Province of British Columbia
Sixth Session, 40th Parliament – 2017
INDEX (Member entries)
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)

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Index contains information on topics Members of the Legislative Assembly spoke on during House debates.
Index updated regularly during session.

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Farnworth, Mike (Port Coquitlam)

As subject
personal and family experience of pet ownership 14040-2
Animals
breeders of cats and dogs, regulation 14041
intelligence 14040-2
Assisted dying, provision and regulation, petition tabled 13861
Auditor General, The 2015-16 Public Accounts and the Auditor General's Findings report 14426
B.C. Liberal Party, fundraising activities and payments to Premier 14407-8
B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, work re animal adoptions 14041
Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec, shooting incident and deaths, response 13609, 13615-6
Chouhan, Raj, appointment as Assistant Deputy Speaker 13528
Community Vision, government contract and services to children in care, audit 13966
Discrimination and racism
awareness and response 13615-6
racist and Islamophobic hatred and violence 13609, 13615-6
recent incidents and trends 13615
Ecole Irvine Elementary School, seismic upgrading and replacement, petition tabled 13786
Election Amendment Act, 2017, debate 14406-8
Elections, campaign financing
ban on corporate and union donations 14408
B.C. reputation and media coverage 14407-8
donations and reporting 14406-7
reform and government action 14278
regulation 14408
Government, financial reporting, public accounts 14426
Justice system
courts and court services, staffing levels and impact on criminal cases 13661, 13780-1
sheriffs, staffing levels 13661, 13780-1
Legislature
question period, change to scheduled times 13580
question period, questions and answers 14426
Speaker and Chair, appointment of Assistant Deputy Speaker 13528
Letnick, Norm, attendance at fundraising event 14407
Motions
Appointment of Assistant Deputy Speaker 13528
Changes to question period and daily House business 13580
Muslim Canadians, support 13616
New York Times, coverage of politics and campaign financing 14407-8
Oral questions
Auditor General report on public accounts 14426
Election campaign financing reform 14278
Oversight and audit of contracted child protection services 13966
Staffing levels for sheriffs 13661, 13780-1
Petitions
assisted dying, provision in hospice facilities and regulation of professionals 13861
Irvine Elementary School seismic upgrading and replacement 13786
Politics and politicians, money and politics 14278
Port Coquitlam, Muslim community 13616
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment Act, 2017, debate 14040-2
Standing Order 35 adjournment motions
Request to debate a matter of urgent public importance — Islamophobia and systemic racism 13609
Islamophobia and systemic racism 13615-6
Victoria, court services, sheriff staffing and criminal cases 13661, 13781
Fassbender, Hon. Peter (Surrey-Fleetwood)

As subject
constituents, family and staff thanked 14002-3
Assisted dying, provision and regulation, petition tabled 13968
Bennett, Bill, appreciation 14004
B.C. Liberal Party government
accomplishments 14005-6
financial management 14004
retiring MLAs 14004
Budget debate 14002-6
Capital regional district, shared services for area municipalities, government review and report 14424
Documents tabled
Islands Trust, 2015-16 annual report 13539
Property Assessment Appeal Board, 2016 annual report 13968
Economy, conditions 14003-4
Education
education of First Nations people, graduation rate 14004
government investment and support 14004
Election Amendment Act, 2017
debate 14391-3
debate by NDP MLAs 14391
Elections, campaign financing, donations and reporting 14391-3
Government ministries, staff 14003
Health care funding 14004
Highway 91, Nordel Way truck parking facility 14005
Hogg, Gordon, appreciation 14004
Home care, home and community care services 14004
Islands Trust, annual report, 2015-16, tabled 13539
Jumbo Glacier resort, development 14319
Lake, Terry, appreciation 14004
Lower Mainland, South Fraser communities, transit services 14005
McRae, Don, appreciation 14004
MLAs, retiring MLAs, recognition of service 14004
NDP
donations to party 14392
MLAs, comments on campaign financing and B.C. Liberal Party fundraising 14391
Oral questions (response)
Jumbo Glacier resort municipality and funding 14319
Report on shared services in capital regional district 14424
Petitions
provision in hospice facilities and regulation of professionals 13968
wearing of turbans in workplace by Sikhs 14319
Property Assessment Appeal Board, annual report, 2016, tabled 13968
Public debt levels 14005
Routley, Bill, use of "jiggery-pokery" term 14002
School district 36 (Surrey), capacity and growth management, government support 14003
Simon Fraser University, Surrey campus, environmental engineering and sustainable energy facility 14003
South Coast B.C. Transportation Authority, Evergreen Line 14005
Surrey
education, government investment 14004
growth 14003
high-technology industry 14003
local government 14003
post-secondary education 14003
Trade unions, relationship with political parties 14392
Transportation, government plan and investment 14005
Trucking industry and government support 14004-5
Workers, wearing of turbans in workplace, petition tabled 14319
Fleming, Rob (Victoria–Swan Lake)

