First Session, 42nd Parliament – 2020-21
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; cl. - clause; 1R - First reading;
2R - Second reading; C - Committee stage; 3R - Third reading; RA - Royal Assent
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Davies, Dan (Peace River North)
- As subject
- constituents, staff and family thanked 7B:1625
- experience with children and family budgeting 30B:1645
- message of thanks and condolences re COVID-19 7B:1650
- Bath, Gary, assistance with drive to Alaska 24B:1015
- B.C. by region, northern B.C., community programs 33B:1335-1340
- B.C. NDP government, budget process and government spending 7B:1630-1645, 30B:1640-1655
- B.C. recovery benefit 7B:1630-1635, 7B:1645-1650, 12B:1615, 15B:1125
- Budget, 2020-21 supplementary estimates debate, other appropriations and contingencies (all ministries), coronavirus pandemic response and economic recovery 12B:1610-1615
- Budgets
- Communities, community organizations in small communities 33B:1340
- Community Living B.C.
- COVID-19 business impact and supports 30B:1650
- COVID-19 disability and income assistance recipients impact and supports 5B:1410-1415, 8B:1120, 9B:1355-1400, 10B:1030, 13B:1025-1030, 15B:1125, 30B:1425, 31B:1020
- COVID-19 employee impact and supports, front-line workers response and services 19B:1355
- COVID-19 impact and government response 7B:1630-1650, 8B:1115-1120, 15B:1120-1125, 30B:1640-1655
- Elections, 2020 general election
- Ellis, Viveca, comments on disability assistance 10B:1030
- Employment services, funding 39B:1640
- Finance Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 (Bill 3), debate 7B:1625-1650
- Government
- accountability and transparency 7B:1635-1640
- financial reporting, quarterly reports and release timeline 7B:1640
- Grey, Kier, comments on disability assistance 10B:1030
- Home Owner Grant Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 6), debate 19B:1505-1510
- Homeowner grant, administration
- Horgan, John, comments on disability assistance 13B:1030
- Income assistance
- Information and communications technology, high-speed Internet service for remote and rural communities, connectivity issues 19B:1505
- Introductions by members 6B:1005, 30B:1335
- Lamb, Danni, comments on disability assistance 9B:1400
- Marchessault family, assistance with drive to Alaska 24B:1015
- Motions
- Non-profit sector, impact of government budget process change 30B:1655
- Northern Environmental Action Team, programs and work of organization 33B:1335-1340
- Oral questions
- Prayers and reflections 10B:1000
- Richards, Michael, disability assistance case 5B:1415
- Salvation Army
- Fort St. John operations, role and services 3B:1030
- work of organization 3B:1030
- School districts, impact of government budget process change 7B:1640
- Smith, Jewelles, comments on disability assistance 13B:1025
- Social Development and Poverty Reduction Ministry, budget 39B:1625-1635
- Social workers, role during COVID-19 19B:1350-1355
- Statements by members
- Supply Act (No. 1), 2021 (Bill 10), debate 30B:1640-1700, 39B:1625-1640
de Jong, Michael (Abbotsford West)
- As subject
- Abbotsford, courthouse and registry 33B:1705
- Aboriginal Affairs Committee, 1996 public consultation process on draft Nisga'a treaty 33B:1400-1405
- Agricultural Land Commission
- decision-making criteria and mandate 34B:1045
- decisions on non-farm use, addiction treatment facility 34B:1045-1050
- Alaska, congressional delegation letter to B.C. government on cruise ship issue 38B:1040
- Attorney General Ministry, minister, powers and role 33B:1650-1700
- B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives, board governance 26B:1430
- B.C. NDP government
- Budget Transparency and Accountability Act, amendments 5B:1715
- Budgets
- Canadian Bar Association, consultation on appeal court legislation 33B:1740
- Carrier-Sekani Family Services, addiction treatment facility project 34B:1045-1050
- Child Care BC Act, amendments 26B:1425
- Child care grants, definition in legislation 26B:1425
- Court of Appeal Act (Bill 11)
- Court of Appeal for B.C.
