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Province of British Columbia
39th Parliament – 2010
Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Abbotsford, Mission, Ridge Meadows
Board Voice Society of British Columbia
Brain health
- Brain injuries
- Brain injuries, treatment services
British Columbia
- Northern B.C.
- groundwater monitoring and natural gas development in northeast B.C. (Anglin, L.) 36:0925
- northern trade and transportation corridor (Peacock, K.) 36:1115
British Columbia Agriculture Council
- Membership (Etsell, G.) 36:0905
- Position on harmonized sales tax (Etsell, G.) 36:0905
- Recommendations on government budget (Etsell, G.) 36:0905-0915
British Columbia Apartment Owners and Managers Association
- Activities (Gordon, M.) 36:1135-1140
- Position on harmonized sales tax and rental housing policies (Gordon, M.) 36:1135-1150
British Columbia Arts Council
- Funding (Hamilton, S.) 36:1055-1105
- Recommendations on government budget and policies (Hamilton, S.) 36:1105
- Relationship with arts organizations and government (Hamilton, S.) 36:1100-1105
- Role (Hamilton, S.) 36:1050-1055
British Columbia Association of Child Development and Intervention
- Member agencies and role (Sandy, B.) 36:1120
- Recommendations on government budget and policies (Sandy, B.) 36:1130-1135
British Columbia Federation of Retired Union Members
- Membership and role (Routley, B.) 36:1310 (Silvester, B.) 36:1305-1310
- Recommendations on government budget (Silvester, B.) 36:1310
- Work on group rates for services (Donaldson) 36:1310 (Silvester, B.) 36:1310
British Columbia Food Processors Association
British Columbia Food Safety Stakeholders Group
British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union
British Columbia Housing Management Commission
British Columbia Liberal Party – Government
British Columbia Neurotrauma Fund Contribution Act
British Columbia Wood Specialties Group
Budgets
- 2011-12 budget priorities
Business
Business Council of British Columbia
- Outlook 2020 project (Peacock, K.) 36:1110
- Position on harmonized sales tax (Peacock, K.) 36:1115
- Recommendations on government budget and policies (Peacock, K.) 36:1110-1120 (Ralston) 36:1115 (Thornthwaite) 36:1120
- Research on early childhood social vulnerability (Kershaw, P.) 36:1650, 36:1700
Buy B.C. program
Canadian Council for Food Processors
Canadian Federation of Students
- B.C. office, recommendations on government budget and post-secondary education policies (Takkar, N.) 36:1425-1430
- B.C. office, role (Takkar, N.) 36:1425
Carbon tax
- Exemption for food producers (Etsell, G.) 36:0910
- Revenues, use for emission reduction initiatives for industry (Etsell, G.) 35:0910
- Tax credit refund proposal for landlords (Gordon, M.) 36:1150
- Tax freeze (Peacock, K.) 36:1115
Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia
- Agriculture extension agent position (Etsell, G.) 36:0910
Children
- Child vulnerability in early learning and education See Child vulnerability under Children – Early childhood development
- Child vulnerability, prevention (Kacir, P.) 36:1620-1625
- Mental health See Mental health of children and youth under Mental health
- Programs and services for children and families
- family resource programs (Dobbyn, V.) 36:1325
- family resource programs and funding (Donaldson) 36:1630 (Kacir, P.) 36:1615-1630
- funding (Lifton, G.) 36:1325-1330
- rehabilitation and speech therapy services and therapist training (Sandy, B.) 36:1130-1135
- service agencies, funding for capital projects and staff salary increases (Sandy, B.) 36:1130-1135
- service delivery (Kacir, P.) 36:1630 (Thornthwaite) 36:1625-1630
- Special needs children
- funding for programs and services (Sandy, B.) 36:1125-1135
- numbers and definition (Sandy, B.) 36:1120
- wait-lists for programs and services (Sandy, B.) 36:1120, 36:1130
Children – Child care
- Accessibility, issue of parents working from home (Kershaw, P.) 36:1655 (Mungall) 36:1655
Children – Early childhood development
- Child vulnerability
- impact on economy (Kershaw, P.) 36:1645
- incidence and 15 by 15 reduction goal (Sandy, B.) 36:1125
- incidence and reduction (Kershaw, P.) 36:1640-1650
- Early intervention services, funding (Sandy, B.) 36:1130
- Early learning and child care
- government investment (Thornthwaite) 36:1650
- government investment and economic benefits (Kershaw, P.) 36:1645-1700 (Rustad) 36:1655
- Government investment (Dobbyn, V.) 36:1325 (Lifton, G.) 36:1325 (Peacock, K.) 36:1120
- Government investment, reports and studies (Sandy, B.) 36:1125-1130
Chilliwack, B.C.
