Province of British Columbia
First Session, 40th Parliament – 2013
INDEX (Member entries)
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)

Karagianis, Maurine (Esquimalt–Royal Roads)

As subject
critic portfolios 110
family, volunteers, staff, Barrett family and constituents thanked 110
B.C. Hydro
financial management 112
management of northwest transmission line project 44
B.C. Liberal Party government, priorities 111
Budget debate 110-2
Budgets, 2013-14 budget 111-2
Children and Family Development Ministry
estimates debate 521-7
estimates process 521-2
provincial office of domestic violence 1053-4
Children and youth, child care
affordability and accessibility 191-3, 524-5
benefits to families and society 110-1
government strategy and relationship to job strategy 524-6
provincial child care registry 524-5
spaces 191-3, 523-5
subsidies 525
Children and youth, early childhood development
early childhood educators, training and wages 522-3, 525
funding and government strategy 524-6
services and service delivery 522-3
Clark, Christy, comments on B.C. Hydro project costs and electricity rates 44
Consumers, costs and user fees 112
Economy, conditions 112
Employment and unemployment, government job strategy 112
Energy
electricity rates 112
northwest transmission line project 44
Esquimalt United Church, 100th anniversary and role in community 389
Esquimalt–Royal Roads constituency and area, shipbuilding industry 111
Food and food industry, locally grown food 456
Government, core review and sale of lands and properties 111-2
Income assistance, disability benefits recipient case 112
Justice Ministry
estimates debate 1053-4
budget and staffing 1053-4
role and responsibilities, domestic violence issues 1053-4
MLAs, new MLAs in 40th parliament 110
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, implementation of recommendations, impact of legal action by families 394-5
Oral questions
Comments by Premier on northwest transmission line and electricity rates 44
Implementation of Missing Women Inquiry recommendations 394-5
Poverty among women 191-3
Private members' statements
Women in the workforce 191-3
Quebec, child care system 191
Representative for Children and Youth, reports, family violence cases and prevention 1054
Shipbuilding industry, skills training and employment of women 111
Shoreline Community Middle School, school lunch program and use of local food 456
Skills training, trades training for women 111, 192-3
Statements
Fire at Tudor House Pub in Esquimalt 545
Statements by members
Esquimalt United Church 389
Use of local foods in school lunch program at Shoreline Community Middle School 456
Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry, estimates debate 763-4
Tudor House Pub, response to fire at pub 545
Vancouver Island, south Island, transportation strategy 763-4
Violence, domestic violence
domestic violence units and funding for services 1053-4
government action 111, 526
integrated domestic violence teams 526-7
prevention and government coordination 1053-4
Women
income disparity between women and men 191-2
participation in workforce and women in business 191-3
women's equality and women's issues 111
Krog, Leonard Eugene (Nanaimo)

