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Province of British Columbia
4th Session, 36th Parliament – March 2000 - March 2001
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
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Hansard Sittings by Page Number
Kaiser Youth Foundation
- Report on substance abuse and addiction among youth
Kakfwi, Stephen
- Position on Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposal
(Miller) 15036
Kalamalka campus See Okanagan University College, Kelowna, B.C.
Kamloops, B.C.
Kamloops constituency and area
- Economic activity
(McGregor) 14863-4
Kamloops Indian band
Kamloops–North Thompson constituency and area
Kamloops-Thompson school district See School district 73 (Kamloops-Thompson)
Kasper, Rick (Malahat–Juan de Fuca)
- As subject
- comments on government handling of forest worker transition program tax issue
(Abbott) 15075
(Farrell-Collins) 15075
- Capital health region, seniors, number of health care beds 17292
- Civil service, employees, salaries of senior civil servants, review by citizens' panel 16492
- Cowichan Valley regional district, establishment of agricultural committee 14924-5
- Cuba, health care system 17293-4
- Ferries and ferry services, Mill Bay–Brentwood Bay route, future plans, petition tabled 17087, 17241
- Health care
- health authorities, payment of provincial sales tax on commodities 17293
- system, review of systems elsewhere 17293-4
- Health ministry, 2000-01 supplementary estimates debate 17292-4
- Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway), improvements 14924
- Langford, business activity 14925
- McLean Mill National Historic Site, features 16031-2
- Malahat–Juan de Fuca constituency and area, issues and concerns 14923-5
- Port Renfrew, water system upgrade 14924
- Priory Hospital, respite care bed 17292
- RailAmerica Inc., operations on Vancouver Island 16031-2
- Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, work of committee 16564
- Senior Civil Servant Remuneration Allowances and Perquisites Act (SCRAP Act) 2000, debate 16492
- Sooke, incorporation as municipality 14922-3
- Throne speech debate 14922-5
- Trucking industry, safety issues 16564
- Vancouver Island, agrifood industry 14968-70
- Wine industry, growth of industry 15286
Katzie first nation
- Treaty negotiations
(de Jong) 15363
(Lovick) 15363
Kayaking industry See Recreation
Kelowna, B.C.
Kelowna General Hospital, Kelowna, B.C.
Kelowna Secondary School, Kelowna, B.C.
Kemess South mine project See Northgate Exploration Ltd.
Keremeos, B.C.
Kidney disease
Kilback, Melvin
- Lease of Crown land
(Barisoff) 15907
Kimberley, B.C.
- Capital investment in area
(Doyle) 14951-2
King, Martin Luther
- "I have a dream" speech, Liberal Party claim re Gordon Wilson's attendance
(Wilson, G.) 17045-6
King, Penney
Kingsley, Cherry
Kirby family
- Fishing resort, impact of Crown lease rates assessment
(Krueger) 15908-9
Kitimat, B.C.
- Health centre construction project
(Farnworth) 15578
(Hansen) 15578
- Provincial grant level
(Nebbeling) 15477-8
Kitimat-Stikine regional district
- Debt forgiveness for Shames Mountain Ski Corp.
(Petter) 16717-8
Knapweed See Plants
Knowledge management See Information
Kootenay constituency and area
Kootenay Lake
Kootenay-Boundary land use plan
- Higher-level plan
- impact on jobs in forest industry
(Abbott) 17153
(Neufeld) 17153
- public consultation
(Doyle) 17153
- Status
(Abbott) 15276-7
(Doyle) 15277
Korean War
Krueger, Kevin (Kamloops–North Thompson)
- As subject
- comments on equitable hiring practices
(Hammell) 16964
- Adams Lake, replacement of bridge, cost 15385
- Advanced Education, Training and Technology ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 15714-5, 15725-7
- Agriculture, Food and Fisheries ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 15907-11
- Attorney General ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 15625-6
- Auditor general, statements re NDP government budget procedures 16183-4
- Automobiles
- traffic accidents, equipment for removal of accident victims from vehicles, funding issues 16812-3
- vehicle weight regulations 16811-2
- Balanced Budget Act
- Beer industry, craft-brewing industry
- Blackwell Dairy Farm Inc., Workers Compensation Board assessment 16883
- B.C.
