First Session, 43rd Parliament – 2025
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
SUBJECT INDEX (DRAFT)
topics, places, people
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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Oak Bay, B.C.
Occupational health and safety
- Workplace health and safety See also particular occupations and sectors
Oil and gas
Oil and Gas Commission See British Columbia Energy Regulator
Okanagan area
- North Okanagan
- food producers and initiatives (Sandhu) 28B:1345
- Transit services
- extension of B.C. Transit bus route 97 to UBC route 90, petition tabled (Sandhu) 31B:1435
Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery
Oliver, B.C.
Ombudsperson
- Reports tabled
- 2023-24 annual report (Speaker) 3B:1435
- special report, Hire Power: the Appointment of Ineligible Candidates to the Temporary Assignments in the Public Service, June 2024 (Speaker) 3B:1435
- special report, Short Changed: Ensuring Federal Benefits Paid to the Province Reach Caregivers of Children with Disabilities, January 2025 (Speaker) 3B:1435
- special report, Under Inspection: The Hiatus in B.C. Correctional Centre Inspections, July 2024 (Speaker) 3B:1435
Oral questions by member
- Armstrong, Tara (Kelowna–Lake Country–Coldstream)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1040
- Government action on Chinese tariffs 25B:1045
- Banman, Bruce (Abbotsford South)
- Budget priorities and support for agriculture 17B:1430
- Budget provisions for security at FIFA World Cup event 21B:1410
- Child death and injury cases related to substance use 31B:1425
- Credentialling of foreign-trained physicians and exam fee exemption 18B:1045-1050
- Fraser Valley transportation infrastructure projects 17B:1430
- Severance payments to senior government staff 32B:1050-1055
- Bhangu, Harman (Langley-Abbotsford)
- Budget priorities and funding for ferry services 18B:1055
- Kootenay Lake ferry labour dispute 3B:1430, 14B:1420, 24B:1430-1435
- Payments to highway project workers and government management of transportation projects 28B:1420-1425
- Supervised drug use sites near health care facilities 8B:1045-1050
- Supply and training of specialized nurses 38B:1410
- Bird, Rosalyn (Prince George–Valemount)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1050
- Gaming grant funding for Prince George Regional Highway Rescue Society 15B:1035
- Government response to Jasper wildfire impact on Valemount businesses 25B:1055
- Management of safe supply and diversion to illicit market 3B:1420
- Starlink satellite internet service contract 36B:1050
- Block, Lynne (West Vancouver–Capilano)
- Budget provisions for education and child care 36B:1055
- Debt-servicing costs and education funding 18B:1050
- Funding for school districts 29B:1050
- Funding for Surrey school district 15B:1040
- Surrey school district portable use and funding 22B:1040
- Botterell, Rob (Saanich North and the Islands)
- Affordability of locally grown food and government support for families and local businesses 22B:1030-1035
- Affordable rental housing and secondary suite incentive program 32B:1030-1035
- Budget provisions for conservation goals 17B:1435
- Budget provisions for environmental assessment and consultation processes 17B:1435
- Child protection system and safety of youth in care 28B:1410
- Funding for south Vancouver Island 911 emergency dispatch services 11B:1025-1030
- Government action on homelessness 8B:1035, 38B:1410
- Government action on poverty reduction 4B:1040-1045
- LNG development policies and status of industry 18B:1045
- Mental health crisis response services 39B:1035
- RCMP critical response unit actions and funding 18B:1040
- Wind power projects and costs 24B:1415
- Boultbee, Amelia (Penticton-Summerland)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1050
- Government response to deaths of children and youth in care and action on report recommendations 31B:1400-1405
- Government response to deaths of children and youth in care and systemic inequality 14B:1425-1430
- Brodie, Dallas (Vancouver-Quilchena)
