Third Session, 42nd Parliament – 2022
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
MEMBERS INDEX (DRAFT)
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
Index updated regularly during session.
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Ma, Hon. Bowinn (North Vancouver–Lonsdale)
- As subject
- Automobiles
- Bird, Madelene Vail, life and contributions 176B:1455
- B.C. Transportation Financing Authority
- Communities
- Derro, Mindy, contributions and death 208B:1350
- Health Professions and Occupations Act (Bill 36)
- Hills-Platt, Teresa (Terry), contributions to B.C. NDP and death 208B:1350-1355
- Introductions by members 156B:1005-1010, 190B:1335, 194B:1340, 197B:1340, 205B:1010, 209B:1105, 211B:1345, 222B:1340, 229B:1340, 246B:1340
- Low Carbon Fuels Act (Bill 15)
- Passenger Transportation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 13)
- Passenger transportation industry
- temporary operating permits, purpose 176B:1825
- Prayers and reflections 143B:1330, 169B:1330, 251B:1000
- Privilege
- reserving right to raise matter of privilege 199B:1525
- Ride-hail services
- Taxi industry
- Transportation
- Transportation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 16)
- Tributes
- Walker, Jarrett, comments on transportation in book Human Transit 190B:1520-1525
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 5)
Malcolmson, Hon. Sheila (Nanaimo)
- COVID-19 impact
- COVID-19 mental health and addiction impact and supports
- Directions Youth Services
- Foundry
- Health authorities
- decision-making re mental health and addiction funding allocation 244B:1035
- Health care system
- primary health care
- team-based care and inclusion of psychologists 181B:1040
- Health Committee
- report for third session of 42nd parliament
- terms of reference and timeline 170B:1050
- Housing
- Introductions by members 167B:1005-1010, 184B:1015, 194B:1335, 197B:1340, 208B:1335, 212B:1025, 225B:1350, 230B:1010, 247B:1010, 253B:1340
- Kelowna
- community safety issues and complex-care facility project 184B:1055
- Mental health
- beds 244B:1055
- government initiatives and priorities 246B:1415-1420
- mental health and addiction
- mental health of children and youth
- programs and services
- rights advice service for involuntary patients 197B:1455-1500
- Mental Health
- mental health and addiction
- Mental Health Act
- Mental Health Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
- Mental Health and Addictions Ministry
- Occupational health and safety
- Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 34)
- Oral questions (response)
- Prayers and reflections 170B:1005, 207B:1000, 212B:1000, 253B:1330
- Red Fish Healing Centre
- for mental health and addictions services 197B:1455
- Safety
- Substance use and addiction
- decriminalization 169B:1425-1430
- illegal and toxic drugs
- overdoses
- safe supply 163B:1050
- treatment and recovery services
- youth substance use and addiction
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
- funding for mental health crisis response programs 246B:1410
- mental health and addiction services for youth 180B:1355-1400
- Yang, Shaelyn
- service as police officer and death 244B:1025
Mark, Hon. Melanie (Vancouver–Mount Pleasant)
- As subject
- mother's experience with homelessness 166A:1535
- Arts and culture
- Asian Canadians
- B.C. Arts Council
- B.C. Liberal Party
- performance as government
- B.C. NDP government
- B.C. Resort Municipality Initiative
- Chinese Canadian Museum
- Chinese Canadians
- COVID-19 business impact and supports
- COVID-19 economic recovery
- COVID-19 impact and government response
- COVID-19 tourism impact and supports
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
- Destination B.C.
- Infrastructure
- Introductions by members 208B:1335, 208B:1340
- Jewish Community Centre
- Kingsley, Cherry
- life and advocacy for sexually exploited children and youth 149B:1330-1335
- Legislature
- question period, questions on tourism issues 209B:1055
- Municipal and regional district tax program
- Museums
- Nursey, Paul
- Oral questions (response)
- Royal B.C. Museum
- administration, treatment of Indigenous persons 209B:1045
- collections and research facility project in Colwood 166A:1755, 168A:1355-1405
- modernization and protection of collection 209B:1025, 209B:1035-1050, 215B:1410-1415
- modernization initiative and plan 166A:1455, 166A:1720-1810, 168A:1405-1415
- relationship with Indigenous communities and handling of Indigenous artifacts 166A:1720-1735, 166A:1800-1805, 168A:1340-1415, 209B:1045-1050
- repatriation program 166A:1735, 168A:1340-1415
- replacement project
- replacement project and business plan 209B:1025-1035, 209B:1055, 215B:1415
- seismic upgrade 166A:1730, 166A:1755
- third floor and First Peoples and Becoming B.C. exhibits 168A:1410
- third floor and Old Town exhibit 166A:1720-1740, 166A:1755
- Sexual exploitation
- Skilled Trades BC Act (Bill 4)
- Sport B.C.