As subject
comments on education system (Bernier) 14016
comments on taxation (Dalton) 13845
experience of discrimination issues 14299
family's response to mosque shooting incident 13614
work with trade union 14301
Anti-Segregation Association, history 14301
Asian Canadians
discriminatory treatment, history 14301
South Asian community, discriminatory treatment 14301
B.C. Liberal Party
campaign statements 14129
fundraising activities 14405-6
B.C. Liberal Party government, MLAs, comments on campaign financing regulation 14404
Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec, shooting incident and deaths, response 13614-5
Children and youth
child care plan proposal and government investment 13651-2
child care, role in economy 13651-2
early childhood development 13651
Chinese Canadians, discriminatory treatment, history and activism 14300-1
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, history 14300-1
Chinese Public School, history 14300
Clark, Christy, comments on school seismic upgrades 14129
Coleman, Rich, comments on housing issues 13652
Collins, Doug, political views and 1980s newspaper column 14299-300
Discrimination and racism
anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial 14299-300
hate promotion, prevention and legislation 14300
past discriminatory practices
opposition 14300-1
past practices and role of government 14299-301
role of forest industry and trade unions 14301
racist and Islamophobic hatred and violence 13614
recent incidents and trends 14300
Discriminatory Provisions (Historical Wrongs) Repeal Act, debate 14299-301
Education
funding 14015-6
funding for rural schools, petition tabled 13666
kindergarten 13651
system 13651, 14015-6, 14380
system, past discriminatory practices 14300-1
Election Amendment Act, 2017
debate 14404-6
debate by B.C. Liberal MLAs 14404
Elections
enumeration of youth at age 16 13657-8
voter participation, 18- to 24-year-olds 13658
voting rights, discriminatory legislation and past practices 14301
Elections, campaign financing reform 14404-6
Housing, affordable housing, government action 13652
Income disparity and social inequality 13651
Increasing Youth Participation in Elections Act, 2017, debate 13657-8
International Woodworkers of America, history and march for extension of voting rights 14301
Jay, George, actions as school board chair 14300-1
Legislation, discriminatory legislation, review and repeal 14299
Macdonald, John B., report on B.C. college system 14124
Motions
Child care and early learning plan 13651-2
Muslim Canadians, support 13614-5
Oral questions
Conditions at Prince Rupert Middle School 14380
Records of government court case with teachers 14015-6, 14425-6
Seismic upgrades for schools 14129
Petitions
funding for rural schools 13666
post secondary education accessibility and affordability 14380
Politics and politicians, money and politics 14404-6
Post-secondary education
accessibility and affordability, petition tabled 14380
history of college system 14123-4
Prince Rupert Middle School, building conditions and replacement 14380
Quebec, child care program 13652
Schools
health and safety 14380
seismic upgrades 14129
Standing Order 35 adjournment motions
Islamophobia and systemic racism 13614-5
Statements by members
Colleges 14123-4
Supreme Court of Canada, ruling on teachers' collective bargaining rights 14015-6, 14426
Teachers
collective bargaining, court case documents 14015-6, 14025-6
collective bargaining, restoration 14426
U.S.
political climate 14300
Victoria
Chinese-Canadian associations, history and activism 14300-1
schools, history and past discriminatory practices 14300-1
vigil for victims of mosque shooting 13614
Wilkinson, Andrew, comments on campaign financing 14404-5
Foster, Eric (Vernon-Monashee)

