Fifth Session, 41st Parliament – 2020
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
MEMBERS INDEX
speeches by Members; topics debated
References are linked to time stamps in the transcript: e.g.,
73B:1435 = Issue 73, 2:35 p.m.
Bill abbreviations: Amdts. - Amendments; sec. - section; 1R - First reading;
2R - Second reading; C - Committee stage; 3R - Third reading; RA - Royal Assent
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Heyman, Hon. George (Vancouver-Fairview)
- As subject
- Attorney General Ministry, budget, allocation for legal costs 10CSC:1540-1545
- Boats and boating, boat launch infrastructure 10CSC:1610
- B.C. NDP government, accomplishments 306B:1605
- B.C. Parks, budget 8CSC:1645, 10CSC:1610-1615
- B.C. Parks Foundation, budget and role 8CSC:1720
- Carbon credit trading 9CSC:1125, 10CSC:1435-1515
- Carbon tax
- Cariboo area, lakes, boat launch conditions 10CSC:1610
- Cariboo North constituency and area, impact of climate change and wildfires on roads 9CSC:0950
- Cement industry, industry incentive program 8CSC:1650, 8CSC:1700-1730, 8CSC:1800, 9CSC:0935, 9CSC:1030
- Child care
- CleanBC plan 306B:1620-1625
- accountability component and targets 8CSC:1445, 9CSC:1140-1145
- building component, energy-efficiency retrofits 10CSC:1500
- emissions component 8CSC:1500-1520, 9CSC:1105-1110, 9CSC:1130-1140, 10CSC:1435-1515, 339B:1040
- funding 8CSC:1805
- funding and ministerial responsibility 9CSC:1140-1145
- industry fund and incentive program 8CSC:1520-1525, 8CSC:1650, 8CSC:1700-1735, 9CSC:0935, 9CSC:1030-1040, 9CSC:1055-1100, 309B:1410, 310B:1050
- role in economic recovery from COVID-19 8CSC:1445, 8CSC:1455-1500, 9CSC:1005-1010, 339B:1035-1040
- staffing levels 9CSC:1130
- transportation component 10CSC:1500
- Clearwater, mayor, campground reservation system error case 8CSC:1810-1815
- Climate change
- Climate Solutions Council, role 8CSC:1445
- Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd., pipeline project
- environmental assessment certificate 305B:1045
- wetlands protection plan compliance 8CSC:1530
- Consumers, cost of living, government action 306B:1615
- COVID-19 economic recovery 8CSC:1450
- COVID-19 impact and government response, park management and park operators 9CSC:0955
- Dams, regulation 8CSC:1620
- Democracy, public participation and dissent 306B:1605-1610
- Economy, sustainable development and transition to low-carbon economy 306B:1625-1630
- Elevate Consulting, government contract 10CSC:1520
- Encorp, recycling operations 10CSC:1530
- Energy
- clean energy legislation 8CSC:1510
- power supply
- Environment
- Environment and Climate Change Strategy Ministry
- Environmental Management Amendment Act, 2020 (Bill 3)
- Fires and firefighters, wildfires, impact on roads 9CSC:0950
- First Nations and Indigenous persons
- Fish, steelhead populations, protection and impact of forest practices 8CSC:1535
- Forests and forest industry, old-growth forests, management and panel process 344B:1030-1035
- Fraser, Stewart, guide-outfitter operations 9CSC:0945
- Garibaldi Provincial Park, closing during COVID-19 10CSC:1700
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Greenhouse Gas Industrial Reporting and Control Act, provisions 9CSC:1100, 9CSC:1110
- Guide-outfitters, compensation for park user fees 8CSC:1615, 9CSC:0940-0945
- Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, funding for invasive mussel monitoring 10CSC:1355
- Henry, Bonnie, recommendations on outdoor physical activity 10CSC:1650-1655
- Housing, affordable housing, government plan and initiatives 306B:1615
- Industry, low-carbon industrial strategy 306B:1625
- Invasive species
- Koocanusa recreation strategy area, management plan and ministerial responsibility 10CSC:1705
- Legislature staff 306B:1605
- Liquefied natural gas development, projects, carbon offsets 9CSC:1125, 10CSC:1435-1515
- Livestock industry, ranching industry, impact of dam maintenance issues 8CSC:1620
- LNG Canada facility project
- Local government, role in contaminated sites and soil relocation management 323B:1450-1500
- Lower Mainland, transit services 306B:1615
- MLAs, constituency offices, public protests and occupation 306B:1605-1610
- Metro Vancouver, bylaws on solid waste 10CSC:1520
