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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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Campbell, Hon. Gordon (Vancouver–Point Grey)
- As subject
- accountability 8314-6 (James) 8314-6
- accountability for Vancouver Convention Centre expansion project management (Farnworth) 9062 (James) 9058-9
- comments on issues
- accountability of Premier's Office (James) 7126
- call for comment on partisan activities by government (Chudnovsky) 8063 (Farnworth) 8066 (Ralston) 8063
- climate change (Simpson, B.) 5606
- debate on Tsawwassen treaty (Austin) 8769 (Nuraney) 8801
- government accountability and openness (Farnworth) 6010 (Horgan) 6018, 6074 (Karagianis) 6001 (Krog) 5966-7 (Kwan) 6074-5, 6077 (Lali) 6091-2 (Macdonald) 5968 (Sather) 6083-4 (Simpson, S.) 6013-4 (Wyse) 5993
- government cooperation with investigation into B.C. Rail sale process (James) 5586 (Kwan) 5586-7
- health care costs (Ralston) 5437-8
- health care worker contracts (Dix) 7694-5
- local government powers (Cubberley) 9233-4 (Karagianis) 8814, 8816, 9119 (Wyse) 9225
- MLA remuneration and pension plans (Coons) 8467 (Cubberley) 8426 (Macdonald) 8462
- Nisga'a treaty and treaty process (Lali) 8757
- service provider contract audits for employment programs (Brar) 6145
- treaty process (Fraser) 8342
- divestiture of shares (Gentner) 9410
- letter to Speaker on electoral boundaries legislation (Ralston) 9156
- motivation for electoral boundaries legislation (Brar) 9347
- position on issues
- public image (Lali) 5342, 5345
- record on environmental issues (James) 5285-6
- role in Conversation on Health (Chudnovsky) 5299-300
- role in electoral boundaries redistribution (Dix) 9524-5 (Lali) 9352-3 (Macdonald) 9171-3 (Routley) 9165-9
- website, photo of booster seat distribution (de Jong) 8783 (James) 8779
- Air, greenhouse gas emissions
- Baird, Kim, work on Tsawwassen treaty 8587
- B.C., athletes, accomplishments 6063
- B.C. Liberal Party government
- accountability and openness 8314
- Basi-Virk court case re alleged breach of trust, government comment on issues 7086-7, 7091, 7126-8, 8064-5, 8247-8
- Basi-Virk court case re alleged breach of trust, release of government documents 8245-7
- budgets and throne speeches, relationship of 2007-08 budget to throne speech 8326-7
- goals 8238
- Pacific leadership agenda 8238
- position on issues
- B.C. Lottery Corporation, implementation of Ombudsman's May 20007 report recommendations 8315-6
- Canadian University Service Overseas, benefits and coverage for overseas volunteers from public service 8241
- Children, child care issues 5270-1, 5419
- Civil service
- collective agreements in 2006 8241
- hiring initiatives 8241
- standards of conduct and oaths of office 8310, 8313
- Climate change
- B.C. Liberal Party and NDP positions 8232-3, 8322
- carbon offsets 8240
- climate action plan 8232
- government action and initiatives 8324-7
- NDP plan 8322
- western regional climate action initiative 8240, 8325-6
- Coal, coal-fired power plants, B.C. Liberal Party position 8232, 8327-8
- Collins, Vince, work for government and post-employment restrictions 8317
- Communities
- green community design 8325
- green community design projects, LocalMotion fund 8240, 8325
- small communities, Talents for Tomorrow program 8240
- Conflict of interest, guidelines for former senior government officials 8317-8
- Credit rating, B.C. rating 8239
- Crime and criminals, gang crime, government action 9150-1
- Dobell, Ken
- civil service 7129-30
- compliance with government conflict-of-interest guidelines 8317-9
- contract with government 8319-22
- registration as lobbyist, review by Information and Privacy Commissioner 7129-30, 8319-20
- role in Vancouver Convention Centre expansion project 8320-1, 9059-61
- work for provincial government and city of Vancouver 7129-30
- Dziekanski, Robert, death, public inquiry 9318-20
- Economy, B.C. economy, current conditions 8238-9
- Education
- education of first nations people, aboriginal education strategy 8589
- education of first nations people, enhancement agreements 8241, 8589
- funding 8239
- Employment and unemployment, unemployment rate in B.C. 8238
- Energy
- alternative energy sources 8326
- energy plan 8324, 8327
- innovative clean energy fund 8325
- Exports and imports, trade between B.C. and Asia, Asia-Pacific initiative 8239
- First nations
- agreements with government 8240-1, 8590
- government expression of regret for actions in past 8589
- health care and health status, aboriginal health officer 8241
- health plan 8589
- housing, off-reserve housing 8589-90
- new relationship with government 8589
- new relationship with government, reconciliation concept 8588-9
- First nations, treaties
- Fraser, Paul, appointment as Conflict-of-Interest Commissioner 9425
- Freedom of information, government policies 8255-7
- Fuel, hydrogen fuelling stations, hydrogen highway 8240
- Government
- cabinet accountability 8314
- communications technologies, personal e-mail and PIN messages 8253-4, 8281
- work with city governments 7129
- Health care system
- impact of aging population 8240
- public consultation by government, Conversation on Health 8240
- Housing
- government initiatives 8240
- housing endowment fund 8240
- Immigration
- programs and services for immigrants to B.C., federal funding 8239
- provincial nominee program, expansion 8239
- Intergovernmental relations secretariat 8249
- James, Carole, comments on government non-interference in justice system 8062-3
- Justice system, government non-interference 8062-7
- Kieran, Brian, communications with Paul Taylor 8283
- Krog, Leonard, comments on government non-interference in justice system 8063, 8065
- Legislature
- committee system, appointment of select standing committees 5265
- estimates process, members not to discuss any matters relating to court cases 8311
- fall sitting 8243-5
- Les, John, awareness as Solicitor General of B.C. Lottery Corporation issues 8315-6
- Lobbyists, legislation 8313-4
- Marasco, Mike, position with Partnerships B.C. and post-employment restrictions 8317-8
- Memorial Cup, hosting of 2007 hockey championship by Vancouver 8227
- Mines and mining industry, exploration 8239
- Motions
- referral of report on Legislature artwork depicting first nations people, debate 7106-8
- NDP
- position on 2010 Olympic Winter Games 7757
- position on issues, treaty ratification 8243
- Oil and gas, offshore drilling, B.C. Liberal Party position 8327
- Oliver, H.A.D., work as Conflict-of-Interest Commissioner 9424
- Olympic Games, 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver-Whistler
- Parliament Buildings, artwork depicting first nations, report by Speaker's advisory panel, implementation of recommendations 7106-8
- Police and policing
- Post-secondary education
- education of first nations people, funding 8241
- new student spaces 8239
- student financial assistance, Pacific Leaders B.C. loan forgiveness program for civil service employees 8241
- Premier's Office
- estimates debate 8238-58, 8281-9, 8310-28
- accomplishments, goals and responsibilities 8238
- budget, allocation for executive and support services 8249
- communications technologies, funding and applicability of freedom-of-information legislation 8253-6, 8281
- deputy ministers policy secretariat 8249
- freedom-of-information requests to office 8257-8
- media-monitoring and issues management component 8249-53
- records management system 8256
- role and responsibilities 8249
- staff, roles and responsibilities 8249-53
- staff, standards of conduct and oaths of office 8288-9, 8310-3
- Prince George, proposal for coal-fired plant in area 8232-3
- Richards, Kristi, athletic accomplishments 6063
- Seckel, Allan, role in release of government documents relating to Basi-Virk court case 8245-7
- Statements
- Battle of Vimy Ridge 6529
- H.A.D. Oliver 9424
- Shooting at Virginia Tech 6695
- Syer, Tom, position with Premier's Office 8251-2
- Taxation, tax reductions 8239
- Taylor, Paul
- actions re lobbyists while Deputy Finance Minister
- relationship with Pilothouse Public Affairs Group 9420
- Trade, investment and labour mobility agreement, issues 8239
- Transportation, Pacific gateway initiative and projects, benefits 8239
- Tributes
- Achievements of B.C. athletes 6063
- Vancouver Giants hockey team 8227
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement 8587-8, 8590
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act
- Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, expansion project
- Vancouver Giants, CHL Memorial Cup championship win 8227
- Vimy Ridge, battle, proclamation of Vimy Ridge Day in B.C. 6529
- Vinning, Prem, actions while Premier's office staff 8310
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shooting on campus 6695
- Wilkinson, Andrew, role in Vancouver Convention Centre expansion project 9060
- Wright, Don, work for government and post-employment restrictions 8317
Cantelon, Ron (Nanaimo-Parksville)
- As subject
- position on bill to ban ethylene glycol antifreeze (Krog) 8685-6
- Alberni-Qualicum constituency and area, aboriginal education agreements 8566
- Allergies, anaphylaxis preparedness 8222-3
- Anaphylactic Student Protection Act, 2007, debate 8222-3
- Animals, pets, benefits and protection 8682, 8684
- Antifreeze, propylene glycol antifreeze, use as alternative to ethylene glycol antifreeze 8683-4
- Armed forces, deaths of forces members in Afghanistan 5277
- Automobiles
- antifreeze, safety 8683-4
- automobile industry, response to environmental safety requirements 8684
- B.C., northern and rural B.C., economic development in northwestern B.C. 7904-5
- B.C. Ferry Commission, role and responsibilities 8876
- B.C. Ferry Services Inc., governance, role of provincial government 8876-7
- B.C. Liberal Party government, fiscal responsibility 5277
- B.C. Lions, Grey Cup win 5279
- B.C. Seniors Games, 2007 games in Nanaimo 8830
- Cadillac Van Isle 360 sailing race 8356
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind, services 5585
- Children, child care issues 5730-1, 9043
- Civil service, 2006 collective agreements 5277
- Climate change, climate action plan 5280
- Cycling, benefits and cycling infrastructure investment 9245-8
- Democracy, parliamentary system 9302
- Dennis, Robert, Sr., leadership 8566, 9362
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- discrimination against disabled persons 7125
