingell) 7039
- Contract with capital health region board
(Hawkins) 10184
Culture
Cultus Lake
- Boating safety, marine enforcement patrols
(Dosanjh) 7267
(Penner) 7266-7
Cumberland, B.C.
Curling See Sports
Cycling
- Cycling as form of transportation
(Lali) 8259
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