First Session, 43rd Parliament – 2025
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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Osborne, Hon. Josie (Mid Island–Pacific Rim)
- As subject
- comments during question period (Rustad) 52B:1115 (Speaker) 52B:1115
- comments on issues
- Ambulance service
- Angel Flight East Kootenay
- Animals
- dogs, legislation, petition tabled 36B:1105
- Assisted dying
- Medical Assistance in Dying program 87B:1110
- Ballem, Penny
- role as interim CEO at Provincial Health Services Authority 28B:1415
- work in health care system 32B:1045
- B.C. by region
- northern B.C.
- northwest B.C.
- rural B.C.
- B.C. Liberal Party
- performance as government
- Bulkley Valley District Hospital
- Cancer
- diagnostic and treatment services
- treatment
- radiation therapy and U.S. facilities 18B:1050
- Chamberlain, Don
- lung transplant patient in Courtenay 25B:1100
- Conservative Party of B.C.
- Corrections system
- mental health and addiction services
- Crime and criminals
- illegal drug trade
- police investigation of diversion of safe supply 4B:1045-1050
- Delta
- Delta Hospital
- East Kootenay Regional Hospital
- new oncology treatment building services 8B:1050
- Fires and firefighters
- Foundry
- Fraser Health Authority
- Government
- Hartwell, Sharon
- comments on issues, reimbursement payments for rural physicians 59B:1100
- Health authorities
- Health Care Costs Recovery Amendment Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
- Health care facilities and hospitals
- emergency services
- government investment and initiatives 11B:1045, 77B:1100
- illicit drug use, adjacent supervised use and overdose prevention sites 8B:1045-1050, 51B:1430, 63B:1045
- new facilities 10B:1430, 72B:1435
- safety and security 11B:1055, 38B:1405, 38B:1415-1425, 77B:1025-1030, 87B:1115-1120, 91B:1055-1100
- safety and security, resources 31B:1415
- Health care funding
- Health care professionals and workers
- Health care system
- access to services 11B:1055, 46B:1055
- emergency services 7B:1425
- government action on issues 7B:1420-1425, 10B:1425-1430, 18B:1045, 32B:1045-1050, 45B:1445, 56B:1115, 72B:1435, 77B:1050-1100, 90B:1425
- government initiatives and investment 83B:1445-1450
- issues and challenges, MLA advocacy for constituent cases 83B:1445
- laboratory services 52B:1050
- primary health care
- services for children and youth 72B:1420-1425
- services for women
- system
- travel for treatment 29B:1030-1035
- travel for treatment, travel assistance program 59B:1100
- wait-lists and waiting times 72B:1415
- Health Ministry
- Housing
- Interior Health Authority
- Introductions by members 3B:1335, 11B:1000-1005, 17B:1340, 18B:1005, 22B:1000, 31B:1335, 36B:1010, 38B:1340, 39B:1005, 42B:1335, 43B:1010, 49B:1010, 52B:1005-1010, 58B:1335, 69B:1335, 91B:1120, 94B:1005-1010, 100B:1340, 104B:1345, 105B:1005, 109B:1300
- Islands Trust
- Kamloops
- Kelowna General Hospital
- pediatric services, temporary closing of pediatric unit 72B:1420-1425
- Kitwanga
- ambulance station and access to emergency services 7B:1425
- Kootenay area
- emergency services at hospitals 11B:1050
- health care services, access to cancer treatment 8B:1050
- Ksyen Regional Hospital
- Lapu-Lapu Day
- festival in Vancouver and vehicular attack
- Lee, Victoria
- departure as Fraser Health Authority CEO and severance payment 32B:1040-1045
- Legislature
- LifeLabs Inc.
