Klein, Hon. Ralph (PC, Calgary-Elbow)
Aboriginal issues
First ministers' accord re, Kelowna, November 2005 ... 1239-40
Access to the Future Act (Bill 1, 2005)
Acure Health Corp.
Private medical insurance provision ... 491
Alberta-Economic conditions
Growth in, communications plan re ... 750
Alberta-Social conditions
Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute (Foothills hospital, Calgary)
Alberta/British Columbia joint cabinet meeting, April 2006
Interprovincial trade agreement discussion at ... 1114
Alberta Cancer Prevention Legacy Act (Bill 1)
First reading ... 4 Second reading ... 182 Third reading ... 529 General remarks ... 1674
Alberta Children's Hospital
Alberta Connects (Government information initiative)
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
Coal-bed methane well drilling requirements ... 286 Elected representatives on board of ... 288 General remarks ... 1675 Heavy oil upgraders approval ... 492 Landowners to hire legal representatives for hearings at, Compensation increase for ... 288
Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan-Premiums
Elimination of ... 122 Seniors' premiums ... 1674
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
General remarks ... 1669 Resource revenue deposit into ... 447 Surplus revenue deposit into ... 40, 536
Alberta/Lviv, Ukraine relations
Letter re ... 1111 Letter re (SP441/06: Tabled) ... 1120
Alberta Order of Excellence
Budget for office of ... 749
Aon Consulting Inc.
Private health insurance in Alberta, study of ... 122, 239-40
Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped
Class action settlement re payments under ... 326
Auditor General
Relation to Corporate Internal Audit Services ... 753 Role of ... 446 Role of: Strengthening of ... 760
Automobile Insurance Rate Board
Budget
All-party committee to review ... 1515 General remarks ... 447 Public input into ... 1515
Building and Educating Tomorrow's Workforce (Labour force development strategy)
Calgary (City)
Provincial funding for ... 354-55 Provincial funding for, consultations with mayor re ... 354-55
Calgary Health Region
Contract with Rod Love Consulting ... 1395, 1451 Funding request ... 9
Canada Health Act
Alberta's third way compliance with ... 165-66 General remarks ... 491
Canada Health and Social Transfer (Federal government)
Impact of third way health policy on transfer payments to Alberta ... 166
Canadian Energy Research Institute
Report on tar sands tax revenue distribution ... 1063-64
Canadian Home Builders' Association
High school trades courses recommendation ... 758-59
Cancer-Prevention
Legislation re (Bill 1) ... 4
Cancer-Research
Legislation re (Bill 1) ... 4 Premier's tour of French facilities for ... 1061
Capital projects
Communications plan re ... 750 Planning/prioritizing of ... 756
Capital projects-Finance
Surplus spending on ... 1669
Caucus policy committees (PC party)
Chinook Regional Health Authority
Citizens' assembly on electoral reform (Alberta) (Proposed)
Class size (Grade school)
Reduction of, funding for ... 1671
Closure debate (Parliamentary practice)
CN Rail
Train derailment, Lake Wabamun: Provision of information re ... 754
Coal-bed methane extraction
General remarks ... 1675 Groundwater pollution issues ... 286, 1110-11
Commissioner on continuing care (Proposed)
Committee on Public Accounts, Standing
Mandate change for ... 1515
Community facility enhancement program
Grant cheques from, presentation by local MLAs ... 1515-16
Conflict of interest
Gary C. Campbell's membership on Corporate Internal Audit Services ... 753 MLA postemployment opportunities ... 1008 Premier's postemployment opportunities ... 1008
Conflict of Interest Act
Extension to senior public officials ... 1395
Conflicts of Interest Act Review Committee, Select Special
Constituency offices
Use for partisan political purposes ... 1673
Constitution for Alberta
Entrenchment of property rights in ... 580
Continuing/extended care facilities
MLA committee to review (2005): Report ... 39
Continuing/extended care facilities-Finance
General remarks ... 39, 1239 Use of surplus funds for ... 536
Continuing/extended care facilities-Standards
Funding to improve ... 39 General remarks ... 39, 287, 1238-39 Government legislation re ... 1238 Monitoring/enforcement of ... 1238
Continuing/extended care facilities residents
Death of (Jean Warden) ... 287
Corporate Internal Audit Services
Gary C. Campbell (VP for Alberta PC party) as public member of ... 753 Relation to Auditor General ... 753 Relation to Restructuring and Government Efficiency dept. ... 753 Role of ... 749-50
Debts, Public (Provincial government)
Dept. of Health (Federal)
Minister of, meeting with Alberta minister re health care restructuring ... 10
Dept. of Restructuring and Government Efficiency
General remarks ... 756 Relation to Corporate Internal Audit Services ... 753
Deputy Ministers (Provincial government)
Dinning, Mr. Jim (PC Party leadership candidate)
Contact with Rod Love ... 1394
