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Province of British Columbia
Third Session, 38th Parliament – 2007
Members Index
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
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Abbott, Hon. George (Shuswap)
- As subject
- comments on role of cabinet in protection-of-privacy issues (Dix) 6173
- comments on smoking at health care facilities (Cubberley) 6223
- position on cabinet responsibility for protection-of-privacy issues (Thorne) 6174
- visits to hospital emergency rooms 5433
- work on first nations issues 8607
- 108 Mile House, house fire and medical emergency case 7435-6
- Abbotsford, hospital and cancer centre project 7696, 7850
- AIDS organizations, funding 7865-7
- Alberni-Qualicum constituency and area, primary health care services in Qualicum Beach area 7716
- Albo, Al and Fanny, couple's separation in health care facilities 5369-70
- Alzheimer's disease
- medication, studies 7775-6
- programs and services for patients, funding 8521
- Ambulance service
- Anderson, Keith, work as interim chief executive officer at Fraser Health Authority 7603
- Baird, Kim, work on Tsawwassen treaty 8606-7
- Barefoot, Gordon, work for Fraser Health Authority 7609
- Bastion Place, level of care for seniors 9364
- Beacon Hill Villa, conditions for residents 8519
- Beck, Lynanne, letter to Health Ministry and termination of employment 8782-3
- B.C.,
- interior B.C., residential care and assisted-living units 5674
- northern and rural B.C., health care services 7211, 7621-2, 7623
- B.C. Ambulance Service
- B.C. Children's Hospital
- pilot project for adults with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder 7669
- services 5674
- Budget debate 5673-6
- Burnaby Hospital, services 5630
- Burns, Jonathan, contract with Health Ministry 9151-2
- Business, public-private partnerships, NDP position 7694
- Cancer services in B.C. 5675-6, 7600, 7624
- Caregivers, care aides, wages 7860
- Cariboo South constituency and area, ambulance service in Chilcotin area 6929, 7818, 7820-2
- College of Pharmacists of B.C., position on tobacco sales in pharmacies 6627-8
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., regulation of physician practices 7706, 7711
- Construction industry, construction costs in B.C. 7823
- Copeman, Don, health care centres, compliance with legislation, investigation 7701, 7707-9, 9599
- Corrections system, prisoners with mental illness 7668
- Cortes Island, health clinic 7714
- Cowichan District Hospital, services and staffing 7864
- Cowichan-Ladysmith constituency and area
- home support service levels 7862
- mental health outreach services in Ladysmith 7863
- Cross, Bill, experience at seniors care facility 8584
- Dementia, incidence and need for services 7663
- Deni House
- Dentistry, certified dental assistants, professional status and regulation 7698-700
- Diabetes
- incidence and cost to health care system 7761
- type 2 diabetes, incidence and management in B.C. 7855-6
- Dix, Adrian, position on Fair Pharmacare program 7777-9
- Drugs
- common drug review 7625
- thalidomide, availability and cost 7781
- Dunrovin Park Lodge, government investment 6475
- Education
- curriculum, tobacco use prevention initiatives 6630
- students, mental health 7666
- Emergency and Health Services Commission
- HealthLine Services B.C. initiative 6923, 7657
- services 7816
- transfer of responsibilities to commission, employee issues 7812
- transfer of responsibilities to commission, health information programs 7657
- Evans, Corky, letter to government re closing of smoking rooms in bars 6633, 6637
- False Creek Surgical Centre, audits 7709-10
- Family caregivers, respite and support services 7766
- Farnworth, Mike, comments on public-private partnerships 6536-7
- First nations
- Folk, Melanie and Dwayne, travel for maternity services 8309
- Fraser Health Authority
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, provisions 7772-3
- Freedom of information, legislation
- NDP position 5629
- staff's interpretation of provisions 5629
- Fynn, Tara, mother's supportive housing case 5990
- Gosling, Barbara, complaint re medical specialist appointment practices 7711
- Government, procurement practices, service contracts 7773
- Health, continuing and long-term care
- assessment of care needs 5841-2, 7767
- beds, number and distribution formula 7762-3