As subject
friend's experience with work in B.C. and Alberta 74
Alberta, heritage fund 73
Auditor General, review of financial reporting by B.C. Hydro 72
Automobiles, traffic violations, dispute resolution 839
Babine Forest Products Co., Burns Lake mill explosion, WorkSafe investigation 923-4
Bennett, W.A.C.
legacy re hydroelectric projects 72, 453-4
position on government projects and local employment 453
Bountiful, issues and potential legal charges 1047-8
B.C., population, migration to and from B.C. 74
B.C. Hydro, management 72
B.C. Liberal Party, election platform 70
B.C. Liberal Party government, election, financial management and vision 70-4
B.C. Safety Authority, meeting with cabinet ministers 923-4
B.C. Utilities Commission, role 72
Budget debate 70-4
Budgets, 2013-14 budget
asset sales component 71-2, 74
balanced budget 74
Business, government promotion of local purchasing 453
Buy B.C. program 453
Canadian Bar Association, consultation by government 839
Canadian Union of Public Employees, initiative on local purchasing 453
Civil Resolution Tribunal, funding and role 1045
Economy, conditions 71, 73-4
Employment and unemployment
government job strategy 71, 832-3
job creation and job losses 71, 74
Family court rules, changes 835
Family Law Act, amendments 1045
Ferries and ferry services, fast ferries 453
Fraser Valley court services, expansion 840-1
Government
lands and properties, sale 71-2, 74
regulations, reduction 837
Housing
social and subsidized housing, units 74
transition houses, funding for staff wage increases 1042-3
Justice Ministry
estimates debate 831-42, 1041-8, 1058, 1064
budget and staffing 833, 835, 837-8, 840, 842, 1041-4, 1047
mandate and priorities 832, 835-42
role and responsibilities 832-3, 835-41
service plan 1043
Justice system
accessibility
accessibility and affordability 836-7
hours of operations 833-4
low-income and vulnerable persons 833, 1046
community court system, report and potential expansion 1046-7
courts and court services
administrative regions 834
backlog of cases 1044
impact of delays on criminal cases 393
scheduling of cases 833-4
family justice system, child custody and access assessments 1045
family justice system, dispute resolution 834-5
funding 834-5
handling of cases involving mentally ill and addicted persons 1047
handling of domestic violence cases 841-2, 1045
information management 1043-4, 1047
judiciary
appointments, costs and diversity 1044-5
justices of the peace 834
relationship with government 834
justice access centres 836
justice and public safety council 1043
legal aid funding and services 836-7, 1043, 1046
plea bargaining 1044
reforms 833-5, 838-9
funding 838-9, 1041, 1043-4
stakeholder consultation 835, 839
review, implementation of recommendations 838-9
service of legal documents, service on inmates in correctional facilities 1058
unrepresented litigants 833, 835
video conferencing and use of technology 840
Legal Services Society, relationship with government 1043
Motions
Promotion of purchasing from B.C. businesses 453-4
Mulgrew, Ian, article on Bountiful case 1047
Multiculturalism, government outreach strategy and partisan activities 461, 552, 727
Norway, government management of oil revenues 73
Oil and gas
liquefied natural gas development, prosperity fund proposal 72-3
revenues to government, management 73
Oral questions
Attorney General response to multicultural outreach strategy issues 727
Call for independent investigation into multicultural outreach strategy 552
Employment status of government staff involved in multicultural outreach strategy 461
Government action on delays in court proceedings 393
Investigation into Burns Lake mill explosion 923-4
Petitions
Vancouver Island provincial status 1135
Phelps, Blair, work on government multicultural outreach strategy and current employment status 461
Port Alberni, courthouse 840
Post-secondary education, student spaces 73
Prince George, court services, delays 393
Public debt 70, 72-3
Public service, number of employees 836
School district 36 (Surrey), new school facilities, need 72
Skills training, government investment and support 73
Small claims court
dispute resolution process 834
mediation services and funding 1044-5
Social welfare
social programs and services, funding 73-4
support system for vulnerable persons 73-4
Social workers, funding for wage increases 1042-3
Substance abuse and addiction, treatment beds 70
Surrey, growth and sale of government land in area 71-2
Taxation
reductions, Laffer concept re relationship to government revenues 73
relationship to government services 73
Thorpe, Rick, comments on local purchasing 453
Throness, Laurie, comments in budget debate 70-1, 73
Vancouver Island, provincial status, petition tabled 1135
Vancouver, social housing and sale of government land in area 74
Victoria, justice access centre 839, 1041
West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund, recommendations on child custody assessments in family justice system 1045
Widdifield, Fred, court case delay 393
Wilson, Peter, role as special prosecutor in Bountiful case 1048
Kwan, Jenny Wai Ching (Vancouver–Mount Pleasant)

