Province of British Columbia
40th Parliament – 2013
Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts
INDEX

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P3s See Public-private partnerships under Business; Public-private partnerships under particular projects or sectors
Pacific Carbon Trust

Allocation of carbon offsets, public entities and private companies (Heyman) 5:0945
Auditor General review See Role in Auditor General review below under this main heading; Carbon neutrality, review by Auditor General under Government
CEO See Officials below under this main heading
Changes, government announcement See Carbon neutrality, announcement on program changes under Government
Changes, transfer of responsibilities to climate action secretariat See Climate action secretariat under Environment, Ministry of
Due diligence and risk management (Huntington) 5:1055, 5:1105 (Mack, J.) 5:1100, 5:1150 (Muter, D.) 5:0930, 5:1100-1105, 5:1130, 5:1200, 5:1320 (Sydor, M.) 5:1110, 5:1325 (Wood, T.) 5:0910
Emission reduction projects See also Purchase of offsets below under this main heading; particular projects
additionality See timeline and relationship to offsets below under this subheading
assessment as carbon offset projects (Ralston) 5:0950 (Wood, T.) 5:0905-0910
assessment as carbon offset projects and third-party validation (Huntington) 5:1055, 5:1105-1110 (Mack, J.) 5:0925-0930, 5:1045, 5:1055-1100, 5:1150-1155, 5:1320 (Muter, D.) 5:0930, 5:1000-1005, 5:1015, 5:1025, 5:1100-1105, 5:1125-1130, 5:1155-1200, 5:1320-1325 (Reimer) 5:0955, 5:1150-1155 (Sydor, M.) 5:0955, 5:1020, 5:1110, 5:1325 (Trumpy, C.) 5:1000-1005
rejection of project proposals (Muter, D.) 5:1200 (Robinson) 5:1155-1200
timeline and relationship to offsets See also particular projects
(Corrigan) 5:1315-1320 (Eby) 5:1135 (Muter, D.) 5:1140 (Sydor, M.) 5:1135, 5:1145, 5:1325
Fiduciary duty and public interest (Eby) 5:0955, 5:1005 (Sydor, M.) 5:1005-1010 (Trumpy, C.) 5:1000-1005
Financial reporting, review by Auditor General (Heyman) 4:0925 (Reid, J.) 4:0930
Former chair See Trumpy, Chris
Officials
acting CEO See Muter, David
CEO, appearance before Public Accounts Committee (Ralston) 5:1010
director See Shoemaker, Wes
former CEO See MacDonald, Scott
former chair See Trumpy, Chris
Purchase of offsets
assessment and validation See also Emission reduction projects, assessment as carbon offset projects above under this main heading
(Heyman) 5:0935 (Throness) 5:1040
information and transparency (Muter, D.) 5:0930-0935 (Wood, T.) 5:0905-0910
purchase (Eby) 5:1135 (Mack, J.) 5:1045-1050 (Trumpy, C.) 5:1055
Relationship with auditors (Muter, D.) 5:1015
Role and responsibilities See also Fiduciary duty above under this main heading
(Mack, J.) 5:0930
Role in Auditor General review of carbon neutrality initiative (Corrigan) 5:1025-1030 (Eby) 5:0955-1000 (Muter, D.) 5:1005-1015, 5:1025-1030 (Ralston) 5:1020 (Sydor, M.) 5:1005-1025 (Trumpy, C.) 5:0920, 5:1000-1005
Transfer of responsibilities (Jones, R.) 4:1020 (Simpson) 4:1015
Website information (Muter, D.) 5:0930-0935
Parks

Connectivity and migration corridors (Heyman) 3:1420 (Zacharias, M.) 3:1420
Percentage of land base in parks and protected areas (Letnick) 3:1415-1420 (Zacharias, M.) 3:1415-1420
Parliamentary Committees Office

Budget and research staff (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1125, 2:1430
Guide for members (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1445
Work of office (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1425, 2:1435
Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, Select Standing Committee on

History (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1430
Partnerships British Columbia

Auditor General oversight (Corrigan) 4:0945 (Jones, R.) 4:0945
Role in Evergreen line capital project (Thomas, C.) 4:1445
Patriot Act (United States) See United States
PCC See Provincial Capital Commission
PharmaCare program

Service delivery contract See Government contract under Maximus B.C. Health Inc.
Plants

Non-vascular plant species, data (Todosichuk, A.) 3:1455
Pluto Darkwoods Corporation

Sale of property to Nature Conservancy of Canada See Darkwoods forest management project, assessment as carbon offset project, land purchase under Nature Conservancy of Canada
Police and policing

Access to JUSTIN system See JUSTIN information system security, access under Justice system
Investigations, information management See Criminal justice system, information management under Justice system
PRIME information system
relationship to JUSTIN system See JUSTIN information system under Justice system
review by Auditor General (Jones, R.) 3:1055
system (Hughes, J.) 3:1050-1055
Transit police See Transit services
Port Mann Bridge

