Hale, Jason W. (PC effective December 17, 2014; previously W; Strathmore-Brooks)
Agriculture
Provincial strategy ... 817
Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency
Auditor General Act
Application to Horse Racing Alberta ... 174
Bassano health centre
Hospital status ... 531 Long-term care facility, Newell Foundation proposal ... 531
Bitumen - Upgrading
North West Upgrading project ... 190 North West Upgrading project, former Energy minister's remarks ... 190
Boats and boating
Mandatory inspection and cleaning as protection against invasive organisms (Motion Other than Government Motion 503: carried) ... 253-54
Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance
Carbon levy
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 383 Provincial strategy ... 487
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Provincial strategy ... 219
Cogeneration of electric power and heat - Fort McMurray
Infrastructure needs ... 240
Electric power - Prices
Cost to consumers ... 239 Regulated rate option for consumers ... 238 Transmission costs ... 239, 240
Electric power - Retail sales
Billing, information provided on ... 239, 240
Electric power lines - Construction
Electric Utilities (Transparency in Billing) Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 201)
Second reading ... 238-40 Second reading, points of order on debate ... 240 Committee ... 406, 407 Committee, amendment A1 (terminology change from "variable market rate" to "variable default rate" (Hale: defeated) ... 406, 407
Energy industries
Competitiveness ... 817 Provincial strategy ... 486-87
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Directive 074, tailings pond reduction and reclamation ... 383
Farm Implement Act - Amendments
Combination with Farm Implement Dealerships Act (proposed) ... 175
Farm Implement Dealerships Act - Amendments
Combination with Farm Implement Act (proposed) ... 175
Feeder association loan guarantee program
Financial Administration Act
Application to Horse Racing Alberta ... 174
Fiscal Management Act
Application to Horse Racing Alberta (proposed) ... 174
Gaming (gambling)
Responsible gambling ... 165
Government agencies, boards, and commissions
Definition of provincial corporation ... 174
Highway 569
Maintenance and repair, timeline on ... 81
Highway 841
Maintenance and repair, timeline on ... 81
Highway 876
Maintenance and repair, timeline on ... 81
Horse Racing Alberta Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 4)
Second reading ... 165 Committee ... 174 Committee, amendment A1 (section 4, removal of reference to Auditor General Act) (Hale: defeated) ... 174 Purpose of bill ... 165
Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association
Participation in Horse Racing Alberta governance (proposed) ... 165
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Licensee liability rating program (energy industries)
Members' Statements (current session)
Official Opposition energy policy ... 287 Retrospective by the Member for Strathmore-Brooks ... 684
Official Opposition
Energy policy, member's statement on ... 287
Oil sands development - Environmental aspects
ERCB directive 074, tailings pond reduction and reclamation ... 383 Technology sharing ... 287
Oil sands development - Environmental aspects - Cold Lake
Bitumen leak at air weapons range ... 122 Bitumen leak at air weapons range, wildlife death and rehabilitation statistics (Motion for a Return 4: defeated) ... 122
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Bassano Health Centre ... 531 Economic competitiveness ... 817 Electricity cogeneration ... 219 Energy company licensee liability rating program ... 451 Energy industry competitiveness ... 486-87 Environmental protection ... 383 Feeder association loan guarantee program ... 107 North West upgrader project ... 190 Wheatland county roads ... 81
Pipelines - Construction
Enbridge Northern Gateway project ... 287 Timeline ... 487 TransCanada Energy East project ... 287 TransCanada Keystone XL project ... 287
Points of order (current session)
Roads - Maintenance and repair - Newell county
Roads - Wheatland county
Maintenance and repair, timeline on ... 81
Royalty structure (energy resources)
Provincial strategy ... 487
Rural development
Provincial action plan ... 817
Standing Orders
SO 23(b)(i), relevance of debate, points of order ... 240
Statutes Amendment Act, 2014 (No. 2) (Bill 6)
Second reading ... 175 Agriculture and Rural Development ministry briefing ... 175
Strathmore-Brooks (constituency)
Member's retrospective, members' statements ... 684
Hehr, Kent (AL, Calgary-Buffalo)
Act to Amend the Alberta Bill of Rights to Protect our Children, An (Bill 10)