- Access to brain injury services, cases (Paetkau, C.) 36:1455
Christian Labour Association of Canada
Civil service
- Public sector size in B.C. and other jurisdictions (Walker, D.) 36:1350
Communities
- Community organizations, gaming grants, eligibility and elimination of multi-year grants (Sheach, D.) 36:1635-1640
- Community organizations, social service providers See Community social services sector under Welfare
CommunityLINK program See Education
Computer technology
- Internet service in rural and remote communities (Etsell, G.) 36:0915
Construction industry
- Green building design, rental housing (Gordon, M.) 36:1145-1150
Corrections system
- Correctional facilities, federal funding (Walker, D.) 36:1400
Crowhurst, Tim
- Alberta, liquor sales and taxation 36:1155
- Alcohol
- Hong Kong, liquor sales and taxation 36:1155
- Import Vintners and Spirits Association
- Quebec, liquor exports and sales 36:1200
- Taxation, cost-of-service taxes, elimination 36:1155
Crown corporations
Danzo, Jane
- Resignation from B.C. Arts Council (Hamilton, S.) 36:1105
Debt
Denominational Health Association
Disease
- Impact on income (Power, N.) 36:0955
Dobbyn, Vicki
- Children
- early childhood development, government investment 36:1325
- programs and services for children and families, family resource programs 36:1325
- Poverty reduction plan, role of social services 36:1325-1330
- Sunshine Coast Community Services Society, recommendations on government budget 36:1325
Donaldson, Doug (Stikine)
- B.C. Federation of Retired Union Members, work on group rates for services 36:1310
- Children
- programs and services for children and families, family resource programs and funding 36:1630
- Education
- class size and composition, legislation and administrative costs 36:1545
- Education, school districts and boards of education
- carbon neutrality and costs 36:1545
- Forests and forest industry
- value-added sector, government incentives and support 36:1600
- Fraser River
- Ladner channels, management 36:1340
- Geoscience B.C., funding 36:0930
- Government
- revenues and revenue sources, revenue sources 36:1400
- Health, health care facilities and hospitals
- faith-based health care facilities, service agreement and relationship with government 36:1520
- Health, health care funding
- faith-based health care facilities 36:1520
- Industry Training Authority
- Taxation
- United Church Health Services Society 36:1520
Dvoracek, Vladimir
- Budgets, 2011-12 budget priorities, post-secondary education 36:1030
- Post-secondary education
- accessibility and affordability 36:1025
- benefits 36:1025
- student financial assistance 36:1030
- students, length of studies and graduation time 36:1025
- teaching universities, research capacity 36:1025
- Post-secondary education, funding
- University of the Fraser Valley
- Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies 36:1020
- enrolment levels and capacity issues 36:1025
- facilities and programs 36:1020
Economy
- Competitiveness (Peacock, K.) 36:1110-1115
- Conditions (Hull, D.) 36:1435 (Peacock, K.) 36:1105-1110 (Sandy, B.) 36:1125 (Walker, D.) 36:1345
- Economic stimulus proposals (Peacock, K.) 36:1110-1115
- Government role and strategy (Walker, D.) 36:1345
- Green economy, development (Walker, D.) 36:1355
- Human capital, government investment (Peacock, K.) 36:1110
Education
Education – Funding
- CommunityLINK program (Schafer, C.) 36:1535-1540
- Funding for school districts (Schafer, C.) 36:1535
Education – School districts and boards of education See also particular school districts
- Carbon neutrality and costs (Donaldson) 36:1545 (MacRae, J.) 36:1545
- Position on class size legislation (Schafer, C.) 36:1545 (Thornthwaite) 36:1545
- Sale of school lands (Schafer, C.) 36:1535
Energy
- Clean energy, projects (Prentice, D.) 36:1415
- Energy-efficient products and initiatives, impact of harmonized sales tax See Impact on issues, green products and initiatives under Harmonized sales tax
- Northwest transmission line, relationship with mineral exploration activity (Anglin, L.) 36:0930
Enns, Arthur
- B.C. Housing Management Commission, funding 36:1520
- Denominational Health Association
- Health, continuing and long-term care, assessment of care needs 36:1525
- Health, faith-based health care facilities and hospitals
- Health, health care funding
- Health, health care system
- public-private partnerships 36:1515
- services for non–B.C. residents 36:1520
- St. Paul's Hospital, funding for redevelopment 36:1520
Environment