- contract with government for laboratory services 52B:1050
- Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre
- Long-term and residential care
- Maternity and pregnancy
- Medical Services Plan
- Mental health
- awareness and elimination of stigma 58B:1410
- facilities and beds 51B:1420-1425
- involuntary detention and care of mentally ill persons 51B:1420, 69B:1415-1420
- mental health and addiction
- mental health of children and youth
- mental illness
- treatment and services for persons with severe mental illness 49B:1110
- programs and services
- Mental Health Act
- Mental Health Amendment Act (No.2), 2025 (Bill 32)
- Merritt
- access to health care and emergency services 15B:1035
- Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre
- Northern Health Authority
- mental health and addiction treatment beds 45B:1445
- mental health services
- Nurses
- Oral questions (response)
- Access to cancer care services in Kootenay area 8B:1050-1055
- Access to emergency health care facilities and temporary closings 87B:1120, 111B:1420
- Access to emergency health services in Fraser Health region 100B:1505
- Access to health care services 62B:1415
- Access to health care services and safety of hospital workers 11B:1055
- Access to health care services and travel assistance program 25B:1100
- Access to health care services in East Kootenay area 56B:1115-1120
- Access to health care specialists 72B:1415
- Access to mental health and addiction services in northern B.C. 51B:1425
- Access to mental health supports in northern B.C. 90B:1420-1425
- Addiction treatment and recovery services in Terrace 8B:1040-1045
- Addiction treatment beds in Northern Health region 45B:1445
- Addiction treatment services in rural communities 66B:1055
- Ambulance station and service in Kitwanga 7B:1425-1430
- Budget priorities and cancer care services in U.S. facilities 18B:1050
- Budget priorities and emergency health care services in rural B.C. 18B:1045
- Budget provisions for addiction treatment and recovery 18B:1040
- Budget provisions for mental health and addictions services 36B:1100
- Cellular service reliability and access to emergency services in rural and remote communities 46B:1050
- Chief executive officer at Provincial Health Services Authority 28B:1415
- Chief Executive Officer at Provincial Health Services Authority 32B:1045-1050
- Community safety and involuntary care for mental health issues 69B:1415-1420
- Delta Hospital emergency services 77B:1055
- Delta Hospital emergency services and government action on health care issues 76B:1400-1405
- Diversion of safe supply to illicit market and role of pharmacies 4B:1045-1050
- Drug decriminalization program and community safety issues 101B:1110
- Drug decriminalization program and safe supply initiative 86B:1400-1405
- Drug decriminalization program and substance use policies 80B:1050, 104B:1420
- Early cancer screenings for firefighters 14B:1415
- Emergency health care and CT scanner for Kitimat General Hospital 98B:1105-1110
- Emergency health care services 77B:1050-1055
- Emergency health care services in northern B.C. 111B:1415-1420
- Emergency health care services in rural B.C. 15B:1100, 72B:1430-1435
- Emergency health care services in Tumbler Ridge 100B:1445-1450, 107B:1455
- Emergency room waiting times 45B:1440-1445
- Emergency services at Delta Hospital 7B:1420-1425
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1025, 11B:1030-1050
- Emergency services at Nicola Valley Hospital 15B:1035
- Emergency services at Port Hardy Hospital 15B:1055
- Forensic psychiatric services for persons with severe mental illness 56B:1105
- Funding for Angel Flight East Kootenay medical transport 29B:1030-1035, 100B:1505
- Funding for long-term-care beds 18B:1100
- Funding for long-term-care facilities 77B:1030-1035
- Funding for long-term-care facilities and hospice beds 98B:1035-1045
- Funding for mental health programs 90B:1425
- Funding for residential care facilities 86B:1410, 87B:1120-1125, 93B:1425, 93B:1435-1450, 94B:1115
- Funding for Surrey primary health care clinic 94B:1130-1135
- Funding for youth mental health services in norther B.C. 90B:1420
- Government action on drug toxicity crisis 111B:1425
- Government action on drug toxicity crisis and overdose deaths 42B:1405-1410, 73B:1120, 108B:1035-1040
- Government action on health care issues 77B:1055-1100
- Government action on issues in health care system 10B:1425-1430, 72B:1435
- Government action on safety concerns at Bulkley Lodge seniors facility 77B:1025-1030
- Government action on seniors care and availability of long-term-care beds 58B:1420
- Government action on youth mental health and addiction issues 62B:1420-1425, 63B:1045-1050
- Government reimbursement payments for rural health care specialists 56B:1055-1100, 59B:1100-1105
- Health care for complex chronic diseases and virtual group medical visit model 111B:1405
- Health care services and government priorities 56B:1120-1125
- Health care services in Cariboo-Chilcotin 66B:1050-1055
- Health care system conditions and support for patients on waiting lists 114B:1430
- Health Ministry consultant contract and reporting 46B:1055
- Health professions legislation and impact on mental health professionals 98B:1050-1055