- regional equity 14529
- residents moving elsewhere 16182
- B.C. Assessment, assessment of recreational operations on leased Crown land 15908
- B.C. Assets and Land Corporation
- commercial recreation tenures, negotiations between operators and government 15910-1
- mandate and operations 15909-10
- B.C. Ferry Corporation, debt, extinguishment of debt owed to government 15454
- B.C. Lottery Corporation, social responsibilities of corporation 16823
- B.C. Teachers Federation, agreement with government 14674
- Brodie, Claire Ann, health care work in Okanagan area 17296-7
- Budget debate 14674-8
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2000, debate 15095-6, 15452-4
- Budget Transparency and Accountability Act
- debate 16181-4
- NDP government's purpose in bringing legislation forward 16181-2
- Budgets
- 1996-97 budget, balanced-budget claim and NDP election win 15183-4, 17041
- balanced-budget legislation
- Liberal Party position 17040
- support from NDP government members 17042-3
- budget-making process, handling by NDP administration during 1995-96 period 16183-4
- Canadian Union of Public Employees, agreements with government 14674
- Chase, multilevel health care facility 15602-3
- Children, needs, government prioritization 17100-1
- Civil service, public sector
- Clark, Glen, comments on 1992-93 budget while Finance minister 17042, 17044
- Clearwater
- Criminal Code of Canada, blood alcohol testing provisions 15439
- Crown corporations, government oversight of activities 17042
- Crown land, fishing resort leases, impact of lease rate assessments on resort operations 15908-9
- Davis, Chad, workers compensation case 16838
- de Leeuw, Dionys, report on grizzly bear population, Environment ministry response 16551-2, 16593
- Disabled and handicapped persons, employment standards issue 16598-9
- Dosanjh, Ujjal
- recognition of health care issues 17294
- record as MLA 14530
- Easter, significance 15105-6
- Economy, B.C. economy, current and future conditions 16182-3
- Education, labour dispute involving unionized school support workers 14536, 14674-5
- Education ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 16363-4
- Elections, call for general election 14533, 14677-8, 17044
- Employment and unemployment
- Employment Standards Act
- Engineers, operating engineers, pensions 17166
- Environment, Lands and Parks ministry
- 2000-01 estimates debate 16536-7, 16550-2
- budget reduction, impact on ministry 16551
- staff and staffing
- impact of staffing levels on enforcement of fines and penalties for offences 16550-1
- staff morale 16593
- standards of conduct for ministry employees 16551-2
- Families, child custody and access, reform of current system 15625
- Family maintenance enforcement program, maintenance payments 15625-6
- Finance and Corporate Relations ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 16667-9, 16679
- Fisheries, sport fishing, freshwater fishing industry, economic contribution 15909
- Forest industry
- pest control and management, beetle infestations, management 15345-6
- salvage logging
- silviculture, industry employment standards variance 16720
- stumpage rates 14530
- Forests ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 15345-6, 15385, 15387-8, 15409
- Gambling
- addiction and problem gambling, funding for addiction programs and research 16823-4
- charity gaming, restrictions on charities' use of funds from charity gaming 16824
- Golf and golf courses, workplace safety issue 16882
- Government, regulations and red tape, impact on business 14530-1
- Harper Ranch, land use 15911, 16537
- Health care
- continuing and long-term care, current situation in B.C. 15603-5
- facilities, management, performance review process 15605
- health action plan, communications budget 17294
- health professionals, situation in B.C. 17295
- Health ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 15561, 15602-5; supplementary estimates debate 17229-31, 17288-90, 17294-7
- Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway), Cache Creek to the Rockies corridor, Kamloops area upgrade options 15125-6, 15141-2
- Highway 5, Heffley Creek to Little Fort section, passing lanes 15142-3
- Highways and roads
- maintenance and rehabilitation, infrastructure upgrades 17113
- upgrades, central interior 14677
- Holocaust, impact on people 14973
- Holocaust Memorial Day Act
- Hospitals, equipment and technology needs 15604
- Insurance Corporation of B.C.