- Crime in communities and impact on businesses 4B:1050
- Involuntary care for mental health and addiction issues 4B:1055
- Public comments on residential school system 32B:1035-1040
- Chan, Hon (Richmond Centre)
- Budget provisions for energy and climate solutions 36B:1050
- Elementary schools in Richmond 15B:1045
- Chapman, Brent (Surrey South)
- Clare, Sheldon (Prince George–North Cariboo)
- Chief executive officer at Provincial Health Services Authority 28B:1415
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1045
- Davis, Pete (Kootenay-Rockies)
- Access to cancer care services in Kootenay area 8B:1050-1055
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1050
- Rural retention incentive for health care professionals 25B:1055
- Day, Brennan (Courtenay-Comox)
- Access to health care services and travel assistance program 25B:1100
- Budget priorities and emergency health care services in rural B.C. 18B:1045
- Chief Executive Officer at Provincial Health Services Authority 32B:1045
- Emergency health care services in rural B.C. 15B:1100
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1030
- Mental health and addiction issues and action on community safety 21B:1420
- Safety of first responders 38B:1415
- Staffing shortages in health care system 3B:1425
- Dew, Gavin (Kelowna-Mission)
- Dhaliwal, Mandeep (Surrey North)
- Age-appropriate content in schools 22B:1040
- Budget provisions for FIFA World Cup 36B:1045
- Chief executive officer at Provincial Health Services Authority 28B:1420
- Food bank use 15B:1045
- Funding for Surrey Urban Mission 32B:1050
- Doerkson, Lorne (Cariboo-Chilcotin)
- Conduct of conservation officers 24B:1420
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1035
- Violent incidents in hospitals and safety of health care workers 38B:1425
- Gasper, Reann (Abbotsford-Mission)
- Budget priorities and cancer care services in U.S. facilities 18B:1050
- Child care spaces in Surrey 22B:1045
- Child death and injury cases related to substance use 31B:1425
- Crime in communities and action on community safety 21B:1415
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1040
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1050
- Government spending priorities and Premier's Office funding 28B:1420
- Government spending priorities and services and executive salaries at Community Living B.C. 25B:1040
- Giddens, Kiel (Prince George–Mackenzie)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1035
- Forest industry conditions and support for forest workers 35B:1410-1415
- Government action on repeat offenders and crime in communities 21B:1420
- Kootenay Lake ferry labour dispute 14B:1420
- Safety of nurses in health care system 38B:1405
- WorkSafeBC premiums and government priorities 25B:1100
- Halford, Trevor (Surrey–White Rock)
- Access to health care services and safety of hospital workers 11B:1055
- Actions of Premier 28B:1425-1430
- Budget priorities and funding for Surrey school district 18B:1030-1035
- Budget priorities and Premier's Office funding 17B:1445-1450
- Budget projections and priorities 29B:1025-1030
- FIFA World Cup tickets and MLAs 39B:1030
- Government response to deaths of children and youth in care and action on report recommendations 31B:1420
- Involuntary care for mental health and addiction issues 10B:1410-1415, 21B:1425
- Pattullo Bridge project 35B:1420-1425
- Performance of Fraser Health Authority board chair 22B:1035-1040
- Severance payment to former Fraser Health Authority CEO 32B:1040-1045
- Violent incidents in hospitals and safety of health care workers 38B:1425-1430
- Hartwell, Sharon (Bulkley Valley–Stikine)
- Ambulance station and service in Kitwanga 7B:1425
- Hepner, Linda (Surrey–Serpentine River)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1035
- Government action on repeat offenders and crime in communities 21B:1420
- Housing affordability and infrastructure costs in Surrey 22B:1025
- Oak Bay housing development targets and role of Minister 15B:1050
- Kealy, Jordan (Peace River North)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1045
