Habitat Conservation Trust Fund
- Funding (Routley, B.) 255 (Thomson) 254-5
Habitat protection See Fish; Wildlife
Haisla Bridge
- Upgrades (Austin) 857 (Coleman) 857
Hampton Affiliates
Handicapped persons See Disabled and handicapped persons
HandyDART system See Transit services
Hansen, Colin
- Comments on public-private partnerships (Corrigan) 410
Harbour Park See Ladner, B.C.
Harmonized sales tax
- Elimination and reinstatement of sales tax system See Reinstatement of sales tax system under Sales tax
Hastings constituency and area See Vancouver-Hastings constituency and area
Hatfield Consultants
- Report on independent power projects See Independent power projects, compliance with requirements under Energy
Hazelmere Organic Farms, Surrey, B.C.
Hazelton, B.C.
- Recreation centre project, funding (Donaldson) 767 (Stone) 767
HD Mining International Ltd.
- Murray River mine, workforce hiring process (Bains) 980-2
Head and brain injuries See Brain health
Head offices See Business
Health
Health – Continuing and long-term care
Health – Health authorities See also particular authorities
- Budgets and services (Darcy) 210, 887-9, 892-3 (de Jong) 399, 401 (Farnworth) 401 (Hammell) 211 (Lake) 887-8, 891-3
- Budgets, community care spending (Darcy) 1033 (Lake) 1033
- Budgets, targeted funding (Lake) 1033
- Consultation by government (Darcy) 893 (Lake) 893
- Facilities, service areas and levels (Lake) 1146
- Funding See Health – Health care funding
- Priorities, role of Health Ministry (Darcy) 1033
- Relationship with government and communications on health issues (Coleman) 748 (Dix) 748
- Service plans and quarterly performance reports (Darcy) 893-4 (Lake) 893-4
- Wheelchair maintenance fees in residential care facilities See Fees under Housing – Residential care facilities; particular authorities
- Whistleblower protection (Conroy) 946 (Lake) 946
Health – Health care facilities and hospitals
Health – Health care funding
- Capital funding (Darcy) 1095-6 (Hammell) 1096 (Lake) 1095-6
- Commitments in party election platforms (Darcy) 928-9, 931-3 (Lake) 929
- Federal funding formula and changes to transfer payments (Coleman) 749 (Darcy) 929-30 (de Jong) 402, 405 (Dix) 749 (Farnworth) 401-2 (Lake) 930-1
- Funding (Cadieux) 100 (Darcy) 57-8, 210, 886-7 (de Jong) 214, 399-402 (Farnworth) 37, 50-1, 398-402 (Fleming) 170 (Hammell) 211 (James) 103 (Lake) 210-1, 885-6, 1010 (Ralston) 115 (Shin) 107
- Pay-for-performance model and performance measurement (Darcy) 888-9, 892 (Lake) 888-9, 892
- Projections (Simpson) 93
- Residential care facilities (Lake) 1007
- Residential care facilities, funding equity issue (Conroy) 1015 (Lake) 1015
- Transfer payments from federal government See Federal funding above under this main heading
Health – Health care system
- Administration, costs See Costs and spending below under this main heading
- Beds See also Health – Continuing and long-term care
- acute care and community care (Lake) 1026
- use of acute care beds by seniors in need of long-term care (Conroy) 940 (Darcy) 58, 938-9, 1030-2 (Lake) 938-40, 1031-2
- Care Card replacement See B.C. services card
- Care directives See Adult guardianship under Guardianship
- Chronic disease management
- Community-based care See also Home and community care under Home care
- Community-based care, integration with primary health care See Primary health care below under this main heading
- Costs and spending
- additional costs and budget capacity (Hammell) 1137
- administration costs (Lake) 1028 (Weaver) 1028
- cost management (Lake) 210
- costs and spending in B.C. and other jurisdictions (Darcy) 895 (Lake) 895
- management (Darcy) 887 (de Jong) 399-402 (Farnworth) 398-402 (Lake) 885-8
- spending and outcomes (Lake) 210-1
- workers compensation costs (Bains) 1066-7 (Bond) 1066
- CT scan services See Medical imaging services below under this main heading
- Diagnostic services See Laboratory services; Medical imaging services below under this main heading
