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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Oakes, Coralee (Cariboo North)
- Advanced Education and Skills Training Ministry
- Agriculture and Food Ministry
- Barkerville Historic Town and Park
- Black Canadians
- Black History Month 143B:1400
- B.C. by region
- Brown, Rosemary, election and service as MLA 143B:1400, 146B:1010
- Budget debate 161B:1730-1800
- Cancer
- blood cancers, multiple myeloma awareness and treatment 253B:1400-1405
- diagnostic and treatment services
- Child care
- Children and youth
- Collins, Eleanor, accomplishments as jazz musician 143B:1400
- Consumers
- COVID-19 impact
- Discrimination and racism
- Economy
- Education and Child Care Ministry
- Employment and unemployment
- Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation Ministry
- Fires and firefighters
- volunteer firefighter departments, role and funding 201B:1350
- Food security 193B:1140
- Forests and forest industry
- Health care professionals and workers
- Health care system
- primary health care
- travel for treatment and costs 253B:1405
- Health Professions and Occupations Act (Bill 36)
- Horsefly volunteer fire department
- Housing
- affordable housing
- transition houses, funding and construction of new units 221B:1130
- Housing Supply Act (Bill 43)
- Introductions by members 198B:1005, 204B:1335, 213B:1300, 226B:1015, 229B:1335, 230B:1005, 232B:1335
- Labour
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 10)
- Lightfoot, Jessoa
- Lytton
- Moms at Work
- role in supporting women in the workforce 165B:1050
- Motions
- O'Connor, Denise, access to property after Lytton fire 147B:1415
- Oral questions
- Forest policy changes and forest industry jobs and worker supports 153B:1035-1040
- Government response to Lytton fire and access to properties 147B:1415
- Proposed medical school at Simon Fraser University 174B:1050
- Osisko Development Corp.
- Physicians
- family physicians
- supply and training, new medical school proposal 174B:1050
- Post-secondary education
- Post-secondary institutions
- Private members' statements
- Private members' statements (response)
- Rental housing
- Sexual violence
- Skilled Trades BC Act (Bill 4)
- Skills training
- Statements by members
- Teal-Jones Group
- operations and concerns re forest industry 153B:1035
- UBC
- Violence
- Women
Olsen, Adam (Saanich North and the Islands)
- As subject
- Aboriginal Affairs Committee
- Address by Indigenous leaders 239B:1430-1435
- Agriculture and Food Ministry
- Air
- protection of public and workers from poor air quality 216B:1050
- Anti-Racism Data Act (Bill 24)
- Attorney General Ministry and Minister Responsible for Housing
- Automobile insurance
- Beare, Lisa
- Blair, Josh, comments on Telus Health services 150B:1410
- Boyle, Julia
- comments on service model change for children with support needs 156B:1050
- B.C.
- B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association
- presentation to Freedom of Information Act Review Committee 229B:1450
- B.C. Investment Management Corporation
- pension fund investments in Russia and divestment 162B:1405
- B.C. NDP government
- B.C. Transportation Financing Authority
- Brooks, Michael
- comments on private sector business model for rental housing 191B:1035
- Budget debate 161B:1625-1705
- Budgets
- Building and Strata Statutes Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 44)
- Chief Delgamuukw (Earl Muldon)
- Children and Family Development Ministry
- Children and youth
- children with support needs
- children with support needs, service model change
- Citizens' Services Ministry
- CleanBC plan
- Climate change
- Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd.
- pipeline project
- campaign by celebrities re bank investment in project 176B:1525
- environmental compliance and enforcement 225B:1430
- government and police response to protests 176B:1530
- government and police response to protests and costs 225B:1430
- Communities
- Community Living B.C.
