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

Virk, Hon. Amrik (Surrey-Tynehead)

As subject
service in RCMP and election as MLA 95
volunteers and family thanked 94-5
Acupuncturists and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, proposal for school of traditional Chinese medicine 915
Advanced Education Ministry
estimates debate 867-83, 909-16
budget
allocation for advertising, publications and travel 870
contingency funds 867
reduction and sale of assets 867-8
mandate letter goals 879-82
service plans and spending 868
staffing and contracts 869-70
Budget debate 94-7
Business, voucher program 882
District of Tofino, post-secondary education hub proposal 877
Economy, economic opportunities and government policies 95
Education, international students, enrolment 875
Employment and unemployment, government job strategy 870-1
Government
advertising and announcements, advertising on trades training 870-2
core review 868
financial management, Lean initiative 868
open government, access to data and Data B.C. website 880
Information and communications technology, high-speed Internet service, remote and rural communities 878
Infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, government investment 95
Lower Mainland, South Fraser perimeter road project 95
North Island College, funding and partnerships 877-8
Oil and gas, liquefied natural gas development, prosperity fund proposal 95
Oral questions (response)
Post-secondary education funding and letter by Kwantlen University president 157
Trades-training advertising and wait-lists 925
Pacific Carbon Trust
allocation of carbon offsets for post-secondary sector 913
allocation of revenues for energy-efficiency upgrades 913
review 913
Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences, opening and status 876-7
Post-secondary education
agriculture programs, consolidation 915
data collection 875, 878-80
distance education 878
fees 868-9
government initiatives 96
international education, expansion and capacity in system 881-2
international students 873
enrolment 875
government action on student visa issues 914
student financial assistance
graduate scholarship program proposal 910
income-to-loan repayment and 8 percent target 910-1
interest on loans 872
loan-forgiveness and loan-reduction programs 911
review 911-2
student spaces 96, 881
students, first-year completion rates 878-9
system 95-7, 867, 873
tuition fees 96, 869, 910
Post-secondary education, funding 157, 873, 925
funding for building maintenance, deferred maintenance 912
funding for First Nations education 915-6
funding for rural colleges 877-8
grant requirements and inability to carry over funding 883
per-student funding for graduate students 910
Post-secondary education, universities, colleges and institutes
administration
CEO compensation 909
operating costs versus administrative and managerial costs 909
savings and shared services 868
assets, sales 867
capital investment and projects 96-7, 881-2
consultation by government 882
core review 879-80, 909
costs, management 96
education quality assurance process 914-5
equipment donations from private sector, liability issue 883
facilities, energy-efficiency upgrades 913
facilities, space utilization 881
financial reporting, inclusion in government reporting entity 883
Public debt elimination 95
Simon Fraser University, Surrey campus, student spaces 874
Skills training
apprenticeship 96
trades training, opportunities 870-2, 925
trades training, wait-lists 871
Surrey
description 95
health care facilities and post-secondary institutions 95
Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation, fundraising 95
Trade
export of goods to international markets 95
trade between B.C. and Asia 95
University of the Fraser Valley, school of excellence in agriculture 915

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