- COVID-19 business impact and supports 5B:1715-1720, 5B:1735, 16B:1420-1425
- COVID-19 economic recovery, funding 27B:1055-1100
- COVID-19 impact and government response
- COVID-19 long-term and residential care impact and supports, rapid-testing program 10B:1040-1045
- COVID-19, testing, rapid tests and use 10B:1040-1045
- COVID-19 vaccination plan 5B:1420
- Cruise ship industry, U.S. proposal to bypass B.C. ports 38B:1040
- de Jong, Jack, experience in seniors care facility during COVID-19 10B:1040
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, purpose and application 11B:1445-1540
- Democracy, parliamentary democracy, three branches of governance 32B:1335
- Eby, David
- position on Law Society initiative on paralegals 33B:1615
- position on public access to court proceedings 33B:1755, 33B:1805
- Economic Forecast Council, meeting with Finance Minister 11B:1535-1545
- Elections, 2020 general election, timing 5B:1730
- Finance Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 (Bill 3)
- First Nations and Indigenous persons, programs and services, impact of government budget process change 11B:1400-1420
- First Nations Leadership Council, impact of government budget process change 11B:1410-1415
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, amendments 26B:1425-1430
- Government
- Health authorities, impact of government budget process change 11B:1355
- Health Committee, activation 5B:1420-1425
- Homeowner grant, centralization 5B:1715
- Hospital Act, section on nurses and midwives, amendment 26B:1430
- Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Ministry, budget process, impact of government budget process change 11B:1400-1410
- Justice system
- Law Society of B.C.
- consultation on appeal court legislation 33B:1455
- initiative on paralegals and family law 33B:1615
- Lawyers and legal services
- Legislation
- Legislative counsel, role 24B:1055
- Legislature, chamber, use of technology 5B:1715
- MLAs, role 37B:1445-1450
- Miller, Dan, work as MLA 37B:1500
- Ministerial statements (response)
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 2006, provisions 26B:1440
- Miscellaneous Statutes (Minor Corrections) Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 12)
- Mission, restaurant, COVID-19 impact 5B:1735
- Murkowski, Lisa, U.S. senator's role in cruise ship legislation 38B:1040
- Offence Act, disapplication provisions in legislation 33B:1620
- Oral questions
- Activation of Health Committee 5B:1420-1425
- Budget process and government spending 27B:1050-1100
- Budget process changes 13B:1035-1040
- COVID-19 rapid testing program for long-term-care facilities 10B:1040-1045
- COVID-19 response for small businesses 16B:1420-1425
- COVID-19 vaccination plan approach and priorities 20B:1050-1055
- COVID-19 vaccine booking system and Telus contract 26B:1415
- Impact of proposed U.S. legislation on cruise ship industry 38B:1040
- Opioid crisis and Carrier-Sekani addiction treatment facility 34B:1045-1050
- Wages for community social services workers 41B:1040
- Prince George, court services 33B:1640
- Robinson, Selina, meeting with Economic Forecast Council 11B:1535-1545
- School districts, impact of government budget process change 11B:1345-1355
- Smith, Stephanie, comments on COVID-19 vaccination plan 20B:1050
- Social workers, community social services workers, wages and union differential 41B:1040
- Special warrants, use 5B:1715, 5B:1725
- Spectrum Society for Community Living, comments on community social services worker wages 41B:1040
- Substance use and addiction, facilities, government support 34B:1045-1050
- Supply Act (No. 1), 2021 (Bill 10), debate 37B:1440-1510
- Supreme Court of B.C., registries 33B:1705
- Telus Communications Inc., government contract for call centre services 26B:1415
- Trial Lawyers Association, consultation on appeal court legislation 33B:1455
- UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, implementation legislation, application 11B:1445-1540, 33B:1500-1510, 33B:1540
- Waddell, Ian, life and public service as MP and MLA 33B:1355-1405