- Health worker vaccination policies 84B:1050
- Indigenous youth overdose deaths and management of safe supply 14B:1430
- Interior Health Authority management and staffing issues 90B:1415, 100B:1510
- Interior Health Authority staffing issues and call for review 90B:1405
- Interior Health data breach and employee privacy protection 43B:1030-1035
- Involuntary care for mental health and addiction issues 4B:1055, 10B:1410-1415, 21B:1425, 25B:1105, 56B:1105-1110
- Involuntary mental health care and conditions for persons in corrections system 51B:1420
- Issues in health care system and salaries of health authority executives 100B:1515
- Licensing of specialist physicians 56B:1110-1115
- LifeLabs labour dispute and delivery of medical laboratory services 52B:1050
- Management of safe supply and diversion to illicit market 3B:1425, 4B:1035-1040
- Medical assessment fees for seniors 38B:1415
- Medical Assistance in Dying 87B:1110
- Mental health and addiction issues and action on community safety 21B:1420
- Mental health and addiction services facility proposal for Okanagan area 51B:1420-1425
- Mental health and addiction treatment beds and facilities 56B:1050-1055, 56B:1110
- Mental health crisis response services 56B:1100-1105
- Mental health services and stigma reduction 58B:1410-1415
- Mental health services for persons with severe mental illness 49B:1110
- Mobile crisis response unit in Langley-Willowbrook area 104B:1430
- Obstetric and gynecological health care services 83B:1435-1445
- Obstetric and gynecological services and government action on issues 94B:1110
- Obstetric and gynecological services in Kamloops and government action on issues 90B:1355-1400
- Overdose deaths and management of safe supply 4B:1030-1035
- Overdose prevention site at Langley Memorial Hospital 51B:1430
- Pediatric services at Kelowna General Hospital 72B:1420-1425
- Performance of Fraser Health Authority board chair 22B:1035-1040
- Physician staffing and emergency services at hospitals 72B:1425-1430
- Prescribed alternative opioid safe supply initiative 45B:1420
- Psychiatric care staffing and access to services 90B:1415
- Review of Mental Health Act 55B:1440
- Rural retention incentive for health care professionals 7B:1430, 25B:1055
- Safety of health care workers 31B:1415-1420
- Safety of health care workers and funding for mental health programs 91B:1055-1105
- Safety of health care workers and whistleblower protection 87B:1115-1120
- Safety of hospital workers and patients and hiring of security staff 98B:1100
- Safety of nurses in health care system 38B:1400-1405, 38B:1415
- Safety of nurses in rural communities 98B:1105
- Saplings mental health services 80B:1045-1050
- Security incident at Surrey neonatal unit and safety at hospitals 111B:1355-1400
- Severance payment to former Fraser Health Authority CEO 32B:1040-1045
- Staffing shortages in health care system 3B:1425-1430
- Supervised drug use sites near health care facilities 8B:1045-1050
- Supply and training of specialized nurses 38B:1410
- Telus Health services contract and programs for adults with eating disorders 52B:1045
- Transplant waiting list case 83B:1445
- Violent incidents in hospitals and safety of health care workers 38B:1420-1430
- Women's health care services 83B:1445-1450
- Youth mental health and addiction services 10B:1415-1420
- Youth mental health support and freedom-of-information report delivery policy 100B:1450
- Petitions
- Physicians
- Protected Areas of British Columbia Amendment Act, 2025 (Bill 3)
- Provincial Health Services Authority
- Public debt
- debt levels and debt-servicing costs 18B:1040
- Public health
- Red Fish Healing Centre
- Reproduction
- access to reproductive health care services, government initiatives 83B:1445-1450
- Rustad, John
- Safety
- public safety
- community safety and response to complex social issues 4B:1055
- community safety issues and government response 10B:1410-1415
- Saplings Mental Health Services, Fort St. John, B.C.
- funding for youth suicide prevention 91B:1100
- Seniors
- Shaw, Rob
- article on health care consultant contract and report 46B:1055
- Skeena constituency and area
- constituent's concerns re health and mental health services 90B:1420-1425
- Substance use and addiction
- decriminalization program
- First Nations
- substance use impacts and access to health care 4B:1030-1035
- harm reduction services
- impact on communities and response 18B:1040
- overdoses
- overdoses by children and youth
- safe supply
- treatment and recovery services
- use and addiction among Indigenous persons
- youth substance use and addiction
- Suicide
- incidence among children and youth
- government action on prevention services 90B:1420
- Surrey
- government action on new medical school 76B:1400
- government investment in infrastructure 22B:1040
- Union of B.C. Municipalities
- discussion with Health Minister re emergency services in hospitals 76B:1405
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital
- Vigo, Daniel
- role as clinical advisor on involuntary care 25B:1105
- role in development of mental health and addiction care 10B:1415
- Wallace, Roseanne
- experience of workplace violence and death by suicide 38B:1400
- Webster, Cameron
- experience with mental illness and peer support work 51B:1425