- Morice River Technical Boundary Area, construction activities in area 305B:1045
- Neucel Specialty Cellulose, mill operations and remediation costs 8CSC:1635, 8CSC:1750, 10CSC:1550-1555
- Okanagan Lake, water levels 8CSC:1620-1625
- Oral questions (response)
- Pacific Booker Minerals Inc., Morrison mine project, government handling of approval process 331B:1435-1440
- Parks
- Parliament Buildings, protest in precinct supporting Hereditary Chiefs 306B:1605
- Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, role 10CSC:1535
- Plastic products, pollution reduction 8CSC:1445, 10CSC:1535, 306B:1630
- Post-secondary education, government initiatives 306B:1620
- Professional governance, superintendent, establishment and role 8CSC:1445
- Protests
- The Province (Vancouver)
- Quesnel, road access 9CSC:0950
- Recycling, bottle recycling system, changes 10CSC:1525-1530
- Rental housing, protections for tenants 306B:1615
- Shawnigan Lake
- contaminated soil disposal site
- drinking water quality and protection 307B:1040-1045
- Skills training, training and supply of skilled workers 306B:1620
- Soil relocation
- Species At Risk Act (federal), review 8CSC:1545
- Standen, Jim, meeting re park infrastructure projects 10CSC:1610
- Throne speech debate 306B:1605-1630
- Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project, status
- Transit services, government investment 306B:1615
- Treasury Board, applications 9CSC:1040
- UN, Conference of the Parties on climate change 10CSC:1435-1455, 10CSC:1510
- Vancouver Charter, amendments 318B:1650
- Vancouver-Fairview constituency and area, issues and concerns 306B:1610
- Waste management
- contaminated sites and soil relocation
- landfills and dumping 318B:1715
- Water, drinking water protection 318B:1715-1720
- Watersheds, protection 318B:1715-1720
- Wells Gray Provincial Park
- Wet'suwet'en First Nation, engagement in reconciliation process and meetings with government 305B:1045
- Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs, relationship with government 305B:1045
- Wildlife, species at risk
Horgan, Hon. John (Langford–Juan de Fuca)
- As subject
- Aboriginal Affairs Committee, activation 317B:1040
- Bains, Harry, letters from business community 344B:1025
- Barkerville Historic Town, role in tourism and government support 359B:1105
- Border crossings, U.S. land border closing during COVID-19 359B:1015, 359B:1100, 359B:1115
- B.C., assets 359B:1130-1135
- B.C. Centre for Disease Control, role in education system reopening 360B:1435, 360B:1455
- B.C. Hydro
- energy purchase agreements with independent power producers, costs 360B:1340-1355
- review and consultation with First Nations 360B:1335
- Canadian National Railway Company (CN Rail), response to railway blockades 305B:1040
- Clean Energy Amendment Act, 2020 (Bill 17), introduction of bill 360B:1335
- Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd., pipeline project, government position and decision 320B:1355-1405
- Coho, ferry operations 359B:1100
- Consumers, cost of living, government action 359B:1055-1100, 359B:1135
- COVID-19 business impact and supports 326B:1405, 328B:1405, 328B:1420, 328B:1430, 359B:1045-1140
- COVID-19, cases, second wave issues 357B:1045
- COVID-19 economic recovery
- COVID-19 education system impact and reopening 357B:1050-1100
- COVID-19 employee impact and supports
- COVID-19 housing impact and supportive housing
- COVID-19 impact and government response
- COVID-19 long-term and residential care impact and supports, impact and government response 359B:1015
- COVID-19 mental health and addiction impact and supports, mental health services 357B:1045
- COVID-19 tourism impact and supports 359B:1100-1120
- Cullen, Nathan, role re engagement with Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs 348B:1410
- Dodd, Gordy, philanthropy 360B:1530
- Donaldson, Doug, comments and actions re Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs 304B:1405
- Education funding, independent distributed learning 360B:1425-1435
- Education, independent distributed learning 360B:1420-1505
- Employment and unemployment rate 359B:1020-1040, 359B:1055-1100
- Energy
- First Nations and Indigenous persons