Financing and tolls, role of government (Dalton) 6:1050 (Newton, S.) 6:1050 (Ralston) 6:1050
Post-secondary education – Universities, colleges and institutes

Accounting standards See Accounting practices, standards for SUCH sector entities under Government; Financial reporting below under this main heading
Capital project financing, debt financing (Eby) 6:1115-1125 (Fischer, C.) 6:1125 (Newton, S.) 6:1120-1125
Financial management of working capital See Financial management of working capital by SUCH sector entities under Government
Financial reporting, inclusion in government reporting entity (Eby) 6:1120
Financial reporting, review by Auditor General (Eby) 4:1000 (Jones, R.) 4:1000 (Reid, J.) 4:0915
Information technology controls (Reimer) 3:1335 (Robinson) 3:1320
Pow, Luby

Economy, economic development initiative trusts
board relationship with elected representatives 6:1515
reporting 6:1505
review by Auditor General 6:1505, 6:1515
Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust, reporting 6:1505
PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.

Study on carbon offset projects (Sydor, M.) 5:1325
PRIME system See Police and policing
Privacy

Commissioner See Information and Privacy Commissioner
Privacy breaches and complaints, government handling (Hamilton, P.) 3:0940-0945 (Hughes, J.) 3:0945, 3:1015
Protected areas See Parks; Land set aside for protection under Land use
Provincial Capital Commission

Windup of organization (Simpson) 4:1015
PSAB standards See Accounting standards, public sector accounting standards under Accountants
Public Accounts See Financial reporting, public accounts under Government
Public accounts committees

Annual conference See Canadian Council of Public Accounts Committees
B.C. committee See Public Accounts, Select Standing Committee on
Chairs and Deputy Chairs, roles (Dubrow, G.) 2:1130 (Murphy, S.) 2:1030, 2:1255, 2:1305, 2:1330
Communications, media outreach and use of social media (Dubrow, G.) 2:1350 (Murphy, S.) 2:1345-1350 (Ralston) 2:1350
Deliberations on information technology issues (Murphy, S.) 2:1440
Hearings with government witnesses
members' preparation and questions to witnesses (Dubrow, G.) 2:1300-1310, 2:1325-1335 (Huntington) 2:1305, 2:1330 (Murphy, S.) 2:1255-1305, 2:1325
process (Dubrow, G.) 2:1105, 2:1155, 2:1335-1340 (Murphy, S.) 2:1250-1300
In-camera proceedings (Dubrow, G.) 2:1325-1330, 2:1440 (Murphy, S.) 2:1330, 2:1440
Ineffective committees (Murphy, S.) 2:1310
Meeting schedules (Dubrow, G.) 2:1120
Members
role (Dubrow, G.) 2:1155 (Murphy, S.) 2:1025
role in hearings with government witnesses See Hearings with government witnesses above under this main heading
role of government and opposition members (Dubrow, G.) 2:1140
Membership, timeline (Dubrow, G.) 2:1120-1125
Partisanship (Dubrow, G.) 2:1125-1140, 2:1335 (Murphy, S.) 2:1030
Partisanship, "constructive partisanship" concept (Dubrow, G.) 2:1130
Potential for political influence (Dubrow, G.) 2:1320 (Murphy, S.) 2:1310-1320 (Throness) 2:1320
Powers (Murphy, S.) 2:1330
Practices See Systems below under this main heading
Relationship with Auditors General (Dubrow, G.) 2:1100, 2:1145 (Murphy, S.) 2:1030-1035, 2:1145
Relationship with government (Murphy, S.) 2:1145, 2:1250-1255
Reports (Dubrow, G.) 2:1105, 2:1125
Reports and recommendations, unanimity and minority reports (Dubrow, G.) 2:1155 (Murphy, S.) 2:1155
Research staff and role (Dubrow, G.) 2:1125-1130, 2:1150
Review of Auditor General reports See also Auditors General in other jurisdictions under Auditors
briefings to committees by Auditors General (Dubrow, G.) 2:1325
endorsement or issuance of additional recommendations (Dubrow, G.) 2:1105-1120 (Lohnes, P.) 2:1115 (Murphy, S.) 2:1120
prioritization of reports (Dubrow, G.) 2:1145-1155 (Lohnes, P.) 2:1155
process (Dubrow, G.) 2:1130 (Murphy, S.) 2:1045
written summaries from government witnesses (Murphy, S.) 2:1300
Role See Systems below under this main heading
Steering committees (Dubrow, G.) 2:1140-1145 (Murphy, S.) 2:1140-1145
System in B.C. See Public Accounts, Select Standing Committee on
Systems (Corrigan) 2:1050 (Dubrow, G.) 2:1050-1155, 2:1300-1310, 2:1320, 2:1325-1340, 2:1350 (Heyman) 2:1100-1105 (Huntington) 2:1045, 2:1305 (Lohnes, P.) 2:1020, 2:1115 (Murphy, S.) 2:1025-1035, 2:1045-1050, 2:1105, 2:1120, 2:1140-1145, 2:1155, 2:1250-1330, 2:1345-1350, 2:1440-1445 (Newton, S.) 2:1040-1045 (Ralston) 2:1045, 2:1350 (Simpson) 2:1105-1110, 2:1135 (Sullivan) 2:1005, 2:1045-1050, 2:1335, 2:1440 (Throness) 2:1320
Website information (Murphy, S.) 2:1250
Witnesses, committee hearings with government witnesses See Hearings with government witnesses above under this main heading
Public Accounts, Select Standing Committee on