- employment of disabled workers 7915, 8873-5
- government support 8874-5
- Dover Bay Dolphins, basketball championship win 6620-1
- Education of first nations people, government initiatives 9438
- Elections
- constituencies, rural and urban constituencies 9302
- redistribution of electoral boundaries 9302-6
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 2007, debate 9301-6
- Electoral Boundaries Commission, mandate and work 9303-4
- Employment and unemployment, job creation and unemployment rate in B.C. 5277
- Ferries and ferry services, service to ferry-dependent communities 8876-7
- First nations
- conditions for first nations in B.C. 9437
- economic and social development 9438-9
- health care services in remote communities 5279
- history of treatment by non–first nations 9437
- land stewardship tradition, comparison to non–first nations land ownership system 9437-8
- new relationship with government 5279-80
- new relationship with government, reconciliation concept 8564-6
- Forests and forest industry, softwood lumber agreement with U.S. 5278
- Highway 37, electrification, role of mining industry 7904-5
- Homelessness in B.C. 5513-5
- Huu-ay-aht First Nation, agreement with government 8566
- Inter Tribal Health Authority, activities and funding 5279
- James, Carole, position on issues, Tsawwassen treaty 8564-6
- Journée de la Francophonie 6305
- Maa-nulth First Nations
- economic development 9438
- leaders 9362
- leaders, comments on Maa-nulth treaty 9438-9
- treaty, final agreement 9436-9
- debate in Legislature, NDP comments 9437
- themes of hope and reconciliation 9438-9
- Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement Act, debate 9436-9
- Malaspina Hotel, redevelopment 5277-8
- Malaspina University College
- first nations nurse training program 5279-80
- first nations students 8543, 9438
- MLAs, right to express views in debate 8683-4
- Motions
- electrification of Highway 37, debate 7904-5
- referral of report on Legislature artwork depicting first nations people, debate 7114-5
- Nanaimo
- affordable housing proposal 5513
- composting facility 5281
- cycling infrastructure in area 9245-7
- downtown revitalization program 5277-8
- economic development 8543
- first nations education 9438
- forest industry operations 5278
- homelessness and substance abuse, local government initiatives 5281
- local athletes 5278
- sports activities 7372
- work of Royal Canadian Mounted Police in area and appreciation event 5682
- Nanaimo Clippers, junior hockey championship win 6775
- Nanaimo regional district
- land use restrictions for forest lands 8672
- waste management initiatives 5280
- Nanaimo-Parksville constituency and area
- health care services 5278
- unemployment rate 5277
- Nanoose First Nation, economic development 5280
- National Institute of Disability Management and Research, work of organization 5731-3
- NDP, position on issues
- electoral boundaries redistribution 9303-4
- Tsawwassen treaty 8564
- Newcastle Island, management agreement 8565
- Occupational health and safety, workers killed or injured on the job 7124
- Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences Act, debate 7124, 7915
- Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences, establishment 7124
- Parksville
- local industries 5278
- park restoration 7750
- water supply 5281
- Parliament Buildings, artwork depicting first nations, report by Speaker's advisory panel, implementation of recommendations 7114-5
- Petitions
- discharge of sewage from vessels near shoreline 9523
- Private members' statements
- Cycling in Nanaimo 9245-8
- Disabilities 8873-5
- Housing 5513-5
- National Institute of Disability Management and Research 5731-3
- Privilege
- reserving right to raise point of privilege 7234
- Promotion of Safe Antifreeze Act, 2007, debate 8682-4
- Representative for Children and Youth, appointment 5280
- Safety, ban on ethylene glycol antifreeze 8683-4
- School district 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith), programs 5281
- School district 69 (Qualicum)
- accomplishments and programs 5281
- education of first nations students 5279
- Seriani, Ab, response to fire and rescue of neighbour 6151
- Snuneymuxw First Nation, involvement in treaty negotiations 8565
- Statements by members
- Ab Seriani 6151
- Cadillac Van Isle 360 race 8356
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind 5585
- Dover Bay Dolphins basketball champions 6620-1
- Economic goals of Nanaimo community leaders 8543-4
- Journée de la Francophonie 6305
- Maa-nulth first nations leaders 9362
- Nanaimo RCMP 5682
- Nanaimo Seniors Games 8830
- Parksville park restoration 7750
- Rights of persons with disabilities 7125
- Sports in Nanaimo 7372
- Stillwell, Michelle, experience as disabled athlete 8873
- Throne speech debate 5277-81
- Tributes
- B.C. Hockey League champions Nanaimo-Parksville Clippers 6775
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement 8564-5
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act, debate 8564-6
- United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities 7125
- Vancouver Island
- Vancouver Island Aboriginal Transition Team, services for children and youth 8565
- Victoria, constituencies, electoral boundaries 9304
- Waste management, sewage discharge from vessels at sea, petition tabled 9523
- Weaver, Andrew, comments on B.C. government climate change plan 5280
- Western Forest Products Inc., removal of land from tree farm licence 8672-3
- Whittred, Katherine, appointment as Deputy Speaker 9439
- Zimmerman, Wolfgang, work on issues re disabled workers 7915
Chong, Hon. Ida (Oak Bay–Gordon Head)
- As subject
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists, position on trade, investment and labour mobility agreement 7678
- Atira Women's Resource Society, funding 7629
- B.C.
- aging population 5816-7
- government assistance to rural communities 7727
- B.C. Liberal Party government
- accomplishments and goals 5814-5
- budgets, theme of 2007-08 budget 7723
- long-term planning 5813-4
- policies, balance between economic, environmental and social factors 5813
- policies, impact on economy 5442
- B.C. Public Service Agency
- B.C. Stats, accuracy of statistics 7643
- Budget debate 5441-5
- Capital regional district, municipal governance in area 7742-3
- Cariboo area, women's centres 7635-6
- Central Coast regional district, revenue sources 7719
- Cities and towns
- Civil service
- Clark, Glen, comments on resort development 6559
- Climate change, B.C. Liberal Party and NDP positions 5813
- Communities
- amalgamation issue 7743
- government initiatives 5815-6
- impact from industry changes
- small communities, infrastructure program for small communities 7719
- Community Charter
- Community Services Ministry
- estimates debate 7626-55, 7670-1, 7673-84, 7718-47
- accomplishments, goals and responsibilities 7626-7
- budget, allocation to direct essential services for women 7629, 7632-5
- consultation with Union of B.C. Municipalities 7735-6
- environmental initiatives 7682-3
- minister's meetings with women's centres 7633
- responsibilities 7735-8
- responsibility for regulatory bodies 7678
- role in community transitions 7725-30
- role in trade, investment and labour mobility agreement process 7675-6
- work with first nations 7719-20
- Community Services Statutes Amendment Act, 2007
- Cowichan Valley, municipal governance in area 7742-3
- Credit rating, B.C. rating 5442, 5814
- Dakota Ridge, cross-country ski development in area 7733
- Dawson Creek, green initiatives, government support 7680-1
- Delta, impact of Transportation Ministry decision on official community plan 7736-8
- Duncan, municipal boundaries study 7742
- East Kootenay regional district, bylaw approval by Community Services Minister 6626-7
- Economy, B.C. economy, current and past conditions 5441-2, 5814-5
- Elections, municipal elections, campaign financing 7743-4
- Employment and Income Assistance Ministry, equity hiring, disabled persons, 10 by 10 Challenge 7643, 7648
- Energy, independent power projects on Crown land 7680
- Environment, government initiatives 5815-6, 7682
- Evans, Corky
- comments on NDP position on climate change 5813
- remarks in Legislature debates 5813
- First nations
- new relationship with government 7719
- relationship with local governments, community-to-community forums 7719-20
- Forests and forest industry
- mountain pine beetle control, government action 7725, 7728
- private lands, authority in land use decisions 7733
- revenues to communities in transition 7729-30
- Government, boards and commissions, ministerial responsibility for hirings 7648
- Government, local government
- access to government ministries 7677
- bylaw ticketing system 6323
- government policies during NDP administration 6308
- grants from provincial government 7626-7, 7654-5, 7670-1, 7726-7
- green design initiatives, provincial award program 5816, 7681
- powers and responsibilities, revenue disclosure and tax exemptions 8080-1, 8087
- preparation for aging population 7654-5
- provincial-municipal relations 7679
- provincial-municipal relations, monitoring of municipal fiscal plans 7736
- removal of municipal officials from office, legislation 7744
- revenue sources 7679-80, 7719, 7726-7
- revenue-sharing agreement for federal gasoline tax 5816
- support from provincial government 6308-9, 6781
- Greater Vancouver regional district, livable region strategic plan 7730-1
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Amendment Act, 2007 (Bill 36), consultation between Transportation and Community Services ministries 7738-9
- Growth management, regional growth strategies 7730, 7734
- Health
- health care funding 5445
- public health, government promotion of healthy lifestyle and physical fitness 5815
- Highway 16, missing women along highway, government action 7634-5
- Homeowner grant
- changes 5444
- eligibility for lower-income seniors and others 7652
- Hotels and travel accommodation, hotel room tax
- Housing, government initiatives and strategy 5442-4, 7723-4
- Infrastructure
- investment in infrastructure 7722
- water system regulations, government assistance for small systems 7746
- Insurance premium tax, use of revenues for fire protection 7746
- Jumbo Glacier Resort
- development approval process 6476-7
- impact of resort designation legislation on development proposal 6557-9
- Land use
- green zones, amending formula 7732
