41st Parliament – 2018
Parliamentary Committee Proceedings
Finance and Government Services Committee
SUBJECT-SPEAKER INDEX
speeches by Members, committee staff and witnesses; topics raised
References are linked to time stamps in the transcript: e.g.,
73B:1435 = Issue 73, 2:35 p.m.
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Rachar, Devin
- Presentation to committee 40:1310, 40:1420, 40:1435
- Ferries and ferry services, services to ferry-dependent communities 40:1420
- Haida Gwaii
- ferry service levels 40:1420
- health care services and health professional supply 40:1420
- mental health services for children and youth, counsellor positions 40:1435
- Health care system, health professionals, supply 40:1420
- Mental health services for children and youth 40:1435
Radon gas See Hazardous products
Railways and rail services
Ralph, Joshua
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Emily Carr Students Union 50:1515
- Arts and culture, creative sector, skilled workers and training 50:1515
- Post-secondary education
Rangeland
Rans, Martha
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Pacific Legal Education and Outreach Society 50:1310-1320
- Child care service providers, legal requirements 50:1320
- Civil Resolution Tribunal, role 50:1310-1315
- Columbia Basin Trust, support for non-profit organizations 50:1310-1320
- Non-profit sector, legal requirements and resources 50:1310-1320
- Pacific Legal Education and Outreach Society, role and programs for non-profits 50:1310-1320
- Societies, legal requirements 50:1310-1315
RBA See Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance
Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver See also Permut, Harriet
Real estate industry See also Housing
Realistic Success Recovery Society See also Sanderson, Susan
Recall and Initiative Act
Recovery houses See Substance use and addiction
Recreation See Sports and recreation
RECSI See Electricity infrastructure, regional cooperation and infrastructure initiative under Energy
Recycling
- Product stewardship programs, impact on retail industry (Wilson, G.) 49:1105
Reddy, Namorsh
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Downtown Eastside Literacy Roundtable 42:1625-1635
- Adult basic education, accessibility 42:1625-1635
- Downtown Eastside Literacy Roundtable funding and programs 42:1625-1635
- Education, students
- Literacy programs and funding 42:1625-1635
- Vancouver, Downtown Eastside, literacy programs 42:1625-1635
Redies, Tracy (Surrey–White Rock)
- As subject
- daughter's access to speech and language services 42:1555
- Alcohol
- sale of alcohol, nickel-a-drink levy proposal for addiction treatment 46:1640
- Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
- Attorney General Ministry
- role re referendum on electoral reform 35:1040
- Auditor General
- budget and operations
- budget and operations, update 31:0915-0920
- Automobiles
- clean energy and electric vehicles
- charging stations and incentives 47:1050
- clean energy and electric vehicles, charging stations and incentives 49:1025
- Beverages and beverage industry
- diet beverages 47:0930
- sugar-sweetened beverages
- health promotion tax proposal 47:0930
- B.C. Hydro
- financial reporting, Auditor General review 59:0830
- B.C. Hydro and Power Authority
- financial reporting, Auditor General review 31:0915
- B.C. Schizophrenia Society
- B.C. Spinal Cord Injury Community Services Network
- Carbon tax
- Children and youth
- early childhood development
- early intervention services 47:0955
- College of the Rockies
- Construction industry
- excavation work, protection of underground infrastructure 48:1140
- prompt payment issues 43:1015
- Dental health
- dental health of seniors and access to dental care 49:1455
- Digital media industry
- Earthquakes
- Education
- principals and vice-principals
- leadership development, recruitment and wages 44:1615
- special education and special needs
- Education funding
- Elections
- new voting technology, implementation and costs 32:0830
- Elections B.C.