- Sports and recreation
- Tourism
- Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport Ministry
- Tributes
- Vancouver
- Victoria
- Williams, Angela
Mercier, Andrew (Langley)
- As subject
- B.C. Liberal Party
- performance as government
- B.C. NDP government
- Brookswood Secondary School
- Child care
- CleanBC plan
- Communities
- Consumers
- COVID-19 housing impact and supports
- Employment and unemployment
- Forests and forest industry
- mill explosions in 2012, worker deaths and injuries 191B:1010
- Introductions by members 152B:1300, 173B:1340, 174B:1000-1005, 195B:1005, 201B:1340, 208B:1335, 229B:1335, 232B:1340, 236B:1330, 250B:1340
- Kelowna
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 10)
- Langley
- Langley Community Services Society
- Lanyon, Stan
- Liquefied natural gas development
- Mortgage Services Act (Bill 29)
- Motions
- National Day of Mourning
- observance of day of mourning for workers killed or injured on the job 191B:1010-1015
- Occupational health and safety
- workers killed or injured on the job 191B:1010-1015
- workplace health and safety
- Rental housing
- Royal B.C. Museum
- modernization and protection of collection 214B:1150
- replacement project
- Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps
- Skilled Trades BC Act (Bill 4)
- Skills training
- SkyTrain
- expansion project for Surrey and Langley, transit stations and land use 190B:1530-1535
- Statements by members
- Transportation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 16)
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022 (Bill 41)
Merrifield, Renee (Kelowna-Mission)
- As subject
- Abbotsford
- flooding, Sumas Prairie flooding and recovery 152B:1715
- Arkle, Nick
- Arts and culture
- Attorney General Ministry and Minister Responsible for Housing
- Automobiles
- Blenk, Gerhard
- Bond, Shirley
- B.C.
- B.C. Liberal Party
- performance as government
- B.C. NDP government
- Budget debate 159B:1430-1500
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2022 (Bill 6)
- Budgets
- Bullying and harassment
- Business
- government support 179B:1145
- taxation
- women in business
- government support for women business owners and entrepreneurs 165B:1150-1155
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Cancer
- diagnostic and treatment services
- incidence and case severity 237B:1055
- Carbon tax
- Caregivers
- Child care
- Children and youth
- children with support needs
- children with support needs, service model change
- hub centres and request for proposal 205B:1050
- Clark, Christy, impact and leadership 242B:1030
- CleanBC plan
- Climate change
- Collins, Justin
- Consumers
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 business impact and supports
- COVID-19 children and youth impact and supports
- mental health of children and youth 153B:1055
- mental health services and supports 193B:1110
- COVID-19 economic recovery
- COVID-19 impact
- COVID-19 impact and government response
- Crime and criminals
- Dickinson, Emily
- Discrimination and racism
- Earth Day
- Economy
- Education and Child Care Ministry
- Emergencies
- emergency preparedness and response
- government response to floods, landslides, heatwaves and wildfires 152B:1710-1715
- Employment and unemployment
- Enactus Okanagan College
- national competition win for apple waste recovery project 226B:1020-1025
- Environment
- Environment and Climate Change Strategy Ministry
- Environmental Management Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
- Eppler, Jeffrey
- Equal Pay Reporting Act (Bill M202)
- Famous Five
- Fires and firefighters
- Floods and floodplains
- Food and food industry
- Forests Ministry
- Fuel
- The Globe and Mail
- article on cancer care waiting times 249B:1035
- Gorman Bros. Lumber Ltd.