Dean, Hon. Mitzi (Esquimalt-Metchosin)
- As subject
- experience in community social services and domestic violence prevention 21B:1700
- experience in community social services and gang involvement prevention 21B:1645-1655
- staff thanked 17B:1100
- Child care
- Child protection system
- children in government care
- reform 17B:1110
- Children and Family Development Ministry
- Children and youth
- children with support needs
- youth at risk, youth agreements 17B:1105
- COVID-19 child care impact and supports 17B:1115
- COVID-19 children and youth impact and supports 17B:1105-1115
- COVID-19 impact and government response 17B:1100-1115
- COVID-19 vaccination plan 17B:1100-1105
- Esquimalt-Metchosin constituency and area, policing and gun violence prevention 21B:1645-1650, 21B:1700
- Firearm Violence Prevention Act (Bill 4)
- First Nations and Indigenous persons, child protection system 41B:1050
- Gangs
- Golden, Mia, work on youth gang involvement prevention 21B:1650
- Oral questions (response)
- COVID-19 impact on services for special needs children and youth and report recommendations 5B:1355-1405, 13B:1040
- COVID-19 response for special needs children and youth 41B:1045
- Government response to deaths of youth in care 41B:1045-1050
- Pacific Centre Family Services Association, youth gang prevention program 21B:1645-1655
- Representative for Children and Youth, reports, services for special needs children and youth during COVID-19 5B:1355, 5B:1405, 13B:1040, 41B:1045
- Throne speech debate 17B:1100-1115
- Violence against women, prevention 21B:1655-1700
D'Eith, Bob (Maple Ridge–Mission)
- Agriculture, farmers markets 36B:1025-1030
- Arts and culture
- music industry, Amplify B.C. fund and COVID-19 response 15B:1110, 38B:1010
- performing arts, live-streaming of performances 38B:1010
- B.C. Arts Council
- B.C. Liberal Party, performance as government 35B:1605
- B.C. NDP government, priorities 35B:1605
- Budgets
- 2021-22 budget, interim supply timeline and calculation 35B:1605-1630
- budget process, additional time and date change 35B:1610
- COVID-19 business impact and supports 35B:1610
- COVID-19 employee impact and supports, Canada emergency response benefit 35B:1616
- COVID-19 housing impact and supports, rental housing 18B:1700
- COVID-19 impact and government response 15B:1105-1110, 35B:1605-1630
- COVID-19 public health measures 15B:1105-1110
- Creative B.C.
- COVID-19 response funding 35B:1620
- funding and role in COVID-19 response 38B:1010
- The Cultch, operations during COVID-19 38B:1010
- Early Music Vancouver, COVID-19 relief funding 35B:1620-1625
- Economic Forecast Council, forecasting 35B:1605
- Economy, conditions 35B:1605-1610
- Film industry, operations during COVID-19 15B:1110
- Healthy lifestyle and physical fitness, healthy eating, farmers market nutrition and coupon project 36B:1030
- Housing
- affordable housing
- social and subsidized housing, construction of new units 18B:1655-1700
- Introductions by members 23B:1330
- LandlordBC, position on tenancy statutes legislation 18B:1705
- LeBlanc, Suzie, comments on COVID-19 relief funding for arts 35B:1620-1625
- Legislature, hybrid and virtual proceedings 18B:1655
- Manufactured home parks, regulation 18B:1710
- Maple Ridge, mental health services, assertive community treatment team 35B:1630
- Maple Ridge–Mission constituency and area
- agriculture and farmers markets 36B:1025-1030
- business award recipients 20B:1010
- community organizations and services during holiday season 5B:1350
- rental housing tenants and issues 18B:1705
- Mental health, programs and services, assertive community treatment 35B:1630
- Mission, housing projects 18B:1700
- Motions
- Parliamentary Secretary for Art and Film, role 35B:1620
- Pitt Meadows, business award recipients 20B:1010
- Prince Rupert, COVID-19 vaccination plan implementation 35B:1605
- Private members' statements (response)
- Rental housing
- Sakaki, Claire, comments on COVID-19 response for arts 15B:1110
- Speculation and vacancy tax, impact on rental housing supply 18B:1655
- Statements by members