- E-health systems, electronic health records (Darcy) 937-8 (Lake) 937-8
- Emergency services, patient tracking (Darcy) 938 (Lake) 938
- Emergency services, pre-hospital care and timeliness (Huntington) 1104 (Lake) 1104
- Government responsibility (James) 103
- Health professionals and workers See also Nurses; Physicians
- Health research See Research under Health
- Impact of demographic trends (Darcy) 930 (Farnworth) 50-1 (Lake) 930
- Information See also E-health systems; Personal health information under this main heading
- Information, HealthLink B.C. services (Elmore) 327 (Lake) 327
- Laboratory services, reform initiative (Darcy) 895-6 (Lake) 895-6
- Medical imaging services (Lake) 936, 1149
- MRI services See Medical imaging services above under this main heading
- Multidisciplinary teams in primary health care See Primary health care, interdisciplinary teams below under this main heading
- Patient safety learning system See Patient Safety and Quality Council
- Personal health information
- access to data (Darcy) 1141 (Heyman) 1177-9 (Lake) 1040, 1141 (Wilkinson) 1178-9
- electronic health records See E-health systems above under this main heading
- privacy issues See Privacy
- Primary health care
- general practitioners See Family physicians under Physicians
- health care centres (Lake) 1024-5
- improvements (Darcy) 927 (Lake) 927-8
- integrated primary care and community-based care (Lake) 1032-3
- interdisciplinary teams (Darcy) 1035 (Lake) 1035
- primary care (Darcy) 1033-5 (Lake) 1033-5
- Priorities, federal health accord (Darcy) 936 (Lake) 936
- Private clinics (Darcy) 1040-1 (Lake) 1041
- Reforms, implementation (Darcy) 1032 (Lake) 1032-3
- Services for First Nations people See also First Nations Health Authority
- Services for First Nations people, travel assistance (Lake) 1020 (Rice) 1020
- Services for seniors (Conroy) 175, 799-802 (Darcy) 194 (Larson) 801 (Rice) 121
- Services for seniors, mobile lab specimen collection (Darcy) 895-6 (Lake) 896
- Surgery, wait-lists for surgery See Wait-lists and waiting times, surgery wait-lists below under this main heading
- System (Lake) 885-6 (Robinson) 125 (Throne speech) 5
- System, management and sustainability (Lake) 1151
- Telehealth initiatives (Lake) 1017
- Travel for treatment (Lake) 1146
- Travel for treatment, assistance for First Nations See Services for First Nations people above under this main heading
- Wait-lists and waiting times (Darcy) 936-8 (Lake) 936-8
- Wait-lists and waiting times, surgery wait-lists and waiting times (Trevena) 1025-6
Health – Public health
- Health promotion and disease prevention (Lake) 886 (Thornthwaite) 148
Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act
Health, Ministry of
- Estimates
- debate 885-98, 926-50, 1011-41, 1095-105, 1135-53
- speakers (Chandra Herbert) 935 (Conroy) 940-50, 1011-6 (Corrigan) 1151-2 (Darcy) 886-98, 926-39, 1011, 1016, 1022, 1030-41, 1095-6, 1104-5, 1137-45, 1153 (Eby) 1150-1 (Elmore) 1101-2, 1148 (Fraser) 1026-8 (Hammell) 1037-8, 1096-101, 1136-7 (Holman) 1016-7, 1022 (Huntington) 1103-4 (Kwan) 1102-3, 1148-50 (Lake) 885-98, 926-50, 1011-41, 1095-105, 1136-53 (Mungall) 1022-3 (Popham) 1146-7 (Rice) 1017-22 (Robinson) 1101, 1145-6 (Routley, B.) 1024-5 (Routley, D.) 1152-3 (Trevena) 1025-6 (Weaver) 1028-30
- Budget (Darcy) 890 (Lake) 890
- Estimates process
- Mandate letter (Darcy) 894-7
- Minister's office (Darcy) 890 (Lake) 890
- Role in policy for treatment of students with health issues (Farnworth) 787 (Fassbender) 787
- Staff (Lake) 885, 940
- Staff commended (Conroy) 940
- Whistleblower protection (Conroy) 946 (Lake) 946
Health, Select Standing Committee on
- Interim report, comments on home and community care (Darcy) 1031-2
- Powers and role (de Jong) 925-6
HealthLink B.C. See Information
under Health – Health care system
HEAT shelters See Housing and homelessness, emergency shelter beds
under Vancouver, B.C.