- 2000-01 estimates debate 16729, 16740-3, 16811-3, 16816
- annual reports, cost of production 16816
- assumption of motor vehicle branch responsibilities 16740-1
- claims, reserve fund 16741
- executive restructuring and compensation 16816
- expenditures 16740
- policies and practices, policy renewals by telephone 16813
- premiums
- staff
- Kamloops
- addiction treatment facilities 14677
- health care
- psychiatric facility 17295-6
- wait-lists for continuing and long-term care 15603-4
- highway upgrade, involvement of Valleyview and Juniper Ridge communities in planned upgrade 15125-6, 15141-2
- Owl Road Landfill, operations 16550-1
- Kamloops–North Thompson constituency and area, issues and concerns 14529-32, 14675-7, 15452-3
- Kirby family, fishing resort, impact of Crown lease rates assessment 15908-9
- Labour
- Labour ministry
- 2000-01 estimates debate 16592-604, 16728-9, 16740-3, 16811-3, 16816, 16823-4, 16828-43, 16877-86, 17165-6
- accomplishments, goals and responsibilities of ministry 16592-3
- employment standards branch, complaints backlog 16422-3, 16601-4
- responsibility for Workers Compensation Board 16828-30, 16835-7, 16885-6
- Labour Relations Board, appointments and performance standards 16596-7
- Liberal Party, B.C. Liberal Party, position on balanced-budget legislation 17040
- Livestock industry, collisions between automobiles and livestock, liability and fencing issues 16812
- McGregor, Cathy, comments on issues
- balanced budgets during NDP administration 17043
- health care 17294
- MacPhail, Joy, comments on operation of Workers Compensation Board 17042
- Media, radio and television stations, tax increase 15733, 16679
- MLAs, changes in workplace and support services 16901-2
- Mining industry, current state of industry in B.C. 14530
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 2000
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 2000, debate 16720-1, 17065-7
- Mooney, Jeff, comments on 2000-01 budget 14676
- Motor Vehicle Act, blood alcohol testing provisions, effectiveness 15439-40
- N. L. Broadcasting Ltd., level of taxation 16679
- NDP government
- Norster, Norm, Labour Relations Board case 16596
- Nurses
- Oil and gas industry, natural gas price increases, impact on hospitals and other public institutions 17288
- Oleksiuk, Keith, Labour Relations Board employment and severance 16596
- Olsen, Garry, work in Thompson health region 17296-7
- Overlander Extended Care Hospital
- administration 15603
- board, replacement by NDP government 14675
- boiler installation 17296
- unfinished wing, future 15604-5
- Parks
- funding to maintain access and facilities 16536
- tourism in parks 16536
- Penikett, Tony, employment with Labour ministry 16595
- Pensions, benefits, suspension of benefits, number of pensioners affected 17166
- Physicians
- disputes, handling by NDP government, funding for settlements 17230-1
- supply 14676
- Pinantan Lake, contamination issue 16536-7
- Public debt
- debt during NDP administration 15454, 17041
- forecasted totals by end of 2000-01 fiscal year 14676
- Rangeland, grazing leases 15911
- Recreation, fishing resorts, operating costs 14675
- Recycling, alcoholic beverage container recycling, safety issues 16483, 16881-2
- Royal Commission on Workers Compensation in B.C., recommendations, implementation 16828, 16885
- Royal Inland Hospital
- issues and concerns 17296-7
- psychiatric facility, status of project 15561
- Sales tax, tax on recreational vehicles and boats, impact on tourism industry 15095-6
- School boards/districts, funding allocation 16363-4
- School district 73 (Kamloops-Thompson), funding 16363-4
- Secure Care Act
- Skeena Cellulose Inc., government intervention in financial situation, outcome 17041-2
- Skeetchestn Indian band, building maintenance worker certification program 15714-5
- Small business forest enterprise program, wood supply, impact of insect-damaged wood on participants 15346
- Small Business, Tourism and Culture ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 16481-3
- Substance abuse/addiction, treatment services, regional facilities 14677
- Taxi industry, driver safety 16880-1
- Thompson health region
- Throne speech debate 14529-33
- Tranquille Farm, sale of property by NDP government 14675
- Transportation
- corridors, international north-south corridors 17113
- investment in infrastructure, prioritization 14677
- Transportation and Highways ministry, 2000-01 estimates debate 15125-6, 15141-3
- Truth in Budgeting Act, introduction as private member's bill 16181
- Tweedsmuir Park, beetle infestations, management strategies 15345-6
- Universities, colleges and institutes, university colleges, funding for library acquisitions 15725-6
- University College of the Cariboo
- University of B.C., research facilities, funding 14533
- Volunteers and volunteer sector, volunteer workers in schools 14674-5