- Environmental assessment process, integrated federal-provincial process (Peacock, K.) 36:1115 (Prentice, D.) 36:1415
- Environmental protection, resources (Walker, D.) 36:1350-1355
Etsell, Garnet
- Agriculture
- extension services, funding 36:0910
- farm assessment review panel recommendations 36:0910
- financial assistance and insurance programs for farmers, AgriRecovery program 36:0915
- government investment and support 36:0905
- government plan, funding 36:0905-0910
- industry, conditions 36:0905
- promotion of B.C. products 36:0905
- B.C. Agriculture Council
- Carbon tax
- exemption for food producers 36:0910
- revenues, use for emission reduction initiatives for industry 35:0910
- Certified Organic Associations of B.C., agriculture extension agent position 36:0910
- Computer technology, Internet service in rural and remote communities 36:0915
- Education, fruit and vegetable program 36:0915
- Fuel, coloured and clear fuel, tax rates 36:0915
- Harmonized sales tax
- exemptions and rebates, cooperatives 36:0910
- impact on agricultural cooperatives 36:0905
- Livestock industry, predator control program 36:0915
Exports and imports
- Northern trade and transportation corridor See Northern B.C. under British Columbia
Families
- Programs and services See Programs and services for children and families under Children
Farmers, farms, etc. See Agriculture
FASD See Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Prevention and treatment services (Lifton, G.) 36:1320
Finance and Government Services, Select Standing Committee on
- Prebudget consultation process (Les) 36:0900
- Report recommendations on funding for services to special needs children (Sandy, B.) 36:1130
Finance, Ministry of
- Quarterly financial reports, report tabled September 15, 2010 (Hull, D.) 36:1435
First Nations
- Children and families, family resource program services (Kacir, P.) 36:1625
Food
- Fruits and vegetables, snack program in schools See Fruit and vegetable program under Education
Food banks
Food industry
- Abattoirs See Slaughter facilities below under this main heading
- Agrifood technology and commercialization centre proposal, funding (Human, N.) 36:0940-0950 (Ralston) 36:0945
- Food quality and safety, strategy (Human, N.) 36:0945
- Food-processing sector, current conditions and issues (Human, N.) 36:0935-0945
- Food-processing sector, training strategy (Human, N.) 36:0940-0950
- Meat-processing regulations, transition programs, funding (Human, N.) 36:0940-0945
- Slaughter facilities, capacity and licensing (Human, N.) 36:0940-0945
Forestry Innovation Investment Ltd.
- Funding and role (Hawrysh, B.) 36:1555
Forests and forest industry
- Expansion of market for products (Hawrysh, B.) 36:1555
- Government management and stewardship capacity (Walker, D.) 36:1350-1355
- Stumpage system, compliance and enforcement (Walker, D.) 36:1400
- Value-added sector (Hawrysh, B.) 36:1550-1605 (Routley, B.) 36:1600
- Value-added sector, fibre supply (Greenhill, S.) 36:1600 (Ralston) 36:1600 (Routley, B.) 36:1605
- Value-added sector, government incentives (Donaldson) 36:1600 (Greenhill, S.) 36:1600
- Wood-first initiative (Hawrysh, B.) 36:1555
Fraser River
Fuel
- Coloured and clear fuel, tax rates (Etsell, G.) 36:0915
Gambling
- Charities' access to gambling revenues See also Community organizations, gaming grants under Communities
Geoscience See Science and technology
Geoscience British Columbia Society
- Funding (Donaldson) 36:0930
- Funding and work, projects (Anglin, L.) 36:0920-0930
- Mandate and role (Anglin, L.) 36:0920
- Recommendations on government budget (Anglin, L.) 36:0930
G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
- ALS Centre for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, funding and services (Ralston) 36:1615 (Thornthwaite) 36:1615 (Toyer, W.) 36:1610-1615 (van Dongen) 36:1615
Global Buyers Mission
- Wood products trade show (Hawrysh, B.) 36:1555
Godden, Kevin
- Education, student transition to post-secondary education 36:1540-1545
- Skills training, secondary school programs 36:1540
Gordon, Marg
- B.C. Apartment Owners and Managers Association
- Carbon tax, tax credit refund proposal for landlords 36:1150
- Construction industry, green building design for rental housing 36:1145-1150
- Harmonized sales tax
- Housing, rental housing
- Vancouver, rental housing 36:1140
Government
Greenhill, Sean
- B.C. Wood Specialties Group, activities 36:1600
- Forests and forest industry, value-added sector 36:1600
- Masonite International Corp.