Hedley, B.C.
Hepatitis See Liver health
Heritage sites See also Arts and culture
- Sites (Routley, D.) 273-4
Heritage tourism initiative See Culture and heritage tourism initiative
under Tourism
Highland Valley mine See Teck Resources Ltd.
High-technology industry See Science and technology
Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway)
- Four-laning project between Kamloops and Alberta (Macdonald) 130 (Stone) 129
- Issues and upgrading (Macdonald) 23
- Signage re Highway 7 (Lougheed Highway) and Highway 7B (Mary Hill Bypass) (Robinson) 763 (Stone) 763
Highway 4
- Connector access near Port Alberni (Stone) 767
- Connector access near Port Alberni and improvements in western section (Fraser) 766
Highway 16
- Missing women along highway and need for public transportation services (Anton) 1051 (Donaldson) 457-8 (Kwan) 1051
- Safety of women travelling along highway (Anton) 396
- Safety of women travelling along highway, shuttle bus proposal (Donaldson) 1169-70 (Rice) 395-6 (Rustad) 1170
Highway 17 (Patricia Bay Highway)
- Sayward Road intersection, improvements (Popham) 766 (Stone) 766
Highway 19 (Island Highway)
- Cumberland section, former Ginger Goodwin Way designation and memorial gathering in area (Trevena) 26
Highway 37
- Electrification See Northwest transmission line project under Energy
Highway 99
- George Massey Tunnel, replacement project (Stone) 129, 708-9 (Trevena) 708
Highway of Tears See Highway 16
Highway of Tears Symposium
- Implementation of recommendations (Rice) 395
Highways and roads See also particular highways or locations
Historic sites See Heritage sites
HIV/AIDS See AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
Home care
Home Owner Grant Act
Home ownership
Home support See Home care
Homelessness See also Poverty
- Government action (Coleman) 89
- Intervention project (Austin) 853 (Coleman) 850, 854
- Relationship to mental illness See Mental illness and homelessness under Mental health
- Shelters See Temporary housing and shelters under Housing
- Task force (Coleman) 907
Homeowner grant
- Eligibility for owners claiming benefit on wrong property (de Jong) 38, 370, 789 (Farnworth) 789
- Thresholds (de Jong) 789 (Farnworth) 789
Honeybees See Bees
Hopcott Premium Meats, Pitt Meadows, B.C.
- Operations and funding (Bing) 449
HOpe centre project See Greta and Robert Ho psychiatry and education centre project
under Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, B.C.
Hope constituency and area See Chilliwack-Hope constituency and area
Horn River Basin
- Natural gas resource development (Chandra Herbert) 351
- Natural gas resource development and Debolt water treatment plant (Coleman) 861, 863 (Horgan) 863
- Seismic activity report (Coleman) 863-4 (Horgan) 863-4
Hospice and palliative care
- Beds and facilities (Darcy) 897-8 (Lake) 897-8, 950
- Beds and facilities in rural areas (Conroy) 950
- End-of-life care
- government initiatives (Larson) 801
- government plan (Conroy) 950 (Darcy) 897 (Lake) 897-8, 950 (Throne speech) 5
- Funding (Conroy) 950 (Darcy) 58, 897-8 (Lake) 898, 950 (Trevena) 1025
Hospitality industry See Sports and recreation; Tourism
Hospitals See Health – Health care facilities and hospitals
Hosting B.C. program See Events
under Sports and recreation
House, Clyde and Ray
Housing
- Affordable housing See also Social and subsidized housing below under this main heading
- Cooperative housing (Coleman) 951 (Kwan) 951
- Costs See also Housing – Rental housing; Housing market under Real estate industry
- Energy efficiency, building retrofit programs (Heyman) 424-5 (Polak) 424
- Energy efficiency, housing retrofit program (Chandra Herbert) 797
- Government strategy (Coleman) 900, 903-4, 907-8, 961-2, 965-6 (Kwan) 903-4, 907
- Homelessness See Homelessness
- Housing endowment fund (Kwan) 961
- Housing for people with mental illness and addiction See Supportive housing below under this main heading
- Issues, report (Coleman) 899-900 (Kwan) 899-900
- Minister responsible See Natural Gas Development, Ministry of, and Minister Responsible for Housing
- Residential housing construction See Construction industry
