Hanson, David B. (Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, W)
Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4)
Second reading ... 506, 508, 513-15, 518-20 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 518-20 Second reading, points of order on debate ... 518 Committee ... 841 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 841 Penalty provisions, lack of ... 514
Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1)
Second reading ... 35 Committee ... 88-89 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) (Cyr: defeated) ... 88-89 Official Opposition position ... 35
Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2)
Second reading ... 183-84, 220 Second reading, motion that bill not be now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 220
Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
Loan eligibility criteria ... 307
Alberta heritage savings trust fund
Comparison with other sovereign wealth funds ... 137 Public survey (Can We Interest You in an $11 Billion Decision?) ... 137
Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202)
Second reading ... 306-7 Committee ... 574, 581-83 Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory committee, reporting, local food awareness week, proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 574 Committee, amendment A2 (public-sector procurement of local food) (van Dijken: defeated) ... 582 Advisory committee cost ... 307 Advisory committee membership ... 306-7 Application to public sector ... 306, 581
Alberta School Boards Association
Spending on team-building activities ... 501
Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3)
Assuring Alberta's Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201)
Bills, private members' public (procedure)
Amendments, speaking procedure ... 583
Brooks (city)
Health facilities ... 177
Budget 2015-2016 debate
Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... 552
Carbon levy
General remarks ... 530 Impact on northern Alberta ... 1047 Point of order on debate ... 572-73
Corporate taxation
Collection of taxes in arrears ... 329 Increase ... 183-84
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Debt repayment ... 515 Debt-servicing costs ... 508 Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 514 Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 514 Provincial credit rating ... 508
Education
Members' statements ... 501
Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203)
Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 475
Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6)
Second reading ... 745, 749, 823, 833-35, 837, 981, 1032-33 Second reading, motion that bill not be now read (6-month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) ... 1032-33 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 837, 981 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), point of order on debate ... 1010 Second reading, point of order on debate (withdrawn) ... 970 Committee ... 1056-58, 1066-67, 1101-3 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1056-58, 1066-67 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) ... 1066-67 Committee, amendment A3 (Employment Standards Code, Labour Relations Code, Occupational Health and Safety Act application) (Hanson: defeated) ... 1101-2 Committee, amendment A5 (provisions for small farms and ranches) (Hanson: defeated) ... 1103 Third reading ... 1124 Third reading, motion that bill not be now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1124 Comparison with other jurisdictions' legislation ... 835 Family farm provisions ... 834 Impact on northern Alberta ... 1047 Petitions presented ... 1052 Stakeholder consultation ... 745, 833, 1047
Farm produce
Product diversification ... 307
Grocery stores
Local food sourcing ... 581-82
Health care
Access to services ... 776
Health care finance
Funding, point of order on debate ... 378
Health facilities
Capital needs ... 177 Facility condition ... 776
Hutterite colonies
Bill 6 application to ... 1033
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 1)
Time allotted for consideration ... 109
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Kidney dialysis
Mobile service ... 177, 237, 776 Mobile service, members' statements ... 127 Permanent unit proposed ... 237
Lac La Biche
Health facilities ... 776
Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 177 Overview ... 177-78
Members' Statements (current session)
Education concerns ... 501 Mobile dialysis service ... 127
Ministry of Aboriginal Relations
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2) ... 108-9
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A1 (minister's office budget reduction) (Hanson: defeated) ... 609-10
Ministry of Executive Council
Ministers' office budgets ... 646-47 Ministers' office budgets, point of order on debate ... 650
Municipal finance
Collection of taxes in arrears ... 329
Oil prices
Impact on energy industry employment ... 184
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Dialysis service in Lac La Biche ... 237 Ministers' office budgets ... 646-47 Municipal tax collection ... 329 Northern Alberta concerns ... 1047 Rural health care ... 776 Tax policy ... 530 Two Hills Mennonite school construction ... 297
Petitions presented (current session)
Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act, ... 1052
Pipeline construction
Provincial strategy, point of order on debate ... 378