As subject
briefings on housing issues 958-61, 966 (Coleman) 958-61
Aboriginal Housing Management Association, management and operations 900-1
Anton, Suzanne, request for meeting by groups participating in Missing Women Inquiry 1051-2
Bonney, Brian, role in government and multicultural outreach strategy 729-30
B.C., population, migration to and from B.C. 163-4
B.C. Housing Management Commission
handling of crisis cases 957, 966
office space and carbon neutrality, livegreen Housing Sustainability Plan document 958-60
operations 902-3
organizational structure and staffing 957-8
work with ministries 899
B.C. Liberal Party, campaign statements 163-6
B.C. Liberal Party government
approach to governing, financial management and priorities 165-7
MLAs, position on political staff salary issue 165-6
B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association
core need projections 908
document on housing strategies 903-4
B.C. services card, identification requirements 654-6, 1149-50
Budget debate 163-7
Budgets
2013-14 budget 166
deficit budgets 164
Business Council of B.C., study on economic conditions 164
Children and youth, child protection system, apprehensions due to housing issues 956-7
Clark, Christy
comments on multicultural outreach strategy 622-3
performance as Premier 164-6
Community Living B.C.
caseload planning 263, 265-7
employees, compensation for excluded employees 305
funding and operations 262
funding and operations, stakeholder concerns and consultation 271, 300-1
projects and initiatives 268-9
review and report 262-3
service plan 265
service plan, risk assessment 268-9
Community, Sport and Cultural Development Ministry, estimates debate 539-40
Criminal Code (federal), provisions on combat sports 539-40
Crohn's disease, treatment options and services 1148-9
Disabled and handicapped persons
community living services
funding and services 263-5, 268-70, 301-3, 305-6
home-share arrangements 271
individualized funding 269, 304-5
integrated service delivery model and navigator role 266-7
respite care 303-5
service demand 262-3, 265
wait-lists 269-70
employment of developmentally disabled persons 269
Discrimination and racism, B.C. government apology for past discriminatory treatment of Chinese Canadians, proposal 166
East Side Boxing Club, approval for fundraising event 539
Economy, conditions and measurement 163-5
Education Ministry, estimates debate 782-3
Education, schools, seismic upgrades 782-3
Employment and unemployment, government job strategy and job losses 163-4
First Nations housing 900-1
General Gordon Elementary School, seismic upgrade project 782
Government
capital projects, costs and oversight 165
political staff, salaries 165
Group homes
closings 268
operations 271
Health Ministry, estimates debate 1102-3, 1148-50
Highway 16, missing women along highway and need for public transportation services 1051
Housing
affordable housing, core housing need 902-4, 906-8, 952
cooperative housing 951
government strategy 903-4, 907
housing endowment fund 961
issues, report 899-900
social and subsidized housing
maintenance and repair issues 958-9
projects 959
units and agreement with federal government 901-6, 951
supportive housing for women and children 954, 956-7
temporary housing and shelters 952-3, 959-60
transition houses 959
transition houses, second-stage housing cases 953-6
Identification, documentation in B.C. and Canada 654-6, 1149-50
Justice Ministry
estimates debate 1049-52
budget and staffing 1050-1
Legislature, budget debate, relevance of debate 166
Lord Strathcona Community Elementary School, seismic upgrade project 782-3
Mental health
beds 1102
programs and services, commmunity services and cost comparison with hospital services 1102
programs and services, community services 819
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
groups participating in inquiry, request for meeting with Justice Minister 1051-2
implementation of recommendations, report 1049-51
Multiculturalism, government outreach strategy and partisan activities 166, 460, 550, 622-3, 725, 729-30
Natural Gas Development Ministry
estimates debate 899-908, 951-62, 966
briefings for opposition critics 958-61, 966
Oral questions
Communications regarding government staff member and multicultural outreach strategy 460
Funding for community mental health services 819
Implementation of multicultural outreach strategy 622-3
Multicultural outreach strategy investigation and e-mail from former Multiculturalism Minister 725
Multicultural outreach strategy investigation and staff member mentioned in communications 550
Point, Steven, position as committee chair re Missing Women Inquiry recommendations 1049-50
Premier's Office
estimates debate 729-30
estimates debate 725
Public debt 164
Queen Mary Elementary School, seismic upgrade project 782
Rankin, Murray, letter on regulation of combat sports 540
Sarrafpour, Sepideh, work on government multicultural outreach strategy 622
School district 39 (Vancouver), seismic upgrade projects 782-3
Schuck, Andrew, concerns re sport regulation 540
Simons, Nicholas, work as former critic for Community Living B.C. 305
Singh, Christina, request for meeting with Social Development Ministry 305
Social Development and Social Innovation Ministry
estimates debate 262-71, 300-6
estimates process, minister's answers to questions 304
estimates process, written answers to questions 269, 300, 306
Social welfare, support system for vulnerable persons, role of identification 654-6
Social workers, funding for wage increases 301-2
Sports and recreation, combat sports, regulation 539-40
Throne speech content 166
Trade, export of goods to international markets 164
Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry, estimates debate 654-6
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Access Community through English (ACE) mental health program and funding 819, 1102-3
Vancouver, Little Mountain Housing redevelopment project 962
Vancouver-Fairview constituency and area, constituent housing case 957
Vancouver–Mount Pleasant constituency and area
constituent's concerns re colorectal health care 1148-9
housing needs, constituent cases 966
Yap, John, role in multicultural outreach strategy 622, 725, 729
Kyllo, Greg (Shuswap)

Diabetes, awareness and support 1130
Peach, Petronella (Nel), advocacy and volunteerism for diabetes organizations 1130
Petitions
authorization of docks for Shuswap area properties 1135
Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, community outreach and role in local economy 389
Shuswap constituency and area, authorization of docks for area properties, petition tabled 1135
Statements by members
Diabetes support activities of Nel Peach 1130
Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival 389

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