- benefit from forest industry support programs 36:1600
- timber supply 36:1600
- wood product manufacturing and export 36:1550
Hamilton, Stan
- Arts and culture
- B.C. Arts Council
- Danzo, Jane, resignation from B.C. Arts Council 36:1105
- Tourism, cultural tourism 36:1055
Harmonized sales tax
- Elimination, impacts (Peacock, K.) 36:1115
- Exemptions and rebates
- Impact on issues
- Initiative vote, potential impact (Keys, M.) 36:1050
- Initiative vote, waiting period prior to vote, impacts (Peacock, K.) 36:1115
- Input tax credits (Gordon, M.) 36:1140-1145
- Referendum See Initiative vote above under this main heading
Hawrysh, Brian
- B.C. Wood Specialties Group, organization and activities 36:1550-1555
- Forestry Innovation Investment Ltd., funding and role 36:1555
- Forests and forest industry
- Global Buyers Mission wood products trade show 36:1555
- Wood Enterprise Coalition, work on wood-first initiative 36:1555
Head and brain injuries See Brain health
Health
Health – Continuing and long-term care
- Assessment of care needs (Enns, A.) 36:1525
Health – Health authorities
Health – Health care facilities and hospitals
- Faith-based health care facilities
Health – Health care funding
- Activity-based funding See Patient-centred funding below under this main heading
- Faith-based health care facilities (Donaldson) 36:1520 (Enns, A.) 36:1510-1525 (Letnick) 36:1520
- Funding (Hull, D.) 36:1450
- Patient-centred funding (Enns, A.) 36:1520 (Letnick) 36:1520
- Priorities (Lehmann, D.) 36:1035
Health – Health care system
- Public-private partnerships (Enns, A.) 36:1515
- Services for non–B.C. residents (Enns, A.) 36:1520 (Letnick) 36:1520
Health – Public health
- Community-based services (Walker, D.) 36:1350
HELP See Human early learning partnership
Hong Kong
- Liquor sales and taxation (Crowhurst, T.) 36:1155
Horn River
Hospice and palliative care
- Government policies (Keys, M.) 36:1040 (Lehmann, D.) 36:1035
- Residential hospice facilities See also particular areas and facilities
- Senate report (Keys, M.) 36:1040
Housing
Housing – Rental housing
Housing and Social Development, Ministry of
- Liquor distribution branch, role (Hull, D.) 36:1440
Huckleberry Mines Inc.
- Huckleberry mine in Houston, B.C. (Anglin, L.) 36:0925
Hull, David
- Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce
- Alcohol
- liquor retail sales, role of government and private sector 36:1440-1445
- pricing, impact on hospitality industry 36:1445
- Crown corporations' role, review 36:1440-1445
- Economy, conditions 36:1435
- Finance Ministry quarterly financial reports, report tabled September 15, 2010 36:1435
- Government
- Health care funding 36:1450
- Housing and Social Development Ministry, liquor distribution branch role 36:1440
- Income tax reductions 36:1445
- Infrastructure, government investment 36:1445
- Property taxes for businesses 36:1445
- Public debt
Human early learning partnership
- Recommendations on government budget (Kershaw, P.) 36:1645-1650
Human, Nico
- Agriculture, promotion of B.C. products 36:0945
- B.C. Food Processors Association
- B.C. Food Safety Stakeholders Group
- Buy B.C. program, reinstatement 36:0935
- Canadian Council for Food Processors, establishment 36:0935
- Food industry
- agrifood technology and commercialization centre proposal, funding 36:0940-0950
- food quality and safety, strategy 36:0945
- food-processing sector, current conditions and issues 36:0935-0945
- food-processing sector, training strategy 36:0940-0950
- meat-processing regulations, transition programs, funding 36:0940-0945
- slaughter facilities, capacity and licensing 36:0940-0945
Huntington, Vicki (Delta South)
- Fraser River
- dredging of channels, funding and government responsibility 36:1340
Import Vintners and Spirits Association
- Membership and role (Crowhurst, T.) 36:1150
- Recommendations on government budget (Crowhurst, T.) 36:1155-1200
Income tax
Industry
Industry Training Authority
Infrastructure
- Government investment (Hull, D.) 36:1445
- Government investment in public infrastructure (Walker, D.) 36:1350
- Transportation infrastructure, government investment (Peacock, K..) 36:1110-1115
Innovation See Research and development
Kacir, Pamela
- Children
- child vulnerability, prevention 36:1620-1625
- programs and services for children and families, family resource programs and funding 36:1615-1630
- programs and services for children and families, service delivery 36:1630
- First Nations children and families, family resource program services 36:1625
- Mount Pleasant Family Centre, family resource program 36:1620
Kershaw, Paul
- As subject
- work on child vulnerability and school readiness issues (Sandy, B.) 36:1125
- Business Council of B.C., research on early childhood social vulnerability 36:1650, 36:1700
- Children, child care accessibility, issue of parents working from home 36:1655
- Children, early childhood development
- child vulnerability, impact on economy 36:1645
- child vulnerability, incidence and reduction 36:1640-1650
- early learning and child care, government investment and economic benefits 36:1645-1700
- Human early learning partnership, recommendations on government budget 36:1645-1650
- Poverty
- Taxation
Keys, Marion
- Abbotsford
- Campus of Care hospice and respite care project 36:1045-1050
- hospice services, need for hospice facility 36:1040
- Harmonized sales tax initiative vote, potential impact 36:1050
- Hospice and palliative care
- Neufeld, Wendy, mother's experience with end-of-life care 36:1040
Labour
Ladner, B.C.