- facilities
- government investment 5323
- review of seniors care in health facilities, implementation of recommendations 5369-70
- services and standard of care 7768-9
- Health, health authorities
- Health, health care facilities and hospitals
- capital projects
- investment 5674
- public-private partnerships 5323, 7695-6
- public-private partnerships, NDP position 6536-7
- employees, concerns and whistle-blower protection 8783
- hospital closings 7818
- private facilities, facilities opened during NDP administration 9600
- private facilities, labour practices 8449-50
- security services 7858
- transfer of patients between facilities 7847
- Health, health care funding 5675, 7434, 7598, 7605
- funding during NDP administration 7434
- funding for health authorities 7610
- funding for health authorities, continuing and long-term care 7760
- funding for mental health 7661-2
- health innovation fund 7859-60
- health innovation fund, allocation for mental health 7661
- Health, health care system
- beds
- chronic disease management 7855-7
- diagnostic services 5675, 7711, 7861-2
- emergency services
- current conditions in emergency rooms 5321, 5369
- government initiatives 7599
- overcapacity protocol 7868
- use by mentally ill persons 7661
- government initiatives and investments 5368
- health professionals, recruitment and training 7597, 7600, 7861
- health professionals, supply 7860-2
- impact of aging population 7599, 7716, 7761
- information, e-health initiative 7658
- magnetic resonance imaging services 5675, 7711, 9552-3
- maternity services, availability in B.C. 8309
- private clinics 7782-3
- public consultation by government 5368
- public consultation by government, Conversation on Health 7598-9, 7868
- resource materials, availability in different languages 7665-6
- surgery
- system during NDP administration 5685-6
- system in B.C. 7597
- wait-lists and waiting times 7597
- surgery waiting times 7599
- surgery wait-lists, back surgery case 7435
- worker safety, assault case 7859
- Health, public health
- government promotion of healthy lifestyle and physical fitness, initiatives 7761
- immunization
- Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, amendments 6922-3, 7657
- Health Committee, role in chronic disease prevention and primary care initiatives 7857
- Health Emergency Act, amendments 6923, 7657
- Health Ministry
- Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, debate 6922-3, 7657-8, 7811-3
- Hill, Wendy, work as assistant deputy minister in Health Ministry 7854
- Home care
- Hospice and palliative care, development and funding 7714-5
- Housing
- supportive housing for addicted and mentally ill, government initiatives 7663-4
- supportive housing, regulation 7774-5
- Housing, residential care facilities
- Information and Privacy Commissioner, recommendations for PharmaNet database 7812
- Interior Health Authority
- budget 7612
- coverage area 5674
- facilities, requests for information 7772-3
- hospitals, expansion and privatization of services 7694-6
- layoff and reassignment of nurses 6781-2, 7696-8
- residential care services contracts, proposal process 7773-4
- work of authority 5674
- James Bay Care Centre, construction of new rooms 7767-8
- Johnstone, Trevor, role as chair of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority board and termination of position 7613
- Kamloops, ambulance dispatch station
- emergency incident 7005
- evacuation and relocation 7211, 7842
- improvements to infrastructure 7842-3
- Kelowna General Hospital
- major capital project plan tabled 8281
- over-capacity conditions 5321-2
- Knight, Craig, role with Medical Services Commission 7708
- Kootenay area, maternity services in East Kootenays area 8309
- Kreklau, Fred and Alexandrine, couple's separation in health care facilities 6213-4
- Labatt Breweries of B.C. Ltd., donation of land to Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation 7618
- Labour, collective bargaining with heath care and public sector unions 7695
- Legislature
- bills, second reading, debate to be relevant to bill under discussion 6076, 6078, 9174, 9180, 9194
- language used in House, "idiotic" 7210
- language used in House, "lying" 5377
- legislative sitting schedule, change 5490-1
- legislative sitting schedule, night sittings 5491
- members' conduct and debate, references to members by name not permitted 5551