- Taylor Bridge replacement and government policy on infrastructure tolling revenues 39B:1040
- Kindy, Anna (North Island)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1040
- Emergency services at Port Hardy Hospital 15B:1055
- Kooner, Steve (Richmond-Queensborough)
- Crime in communities and action on community safety 21B:1415
- Supportive housing site in Richmond and community safety 15B:1055
- Violent incidents in hospitals and safety of health care workers 38B:1425
- Youth mental health and addiction services 10B:1415-1420
- Loewen, Kristina (Kelowna Centre)
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1045-1050
- Government spending priorities and services and executive salaries at Community Living B.C. 25B:1035-1040
- Management of supportive housing site in Kelowna 8B:1045
- Luck, Tony (Fraser-Nicola)
- Call for independent review of Metro Vancouver regional district governance 10B:1420-1425
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1025
- Emergency services at Nicola Valley Hospital 15B:1035
- Infrastructure in rural communities 29B:1045
- Maahs, Heather (Chilliwack North)
- Government response to deaths of children and youth in care and action on report recommendations 31B:1420
- Indigenous youth overdose deaths and management of safe supply 14B:1430
- Medical assessment fees for seniors 38B:1415
- Supportive housing and access to addiction treatment services 24B:1410
- McCall, Macklin (West Kelowna–Peachland)
- Budget priorities and funding for police services 18B:1055
- Budget provisions for emergency response and recovery 36B:1050
- Funding for Prince George Regional Highway Rescue society 29B:1045
- Government action on repeat offenders and crime in communities 15B:1045
- McInnis, Scott (Columbia River–Revelstoke)
- Budget priorities and credit rating 32B:1050
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1040
- Funding for Angel Flight East Kootenay medical transport 29B:1030-1035
- Funding for Métis Nation K-to-12 Education 24B:1430
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1050
- Government response to deaths of children and youth in care and action on report recommendations 31B:1405-1410
- Mining industry and First Nations consultation framework 15B:1100
- Rural retention incentive for health care professionals 7B:1430
- Milobar, Peter (Kamloops Centre)
- Budget deficit and government financial management 32B:1025
- Budget priorities and debt-servicing costs 18B:1100
- Budget priorities and public service hiring freeze 17B:1450
- Budget priorities and tax credit for technology sector 17B:1450-1455
- Budget projections and priorities 36B:1100
- Budget provisions and revenues 29B:1055
- Capital funding for schools and infrastructure in Surrey 22B:1050-1055
- Carbon tax policies and revenues 21B:1400
- Forest industry conditions and support for forest workers 35B:1410
- Interprovincial trade and tax policies 28B:1400-1405
- Public service hiring freeze and Environment Ministry front-line staffing 14B:1405-1410
- Mok, Lawrence (Maple Ridge East)
- Child care spaces in Maple Ridge 25B:1050
- Neufeld, Korky (Abbotsford West)
- Budget provisions for post-secondary and future skills programs 36B:1055
- Government action on antisemitism 10B:1405
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1050
- Government transparency and role of Select Standing Committees 24B:1425-1430
- Violent incidents in hospitals and safety of health care workers 38B:1420
- Neufeld, Larry (Peace River South)
- Paton, Ian (Delta South)
- Budget provisions for food security and farmers 36B:1040
- Emergency services at Delta Hospital 7B:1420-1425
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1050
- Farmland in Cowichan Valley 15B:1030
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1045
- Massey Tunnel replacement project 35B:1415
- Wind-generated electricity environmental assessments and consultation on wind power projects 24B:1420-1425
- Rattée, Claire (Skeena)
- Addiction treatment and recovery services in Terrace 8B:1040