Ladner Sediment Group
- Membership and mission (Roscoe, J.) 36:1335
Legg, Phillip
- Post-secondary education
- student financial assistance 36:1035
- student spaces, capacity issues 36:1030-1035
- students, length of studies and graduation time 36:1030
- Post-secondary education, funding
Lehmann, Deborah (Debbie)
- Abbotsford
- Abbotsford Hospice Society, services 36:1035
- Health, health care funding priorities 36:1035
- Hospice and palliative care, government policies 36:1035
Les, John (Chilliwack)
- Alcohol
- Finance and Government Services Committee
- Harmonized sales tax
- impact on housing and real estate industry 36:1020
- School district 34 (Abbotsford)
- submission to Finance and Government Services Committee 36:1545
Letnick, Norm (Kelowna–Lake Country)
- Brain health, brain injuries
- treatment services, economic benefits 36:1505
- treatment services, funding 36:1505
- Education
- students, transition to post-secondary education 36:1540
- Fraser River
- dredging of channels, use of material 36:1345
- Harmonized sales tax
- impact on issues
- housing and real estate industry 36:1015
- Health
- Health, health care facilities and hospitals
- faith-based health care facilities, role in health care system 36:1520
- Health, health care funding
- faith-based health care facilities 36:1520
- patient-centred funding 36:1520
- Health, health care system
- services for non–B.C. residents 36:1520
- Post-secondary education
- students, length of studies and graduation time 36:1030
- Post-secondary education, funding
- funding formula, per-student funding 36:1030
- Real estate industry
- residential housing market prices 36:1015
- Sunshine Coast Community Services Society, recommendations on government budget 36:1325
Lifton, Gloria
- Board Voice Society of B.C., role 36:1315-1320
- Children
- early childhood development, government investment 36:1325
- programs and services for children and families, funding 36:1325-1330
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, prevention and treatment services 36:1320
- Health, social determinants 36:1315-1325
- Sunshine Coast Community Services Society
- Welfare
Liquor See Alcohol
Liquor distribution branch See Housing and Social Development, Ministry of
Livestock industry
- Predator control program (Etsell, G.) 36:0915
McRae, Don (Comox Valley)
- Education
- Post-secondary education
- student spaces, capacity issues 36:1030
- Quebec
MacRae, Julie
- Education
- class size and composition, legislation and administrative costs 36:1545
- school districts and boards of education, carbon neutrality and costs 36:1545
- School district 34 (Abbotsford), carbon neutrality initiatives 36:1545
Masonite International Corp.
- Benefit from forest industry support programs (Greenhill, S.) 36:1600 (Ralston) 36:1600
- Timber supply (Greenhill, S.) 36:1600 (Ralston) 36:1600
- Wood product manufacturing and export (Greenhill, S.) 36:1550
Mental health
- Mental health of children and youth, services for special needs children (Sandy, B.) 36:1130
Mines and mining industry
- Exploration, investment (Anglin, L.) 36:0920-0930
- Exploration, return on government investment (Anglin, L.) 36:0925
Montney, B.C.
Mount Pleasant Family Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
- Family resource program (Kacir, P.) 36:1620
Mungall, Michelle (Nelson-Creston)
- Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce
- recommendations on government budget and policies 36:1450
- Alcohol
- beverage alcohol hub concept for B.C. 36:1200
- Children, child care
- accessibility, issue of parents working from home 36:1655
- Government
- programs and services funding, "culture of entitlement" concept 36:1450
- Poverty
- poverty reduction plan, role of social services 36:1325
- time and service poverty concepts 36:1655
- Sunshine Coast Community Services Society, recommendations on government budget 36:1325
Neufeld, Wendy
- Mother's experience with end-of-life care (Keys, M.) 36:1040
Non-profit sector
- Social service providers See Community social services sector under Welfare
Northern trade and transportation corridor See Northern B.C.
under British Columbia
Northwest transmission line See Energy
Oil and gas
- Drilling and drilling practices, hydraulic fracturing, water use (Anglin, L.) 36:0930 (Ralston) 36:0930
- Fracking See Drilling and drilling practices, hydraulic fracturing above under this main heading
Omineca Enterprises Ltd.
