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Province of British Columbia
2nd Session, 37th Parliament – July 2001 -
FULL INDEX (Subject, speaker and business entries)
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
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Hansard Sittings by Page Number
Kamloops, B.C.
Kamloops–North Thompson constituency and area
- Description
(Krueger) 271
Kelleher, Stephen
- Report on labour dispute involving health professionals
(Bruce) 395
(MacPhail) 395
- Role in labour dispute involving health professionals
(Bruce) 400-1
(MacPhail) 400-1
Kelowna-Mission constituency and area
- Description
(Hawkins) 193
Kerr, Brian J. (Malahat–Juan de Fuca)
- As subject
- personal background 79-80
- B.C. Liberal Party government, implementation of initiatives 80
- Cowichan Bay Improvement Association, breakwater project completion 81
- Highway 19 (Island Highway), Malahat corridor, safety review, government action 394
- Langford, redevelopment plans 80
- Malahat–Juan de Fuca constituency and area
- description 80-1
- issues and concerns 81
- Sooke, tourism industry in area 80
- Throne speech debate 79-81
Kimberley, B.C.
- Public education system, special education and special needs
(Kwan) 985-7, 1000-1
(MacPhail) 985-6
Kissner, Robert
- Letter to government re parental responsibility legislation
(Coleman) 720
Kitimat, B.C.
- Role of port of Kitimat in economy of B.C.
(Harris) 65
Kootenay area
- Drought conditions in East Kootenays, government action
(Bennett) 439
(van Dongen) 439-40
Kootenay-Boundary land use plan
- Socioeconomic impact
(Bennett) 567-9
(McMahon) 568-9
Krueger, Kevin (Kamloops–North Thompson)
- As subject
- comments on negotiations for collective agreement involving teachers
(MacPhail) 899
- Automobiles, taxation, surtax on higher-priced vehicles, raising of threshold for application of tax 271
- Budget debate 270-2
- Clearwater, hospital construction 272
- Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act, debate 1032
- Health Services ministry, estimates debate 631-2
- Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway), Kamloops area, government decision on highway construction in Valleyview area 272
- Kamloops–North Thompson constituency and area, description 271
- Nurses, issues, government commitment to resolution of issues 272
- Royal Inland Hospital, psychiatric unit construction project 631-2
- Water, bulk water exports, government position 694
- West, Helen, work in public service commended 99
Kwan, Jenny Wai Ching (Vancouver–Mount Pleasant)
- As subject
- draft letter to George Puil re transit dispute in lower mainland tabled 53
- experience as immigrant to Canada 887
- Aboriginal Affairs Committee, mandate 423, 751-2, 832
- Aboriginal Peoples Council, meeting with government ministers 425
- Advanced Education Council, status 416
- Advanced Education ministry, estimates debate 387-90, 416-21
- Air quality, protection, government action 149-50, 183
- Attorney General ministry and Ministry Responsible for Treaty Negotiations, estimates debate 423-7
- Bond, David, comments on proposed referendum on treaty principles 749
- B.C. Association of Social Workers, position on parental responsibility legislation 714
- B.C. Liberal Party government
- accountability and openness 968-9, 971
- actions since election 894
- MLAs' positions on Education Services Collective Agreement Act 875
- plans for health care system 320-3
- B.C. Public School Employers Association, position on specialist teachers in public education system 890
- B.C. School Trustees Association, position on parent volunteers in schools 309
- B.C. Sharing program, elimination 260
- B.C. Teachers Federation
- comments on use of parent volunteers in schools 309
- position on specialist teachers in public education system 890
- Bruce, Graham, actions re labour dispute involving nurses and health professionals 321-2
- Budget debate 257-62
- Budgets, 2001 economic and fiscal update
- content re air quality protection measures 149-50
- deficit budget 258
- review of program expenditures 824
- Buy B.C. program, elimination 260
- Campbell, Gordon
- actions re labour dispute involving nurses and health professionals 320-1
- comments on issues
- accountability of politicians 920-1
- collective agreements in health sector 920-1
- federal health transfer payments 867
- front-line workers in health sector 925
- pay equity 924
- privatization 924
- Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation, millennium scholarship program, B.C. participation in federal program 420
