BC Legislature - Hansard Index (Subject and Business entries), Fifth Session, 38th Parliament

Families

Cost of living See Costs and user fees under Consumers

Family violence See Violence

Family-supporting jobs See Employment and unemployment

Family Law Clinic, Vancouver, B.C.

Status (McGinn) 13766, 14504 (Oppal) 13766

Farmers, farms, farmworkers, etc. See Agriculture
Feldstein, Marty

Comments on U.S. economic initiatives (Sultan) 13755

Ferries and ferry services See also British Columbia Ferry Services Inc.

Fares

fare increases (Coons) 13989 (Routley) 14582, 14715

fare reduction (Falcon) 14115-6 (Hansen) 13989 (Simons) 14402 (Trevena) 14115-6

petition tabled (Routley) 13947

Restructuring See System below under this main heading

Routes and services

impact of staffing level safety requirements (Coons) 14384-5

route 13, public use of MV Stormaway dock, petition tabled (Simons) 14703

service from Washington State See Washington State Ferries

service to northern communities (Coons) 14384

Sinking of Queen of the North

investigation and call for public inquiry (Coons) 14386-7

report (Coons) 14386

sinking (Coons) 14531

System, impact of restructuring on coastal communities (Coons) 14385-6

Vessels, new vessels for northern routes (Hansen) 13989

Vessels, procurement of new vessels (Chouhan) 14565

Le Festival du Bois

Event (Thorne) 14094

Film industry

Film Incentive B.C. tax incentive program (Hansen) 13774, 14213, 14348 (Ralston) 14348

Industry in B.C. (Throne speech) 13738

Movie and television production in B.C. (Bennett) 14046

Tax credits (Bennett) 13809 (Hansen) 13769, 13774, 14213 (Ralston) 14216

Finance and Government Services, Select Standing Committee on

Prebudget consultation process and recommendations (Hawes) 14225

Recommendations (Thorne) 14791

Review of statutory officers (Farnworth) 14645-6 (Fleming) 14644

Finance, Ministry of, and Ministry Responsible for the Olympics

2008-09 Supplementary estimates

debate 14169-88

speakers (Bains) 14169-80, 14182-8 (Hansen) 14169-88 (Ralston) 14181-2

Minister, meeting of budget targets (Hansen) 14336 (Ralston) 14336

Olympic secretariat, inclusion in Olympic Games costs (Bains) 14179

Quarterly financial reports (Ralston) 13783-4, 13788

Revised schedule 1 for fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, tabled (Hansen) 13947

Risk management branch (Evans) 14202-3 (Hansen) 14204-5

Finance Statutes (Deficit Authorization and Debt Elimination) Amendment Act, 2009

NDP support and compliance (Sultan) 14743 (Thorpe) 14747

Support for bill (Yap) 14746

Financial Administration Act

Amendments See also Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2009

(Hansen) 13773, 14213

Financial services industry

Credit unions, unlimited insurance protection for deposits (Reid) 14560

International finance centre in B.C. (Hawes) 14225 (Ralston) 14216 (Sather) 14222

International financial activity program, review (Hansen) 14214 (Ralston) 14216

Payday lending industry (Bains) 14394

Payday lending industry, regulation (Fleming) 14811 (Oppal) 14811

Firearms

Body armour, regulation (van Dongen) 14578

Illegal firearms, law enforcement (van Dongen) 14577

Fires and firefighters

Burn fund See British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters Burn Fund