Drinking water
Coal bed methane wells' impact on ... 286
Drug abuse resistance education program
Drugs, Prescription-Costs
National program for ... 1516 New Zealand plan for ... 40-41 Reduction of, through bulk (national) purchasing ... 40-41, 124, 327
Economic development and the environment
Communications plan re ... 750, 752
Edmonton Protocol (Diabetes treatment)
Education, Postsecondary
Access to, new spaces to improve ... 1673
Education-Curricula
Exemptions from, due to moral/religious beliefs ... 1453
Electric power, Coal-produced
Electric power-Supply
General remarks ... 1765 Shortage of (blackout) ... 1765
Electric power-Supply- Leduc/Nisku area
Electric power lines-Construction
Funding of, by consumers ... 1765
Electric power lines-Leduc/Nisku area
New substation re ... 1190
Electric utilities-Regulations
Deregulation ... 192, 1190, 1765 Deregulation: Enmax CEO's comments re ... 240
Electronic waste-Recycling
Emergency planning
Communications (public announcements) aspects ... 750, 752, 754
Energy industry
General remarks ... 1675 Investment in ... 1675
Energy resources, Alternate/renewable
Energy strategy, Integrated (Renewable/ nonrenewable resource development)
Communications plan re ... 750 General remarks ... 1675
Enmax Corporation
CEO Gary Holden's comments re electricity deregulation ... 240 General remarks ... 240
Environmental impact assessments
Heavy oil upgraders ... 492
Environmental protection
Initiatives re ... 1675 Initiatives re: Communications plan for ... 750, 752 Initiatives re: Surplus funding of, communications plan for ... 750
Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act
Enforcement measures ... 1675
Ethics Commissioner
Letter to Premier re postemployment restrictions (SP428/06: Tabled) ... 1069 Premier's consultation with, re offers to sit on boards after retirement ... 959
Executive Council
Budget ... 749 General remarks ... 756 Main estimates 2006-07: Debated ... 749-60 Role of ... 749 Staff ... 756 Staff salaries ... 760
Executive Council (British Columbia)
Federal/provincial fiscal relations
Fiberex Glass Corporation
Electric power supply problems ... 1190
Food banks
Proliferation of ... 1670
Freedom of expression
Beliefs re same-sex marriage ... 1453
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Administration of ... 755 Costs of requests under ... 357 Requests under ... 1540 Requests under, re government aircraft flight log information ... 578-79
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Review Committee (2002), Select Special
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 20)
Gas, Natural
Use as power source in oil sands production ... 1765, 1801
Gas, Natural-Royalties
Decline of, risk assessment of ... 753
Gasoline-Taxation
Provincial revenue from, transferred to municipalities ... 447, 1639 Reduction of ... 1639
Government accountability
Government aircraft
Conservative party leadership contenders' flights on: Release of flight logs/manifests for ... 578-79
Government departments
Communications (public announcements) function in ... 754-55
Government policy
Reform of: Impact of Premier's retirement on ... 7-8
Government programs
Advertising campaigns re ... 750 Communications methods ... 752 Sustainability of ... 1669
Government spending policy
Governor General of Canada
Address to Assembly ... 1313 Visit to Alberta, May 2006 ... 749
Greenhouse gas emissions
Reduction of: Communications plan re ... 750, 752
Groundwater
Baseline testing of ... 286, 1110 Baseline testing of: Communications plans re ... 750 Inventory/mapping of ... 286
Groundwater-Pollution
Coal bed methane drilling impact on ... 286, 1110-11 Horseshoe Canyon area ... 286, 1110
Heavy oil (synthetic crude)
Heavy oil (synthetic crude)-Royalties
Heavy oil (synthetic crude) upgraders-Environmental aspects
High school education-Curricula
Vocational/trades courses ... 758-59
Horse racing
Lottery funding for ... 39
Horseshoe Canyon
Industrial development in, impact on groundwater supplies ... 286, 1110
Industrial development (Value-added industries)-Sturgeon/Strathcona counties
Impact on environment ... 492
Information and Privacy Commissioner
Comments re confidentiality of ministerial briefing books ... 1514-15, 1588 Comments re openness of government ... 357
Institute of energy learning (Proposed)
Insurance, Automobile
Competition open to other provinces' public plans ... 446
Insurance, Automobile-Premiums
Insurance, Health (Private)
Interprovincial trade
Alberta/British Columbia agreement ... 1114
Investment of public funds
Labour supply
Shortages of skilled workers ... 750
Land-use framework
Communications strategy re ... 750, 752 General remarks ... 537
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
100th anniversary: Ceremony in Chamber ... 443 Governor General's address to ... 1313
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
Lieutenant Governor's Office
Lottery Fund
Grant cheques from, presentation by local MLAs ... 1515-16
Low-income families