- administration of initiative petitions 32:0830
- budget and operations
- funding request 61:0940
- supplementary funding request for referendum on electoral reform 35:1040
- update 32:0830
- information technology 32:0830
- Electronic cigarettes and vapour products
- Elsner, Frank, police misconduct case and costs 60:1100
- Employer health tax
- Environment
- professional reliance model review 49:1000
- Families
- tax credits for families with children
- Family court
- Film industry
- Finance and Government Services Committee
- appointment of audit firm for audit of Auditor General office 29:1605
- reports, budget consultation report 58:0940
- Financial services industry
- prevention of financial abuse of seniors 49:0920
- Fires and firefighters
- wildfires
- prevention and ecosystem restoration 43:0950
- First Nations and Indigenous persons
- Food and food industry
- Foot health
- podiatrists and chiropodists, supply and training 49:1505
- Forests and forest industry
- Fraser River
- proposed purchase of islands for fish habitat protection 48:1340
- Gambling
- casinos, money-laundering prevention and review 42:1505
- Government
- procurement practices and system
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- emissions from sectors, trade-exposed industries 48:1410
- High-technology industry
- Highway 99
- George Massey Tunnel replacement project 50:1505
- Home care
- Hotels and travel accommodation
- short-term accommodation
- short-term accommodation, regulation and taxation 48:0850
- Housing
- development charges and fees 48:0915
- rental housing, landlord costs 42:1525
- Human Rights Commissioner
- budget and operations
- role re foreign credentials issues 62:0905
- staff and staffing
- Immigration
- credentialling of foreign-trained professionals and workers 62:0905
- foreign and immigrant workers
- streamlining of application processes 49:1130
- Information and Privacy Commissioner
- budget and operations
- information technology 60:0925
- Invasive species
- Investment
- investment climate and "capital flight" concept 42:1410
- Island Coastal Economic Trust
- governance and role of First Nations 42:1110
- Kaler, Nicole, experience of daughter with special needs in education system and human rights complaint 50:1140
- Kootenay area
- East Kootenays, ecosystem restoration program 43:0950
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Langara College
- capital projects, Building A replacement project 42:0930
- Legislation
- citizens' initiatives, process 32:0830
- Legislature
- Officers of the Legislature
- Lobbyists Registration Amendment Act
- Local government
- development approval process 50:1305
- Long-term and residential care
- Mental health
- mental health of children and youth
- early intervention and return on investment 49:0930
- Mines and mining industry
- Mortgages
- fraud prevention and private financing 42:1510
- Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism
- membership and short-term accommodation providers 45:0910
- Ombudsperson
- budget and operations
- investigations and reports, process 33:0920
- staff and staffing, new positions 34:0810
- Parkinson's disease
- awareness and access to treatment 42:1545
- Physicians
- anaesthesiologists, services and funding model 50:1350
- Physiotherapists
- supply and training 42:1305
- supply and training, foreign-trained physiotherapists 48:1305
- Police Complaint Commissioner
- budget and operations
- staff and staffing
- Post-secondary education
- financial assistance
- elimination of interest on loans 44:1625
- financial assistance, graduate student scholarships 42:1620
- graduate studies, student recruitment and support 42:1620
- international students 42:1620
- Post-secondary education funding
- Property
- management, labour supply and talent strategy proposal 42:0940
- Real estate industry
- housing market
- housing market, conditions and impact of government policies 50:1335
- housing market, risks and mitigation 42:1510
- regulation and oversight 50:1525
- taxation 48:0915
- Referendum on electoral reform
- mail-in ballot, vote tabulation and reporting 61:0940
- public education and voter information 35:1040
- Rental housing
- rent increases and costs for landlords 50:1335
- Representative for Children and Youth
- budget and operations
- budget and operations, update 31:0825
- work with Indigenous communities
- Indigenous Strategies and Partnership team 62:0815
- School district 36 (Surrey)
- School district 39 (Vancouver)
- Schools
- construction of new schools and size requirements 42:1330
- Science and technology
- applied science technologists, supply and training 50:1510
- Seniors
- elder abuse prevention, funding and services 49:0920
- Sexual violence
- government action, sexual assault policy 50:1105
- Simon Fraser University
- Burnaby campus
- transit issues and gondola system proposal 50:1015
- Site C power project
- Skills training
- Small business
- South Island Prosperity Project
- Speculation and vacancy tax
- impact on short-term and vacation rentals 48:0850
- implementation and impact 47:1105
- Speech disorders
- early intervention services and funding 42:1555
- Speech-language pathologists
- Spinal cord conditions and injuries
- integrated support services and funding 50:1110
- Sports and recreation
- Taxation
- Teck Resources Ltd.