Points of order (current session)
Allegations against a member or members ... 378 Items previously decided ... 650 Questions and comments under Standing Order 29(2)(a) ... 814 Referring to a member by name ... 572-73 Relevance ... 1010 Relevance (withdrawn) ... 970 Speaking twice in a debate ... 518
Political parties
Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 35-36
Portage College
Graduation ceremony ... 177
Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8)
Second reading ... 726, 730-31 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 726, 730-31 Committee ... 998-99 Third reading ... 1005, 1006 School board responses ... 1006 Stakeholder consultation ... 726, 730-31
Public School Boards' Association of Alberta
Special levy motion ... 501
Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5)
Second reading ... 656-57 Committee ... 792 Committee, amendment A5 (publication of aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... 792
Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204)
Royalty structure (energy resources)
Review, impact on energy industry employment ... 183-84
Rural health care
Access to services ... 776
Smoky Lake
Tax assessment for uncollected taxes ... 329
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 177-78
Standing Orders
SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... 814 SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under, points of order ... 814
Taxation
Alcohol tax ... 514 Fuel tax ... 514 Insurance premiums ... 514 Locomotive fuel tax ... 514 Provincial strategy ... 530 Tobacco products tax ... 514
Two Hills Mennonite school
School construction, structural issues ... 177-78, 297
Workers' compensation
Exempted job categories ... 981
Hinkley, Bruce (Wetaskiwin-Camrose, ND)
Aboriginal peoples' economic development
Access to capital ... 102 Small-business supports ... 102-3
Alberta Energy Regulator
Landowner right of appeal ... 140
Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009)
Review of act proposed ... 140
Camrose Women's Shelter
Services for aboriginal women ... 483
Carbon Capture and Storage Statutes Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 24, 2010)
Pore space ownership provisions ... 140
Climate change strategy
Members' statements ... 715-16
Farmers' Advocate
Effectiveness of office ... 140
Freehold lands
Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than Government Motion 501: carried) ... 139-40, 143
Hydraulic fracturing
Nondisclosure agreements with landowners ... 140
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Members' Statements (current session)
Climate change strategy ... 715-16 National Child Day ... 547-48
National Child Day
Members' statements ... 547-48
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Aboriginal entrepreneurship ... 102-3 Strategic transportation infrastructure program ... 467
Property Rights Advocate
Effectiveness of office ... 140
Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204)
Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, 2012)
Landowner appeal provisions ... 140
Speaker, The
Election, nomination of Member for Medicine Hat ... 1
Strategic transportation infrastructure program (STIP)
Surface Rights Act
Amendments to act ... 140
United Nations declaration on the rights of the child
Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Health, Minister of Seniors)
Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1)
Second reading ... 32-33, 36-37 Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 32 Official Opposition position ... 32
Addiction treatment
Services for children and youth ... 431 Women's services, Recovery Acres Society proposal ... 441
Affordable supportive living initiative
Alberta Dental Association and College
Alberta Health Services (authority)
Centralization of services ... 445, 772, 960 CEO resignation ... 772 Executive and management compensation, 2009-2010 to 2014-2015, central zone (Written Question 5: carried as amended) ... 678 Part-time employee overtime pay, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 (Written Question 3: carried as amended) ... 677 Performance measures ... 323 Performance measures, minister's supplementary response ... 348 Relations with Health ministry ... 772-73
Alberta Health Services Board
Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7)
Alberta Medical Association
Health minister's meeting with ... 280
Alberta Social Housing Corporation
Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3)
Budget 2015-2016
Expert input into ... 81 Timeline ... 36-37
Calgary (city)
Addiction treatment, women's services ... 441
Calgary cancer centre
Completion ... 422 Funding ... 372 Location in Foothills medical centre ... 60 Project status ... 55
Cancer diagnosis and treatment
Capital funding ... 55-56
Capital projects
Prioritization, publicly available information ("sunshine list") ... 103, 281
Carewest Garrison Green (Calgary long-term care facility)
Chronic disease management
Climate change strategy
Energy company response ... 771-72 General remarks ... 564-65
Consort hospital and care centre
Crowfoot Village Family Practice
Dentists
Fees for services, publication of ... 878
Eastern Alberta
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... 434
Elections, municipal
Governing legislation ... 32
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 526, 565, 1050
Electronic health records
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.)