- Cheetham, John, commended for community work 187
- Children
- child care, universal child care program 185, 714
- early childhood development, importance 891
- Civil service, hiring practices
- audits of appointments 859
- audits of appointments, exemption for deputy and assistant deputy ministers 726-7
- audits of appointments, process 857-8
- merit principle 857
- Clark, Christy, comments on tax reductions 259
- College-Institute Educators Association
- position on legislation re collective agreement 894
- survey of bargainers, workload variation issue 970
- Collins, Gary, comments on deficit budgets 258
- Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services ministry, program reductions 260
- Community charter
- Community Charter Council
- accountability 786-7
- membership 780-2
- principles to consider in preparation of report 785-7
- report to cabinet, publication 789
- consultation, draft charter 782-5
- principles
- inclusion of local governments as third order of government 831-2
- inclusion of ward system 785-6
- Community Charter Council Act, debate 780-9
- Crime and criminals
- criminal injury compensation program, applicants and benefits, pain and suffering awards 729-30
- youth crime, causes 713-4
- Crime Victim Assistance Act, debate 729-30
- Crown corporations, compliance with local land use and zoning bylaws 770-1
- Dawson, Kathryn, position as assistant deputy minister 130
- Dobell, Ken, role in transit dispute in lower mainland 182, 223
- Economy, B.C. economy
- economy during NDP administration 258
- growth forecast 392-3
- Education
- class size
- combined primary classes 938
- counsellors, supply 892
- English-as-a-second-language program, availability 887, 889
- funding
- government role and responsibilities 893
- importance 891-2
- junior kindergarten, class size provision in collective agreement 937-8
- parent volunteers in schools, use by school boards 309-10
- special education and special needs
- system
- certainty 962-3
- flexibility and choice in system 893
- reforms 890
- Education Committee, consultation by committee, submissions 887-8, 890, 892
- Education Services Collective Agreement Act
- debate 864, 872-9, 937-65
- free vote in Legislature 879
- Liberal Party MLAs' positions 875
- supremacy over Labour Relations Code 964
- supremacy over locally made provisions in collective agreements 939-40
- Families
- parental responsibility legislation
- consideration of cultural differences 801
- effectiveness 713, 715
- impact on family violence 714
- same-sex couples, legal recognition of marriage 186
- Finlayson, Jock, comments on proposed referendum on treaty principles 748-9
- First Nations Summit
- comments on status of treaty negotiations 833-4
- proposal re mandates for treaty negotiations 832
- Government
- cabinet structure 752
- caucus members, communications and research staff 767
- core services review, process 818-21, 824, 826
- ministers, salaries 975
- programs and services, elimination and reduction of programs 259-61
- recruitment of deputy ministers and senior staff by B.C. Liberal Party 130
- regulations and red tape, reduction 819
- Greater Vancouver Transit Services Settlement Act
- debate 223-4, 226
- provisions
- operational review committee, date of finalization of resolutions 226
- special mediator 226
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink), role in transit dispute in lower mainland 51, 182-3
- Hansen, Colin, signing of petition of support for nurses 101
- Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act
- Health care
- funding
- federal funding 867
- relationship to growth of economy 392-3
- paramedicals and health professionals
- labour dispute, history of dispute 320-3, 371-2
- legislated collective agreement 276, 306-7, 393
- negotiations for collective agreement 276, 321
- negotiations for collective agreement, government role 320
- negotiations for collective agreement, government role, impact on supply of nurses and health professionals 322
- supply 322
- service delivery, contracting out for services 925
- services for persons suffering a wasting disease 837-8
- workers
- assignment of workers within or to worksites 922-3
- layoff and bumping rights 925
- severance entitlements 925, 1027
- Health Care Services Collective Agreements Act, debate 320-3, 368, 371-2
- Health Services ministry, website document, Tobacco Truth, Tobacco Facts; Secondhand Smoke, Firsthand Damage, tabled 776