- Government
- accountability and transparency 171B:1450
- ministers
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- emissions from sectors, forest fires 152B:1715
- Health care facilities and hospitals
- Health care professionals and workers, staffing shortages 153B:1105
- Health care system
- costs and spending 201B:1420
- government action on issues 153B:1100-1105, 194B:1425, 201B:1420, 214B:1135, 218B:1440-1445
- government action on issues and role of Health Minister 237B:1055, 247B:1050
- primary health care, attachment to primary care provider 212B:1105-1110
- surgical services, orthopedic surgeries 153B:1105, 204A:1625-1635
- surgical services, private surgical clinics and sites 204A:1625-1635
- wait-lists and waiting times, surgery wait-lists and waiting times 204A:1625
- Health Ministry
- Health Professions and Occupations Act (Bill 36)
- Heatwaves
- heatwave deaths and government response 152B:1715
- High Rim Trail
- Home ownership
- young homebuyers, affordability and cost increases 193B:1110
- Housing
- affordable housing 152B:1720
- supportive housing
- Housing Supply Act (Bill 43)
- Immaculata Regional High School
- Interior Health Authority
- International Women's Day
- Introductions by members 155B:1330-1335, 174B:1010, 177B:1015, 185B:1500, 197B:1330, 209B:1005, 232B:1335, 251B:1010, 253B:1340
- Justice system
- bail system and release from custody 228B:1110-1115
- handling of cases involving repeat offenders
- Kelowna
- Kelowna Chamber of Commerce
- business excellence awards recipients 198B:1015
- Kelowna-Mission constituency and area
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 10)
- Liquefied natural gas development
- Livestock industry
- McAnerney, Dave
- McDonald, Sara
- Mamas for Mamas
- charitable organization, produce-growing initiative in Kelowna 202B:1010-1025
- Members of the Legislative Assembly
- Mental health
- mental health and addiction
- Mental Health and Addictions Ministry
- Motions
- Municipal Affairs Statutes (Property Taxation) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
- Nurses
- Okanagan area
- Okanagan College
- school of business, team accomplishments in international case competition 174B:1015
- Okanagan Housing Awards of Excellence
- Oral questions
- Access to cancer care services 247B:1050
- Access to family physicians and government funding priorities 212B:1105-1110
- Action on gas prices 167B:1035-1040
- Administrative costs and issues in health care system 237B:1055
- Child care fees and subsidies for child care providers 173B:1420-1425, 177B:1100
- Child care spaces and wait-lists 197B:1425
- Crime in communities and handling of cases by justice system 176B:1545, 181B:1040, 188B:1045
- Crime in Kelowna and handling of cases by justice system 225B:1435
- Government action on issues in health care system 218B:1440-1445
- Government action on repeat offenders and directive to Crown counsel 232B:1420-1425
- Hospital staffing and support for health care workers 194B:1425
- Nurses' concerns on conditions at hospitals and government action on issues 201B:1420
- Residential tenancy branch handling of tenant issues 239B:1510-1515
- Service model change for children with support needs and funding for autism services 205B:1050
- Staff concerns on conditions at hospitals and government action on issues 202B:1050
- Supportive housing and services for persons with complex care needs 184B:1055
- Passenger Transportation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022 (Bill 40)
- Persons Day
- Physicians
- Politics and politicians
- Post-secondary education
- Prayers and reflections 151B:1000, 177B:1005, 188B:1000, 200B:1000, 214B:1000, 228B:1000, 247B:1000
- Private members' statements
- Private members' statements (response)
- Property Law Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 12)
- Protected Areas of British Columbia Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
- Ratcliffe, Jennifer
- comments on child care fee reduction initiative process 177B:1100
- Rental housing
- Reproduction
- Residential tenancy branch
- Rogers, Dan
- appointment to Canadian Chamber of Commerce board 233B:1105
- Royal B.C. Museum
- Safety
- Sali, Rhonda
- comments on community service project by students in Kelowna 202B:1015
- Schools
- Scotiabank International Case Competition
- Skilled Trades BC Act (Bill 4)
- Southern Interior Construction Association
- Statements by members
- Bullying awareness and prevention 155B:1345-1350
- Community awards recipients in Kelowna 198B:1015
- Community service by students at Immaculata High School 202B:1010-1015
- Dave McAnerney 246B:1355-1400
- Earth Day and human relationship with earth 187B:1345-1350
- Enactus Okanagan College national competition win 226B:1020-1025
- Okanagan College school of business and international case competition 174B:1015
- Okanagan wine industry 209B:1015
- Persons Day and women's rights 230B:1015
- Small businesses in Kelowna and appointment of Dan Rogers to Canadian Chamber of Commerce board 233B:1100-1105
- Transgender Day of Remembrance 250B:1350
- Women's contributions and leadership in B.C. communities 167B:1025
- Women's History Month and accomplishments by women 223B:1010-1015
- As subject
- family and achievements of grandmother 165B:1150