Firefighters

community service (Bloy) 14428-9 (Bond) 14435 (Reid) 14442

families of firefighters (McIntyre) 14436 (Reid) 14442 (Simpson, S.) 14442

government lobbying (Bains) 14432 (Black) 14427 (Bloy) 14429 (Bond) 14434 (Cantelon) 14432 (Chong) 14443-4 (Conroy) 14428 (Farnworth) 14444 (Nuraney) 14430-1 (Puchmayr) 14430 (Rustad) 14444 (Simpson, S.) 14443 (Yap) 14433

health and safety risks (Cantelon) 14432 (Farnworth) 14444 (Herbert) 14437-8 (Simons) 14436

health and safety risks, compensation See Workers compensation for firefighters with cancer below under this main heading

health and safety risks, need for study (Nuraney) 14430-1

medical benefits for seasonal forest fire fighters (Bloy) 14429 (Nuraney) 14431

professional association See British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters Association

volunteer firefighters in small communities (MacKay) 14437 (Wyse) 14440

work commended (Bains) 14432 (Black) 14445-6 (Fleming) 14441 (Herbert) 14437-8 (Lee) 14440 (McIntyre) 14435-6 (Polak) 14438 (Reid) 14441-2 (Rustad) 14444 (Simpson, S.) 14442 (Yap) 14433

Forest fire fighting, funding (de Jong) 14212, 14349, 14379, 14425 (Ralston) 14425

Forest fire management, history in B.C. (Evans) 14360-3

Workers compensation for firefighters with cancer

coverage of esophageal and lung cancers (Bains) 14432-3 (Conroy) 14428, 14483-4 (Puchmayr) 14429-30 (Trevena) 14431-2

coverage of lung cancer (Black) 14315, 14426-7, 14483-4 (Chong) 14443 (Farnworth) 14444 (McGinn) 14444-5 (MacKay) 14437 (Simpson, S.) 14442-3

diseases covered by legislation (Black) 14427 (Conroy) 14428 (Coons) 14439 (Nuraney) 14430-1

occupational disease presumption (Black) 14427 (Conroy) 14428 (Fleming) 14441

Workers compensation for firefighters with cancer, legislation See also Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 2009

government action (Chong) 14443-4 (McIntyre) 14435-6 (Nuraney) 14431 (Yap) 14433

government action during B.C. Liberal Party and NDP administrations (Bloy) 14428-9

government and opposition support (Bond) 14434-5 (Chouhan) 14435 (Coons) 14439 (Hayer) 14439-40 (Horgan) 14433 (Simons) 14436-7 (Trevena) 14431-2

legislation elsewhere (Puchmayr) 14430

legislation in B.C. since 2005 (Black) 14446

local government support (Fleming) 14441

need for further legislation (Simpson, S.) 14442-3

NDP initiatives (Conroy) 14428 (Puchmayr) 14429-30

support (Conroy) 14427-8 (Wyse) 14440

First nations

Aboriginal rights, B.C. Liberal Party position (MacKay) 14547

Aboriginal rights, litigation (Fraser) 14816-7

Children, services for children and families

federal-provincial jurisdictional issues (Fraser) 14526 (Simons) 14528

government contact information (Hawes) 14529

policy principle re federal-provincial jurisdictional issues, application in B.C. (Fraser) 14525-7 (Hawes) 14529-30 (Krog) 14527-8 (Lee) 14528 (Nuraney) 14527 (Simons) 14528-9 (Thorpe) 14524-5 (Trevena) 14523-4 (Wyse) 14530

Conditions on reserves, impact on families (Hawes) 14529

Economic development (Simons) 14529 (Thorpe) 14525

Economic development and partnerships (Hawes) 14529-30

Economic development and relationship with government (Throne speech) 13734

Forestry by first nations people See First nations involvement in industry under Forests and forest industry

Health and wellness, government initiative (Polak) 13799

Health issues in on-reserve population, costs to province (Fraser) 14526 (Trevena) 14524

Heritage sites, protection See Protection of cultural and sacred sites below under this main heading