Level of support for ... 1684
Marriage commissioners
Exemption from performing same-sex marriage ... 1453
Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
McDougall Centre, Calgary
Medical care
Achievements under Premier Klein ... 1674 Restructuring ... 192 Restructuring (third way option) ... 40-41, 77, 79, 121-24, 127, 165-66, 192, 240, 581, 1516 Restructuring (third way option): Costs to patients of ... 193 Restructuring (third way option): Impact of Premier's retirement on ... 7-8, 9 Restructuring (third way option): Impact on rural physician recruitment ... 356 Restructuring (third way option): Legislation re, televising of debate on ... 286 Restructuring (third way option): Meeting with federal health minister re ... 10 Restructuring (third way option): Opinion survey by Mararget Kool on ... 445 Restructuring (third way option): Public consultation re ... 10, 77, 79, 122, 123, 124, 127, 165-66, 192, 241, 286, 287-88, 356, 491 Restructuring (third way option): Public consultation re, all-party legislature committee for ... 194, 241 Restructuring (third way option): Public consultation re, all-party televised debate re ... 286 Restructuring (third way option): Public consultation re, public hearings for ... 356 Restructuring (third way option): Public consultation re, town hall meeting ... 286
Medical care, Cost of
General remarks ... 79, 122, 165, 240, 327-28, 445, 446, 581, 754, 1516 National purchasing to reduce ... 41, 124, 327
Medical profession
Practicing in public/private health systems ... 77, 79, 122, 192
Medical profession-Rural areas
Action plan re ... 356 Impact of third-way health care proposals on recruitment/retention of ... 356
Medical profession-Supply
Impact of third way health care reforms on ... 445
Medical records, Electronic
Medical supplies
Bulk (national) purchasing of, to cut health care costs ... 41, 124, 327
Members' apologies to the House
Members of the Legislative Assembly
General remarks ... 443 Postemployment opportunities, cooling-off period re ... 1008 Presentation of cheques re government programs ... 1515-16
Members' withdrawal of remarks
Parliamentary language ... 50
MGV Energy Inc.
Comments on coal-bed methane drilling impacts ... 286
Minister Responsible for Capital Planning
Creation of position of ... 756, 758
Ministerial Statements (2006)
Winter Olympics ... 37-38
Ministers (Provincial government)
Briefing books, confidentiality of ... 1514-15, 1540, 1588, 1638-39, 1669 Car allowance ... 1341-42 Cooling-off period for, extension of ... 1395 New cabinet position created (Minister Responsible for Capital Planning) ... 756, 758 Number of ... 758 Postemployment restrictions on, letter from Ethics Commissioner re (SP428/06: Tabled) ... 1069 Resignation of, due to pursuit of Conservative party leadership ... 578-79
Montreal Economic Institute
Comment re doctors' practising in both public and private health systems ... 192
Natural areas
Industrial development in ... 537
Natural resources revenue
Decline in ... 329 General remarks ... 1669, 1675 Government dependence on, risk assessment of ... 753 Transfer of percentage into Heritage Savings Trust Fund ... 447
Nuclear power plants
As energy source for oil sands development ... 1111
Office of the Premier
Budget ... 757 Premier's advice to successors ... 1669-70 Premier's pre-retirement travel ... 1061, 1111 Premier's retirement: Ethics Commissioner 's letter on postemployment restrictions re (SP428/06: Tabled) ... 1069 Premier's retirement: Impact on government policy reform ... 7-8, 9 Premier's retirement: Offers of employment after ... 959, 1008 Premier's throwing a document at a Page, apology for ... 129 Premier's welcoming remarks to Governor General on her address to the Assembly ... 1313
Oil-Royalties
Decline of, risk assessment of ... 753
Oil sands development
Foreign investment in ... 1061, 1675 Timing/scope of new projects (growth issues) ... 1714-15 Timing/scope of new projects (growth issues): Public consultation re ... 1762 Timing/scope of new projects (growth issues): Radke committee re ... 1762 Use of natural gas supplies ... 1765, 1801
Oil sands development-Taxation
Federal government share ... 1063-64
Oil well drilling industry-Special areas
Olympic Winter Games, Torino (2006)
Alberta athletes at, statement re ... 37-38
Oral Question Period (2006)