- Hogg, Gordon, comments on services for children and families during election campaign 926
- Housing, affordable housing
- emergency aid society documents re affordable housing tabled 862
- government investment 260
- need 184-5
- units proposed for Vancouver area 826-7
- Human rights, government position on issues 187
- Income tax, personal income tax reduction, impact on low-income earners 184-5
- Indians
- issues 188
- treaty negotiations
- Justice system, court services, courthouse closings 926
- Kimberley, public education system, special education and special needs 985-7, 1000-1
- Kwantlen University College, Cloverdale technical campus, status 972
- Legislation, opportunities for public input 866-7, 894-5
- Legislature, legislative calendar and sitting schedule, unscheduled sittings 866-8
- Lions Gate Hospital, settlement of labour dispute involving physicians 323
- MacKay, Dennis, comments on collective bargaining by teachers 877
- Merit employment commissioner
- independence, B.C. Liberal Party election campaign statements 856-9
- need for commissioner 726
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 2001, debate 853
- Motions, motion that the House stand adjourned until the next day (Motion without notice), debate 866-8
- Mount Pleasant Elementary School, special education needs 893
- Municipalities
- recognition as order of government 786
- taxation
- authority to determine expenditures and taxation 787-8
- revenue sources 788
- NDP, position on post-secondary education system 972
- North Vancouver, public education system, special education and special needs 1000-1
- Nurses
- legislated collective agreement
- legislated settlement 307, 320, 393
- process to establish agreement 368
- negotiations for collective agreement
- government role 101
- government role, mass resignation by nurses issue 247, 261, 321-3
- supply
- nursing shortage in Canada 247
- supply 322-3
- Oil and gas industry, offshore drilling, government action 186
- Okanagan area, university in area 417
- Okanagan University College, board, replacement 417
- O'Neill, Barry, comments on use of parent volunteers in schools 309-10
- Palmer, Vaughn, comments on proposed referendum on treaty principles 750
- Parental Responsibility Act
- debate 713-6, 795, 797-804
- consultation 799-801
- definitions
- "parent," exclusion of government as parent 715
- "parent," status of non-custodial parents 795
- "property" 795
- public response to bill 715
- Parker, Michael, experience of daughter with special needs in public education system 888-9
- Pharmacare program, reference drug program, review 808
- Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, document re ventilation of secondhand smoke tabled 777
- Post-secondary education
- accessibility, relationship with number of facilities 972-4, 978
- capital projects
- distance education 972-6
- funding 388, 419-20
- joint education technology committee, recommendations 973-4
- private universities
- degree-granting status 418
- role in B.C. 418
- student financial assistance
- creditworthiness checks and student appeals 420-1
- system, changes 420
- system
- government vision 387
- reforms 974
- training accord with government 420
- tuition
- fees, concept of no tuition fees 388-9
- fees, impact on accessibility of post-secondary education 388
- review of tuition fees 705, 807-8
- review of tuition fees, consultation 389
- review of tuition fees, consultation, publication of public input 390, 416
- tuition freeze and reduction 388
- tuition freeze, measurement of success 389, 416
- Premier's office
- Public Education Flexibility and Choice Act
- debate 864, 886-96, 967-98, 1000-9
- consultation 894-6, 968-71, 976
- definitions
- explanatory note 1009
- provisions
- application 979
- class size 886-7, 890-4, 972-3, 977, 993-4, 1003-7
- dispute resolution 979
- dispute resolution, appointment of arbitrator 1002-3
- distance education 972-6
- school calendar 976-7, 1007-9
- school meals program 990-2
- special education 980-90
- specialist teachers 886-94, 896, 994-7, 1000-1
- purpose of bill 886-7
- timeline for implementation 895-6
- Public Service (Merit Employment Commissioner) Amendment Act, 2001, debate 726-7, 856-9
- Puil, George, comments on role of Vancouver city council 896
- Ready, Vince
- report recommendations on settlement of transit dispute in lower mainland 223-4
- role in labour dispute involving nurses 321, 368
- School Act, definition of class in bill 980, 983
- School (Protection of Parent Volunteers) Amendment Act, 2001, debate 309-10