Approval of government records disposal schedules See Public documents committee
Attendance by chief information officer (Ralston) 3:1315, 3:1355
Attendance by committee members at public accounts committees conferences (Ralston) 1:1155-1200 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 1:1150-1155
Attendance by committee members at public accounts committees conferences, 2013 conference (Sullivan) 2:1005
Budget for conference attendance (Ralston) 1:1155 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 1:1155
Chair and Deputy Chair, roles (Corrigan) 2:1310 (Ralston) 2:1140-1145
Collegiality (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1435
Committees in other jurisdictions See Public accounts committees; particular jurisdictions
Communications, media outreach and use of social media (Letnick) 2:1350 (Robinson) 2:1350
Election of Chair and Deputy Chair (Dalton) 1:1150 (Ralston) 1:1150 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 1:1150 (Sullivan) 1:1150
Hearings with government witnesses
members' preparation and questions to witnesses (Corrigan) 2:1310 (Ralston) 2:1305, 2:1330
preparation of witnesses (Gibson) 2:1300 (Newton, S.) 2:1040
process (Dubrow, G.) 2:1140 (Gibson) 2:1255-1300 (Murphy, S.) 2:1255-1300 (Ralston) 2:1140 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1300
questions to witnesses (Simpson) 2:1325 (Sullivan) 2:1305, 2:1320-1325
witnesses' responses to members' comments (Ralston) 5:1125
History (Jones, R.) 2:1115 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1115, 2:1425-1430 (Sullivan) 2:1430
In-camera proceedings (Corrigan) 3:1140 (Gibson) 2:1405 (Huntington) 2:1330 (Jones, R.) 2:1400-1405 (Murphy, S.) 2:1440 (Ralston) 2:1405, 3:1140 (Sullivan) 2:1440
Mandate See Role and responsibilities below under this main heading
Media coverage (Corrigan) 2:1420
Meeting schedule (Dubrow, G.) 2:1120, 2:1140 (Huntington) 2:1145 (Kyllo) 2:1440 (Ralston) 1:1150, 2:1445
Members
issuance of electronic tablets (Kyllo) 2:1425 (Ralston) 2:1425
members (Ralston) 2:1005-1010
questions on information technology controls (Huntington) 3:1355
relationship (Ralston) 1:1150
role (Murphy, S.) 2:1310
role in hearings with government witnesses See Hearings with government witnesses above under this main heading
Membership, timeline (Huntington) 2:1125
Motions See Motions and resolutions
(Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1115, 2:1435
Orientation workshop for committee members (Dubrow, G.) 2:1155, 2:1445 (Huntington) 2:1445 (Lohnes, P.) 2:1010-1015, 2:1445 (Ralston) 2:1005-1010
Orientation workshop for committee members, evaluation (Ralston) 2:1445
Partisanship (Corrigan) 2:1420 (Gibson) 2:1155 (Huntington) 2:1055, 2:1125, 2:1345 (Ralston) 2:1005, 2:1130, 2:1420, 2:1445 (Robinson) 2:1445 (Sullivan) 2:1005
Potential for political influence (Corrigan) 2:1315-1320 (Murphy, S.) 2:1310-1320 (Sullivan) 2:1320
Powers See also Role and responsibilities below under this main heading
(Gibson) 2:1255-1300 (Murphy, S.) 2:1255-1300 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1300, 2:1435
Practices (Corrigan) 2:1145, 2:1310, 2:1320, 2:1345 (Dubrow, G.) 2:1050-1125, 2:1140-1155, 2:1300 (Gaston, M.) 2:1345 (Gibson) 2:1100, 2:1150-1155, 2:1255-1300 (Heyman) 2:1100-1105 (Huntington) 2:1055, 2:1125, 2:1145, 2:1330, 2:1345 (Jones, R.) 2:1035, 2:1045-1100, 2:1115-1120, 2:1135, 2:1155, 2:1320-1325, 2:1340 (Kyllo) 2:1155 (Letnick) 2:1350 (Murphy, S.) 2:1030-1035, 2:1105, 2:1120, 2:1140, 2:1155, 2:1255-1300, 2:1310-1320 (Newton, S.) 2:1045, 2:1135 (Ralston) 2:1045-1050, 2:1130, 2:1140-1145, 2:1155, 2:1305, 2:1330, 2:1445 (Reimer) 2:1150 (Robinson) 2:1350 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1050, 2:1115, 2:1125, 2:1155, 2:1300, 2:1430-1435 (Simpson) 2:1105-1110, 2:1135, 2:1325 (Sullivan) 2:1045-1050, 2:1115, 2:1150, 2:1305, 2:1320-1325, 2:1440