- potential partnership with school district 43:0910
- Tobacco
- Tourism
- Trade unions
- Treaty First Nation Taxation Act
- provisions and proposed amendment 42:1025
- Tri-University Meson Facility
- TRIUMF Innovations commercial division
- Trucking industry
- Tsawwassen First Nation
- economic development projects and infrastructure 50:1505
- U.S.
- University of B.C.
- Okanagan campus (Kelowna)
- digital learning factory project 47:0910
- Vancouver Community College
- West Coast Kids Cancer Association
- activities and camp facility proposal 49:1145
- Wildlife
- wildlife management and resource development 43:1050
- YMCA of Okanagan
- child care services and facilities, funding 47:1100
Referendum on electoral reform
- Ballot, mail-in ballot See Mail-in ballot below
- Costs (Boegman, A.) 35:1005-1025
- Mail-in ballot
- ballot certification (Boegman, A.) 35:1020, 35:1055
- ballots and voting packages (Boegman, A.) 35:1015, 35:1025, 35:1045-1055
- process (Boegman, A.) 35:1015, 35:1025, 35:1050-1055, 61:0900 (Brar) 35:1050-1055 (Cadieux) 35:1045 (D'Eith) 35:1050 (Milobar) 35:1050, 35:1105
- process and impact of postal labour dispute (D'Eith) 61:0925 (Milobar) 61:0935 (Porter, C.) 61:0920-0925, 61:0935
- reporting (Boegman, A.) 35:1020
- services for visually impaired people (Boegman, A.) 35:1010, 35:1100 (Leonard) 35:1100
- vote tabulation (Boegman, A.) 35:1020-1025
- vote tabulation and reporting (Porter, C.) 61:0925, 61:0940 (Redies) 61:0940
- voter compliance screening (Porter, C.) 61:0920-0925
- Proponent and opponent groups
- Public education and voter information
- Role of Service B.C. and referendum service offices (Ashton) 35:1030 (Boegman, A.) 35:1015, 35:1030, 35:1045 (Leonard) 35:1030 (Milobar) 35:1030
- Voting by mail See Mail-in ballot above
Regional Child Care Council See also Davis, Danielle; Elliot, Enid
Regional districts
Regional Electricity Cooperation and Strategic Infrastructure Initiative See Electricity infrastructure under Energy
Registrar of lobbyists See Information and Privacy Commissioner
Reid, Colin
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Kamloops YMCA 46:1820-1830
- Charities, funding and role in service delivery 46:1820-1825
- Child care, funding 46:1825
- Employer health tax, implementation and impact, charities and non-profit agencies 46:1825
- Housing, affordable housing 46:1825
- Kamloops YMCA
Reiser, Henry
- Presentation to committee on behalf of College of New Caledonia 38:0810-0820
- College of New Caledonia
- health sciences centre proposal and centre of excellence in imaging 38:0810-0820
- partnership with UNBC 38:0815
- Health care system, medical imaging services and training programs 38:0810-0820
Renewable energy See Clean energy under Energy
Rental housing See Housing
Repen, Darcy
- Presentation to committee on behalf of village of Telkwa 39:1625-1640
- Local government
- infrastructure funding and needs, capital grants 39:1630-1635
- transfer of costs and responsibilities from provincial government 39:1630
- Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance, funding and role 39:1635
- Taylor, revenue-sharing agreement 39:1635
- Telkwa
- description and population 39:1635
- village government revenues, funding and infrastructure needs 39:1625-1640
- Union of B.C. Municipalities, policy paper recommendations 39:1630-1635
Replant program See Tree fruit industry under Food and food industry
Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on Recommendations for Legislative Change, May 2018 See Reports and reviews under Elections B.C.