- Legal dispute with Forests Ministry (Perrin, L.) 36:1700-1705
Open skies See Airline industry
Pacific gateway See Asia-Pacific gateway
Paetkau, Carol
- Brain health, brain injuries
- incidence and impacts 36:1450-1455
- treatment services, economic benefits 36:1455
- treatment services, funding and access to services 36:1455
- Chilliwack, access to brain injury services, cases 36:1455
- Health authorities, brain injury services 36:1455
- Rick Hansen Foundation, neurotrauma fund administration, funding of brain injury services 36:1505
Pannu, Alex
- Christian Labour Association of Canada
- Industry Training Authority, funding 36:1420
- Skills training, trades training, government investment and promotion 36:1420-1425
- Trade unions, operating models 36:1420
Peace River area
- Site C power generation project, labour agreement (Prentice, D.) 36:1415-1420
Peacock, Ken
- Airline industry, open skies policies 36:1115
- Asia-Pacific gateway, role 36:1110-1115
- B.C., northern B.C., northern trade and transportation corridor 36:1115
- Business Council of B.C.
- Outlook 2020 project 36:1110
- position on harmonized sales tax 36:1115
- recommendations on government budget and policies 36:1110-1120
- Carbon tax, tax freeze 36:1115
- Children, early childhood development, government investment 36:1120
- Economy
- Environment, environmental assessment process, integrated federal-provincial process 36:1115
- Government, capital investment and financial management 36:1110
- Harmonized sales tax, elimination and waiting period prior to initiative vote, impacts 36:1115
- Infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, government investment 36:1110-1115
- Property tax, municipal property tax reform 36:1115
- Research and development, commercialization and government support 36:1115-1120
Pensions
- Unfunded liabilities re pensions in B.C. and elsewhere (Rustad) 36:1310-1315 (Silvester, B.) 36:1315
Permut, Harriet
- Harmonized sales tax, impact on housing and real estate industry 36:1015
- Real estate industry
- Multiple Listing Service system 36:1015
- residential housing market prices 36:1015
Perrin, Lynn
- Omineca Enterprises Ltd., legal dispute with Forests Ministry 36:1700-1705
Post-secondary education See also Post-secondary education – Funding; Post-secondary education – Universities, colleges and institutes; Skills training
- Accessibility and affordability (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1025 (Takkar, N.) 36:1430-1435
- Benefits (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1025
- Government investment (Walker, D.) 36:1355
- Role in economy (Takkar, N.) 36:1430-1435
- Student debt load (Takkar, N.) 36:1430
- Student financial assistance
- Student spaces, capacity issues (Legg, P.) 36:1030-1035 (McRae) 36:1030
- Students, length of studies and graduation time (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1025 (Legg, P.) 36:1030 (Letnick) 36:1030
- Students, U-pass program See Student passes under Transit services
- Tuition fees (Takkar, N.) 36:1430
Post-secondary education – Funding
- Funding formula
- Levels, impact on services (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1025
- Teaching universities (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1020-1025
Post-secondary education – Universities, colleges and institutes
- Teaching universities, research capacity (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1025
Poverty
Power, Nadine
Prentice, David
- Christian Labour Association of Canada, operating model 36:1420
- Energy, clean energy projects 36:1415
- Environmental assessment process, integrated federal-provincial process 36:1415
- Industry Training Authority, funding 36:1415
- Labour, project labour agreements 36:1415-1420
- Peace River area, Site C power generation project, labour agreement 36:1415-1420
- Resources and resource industries, role in economy 36:1415
- Skills training
- shortage of skilled workers 36:1410
- trades training for aboriginal people, immigrants and women 36:1415
- trades training, government investment and promotion 36:1410
Property tax
- Municipal property tax reform (Peacock, K.) 36:1115
- Property taxes for businesses (Hull, D.) 36:1445
Property transfer tax
Public debt
- Debt-to-GDP ratio (Hull, D.) 36:1445
- Paydown and reduction of debt (Hull, D.) 36:1445
Ralston, Bruce (Surrey-Whalley)
- Business Council of B.C.
- recommendations on government budget and policies 36:1115
- Food industry
- agrifood technology and commercialization centre proposal, funding 36:0945
- Forests and forest industry
- value-added sector, fibre supply 36:1600
- G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre
- ALS Centre for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, funding and services 36:1615
- Masonite International Corp.