- Substance use and addiction
- youth substance use and addiction
- Surrey
- Taxation
- Throne speech
- Throne speech debate 152B:1710-1720, 153B:1050-1110
- Todd, Amanda
- Transgender Day of Remembrance
- Transgender, gender-diverse and two-spirit community
- transphobia and violence against transgender persons 250B:1350
- Transit services
- Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry
- Tributes
- UBC
- Okanagan campus (Kelowna), student access to transit services 216A:1135
- Wine and wine industry
- Women
- Women's History Month 223B:1010
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 5)
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022 (Bill 41)
- Worms, Amanda
- child care operations and application for fee reduction initiative 173B:1425
- Zackodnik, Dallas
- experience of violent attack and aftermath 181B:1040
Milobar, Peter (Kamloops–North Thompson)
- Agriculture and Food Ministry
- Alberta
- Alma Blackwell
- Ambulance service
- Attorney General Ministry and Minister Responsible for Housing
- Automobiles
- taxation
- taxation, tax on sale of used vehicles 155B:1400, 155B:1450, 155B:1555, 156B:1030-1035, 169B:1755, 169B:1805, 177B:1040, 183B:1440-1445, 183B:1520-1545, 183B:1610-1615, 193B:1130, 200B:1125, 243B:1345
- zero-emission and clean vehicles
- Backpack Buddies
- fuel costs for charitable food delivery 166B:1405
- Balanced Budget and Ministerial Accountability Act
- Barriere
- ambulance service and infant death case 222B:1440
- Beare, Lisa
- BIG Little Science Centre
- community role and fundraising raffle 194B:1400
- B.C. Chamber of Commerce
- B.C. Housing
- B.C. Institute of Technology
- government investment and new facility 179B:1110
- B.C. Investment Management Corporation
- pension fund investments in Russia and divestment, role of Premier 160B:1050
- B.C. Liberal Party
- performance as government
- B.C. NDP
- B.C. NDP government
- B.C. Teachers Federation
- concerns re service model change for children with support needs 143B:1440
- Budget debate 154B:1410-1435, 155B:1430-1610
- Budget Measures Implementation Act, 2022 (Bill 6)
- Budgets
- Building and Strata Statutes Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 44)
- Burnaby
- mental health crisis response car program proposal and funding 244B:1035
- Business
- chambers of commerce, role 147B:1340
- taxation
- Carbon tax
- Carbon Tax Act
- Chamber of Commerce Week 147B:1340-1345
- Child care
- Children and youth
- children with support needs
- children with support needs, service model change
- CleanBC plan
- Clifford, Troy
- comments on ambulance service issues 222B:1440
- Commercial Liens Act (Bill 11)
- Construction industry
- energy efficient buildings
- Consumers
- cost of living
- cost increases 147B:1350-1355, 154B:1420, 155B:1450, 169B:1750-1755, 169B:1805-1815, 191B:1030, 242B:1100-1105
- government action 147B:1350-1355, 155B:1400, 162B:1410-1415, 173B:1430, 177B:1045, 187B:1405, 191B:1030, 193B:1130, 198B:1035-1045, 202B:1030, 205B:1055, 226B:1040-1050, 242B:1105, 243B:1345, 253B:1350
- COVID-19 business impact and supports
- COVID-19 employee impact and supports
- COVID-19 impact
- COVID-19 public health measures
- lifting of measures and restrictions, communications and role of government 154B:1435
- Crime and criminals
- Directions Youth Services
- Dix, Adrian
- response to issues in health system and call for resignation 222B:1440
- Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital
- Documents tabled
- Public Accounts Committee
- first report for third session of 42nd parliament 216B:1105
- Eby, David
- Economy
- Employment and unemployment
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change Strategy Ministry
- Families
- Finance Ministry
- Financial Administration Act
- Financial services industry
- First Nations and Indigenous persons
- Food banks
- Forests and forest industry
- forestry-dependent communities and workers
- transition support and retirement bridging program 155B:1515
- revenues to government 155B:1515
- Fuel
- gasoline
- motor fuel tax
- taxation and revenues 154B:1420
- Gangs
- gang activity and gun violence, prevention 232B:1440
- Germany
- energy supply
- pipeline operations and LNG projects 160B:1050
- Glenbow Museum
- Gore, Gordon
- founder of science centre in Kamloops 194B:1400
- Government
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Hansard
- Hansard Services
- Health care facilities and hospitals
- Health care professionals and workers
- Health care system
- Health Ministry
- minister, response to issues in health system and call for resignation 222B:1440
- Health Professions and Occupations Act (Bill 36)
- Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association of Canada
- comments on tax on fossil-fuel systems and heat pumps 183B:1500
- Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada
- Highway 5
- Highway 99
- George Massey Tunnel replacement project 155B:1500
- Home ownership
- home ownership in B.C. and "housing despair" concept 197B:1400
- young homebuyers, affordability and cost increases 193B:1130
- Horgan, John
- comments on carbon tax as opposition MLA in 2008 170B:1040
- comments on issues
- Housing
- affordable housing
- supply and new units 154B:1415
- InBC Investment Corp.