Achievements in health care ... 1674 Affordable housing ... 1762 Alberta/B.C. joint cabinet meeting ... 1114 Alberta's energy resources ... 1675 Alberta's environment ... 1675 Aon Consulting Inc. ... 239-40 Automobile insurance ... 446-47 Budget process ... 1515 Budget surplus ... 39-40 Calgary funding needs ... 354-55 Coal-bed methane drilling ... 286, 1110-11 Confidentiality of ministerial briefing notes ... 1514-15, 1588, 1638-39 Constituency association offices ... 1673 Continuing care standards ... 287, 1238-39 Cost of health care reform ... 193 Democratic reform ... 580-81 Donations to political parties ... 1343 Education funding ... 1671 Electricity generation from gas over bitumen ... 1801 Electricity pricing ... 1765 Elimination of the provincial debt ... 1672 Energy and Utilities Board ... 288 Federal/provincial fiscal relations ... 1063-64 Federal transfer payments for health ... 165-66 Freedom of choice ... 1453 Freedom of information legislation ... 1540 Future plans of the Premier ... 959 Gasoline taxes ... 1639 Government accountability ... 446 Government contracting policies ... 1451, 1586 Government policy reforms ... 7-8 Government spending ... 447 Health care privatization ... 40-41, 77, 121-23, 1516 Health care reform ... 9, 10, 79, 124, 166, 192, 240 Health care reform consultation ... 127, 165, 194, 241 Health care reform public consultation ... 286, 287-88 Health care spending ... 327-28 Healthy living initiative ... 1517 Importance of postsecondary education ... 1673 Income support class action settlement ... 326 Industrial development in natural areas ... 537 Kelowna accord on support for First Nations ... 1239-40 Lobbyist registry ... 1395 Long-term care ... 39 Lottery-funded grant presentation cheques ... 1515-16 Low-income Albertans ... 1684 Major projects in the industrial heartland ... 492 Managed growth in the oil sands ... 1714-15 Nuclear power ... 1111 Parliamentary reform ... 445 Planning for growth pressures ... 1762 Political party donations ... 1640 Postemployment opportunities for the Premier ... 1008 Premier Klein's advice for his successor ... 1669-70 Premier's travel ... 1061 Private health care insurance ... 122-23 Private health services ... 491 Progressive Conservative leadership campaign ... 578-79 Public opinion survey on health care ... 445-46 Reliability of electricity supply ... 1190 Rod Love Consulting Inc. ... 1394 Royalty revenues ... 329 Rural health care ... 356 Sale of Progressive Conservative party memberships ... 1138 School nutrition programs ... 1341-42 Tobacco reduction strategy ... 1674 Treasury Board meeting attendance records ... 357 Tuition fee policy ... 1010, 1395 Unbudgeted surpluses ... 536
Pages (Legislative Assembly)
Premier's throwing a document at a Page, apology for ... 129
Parkland Institute
Fiscal Surplus, Democratic Deficit (report) ... 1515
Peace Country Health
Dr. Piepgrass' comments on physician recruitment and the third-way proposals ... 356
Pharmaceutical savings agency (Proposal)
Political parties
Corporate donations to: Alberta policy re ... 1640 Corporate donations to: Federal policy re ... 1343 Union donations to ... 1640
Political parties-Alberta
Corporate donations to, restrictions on ... 1343
Post-secondary Learning Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 40)
Premier's Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities
Chair of (Member for Strathcona) selling PC party memberships at MS fund-raising event ... 1138
Preventive medical services
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
Leadership campaign contributions ... 1343 Leadership campaign issues ... 578-79, 1394 Sale of memberships in, at MS fund-raising event ... 1138 Vice-president (finance, Gary C. Campbell) of, as public member of Corporate Internal Audit Services ... 753
Property rights
Inclusion in an Alberta constitution ... 580
Property tax
Provincial contribution to ... 447
Protection of Fundamental Freedoms (Marriage) Statutes Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 208)
Provincial/municipal fiscal relations
Calgary situation ... 354-55 General remarks ... 447
Public Affairs Bureau
Advertising programs ... 750 Communcations efforts during Lake Wabamun oil spill ... 754 Corporate communications division ... 755, 760 Corporate services division ... 755 General remarks ... 756 Review of ... 749, 750, 754, 760 Staffing ... 754-55, 760 Strategic priorities ... 750, 752
Public Affairs Bureau (British Columbia)
Public Affairs Bureau Review Committee
General remarks ... 750 Submissions received by (M1/06: Defeated) ... 503
Public assistance
Class action settlement re payments under ... 326 General remarks ... 758 Level of ... 1684 Reform of ... 1684
Public contracts for consultants
Awarding of, to former ministerial aides ... 1586
Public health initiative
Tri-university agreement re: Funding for ... 1517
Public service-Alberta
Reduction of ... 758 Senior officials' cooling-off period, following resignation ... 1395
Queen's Printer
Transfer to Restructuring and Government Efficiency dept. ... 750-51
Recall of elected representatives
Referendum, Provincial
Nuclear power for oil sand development ... 1111
Regional health authorities
Continuing care standards: Funding for ... 1238-39 Contracting procedures ... 1451 Elected boards of, with requisitioning power ... 124 Funding requests ... 7-8, 9
Religious leaders
Exemption from performing same-sex marriage ... 1453
Resource rebates from budget surplus (2005)
Revenue
Transfer to municipalities ... 447
Road construction
General remarks ... 447 Secondary road program ... 447
Rod Love Consulting Inc.