Second reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist) (Blakeman: defeated) ... 309-10 Committee, amendment A6 (inclusion of gender identity and gender expression in Alberta Bill of Rights; supports for gay-straight alliances) (Dirks: carried unanimously) ... 542-44
Affordable housing - Fort McMurray
Agricultural Societies Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 14)
Alberta Accountability Act (Bill 2)
Committee ... 502-5, 507-12, 515 Committee, amendment A1 ( designated office-holder limit on number of severance payments) (Anderson: carried) ... 502 Committee, amendment A2 (postemployment restrictions/cooling-off period extension to 24 months, removal of Ethics Commissioner waiver) (Notley: defeated) ... 503 Committee, amendment ruled out of order (redundant) ... 505 Committee, amendment A3 (Assembly debate on matters referred to Ethics Commissioner) (Hehr/Sherman: defeated) ... 505 Committee, amendment A4 (sole-source contracts) (Anderson: defeated) ... 507 Committee, amendment A5 (lobbying that affects broad class of people) (Notley: defeated) ... 508-9 Committee, amendment A6 (persons ineligible for specific contracts or benefits) (Barnes: defeated) ... 510 Committee, amendment A7 (relationships with member, reasonable person test) (Mason/Notley: defeated) ... 511 Committee, amendment A8 (ministers' investment exemption criteria) (Hehr/Sherman: defeated) ... 512 Committee, amendment A10 (Ethics Commissioner self-initiated investigations/inquiries) (Mason/Notley: defeated) ... 515 Third reading ... 519
Alberta Bill of Rights
Parental rights provisions (proposed) ... 310, 542-43
Alberta Energy Regulator
Auditor General recommendations ... 791
Alberta Works
Medical benefits and barriers to full employment core benefits, petition presented on ... 296, 493
Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (Bill 18)
Auditor General's office
March 2015 report ... 791
Auditor General Act
Application to Horse Racing Alberta ... 178, 281
Banks and banking
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 281-82
Bills, government (procedure)
Statutes amendment acts/omnibus bills ... 283
Calgary
Infrastructure funding ... 796-97
Calgary board of education
New schools, funding from supplementary supply ... 589
Calgary-Buffalo (constituency)
Member's retrospective, members' statements ... 811
Calgary-West (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 62
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Freedom from discrimination ... 309 General remarks ... 267
Capital projects
Announcements before and during 2014 by-elections ... 16-17 Infrastructure, borrowing for ... 62
Children and poverty
Provincial strategy ... 62
Civil forfeiture office
Decision appeal process ... 865
Class size (K to 12)
Provincial strategy ... 220 Secondary school ... 220
Common Business Number Act (Bill 12)
Condominium Property Act review
Ministerial review, stakeholder consultation ... 498, 500
Condominium Property Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 9)
Committee, amendment A2 (inclusion of property managers) (Bilous/Eggen: defeated) ... 498 Third reading ... 498, 500 Third reading, amendment that bill be not now read (6-month hoist amendment H1) (Bilous/Notley: defeated) ... 498, 500 Public response ... 498
Continuing/extended care facilities
Debts, private
Medical student loans average (Written Question 14: defeated) ... 118, 119 Student debt, average six months postgraduation (Written Question 23: defeated) ... 119-21
Disaster financial assistance program (federal)
Disaster recovery program
2013 floods, outstanding claims, funding from supplementary supply ... 586-87 2013 floods, outstanding claims, petition presented ... 296-97 2013 floods, program evaluation, petition presented on ... 493
Early childhood education
Full-day kindergarten ... 63
Edmonton
Infrastructure funding ... 796-97
Education
Provincial strategy ... 852
Education - Curricula
Student participation, parental rights re content on religion, patriotic activities, and human sexuality ... 310
Education Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 19)
Second reading ... 804-5 Third reading ... 861 Disqualification of board members under act ... 861 Ministerial appointment of trustees under act ... 804-5
Election Act
Provisions preventing government or Crown agency announcements before a fixed-date election or during nonfixed-date election or by-election (proposed) ... 519
Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act
Maximum donation provisions ... 519
Elections, provincial
2012 election, Progressive Conservative campaign promises ... 62