Representative for Children and Youth See also Charlesworth, Jennifer; Richard, Bernard
- Advocacy activities (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0805 (Richard, B.) 31:0805, 31:0815
- Budget and operations
- building occupancy charges (Buljat, D.) 62:0815 (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0810-0815 (D'Eith) 62:0815 (Leonard) 62:0820-0825 (Markwart, A.) 62:0825
- funding request (Ashton) 62:0825-0830 (Buljat, D.) 62:0815 (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0800-0830 (Dean) 62:0820 (D'Eith) 62:0815 (Leonard) 62:0820-0825 (Markwart, A.) 62:0820-0825 (Redies) 62:0815
- gender-based lens (Markwart, A.) 62:0820
- gender-based lens and Indigenous lens (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0820 (Dean) 62:0820
- update (Ashton) 31:0840 (Dean) 31:0825-0830 (D'Eith) 31:0825, 31:0835 (Redies) 31:0825 (Richard, B.) 31:0800-0840
- Indigenous strategies and partnerships work See Work with Indigenous communities below
- Input to government engagement processes (Richard, B.) 31:0820
- Investigation of child injuries and deaths (Dean) 31:0830 (Richard, B.) 31:0805-0810, 31:0830-0835
- Monitoring activities (Richard, B.) 31:0810-0815
- Office space (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0810
- Office space, Burnaby office (Buljat, D.) 62:0815 (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0815 (D'Eith) 62:0815 (Markwart, A.) 62:0825
- Outreach and youth engagement activities (Richard, B.) 31:0815-0820
- Relationship with Children and Family Development Ministry (Dean) 31:0825 (Richard, B.) 31:0820-0825, 31:0835
- Reports
- adoption system (Richard, B.) 31:0815
- death of youth with mental health issues (Richard, B.) 31:0810
- delegated Aboriginal agencies (Richard, B.) 31:0810
- education outcomes for children in care (Richard, B.) 31:0810-0815
- reports (Richard, B.) 31:0805-0810
- upcoming reports (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0805
- youth substance abuse services (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0805
- Reviews of care plans of Indigenous children (Richard, B.) 31:0820
- Role and responsibilities (Richard, B.) 31:0805
- Role and responsibilities, young adults (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0810-0815
- Staff and salaries (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0810
- Staff and staffing (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0810-0815 (Richard, B.) 31:0800-0805, 31:0825
- Staff and staffing, Indigenous staff (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0820
- Statutory review (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0810-0815
- Statutory review, request for mandate expansion See Role and responsibilities, young adults above
- Work of office, update and priorities (Charlesworth, J.) 62:0800-0810 (Richard, B.) 31:0805-0820, 31:0835
- Work with Indigenous communities
Representative for Children and Youth Act
Reproduction
- Infertility incidence (Nouch, N.) 49:0945-0950
- IVF treatment
Research and development
- Alignment with industry needs (Conlon, M.) 50:1355 (D'Eith) 50:1355
- Knowledge development fund (Conlon, M.) 50:1355
- Research infrastructure, funding (Ciceri, R.) 48:0955-1000
Research Universities Council of British Columbia See also Ciceri, Robin
Residential care See Long-term and residential care
Residential Tenancy Act
- Amendments, consultation process (Leonard) 30:0900 (McEvoy, M.) 30:0900
Resolutions See Motions and resolutions
Resorts
- Resort municipality initiative program (Atrill, G.) 39:1700 (Ducs, D.) 45:0905
Resources and resource industries
- Geoscience research
- Management and oversight (Smith, S.) 49:1550
- Resource development (Harrison, B.) 47:1130-1135
- Resource development, revenues and allocation to fish and wildlife conservation (Snyder, D.) 38:0945
- Resource use and conservation, user fee proposal (D'Eith) 48:1340 (Martin, A.) 48:1335-1340
- Rural dividend program See Rural B.C. under British Columbia by region
- Wildlife management and resource development See Wildlife
Restaurant and food services industry
