Hanson, David B. (Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, W)
Aboriginal communities
Services for Fort McMurray and area evacuees, federal/provincial jurisdiction ... 866
Aboriginal Consultation Levy Repeal Act (Bill 12)
Second reading ... 905 Committee ... 986 Third reading ... 1069
Act to Ensure Independent Environmental Monitoring, An (Bill 18)
Third reading, motion to adjourn debate (defeated), point of order ... 1204
Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services, An (Bill 4)
Committee ... 421 Committee, amendment A10 (essential services to include ambulance attendants) (McIver: defeated) ... 421 Third reading ... 454-55
Act to Modernize Enforcement of Provincial Offences, An (Bill 9)
Affordable housing
Federal-provincial agreement, point of order on debate ... 1726-27
Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties
Ministerial forum ... 258
Alberta Research and Innovation Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 11)
Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2016 (Bill 2)
Second reading ... 162-63 Third reading ... 255, 258-59 Third reading, points of order on debate ... 253
Assisted dying
Regulation development (Government Motion 17: carried) ... 1391-92
Canadian Red Cross
Electronic fund transfers to evacuees ... 892
Carbon levy
Impact on business costs ... 1351, 1922-23, 1981 Impact on consumer prices ... 681-82 Impact on education costs ... 1351 Impact on health care costs ... 1350 Impact on municipal costs ... 1350 Members' statements ... 1981 Public debate ... 1464 Public debate, members' apology for remarks ... 1464 Revenue utilization ... 1318
Child protective services
Death review ministerial panel ... 2481 Death review system ... 2481 Deaths of children in care, criminal charges laid ... 2183 Oversight of caregivers, Human Services employee accountability ... 2183 Services for aboriginal children ... 1983-84, 2481
Climate Leadership Implementation Act (Bill 20)
Second reading ... 1288, 1318, 1349-52 Second reading, motion to refer to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1288 Second reading, motion to not now read (economic impact study proposed, reasoned amendment RA1) (MacIntyre: defeated) ... 1349-52 Committee ... 1432, 1435, 1438, 1494, 1517-18 Committee, amendment A2 (carbon levy rate) (Loewen: defeated) ... 1432 Committee, amendment A3 (carbon levy revenue utilization) (Clark: defeated) ... 1435 Committee, amendment A4 (ministerial reporting) (Jansen: defeated) ... 1438 Committee, amendment A7 (performance measures) (Swann: defeated) ... 1494 Committee, amendment A14 (greenhouses exemption) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1517-18
Committee on Alberta's Economic Future, Standing
Membership and deputy chair changes (Government Motion 33: carried as amended) ... 2587
Committee on Families and Communities, Standing
Membership changes (Government Motion 33: carried as amended) ... 2587 Membership changes (Government Motion 33: carried as amended), motion to amend (Hanson: carried) ... 2587
Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing
Membership changes (Government Motion 33: carried) ... 2587
Committee on Members' Services, Special Standing
Membership changes (Government Motion 33: carried) ... 2587
Committee on Public Accounts, Standing
Membership and chair changes (Government Motion 33: carried) ... 2587
Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing
Membership and deputy chair changes (Government Motion 33: carried) ... 2587
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Debt-to-GDP ratio, Treasury Board and Finance minister's remarks ... 681-82 Provincial credit rating ... 1225
Drivers' licences
Disqualification based on medical conditions ... 348
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 1318
Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Special
Fair Elections Financing Act (Bill 35)
Second reading ... 2361-62, 2369-70 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Starke: defeated) ... 2361-62, 2369-70 Committee ... 2470 Committee, amendment A6 (contributions to constituency associations) (Clark: defeated), points of order on debate ... 2461 Committee, amendment A8 (definition of third party) (Nixon: defeated) ... 2470
Fiscal policy
Members' statements ... 1053
Fiscal Statutes Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 10)
Second reading ... 680-82 Committee ... 1047, 1105, 1112-13, 1120-21 Committee, amendment A1 (section 5, debt limit) (McIver: defeated) ... 1047 Committee, amendment A2 (Executive Council salary penalty if debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 15 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 1105 Committee, amendment A4 (debt-to-GDP ratio of 18 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 1112-13, 1120-21 Third reading ... 1225 Third reading, motion to not now read (provincial credit-rating plan, reasoned amendment RA1) (Hanson: defeated) ... 1225