- First Nations Leadership Council, work with government on Indigenous rights legislation 317B:1040
- Forests and forest industry
- forest-dependent communities, transition support and funding 307B:1055
- softwood lumber trade with U.S. and negotiations for agreement 307B:1050-1055
- Foundry, facilities and services 360B:1610
- Government ministries, protests supporting Hereditary Chiefs, impact and response 304B:1425
- Health care system, pain management and opioid use, prescription opioid monitoring program 360B:1600-1605
- Henry, Bonnie, role in COVID-19 response 359B:1015, 360B:1405
- Homelessness, government action 360B:1525-1550
- Information and communications technology, high-speed Internet service, role in remote learning 360B:1405
- Introductions by members 307B:1010, 310B:1010, 331B:1335, 331B:1345-1350, 344B:1005, 354B:1005
- Judas, Walt, comments on COVID-19 response for tourism 359B:1115
- Labour Ministry, letters to Minister from business community 328B:1420-1425, 329B:1045, 331B:1415-1420, 344B:1025
- Lau, Gord, comments on education system reopening 360B:1420
- Legislature, appointment of select standing committees 303B:1450
- Lindsay, Don, comments on mine project 313B:1405-1410
- LNG Canada facility project
- McDonell, Paul, public service and contributions to Burnaby 339B:1005
- MLAs, cooperation 359B:1015
- Mental health and addiction, government strategy 360B:1525-1530
- Mines and mining industry, government support 313B:1405-1410
- Ministerial statements
- Motions
- appointment of select standing committees 303B:1450
- Oil and gas industry, government support 313B:1405-1410
- Oral questions (response)
- Parliament Buildings, protest in precinct supporting Hereditary Chiefs 304B:1400, 317B:1030-1035, 324B:1110
- Pharmaceutical industry, government lawsuit re prescription opioids 360B:1555-1600
- Points of order
- referring to members by joke names, debate 331B:1450
- Police handling of cases involving mentally ill and addicted persons 360B:1525
- Port of Prince Rupert, economic impact of protests on operations 305B:1050
- Port of Vancouver, economic impacts of protests on ports and workers 313B:1410
- Ports, economic impacts of protests on ports and workers 313B:1410-1415
- Premier's Office
- Railways and rail services, blockades of railways and response 305B:1040
- Rankin, Murray, role re engagement with Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs 348B:1410
- Reforming the Police Act Special Committee, appointment 360B:1525
- Saskatchewan, COVID-19 response 359B:1050
- Singh, Jagmeet, comments on protests supporting Hereditary Chiefs 304B:1400
- Statistics Canada, data on employment 359B:1020, 359B:1035
- Strata property
- insurance cost increases
- insurance, self-insurance model 359B:1145
- tax on insurance premiums, revenues 359B:1150
- Substance use and addiction
- Taxation, competitive tax system 359B:1055, 359B:1130-1135
- Teck Resources Ltd., Frontier mine project, status 313B:1405
- Tourism Industry Association of B.C., proposal for government COVID-19 response 359B:1105, 359B:1115-1120
- Tourism industry, consultation by government 359B:1105-1115
- Transportation infrastructure, government investment and projects 359B:1120-1125
- Tributes
- UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, implementation legislation 360B:1350
- Vancouver Sun, article on education system reopening 360B:1500-1505
- Vancouver, supportive housing sites and issues 360B:1525-1530
- Victoria, supportive housing sites, issues 348B:1355-1400, 360B:1525-1530, 360B:1545
- Wet'suwet'en First Nation, rights and title, agreement with government 320B:1355-1400
- Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs, protests supporting Chiefs, impact and response 304B:1400-1405, 304B:1425, 305B:1035-1040, 305B:1050-1055, 313B:1410-1415, 317B:1030-1035, 320B:1355-1405, 324B:1110
- Wilkinson, Andrew, comments on education system reopening 360B:1425, 360B:1440
- Workers Compensation Act, purpose 344B:1025
- Workers compensation system
Hunt, Marvin (Surrey-Cloverdale)
- Air India, bombing of flight 182 and deaths 329B:1025
- Automobiles
- driver's licences
- driving prohibitions, revocation and termination 340B:1750
- B.C. Ferry Commissioner, role 2CSC:1650-1655
- B.C. Ferry Services Inc.