- School boards/districts
- collective agreements, amalgamation of agreements
- impact on teachers' salaries 953-60
- single agreement per district 952
- delivery of school meals program, contracted services 991-2
- reporting requirements 1006-7
- role and responsibilities 893, 896, 993-4
- School district 36 (Surrey), delivery of school meals program, contracted services 992
- School district 58 (Nicola-Similkameen), teacher salaries, daily rate 957-60, 963
- School district 87 (Stikine), teacher recruitment and retention 876-7, 944
- School meals program 990-2
- Shaw, Maureen, comments on legislation re collective agreements in colleges and institutes 894
- Small claims court, actions re property damage by youths
- disclosure of confidential information at trial 802-3
- liability of children and parents 713-5, 797-8, 802, 804
- rights of insurers to pursue claims 798-9
- Speech disorders, speech pathologists, role in public education system 997
- Stephens, Lynn, signing of petition of support for nurses 101
- Stern, Arlene, experience as speech pathologist in public education system 997
- Strata property, condominiums, leaky-condos issue, NDP government action 807
- Substance abuse/addiction
- prevention initiatives 826-7
- programs and services 187-8
- Taxation, tax reductions
- impact on allocation of provincial budget 259-60
- impact on deficit 922, 925
- impact on economy 258-9, 261
- impact on economy, studies 258-9
- impact on low-income earners 259, 261
- Teachers
- collective agreements
- collective bargaining
- commission to review structures and procedures 875, 961, 963
- commission to review structures and procedures, recommendations 962
- dispute resolution 951, 965
- government actions, impact on teacher recruitment to B.C. 879
- government involvement in bargaining 950, 961, 963
- items agreed to by both parties 949-50
- process 964
- situation in Alberta and Ontario 872, 879
- commitment and role 872-4
- employment terms, split shifts 1008-9
- extracurricular activities 876
- labour dispute
- negotiations for collective agreement
- payment for school supplies 873-4
- salaries
- call-out rate and grid system 945-9
- comparison with other provinces and occupations 873-4, 942-5
- daily rate under amalgamated collective agreements 956-7, 959
- impact on teacher recruitment and retention 940-4
- increase 943
- supply, recruitment and retention
- Tegenfeldt, John, severance package from government after employment as Health Planning deputy minister 1027
- Texas, impact of tax reductions on state budget 259
- Throne speech, content 184-8
- Throne speech debate 183-8
- Tobacco, health risks associated with secondhand smoke in the workplace 774
- Transit services, labour dispute in lower mainland
- Universities, colleges and institutes
- capital plans 418-9
- colleges, university colleges and institutes
- instructors, collective agreements, legislation 894, 977-8
- instructors, negotiations for collective agreement, workload variations 969-70
- programs for income assistance recipients 894
- labour relations, status of employer's bargaining with faculty and support staff 418
- university colleges
- University of Phoenix, granting of degrees in B.C. 418
- Vancouver agreement, status of initiatives under agreement 826-8
- Vancouver, Woodward's Building redevelopment
- redevelopment options 828
- Simon Fraser University proposal 419
- Vancouver–Mount Pleasant constituency and area
- description 184
- issues and concerns 184-7
- public education system 886-7
- Violence against women, impact of crimes against women 729-30
- Wages and salaries, pay equity legislation, government consultation 426-7
- Welfare
- social services
- funding and service levels 922-3, 926
- Munroe agreement 925
- successorship accord and rights 926
- social services, workers
- collective agreements, voiding of provisions 922-6
- wages and benefits 921-2, 926
- Wilkinson, Andrew, appointment as Intergovernmental Relations deputy minister 130, 726, 858
- Wilson, Bill, comments on proposed referendum on treaty principles 749-50
- Winter, John, comments on breaking contracts 924
- Women
- issues and needs 185-6
- pay equity, government support 186
- Wong, Patrick, comments on breaking contracts 922
- Workers Compensation Board, smoking ban, implementation 706, 774
Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C.
- Cloverdale technical campus, status
(Kwan) 972
- Enrolment capacity
(Halsey-Brandt) 142-3
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