- benefit from forest industry support programs 36:1600
- timber supply 36:1600
- Oil and gas
- drilling and drilling practices, hydraulic fracturing, water use 36:0930
- Real estate industry
- Multiple Listing Service system 36:1015
- Research and development
Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver
Real estate industry
- Impact of harmonized sales tax See Impact on issues under Harmonized sales tax
- Multiple Listing Service system (Permut, H.) 36:1015 (Ralston) 36:1015
- Residential housing market
Rental housing See Housing – Rental housing
Representative for Children and Youth
- Reports, services for special needs children and youth (Sandy, B.) 36:1130
Research and development
Resources and resource industries
- Role in economy (Prentice, D.) 36:1415
Rick Hansen Foundation
Roscoe, John
- Fraser River
- dredging activities, funding and government responsibility 36:1335
- dredging activities, use of material 36:1345
- Ladner channels, management 36:1330-1340
- sediment load 36:1330
- Ladner Sediment Group, membership and mission 36:1335
Routley, Bill (Cowichan Valley)
- B.C. Federation of Retired Union Members
- Forests and forest industry
Rustad, John (Nechako Lakes)
- Children, early childhood development
- early learning and child care, government investment and economic benefits 36:1655
- Pensions
- unfunded liabilities re pensions in B.C. and elsewhere 36:1310-1315
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.
- Redevelopment, funding (Enns, A.) 36:1520
Sam, Sylvia
- Harmonized sales tax
- exemptions and rebates, home purchases 36:1005-1010
- impact on green products and initiatives 36:1010
- impact on housing and real estate industry 36:1005-1010
- Housing, rental housing, maintenance and repair costs 36:1010
- Property transfer tax threshold 36:1005
- Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, recommendations on government budget 36:1005-1010
- Real estate industry, residential housing market, taxation 36:1005-1010
- Strata property, leaky-condo repairs, costs 36:1010
Sandy, Bruce
- B.C. Association of Child Development and Intervention
- member agencies and role 36:1120
- recommendations on government budget and policies 36:1130-1135
- B.C. Liberal Party government, goals and priorities 36:1125-1130
- Children
- programs and services for children and families
- rehabilitation and speech therapy services and therapist training 36:1130-1135
- service agencies, funding for capital projects and staff salary increases 36:1130-1135
- special needs children
- Children, early childhood development
- child vulnerability, incidence and 15 by 15 reduction goal 36:1125
- early intervention services, funding 36:1130
- government investment, reports and studies 36:1125-1130
- Economy, conditions 36:1125
- Finance and Government Services Committee, report recommendations on funding for services to special needs children 36:1130
- Kershaw, Paul, work on child vulnerability and school readiness issues 36:1125
- Mental health of children and youth, services for special needs children 36:1130
- Representative for Children and Youth, report on services for special needs children and youth 36:1130
Santiago, Rod
- Abbotsford Community Services
- Abbotsford, housing and homelessness 36:1000
- Budgets, 2011-12 budget priorities, social services 36:1000
- Housing, affordable housing, government action 36:1000
- Welfare
- community social services sector, funding and role 36:0950-1000
- social welfare systems, need 36:0950
Schafer, Cindy
- Budgets, 2011-12 budget priorities, education 36:1540
- Education, class size and composition, legislation and administrative costs 36:1535, 36:1545
- Education, funding
- Education, school districts and boards of education
- position on class size legislation 36:1545
- sale of school lands 36:1535
- School district 34 (Abbotsford)
School district 34 (Abbotsford)
- Capital assets and projects (Schafer, C.) 36:1535
- Carbon neutrality initiatives (MacRae, J.) 36:1545
- Class size issues (Schafer, C.) 36:1535
- Community LINK funding and vulnerable students (Schafer, C.) 36:1535-1540
- Operations (Schafer, C.) 36:1530-1535
- Submission to Finance and Government Services Committee (Les) 36:1545 (Schafer, C.) 36:1545
Science and technology
- Geoscience, role (Anglin, L.) 36:0920
Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services See Finance and Government Services, Select Standing Committee on
Seniors
- Government support (Silvester, B.) 36:1305
Sheach, David
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Abbotsford, Mission, Ridge Meadows, funding and role 36:1635-1640
- Communities, community organizations, gaming grants, eligibility and elimination of multi-year grants 36:1635-1640
- Gambling, charities' access to gambling revenues 36:1635-1640
- Welfare, community social services sector, funding and role 36:1635-1640
Silvester, Bill
- B.C. Federation of Retired Union Members
- B.C. Liberal Party government, priorities 36:1305
- Budgets, 2011-12 budget priorities 36:1305-1310
- Pensions, unfunded liabilities re pensions in B.C. and elsewhere 36:1315
- Seniors, government support 36:1305
- Taxation
Simpson, John
- Brain health, brain injury treatment services
- Rick Hansen Foundation, neurotrauma fund administration, funding of brain injury services 36:1455-1500
Skills training
- Secondary school programs (Godden, K.) 36:1540
- Shortage of skilled workers (Prentice, D.) 36:1410
- Trades training
- government investment and promotion (Pannu, A.) 36:1420-1425 (Prentice, D.) 36:1410
- training for aboriginal people, immigrants and women (Prentice, D.) 36:1415
Special needs children See Children
Strata property
- Leaky-condo repairs, costs (Sam, S.) 36:1010
Sunshine Coast Community Services Society
Takkar, Nimmi
- As subject
- family's experience with employment and post-secondary education 36:1430
- Canadian Federation of Students, B.C. office
- recommendations on government budget and post-secondary education policies 36:1425-1430
- role 36:1425
- Post-secondary education
- Transit services
Taxation
- Cost-of-service taxes, elimination (Crowhurst, T.) 36:1155
- Reductions (Kershaw, P.) 36:1655
- Relationship with government services (Kershaw, P.) 36:1650-1655 (Thornthwaite) 36:1650
- Revenues to government (Donaldson) 36:1400
- System, equity (Silvester, B.) 36:1310 (Walker, D.) 36:1400
- System, public discussion and public opinion (Walker, D.) 36:1400
- Tax reductions (Silvester, B.) 36:1305
Thornthwaite, Jane Ann (North Vancouver–Seymour)
- Business Council of B.C.