- local government authority 7732-4
- Macdonald, Norm, position on Jumbo Glacier Resort 6477
- Merit Commissioner
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 2007, debate 8080-1, 8087
- Nass Valley, community access to government funding 7720
- NDP
- MLAs, response to budget 5441, 5445
- position on 2007-08 budget and throne speech 5815
- position on income tax reduction 5443
- Nurses, aboriginal nursing strategy 7649-50
- Port Alice, community transition planning 7721
- Premier's Council on Aging and Seniors Issues, recommendations and implementation 5443-4, 5817, 7627, 7649-54
- Prince Rupert, community transition planning 7721-2
- Property inspection, liability of local government 7734-5
- Property tax, deferral by seniors 5444
- Property transfer tax, use of revenue for affordable housing 7723-4
- Public Service Benefit Plan Act, annual report for year ending March 31, 2006, tabled 5844
- Regional districts
- bylaw approval process 6626-7
- inclusion in Community Charter legislation 7683-4
- Resorts
- designation of resort region 6323, 6493-502, 6554, 6558
- development
- government initiatives 5816, 6323
- involvement of local government in decision-making processes 6409
- legislation 6123, 6322-3, 6409
- mountain resorts, governance 6323, 7732
- mountain resorts, incorporation as municipalities 6555-8, 6561
- resort communities, resources and tools 6322-3
- resorts in B.C. 6559
- Seniors
- housing issues 5444, 7654-5
- income and taxes 7652
- ministerial responsibility and secretariat 7649, 7653
- pension income, impact of longer life spans 5444
- programs and services 7649, 7653
- service organizations, funding 7650-1
- transportation issues 7652
- Skills training, trades training for women 7636-7
- Speaker and Deputy Speaker, appointment of Deputy and Assistant Deputy Speakers and Committee Chair 5813
- Sunshine Coast regional district, regional growth strategy 7734
- Task Force on Community Opportunities, recommendations 7722-4
- Taxation, tax reduction, NDP position 5443
- Taxi industry, licences and permits, municipal chauffeur business permits 6323
- Terrace, community transition planning 7740-1
- Throne speech debate 5813-7
- Trade, investment and labour mobility agreement 7673-4
- consultation with professional associations 7678
- effective date and transition period 7673
- impact on local government autonomy 7673-7, 8081
- public consultation 7673
- Transition houses
- Union of B.C. Municipalities
- 2006 convention in Victoria 5443
- involvement in TILMA negotiations 7673-4, 7676-7
- Vancouver Charter, amendments 8087
- Vancouver, community energy utility system 6323
- Vancouver Island, Otter Point–Shirley area, municipal governance issue 7742
- Victim assistance, programs and services 7630-1
- Violence against women, prevention 7631-5
- Volunteers and volunteer sector, ministerial responsibility 7650-1
- Waste management, sewage systems, responsibility 7745-6
- Weaver, Andrew, comments on B.C. government climate change plan 5814
- Women
- employment, mentoring program 7636-7
- issues, ministerial responsibility 7636
- women's centres, funding 7633-4, 7635-8
Chouhan, Raj (Burnaby-Edmonds)
- Agriculture and Lands Ministry, estimates debate 6109-10
- Agriculture, workers
- consultation by government 6109-10
- education for workers on rights and safety 6109
- employment standards and safety 6987-9, 8167
- employment standards and safety during B.C. Liberal Party and NDP administrations 6153, 6988
- employment standards and vehicle inspections, government action 5898-9, 6110, 6476, 7837-8
- employment standards, enforcement and inspections 6068
- employment standards, government policy 6068, 6153
- seasonal and guest workers 5936-7
- transportation regulations and vehicle inspections 7753
- vehicle accident in 2003, government action on coroner's report and Workers Compensation Board recommendations 5988, 6306, 6624
- vehicle accident near Sumas 6306, 6624, 7753, 9600
- wages and benefits 5937, 6109, 6152-3
- work 6305-6
- Attorney General Ministry, estimates debate 7960-1
- Automobiles, roadside inspections 5988
- Binning, Deepak, musical activities and experience with cancer 9106-7
- B.C. Children's Hospital, pilot project for adults with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder 7669
- B.C. Human Rights Commission, impact of elimination 6776, 7960-1
- B.C. Human Rights Tribunal
- caseload and waiting times 7961
- hearing for veterinarians' case 7961
- B.C. Liberal Party government
- approach to governing 9280-1
- position on climate change 5375-6
- position on Nisga'a treaty while in opposition 8721-2
- Burnaby
- affordable housing projects 5375
- work of city council 5375
- Burnaby Hospital, beds, funding 5629-30
- Burnaby-Edmonds constituency and area
- constituents, wages and working conditions 8167
- issues and concerns 5375
- social housing 5376
- Campbell, Gordon, position on issues, Nisga'a treaty 8721-2
- Children, child care
- accessibility, impact on labour market 5377
- child care resource and referral programs, funding 5377
- Climate change
- B.C. Liberal Party position 5375-6
- government action 5376
- Corrections system, prisoners with mental illness 7668
- Deepak Binning Foundation, work of organization 9106-7
- Eating disorders, incidence 5626-7
- Education
- foundation skills assessment, exceptions from mandatory test 6728
- students, mental health 7666
- Education Ministry, estimates debate 6728
- Farm and Ranch Safety and Health Association, work on safety initiatives 6109
- First nations
- history of treatment by non–first nations 8721
- treaties, referendum on principles for treaty negotiations 8722
- Fuel, gasoline prices, consumer protection, petition tabled 8238
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Amendment Act, 2007 (Bill 43), debate 9280-1
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, review of governance structure, proposed changes and legislation 9280-1
- Health care
- health care funding, funding for mental health 7661
- health care funding, health innovation fund, allocation for mental health 7661
- health care system, health support workers, legislated collective agreement 8167
- Health Ministry
- estimates debate 7659-69
- staff responsible for mental health issues 7661
- Hillside Gardens, conditions and future of housing complex 8150-1, 8167
- Homelessness in B.C. 8166-7
- Housing
- social and subsidized housing, rent subsidies, dispute resolution, services in other languages 5376
- supportive housing for addicted and mentally ill 7663-4
- Human Rights Code Amendment Act (No. 2), 2007, debate 6776
- Immigration
- programs and services for immigrants to B.C., federal funding 6728, 7961
- sham marriages and sponsorship debt collection 5376-7
- Labour and Citizens' Services Ministry, estimates debate 5936-7
- Legislative Assembly (Members' Remuneration and Pensions) Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, debate 8166-8
- Mathers, Laura, comments on foundation skills assessments in education system 6728
- MLAs, remuneration, public response 8166-8
- Mental health
- advocacy and oversight 7661-2
- beds, community mental health beds 7664
- mental health of children and youth, child and youth mental health plan 7666
- mental health plan 7662-3
- mental health review board 7665
- mental illness and homelessness 7667-8
- mental illness, awareness and incidence 7750-1
- patients, discharge policy and plans 7667
- programs and services
- accessibility to ethnic communities 7664
- availability after-hours 7665-6
- early intervention and outreach programs 7664
- Senate Committee report 7659-61
- services in B.C. 7659
- Motions
- employment standards for farmworkers, debate 6987-9
- New Vista Care Home, staffing levels, impact on residents 9365-6
- Nisga'a treaty, B.C. Liberal Party position 8721-2
- Oral questions
- Petitions
- consumer protection re gasoline prices 8237
- minimum wage 8973
- Police, handling of mentally ill persons 7659, 7668
- Port Mann Bridge expansion, impact on air quality and traffic congestion 9281
- Post-secondary education, private institutions, consumer protection 5377
- Poverty, incidence in B.C. 8167
- Riverview Hospital, discharge and transfer of patients 7668-9
- Statements by members
- Throne speech debate 5375-7
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement, transfer of lands from agricultural land reserve 8721-2
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act, debate 8721-2
- Vancouver, mentally ill homeless persons, government action 7666-7
- Wages, minimum wage
- WorkSafe B.C., farmworker safety violation reports, public accessibility 6109
Christensen, Hon. Tom (Okanagan-Vernon)
- Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Ministry, name of ministry 8710
- Ahousat, services for disabled child 8492
- Autism, intervention services 5394, 8391, 8415
- Blondeau, Harvey, need for group home for disabled daughter 6307
- B.C. Liberal Party government, Pacific leadership agenda 5391-2
- Child and Youth Statutes (Representation Improvement) Amendment Act, 2007, debate 6275-81
- Children
- child care funding, federal agreement cancellation 6307, 8391
- child care subsidy eligibility, threshold 8390
- child death reviews, summary of reviews 6276
- child protection
- child protection review
- children in government care, number 5394, 8484
- children in government care, role of Youth in Care 8392
- early childhood development, StrongStart B.C. initiative 5394
- programs and services for children and families
- special needs children, programs and services 8391
- Children and Family Development Ministry
- estimates debate 8390-3, 8410-5, 8431-9, 8478-94
- budget 7756, 8390-3, 8434-5, 8481, 8487, 9013-4, 9205-6
- budget and staffing impact of Community Living B.C. 8487-8
- changes in structure and operations 8483-4, 9111, 9204-5
- communication security policies 5842
- cross-ministry work 8390-1
- estimates debate, time for debate 8480
- goals 8391
- head office renovation 9013-4, 9205-6
- meeting in Chase resort 9205
- performance measures 8478, 8481-2
- purchases on ministry credit cards 9601
- regional offices 8393
- relationship with service providers 7756
- transition steering committee 8393, 8480
- work of ministry 9519
- Children and Youth Committee
- establishment and role 9518-9
- meetings, appearance by Children and Family Development Ministry 9520
- Climate change, government action 5391
- Community Living B.C.