- opposition, critic role 7615
- points of order, definition 9174
- Lessard, Dan, discharge from Vancouver hospital 5840-1
- Lodge on 4th, conditions for residents 9423
- Lower mainland, mental health and addiction treatment facilities 7600
- Lytton, health care centre 5674
- Medical Services Commission
- investigation of health care centre operations 7701-2, 7704-5, 7708-10
- investigation of health care centre operations, decision 9599
- membership 7708
- Medicare Protection Act, provisions on release of information 7705, 9599
- Mental health
- advocacy and oversight 7661-2
- advocacy and oversight, report by mental health advocate 7662-3
- beds, community mental health beds 7663-4
- community facilities 7660, 7668
- government strategy 7660-1
- mental health of children and youth, child and youth mental health plan 7666
- mental health plan 7662-3
- mental health review board 7665-6
- mental illness and addiction
- patients, discharge policy and plans 7667
- programs and services
- accessibility to ethnic communities 7664-5
- availability after-hours 7665-6
- early intervention and outreach programs 7664
- emergency psychiatric services 7666
- Senate Committee report 7659-61
- services in B.C. 7660
- Morley, Terry, death 8495
- Motions
- legislative sitting hours, debate 5490-1
- Mount St. Mary Hospital, operations and funding 7769, 8520-1
- Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, perinatal wing 5674
- Nanaimo Seniors Village, employment practices 7838, 8236
- NDP
- performance as government, management of health care system 7606-7
- position on issues
- Fair Pharmacare program 7778-9
- freedom-of-information legislation 5629
- home support service levels 7759
- public-private partnerships 7694
- public-private partnerships for health care facilities 6536-7
- Surrey Memorial Hospital expansion 7619-20
- Tsawwassen treaty 8606
- New Vista Care Home, funding and operations 9365-6
- Northern Health Authority, bus service for travel for health services 7620-1
- Nurses
- Oak Bay Kiwanis Pavilion, funding 8520-1
- Olive Devaud Residence, replacement of facility 7717
- Options Health System Ltd., compliance with legislation 7704-5
- Pharmacare program
- Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, amendments 6923, 7657-8
- Physicians
- billing
- audit report, severed sections under freedom-of-information legislation 5629
- audits 5628, 7703-4
- billing practices, monitoring by government 7702-3
- federal penalties for extra billings in B.C. 7710
- investigation of extra-billing cases 7701-2
- referral of patients to private facilities 7783
- specialists, appointment practices 7711
- supply 5676, 7600
- training spaces 5431, 5676
- Physiotherapists, accreditation and supply in B.C. 7860
- Points of order
- attendance of other members in House not to be commented on 5493-4
- Powell River–Sunshine Coast constituency and area, physician supply 7718
- Premier's Council on Aging and Seniors Issues, recommendations 7760, 7767, 9366
- Priddy, Penny, comments on Surrey Memorial Hospital 7620
- Privilege
- reserving right to raise matter of privilege re comments by Doug Routley 9389; debate 9423
- Purchase, Keith, letter of resignation as chair of Fraser Health Authority, release and severing 7602
- Retirement Concepts Senior Services Ltd., operations in B.C., letter 8692-3
- Revelstoke, ambulance dispatch station 7819-20
- Ridge Meadows Hospital, expansion of emergency facilities 7823, 7841-2
- Riverview Hospital
- discharge and transfer of patients 7668-9
- future of facility and grounds 7854
- Routley, Doug, comments on Lodge on 4th seniors care facility 9365, 9423
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, role in ambulance service 7821
- Royal Columbian Hospital
- current conditions, number of beds 5432
- expansion and land use 7616
- professional staff 5432-3
- surgical services, cancellations 7618, 8236
- Royal Jubilee Hospital
- investment 5674-5
- major capital project plan tabled 8281
- St. Mary's Hospital, New Westminster, closing 7617-8
- St. Mary's Hospital, Sechelt, expansion 7717
- St. Paul's Hospital
- MRI machines, utilization 9552
- redevelopment plan and public consultation process 7864-5
- Seniors
- government assistance 7766, 9364, 9366
- ministerial responsibility 7767
- separation of senior couples in health care facilities 6213