- Budget provisions for addiction treatment and recovery 17B:1440, 18B:1040
- Budget provisions for mental health and addictions services 36B:1055-1100
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1045
- Government action on antisemitism and response to issues 39B:1030
- Government action on homelessness 25B:1050
- Involuntary care for mental health and addiction issues 17B:1440
- Management of safe supply and diversion to illicit market 3B:1415-1420
- Safety of nurses in health care system 38B:1415
- Rustad, John (Nechako Lakes)
- Access to cancer care services in U.S. facilities 17B:1425
- Age-appropriate content in schools 24B:1405
- Budget deficit and government financial management 36B:1030
- Carbon tax policies 28B:1400
- Carbon tax policies and revenues 21B:1355
- Diversion of safe supply to illicit market and role of pharmacies 3B:1400-1405
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1025
- Forest industry trade issues and proposal for carbon tax on U.S. thermal coal 7B:1405-1410, 35B:1355
- Forest industry trade issues and support for forest workers 35B:1355-1400
- Government policies on carbon tax and interprovincial trade 17B:1425
- Government policies on substance use and funding of advocacy organizations 8B:1025
- Management of safe supply and diversion to illicit market 4B:1035-1040
- Police investigation of Charlotte Kates and potential hate crime charges 10B:1400
- Proposal for carbon tax on U.S. thermal coal 14B:1400
- Trade and economic diversification 14B:1405
- Stamer, Ward (Kamloops–North Thompson)
- Forest industry conditions and Council of Forest Industries recommendations 35B:1405
- Forest industry trade issues and proposal for carbon tax on U.S. thermal coal 7B:1410-1415
- Forest industry trade issues and support for forest workers 35B:1400
- Implementation of permanent daylight saving time 25B:1055
- Wildfire response services and rapattack crew in Clearwater 29B:1040
- Sturko, Elenore (Surrey-Cloverdale)
- Diversion of safe supply to illicit market and role of pharmacies 3B:1405-1410, 4B:1045-1050
- Government action on homelessness and community safety in Downtown Eastside 21B:1405-1410
- Government action on repeat offenders and crime in communities 17B:1440
- Government policies on substance use and funding of advocacy organizations 8B:1030
- Hospital project in Surrey 22B:1025-1030
- Illicit drug trade activities and enforcement response 8B:1030
- Illicit drug trade activities and funding for enforcement response 17B:1445
- Involuntary care for mental health and addiction issues 25B:1105
- Safety of health care workers 31B:1415-1420
- Safety of nurses in health care system 38B:1400
- Tepper, Bryan (Surrey-Panorama)
- Funding for Surrey Learning Centre 22B:1050
- Government action on issues in health care system 10B:1425-1430
- Toor, Jody (Langley-Willowbrook)
- Crime in communities and action on community safety 25B:1100
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1035
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1055
- Valeriote, Jeremy (West Vancouver–Sea to Sky)
- Budget priorities and performance measurement 15B:1040
- Critical minerals and mining projects 7B:1415-1420
- Disaster financial assistance criteria and funding 10B:1405-1410
- Early cancer screenings for firefighters 14B:1410-1415
- Economy and job protection 3B:1410-1415
- Education funding 31B:1410-1415
- Energy Regulator and environmental assessment of Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project 29B:1035
- Firefighter health risks and use of fire suppression foam 14B:1410
- Fuel costs and role of B.C. Utilities Commission 36B:1040
- Indigenous consultation and environmental requirements for resource development projects 3B:1415
- Power for LNG facilities and LNG development policies 35B:1405-1410
- Seismic impacts of fracking and oversight of oil and gas industry 21B:1400-1405
- Wealth inequality and carbon tax rebate 25B:1045
- Van Popta, Misty (Langley–Walnut Grove)
- Budget provisions for infrastructure projects 36B:1045
- Fire safety and building code changes to staircase requirements 14B:1415-1420