- administration and operations 8432-3
- establishment 8410-3, 8480
- funding 8410, 8415, 8431, 8433-6
- group home review 5991
- interim authority 8411-2, 8480
- relationship with Children and Family Development Ministry 8411, 8413-5, 8431, 8434, 8436
- residential options project 6212-3, 6308, 8438, 8478-9
- review 8413-4
- service delivery model 8431-2, 8435
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- community living services
- housing
- alternatives to group homes 5991, 6212-3
- client moves 8438-9
- housing for developmentally disabled adult children of aging parents 8479
- options 6308
- medical supplies, government provision 8434
- programs and services for developmentally disabled persons 5990-1
- Economy, B.C. economy, current conditions 5390
- Education
- education of first nations people, jurisdiction agreements 8709
- public use of school buildings 5394
- Families, dispute resolution, family group conferences 5393, 8484
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- prevention and services, funding 8391
- services 5394
- First nations
- agreements with government 8709
- B.C. treaty process 5391, 8710
- children, number in government care 8485
- children, services for children and families
- issues, government action 8709-10
- Kelowna accord with federal and provincial governments 8709
- new relationship with government 5391
- First Nations Leadership Council, establishment 8709
- Foster care
- Child in the Home of a Relative program 8488, 9153
- foster parents, government support 5394, 8391
- Freedom of information, requests for information, government handling 8969
- Fuel, tax exemptions for cleaner fuels 5391
- Group homes
- Harris, Pam, need for group home for disabled son 6308
- Hazelton, first nations population in area, suicides 9554
- Hearing impairment
- screening of children 5394
- services for deaf and hard-of-hearing children 8492
- Homelessness among young people 5392
- Housing, government initiatives 5391
- Income tax, reductions 8390
- Kwadacha Nation, settlement of legal dispute re flooding 8709
- Legislature, estimates process, time set aside for debate 8480
- Mary Manning Centre, services and government funding 7519, 7596, 8488-9, 8968
- Mental health
- Métis Nation B.C., accord with provincial government 8709
- Nanaimo Family Life Association, services and government funding 7692, 8492-3
- Nelson, youth outreach services 8482-3
- NDP
- performance as government, management of child protection system 9519-20
- position on issues, Tsawwassen treaty 8708-9
- Representative for Children and Youth
- appointment 5393
- relationship with Children and Family Development Ministry 9521
- report on child protection review recommendations 9518-20
- role and functions 6277
- Routley, Doug, position on Tsawwassen treaty 8708
- Social workers, recruitment 5393, 8392, 8393-4
- recruitment and training of first nations workers 5393, 8392-3
- Stecyk, Barry, support for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan 9202
- Stó:lô Nation, Xyolhemeylh children and family services agency, issues 6625, 8486
- Throne speech debate 5390-5
- Tributes
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement
- transfer of lands from agricultural land reserve 8708
- treaty 8707-9
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act, debate 8707-11
- Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, settlement of legal dispute re flooding 8709
- Weaver, Andrew, comments on B.C. government climate change plan 5391
- Williams Lake, youth mental health services 8490-1
- Youth
- advisory council 5393-4
- youth at risk
Chudnovsky, David (Vancouver-Kensington)
- As subject
- comments on TransLink governance (Bains) 9270-1 (Falcon) 9607 (Krog) 9267
- family members' experiences of Holocaust 6697
- response to throne speech (Falcon) 5303
- Agricultural Land Commission, decisions, Agriculture Ministry role 5920-1
- Agriculture and Lands Ministry, estimates debate 5920-1
- Agriculture, workers, employment standards and vehicle inspections, government action 7837
- Automobiles, roadside inspections 7837
- Baird, Kim, work on Tsawwassen treaty 8586
- Bond, Shirley, comments on government education policy changes 7028
- B.C., northern and rural B.C., transportation infrastructure 7890
- B.C. Liberal Party government
- accountability 5302
- position on issues, treaty negotiation process 8585
- staff involvement in partisan media activities, call for investigation into allegations 7089
- B.C. Liberal Party, involvement in partisan activities 8002
- B.C. Rail, sale
- call for public inquiry 5745-6
- consideration of safety issues in negotiations 5745
- B.C. Transportation Financing Authority, role in financing of Sea to Sky Highway upgrades 6430-1
- Campbell, Gordon
- call for comment on partisan activities by government 8063
- position on climate change 5299
- role in Conversation on Health 5299-300
- Canadian National Railway Company, safety record
- federal government audits 5745
- government action 5302
- Centre for Literacy (Quebec), definition of literacy 7028
- Chase, Stuart, work as public affairs officer and assignment to Basi-Virk court case 7913
- Children, child care
- child care resource and referral programs, petition tabled 6704
- funding 5300, 5418
- funding, federal agreement, B.C. government action 5300
- Community Services Ministry
- Delta, impact of Transportation Ministry decision on official community plan 7737-8
- Delta Port expansion 8586
- Dominion Hotel, eviction of tenants 9422
- Education
- class size and composition, legislation, purpose 6673
- class size and composition, special needs students 6672-3, 7055
- community schools 6678-9
- education of first nations people, graduation rate 8585
- fees for equipment and materials, hardship provisions 7029
- foundation skills assessment 6668-71
- foundation skills assessment, exceptions from mandatory test 6728-30
- funding, transfer of responsibility to school boards 6668
- provincial schools 7055
- school boards and districts, appeals of decisions 7028-9, 7383-4
- school boards and districts, early learning programs 7030, 7055
- school buses, inspections 7837
- school closings, decisions 6668
- school planning councils 7029
- students, achievement levels, definition 7028
- students, evaluation and testing of students 5301, 6668-71
- system
- Education Ministry, estimates debate 6668-74, 6728-9
- Falcon, Kevin, comments on issues
- infrastructure projects in China 8824
- status of Cambie St. businesses 6462
- TransLink governance 8823-5, 9124
- First nations
- B.C. treaty process, B.C. Liberal Party position 8585
- health status 8585
- history of treatment by non–first nations 8584-5
- Government, capital projects
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority
- board of directors, changes and powers 8826, 9124, 9127, 9591
- governance structure, history of actions by board 9590
- revenues, fare increases and taxes 8826, 9125-6
- review of governance structure 6417, 6564-5
- review of governance structure, proposed changes and legislation 8823-4, 8826, 9590-2
- review of governance structure, submissions 8824-5
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, Richmond-Airport-Vancouver line
- changes to project 6463-4
- construction, impact on Cambie Street businesses 6458
- construction, impact on small businesses 8824
- costs and funding 6463
- role of provincial government 6461, 8823-5
- stations, accessibility for disabled 6465-6
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Amendment Act, 2007 (Bill 36)
- consultation between Transportation and Community Services ministries 7738-9
- impact on local property taxation 7739
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Amendment Act, 2007 (Bill 43)
- Health care system
- government handling 5299
- health support workers, legislated collective agreement 8427-8
- public consultation by government, Conversation on Health 5299-300
- public opinion 5300
- Highway 99
- Sea to Sky Highway
- landslide event near Ansel Creek 6466-7
- maintenance, responsibility for costs 6466-7, 6567-72
- slope stability and mitigation program 6570
- Sea to Sky Highway upgrades
- Highways and roads, maintenance 6368-9
- Holocaust, remembrance 6697
- Homelessness in B.C. 8516-7
- John Oliver Secondary School, renovation, impact on auditorium theatre 6674
- Karagianis, Maurine, comments on TransLink governance 9124
- Legislative Assembly (Members' Remuneration and Pensions) Statutes Amendment Act, 2007
- Legislature, fall sitting 5299, 5301
- Les, John
- awareness as Solicitor General of B.C. Lottery Corporation issues 8307, 8359
- awareness as Solicitor General of Ombudsman's recommendations on B.C. Lottery Corporation 8359
- Literacy, definition 7027-8, 7380-1
- Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society
- day care funding reduction 5418
- facilities and services 5413
- Lower mainland
- South Fraser perimeter road, impact on farmland, consultation between Agriculture and Transportation ministries 5920
- transit services 9125-6
- MLAs, remuneration and pension plan 8427-30
- Motions
- debate in Legislature on trade and labour agreement with Alberta, debate 5735-6
- road maintenance, debate 6368-9
- National Addictions Awareness Week, purpose 9259
- Nechako Northcoast Construction, highway maintenance services 5686
- Nisga'a treaty, outcomes of treaty 8585-6
- North America, European colonization 8584-5
- Oppal, Wally, comments outside House on partisan activities by government 8063
- Oral questions
- Allegations of partisan media activities by Liberal staff 7089, 7128
- Child care funding 5418
- CN Rail safety and call for public inquiry into sale of B.C. Rail 5745-6
- Eviction of tenants in downtown east side 9422
- Farmworker vehicle inspections 7837
- Government role in partisan media activities 8063
- Minimum wage 9474
- Performance bonus for highway maintenance contractor 5480
- Performance bonus for highway maintenance contractors 5589, 5686-7
- Public affairs bureau coverage of Basi-Virk court case 7912-3
- Role of Liberal officials in RCMP investigation of government staff 8002
- Solicitor General response to B.C. Lottery Corporation issues 8307, 8359
- Vancouver Convention Centre expansion costs 9062
- Partnerships B.C., reports, Sea to Sky Highway upgrade project, review by Auditor General 6569, 6573
- Petitions
- child care resource and referral centres 6704
- Premier's Office, political activities of staff, action by Gordon Campbell 7128
- Privilege
- reserving right to raise point of personal privilege 8309
- Public affairs bureau, coverage of Basi-Virk court case 7912-3
- Puil, George, work with TransLink 9124
- Reichert, Kelly, meetings with Gordon Campbell and police re investigation into alleged breach of trust by B.C. Liberal Party staff 8002
- Revelstoke, highway maintenance in area, contractor remuneration 5480
- School (Student Achievement Enabling) Amendment Act, 2007
- Statements by members
- Holocaust remembrance 6697
- Homelessness 8516-7
- Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society 5413
- National Addictions Awareness Week 9259
- Substance abuse and addiction, awareness 9259
- Surrey, transportation infrastructure 5728
- Teachers
- non-enrolling teachers 6671-2
- recognition and financial incentives for student improvement 5301
- teacher-librarians 6671
- Throne speech debate 5299-303
- Trade, investment and labour mobility agreement
- debate in Legislature 5735-6
- public debate and scrutiny 5302
- Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee (federal), investigation of railway safety 5302
- Transportation
- issues 6586
- Pacific gateway initiative and projects, expert assessment and review information 6564
- Transportation Ministry
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement
- transfer of lands from agricultural land reserve 8586
- treaty 8584, 8586-7
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act, debate 8584-7
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