- Shuswap Lake General Hospital, redevelopment project 5673
- Sidhu, Gurpreet Singh, emergency medical treatment in lower mainland hospitals 5322
- The Steeples, conditions for residents, case 8584
- Surrey, health care facilities and services
- 2005 health care services capacity report and recommendations 7852
- outpatient facility construction 5674, 7852-3
- outpatient facility major capital project plan tabled 6359
- Surrey Memorial Hospital
- construction of new facilities 5322, 7850
- construction of new facilities, NDP position 7619-20
- construction of new facilities, time lines 7618-20
- government initiatives 7620
- Thompson, David, work as chair of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority board 7614
- Tobacco
- government initiatives for tobacco use reduction 6216
- legislation, enforcement 6630-1
- revenues and costs to government 6215
- sale of tobacco products
- smoking, health risks 6216
- smoking in public places
- smoking, quitting 6240
- smoking rooms 6631-2
- use
- Tobacco Sales (Banning Tobacco and Smoking in Public Places and Schools) Amendment Act, 2007
- Tofino General Hospital, issues 7716-7
- Tributes
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement 8606-7
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act, debate 8605-8
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
- Vancouver Island
- Vancouver Island Health Authority
- infection control at facilities 7864
- premature infant care services 7864
- services 5990
- surgical services, joint-replacement surgeries 7863
- Vancouver, mentally ill homeless persons, government action 7667
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital
- major capital project plan tabled 8281
- redevelopment project 5674
- Waldner, Howard, letter on conditions at Lodge on 4th seniors care facility 9423
- Welfare, support system for vulnerable persons 5990
- Williams, Dianne, surgery cancellations 5430-1
- Williams Lake, seniors residential care facilities 5323-4, 5479-80, 6384-5, 6474-5, 7773
- Williams Lake Seniors Village
- advertising in response to comments by Charlie Wyse 9367
- conditions for residents 8692-3
- conditions for residents, case 8893
- Wyse, Charlie
- comments on Health Minister's availability to meet with Williams Lake delegation 5323-4
- comments on incident at Kamloops ambulance dispatch station 7210
- comments on Williams Lake Seniors Village 9365
- position on Deni House care facility 6384
Austin, Robin (Skeena)
- As subject
- comments during budget debate (MacKay) 5460-1
- comments on business profits (MacKay) 5461
- comments on trade agreement with Alberta (Yap) 8880
- presentation to Electoral Boundaries Commission 9527-8
- Agricultural land reserve, establishment 8770
- Alcan
- Alcohol, rural agency liquor stores 9208
- Aquaculture, geoduck aquaculture, impact of climate change 5453
- Auditor General, report on B.C. treaty process 8769
- Baird, Kim, work on Tsawwassen treaty 8768
- B.C., northern and rural B.C.
- economy in northwestern B.C. 5453-5, 7902-3
- health services, accessibility 5457
- highways and roads in northwestern B.C., maintenance and snow removal, petition tabled 7915
- transportation infrastructure 5455
- B.C. Hydro
- agreement with Alcan on power purchase 5456, 7191-4
- appeal of B.C. Utilities Commission decision 5479
- B.C. Utilities Commission decision 5749
- impact on jobs 6212, 6309
- impact on northwestern B.C. economy 7903
- role in run-of-the-river hydro projects 5455-6
- B.C. Utilities Commission, role, government review 5749
- Budget debate 5453-7
- Campbell, Gordon, comments in debate on Tsawwassen treaty 8769
- Children
- child care, government action 5454
- child care system 5453-4
- early learning programs for preschoolers 5454
- City of Terrace Forestry Task Force, recommendations for forest industry in area 8888
- Climate change, government action 5453
- Communities, impact from industry changes, transition program 7740-1
- Community Services Ministry, estimates debate 7740-1
- de Jong, Michael, comments on position on Nisga'a treaty 8766
- Economy, heartlands economic strategy 6211-2
- Education
- special education and special needs, inclusion in schools 8830-1
- use of school buildings, community use 5454
- use of school buildings, preschool programs 5454
- Elections
- electoral boundaries, northern and rural constituencies 9527-8