- recommendations on government budget and policies 36:1120
- Children
- programs and services for children and families, service delivery 36:1625-1630
- Children, early childhood development
- early learning and child care, government investment 36:1650
- Christian Labour Association of Canada
- Education
- class size and composition, legislation and administrative costs 36:1545
- Education, school districts and boards of education
- position on class size legislation 36:1545
- G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre
- ALS Centre for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, funding and services 36:1615
- Housing
- affordable housing, government action 36:1000
- Taxation
- relationship with government services 36:1650
Tourism
- Cultural tourism (Hamilton, S.) 36:1055
Toyer, Wendy
- ALS, awareness and impacts 36:1605
- ALS Society of B.C., activities and funding 36:1605-1610
- G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, ALS Centre for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, funding and services 36:1610-1615
Trade unions See also Labour; particular unions
- Operating models (Pannu, A.) 36:1420
Traffic fines See Automobiles
Transit services
- Funding (Takkar, N.) 36:1425
- Student passes, U-pass program (Takkar, N.) 36:1425
Transportation
Trucking industry
- Weigh scales, staffing and revenue collection (Walker, D.) 36:1400
United Church Health Services Society
University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, B.C.
- Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1020
- Enrolment levels and capacity issues (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1025
- Facilities and programs (Dvoracek, V.) 36:1020
van Dongen, John (Abbotsford South)
- G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre
- ALS Centre for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, funding and services 36:1615
- Rick Hansen Foundation
- neurotrauma fund administration, funding of brain injury services 36:1505
Vancouver, B.C.
- Rental housing (Gordon, M.) 36:1140
Walker, Darryl
- Alcohol, liquor stores, revenues to government 36:1355
- B.C. Government and Service Employees Union
- Civil service, public sector size in B.C. and other jurisdictions 36:1350
- Corrections system, correctional facilities, federal funding 36:1400
- Economy
- Environmental protection, resources 36:1350-1355
- Forests and forest industry
- government management and stewardship capacity 36:1350-1355
- stumpage system, compliance and enforcement 36:1400
- Government
- Health, public health, community-based services 36:1350
- Infrastructure, government investment in public infrastructure 36:1350
- Post-secondary education, government investment 36:1355
- Poverty reduction plan 36:1355
- Taxation system 36:1400
- Trucking industry, weigh scales, staffing and revenue collection 36:1400
- Welfare
- social investment versus social cost 36:1350
- social welfare systems, government investment 36:1350-1355
Welfare
- Community social services sector, funding and role (Lifton, G.) 36:1315-1320-1325 (Santiago, R.) 36:0950-1000 (Sheach, D.) 36:1635-1640
- Social determinants of health See Health
- Social investment versus social cost (Lifton, G.) 36:1320 (Walker, D.) 36:1350
- Social welfare systems, government investment (Walker, D.) 36:1350-1355
- Social welfare systems, need (Santiago, R.) 36:0950
Wood Enterprise Coalition
- Work on wood-first initiative (Hawrysh, B.) 36:1555
Zarudzka, Julia
- Brain health, brain injuries
- acquired brain injury innovation fund proposal 36:1500
- advocacy organizations, recommendations on brain injury services and funding 36:1500
- research funding 36:1500-1505
- B.C. Neurotrauma Fund Contribution Act, amendments 36:1500
- Health authorities, brain injury services 36:1500
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