Electric power - Prices
Regulated rate option for consumers ... 242
Electric Utilities (Transparency in Billing) Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 201)
Energy industries - Environmental aspects
Environmental impact assessment hearings, participation only by those directly and adversely affected ... 279
Ethics Commissioner
Investigations/inquiries, legislative provisions ... 519
Faith-based schools
Gay-straight alliances in ... 309 Gay-straight alliances in Catholic schools ... 309 Requirements for statements on homosexual behaviour ... 399 Supports for students ... 309
Family care clinics
Budgetary allocation ... 587
Fiscal Management Act
Application to Horse Racing Alberta (proposed) ... 178, 281
Fiscal policy
Government spending ... 404 Members' statements ... 404 Provincial strategy ... 62
Flood damage mitigation
Auditor General recommendations ... 791 Funding from supplementary supply ... 586, 587
Flood damage mitigation - Bow River
Agreement with TransAlta re use of dams (proposed) ... 594 Funding from supplementary supply ... 587, 594
Flood damage mitigation - Calgary
Springbank dry reservoir (room for the river project) ... 594
Flood damage mitigation - Elbow River
Funding from supplementary supply ... 587, 594
Flood insurance
National program (proposed) ... 594
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons
Supports for students ... 309
Gay-straight alliances in schools
Appeal process, judicial reviews ... 309 Denial, student recourse through courts ... 309 General remarks ... 232 Rural schools ... 232 School board policy, legislation on (Motion Other than Government Motion 503, 2014) ... 309, 543
Government accountability
Government policies
Implementation, performance measures on ... 63 Key priorities ... 62
Homelessness
10-year plan to end ... 63 Housing First report recommendations ... 154
Horse racing
Employment opportunities ... 177
Horse Racing Alberta
Fiscal deficits ... 177 Revenue from slot machines and video lottery terminals (VLTs) ... 177-78, 179, 280-81
Horse Racing Alberta Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 4)
Committee ... 177-79 Committee, amendment A2 (section 4, removal of reference to Auditor General Act and Fiscal Management Act) (Hehr: defeated) ... 178 Third reading ... 280-81
Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 44, 2009)
Parent rights provisions re school curriculum ... 542-43
Income support program
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 63
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Kananaskis Country Golf Course
Flood recovery, funding from supplementary supply ... 587
Labour unions
Legislative protection ... 267
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals)
Private facilities ... 63
Members' Statements (current session)
Persons with disabilities ... 237 Provincial fiscal policies ... 404 Retrospective by the Member for Calgary-Buffalo ... 811
Ministry of Education
Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015 ... 589 Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015 debate ... 589
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015 ... 587, 594 Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015 debate ... 587, 593-94
Ministry of Health
Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015 debate ... 587-88
Ministry of Municipal Affairs
Funding from supplementary supply ... 586 Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015 ... 586-87, 590 Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015 debate ... 586-87, 590, 594
Municipal Government Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 20)
Municipal sustainability initiative
Funding from supplementary supply ... 590
Northland school division
Governance, Auditor General recommendations ... 791, 804-5, 852
Oil - Prices
Budgetary implications ... 188, 404
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Affordable housing ... 154-55 Education concerns ... 852 Education funding ... 220 Education in Morinville ... 79 Faith-based and private schools ... 399 Gay-straight alliances in schools ... 232 Postsecondary tuition fees ... 819 Provincial fiscal policies ... 188 School infrastructure priorities ... 16-17
Personal Information Protection Act
Supreme Court decision ... 260-61, 267-68, 273 Supreme Court decision, Information and Privacy Commissioner's remarks on ... 273
Personal Information Protection Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 3)
Third reading ... 260-61, 267-68, 273 Third reading, motion to not now read (reasoned amendment RA1) ... 267-68 Third reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist amendment H1) (Mason/Eggen: defeated) ... 273