- United Nations, investigation of homelessness in B.C. 8517
- Vancouver
- Broadway area, need for rapid transit west of Broadway 9125
- downtown east side, low-income housing 9422
- Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, expansion project, costs and financial management 9062
- Vancouver-Kensington constituency and area, constituents, wages and working conditions 8427-9
- Wages
- average wages in B.C. 8428-30
- minimum wage, increases 9474
Coell, Hon. Murray (Saanich North and the Islands)
- Advanced Education Ministry
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists, mandate 6482-3
- Auditor General, report on post-secondary seat expansion 6893, 6914, 6953-6, 6959-60, 6962
- Barkel Business School Ltd., investigation of operations 5749, 7039-40
- BCcampus, program 5451
- B.C. Innovation Council, termination of chief executive officer, severance payment 9601
- B.C. Institute of Technology
- forest technologist program 7032-3
- program changes 6978
- B.C. Liberal Party government, Pacific leadership agenda 5449
- B.C. Registered Music Teachers Association, reincorporation under Society Act 6488
- Budget debate 5449-53
- Camosun College
- Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation
- Capilano College, budget 7034
- Caregivers, supply 6911
- Degree Authorization Act, penalties for violations 7054
- Douglas College, budget 6977
- EDS Advanced Solutions Inc., contract for student debt collection 7049
- Education
- adult basic education
- curriculum, planning program in grade 10 6908
- English-as-a-second-language programs, regulation of schools 7038-9
- funding for teachers' salary increases 6960-1
- Engineers and Geoscientists Act
- Government
- borrowing rate 7047
- buildings, use of LEED standards 6971-3
- communications, Achieve B.C. website 6975-6
- regulations and red tape, reduction 7036
- Great Northern Way Campus
- digital media program and fees 6918, 6953
- private sector involvement 6918
- Health care system, health professionals, training 5451, 7032
- Industry Training Authority, governance 7038
- Kamloops, trades training facility 6968
- Kingston College, closing 5415, 7052-3
- Knowledge Network Corporation Act, debate 6697, 7927-8, 8125-6
- Kwantlen University College, Cloverdale Trades and Technology Centre 6918, 7041
- Lansbridge University, closing 5415, 7053
- Literacy, government initiatives 5452-3
- Media, digital media industry in B.C. 5450
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, debate 6482-3, 6488
- Music Teachers (Registered) Act, repeal 7036
- North Island College
- adult basic education program 6970
- funding 6968-9
- public input on services 6970
- support for first nations students 6969-70
- North Island Post-Secondary Education Committee, funding for study 6970
- Nurses
- new training spaces 6883
- nurse practitioners, training programs 6978
- supply 6910-1
- Open Learning Agency
- Knowledge Network component, establishment as Crown agency 6697, 7927-8, 8125-6
- windup of organization 7927
- Open Learning Agency Act, repeal 6697, 7927
- Perrin, Dan, report and recommendations on post-secondary education system 6960, 6962, 6969
- Physicians, training
- expansion of medical school program 5451
- new training spaces 5450-1, 6883
- Plant, Geoff, appointment for Campus 2020 review 6974
- Post-secondary education
- accessibility by income assistance recipients 6890
- affordability 6883, 6887
- ancillary fees 6912, 7035-6
- benefits 5449
- Campus 2020 6973-5, 7034, 7042-3, 7051
- completion rates, comparison with other provinces 6908-9
- credits and transfer system 5451-2
- education of first nations people
- enrolment levels 6957
- enrolment levels, impact of local economy 7043
- enrolment levels in rural colleges, impact of local employment levels 6908-9, 6956-7
- meeting of college presidents and school district superintendents 6971
- participation rate and qualification levels 6891-3, 6907-8, 7033
- partnerships between colleges and universities 7033-4
- program changes 6964, 6976, 7031-2
- research on impacts on enrolment levels 6957, 6959
- role in employment income levels 6887
- student associations, fees 7042
- student financial assistance
- debt collection 7049
- debt load 6886-7
- debt reduction and loan forgiveness programs 6885-6, 6911, 7031, 7043-6, 7048
- defaults on loans 7050
- interest on loans 7047-8
- loan forgiveness for health care workers 6910
- ministry reporting 7042-3
- name change, cost 5991
- Pacific Leaders B.C. loan forgiveness program for civil service employees 6910
- programs 5452
- scholarships and bursaries 5452
- scholarships and internships 6883
- statistics 6890-1, 7042-3
- student spaces, new graduate spaces 6909, 6913
- student spaces, new spaces 5449-51, 6882, 6915-6
- system, government initiatives 5991
- tuition fees 5452, 6885-6, 6911-2
- Post-secondary education, funding 5449, 6888, 6961
- capital funding 7031
- capital funding, matching funds program 6973
- federal funding 6888-9, 6961
- funding for rural colleges 6963-4
- funding for special projects and collaboration 6963
- funding formula 6960-3, 6968
- institution budgets 6976
- per-student funding 6917-8
- trust fund for children 6958-9
- Post-secondary education, universities, colleges and institutes
- capital construction
- involvement of Partnerships B.C. 6965-6
- Pacific green campuses 6972
- projects 6918
- projects and operating deficits 6964
- renovation of older buildings 6972
- private institutions
- consumer protection, government assistance for impacted students 7040, 7052
- government audit and investigation 5415, 5748-9
- government regulation 5452, 7051
- sustainability initiatives 6971
- university colleges 6909
- Private Career Training Institute Agency 7051-2
- Research and development
- Resolve Corp., contract for student debt collection 7049
- Science and technology, research and development, government investments 5449-50, 6882
- Skills training
- government initiatives 5451
- ministerial responsibility 7037-8, 7050
- relationship between colleges and secondary schools 7050
- shortage of skilled workers, government action 6883
- training capacity review 7050
- training facilities, construction 7037-8, 7050
- training programs
- mobile trades-training centres 6969
- trades training in rural areas 6969
- wait-lists 7050-1
- Thompson Rivers University
- construction as public-private partnership 6965
- Williams Lake campus 6967
- University of B.C.
- University of Northern B.C., programs 7032
- University of Victoria, construction of new buildings 6914
- Victoria, Dockside Green development project 6972
Coleman, Hon. Rich (Fort Langley–Aldergrove)
- As subject
- comments on issues in Basi-Virk court case (Fleming) 7592-3 (James) 7592 (Robertson) 7593 (Simpson, S.) 7593
- communications with Pope and Talbot Inc. 9111 (Simpson, B.) 9111
- family's education and military activities 5551
- handling of forest industry issues on Vancouver Island 6623 (Fraser) 6622-3
- Agriculture, owner-builders on farmland 7969
- Alberni Valley, forest industry in area, review 6845-6
- Alberni-Qualicum constituency and area, visits by Forests Minister 6845-6
- Aldonas, Grant, role in softwood lumber negotiations 6760-1, 6790
- B.C. Competition Council, recommendations for forest industry 6936-7
- B.C. Housing Management Commission, budget 8134-40, 8207
- B.C. Real Estate Association, position on allocation of property transfer tax revenues 8202-3
- B.C. timber sales program
- B.C. Wood Specialties Group 6936-7, 6939
- Budget debate 5551-6
- Budgets
- Burnaby, supportive housing 8140-2
- Cameron, Russ, involvement in value-added sector 6938-40
- Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, letter on lumber export taxes 6795
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, devolution of housing stock to province 8193
- Cancer treatment system in B.C. 5552
- Canfor Corp. (Canadian Forest Products), closing of New Westminster mill 9599
- Canfor Corp., closing of Mackenzie mill 8233-4
- Capital regional district, bylaw to downzone lands removed from tree farm licences 9264
- Climate change, government action 5764
- Construction industry
- building code enforcement 8197-8
- building permit process in B.C. 8374
- green building code 8133
- licensing of companies and individuals 8370-2
- regulation, modernization strategy 7974
- residential construction industry, building requirements and modernization strategy 8133, 8196-8
- residential construction industry, building requirements for owner-builders and others 7203, 7969, 8369-74
- Corrections system, prisoners, literacy 5764
- Cowichan Valley, emergency and transitional housing facility, government funding 5554
- Disabled and handicapped persons
- housing for developmentally disabled adult children of aging parents 5555
- payment for volunteer work at community organizations 5555
- Dobell, Ken
- Education funding 5553
- Energy, wood waste
- use to generate electricity 5766
- use to generate electricity, forest tenures 7936
- use to generate electricity, proposal call 5899-900
- Environment
- damages to environment caused by unauthorized activities, fines and penalties 6931, 6936, 7941
- issues, positions of B.C. Liberal Party and NDP 5763-4
- Evans, Corky, comments on NDP position on climate change 5763
- Evans Forest Products Ltd., operations 6898
- Federation of B.C. Woodlot Association, letter from Forests Minister on lumber pricing 6798-9
- Fernie, rental housing, tenant evictions 8693
- Fires and firefighters, forest fires
- fires in replanted areas, compensation issue 6932
- interface fires, prevention 6756, 6932
- First nations
- agreements with government 9152
- housing, off-reserve housing 8133
- new relationship with government, implementation 6861-4
- First Nations Forestry Council, budget and role 6861-2, 6864, 6865
- Forest Appeals Commission, 2006 report tabled 7841
- Forests and forest industry
- access to fibre 6938
- annual allowable cut, changes 6786, 7929, 7932-3, 7939
- certification of forest products 6947-51
- coastal forest industry
- coast recovery plan 5765-6, 6473-4, 6622-3, 6702, 6757, 6801-2, 6805-6, 6861, 8935-7
- coast recovery plan, input from industry 6857-60
- coast recovery plan, public release 8636
- government action 8936
- log supply 6864, 6895
- monopoly issue 6865-7, 6895
- community forest program 6860, 6902-5
- companies, investment in industry 6789
- companies, small operators, access to timber 7933-4
- district and regional managers, powers and role 7938-40
- export of raw logs 6472-4, 6622, 6702, 6782, 6793, 6799, 6857, 6938
- first nations involvement in industry, forest and range agreements and forest and range opportunities 5764, 6757, 6785, 6787-8, 6861-5, 6900-2, 6932
- forest licences 7933-9
- forest practices
- practices on private lands 9322
- practices on private lands, call for audit by Forest Practices Board 6385
- results-based code implementation 7939
- sustainable forest practices 6948-50
- forest revitalization plan 6788-90
- forest revitalization trust fund 6785-6
- government forest policy changes 6757
- government role 6896-8, 9152-3
- government support 8234, 9323
- harvesting rights for timber licences, reduction
- industry during NDP administration 6896
- industry in B.C., impact of commodity prices 8835
- issues, government performance 9322
- mill closings 6789
- mills, timber supply 6473-4
- monopolies in B.C. 6897-9
- mountain pine beetle, beetle-damaged wood, harvesting 6932
- mountain pine beetle control, government action 6211, 6756-7, 8234
- mountain pine beetle, federal funding 5530-1
- mountain pine beetle infestation 5766
- private lands, removal from tree farm licences 6845-56, 8635-6, 8690, 8738-9, 8835
- call for audit by Auditor General 8893-4, 8937-8, 9598
- government consultation with first nations 9152
- salvage logging
- certification and training 6942
- community salvage licences 7939
- licences 6939-43
- shake and shingle industry, issues 6938-9
- silviculture, reforestation management 6757
- softwood lumber agreement with U.S.