Fishing
Allowable catches ... 564 Allowable catches, walleye ... 564 Sport fishing management ... 563
Forest and Prairie Protection Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 24)
Greenhouse gas emissions
Carbon dioxide emissions ... 1351
Health care finance
Executive compensation ... 680-81
Holodomor (Ukrainian famine remembrance)
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Investing in a Diversified Alberta Economy Act (Bill 30)
Justice system
Overrepresentation of aboriginal people ... 1656
Justice system administration
Minor offences, repeat offenders ... 646
Kinship care
Death of aboriginal child ("Marie"/Serenity), criminal investigation ... 2480-81 Deaths of children in care, criminal charges laid ... 2183 Oversight of caregivers, Human Services employee accountability ... 2183
Lac La Biche (hamlet)
Apartment fire, members' statements ... 179
Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills (constituency)
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Decorum, points of order ... 1688-89 Gestures by members ... 103
Lobbyists Act
Referral to Resource Stewardship Committee ... 1915
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Members' apologies ... 1464
Members' Statements (current session)
Carbon levy ... 1981 Lac La Biche apartment fire ... 179 Megan Wolitski ... 348 Provincial fiscal policies ... 1053 Ukrainian heritage ... 1464 Whitefish Lake First Nation education program ... 2573
Ministry of Infrastructure
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017 ... 258
Ministry of Transportation
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017 ... 258
Modernized Municipal Government Act (Bill 21)
Second reading ... 1596, 1624-25 Committee ... 2014, 2019, 2024, 2097-99, 2193-94 Committee, amendment A1 (off-site levies, growth management boards, intermunicipal collaboration frameworks, intermunicipal development plans, municipal councillor training, regional appeal board representation, municipally controlled corporations outside Alberta, alternative decision-making timelines) (Larivee: carried as amended) ... 2019, 2024, 2097-99, 2193-94 Committee, amendment A1 (off-site levies, growth management boards, intermunicipal collaboration frameworks, intermunicipal development plans, municipal councillor training, regional appeal board representation, municipally controlled corporations outside Alberta, alternative decision-making timelines) (Larivee: carried as amended), subamendment SA2 (designated industrial properties) (Starke: defeated) ... 2019 Committee, amendment A1 (off-site levies, growth management boards, intermunicipal collaboration frameworks, intermunicipal development plans, municipal councillor training, regional appeal board representation, municipally controlled corporations outside Alberta, alternative decision-making timelines) (Larivee: carried as amended), subamendment SA3 (environmental reserves) (Gotfried: defeated) ... 2024 Committee, amendment A1 (off-site levies, growth management boards, intermunicipal collaboration frameworks, intermunicipal development plans, municipal councillor training, regional appeal board representation, municipally controlled corporations outside Alberta, alternative decision-making timelines) (Larivee: carried as amended), subamendment SA5 (off-site levy threshold) (Hanson/Cooper: defeated) ... 2097-99 Municipally controlled corporations under act ... 2193-94 Regulation development ... 2014 Section 13, controlled corporations ... 2193-94
Motions (procedure)
Admissibility, points of order ... 1204
Municipalities
Intermunicipal collaboration frameworks ... 1596, 1624 Municipal development plans ... 1596, 1624
Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act (Bill 25)
Second reading ... 1687, 1776-77, 1780-81, 1783 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment) (Panda: defeated) ... 1776-77, 1780-81, 1783 Second reading, points of order on debate ... 1688-89 Committee ... 2119, 2128 Committee, amendment A1 (annual reporting) (Fraser: defeated) ... 2119, 2128 Committee, amendment A1 (annual reporting) (Fraser: defeated), points of order on debate ... 2122-24 Committee, amendment A2 ( cap on upgrading emissions) (Aheer: defeated), point of order on debate ... 2238 Energy industry response ... 1687
Opioid use
Aboriginal community initiatives ... 1656
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Child intervention system and indigenous children ... 1983-84 Deaths of children in care ... 2183 Highway maintenance ... 1058 Indigenous community concerns ... 1656 Métis settlements consultation policy ... 662-63 Municipal funding ... 298 Protection of indigenous children in care ... 2480-81 Sport fishing management strategies ... 564 Wildfire emergency funding eligibility ... 866-67 Wildfire evacuees in smaller municipalities ... 892