Persons with disabilities
Members' statements ... 237
Petitions presented (current session)
Alberta Works, increase to medical benefits and barriers to full employment core benefits ... 296 Alberta Works medical benefits and barriers to full employment core benefits ... 493 Disaster recovery program claims ... 296-97 Disaster recovery program evaluation, 2013 floods ... 493
Postsecondary educational institutions - Admissions (enrolment)
Access, affordability ... 120-21 Enrolment rate, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 63
Private schools
Bankruptcies ... 399 Financial information disclosure requirements ... 399
Property insurance
Condominium insurance ... 498
Respecting Property Rights Act (Bill 1)
Safe and Inclusive Schools Statutes Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 202)
Bill sponsor's role ... 543 General remarks ... 310
Same-sex marriage
Provincial recognition ... 543
Schools
Inclusive activity groups, statistics ... 232
Schools - Construction
Emergent needs other than Calgary, funding from supplementary supply ... 589 Funding from supplementary supply ... 589 Modular program, local input ... 220 New schools, timeline on ... 62, 188 Reprofiling of schools ... 589
Schools - Construction - Calgary
Modular program, prioritization ... 16-17
Schools - Maintenance and repair
Deferred maintenance, funding from supplementary supply ... 589
Schools - Morinville
Public education provision ... 79
Securities Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 5)
Skin Cancer Prevention (Artificial Tanning) Act (Bill 22)
Third reading ... 862 Advertising aimed at youth, provisions for ... 862
Small business - Regulation
Red tape reduction ... 858
Small business - Taxation
Provincial strategy ... 799
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 62-63
Statutes Amendment Act, 2014 (No. 2) (Bill 6)
Supplementary supply estimates 2014-2015
Taxation
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 404 Progressive tax (proposed) ... 188 Provincial strategy ... 62, 63, 188
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Tuition and fees, postsecondary
Provincial strategy ... 819
Victims Restitution and Compensation Payment Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 23)
Second reading ... 864-65 Committee ... 866-67 Committee, amendment A1 (administration cost payments) (Hehr/Blakeman: defeated) ... 866-67
Workers' Compensation Act - Amendments
Information disclosure provisions ... 283
XL Foods
Beef quality, union concerns ... 261
Horne, Fred (PC, Edmonton-Rutherford)
Act to Amend the Alberta Bill of Rights to Protect our Children, An (Bill 10)
Committee ... 358 Committee, amendment A2 (appeal process, removal of reference to courts; ministerial involvement if school board denies gay-straight alliance) (Jansen: carried) ... 358
Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions
Alberta Students' Executive Council
Mental health initiatives, funding for ... 156
Gay-straight alliances in schools
Denial, Education minister to facilitate (proposed) ... 358
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Members' Statements (current session)
Mental health services
Services for postsecondary students ... 156
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Mental health services for postsecondary students ... 156
Physicians
Dr. Cy Frank, members' statements ... 880
Privilege (current session)
Obstructing a member in performance of duty (statements in Assembly on flight to Grande Prairie, October 25, 2012) (not proceeded with) ... 28
Privilege (previous session, 2014)
Misleading the House (use of government airplanes) (not proceeded with) ... 28
University of Alberta
Mental health services funding ... 156
University of Calgary
Mental health services funding ... 156
University of Lethbridge
Mental health services funding ... 156
Horner, Doug (PC, Spruce Grove-St. Albert, to January 31, 2015)
Auditor General Act
Application to Horse Racing Alberta ... 179
Fiscal Management Act
Application to Horse Racing Alberta (proposed) ... 179
Horse Racing Alberta Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 4)
Committee ... 179 Committee, amendment A2 (section 4, removal of reference to Auditor General Act and Fiscal Management Act) (Hehr: defeated) ... 179
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Privilege (current session)
Obstructing a member in performance of duty (statements in Assembly on flight to Grande Prairie, October 25, 2012) (not proceeded with) ... 28
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