- redistribution of electoral boundaries 9528-30
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 2007, debate 9527-30
- Electoral Boundaries Commission, review of electoral boundaries 9527-9
- Energy
- energy plan, role of alternative energy sources 5455
- export from and import into B.C. 5455
- hydroelectric power, run-of-the-river projects 5455-6
- Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Ministry, estimates debate 7191-5
- Environment Ministry
- Ferries and ferry services, sinking of Queen of the North, economic impact on northwestern B.C. 5455
- First nations
- aboriginal rights, court cases 8768
- agreements with government, interim agreements 8768-9
- conditions for first nations in B.C. 8768-9
- history of treatment by non–first nations 8767
- new relationship with government 8770
- treaties, B.C. treaty process 8768
- Fish, steelhead, protection and recovery of stocks 6362-3
- Fishing industry, bycatch survival, use of special nets 6838
- Foster parents 8579
- Hawkshaw, Fred, work on fish nets 6838
- Health care system, sustainability 5456-7
- Highway 37, electrification, role of mining industry 7902-3
- Income assistance, benefits, benefit amount for shelter 5454
- Income disparity in B.C. 5454
- International relations, colonial relations between Britain and other nations 8767
- Kitimat, employment in area 6212, 6309
- Kitselas First Nation, treaty negotiations 8769
- Kitwanga, first nation access to resources and involvement in forest industry 8768
- Legislature
- bills, second reading, debate to be relevant to bill under discussion 8769
- number of seats 9529
- Lekstrom, Blair, comments in debate on Tsawwassen treaty 8769
- Lower mainland, transportation infrastructure 5457
- MLAs, participation in electoral boundaries review process 9527-8
- Motions
- electrification of Highway 37, debate 7902-3
- independent power producers, debate 6060-1
- Nisga'a treaty, negotiations and outcomes 8766-8
- North Coast Steelhead Alliance, activities 6363
- NovaGold Resources Inc., Galore Creek mine project 7902-3
- Oral questions
- B.C. Hydro appeal of decision on Alcan power sales 5479
- B.C. Utilities Commission role and decision on Alcan power sales 5749
- Liquor sales at rural agency stores 9208
- Loss of Alcan jobs in Kitimat 6309
- Pope and Talbot bankruptcy proceedings 9012
- Terrace community forestry plan 9012
- Terrace mill closing 8835
- Transition plan for rural communities 6211-2
- Petitions
- minimum wage 8973
- road maintenance and snow removal in northwestern B.C. 7915
- Pope and Talbot Inc., bankruptcy proceedings, government action 9012
- Port of Prince Rupert, potential as gateway to Asia Pacific 5457
- Poverty, child poverty in B.C. 8579
- School district 82 (Coast Mountains), motion on special needs school 8831
- Skeena constituency and area
- economic conditions 5454-5
- first nations in area 8766
- population decline and access to services 5455
- Statements by members
- Child poverty 8579
- City of Terrace Forestry Task Force 8888
- Social inclusion in schools 8830-1
- Tangle/tooth nets and responsible fishing practices 6838
- Sustainable Aquaculture Special Committee
- consultation process 6156
- final report presented 8067
- first report for second session of 38th parliament presented 6156
- Terrace
- community transition planning 7740
- economy, impact of Nisga'a treaty 8767
- impact of government policies 6211
- mill closing 8835, 8888, 9012
- public hearing by Electoral Boundaries Commission 9529
- Tsawwassen First Nation, involvement in fishing industry 8769
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement
- fisheries provisions 8769-70
- allocation for food and ceremonial purposes, sale 8959
- allocation of salmon 8974
- allocation of shellfish 8959-60
- aquaculture applications 8960
- commercial fishery 8960-1, 8973-5
- fisheries management 8974
- interests of other first nations 8958, 8974
- harvest agreement, allocations 8961, 8974
- land provisions, transfer of lands from agricultural land reserve 8770
- treaty 8766-7
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act
- Wages, minimum wage, petition tabled 8973
- Water
- protection of resources 6837
- water licences 6837
- Water Resource Protection Act, 2007, debate 6837
- Weather, severe weather events 5453
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