Pipeline construction
Enbridge line 3 replacement project approval ... 2123 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project approval ... 2123
Points of order (current session)
Admissibility of motions ... 1204 Allegations against a member or members ... 253 Decorum ... 1688-89 Language creating disorder ... 1726-27, 2238 Privilege ... 1750 Question-and-comment period ... 103 Referring to a nonmember ... 2124 Relevance ... 253, 2122-23 Repetition ... 2461
Property Rights Advocate
Annual report 2015 review by Resource Stewardship Committee, committee may meet when Assembly adjourned or prorogued (Government Motion 25: carried) ... 1915
Property tax
Industrial assessment (machinery and equipment) ... 1625 Industrial assessment centralization ... 1625 Linear property assessment, tax collection ... 1596, 1624
Racette junior high school, St. Paul
Renewable/alternative energy industries
Renewable Electricity Act (Bill 27)
Second reading ... 1946, 1953, 2045-46 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Aheer: defeated) ... 1946, 1953 Second reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Gill: defeated) ... 2045-46 Second reading, points of order on debate ... 1750 Committee ... 2150-51 Committee, amendment A5 (investigation, consideration of complaints re ISO program proposal development) (MacIntyre: defeated) ... 2150-51
Road maintenance and repair
Brush clearing along highways ... 1058 Funding ... 258, 1058 Summer maintenance (mowing, debris clearing, etc.) ... 1919
Seniors' benefit program
Program administration ... 505 Special-needs assistance ... 535
Seniors' Home Adaptation and Repair Act (Bill 5)
Second reading ... 497-500, 505, 532-33, 535 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment RF1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 535 Program administration ... 498-99
Solar energy
Northern Alberta potential ... 1946
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply, questions and comments, points of order on debate ... 103
Standing Orders
SO 29(2)(a), question-and-comment period, point of order on debate ... 103
Temporary foreign workers
Services for wildfire-affected workers ... 866
Tourism
Sport fishing tourism ... 564
Ukrainian Albertans
Members' statements ... 1464
Ukrainian-Canadian Heritage Day Act (Bill 26)
Violence against women
Missing and murdered aboriginal women ... 1656
Whitefish Lake First Nation
Education program, members' statements ... 2573
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Services for evacuees ... 866-67 Services for evacuees, electronic fund transfers ... 892 Services for evacuees, persons ineligible for employment insurance ... 867 Services for evacuees in smaller municipalities ... 892
Wildfire prevention and control
Wind power
Environmental impacts ... 1953 Land leases, northern Alberta ... 1946
Wolitski, Megan
Members' statements ... 348
Hinkley, Bruce (Wetaskiwin-Camrose, ND)
4-H clubs
Alberta centennial, members' statements ... 1812-13
Aboriginal business investment fund
Aboriginal consultation
Consultation agreements ... 799
Aboriginal Consultation Levy Act
Aboriginal peoples
Employment initiatives ... 179 Repatriation of sacred ceremonial objects ... 198 Workforce participation ... 963-64
Aboriginal peoples' economic development
Programs and services ... 964
Act to Enhance Off-highway Vehicle Safety, An (Bill 36)
Committee ... 2298-99, 2301 Committee, amendment A1 (exemption for hunters and trappers) (van Dijken: defeated) ... 2298-99
Edmonton-McClung (constituency)
Edmonton-Meadowlark (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 196-97
Educational curricula
Review, stakeholder consultation ... 1655-56
Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 7)
Second reading ... 649 Committee ... 820
Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6, 2015)
Stakeholder consultation on regulations ... 198
First Nations development fund
Health care
Rural services, members' statements ... 1230
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Members' Statements (current session)
4-H centennial in Alberta ... 1812-13 Fort McMurray and area wildfire relief ... 870 Renewable energy initiatives in Westaskiwin-Camrose ... 2330 Rural health service providers ... 1230 Solar power ... 436-37
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Educational curriculum review ... 1655-56 Indigenous peoples' economic development ... 179, 963-64 Indigenous relations ... 799 Rural transportation infrastructure ... 1986-87
Public service
Front-line services ... 198