Housing

conditions of on-reserve housing and health issues (Fraser) 14526 (Trevena) 14523-4

government action on issues (Lee) 14528

housing for addicted and mentally ill (Coleman) 13932 (Kwan) 13932-3

options for homeless persons (Coleman) 13954 (Kwan) 13953-4

Income disparity between aboriginals and non-aboriginals, study (Lali) 14840

Involvement in hydroelectric projects See Hydroelectric power under Energy

Issues, government handling (MacKay) 14547 (Routley) 14580 (Wyse) 14727

Issues, role of government and society (Nuraney) 14527

Leaders commended (Campbell) 14725

Leadership council See First Nations Leadership Council

New relationship with government

implementation (Fraser) 14816-7

new relationship (Campbell) 14725-7 (Cantelon) 14837 (Fraser) 14552 (Lali) 14840 (McIntyre) 14509 (Whittred) 14469

principles (Fraser) 14317

recognition and reconciliation legislation See Recognition and reconciliation legislation below under this main heading

Protection of cultural and sacred sites (Karagianis) 14133

Protection of cultural and sacred sites, funding and legislation (Karagianis) 14704

Protection of cultural and sacred sites, legislation See First Nations Heritage Protection and Conservation Act, 2009

Recognition and reconciliation legislation (Campbell) 14726 (Fraser) 14552 (Simpson, S.) 14624-5 (Throne speech) 13734

Relationship with early European explorers (Campbell) 14726 (Krog) 14517

Relationship with government

B.C. Liberal Party policies and statements (Routley) 14714

funding for negotiation and resolution of issues (Wyse) 14497

new relationship See New relationship with government above under this main heading

Reserve system, use as model elsewhere (Krog) 14527

Residential schools (MacKay) 14547

Treaty negotiations, government funding (Lali) 13805 (Ralston) 13772

Women (Fraser) 14093-4

Youth, homeless youth (Trevena) 14453

Youth suicide, integrated prevention initiative (Lee) 14528

First Nations Heritage Protection and Conservation Act, 2009

(Bill M201) (Karagianis) 1R, 14133

Debate, speakers (Karagianis) 14133

First Nations Leadership Council

Comments on application of Jordan's principle to services for first nations children (Fraser) 14526

Fish

Salmon See Salmon

Steelhead, conservation of stocks (Sultan) 14534-5

Fishing industry

Recreational fishing (Routley) 14034

Fitzsimmons Creek

Run-of-the-river power project See Ledcor Industrial Group Ltd.

Fleetwood See Surrey-Fleetwood constituency and area
Fleetwood Elementary School, Surrey, B.C.

Closing (Brar) 14490

Floods and floodplains

Flood prevention (Gentner) 13839-40 (Krueger) 13840

Flood protection, government programs and role (Les) 14521-3

Food

Food security (Gentner) 14229 (Wyse) 14496

Fruits and vegetables, snack program in schools See Fruit and vegetable program under Education

Food industry

Abattoirs See Slaughter facilities below under this main heading

Berry farming industry in B.C., blueberries (Cantelon) 14629

Cheese industry in B.C., local small producers (Cantelon) 14630

Meat-processing regulations See also Slaughter facilities below under this main heading

government assistance with regulatory transition (Polak) 14041, 14100-1, 14376-7

government response to industry concerns (Wyse) 14100, 14376-7

impact (Macdonald) 14559-60 (Routley) 14715 (Wyse) 14100, 14496

impact on local and small producers (Krog) 14077 (Lali) 13806 (Wyse) 14041

NDP position (Polak) 14377

purpose (Polak) 14041, 14100

Slaughter facilities in B.C. See also particular locations

(Polak) 14041 (Wyse) 14100, 14376-7

Slaughter facilities, waste disposal See Waste disposal at farms and slaughter facilities under Waste management

Food services industry

Job-matching service for workers impacted by Olympic Games (Hansen) 14372-3

Forest Act

Amendments See also Forest Amendment Act, 2009

(Bell) 14592

Forest Amendment Act, 2009

(Bill 13) (Minister of Forests and Range) 1R, 14592; 2R, 14653-77; C, 14679-91; 3R, 14691; RA, 14843-4

Debate, speakers (Bell) 14592, 14653-5, 14676-7, 14679-91 (Evans) 14663-7 (Fraser) 14667-70 (Horgan) 14661-3 (Macdonald) 14675-6 (Routley) 14671-4 (Rustad) 14674-5 (Simpson, B.) 14655-61, 14679-91

Definitions, "community forest agreement" (Simpson, B.) 14679

Definitions, "minister" (Simpson, B.) 14683

Purpose of bill (Bell) 14592

Forest and Marine Investments Ltd.