- softwood lumber exports to U.S., collection of duties 6843
- tenure system, changes of tenure 6897-9, 6945-6
- timber pricing, market pricing system 6791-3, 6947
- tree farm licence No. 6, issues 6847-9
- tree farm licence No. 25, issues 6849-51
- tree farm licence No. 44, issues 6845-6, 9598
- tree farm licences, management plans 7937-8
- tree farm licences, regulations 7940
- value-added sector
- woodlots
- worker safety, government action 6757
- worker safety, review by Auditor General 6757
- Forests and Range Ministry
- estimates debate 6756-8, 6760-1, 6783-806, 6843-67, 6895-906, 6936-52, 8132-44, 8181-207
- goals and responsibilities 6756-8
- housing component 8132-3
- minister, ability to delegate powers 7929-31
- minister, visits to industry operations and beetle-affected areas 6844-5
- residential tenancy branch, dispute resolution process 8186-9, 8195, 8198-9
- residential tenancy branch, wait-times for services 9421-2
- work on climate change issues 6757
- Forests and Range Statutes Amendment Act, 2007
- Fort Langley–Aldergrove constituency and area
- changes in community 5766
- schools in area 5553
- schools in area, enrolment levels 5765
- Fraser Valley, air quality 5763
- Greater Vancouver regional district, affordable housing proposal, Housing Minister's action 8207
- Health care
- health care funding 5552
- health care system
- impact of aging population 5765
- public consultation by government, Conversation on Health 5553, 5765
- reforms 5765
- surgery, joint replacements 5552
- Hillside Gardens, conditions and future of housing complex 8151
- Hollyburn Properties Ltd., operations in Vancouver 8189
- Home ownership, home warranty insurance issues 8181-4, 8369, 8370-3
- Homelessness, government strategy 8200, 8204-6
- Homeowner Protection Amendment Act, 2007
- Homeowner protection office
- Housing
- Housing, rental housing
- apartments, conversion to strata property 8693
- availability 8135
- investment, impact of tax policies 8189-91
- landlord-tenant issues, evictions for renovations and dispute resolution process 8186-9
- Housing, residential care facilities
- assisted-living residences, regulation 8195-6
- conditions and closings 5552, 5555
- Hupacasath First Nation, consultation by government on removal of lands from tree farm licences 6848
- Income assistance, benefit amount increases 5553
- Income tax, reductions 5553
- Independent Lumber Remanufacturers Association of B.C., consultation on value-added strategy 6939
- Island Timberlands Ltd.
- access to recreational activities on lands by public 6855
- logging practices 9598
- James, Carole, comments on ban on raw log exports 7437
- Kwakiutl First Nation, consultation by government on removal of lands from Vancouver Island tree farm licences 6847-9
- Kwan, Mila, rent subsidy case 8694
- Lali, Harry, meeting with Forests Minister on lumber company assets transfer 9421
- Land use, ecosystem-based management, link with forest industry 6949
- Langley, events and recreation centre made with B.C. wood 6783
- Legislation, drafting process 6935-6
- Literacy education 5764
- Lower mainland, traffic congestion 5762
- Lytton Lumber Ltd., transfer of assets, government action 9421
- Manufactured homes
- ownership, conversion to strata ownership 8202
- redevelopment of manufactured home parks, protection for homeowners 8200-2
- NDP, position on issues
- export of raw logs 6537, 8936
- Pacific gateway initiative and projects 5762-4
- Sumas Energy 2 power facility 5763
- Pedder Bay Marina, mobile home park issue 8201
- Pope and Talbot Inc.
- Port Alberni, forest industry
- government consultation 6623, 8936
- job loss, transition planning by government 8360-1
- raw log exports 9598-9
- resident concerns re logging on private lands in area, response by Forests Minister 6385
- Port Mann Bridge, transit access 5762
- Premier's Task Force on Homelessness, Mental Illness and Addictions, work 5553-4, 8204-5
- Privilege
- reserving right to raise matter of privilege 7597
- Property transfer tax, use of revenues for affordable housing 8202-3
- Recreation, mud-bogging by recreational vehicles, impact on environment 6936
- Roberts, Todd, report on value-added forest industry issues 6945
- Schultz, Ray, report on value-added forest industry issues 6951
- Seniors, housing, Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program 5554, 8133, 8135, 8183-4
- Shiells, Jim, death 5762
- Simpson, Shane, comments on alternative energy sources 5900
- Strata property, leaky-condos issue, government action 7973-4
- Sumas Energy 2 Inc., proposed power facility in Sumas, Washington, NDP position 5763
- Surrey
- shelter beds in area 8143-4
- social housing projects 5554
- TallOil Canada Ltd., forest licence 7936
- Third Avenue Management LLC, operations in B.C. 6896
- Throne speech debate 5762-6
- TimberWest Forest Corp.
- access to recreational activities on lands by public 6850, 6855
- logging activities in Alberni Valley 6846-7
- Transportation, Pacific gateway initiative and projects
- impact on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions 5763
- NDP position 5762
- Truck Loggers Association, comments on B.C. timber sales program 6944
- U.S.
- economy 9152
- housing first strategy 8204
- University of B.C., report on value-added wood sector 6906, 6936
- Vancouver
- downtown east side, low-income housing, purchase of single-room accommodation by government 9422-3
- downtown east side, low-income housing, single-room accommodation 8206-7
- housing
- affordable housing 8207
- protection of rental housing 8189-91
- social housing 5532-3
- supportive housing 8143
- Little Mountain Housing redevelopment project 8199
- Vancouver Island, storm damage, salvage logging issues 6942
- Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, review of impact on low-income housing in Vancouver 5900-1
- West Fraser Group, concerns re softwood lumber agreement 6796-7
- Western Forest Products Inc.
- Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd.
- access to recreational activities on lands by public 6855-6
- removal of land from tree farm licence, letter 6854, 6857
Conroy, Katrine (West Kootenay–Boundary)
- As subject
- constituency office, presence of federal NDP materials (Rustad) 5781
- Albo, Al and Fanny
- couple's separation in health care facilities 5369
- life and accomplishments of Fanny Albo 5367
- B.C., northern and rural B.C.
- seniors in rural areas 7652-3
- transit services 6522
- B.C. Liberal Party government, position on privatization 5653, 5655-6
- Budget debate 5653-6
- Campbell, Burton Peter, death 5427-8
- Children
- child care funding, petition tabled 5277
- child care funding reduction 5273
- child care resource and referral programs 5654-5, 7895
- child care resource and referral programs, petition tabled 5325
- child care spaces, waiting lists 5273
- early childhood development, early learning and literacy, government action 5654
- Christina Lake, proposal for independent power project in area, public response 5655
- Community Services Ministry, estimates debate 7648-54
- Deni House, closing of facility 6474-5, 7773
- Dumont, Dan and Carol, impact of meat-processing regulations on ranch operations 8638
- Families
- family caregivers, respite and support services 7766
- grandparents raising grandchildren 7894-5
- Food industry, meat-processing regulations, impact on small producers 8638
- Forests and forest industry
- private lands, removal from tree farm licences, petition tabled 9323, 9602
- sale of Crown forest land 5655
- Grand Forks, air quality issue 5655
- Health, continuing and long-term care
- beds, distribution formula 7763
- beds, number of beds 7762
- facilities
- funding formula 7768
- staffing issues 7769
- treatment of senior couples 7764-5
- review of seniors care in health facilities, implementation of recommendations 5369, 5654
- review of seniors care in health facilities, recommendations 6213-4
- services and standard of care 7767-9, 7772
- Health care system
- beds, acute care beds, use by seniors in need of long-term care 5654
- funding allocation 5653-4
- funding for health authorities, continuing and long-term care 7760, 7762
- health authorities, resignation of board members 5653
- private services and privatization 5653
- system during B.C. Liberal Party administration 5653-4
- system in B.C., comparison with other provinces 7764
- Health Ministry, estimates debate 7757-76
- Highway 3, conditions and improvements 6354-5
- Highway 33, Big White–Joe Ridge section, conditions and improvements 6354
- Highways and roads, maintenance contracts, performance standards 6355-6, 6522
- Home care
- Homelessness, government action 5655
- Housing
- residential care facilities
- assisted-living residences, regulation 7774-5
- campus-of-care model 7765
- closings 5654
- regulation 7770-2
- supportive housing, regulation 7774-5
- Ilkay Development Corporation, purchase of lands released from tree farm licences 9011
- Interior Health Authority
- facilities, requests for information 7772-3
- handling of proposal from regional committee re Albo case 5654
- layoff of nurses 6781-2
- residential care services contracts, proposal process 7773-4
- Kelowna General Hospital, expansion of facilities and services 5654
- Kootenay area
- highways and roads 6354-6
- loss of hunting areas 5655
- residential care and assisted-living facilities 5369
- Kreklau, Fred and Alexandrine, couple's separation in health care facilities 6213-4, 7765
- MLAs, constituency assistants commended 8304
- Mount St. Mary Hospital, residential care operations and funding 7769
- Oral questions
- Child care funding 5273
- Closing of Deni House 6474-5
- Implementation of seniors health care report recommendations 5369
- Interior Health Authority layoff notices to nurses 6781-2
- Meat industry regulations 8638
- Policy on senior couples in long-term care facilities 6213-4
- Pope and Talbot bankruptcy proceedings 9010-1, 9110, 9420-1
- Removal of land from tree farm licences in Kootenay area 8740
- Penticton Seniors Recreation and Wellness Society, funding and services 7651
- Petitions
- child care funding 5277
- child care resource and referral centres 5325
- minimum wage 8973
- release of TFL 23 lands and public consultation 9323, 9602
- Pharmacare program, Alzheimer's disease medication coverage 7775-6
- Pope and Talbot Inc.
- application for removal of land from tree farm licence 8740, 9420-1
- application for removal of land from tree farm licence, sale of lands 9010-1, 9110
- bankruptcy proceedings, government action 9011, 9110, 9420-1
- Post-secondary education, student financial assistance, debt load 5655
- Poverty incidence among seniors in B.C. 5654
- Premier's Council on Aging and Seniors Issues, recommendations 6522, 7648-53, 7757-8, 7760, 7766-7
- Privatization, B.C. Liberal Party position 5653, 5655-6
- Retirement, mandatory retirement, elimination 7757
- Seniors
- government assistance 7766
- income and taxes 7652-3
- ministerial responsibility 7766-7
- ministerial responsibility and secretariat 7648-9
- programs and services 7649, 7653
- separation of senior couples in health care facilities 5654, 6213
- service organizations commended 8304
- service organizations, funding 7650-2
- transportation issues 7652-3
- use of term "senior" 7649
- Statements by members
- Fanny Albo 5367
- Kootenay region United Nations Association 8777
- Organ donations 6999
- Seniors service organizations 8304
- World Junior A Challenge 9148
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., need for organ donations 6999
- Transportation Ministry, estimates debate 6354-6, 6522
- Tributes
- United Nations Association in Canada, Kootenay region branch 8777
- United Nations, contributions of Canadians 8777
- Verigin, John J., Jr., work for United Nations 8777
- Volunteers and volunteer sector, ministerial responsibility 7652
- Wages, minimum wage, petition tabled 8973
- West Kootenay–Boundary constituency and area
- health care services 5654
- home care and palliative care services 5654
- road conditions 5655
- Williams Lake, seniors residential care facilities, new facility 7773
- World Junior A Challenge, hosting of 2007 international hockey competition in Kootenays 9148
Coons, Gary (North Coast)
- As subject
- comments on economy in northwestern B.C. (Falcon) 6292-3
- comments on ferry safety (Falcon) 6294
- Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Ministry, estimates debate 8295-6
- Auditor General
- report on B.C. treaty process and new relationship with first nations 8651
- report on ferry system restructuring 6288-90, 6333
- Automobiles, booster seats, government distribution 8780
- B.C., northern and rural B.C.