- Wages and salaries, minimum wage level 16599-600
- Wall, Gerry, workers compensation case 17166
- Wells Gray Park, funding to maintain access and facilities 16536
- Wildlife
- grizzly bears, number 16551-2
- problem wildlife, feeding of wildlife, enforcement of fines and penalties 16550-1
- Wolf, Ken, workers compensation case 17295
- Workers compensation
- claimants, continuum of care program 16831-2
- claims
- claims avoidance program 16884
- claims processing, quality assurance 16884-5
- claims regarding environmental tobacco smoke 16841-2
- duration and cost 16833-4
- electronic filing 16830-1
- coverage for firefighters 16885
- disability pensions, cost 16840
- employer assessment, experience-rated assessment 16882-4
- Workers Compensation Board
- accomplishments, comparison with Alberta Workers Compensation Board 16828, 16830, 16832-3
- administration costs
- electronic services for employers 16840-1
- fraud prevention 16885
- governance and accountability issues 16828-30, 16835-7, 16885-6
- regulations governing the workplace
- staff
- absenteeism 16839
- collective agreement, gain-sharing program 16839-40
- Youth
- employment and unemployment, opportunities for youths 16363-4
- youth at risk, secure care legislation 17101
- Zimmerman, Wolfgang, employment with Workers Compensation Board, conflict-of-interest issue 16835-6
Kwan, Hon. Jenny Wai Ching (Vancouver–Mount Pleasant)
- B.C., coastal communities, government involvement in economic development 16619
- Budget debate 14988-91
- Budgets, 2000-01 budget, principles and goals 14990-1
- Business
- community enterprise program 16627-8
- cooperative enterprises, role in B.C. economy 15058-9
- enterprise facilitation program 16626-7
- small business
- Children, child care, publicly funded system for B.C. 14989-90
- Circle of Hope Coalition Society, concerns re addiction treatment services, petition tabled 15828
- Communities
- community capacity-building program 16619
- community development fund 16620
- community development policy and legislation 16617
- community lens, use by government 16618-9
- community solutions program 16628
- information-sharing and partnerships 16616
- Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers ministry
- 2000-01 estimates debate 16612-35, 16649-57
- accomplishments, goals and responsibilities of ministry 16612-4
- budget 16617, 16620
- external advisory groups 16621-2
- funding of projects and programs
- interministerial cooperation, tracking of jointly funded projects 16614-5, 16627-8
- research and data collection 16618
- role in volunteer sector 16631-4
- social alternatives unit 16649
- work with federal government 16615
- Cooperative Association Act
- Cooperative Association Amendment Act, 2000
- Cooperative Housing Federation, audit powers of federation 15446-7
- Cooperatives
- Democracy, participatory democracy 15057-8
- Economy
- green economy, government initiatives 16616
- regional economic development, coastal zone economic strategy, input from business 16622-3
- Employment and unemployment, self-employment, government support 16617
- Fisheries, future of fishing communities 16619
- Four Corners Community Savings
- Fraser Valley, addiction treatment services, petition tabled 15828
- Gambling, charity gaming, regulations, red tape issue 16632
- Glacier View Lodge, government expropriation issue 14791
- Gold River, future of town 16629
- Green, Jim, employment with government 16649
- Housing
- affordable housing
- cooperative housing
- activity in B.C. 15057-8
- members' occupancy charges, definition as rent 15446
- membership terminations, appeal process 15009, 15051-2
- homelessness 15058
- national housing program 14989
- Income tax, personal tax rates, reductions for low- and middle-income earners 14991
- Indians
- history of treatment by non-Indians 14988
- land claim settlements, impact on B.C. communities 16615-6
- Institute for Cooperative Studies, research on cooperative models 16620
- Insurance Corporation of B.C., governance model 16631
- Power-Pets of B.C. Residents, pet owners' concerns, petition tabled 16604-5
- Resources and resource industries, access to resources 16617
- Sirolli Institute Canada Ltd., enterprise facilitation project in B.C. 16626-7
- Tumbler Ridge, future of town 16629
- Vancouver
- downtown east side
- cooperative housing projects, funding 16652
- mental health issues 16651-2
- rental accommodation, single-room occupancy units 14989
- downtown east side, services
- Woodward Stores redevelopment project 16649-50
- Vancouver agreement 16613, 16627, 16650-4, 16657
- Vancouver–Mount Pleasant constituency and area
- Volunteers and volunteer sector
- Youth, employment and unemployment, Bladerunners program 16491, 16634-5, 16649
Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C.
- Library, funding for acquisitions
(Bowbrick) 15777-8
(Stephens) 15777-8
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