Province of British Columbia
Fifth Session, 38th Parliament – 2009
INDEX (Member entries)
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)

Abbott, Hon. George (Shuswap)

Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre, number of beds 13997-8
Barefoot, Gordon, comments on hospital funding 13998-9
Breast health, mammography services in B.C. 14005-6
Burnaby Partners in Seniors Wellness program 13994
Campbell River, long-term care beds, public and private facilities 14481
Campbell River and District General Hospital, beds 14007
Cancer testing system in B.C. 14755-7
Cowichan District Hospital, surgery cancellations 14009-10
Cowichan Lodge, closing of facility 14199-200
Cowichan-Ladysmith constituency and area, seniors care facilities 14010-1
Epilepsy, incidence and awareness 14695
Fraser Health Authority
budget and services 13960
emergency services 13999, 14016
Health, continuing and long-term care spaces, government action 13972, 14482
Health, health authorities
budget process and deficits 13961
procurement practices and shared services 13961
service plans 13964-8
services and surgeries 13956-7, 13964, 13968-9
Health, health care facilities and hospitals, in-patient and out-patient services 14009
Health, health care funding 13961-2, 14003-4
capital funding 13973
comparison with other jurisdictions 13990
funding as percentage of provincial budget 13957-8
funding for diagnostic services 14015
health innovation fund 13961
home and community care funding 13971-2, 13976, 14017-8
supplementary funding for health authorities 13956-9, 13961, 13968-9, 13973-5, 13977-9, 13991, 13994, 13996
Health, health care system
beds, use of acute care beds by seniors in need of long-term care 14010
costs 13957
emergency services 13996-7, 13999
demand and funding 13993
overcapacity protocol 14000-2
use by mentally ill persons 13994-6
impact of aging population 13957
integrated health networks 13993, 13996
magnetic resonance imaging services 13969, 14012-3
services for seniors 13971
surgery, cancellations 14009, 14200
system in B.C., comparison with other provinces 13990
wait-lists and waiting times, diagnostic services 13959, 13970, 14012-4
wait-lists and waiting times, surgery wait-lists and waiting times 13959, 13970-1
Health, public health, health status of B.C. residents 13990
Health Services Ministry
2008-09 supplementary estimates debate 13956-79, 13989-4018
supplementary estimates debate 13968, 14014
transfer of responsibilities to Healthy Living and Sport Ministry, transition funding 13979
Housing, residential care facilities
residential and assisted-living units 13972, 14004
wait-lists and waiting times 13971
Hussey, John, access to long-term care in Campbell River area 14481
Interior Health Authority
diagnostic services 14012-3, 14015
funding and services 13969
handling of concerns re laboratory services 14755-7
magnetic resonance imaging services 13970
Invermere and District Hospital, emergency services and redevelopment 14011-2
Kelowna General Hospital, expansion and emergency services 14000-1
Langley Memorial Hospital, emergency services and service demand 14015-6
Legislature
estimates process, relevance of debate and questions 13963, 13972, 13974-9
estimates process, scope of debate 14001-2
language used in House, withdrawal of comments requested 13974
Lodge on 4th, staffing levels and management 14482
Mental health
facilities for mentally ill and addicted 13994-5
mental health plan 13997
mental illness, cases 13994-5
mental illness and addiction, government action 14156-8
programs and services, funding 13994-5
NDP, health care policies 13962
Northern Health Authority
funding and services 13969, 14016-8
service plan 13966-7
Nurses, training 13991
Okanagan area, medical laboratories 14757-8
Pathologists, supply in B.C. 14757
Physicians
locum program 14007
supply in rural and remote communities 14007-8
training, medical school spaces 13990-1, 14757
Providence Health Care, funding 13992, 13997
Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness 14695
Royal Columbian Hospital, emergency facilities 14016-7
Selkirk Place, opening of facility 13972-3
Statements
Purple Day proclamation 14695
Substance abuse and addiction, regulation of residential treatment services 14156-7
Surrey Memorial Hospital, emergency services 13999
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
budget process and deficit 13963-5
emergency services 13993
mental health services 13996
Vancouver General Hospital, mental health admissions 13997
Vancouver Island, North Island hospital facilities 14007
Vancouver Island Health Authority
funding and services 13969, 13974
hospitals, service levels 14008
laboratory services 14006
mammography services 14006
management of surgical services 14010
Vancouver police department, report on police calls involving mentally ill persons 13995-6
Vernon Jubilee Hospital, expansion 14000
Austin, Robin (Skeena)

As subject
comments on business profits (MacKay) 14079
staff thanked 14838
Adoption of foster children, government support 13888
Alcan, Kitimat smelter
operations and sale of power 14079-80
upgrade 14810
Aquaculture, salmon aquaculture in B.C., application of federal Fisheries Act, petition tabled 14703
B.C.
forest industry potential in northwest B.C. 13759
northern and rural B.C., government support 13833-4
resource industries in northwest B.C. 14078-80
B.C. Liberal Party government policies, impact on northwest B.C. 14310-1, 14838-9
Business, public-private partnerships, impact on public debt 14311
Children and Family Development Ministry, budget 13888
Energy plan 14839
Environmental assessment process, reform 14838-9
Forests and forest industry
export of raw logs 14080
government forest policies, impact on communities and industry 14839
industry in B.C., innovation 13759
mountain pine beetle infestation, government action 14158
Government, financial management, consideration of current and future generations 14310-1
Highway 37, electrification 14838-9
Kinsella, Patrick
relationship with government 14810
role in Alcan smelter expansion project 14810
MLAs, retiring MLAs commended 14838
Motions
economy and fiscal restraint, debate 14310-1
NovaGold Resources Inc., Galore Creek mine project 14838-9
Oral questions
Budget provisions for rural B.C. 13833-4
Federal funding for mountain pine beetle strategy 14158
Funding for adoption system 13888
Government relationship with Patrick Kinsella 14810
Petitions
salmon aquaculture in B.C., application of federal Fisheries Act 14703
Post-secondary education system during B.C. Liberal Party administration 14838
Private members' statements
Resources 14078-80
Resources and resource industries
economic benefits to province 14078-9
forest-dependent communities, government support 13833-4
government stewardship of public resources 14078-80
Skeena-Nass Center for Innovation in Resource Economics Society 13759
Statements
Terrace and Hockeyville competition 14313
Statements by members
Nisga'a new year celebration 14254
Skeena-Nass Center for Innovation in Resource Economics Society 13759
Terrace and Hockeyville competition 13939
Terrace
first nations in area and municipal taxation issues 14839
Hockeyville status 13939, 14313
Throne speech, content and proposed amendment 14838-9
Throne speech debate 14838-9

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