Ambulances decommissioned ... 1047-48 Centralization of services ... 445, 960 First responder scope of practice ... 495-96 Funding ... 861 HALO air ambulance service ... 879 Hours of service ... 433-34 Interfacility transfer of patients ... 496 Naloxone administration by first responders ... 644 Paramedic scope of practice ... 861 Response times ... 434 Southern Alberta service ... 960, 1047-48
Energy industries and environment
Energy policies
Impact on employment rate ... 525
Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6)
Committee ... 1105 Agriculture and Forestry minister's remarks ... 771, 775 Family farm provisions ... 668 Family farm provisions, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 526-27 Impact on northern Alberta ... 1047 Implementation cost ... 527 Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... 707-8 Public information ... 773, 775, 777-78 Public information, Premier's remarks on ... 707, 709 Stakeholder consultation ... 663, 665-68, 771, 775, 1046, 1047, 1049 Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 663-64, 665, 709
Executive Council
Public access to ministers ... 439-40
Eye diseases
Retinal diseases ... 527 Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for ... 396
Fentanyl use
Aboriginal community issues ... 532 Harm reduction strategies ... 881 Naloxone kit availability ... 55 Reduction strategy ... 397, 423, 644, 881
Fort McMurray
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) ... 46-47
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons
Transgender issues, stakeholder consultation ... 699
Government policies
Consultation policies ... 665-66
Government services
Private delivery, elimination of proposed ... 73
Grande Prairie cancer centre
Grande Prairie regional hospital
Health care
Access to services ... 776 Consultation on ... 82 Coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ... 171 Local decision-making ... 17, 43, 47, 54 Long-term planning ... 280 Patient-first strategy ... 284 Private delivery, elimination of ... 73 Quality of services ... 544 Review ... 43 Services for transgender and gender-variant persons ... 669 Urgent care services ... 234
Health care capacity issues
Health Professions Act
Inclusion of paramedics proposed ... 861
Hospital maintenance and repair
Capital planning ... 881-82 Funding ... 55
Hospitals
Acute-care beds ... 58 Emergency service capacity issues ... 775
Immunization of children
Mandatory information to parents proposed ... 233
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2)
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
... 95, 164, 390, 461, 538, 561, 596, 639, 661, 705, 864
Kidney dialysis
Mobile service ... 237, 776 Permanent unit proposed ... 237
Lac La Biche
Health facilities ... 776
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
All-party co-operation ... 36
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals)
Couples accommodations ... 498 Funding ... 54 Health Quality Council of Alberta survey ... 373-74 New beds ... 347, 542 New facilities, timeline on ... 46-47 Prevention of resident abuse ... 374
Medical laboratories
DynaLife services ... 541-42 DynaLife services, Health Quality Council of Alberta review ... 541-42 Public funding and operation proposed ... 542
Medicine Hat (city)
Emergency medical services ... 879
Mental health services
Funding ... 55, 63 Review ... 55 Review, inclusion of paramedics in ... 861
Minister responsible for the status of women
Ministry of Education
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2), debate ... 54
Ministry of Human Services
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2), debate ... 60
Ministry of Seniors
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2), debate ... 67
Misericordia community hospital
Maintenance and repair, funding ... 55
New Democratic Party
Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting with Executive Council members ... 439-40
Northern Lights regional hospital
Opioid use
Reduction strategy ... 644
Oral Question Period (procedure)
Ministers' supplementary responses ... 348
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Addiction treatment services for women in Calgary ... 441 Affordable and special-needs housing ... 103-4 Affordable housing ... 773-74 Affordable supportive living initiative ... 298, 347 Affordable supportive living project approval ... 376 Air quality in Alberta ... 567 Alberta Health Services ... 772-73 Alberta Health Services Board ... 296 Alberta Health Services performance measures ... 323, 348 Calgary cancer centre ... 422 Cancer services ... 372 Carbon tax ... 563-65, 568 Childhood immunization ... 233 Climate change strategy ... 565 Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 1050 Dental care costs ... 878 Dialysis service in Lac La Biche ... 237 Drug treatment for retinal conditions ... 396 Elder abuse ... 16 Emergency medical services ... 495-96, 861 Emergency medical services in eastern Alberta ... 433-34 Emergency medical services in southern Alberta ... 960 Emergency medical services in Willow Creek ... 1047-48 Energy policies ... 525-26, 771-72, 775 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 526-27, 667-68, 707-8, 771, 773, 775, 1046, 1049 Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... 