Financial status (Bell) 14640-1 (Fraser) 14640-1 (Simpson, B.) 14641

Forestry round table See Working Roundtable on Forestry
Forests and forest industry

Access to fibre (Conroy) 14631 (Routley) 14671-2

Annual allowable cut (Bell) 14686 (Simpson, B.) 14686

Annual allowable cut, cut control requirements (Evans) 14665-6

Appurtenancy issues See Community forest program; Community-based appurtenancy; Companies, relationship with communities; Mills under this main heading

Coastal forest industry, job loss (Horgan) 14661

Commercial forest reserve (Throne speech) 13737

Community forest program

agreements (Bell) 14592, 14653-4, 14677, 14679-81 (Evans) 14663 (Fraser) 14667-70 (Horgan) 14661 (Macdonald) 14675 (Routley) 14671, 14674 (Rustad) 14674-5 (Simpson, B.) 14655, 14658-60, 14679-81

annual allowable cut and transition time line for changes (Bell) 14686-7 (Simpson, B.) 14686-7

applicants (Bell) 14685-6 (Simpson, B.) 14685-6

appurtenancy issues (Bell) 14682 (Simpson, B.) 14681-3

first nations involvement (Bell) 14687-9 (Simpson, B.) 14687-9

legislation See Forest Amendment Act, 2009

licence consolidation (Bell) 14684, 14688 (Simpson, B.) 14684, 14688

signing authority for licences (Bell) 14684 (Simpson, B.) 14683-4

Community-based appurtenancy (Simpson, B.) 14682-3

Companies

independent businesses, contributions (Simpson, B.) 13759-60

property development activities (Horgan) 14662-3

relationship with communities, social contract issue (Evans) 14665-7 (Routley) 14673-4 (Simpson, B.) 14656-7

Conditions in industry (Bell) 14677 (Les) 14567 (Sather) 14220 (Simpson, B.) 14543-4, 14657

Conditions in industry, government action (Bell) 13764-5 (Hawes) 14225 (Krog) 14038 (Macdonald) 14821-2 (Routley) 14038 (Simpson, B.) 13765 (Trevena) 13764

Employment See also Workers below under this main heading

Employment, job loss (Chouhan) 14564-5 (Fraser) 14670 (Lali) 14364 (Routley) 14579, 14672 (Simpson, B.) 14036, 14641

Export of raw logs (Austin) 14080 (MacKay) 14079

Export of raw logs, petitions tabled (Fraser) 14482 (Herbert) 14482 (Horgan) 14482 (Karagianis) 14482 (McGinn) 14482 (Routley) 14482 (Trevena) 14482

Exports (Bell) 14238-9

First nations involvement in industry, forest and range agreements (Bell) 14688-9 (Simpson, B.) 14688-9

Forest health (Fraser) 14670

Forest licences (Simpson, B.) 14656

Forest licences, cutting permit postponements (Bell) 14592, 14654-5, 14690-1 (Rustad) 14674-5 (Simpson, B.) 14655, 14690-1

Forest licences, legislation See Forest Amendment Act, 2009

Forest management (Simpson, B.) 14657-8

Forest practices on private lands (Fraser) 14669

Forest practices, sustainable forest practices (Fraser) 14668, 14670

Forest roads See also Resource roads under Resources and resource industries

Forest roads, government investment (Falcon) 14115, 14124

Forest stewardship plans (Simpson, B.) 14691

Forest-dependent communities See Resources and resource industries

Forestry round table See Working Roundtable on Forestry

Forests as carbon sinks (Bell) 14237-8 (Routley) 14753-4

Government forest policies (Bell) 14040-1 (Evans) 14039

Government forest policies, impact on communities and industry (Austin) 14839 (Fraser) 14550, 14668-70, 14815-6 (Routley) 14581-2, 14671-4, 14715 (Simpson, B.) 14036-7, 14655-7, 14660 (Wyse) 14073-5