- economy in northern B.C., current and past conditions 6286
- education in rural B.C., task force recommendations 7289-90
- health care services 7621-2
- highways and roads, safety of rural roads 5588
- north coast, biotoxin and water quality monitoring and testing services 6471
- north coast, highways and roads 6356-7, 6575-7
- transportation infrastructure 6265
- B.C. Ambulance Service, policy on return of discharged patients to home communities 6214, 7620-2
- B.C. Ferry Commission, role and responsibilities 6291
- B.C. Ferry Services Inc.
- B.C. Liberal Party government
- accountability and openness 6079, 6081
- actions since 2001 election 8466-7
- budgets and throne speeches 5395
- performance 5395
- policies, impact on rural communities 9179-80
- position on climate change 5397
- position on Nisga'a treaty while in opposition 8649-51
- B.C. Rail, sale, call for public inquiry 6080
- Campbell, Gordon
- comments on issues, MLA remuneration and pension plans 8467
- position on issues, first nations issues 8650-1
- position on issues, number of seats in Legislature 9179
- Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council, initiatives re missing women on Highway 16, government funding 9367-8
- Central Coast regional district, access to infrastructure program funding 7719
- Charter of Public Education, activities 7291
- Children, child care
- funding, petition tabled 5534
- government action 5398
- Climate change
- action on climate change, role of MLAs 7277-8
- B.C. Liberal Party position 5397
- carbon offsets 7278
- government action 5397-8
- Coastal land and resource management plans, memorandum of agreement with government on no net job loss 5399
- Commissions of inquiry, issues 6078-9
- Communities
- impact from industry changes, community transition program 7720-1
- small communities, infrastructure program for small communities 7718-9
- Community Services Ministry
- Conservation investments and incentives initiative, fund 5399
- Cycling, infrastructure investment 6266-7
- Democracy, role of government accountability 6078-80
- Education
- class size and composition, average class sizes 7292
- class size and composition, challenges for rural schools 5399
- fees for equipment and materials, hardship provisions 7292
- foundation skills assessment 7290-1, 7350
- funding 5399
- school boards and districts, achievement contracts 7350
- school boards and districts, trustees, powers and role 7292
- system, achievement superintendents 7290-1
- system, changes 5399, 7289-93
- Elections
- electoral boundaries, Internet game 9178-9
- "gerrymandering," definition and origin of term 9178
- redistribution of electoral boundaries 9176-80
- Electoral Boundaries Commission
- mandate 9179
- preliminary report 9179
- review of electoral boundaries 9177-8
- Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 2007, debate 9176-81
- Ferries and ferry services
- affordability, petition tabled 8309
- issues 6333-4
- privatization 5398, 6288
- reporting by government, comprehensive summary report 6333
- restructuring of ferry system, government objectives 6288
- routes and services, alternative service delivery 6296
- routes and services, reservation system 6297
- safety 6287, 6293-6
- safety review, implementation of recommendations 6296, 6381
- sinking of Queen of the North, "force majeure" argument 6333
- vessels, lifeboat upgrades for northern vessels 6381-2
- First nations
- conditions for first nations in B.C. 8652
- new relationship with government, implementation 8651
- referendum on principles for treaty negotiations 8651
- relationship with local government and regional districts, forum 8652
- shellfish harvesting and growing 6471
- unemployment rate 8295-6
- First Nations Education Act, debate 9506-7
- Floods, flood prevention, action by B.C. and federal governments 7274-5
- Food industry, meat-processing regulations, petition tabled 9014
- Freegro Enterprises, production of plant shelters 6151
- Fuel, gasoline prices, consumer protection, petition tabled 8237
- Gosnell, Joseph, Order of Canada recipient 5583
- Haida Nation
- carbon forest pilot project 5399
- involvement in treaty negotiations 8650
- Health care
- continuing and long-term care, assessment of care needs 5841
- health authorities, selection of board members 5397, 7622
- health care system changes 5395
- health care system, public consultation by government, Conversation on Health 5397
- Health Ministry, estimates debate 7620-2
- Hertzman, Clyde, early development instrument 7290
- Highway 16, missing women along highway
- Highway 37, electrification 7085, 7904
- Highways and roads
- maintenance and rehabilitation 6375
- maintenance contracts 5588
- Independent Commission to Review MLA Compensation, implementation of report recommendations 8467
- Inquiries, past inquiries in B.C. 6080
- Kingshott, Tom, homeowner grant appeal case 5806
- Kitasoo Spirit Bear Conservancy, funding 5399
- Krebs, Lisa, position as highway of tears coordinator 8637, 8652
- Legislative Assembly (Members' Remuneration and Pensions) Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, debate 8466-7
- Legislature
- language used in House, "cronies" 9177
- number of seats 9177-80
- Literacy
- MLAs, remuneration, public response 8466-7
- Minerals North conference, 2007 conference in Terrace 7084-5
- Mines and mining industry, first nations involvement in industry 7904
- Motions
- competitive tax system for B.C., debate 6689-90
- electrification of Highway 37, debate 7904
- federal government involvement in flood prevention in B.C., debate 7274-5
- referral of report on Legislature artwork depicting first nations people, debate 7116
- road maintenance, debate 6375
- Naikoon Provincial Park, fire in area, community response 9363
- Nass Valley
- community access to government funding 7720
- roads, access and conditions 6576-7, 8296
- NDP, role as opposition 5400
- New Relationship Trust, operations 8295
- Nisga'a people
- Nisga'a treaty, B.C. Liberal Party position 8649-51
- North Coast constituency and area
- constituents, wages and working conditions 8466
- early development instrument assessment of children 9180
- electoral boundary consultation 9177
- first nations education 9506
- first nations issues and concerns 8651-3
- issues and concerns 7718-22
- seniors services 5397
- Northern Health Authority, bus service for travel for health services 7620-1
- Oral questions
- Child care funding 5416
- Distribution of booster seats to low-income families 8780
- Highway of tears 8637, 9367-8
- Hospital discharge policy for rural patients 6214
- Long-term care assessment 5841-2
- Maintenance of rural highways 5588
- Safety upgrades on northern ferries 6381-2
- Parliament Buildings, artwork depicting first nations, report by Speaker's advisory panel, implementation of recommendations 7116
- Petitions
- child care funding 5534
- consumer protection re gasoline prices 8237
- designation of public recreation area on North Beach in Haida Gwaii 9523
- ferry services, affordability 8309
- meat-processing regulations and farm-gate sales 9014
- minimum and training wages 6782, 8450
- Port Alice, community transition planning 7721
- Port of Prince Rupert
- Ports
- borrowing authority 6267
- development, environmental impact assessment and mitigation 6271
- environmental standards along west coast of North America 5398-9
- government strategy 6265-70
- government strategy, regional and northern development plans 6286
- vessel emissions while in port 5399, 6271
- Prince George Airport, government investment 6267
- Prince Rupert
- Private members' statements
- Public Education Research Foundation, activities 7291
- Public Inquiry Act
- Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii)
- access to booster seat distribution 8780
- carbon forest pilot project 6151
- closing of child care resource and referral centre 5398
- community volunteerism 9363
- HaidaLink wind power project 8060-1
- health care issues and concerns 5397
- North Beach and Sangan River estuary, designation of recreational use area, petition tabled 9523
- North Beach whale rescue 9363
- Reid, Linda, actions as Child Care Minister of State 5416
- School district 52 (Prince Rupert), class size and composition 5399
- School (Student Achievement Enabling) Amendment Act, 2007
- Seaport Limousine Ltd., manager's comments on snow removal on rural roads 5588
- Sevigny, Verna, wait for long-term care facility placement 5841
- Shipping industry, short sea shipping 6272
- Small Business and Revenue Ministry, estimates debate 5806
- Statements by members
- Call for MLA action on climate change 7277-8
- Freegro plant shelters 6151
- Haida Gwaii volunteers 9363
- HaidaLink wind power project 8060-1
- Minerals North conference 7084-5
- Nisga'a new year celebration 5744-5
- North coast water quality and biotoxin program 6471
- Port of Prince Rupert 9008
- Taxation, tax reductions, impact on high-income earners and rural B.C. 6689-90
- Throne speech, content 5399-400
- Throne speech debate 5395, 5397-400
- Trade, investment and labour mobility agreement, consultation by government and impact on B.C. 5398
- Transportation
- need for government strategy 5398
- Pacific gateway initiative and projects, scope 6269
- Transportation Ministry
- Tributes
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act, debate 8649-53, 8941-2
- Vancouver Port Authority, memorandum of understanding with Tsawwassen First Nation 8941-2
- Wages, minimum wage and training wage, petitions tabled 6782, 8450
- Western Transportation Advisory Council, B.C. membership 6269-70
- Wright, Fred, report on ferry services models, comments on annual reporting by B.C. Ferries 5398
- Yasko, David, discharge from Kitimat hospital 6214
Cubberley, David (Saanich South)
- As subject
- comments on speech by Joan McIntyre (McIntyre) 9266
- correspondence with Medical Services Commission 7704-5
- experience with allergies 8219
- experience with tobacco use 6221-2
- family experience with child care and schooling 6810
- work on transit issues 9235
- Abbott, George, comments on smoking at health care facilities 6223
- Air, greenhouse gas emissions from transportation 9400, 9500
- Allergies
- anaphylaxis preparedness
- anaphylaxis prevention 7591
- anaphylaxis risks 8218-9
- Anaphylactic Student Protection Act, 2007, debate 6531, 8218-20
- Baird, Kim, comments on Tsawwassen treaty 8663-7
- B.C. College of Teachers, communications with government 8022
- B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils, position on government education policy changes 8070-1
- B.C. Liberal Party government
- budgets and throne speeches, themes 5567
- policies, climate change and transportation policies 9401
- position on issues
- climate change 5567
- first nations interim agreements 8665
- Nisga'a treaty while in opposition 8666
- tobacco control 6222-3
- B.C. Progress Board
- B.C. School Trustees Association, position on government education policy changes 7351-2, 7382, 8071
- Budget debate 5567-71
- California
- Campbell, Gordon, comments on issues
- local government powers 9233-4
- MLA remuneration and pension plans 8426
- Capital regional district
- ban on smoking on restaurant patios 6223
- greenhouse gas emissions from transportation 9400-1