- Conroy, Katrine
- Consumers
- Correction Statutes Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill M210)
- Corrections system
- solitary confinement, impacts and regulation 218B:1405
- COVID-19 education system impact and reopening
- COVID-19 employee impact and supports
- COVID-19 impact and government response
- COVID-19 mental health and addiction impact and supports
- COVID-19 public health measures
- public response and balance between rights and responsibilities 149B:1725-1730
- Daajing Giids
- reclamation of traditional village name 219B:1050
- de Jong, Michael
- comments during debate on freedom-of-information legislation 143B:1505
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
- Disabled persons
- Discrimination and racism
- Drax
- Eating disorders
- Economy
- sustainable development and transition to low-carbon economy 149B:1750
- Education
- inclusive education and students with support needs 149B:1745
- Education and Child Care Ministry
- Education funding
- Education Ministry
- responsibility for child care portfolio 149B:1745
- Energy
- bioenergy, use of wood pellets and wood waste for power generation 223B:1040-1045
- international energy supply
- Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation Ministry
- Environment
- biodiversity
- environmental assessment process
- environmental protection
- Environment and Climate Change Strategy Ministry
- Evraz PLC
- Russian ownership and operations in Canada 162B:1410
- Farnworth, Mike
- Federal Court of Appeal
- ruling on Health Canada pesticide regulation re glyphosate 182B:1350
- Ferries and ferry services
- routes and services
- two-ferry service for Vesuvius Bay to Crofton route, petition tabled 180B:1425
- Fires and firefighters
- First Nations and Indigenous persons
- Aboriginal rights and title 143B:1410
- access to ecosystem resources and food sources 180B:1405
- agreements with government
- agreements with government, forest consultation and revenue-sharing agreements 199A:1430, 199A:1450
- child protection system
- Delgamuukw case and rulings 143B:1410
- economic development 184B:1030
- involvement in local government
- language preservation and revitalization, personal names in government documents 185A:1430, 185A:1445, 212B:1050-1055
- legacy of colonialism and European settlement 176B:1410, 212B:1055
- reconciliation
- relationship with government 223B:1100-1105
- changes and all-party approach to issues 223B:1115
- fiscal relationship framework 199A:1430
- relationship with lands and other species 149B:1740
- residential schools
- traditional place names 219B:1050
- traditional plants and harvesting rights 177B:1050
- treaties, Douglas treaties 144B:1015
- women, girls and two-spirit persons
- vulnerability due to systemic issues 198B:1030
- First Nations Energy and Mining Council
- report and consultation by government 185A:1610
- Fish
- Food security
- Forests and forest industry
- deforestation and tree farming 206B:1350-1400
- forest management and practices
- old-growth forests
- pest control and management
- wood pellets
- Forests Ministry
- Freedom of information
- access to information
- government culture 229B:1450
- requests for information
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Review Special Committee
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2021 (Bill 22)
- debate on fees for freedom-of-information requests by Citizen's Services Minister 143B:1455-1515
- Government
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- emissions from sectors
- reduction targets 184B:1050
- Gulf Islands
- Guterres, António
- Gwa'sala-Nakwaxda'xw Nations
- Hansard
- Hansard Services
- Harrison Healthcare
- Health care funding
- Health care system
- Health Committee
- report for third session of 42nd parliament
- Health Professions and Occupations Act (Bill 36)
- Heyman, George
- Holman, Sean
- presentation to Freedom of Information Act Review Committee 229B:1450
- Hopkins Rose, Angelina
- advocacy re glyphosate use on First Nations lands 177B:1050
- Horgan, John
- comments on issues
- pension fund divestment from Russia 162B:1405
- House of Commons Procedure and Practice
- Housing
- affordable housing
- co-operative housing model 166B:1415
- HousingHub initiative
- Housing Supply Act (Bill 43)
- Hume, Jim
- life and contributions as legislative journalist 205B:1020
- Income assistance
- Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Ministry
- Indigenous Self-Government in Child and Family Services Amendment Act (Bill 38)
- Inflation
- Infrastructure
- Introductions by members 166B:1345, 167B:1010, 174B:1005, 176B:1450, 180B:1335, 190B:1335, 197B:1345, 205B:1005-1010, 209B:1005, 212B:1015, 218B:1355, 219B:1010-1015, 226B:1010, 230B:1010, 232B:1335-1340, 239B:1340-1345, 240B:1010
- Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation Ministry
- Justice system
- handling of cases involving Indigenous women and girls 223B:1120
- handling of cases involving Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit persons 198B:1030
- Kamloops Indian Residential School
- Labour Ministry
- Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 10)
- Land, Water and Resource Stewardship Ministry
- Legislature
- bills process
- committee system
- legislative calendar and sitting schedule
- opposition
- privilege matters
- privilege matters, criteria 143B:1455-1500, 143B:1515
- proceedings, role in responsible government 156B:1020
- Lichens
- Liquefied natural gas development
- LNG Canada
- industry investment and government support 184B:1045
- status and potential expansion 184B:1050
- LNG Canada facility project
- Local government
- financial management, local government finance system and fiscal tools 149B:1750
- Low Carbon Fuels Act (Bill 15)
- McEachern, Allan
- comments as Chief Justice on Indigenous peoples 143B:1410
- Malahat Investment Corp.
- Bamberton quarry expansion proposal and environmental assessment 244B:1035-1040
- Mayne Island
- Media
- MLAs
- Mental health
- Mental Health Act
- Mental Health Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
- Mental Health and Addictions Ministry
- Mineral Tenure Act
- Mines and mining industry
- Ministerial statements (response)
- Action plan for Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act 176B:1400-1410
- Chief Delgamuukw 143B:1405-1410
- Le Estcwicwéỳ memorial event for missing children at Kamloops residential school 212B:1050-1055
- National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People 223B:1115-1125
- Red Dress Day and remembrance of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people 198B:1025-1030
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit persons
- honouring and remembrance 198B:1030
- missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, cases and response 223B:1120-1125
- systemic issues and government response 198B:1030
- Monsanto Co.