As subject
comments in debate on carbon tax (Heyman) 13842-3
experience as adoptive parent 14115
Adoption Amendment Act, 2017, debate 14115-6
Adoption of children in government care
placement policy 14115-6
promotion 14115
Brentwood College School, basketball champions 14270
Carbon tax
NDP position 13842
revenue neutrality and allocation of revenues 13842
Finance and Government Services Committee, work of committee 14115
John, Ed, recommendations to government 14116
Lower Mainland, transit services and funding 13842
Morris, Marie, volunteerism 13703
Motions
Carbon tax 13842
NDP, position on carbon tax 13842
Statements by members
Battle of Vimy Ridge 14419
Vernon Winter Carnival 13703
Transit services, funding 13842
Tributes
Brentwood College School basketball champions 14270
Vernon, Good Citizen of the Year award 13703
Vernon Winter Carnival 13703
Vimy Foundation 14419
Vimy Ridge battle, centennial and legacy 14419
War, World War I, service by British Columbians 14419
Fraser, Scott (Alberni–Pacific Rim)

As subject
role as Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation critic 13555-6
staff thanked 13554
time as MLA 13814
Agriculture industry 13816-7
Alberni–Pacific Rim constituency and area, slaughter facilities and local food production 13780
Blueberry River First Nations, negotiations with government on treaty land entitlement claim 13557, 13817, 13904-5
B.C. Liberal Party, campaign statements 13814-5
B.C. Liberal Party government, priorities 13555-8
B.C. prosperity fund 13555, 13816
Budget debate 13813-7
Budgets, election-year budgets 13814-6
Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec, shooting incident and deaths, response 13554
Child protection system
children in government care, funding and support 13555, 13558
funding 13816
handling of cases and response to youth deaths 13558
Children and youth, child care, affordability and availability 13556
Clark, Christy, comments on Medical Services Plan premiums 13815
Consumers, taxes and user fees 13555
Discrimination and racism, awareness and response 13554
Economy, role of government 13555-6
Education system 13556
Energy, electricity rates 13815
First Nations
agreements with government 13817
relationship with government 13556-7
treaties, B.C. treaty process 13557
Food and food industry
locally grown food 13780
meat-processing regulations 13780
meat-processing regulations and local producers 13816-7
slaughter facilities 13780
Forests and forest industry, employment and jobs 13555
Gervais, Alex, death while in government care 13555
Health care system, services for seniors 13556
Highway 16, transportation options and safety of women, government plan 13557
Income tax rates for high- and middle-income earners 13555
Islands Agriculture Show 13816-7
Land, access to public lands through private lands 13860
Legislature, legislative calendar and sittings in 2016-17 13554-5
Liquefied natural gas development 13555, 13815-6
Medical Services Plan premiums 13814-5
Missing and murdered aboriginal women, government action on issues 13557
Oral questions
Blueberry River First Nations negotiations with government and role of MLA 13904-5
Public access to back-country areas on Vancouver Island 13860
Water quality in Spallumcheen area 13708
Petitions
back-country access 13861
Pimm, Pat, role re government negotiations with Blueberry River First Nations 13904-5
Politics and politicians, sleight-of-hand metaphor 13814-5
Public debt 13814
Representative for Children and Youth, reports on deaths of children in care and government response 13558
Social welfare, social programs and services, funding 13555-6
Sports and recreation, back-country access 13860
petition tabled 13861
Statements by members
Local food production and access to slaughter facilities 13780
Steele Springs area drinking water quality
government action 13708
water quality advisory and issues 13708
Taxation
fair tax system 13814-5
government policies 13815-6
Teachers, collective bargaining, court case 13556
Throne speech debate 13554-8
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, report recommendations 13556-7
UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples 13556-7
Vancouver Island, lands, public access to back-country and park areas 13860
Wage levels 13556
Water, drinking water protection 13708
West Coast General Hospital, conditions 13556

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