Contact with Jim Dinning (PC Party leadership candidate) ... 1394 Contract with Calgary Health Region ... 1395, 1451 Government contracts with ... 1394, 1586
Royalty structure (Energy resources)
Rumsey natural area
Industrial activity in ... 537
Same-sex marriage
Exemption from instruction re ... 1453 Exemption of clergy/marriage commissioners from performing ... 1453
School boards
Nutritional programs in schools ... 1341-42 Same-sex orientation, flexibility in instruction re ... 1453
Service Alberta initiative (Government information access)
Call centre of, transfer to Government Services dept. ... 750-51
Sewage disposal plants
Communications plans for ... 750
Smoking-Prevention
Funding cut for ... 1517 General remarks ... 1674
Special places
Oil well drilling in ... 537
Speech from the Throne
Address in reply, engrossed (Motion 10: Klein/Zwozdesky) ... 390 Motion to consider ... 5
Spills (Pollution)-Lake Wabamun
CN train derailment: Communications efforts re ... 754
Stollery Children's Hospital
Strathcona (Constituency)
Member for, selling PC party memberships at MS fund-raising event ... 1138
Surgical services
Advertising of, on television ... 240
Surplus, Budgetary
Continuing care facilities funding with ... 536 Environmental projects funding with, communications plans re ... 750 General remarks ... 39-40, 536, 758 Heritage Savings funding with ... 40, 536 School meal program funding with ... 536
Total Group (France)
Investment in Alberta oil sands ... 1061 Proposal for nuclear power plant for Alberta oil sands ... 1111
Traffic safety
Communications plan re ... 750
TransAlta Utilities Corporation
Transportation
Communications plan re ... 750
Travel at public expense
Guidelines for ... 754 Premier's pre-retirement travel ... 1061, 1111
Treasury Board
Meeting attendance records, publication of ... 357
Unleashing Innovation in Health Systems symposium (Calgary, May 3-5, 2005)
Private health care system submissions ... 127, 194
Waiting lists (Medical care)
Reduction of: Impact of private health care on ... 123, 445
Water for Life, Alberta's Strategy for Sustainability
General remarks ... 1675 Initiatives re: Communications plan for ... 750, 752
Water supply
Communications plan re ... 750 Shortages: Schindler report on ... 752
Water treatment plants
Communications plans for ... 750
Whistle-blower protection
World Health Organization
Private health insurance study ... 240
Knight, Mel (PC, Grande Prairie-Smoky)
Alberta Corporate Tax Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 34)
Third reading ... 1618 Third reading amendment (reasoned amendment) ... 1618
Alberta Formed, Alberta Transformed (Book)
Alberta royalty tax credit
Elimination of ... 1687 Review of ... 1687
Curling championships
Team Thomas world junior champions: Statement re ... 408, 498 World Women's Championship, 2006, Grande Prairie: Statement re ... 247
Highway 43-Grande Prairie area
Bypass: Skywalk over, petition presented re ... 202
Luge racing, Natural track-Grande Prairie
Members' Statements (2006)
Alberta Formed, Alberta Transformed (Book) / Team Thomas world junior curling champions ... 498 Sporting events in Grande Prairie ... 247 Team Thomas world junior curlers ... 408
Oral Question Period (2006)
Royalty programs ... 1687
Petitions Presented to the Legislative Assembly (2006)
Highway 43 bypass, Grande Prairie, skywalk over ... 202
Point of Order
Amendments to Bills ... 1444
Royalty structure (Energy resources)
Securities-Law and legislation
Uniform national rules re (Bill 36) ... 967
Securities Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 25)
Securities Transfer Act (Bill 36)
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