- Morice River
- drilling activities in area and impact on salmon 225B:1430
- Motions
- Municipal Affairs Ministry
- Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 20)
- Municipal Affairs Statutes (Property Taxation) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
- Municipalities Enabling and Validating (No. 4) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 2)
- Museums
- Nash, Cathy
- comments on service model change for children with support needs 156B:1045
- National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People
- National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Women and Girls
- National Day of Mourning
- observance of day of mourning for workers killed or injured on the job 191B:1020
- Nicholls, Diane
- former chief forester and role with Drax 223B:1045
- Occupational health and safety
- Oceans and marine environment
- Oil and gas
- hydraulic fracturing
- industry profits 166B:1410
- royalties
- Olympic Games
- 2022 Winter Games and Paralympic Games in Beijing
- Ontario
- service model for children with support needs 156B:1050
- Oral questions
- Access by Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations to child welfare records 218B:1430-1440
- Access to free contraception 167B:1040-1045
- Action on climate change and use of wood pellets 223B:1040
- Action plan for implementation of Indigenous rights legislation 159B:1400
- Affordable housing and real estate investment trusts 191B:1030-1035
- Coastal GasLink pipeline project and government response to protests 225B:1430
- Coastal GasLink pipeline project environmental compliance and enforcement 225B:1430
- Consultation on spraying of glyphosate on First Nations lands 177B:1050
- Divestment from Russia and Russian involvement in B.C. pipeline projects 162B:1405-1410
- Drax operations in B.C. and production of wood pellets 223B:1045
- Education funding and impact of inflation on school district costs 240B:1050-1055
- Environmental assessment for Bamberton quarry expansion proposal 244B:1035-1040
- Food security and Indigenous access to food resources 180B:1400-1405
- Forests legislation and protection of biodiversity 153B:1030-1035
- Funding and status of primary health care services 190B:1410-1415
- Government action on climate change and policies on LNG development 184B:1045-1050
- HousingHub program and non-market housing 166B:1410-1415
- Implementation of recommendations from Police Act reform committee 204B:1415-1420
- Income and disability assistance rates 251B:1050-1055
- Indigenous harvesting rights and spraying of glyphosate on First Nations lands 180B:1405
- LNG development impacts and government support for industry 176B:1525-1530
- Museum replacement project and relationship with Indigenous communities 209B:1045-1050
- Natural gas fracking and environmental impacts on Indigenous communities 198B:1040-1045
- Primary health care services and private providers 239B:1505-1510
- Primary health care services in Saanich North and the Islands 147B:1405-1410
- Protection of public and workers from health impacts of climate change and wildfire smoke 216B:1045-1050
- Resource development projects and violence against Indigenous women and girls 205B:1035
- Resource management and conservation funding 159B:1400-1405
- Review of Mental Health Act 204B:1415, 246B:1410-1415
- Service model change for children with support needs and funding for autism services 156B:1045-1050, 253B:1420-1425
- Services for adults with eating disorders on Vancouver Island 197B:1410-1415
- Telus Health services 150B:1405-1410
- Telus Health services and private providers of primary health care 190B:1405-1410
- Violence against Indigenous women and girls and funding for prevention services 205B:1040
- The Orca
- article on debate on freedom-of-information legislation by Citizens' Services Minister 143B:1510-1515
- Oregon
- O'Soup, Noelle
- Palmer, Vaughn
- comments on debate on freedom-of-information legislation by Citizens' Services Minister 143B:1510
- Parliament Buildings
- Parliamentary Immunity in Canada
- Parliamentary Practice in British Columbia
- Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand
- Pest control and pesticides
- Petitions
- services for adults with eating disorders on Vancouver Island 197B:1435
- two-ferry service for Vesuvius Bay to Crofton route 180B:1425
- PharmaCare program
- Plants
- Police Act
- Police and policing
- Poorman, Chelsea
- missing-person case and death, police response 223B:1120
- Poverty
- Privilege
- Property Law Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 12)
- Protected Areas of British Columbia Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
- Public Safety and Solicitor General Ministry
- Ralston, Bruce
- Rankin, Murray, leadership as Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation 199A:1415-1420
- Real estate industry
- housing market, relationship to land costs 190B:1505
- real estate investment trusts 191B:1035
- Real Property Association of Canada
- comments on private sector business model for rental housing 191B:1035
- Reforming the Police Act Special Committee
- Rental housing
- Rental Housing Task Force