Government initiatives (Hansen) 13769

Government initiatives and support (Bell) 14239-40 (Les) 13748 (Rustad) 13742-3, 14074-5 (Throne speech) 13736-7

Impact of climate change See Climate change

Industry in B.C.

future (Bond) 14603 (Routley) 14672-3 (Simpson, B.) 14658

history and role (Routley) 13882

innovation (Austin) 13759

investment (Bell) 14039-41 (Krueger) 14392

jobs See Employment above under this main heading

potential for full-value extraction (Routley) 14753-4

round table See Working Roundtable on Forestry

Issues, NDP position (Rustad) 13743

Local processing of logs See Community forest program, appurtenancy issues; Community-based appurtenancy; Companies, relationship with communities; Mills, appurtenancy requirements under this main heading

Logging contractors and truck drivers, issues (Simpson, B.) 13765 (Trevena) 13764

Mills, appurtenancy requirements (Bell) 14682 (Rustad) 14074 (Simpson, B.) 14682-3

Mills, environmental liability issues (Bell) 14259-60 (Krog) 14259 (Routley) 14259-60

Mountain pine beetle infestation

government action (Austin) 14158 (Krueger) 14158 (Simpson, B.) 14158-9

harvesting of beetle-damaged wood (Bell) 14654 (Rustad) 14674-5

management of impacted forests (Bell) 14159

mitigation funding (Austin) 14158 (Bell) 14159 (Krueger) 14158 (Simpson, B.) 14158-9, 14544-5

Old-growth forests, protection, petitions tabled (Fraser) 14482 (Herbert) 14482 (Horgan) 14482 (Karagianis) 14482 (McGinn) 14482 (Routley) 14482 (Trevena) 14482

Private lands, logging practices See Forest practices on private lands above under this main heading

Private lands, removal from tree farm licences See Removal of private lands from tree farm licences below under this main heading

Pulp and paper sector (Bell) 14038 (Krueger) 14036-7

Remanufacturing industry See Value-added sector below under this main heading

Removal of private lands from tree farm licences (Fraser) 14550, 14668-9 (Horgan) 14661-3 (Routley) 14672-3

Removal of private lands from tree farm licences, zoning bylaws and issues (Horgan) 14040

Role in economy (Bell) 14235 (Routley) 14671

Role in energy sector (Throne speech) 13736

Silviculture (Bell) 14236-7

Silviculture, Forests for Tomorrow program (Throne speech) 13737

Silviculture, industry issues (Simpson, B.) 14657

Social contract between companies and province See Companies, relationship with communities, social contract issue above under this main heading

Softwood lumber agreement with U.S.

agreement (Simpson, B.) 14683

impact of stumpage rate changes (Simpson, B.) 14660

impact on B.C. forest industry (Les) 13747-8 (Throne speech) 13737

NDP position (Les) 13747

Standing committee on forests, work of committee (Evans) 14666-7

Stumpage system, impact on woodlots See Woodlot program below under this main heading

Tenure system

corporate concentration and diversity (Evans) 14665, 14667 (Fraser) 14670 (Horgan) 14662-3 (Routley) 14672, 14674 (Simpson, B.) 14656-8

history (Evans) 14663-7

reform (Macdonald) 14676 (Routley) 14671-2, 14674 (Simpson, B.) 14655-8, 14660

system (Bell) 14677

Timber sales program See British Columbia timber sales program

Tree farm licence No. 23, issues (Simpson, B.) 14683

Tree farm licence No. 44, issues (Fraser) 14668-9

Tree farm licence No. 46, issues (Routley) 14672-3

Tree farm licence No. 55, issues (Macdonald) 14675-6

Tree farm licences (Simpson, B.) 14656

Tree farm licences, removal of private lands See Removal of private lands from tree farm licences above under this main heading