Restaurants Canada See also von Schellwitz, Mark
Restorative justice programs See Corrections system
Retail Council of Canada See also Bruenjes, Avery; Wilson, Greg
Retail industry
Revenue Benefits Alliance See Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance
Richard, Bernard See also Representative for Children and Youth
- As subject
- work as Representative for Children and Youth (D'Eith) 31:0825, 31:0840
- Adoption of children in government care 31:0815, 31:0830
- Children and youth
- programs and services for children and families, system of services and supports 31:0840
- suicide incidence 31:0830-0835
- Education, students in government care, education outcomes and supports 31:0810-0815
- First Nations and Indigenous persons
- children
- children in government care
- programs and services for children and families, funding 31:0810
- Foundry, youth services initiative and centres 31:0830-0835
- John, Ed, report and recommendations to government 31:0820-0825
- Mental Health and Addictions Ministry
- relationship with Representative for Children and Youth 31:0835-0840
- role and responsibilities 31:0810
- Mental health of children and youth, mental health and addiction services 31:0810, 31:0830-0835
- New Brunswick, education system and mental health services 31:0835
- Representative for Children and Youth
- Thomas-Wightman, Dawn, secondment from Representative for Children and Youth office 31:0805
Richmond, B.C.
- Agricultural land reserve, housing construction (Gillanders, L.) 50:1550-1600
- Anti-poverty coalition, arts initiative (Leadlay, B.) 42:1700-1705 (Simons) 42:1700
Rickinson, Mary
- Presentation to committee on behalf of North Island Students Union 41:1315-1325
- As subject
- Post-secondary education
RMI program See Resort municipality initiative program under Resorts
Roads See Highways and roads
Robert, Line
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Island Coastal Economic Trust 42:1110
Roberts, Julia
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Nelson Interfaith Climate Action Collaborative 45:0910-0920
- B.C. Transit, reinstatement of Sunday service 45:0920
- Greenhouse gas emissions, reduction, transportation sector 45:0915
- Kootenay area, transit service 45:0915-0920
- Nelson Interfaith Climate Action Collaborative, organization and Sunday bus service proposal 45:0910-0920
- Transit services, services for rural communities 45:0915-0920
Robinson, Jay
- Presentation to committee on behalf of B.C. Chiropractic Association 49:1115-1125
- B.C. Healthy Living Alliance, funding 49:1120
- Chiropractors, role in health system and funding of services 49:1115-1125
- Health care facilities and hospitals, urgent primary care centres 49:1120
- Health care system
- medical imaging services, access to records 49:1120
- medical imaging services, chiropractic referrals 49:1115-1125
- pain management and opioid use 49:1120
- primary health care and interdisciplinary teams 49:1120-1125
- Ladysmith, chiropractic services initiative 49:1120
- Musculoskeletal health, services 49:1115-1120
- Substance use and addiction, opioid overdoses and issues 49:1120
Rocky Mountain Trench
Rocky Mountain Trench ecosystem restoration program See also Adams, Ian
Rogoza, Dennis
- Presentation to committee on behalf of B.C. SCRAP-IT program 49:1155-1205
- Automobiles, clean energy and electric vehicles, charging stations and incentives 49:1200
- B.C. SCRAP-IT program
- Greenhouse gas emissions reduction, transportation sector 49:1155-1205
Room for Improvement: Towards Better Education Outcomes for Children in Care report See Reports, education outcomes for children in care under Representative for Children and Youth
Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, B.C.
- Capacity re deep brain stimulation surgeries (Blake, J.) 42:1545
Rural B.C. See British Columbia by region
Rural dividend program See Rural B.C. under British Columbia by region
Ryan-Lloyd, Kate
- Finance and Government Services Committee
- review of statutory officers, process 29:1610
- site visit by committee to Ombudsperson office 33:0925
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