- Reproduction
- Resources and resource industries
- projects, link to violence against Indigenous women and girls 205B:1035
- work camps, impact on Indigenous communities 176B:1525-1530
- Resources and resource ministries
- land and resource management
- Royal B.C. Museum
- Russia
- Saanich Inlet
- Saanich North and the Islands constituency and area
- School districts
- Selection Special Committee
- report for third session of 42nd parliament, adoption, debate 156B:1125-1130
- SENĆOŦEN language
- personal names in government documents 185A:1445
- use for personal names in government documents 185A:1445
- Shaw, Rob
- comments on debate on freedom-of-information legislation by Citizens' Services Minister 143B:1505-1515
- Sierra Club
- Social Development and Poverty Reduction Ministry
- Society
- Statements
- 50th anniversary of Hansard in B.C. 225B:1340
- Statements by members
- Stone, Todd
- comments on issues
- debate on freedom-of-information legislation by Citizens' Services Minister 143B:1515
- Tanner, Clive
- Teachers
- Telus Health
- Throne speech
- Throne speech debate 149B:1720-1750
- Times Colonist (Victoria)
- article on service model change for children with support needs 156B:1045
- Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport Ministry
- Transportation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 16)
- Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry
- Tsawout First Nation
- The Tyee
- Ukraine
- Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs
- comments on biodiversity legislation 213A:1520
- University of Toronto
- Vancouver
- city government
- incentive policy for affordable rental housing 166B:1415
- Vancouver Island
- services for adults with eating disorders 197B:1410-1415
- services for adults with eating disorders, petition tabled 197B:1435
- south Island
- transportation infrastructure and planning 217A:1705
- West Shore traffic congestion and travel options 217A:1705
- Vancouver Sun
- articles on issues
- debate on freedom-of-information legislation by Citizens' Services Minister 143B:1510
- disruption in health care sector 150B:1410
- Violence
- violence against Indigenous women and children
- violence against Indigenous women and girls 225B:1430
- violence against Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit persons 176B:1525-1530
- Vopak Development Canada Inc.
- fuel storage and shipping facility project, environmental assessment certificate and First Nations consultation 189A:1530-1540
- Weather
- Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and Office of the Wet'suwet'en
- memorandum of understanding with government 199A:1445
- Wildlife
- bears, protection of bear dens 226B:1030
- species at risk
- Wildlife Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 14)
- Wildlife Amendment Act (No. 3), 2022 (Bill M213)
- Wood, Jessica
- work on Indigenous rights legislation 159B:1400
- Workers compensation
- compensation benefits and rehabilitation 191B:1020
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 5)
- Workers Compensation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022 (Bill 41)
- WorkSafeBC
- W̱SÁNEĆ Nations
- Zandee-Hart, Micah
- athletic accomplishments and role on Canadian women's hockey team 170B:1025
Osborne, Hon. Josie (Mid Island–Pacific Rim)
- Cariboo-Chilcotin constituency and area
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
- action plan for implementation
- Delta
- Documents tabled
- Land, Water and Resource Stewardship Ministry
- Environment
- First Nations and Indigenous persons
- Fish
- Forests and forest industry
- Fraser River
- dredging of secondary channels in Ladner area, funding 213A:1315
- Introductions by members 144B:1005, 155B:1340, 187B:1340, 197B:1335, 198B:1005, 204B:1340, 210B:1345, 210B:1435
- Land use
- Land, Water and Resource Stewardship Ministry
- estimates debate 212A:1135-1140, 213A:1305-1545
- budget 213A:1340-1405
- establishment 212A:1135-1140, 213A:1305-1310, 213A:1405, 213A:1425
- estimates process
- executive and support services division 213A:1400
- information, innovation and technology division 213A:1345-1350, 213A:1400
- reconciliation and natural resource policy division 213A:1340, 213A:1355
- role and responsibilities 159B:1405
- role re action plan for implementation of Indigenous rights legislation 213A:1325-1335
- role re policy and planning 213A:1405, 213A:1420-1425
- role re tenure management 213A:1435-1445
- service plan, 2022-23–2023-24, tabled 170B:1105
- staff 212A:1135-1140, 213A:1305
- Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister of State
- Municipalities Enabling and Validating (No. 4) Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 2)
- Oceans and marine environment
- Oral questions (response)
- Resource management and conservation funding 159B:1405
- Rangeland
- Resources and resource industries
- Resources and resource ministries
- land and resource management
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Water
- water table and First Nations consultation 213A:1455
- Watersheds
- Xeni Gwet'in First Nation
- agreement with government on title lands and tenure holder issues 213A:1440-1445