- Income Tax Act
- Income Tax Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 35)
- Inflation
- Information and communications technology
- Interest rates
- Introductions by members 143B:1345, 147B:1335, 160B:1010, 174B:1005, 204B:1340, 215B:1340, 225B:1335, 229B:1335, 233B:1005, 234B:1300, 244B:1010, 246B:1335
- Joe, Jamie
- death and prior access to community living supports 219B:1125
- Justice system
- Crown counsel
- handling of cases involving repeat offenders
- handling of criminal cases
- Kamloops
- Kamloops Indian Residential School
- Kamloops NorthPaws baseball team
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 10)
- Legislature
- Liquefied natural gas development
- Lytton
- Mannoe, Meenakshi
- comments on death of RCMP officer Shaelyn Yang 236B:1355
- Meadowood Place
- MLAs
- Mental health
- mental health and addiction
- Mental Health and Addictions Ministry
- Ministerial statements (response)
- Le Estcwicwéỳ memorial event for missing children at Kamloops residential school 212B:1045-1050
- Miscellaneous Statutes (Gas Price Relief) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill M217)
- Mortgage Services Act (Bill 29)
- Motions
- Motor Fuel Tax Act
- Municipal Affairs Statutes (Property Taxation) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
- Municipalities Enabling and Validating (No. 4) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 2)
- Museums
- Nurses
- Olympic Games
- 2030 Winter Games and Paralympic Games
- Indigenous-led bid proposal and government decision 243B:1430
- Oral questions
- Oral questions (response)
- B.C. Housing audit and agenda for Public Accounts Committee 254B:1055
- Passenger Transportation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022 (Bill 40)
- Pattullo Bridge
- Physicians
- collective agreement and bargaining 174B:1055
- family physicians
- Police and policing
- Politics and politicians
- concepts of consultation, cooperation and collaboration 200B:1125-1130
- Premier's Office
- Property Law Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 12)
- Property tax
- Property transfer tax
- Provincial Sales Tax Act
- Provincial Sales Tax Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 42)
- Provincial Sales Tax (Used Passenger Vehicles) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill M215)
- Public Accounts Committee
- agenda and work of committee 254B:1055
- committee members and staff thanked 216B:1105
- reports
- first report for third session of 42nd parliament, tabled 216B:1105
- work of committee 216B:1105
- Public sector
- Raine, Nancy Greene
- Rankin, Murray
- Real estate industry
- Rental housing
- Royal B.C. Museum
- Royal Inland Hospital
- Safety
- School Act
- Schools
- Seitz, Earl, broadcasting and radio career 148B:1005
- Skills training
- Smith, Noelle
- concerns re service model change for children with support needs 143B:1440-1445
- Speculation and vacancy tax
- exemptions, flood- or landslide-damaged properties 169B:1815
- tax credit application deadline 183B:1620
- Speculation and Vacancy Tax Act
- Statements
- 50th anniversary of Hansard in B.C. 225B:1335
- Statements by members
- Statistics Canada
- information on health care worker numbers in B.C. 194B:1420
- Substance use and addiction
- treatment and recovery services
- youth substance use and addiction
- Sun Peaks Resort
- Supply Act (No. 1), 2022 (Bill 18)
- Taxation
- Telus Nancy Greene fundraising event
- Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc
- Tobacco
- Transit services
- Transportation
- Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry
- Transportation Investment Corp.
- Treasury Board
- Ukraine
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
- mental health and addiction services for youth 180B:1420
- West Coast League
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 5)
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022 (Bill 41)
- Yang, Shaelyn
Morris, Mike (Prince George–Mackenzie)