- Chamber of commerce business award recipients in Maple Ridge, Mission and Pitt Meadows 20B:1010
- Community services in Maple Ridge-Mission during holiday season 5B:1350
- Resilience of arts sector 38B:1010
- Supply Act (No. 1), 2021 (Bill 10), debate 35B:1605-1630
- Tenancy Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 7), debate 18B:1655-1710
- Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, comments and position on tenancy statutes legislation 18B:1705
- Waters, Fran, comments on COVID-19 relief funding for arts 35B:1620-1625
Dix, Hon. Adrian (Vancouver-Kingsway)
- As subject
- role in COVID-19 response (Brar) 9B:1755
- Alberta, health care services, use by B.C. residents 40B:1405-1410
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 education system impact and reopening, safety plans and impact on teachers 37B:1405
- COVID-19 First Nations concerns and response 16B:1415
- COVID-19 impact and government response 26B:1410
- COVID-19 long-term and residential care impact and supports
- COVID-19 vaccination
- vaccination plan 3B:1040, 5B:1420-1425, 10B:1035-1040, 37B:1405
- approach and priorities 16B:1405-1410, 17B:1035-1040, 19B:1405-1410, 20B:1025-1035, 20B:1045-1055
- essential workers 16B:1405-1410
- health care workers 20B:1035
- implementation 27B:1035-1040, 31B:1025, 41B:1025
- role of pharmacists and pharmacies 31B:1025
- seniors 26B:1355, 26B:1405-1410
- seniors and staff in long-term-care facilities 16B:1405, 27B:1035-1040, 37B:1350-1355
- seniors and staff in long-term-care facilities, delay in second dose 20B:1025-1035
- vaccine supply and distribution 41B:1025
- vaccine booking system
- vaccines 19B:1410
- Discrimination and racism, racism against Indigenous persons in health care system, investigation 17B:1040
- Helmcken, Gail, experience with COVID-19 vaccine booking system 24B:1025
- Henry, Bonnie, comments on COVID-19 rapid testing 3B:1035, 3B:1045
- Kootenay area, East Kootenays, access to health care services 40B:1405-1410
- Oral questions (response)
- Prescription drugs, safety, government initiatives 17B:1045-1050
- Substance use and addiction
- opioid overdoses, deaths and response 17B:1045-1050
- safe supply, alternative medications and prescribing process 17B:1045
- Telus Communications Inc., government contract for call centre services 24B:1020-1035, 24B:1045-1050, 26B:1355, 26B:1405-1415
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, COVID-19 vaccine booking system 24B:1020-1035, 26B:1355
Doerkson, Lorne (Cariboo-Chilcotin)
- As subject
- constituents, family, staff and supporters thanked 4B:1615
- experience as MLA 9B:1445
- role as Rural Development critic 4B:1620-1625
- Barnett, Donna, public service in Cariboo-Chilcotin area and on rural issues 4B:1615-1620
- B.C. by region, rural B.C.
- B.C. Liberal Party, performance as government, budgets 31B:1135
- B.C. NDP government, budget process and government spending 31B:1135-1145
- B.C. recovery benefit 4B:1620-1625, 9B:1450-1500, 19B:1535
- Budgets
- Call, Earl and Roy Call, COVID-19 impact on business 15B:1145
- Cariboo North constituency and area, Westcoast Road, safety upgrade 31B:1145
- Cariboo-Chilcotin constituency and area
- COVID-19 business impact and supports 9B:1455, 15B:1145, 31B:1140
- COVID-19 economic recovery, plan 4B:1625
- COVID-19 employee impact and supports, front-line workers
- COVID-19 housing impact and supports
- rental housing and landlords 18B:1425
- temporary housing and shelters 6B:1055
- COVID-19 impact and government response 4B:1620-1625, 9B:1445-1500, 15B:1145, 31B:1145
- COVID-19 impact, community response 6B:1015, 26B:1340
- COVID-19, testing, rapid tests and use 4B:1625
- COVID-19 tourism impact and supports, tourism attractions and community events 19B:1415, 31B:1040
- Elections, 2020 general election, timing 4B:1620-1625, 9B:1500
- Finance Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 (Bill 3), debate 9B:1445-1500
- First speeches by members 4B:1615-1625
- Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Ministry, Rural Development component, opposition critic role and issues 4B:1620-1625