Value-added sector, history (Evans) 14666-7

Wood pellet industry (Bell) 14235-6

Wood products and uses (Bell) 14654

Wood products and uses, government policy and expansion of market for B.C. products (Bell) 14235-6, 14238-40 (Throne speech) 13736-7

Wood products and uses, wood innovation and design centre (Chong) 14612-3

Wood waste, use in production of biofuels See Biofuel production under Fuel

Wood waste, use in production of electricity See Bioenergy under Energy

Woodlot program

legislation See Forest Amendment Act, 2009

licence consolidation (Bell) 14592, 14654-5, 14689 (Evans) 14663 (Fraser) 14667-8 (Rustad) 14675 (Simpson, B.) 14660, 14689

regulation (Fraser) 14667, 14669-70 (Simpson, B.) 14660, 14689

stumpage issues (Bell) 14689-90 (Fraser) 14669 (Simpson, B.) 14660, 14689-90

Workers

concerns (Simpson, B.) 14037, 14657

government assistance for laid-off workers, cases (Wyse) 14728

government support (Coons) 14387 (Fraser) 14640-1 (Krueger) 14036, 14480 (Simpson, B.) 14641 (Trevena) 14451-2

safety (Routley) 14674

Workers, transition programs See also Forest-dependent communities, community development trust under Resources and resource industries

eligibility (Simpson, B.) 14480

eligibility and funding (Coons) 14480 (Evans) 14039

funding (Simpson, B.) 14036-7

programs (Krueger) 14037-8, 14389, 14480-1

Forests and Range, Ministry of

Budget, additional funds for forest fire fighting (de Jong) 14212, 14349, 14379, 14425 (Evans) 14360-3 (Ralston) 14425

Role of minister (Fraser) 14670

Fort St. James, B.C.

History (Rustad) 14074

Sawmill See Conifex, Inc.

Fort Steele, B.C.

Heritage site (Bennett) 14060, 14062, 14065-6 (Macdonald) 14065-6

Foster care

System, issues and concerns (Christensen) 13942 (James) 13942 (Simons) 13988

Four Mile Reserve, Bella Coola, B.C.

Telecommunications tower in area (Coons) 14024

Fraser Canyon

Chinese Canadian heritage site in area, protection (Bennett) 14057-9 (Kwan) 14057-9

Independent power project in area (Penner) 14731

Fraser Health Authority

Budget and services (Abbott) 13960 (Dix) 13960

Chair See Barefoot, Gordon

Chief executive officer and strategic plan (Black) 14407-8

Emergency services (Abbott) 13999, 14016 (Dix) 13999

Funding (Dix) 13998-9

Hospital services (Thorne) 14607

Residential care facilities (Hayer) 14500

Service demand (Dix) 14004

Treatment of patients, case See Morley, Tim

Fraser River

Albion Ferry, discontinuation of service (Hawes) 14738 (Sather) 14737-8

Albion Ferry, petitions tabled (Sather) 13766, 13889, 14202

Chilliwack reach, gravel buildup and removal (Les) 14521-3

Gravel removal, impact on fish stocks and river levels (Sather) 14522

Gravel removal, scientific comment and reports on impacts (Sather) 14522

Fraser Valley

Agriculture (Roddick) 14808

Dikes, use for flood protection and farmland expansion (Roddick) 14494

New schools (Les) 14568

South Fraser communities See Lower mainland

Free trade See Exports and imports; particular agreements
Freedom of information

Requests for information, government handling (Sather) 14029

Fuel See also Oil and gas

Biofuel production (Throne speech) 13736

Ethanol (Bell) 14236

Hydrogen fuel, designation as alternative fuel and tax exemption (Hansen) 13774, 14214

Hydrogen fuel, government support (Hansen) 13770

Taxation, carbon tax See Carbon tax