- B.C. Infrastructure Benefits, operations and ministry responsible 6CSC:1355
- City Dream Centre Society, services during COVID-19 327B:1010
- Cloverdale Community Kitchen, services during COVID-19 327B:1015
- Consumers, cost of living, government action 319B:1035
- COVID-19 economic recovery 327B:1025, 352B:1100-1105
- COVID-19 employee impact and supports, wages and wage subsidy program 2CSC:1640
- COVID-19 impact
- COVID-19 mental health and addiction impact and supports, opioid overdoses and services 327B:1015
- Cycling, lights and reflectors, regulation 340B:1755
- Dominic Lake Road, upgrade 6CSC:1355
- Ferries and ferry services
- First Call B.C. Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition, studies on poverty 319B:1040
- Food and food services industry, food services for low-income persons during COVID-19 327B:1010-1015
- Fraser Valley, food bank services during COVID-19 327B:1015
- Highways and roads, roadwork, impact trailers at worksites 6CSC:1355
- Introductions by members 338B:1335
- Justice system
- Kirby-Yung, Sarah, comments on property tax assessment increases and tax relief proposal 318B:1545
- Labour, community benefits agreement
- Local government
- Lower Mainland, police services, impact of Surrey transition to municipal force 18CSC:1520
- MLAs, experiences as local government officials 318B:1520
- Ministerial statements (response)
- Motions
- Motor Vehicle Act
- Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 2020 (Bill 2), debate 322B:1350-1355, 340B:1705-1805
- Municipal Affairs and Housing Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 (Bill 10), debate 318B:1515-1545
- NightShift Street Ministries, services during COVID-19 327B:1015
- North Vancouver, mayor's comments on property tax assessment increases and tax relief proposal 318B:1540
- Oral questions
- Our Global Village Charitable Foundation, services during COVID-19 327B:1015
- Passenger Transportation Board
- Poverty
- Prayers and reflections 346B:1335
- Private members' statements
- Private members' statements (response)
- Property tax
- assessment of property
- interim business property tax relief program 318B:1535-1545
- Public Safety and Solicitor General Ministry, estimates debate 18CSC:1505-1525
- Ride-sharing and ride-hailing
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Saw, Sharon, comments on strata insurance cost increases 321B:1100
- Sikh community, COVID-19 response and community services 327B:1015
- Social equity and economic opportunity 352B:1100-1105
- Strata property, insurance cost increases, impact and response 314B:1045-1050, 321B:1055-1100, 333B:1415-1420
- Sullivan, Leslie, comments on strata insurance cost increases 321B:1055
- Surrey
- COVID-19 impact and economic recovery 327B:1025
- COVID-19 response by community organizations 327B:1010-1015
- police services transition to municipal force
- Surrey Urban Mission Society, role 327B:1015
- Taxi industry
- Traffic safety, improvements 322B:1350
- Transit services
- long-distance services between cities and regions 3CSC:1000-1010
- services for northern communities, B.C. Bus North service 3CSC:0950
- Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry
- Transportation, new forms of transportation, regulation 322B:1355
- Trucking industry
- container trucking industry, regulation and commissioner 6CSC:1400
- driver licensing and training 340B:1720-1735
- safety regulations, compliance and enforcement 6CSC:1400
- Union of B.C. Municipalities
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