663-64, 709 Fentanyl use ... 881 Fentanyl use on First Nations ... 532 Fentanyl use prevention ... 397, 423 Government policies ... 777-78 Grande Prairie hospital ... 430-31, 443 Health and seniors' care in Strathmore-Brooks ... 281 Health care decision-making ... 47 Health care review ... 43 Health care system ... 280, 283, 284 Health care system decision-making ... 17 Health coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ... 171 Health facilities in Wainwright ... 103, 646 Health services for transgender and gender-variant Albertans ... 669 Hospital infrastructure ... 881-82 Injured temporary foreign worker ... 233-34 Job creation and retention ... 440-41 Long-term care facility survey ... 373-74 Medical laboratory services ... 541-42 Medicine Hat town hall meeting ... 879 Menthol-flavoured tobacco products ... 122 Midwifery services ... 280-81, 604-5 Northern Alberta concerns ... 1047 Opioid use ... 644 Physician service contracts ... 861-62 Primary care networks ... 1048 Public access to Executive Council members ... 439-40 Public consultation ... 665-66 Rocky Mountain House hospital ... 545-46 Royal Alexandra hospital renovation ... 432 Royalty review ... 664-65, 708 Rural emergency medical services ... 445 Rural health care ... 544, 775-76 Seniors' care ... 542 Seniors' care in Fort McMurray ... 46-47 Seniors' housing ... 565-66 Seniors' housing for couples ... 498 Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic ... 713-14 Status of women ... 123 Tobacco use reduction strategy ... 394-95 UN climate summit ... 439 Urgent health care in Airdrie ... 170, 423, 543-44, 774-75 Urgent health care in Beaverlodge ... 102 Urgent health care in Sylvan Lake ... 234 Victorian Order of Nurses ... 643-44 Vision loss services ... 527 Youth addiction treatment services ... 431
Persons with disabilities
Vision loss services ... 527
Physicians
Allegations of intimidation ... 861-62 Recruitment and retention ... 775-76 Services agreement ... 861-62
Pipeline construction
Provincial strategy ... 441
Political advertising
Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, advocacy groups, etc.) ... 32
Political parties
Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 32, 33
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Inclusion in mental health review ... 861
Primary care (medicine)
Access ... 69 Rural health care ... 69
Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act
Court-ordered 10-day detoxification and stabilization period provisions ... 431
Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8)
Second reading ... 727 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 727 Committee ... 995 Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) ... 995
Respect for Communities Act (Bill C-2, federal)
Impact on harm reduction strategies ... 644
Rocky Mountain House health centre
New facility, timeline on ... 545-46
Royal Alexandra hospital
Renovation project ... 432
Royalty structure (energy resources)
Rural health care
Access to services ... 776 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... 434, 445 Funding ... 544 Quality of services ... 544 Rural health services review (2014-2015) ... 47
Rural hospitals
Acute-care beds ... 58 Emergency service capacity issues ... 775
School boards and districts
Elections, governing legislation ... 32 Student participation on (Motion Other than Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... 413
Seniors' benefit program
Funding ... 103 Low-income supports ... 565
Seniors' housing
Couples' accommodations ... 498 Funding ... 565-66 Newell Foundation proposal ... 281
Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 82
Standing Orders
Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments) ... 363 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments), amendment A1 (morning sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with amendments) ... 363
Strathmore-Brooks (constituency)
Health facilities ... 281
Strathmore general hospital
Surgery procedures
Wait times, statistics for 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 (Written Question 2: carried as amended) ... 675-76
Taxation
Provincial strategy ... 526 Tobacco products tax, revenue utilization ... 394-95
Temporary foreign workers
Injured worker, support for ... 233-34
Tobacco products
Electronic cigarettes ... 395 Menthol-flavoured products, ban on ... 122, 394 Menthol-flavoured products, link to youth smoking ... 122
United Nations climate summit
Premier's attendance ... 439, 441
Victorian Order of Nurses
Wainwright (town)
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... 433-34
Wainwright health centre
Capital needs ... 55-56, 103 Condition of facility ... 646 Stakeholders' meeting with Health minister ... 646
Willow Creek municipal district
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... 1047-48
Horne, Trevor A.R. (Spruce Grove-St. Albert, ND)
Aboriginal Awareness Week
Aboriginal peoples
Members' statements ... 39
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Provincial borrowing during economic downturn (countercyclical spending) ... 666 Provincial credit rating ... 666