- transportation infrastructure needs 9402-3
- transportation methods 9402-3
- Children
- child care funding 5571
- early childhood development
- early learning and literacy
- Civil service, employees, commuter travel 9499-501
- Climate change
- action on climate change, role of technology 9401
- B.C. Liberal Party position 5567
- government action 9399, 9403-4
- Cloverdale Elementary School, impact of school closing 6653
- College of Pharmacists of B.C., position on tobacco sales in pharmacies 6223
- Community Living B.C., eligibility for services based on IQ test 5568
- Cycling
- benefits and cycling infrastructure investment 9246-7
- cycling infrastructure investment 6360-2
- Diabetes
- diabetes reduction strategy 5570
- incidence and cost to health care system 5276, 5516, 5570
- Disabled and handicapped persons, support after age 19 5568-9
- Dorais, Chris, letter on school planning councils 8070
- Education Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, debate 8009-10, 8014-7, 8019-20, 8022
- Education
- adult basic education, teachers 6768
- charter schools 8077-8
- class size and composition, special needs students 5567, 7024
- class size and composition, special needs students, teacher consultation when limit exceeded 6821-3
- Community LINK program 6612
- curriculum, French immersion 6731, 6736
- curriculum, tobacco use prevention initiatives 6225
- distributed learning, impact on funding in rural areas 6878
- education of first nations people, enhancement agreements 6656-7
- education of first nations people, literacy 5569, 6769
- English-as-a-second-language programs 6730-7
- accessibility 8674-5
- fee-free access and proficiency levels 6767-9
- need 5569
- student qualification for funding 6762
- teacher training 6737
- time limit 6735-6
- enrolment levels, impact of other education choices 6652, 6727, 6730
- fees for equipment and materials, hardship provisions 7020, 8067-8, 8070, 8073
- fees for special academies and programs 8067-71, 8073
- foundation skills assessment 6659, 6765, 6876
- fruit and vegetable program 6613
- graduation certificate 8009
- graduation rate 6654, 6732-3, 7344
- Learning Roundtable, membership 6881
- out-of-school care programs 6616
- private schools
- English course marks substitution for public school marks 6533-4
- enrolment levels 6609, 6615
- investigation by government 6533-4
- out-of-school care 6811-2
- standards 6610
- provincial schools 7020, 8074-7
- safety of students, safe routes to school 5276
- school libraries 8689
- school meals program 6612-3
- school planning councils 7026, 8068-71
- special education and special needs
- assessments, waiting times 6824
- autistic students 8074, 8076-7
- government support 5684-5
- individual education plans (IEPs) and parental advocacy 6825
- separate schools 5684, 8074-7
- special needs students in private school system 6610
- students
- achievement levels 6654-5
- achievement levels, determinants 7021-2
- credit and reimbursement for accredited lessons taken outside school 8009-10, 8014
- evaluation and testing of students 6655-6, 6732, 6763
- low-literacy students 7347
- personal education numbers 8022
- system 6606
- Education, funding 6726
- allocation to school districts 6607-11
- allocation to school districts based on socioeconomic status 6612-4
- capital review process 6607-8
- districts with high first nations populations 6611-2
- English-as-a-second-language programs 6737
- funding as percentage of gross domestic product 6726-7
- funding formula changes 8781, 9037-9, 9419
- funding to offset enrolment declines 6609, 6724-6
- implementation of class size limits 6607
- inner-city schools 6652
- innovative practices 6765
- new funding 6725
- per-student funding 6606, 6609
- predictability and stability 9037-9
- private schools 6609-10
- special education and special needs 6814, 6820-1
- survey research 6877-8
- teachers' salary increases 6608
- transfer of responsibility to school boards 6726
- Education, school boards and districts
- accountability, responsibility for student achievement 7020-3
- achievement contracts 7343-50, 7385
- administrative directives from Education Ministry 7350-2, 7388-9
- appeals of decisions 7022, 7024, 7381-2, 7384
- choice schools model, competition for students 6651-3, 6811-2, 6876
- codes of conduct 8015-6, 8020
- codes of conduct, protection of gay and lesbian children and youth 8017, 8019
- data collection, BCeSIS system 6875-6, 6878
- district literacy plans, requirement 7353
- early learning programs 7020-1, 7024-5, 7353-8, 8074
- mandate 7020-5
- Education, schools
- closings, consultation with local government 6813-4
- closings, decisions 6614-6, 6650-4, 6812-3
- playgrounds, joint-use agreements with municipalities 6875
- seismic upgrades 5842-3, 6878-81
- use of school buildings, community use 5276
- use of school buildings, use for out-of-school care 6809-10
- Education Ministry
- Exercise, benefits 7836
- Finland, public health initiative to reduce stroke and heart disease 5570
- First nations
- agreements with government, interim agreements, B.C. Liberal Party position 8665-6
- treaties, funding 8665
- Food, impact of salt on health 9317
- Food industry
- junk food in public buildings, government policy 5276
- labelling standards 5276
- processed food, salt content 9317
- Fraser Institute, ranking of schools 6876
- Gosnell, Joseph, comments on treaty process 8667
- Government
- advertising and announcements, education advertising budget 6877
- local government operations, carbon neutrality 9400
- operations, carbon neutrality 9399-400, 9499-501
- Greater Vancouver regional district, livable region strategic plan 9233
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Amendment Act, 2007 (Bill 43)
- Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, review of governance structure, proposed changes and legislation 9232-3
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, debate 9399-404, 9499-501
- Gunderson, Lee
- report on English-as-a-second-language students 5569
- study on student achievement 6732-3
- Harcourt, Michael (Mike), comments in City Making in Paradise 9233-4
- Health
- health care system reforms, government initiatives and reforms 5569-70
- health care system sustainability 5276, 5569
- preventative health care 5515-7
- public health
- government promotion of healthy lifestyle and physical fitness 5276
- role of lifestyle choices in public health 5569-70
- role of physical activity in healthy lifestyle 7836
- Health Committee
- recommendations 5276
- report for second session of 38th parliament, debate 5275-6
- Health Ministry, estimates debate 7704-7
- Homelessness, government action 5567
- Huynh, Johnny, community support for family 9516-7
- Immigration
- immigrants to B.C., impact on education system 6733-4
- immigrants to B.C., number of children 6730
- programs and services for immigrants to B.C.
- literacy education 5568, 6766-9
- school-based settlement workers 6735
- settlement services, federal funding 6768-70
- refugees, literacy levels 6734
- Independent Commission to Review MLA Compensation
- implementation of report recommendations 8424-6
- survey on MLA working conditions 8425-6
- Independent School Act, amendments 7312
- Infrastructure, transportation infrastructure
- government investment, link to environmental and public health goals 6359-61
- infrastructure in other jurisdictions 7895-7
- low-carbon infrastructure 9402-3
- Kidney disease, incidence and public awareness 6305
- Kingston College, compliance with legislation 6534
- Kohnen, Carley, anaphylactic death 8220
- Lampson Elementary School, potential closing 6813
- Legislative Assembly (Members' Remuneration and Pensions) Statutes Amendment Act, 2007
- debate 8424-7
- B.C. Liberal Party MLA debate on bill 8424
- free vote 8424
- Legislature, change in sitting schedule 5505-7
- Lewis, Jean, comments on education of autistic children 8076-7
- Literacy
- Lo, Michael, violation of regulations for private post-secondary institutions 6534
- Lower mainland, transportation infrastructure 9233-5
- McIntyre, Joan, comments on TransLink governance 9232, 9234-6
- Medical Services Commission, investigation of health care centre operations 7704-7
- MLAs, remuneration and pension plan 8424-7
- Motions
- legislative sitting hours, debate 5505-7
- Multiculturalism, pluralism 8674
- Nanaimo, cycling infrastructure in area 9246
- Nisga'a treaty, B.C. Liberal Party position 8666
- Options Health System Ltd., operations, compliance with legislation 7704-6
- Oral questions
- Mark substitution at private secondary schools 6533-4
- School district funding 8781, 9419
- Seismic upgrades for schools 5842-3
- Special needs students 5684-5
- Portland, Oregon, transportation infrastructure 7895-6
- Poverty
- child poverty in B.C. 5568
- incidence in B.C. 8425
- Private members' statements
- An integrated strategy to cut emissions, obesity and inactivity 6359-62
- Education clawbacks 9037-9
- Learning from other jurisdictions 7895-7
- Role of prevention in sustainable health care 5515-7
- Reynolds Secondary School, sports program 8067-8
- School district 39 (Vancouver), funding, impact on special education 6825-6
- School (Student Achievement Enabling) Amendment Act, 2007
- SD-58 Ventures Ltd. 6878
- Searle, Russ, position on allocation of education funding to smaller districts 6610-1, 6724-5
- Shannon, Sabrina, anaphylactic death 6531
- Skills training in public school system 6654
- Statements by members
- Anaphylaxis prevention 7591
- Benefits of exercise 7836
- Health effects of salt 9317
- Kidney Health Month 6305
- School libraries 8689
- Support for Huynh family 9516-7
- Steele, Sean, experience as special needs student 5685
- Teachers
- Teaching Profession (Teacher Registration) Amendment Act, 2007, debate 7312-4, 7974-80, 8005-8
- Tobacco
- addiction counselling and medications 6225
- revenues, use for tobacco control initiatives 6224-5
- sale of tobacco products, limits on promotion and sale 6222-4
- sale of tobacco products, sale in pharmacies 6223
- smoking, health risks 6221, 6223
- smoking in public places, ban 6222-3
- smoking rooms 6222-3
- use in B.C. 6222
- use, prevention 5517
- B.C. Liberal Party position 6222-3
- government action 6221-2
- public education and advertising 6224-5
- Tobacco Sales (Banning Tobacco and Smoking in Public Places and Schools) Amendment Act, 2007, debate 6221-5
- Toohey, Kelleen, study on student achievement 6732-3
- Transit services
- investment and use 6360-2
- need for expansion and investment 9234-6
- Transportation
- commuter transportation 9400-3, 9500-1
- Pacific gateway initiative and projects, impact on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions 9235
- transportation demand management 9400, 9500
- Tsawwassen First Nation, treaty, final agreement
- transfer of lands from agricultural land reserve 8666-7
- treaty 8663-6
- treaty negotiation process 8664-5
- Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act, debate 8663-7
- Walking, investment in walking-path infrastructure 6360-2
- Winkler, Henry, work in education 8689
- WorkSafe B.C., regulation of smoking in workplace, B.C. Liberal Party action 6222
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