- Funding for long-term-care beds 18B:1100
- Violent incidents in hospitals and safety of health care workers 38B:1420
- Warbus, Á’a:líya (Chilliwack–Cultus Lake)
- Affordable housing for Indigenous persons 29B:1050
- Budget deficit and government financial management 36B:1035
- Community safety in Chilliwack 21B:1410
- Death of Indigenous youth in government care 31B:1430
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1055
- Overdose deaths and management of safe supply 4B:1025-1030
- Wat, Teresa (Richmond-Bridgeport)
- Wilson, Donegal (Boundary-Similkameen)
- Emergency services at hospitals 11B:1030
- Government action on poverty reduction 39B:1055
Oral questions by subject
- Agriculture
- Budget, economy and trade issues
- Carbon tax
- Children and youth
- Crime and community safety
- Daylight saving time
- Implementation of permanent daylight saving time (Farnworth) 25B:1055 (Stamer) 25B:1055
- Discrimination and racism
- Government action on antisemitism (Neufeld, K.) 10B:1405 (Sharma) 10B:1405
- Government action on antisemitism and response to issues (Kahlon) 39B:1030 (Rattée) 39B:1030 (Sharma) 39B:1035
- Police investigation of Charlotte Kates and potential hate crime charges (Rustad) 10B:1400 (Sharma) 10B:1400
- Education and schools
- Emergencies
- Employment and jobs
- Energy
- Environment and climate change
- Budget provisions for conservation goals (Bailey) 17B:1435-1440 (Botterell) 17B:1435
- Budget provisions for environmental assessment and consultation processes (Bailey) 17B:1435 (Botterell) 17B:1435
- Wind-generated electricity environmental assessments and consultation on wind power projects (Dix) 24B:1420-1425 (Paton) 24B:1420-1425
- Ferry services
- FIFA World Cup
- Budget provisions for FIFA World Cup (Chandra Herbert) 36B:1045 (Dhaliwal) 36B:1045
- Budget provisions for security at FIFA World Cup event (Banman) 21B:1410 (Chandra Herbert) 21B:1410
- FIFA World Cup tickets and MLAs (Chandra Herbert) 39B:1030 (Halford) 39B:1030
- Fires and firefighting
- Early cancer screenings for firefighters (Osborne) 14B:1415 (Valeriote) 14B:1410-1415
- Firefighter health risks and use of fire suppression foam (Begg) 14B:1410 (Valeriote) 14B:1410
- Government response to Jasper wildfire impact on Valemount businesses (Bird) 25B:1055 (Greene) 25B:1055
- Wildfire response services and rapattack crew in Clearwater (Parmar) 29B:1040-1045 (Stamer) 29B:1040
- First Nations and Indigenous issues
- Food and food security
- Forest industry
- Government and Legislature
- Health care facilities
- Health care services
- Highways and roads
- Funding for Prince George Regional Highway Rescue society (Chandra Herbert) 29B:1045 (McCall) 29B:1045
- Gaming grant funding for Prince George Regional Highway Rescue Society (Bird) 15B:1035 (Chandra Herbert) 15B:1035
- Housing, homelessness and real estate
- Information and communications technology
- Infrastructure
- Local government
- Mental health
- Mining industry
- Oil and gas
- Energy Regulator and environmental assessment of Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project (Dix) 29B:1035 (Valeriote) 29B:1035
- Fuel costs and role of B.C. Utilities Commission (Dix) 36B:1040 (Valeriote) 36B:1040
- LNG development policies and status of industry (Botterell) 18B:1045 (Dix) 18B:1045
- Power for LNG facilities and LNG development policies (Dix) 35B:1405-1410 (Valeriote) 35B:1405-1410
- Seismic impacts of fracking and oversight of oil and gas industry (Dix) 21B:1405 (Valeriote) 21B:1400-1405
- Police services
- Post-secondary education
- Budget provisions for post-secondary and future skills programs (Kang) 36B:1055 (Neufeld, K.) 36B:1055
- Poverty
- Resource industries
- Indigenous consultation and environmental requirements for resource development projects (Boyle) 3B:1415 (Valeriote) 3B:1415
- Social services
- Substance use and addiction
- Substance use and addiction issues
- Tourism
- Transportation and transit services
- Workers
- WorkSafeBC premiums and government priorities (Giddens) 25B:1100 (Whiteside) 25B:1100