- Gustafson, Kurt, death 14B:1330
- Highways and roads, maintenance and rehabilitation, culverts 31B:1145
- Home Owner Grant Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 6), debate 19B:1530-1535
- Homeowner grant, administration
- Information and communications technology, high-speed Internet service for remote and rural communities, connectivity issues 19B:1535
- Legislation for 1st session of 42nd parliament 4B:1625
- Legislature, language used in House, withdrawal of comments 31B:1135
- McLennan, Bette, house flooding case 31B:1145
- Motions
- Government response to COVID-19 15B:1145
- Nurses, supply 4B:1620
- Oral questions
- Access to shelters by vulnerable people during COVID-19 6B:1055
- COVID-19 response for tourism attractions and arts and event organizations 31B:1040
- COVID-19 response for tourism attractions and community events 19B:1415
- Physicians, supply 4B:1620
- Prayers and reflections 40B:1330
- RCMP, police services commended 16B:1350
- Rental housing
- Rodeos, COVID-19 impact and relief funding 15B:1145
- Rural Economic Development Minister of State, former position 4B:1620
- Special warrants, use 9B:1455
- Sports and recreation, girls hockey 40B:1340
- Statements by members
- Cariboo-Chilcotin community response to COVID-19 6B:1015, 26B:1340
- Front-line workers and RCMP in Cariboo-Chilcotin area 16B:1350
- Girls hockey program in Williams Lake 40B:1340
- Supply Act (No. 1), 2021 (Bill 10), debate 31B:1135-1145
- Tenancy Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 7)
- Throne speech debate 4B:1615-1625
- Tributes
- Williams Lake
- Gibbons Road, culvert and flooding cases in area 31B:1145
- girls hockey program and players 40B:1340
- housing, access to shelters by vulnerable persons 6B:1055
- Williams Lake Stampede, COVID-19 impact 19B:1415
Donnelly, Fin (Coquitlam–Burke Mountain)
- As subject
- COVID-19 impact 19B:1345
- First speeches by members 19B:1340-1345
- Fish
- Introductions by members 41B:1005
- Oceans and marine environment, coastal marine strategy 37B:1335
- Statements by members
- Watersheds, protection 37B:1335
Dykeman, Megan (Langley East)
- As subject
- Agriculture
- B.C. Liberal Party, performance as government, interim supply legislation 30B:1545
- Budgets
- 2021-22 budget
- budget process, additional time and date change 30B:1545-1555
- Construction industry, residential construction industry, housing starts 18B:1720
- COVID-19 business impact and supports 30B:1555
- COVID-19 housing impact and supports, rental housing 18B:1710-1715
- COVID-19 impact and government response 4B:1715, 30B:1545-1555
- COVID-19 impact, women 22B:1120
- Elections, advertising, role of social media 21B:1350
- First speeches by members 4B:1710-1715
- Food security 29B:1045-1100
- Housing, affordable housing, government action 18B:1715-1720
- International Women's Day 22B:1120-1125
- Introductions by members 12B:1340, 24B:1005
- Ishtar Women's Resource Society, role and services 24B:1010-1015
- Langley East constituency and area
- Langley School District Foundation, meal programs during COVID-19 9B:1345-1350
- Local Elections Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 9), debate 21B:1345-1355
- Local government elections, campaign financing, reform and regulation 21B:1345-1355
- Metro Vancouver, incidence of food insecurity 29B:1050-1055
- Motions
- Politics and politicians, political participation by youth 21B:1355
- Prayers and reflections 31B:1000
- Private members' statements
- Rental housing, protections for tenants 18B:1710-1720
- Schoepp, Brenda, comments on food security 29B:1045
- School district 35 (Langley), meal programs 9B:1345-1350
- Sexual assault prevention and services 22B:1120-1125
- Statements by members
- Statistics Canada, information on food insecurity 29B:1050
- Supply Act (No. 1), 2021 (Bill 10), debate 30B:1540-1555
- Tenancy Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 7), debate 18B:1710-1720
- Throne speech debate 4B:1710-1715
- Violence
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