- Residential housing market See Real estate industry
- Second-stage housing See Transition houses below under this main heading
- Seniors housing See Housing – Residential care facilities; Housing under Seniors
- Social and subsidized housing
- demographic changes (Coleman) 903-4, 907-8
- maintenance and repair issues (Coleman) 959 (Kwan) 958-9
- projects (Coleman) 909 (Kwan) 959
- rental assistance for seniors program See Housing, Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program under Seniors
- rental assistance program (Coleman) 907
- role in poverty reduction (Cadieux) 465 (James) 465
- units (Krog) 74
- units and agreement with federal government (Coleman) 901-6, 951 (Kwan) 901-6, 951
- Supportive housing for mentally ill (Hammell) 1097 (Lake) 1097
- Supportive housing for mentally ill and addicted (Coleman) 900, 907-8, 961-2
- Supportive housing for women and children (Coleman) 954, 956-7 (Kwan) 954, 956-7
- Temporary housing and shelters See also Transition houses below under this main heading
- Temporary housing and shelters, camps for workers in northern B.C., review See Northern Health Authority
- Temporary housing and shelters, operating agreements (Coleman) 960 (Kwan) 960
- Transition houses (Coleman) 960-1 (Kwan) 959
- Transition houses, funding for staff wage increases (Anton) 1042-3 (Krog) 1042-3
- Transition houses, second-stage housing cases (Coleman) 954-6 (Kwan) 953-6
Housing – Rental housing
- Costs and options (McRae) 248
- Costs, average rents (Mungall) 247
- Landlord-tenant issues, disputes (Ralston) 964-5
Housing – Residential care facilities See also Health – Continuing and long-term care
- Beds, availability and placement process (Conroy) 1013-5 (Lake) 1014-5
- Care and treatment of residents
- daily monitoring (Conroy) 1013
- dementia care See Dementia
- resident-to-resident aggression (Conroy) 1011-2 (Lake) 1012
- standards See Care standards below under this main heading
- use of antipsychotic drugs (Conroy) 948-9 (Lake) 949
- Care standards (Conroy) 1013, 1015-6 (Lake) 1016
- Care standards, government action (Larson) 801
- Fees
- additional fees (Conroy) 944 (Lake) 942-4
- personal equipment fees (Conroy) 175
- personal equipment fees and waivers (Lake) 1007-8
- rate changes (Dix) 13
- rate changes and reinvestment of revenues (Corrigan) 944-5 (Lake) 944-5, 1015
- tracking of residents with reduced rates (Conroy) 947 (Lake) 947
- wheelchair maintenance fees (Bond) 65 (Conroy) 175, 800, 942-4, 1008 (Darcy) 58, 887 (Dix) 13, 1006-7 (Lake) 887, 943-4, 1007-8
- First-available-bed policy See Beds, availability and placement process above under this main heading
- Funding See Health – Health care funding
- Incidents, penalties for infractions (Conroy) 1013
- Incidents, reporting (Conroy) 946, 1012 (Lake) 946, 1012
- Licensing, community care facility licensing review (Conroy) 1016 (Lake) 1016
- Public outreach, government booklet (Conroy) 947
- Regulation (Conroy) 947 (Lake) 947
- Types of facilities (Lake) 943
- Workers, training and utilization (Darcy) 898
Housser, Steve
- Comments on soil disposal (Routley, B.) 47
- Contract with government (Heyman) 1122 (Wilkinson) 1122
Hovanes Community Services
- Painted Chair employment program for adults with developmental disabilities (Larson) 1129
HST See Harmonized sales tax
Huldra Silver Inc.
- Treasure Mountain mine project (Bennett) 557
Human rights
Human trafficking
- Case involving live-in caregiver (Elmore) 31
- Incidence and government response (Elmore) 42-3, 441-3 (Plecas) 442-3
- Office to combat trafficking in persons See Justice, Ministry of
- Prevention (Anton) 31 (Elmore) 31
- Prevention, funding and outreach to First Nations groups (Anton) 1055 (Corrigan) 1055
Hume, Stephen
- Article on renewable resources and government ministry funding (Macdonald) 289-90
Hummingbird Creek
Hunting
HUSAR See Search and rescue services, heavy urban search and rescue teams
under Emergencies
Hydraulic fracturing See Oil and gas
Hydro and Power Authority See British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority
Hydrogen fuel See Fuel