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Members' Statements (current session)
Aboriginal peoples ... 39 Orange Shirt Day ... 330
Nonrenewable natural resource revenue
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Provincial fiscal position ... 666
Orange Shirt Day
Members' statements ... 330
Spruce Grove-St. Albert (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 39
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Report recommendations ... 330
United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
General remarks ... 39 Recommendations ... 330
Hunter, Grant R. (Cardston-Taber-Warner, W)
Aboriginal peoples' economic development
Programs and partnerships ... 66
Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4)
Second reading ... 516-17 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 516-17 Committee ... 760-61, 922-23 Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 760-61 Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 922-23
Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2)
Second reading ... 185-86, 204, 221-22 Second reading, motion that bill not be now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 221-22 Committee ... 245-46 Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 245-46
Agriculture
Supply chain management ... 581 Sustainable practices ... 581
Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202)
Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3)
Budget 2015-2016
Government intentions ... 345
Corporate taxation
Increase ... 395 Progressive tax proposed ... 185
Daycare centres
Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... 315
Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203)
Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 408-9, 475-76 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee (referral amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 408-9
Employment insurance program (federal)
Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6)
Second reading ... 735-37, 934-36, 1028, 1035-36 Second reading, motion that bill not be now read (6-month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) ... 1035-36 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 934-36, 1028 Committee ... 1092-94 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1092-94 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA3 (private insurance provision for small farms) (Hunter: defeated) ... 1092-94 Third reading ... 1125 Third reading, motion that bill not be now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1125 Family farm provisions ... 668 Family farm provisions, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 542-43, 736 Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... 860-61 Petitions presented ... 1052 Public information ... 935-36 Stakeholder consultation ... 542-43, 648, 667-68, 736, 860-61, 880-81
Farm safety
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 735
Farm workers
Workers' compensation coverage ... 66
Fiscal policy
Keynesian economics ... 761
Income tax, provincial (personal income tax)
Progressive tax proposed ... 185
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2)
Comparison with previous years ... 185 Estimates debate ... 65-66
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Job creation
Grant program ... 431-32 Grant program, members' statements ... 434-35
Members' Statements (current session)
Job-creation grant program ... 434-35 Minimum wage ... 128 Water supply in Milk River and Coutts ... 492
Ministry of Aboriginal Relations
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2), debate ... 66
Ministry of Human Services
Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2), debate ... 66
Ministry of Infrastructure
Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A3 (minister's office budget reduction) (Hunter: defeated) ... 610
Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour
Funding, comparison with previous years ... 65-66 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (no. 2), debate ... 65-66
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Petitions presented (current session)
Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act, ... 1052
Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8)
Second reading ... 723 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 723
Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5)
Public service
Cost of ... 395 Size of ... 395
Small business
Provincial tax rate, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 245-46
Standing Orders
Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments) ... 364, 454 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments), amendment A1 (morning sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with amendments) ... 364 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments), amendment A2 (limit on evening sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... 454
Taxation
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 185
Unemployment
Budgetary impacts ... 65-66
Water management
Milk River and Coutts water supply, members' statements ... 492
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