Referral of Auditor General reports to committee See Review of Auditor General reports below under this main heading
Relationship with Auditor General (Dubrow, G.) 2:1100, 2:1300 (Heyman) 2:1100-1105 (Huntington) 2:1045 (Jones, R.) 2:1035, 2:1320-1325 (Murphy, S.) 2:1030-1035, 2:1105 (Ralston) 4:1025 (Reimer) 4:1025 (Sullivan) 2:1320-1325
Relationship with comptroller general (Newton, S.) 2:1040-1045 (Sullivan) 2:1045
Relationship with comptroller general and government (Murphy, S.) 2:1035
Reports (Huntington) 2:1430 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1430-1435
Reports and recommendations, unanimity and minority reports (Gibson) 2:1155 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1155
Reports, presentation to Legislative Assembly (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1435
Research staff and role (Dubrow, G.) 2:1125, 2:1150 (Huntington) 2:1125 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1125, 2:1430
Review of Auditor General reports
benefits (Jones, R.) 2:1415
briefings to committee by Auditor General (Huntington) 2:1330
electronic and print report format (Huntington) 2:1425 (Ralston) 2:1425 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1425 (Throness) 2:1420
endorsement of recommendations (Ralston) 3:1555 (Reimer) 3:1555
endorsement or issuance of additional recommendations (Jones, R.) 2:1115-1120 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1115 (Simpson) 2:1105, 2:1115
follow-up with government agencies See Audit follow-up under Auditor General
government action plans and implementation of recommendations See Recommendations under Auditor General
handling of policy issues (Heyman) 5:0950 (Ralston) 5:0940
hearings with government witnesses See Hearings with government witnesses above under this main heading
process (Dubrow, G.) 2:1055-1105 (Gibson) 2:1100 (Heyman) 2:1100-1105 (Huntington) 2:1045, 2:1055 (Jones, R.) 2:1045, 2:1325, 2:1410-1415, 3:1135 (Morris) 2:1055 (Murphy, S.) 2:1030-1035, 2:1105 (Newton, S.) 2:1040 (Reimer) 2:1055
release of reports to committee (Corrigan) 2:1050 (Dubrow, G.) 2:1050 (Jones, R.) 2:1050 (Kyllo) 2:1420 (Murphy, S.) 2:1050 (Ralston) 2:1050, 2:1420-1425 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1050, 2:1425
subcommittee proposal (Huntington) 1:1200 (Ralston) 1:1200
workload and printed materials (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 3:1555
workload and prioritization of reports (Corrigan) 2:1145 (Dubrow, G.) 2:1145 (Gibson) 2:1150-1155 (Jones, R.) 2:1410 (Ralston) 2:1145, 2:1155, 2:1410 (Reimer) 2:1150 (Sullivan) 2:1150, 2:1320-1325
Role (Ralston) 1:1150
Role and responsibilities (Dubrow, G.) 2:1055 (Eby) 3:1130 (Gibson) 2:1420 (Heyman) 5:0950 (Murphy, S.) 2:1025-1035, 2:1250-1255, 2:1445 (Ralston) 2:1005, 2:1420, 5:0940 (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1115, 2:1430-1435 (Simpson) 2:1115, 3:1340
Seating arrangement in meetings (Huntington) 2:1445 (Ralston) 2:1445 (Robinson) 2:1445
Subcommittee on agenda and procedure, establishment (Ralston) 1:1150
Witnesses, committee hearings with government witnesses See Hearings with government witnesses above under this main heading
Public documents committee

Review of government records retention schedules (Ryan-Lloyd, K.) 2:1430
Public sector

Governance (Anderson, T.) 6:1520
Public Sector Accounting Board

Project on public-private partnership accounting (Jones, R.) 4:1040
Role (Jones, R.) 4:0950 (Ralston) 4:0950
Standards See Accounting standards, public sector accounting standards under Accountants
Public sector energy conservation agreement

Funding (Mack, J.) 5:0940
Public-private partnerships See Business; particular projects or sectors

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