Renewable/alternative energy sources
Local initiatives, members' statements ... 2330
Rural electrification associations
St. Mary's hospital, Camrose
Service provision ... 1230
Seniors' benefit program
Prescription drug coverage (Motion Other than Government Motion 503: carried) ... 487
Solar energy
Members' statements ... 436-37
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 196-98 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 196-98 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 18, 53, 198-99
Strategic transportation infrastructure program (STIP)
Summer temporary employment program (STEP)
United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
Wetaskiwin-Camrose (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 196-99 Overview ... 197-98 Renewable/alternative energy initiatives ... 2330
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Relief efforts, members' statements ... 870
Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Health)
Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services, An (Bill 4)
Second reading ... 360-62 Second reading, motion to refer to Alberta's Economic Future Committee (referral amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 360-61 Committee ... 420, 424 Committee, amendment A10 (essential services to include ambulance attendants) (McIver: defeated) ... 420, 424
Addiction treatment
Aboriginal traditional healing methods ... 1150
Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties
Fall 2016 convention ... 1933 Ministerial forum ... 272
Alberta College of Paramedics
Alberta Dental Association and College
Investigation of surgery complications, Amber Athwhal's situation ... 2056, 2503
Alberta Health Services (authority)
CEO recruitment process ... 1305 Lawsuits with AHS named as defendant as of March 31, 2011 (Motion for a Return 24: defeated) ... 2065 Relations with Health ministry ... 66, 390-91, 438 Resignation letter of former CEO Vickie Kaminski ... 390-91, 438
Alberta Health Services Board
Appointment criteria ... 390-91
Alberta Land Stewardship Act
Animals
Wildfire-affected pets ... 828
Assisted dying
Health provider refusal ... 1376 Legislative and regulatory provisions ... 174 MLA consultation panel report (What We Heard) ... 1325, 1471 Public consultation ... 1324 Public reporting on ... 1471 Regulation development ... 1376-77, 1471 Regulation development (Government Motion 17: carried) ... 1324-25
Assured income for the severely handicapped
Balancing Pool
Provincial loans ... 2271
Bassano health centre
Continuing/extended care facility, Newell Foundation proposal ... 664
Blood collection and preservation
Budget process
Balanced/deficit budgets ... 676
Calfrac Well Services Ltd.
Calgary-Bow (constituency)
Member's legislative history ... 137
Calgary cancer centre
Funding for maintenance ... 2338
Calgary-North West (constituency)
Member's change in caucus affiliation ... 1890-91
Canadian Red Cross
Donations from the public ... 828
Carbon levy
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 1814 Economic impact ... 2271 Economic impact studies ... 1303, 2178 General remarks ... 339-40, 439, 1814-15 Impact on agricultural costs ... 1232 Impact on business costs ... 1452, 2027-28 Impact on consumer prices ... 607-8, 1053-54, 1375-76 Impact on education costs ... 1302 Impact on energy costs ... 1232-33 Impact on government expenses ... 2333 Impact on health care costs ... 1302 Impact on hospitality industry ... 1232 Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, First Nations, etc. ... 607-8 Revenue utilization ... 1302, 1452-53, 1473
Charter schools
Funding ... 712 New school approval ... 2107 ReThink Charter Academy funding ... 212
Chief Medical Examiner
Autopsy report on aboriginal child who died in kinship care ("Marie"/Serenity) ... 2481 Autopsy reports, timeline on ... 2029
Child and Youth Advocate's office investigations/inquiries
Advocate's access to information ... 2029
Child protective services
Death review ministerial panel ... 2477-79, 2482, 2501 Death review system ... 2479 Deaths of children in care, autopsy reports ... 2029 Review by all-party committee proposed ... 2029-30, 2270
Children with disabilities
Access to inclusive education ... 2056 Programs and services ... 2056-57, 2503
Chronic disease management
Community-based care ... 1893
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Impact on pipeline support ... 2178-79
Copeman Healthcare Centre
Billing practices ... 1212
Corporations
Red tape reduction ... 2028 Red tape reduction strategy proposed ... 868-69
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Provincial credit rating ... 1056
Didsbury district health services
Disaster recovery program
Drugs, prescription
Costs of generic drugs ... 77 Prescription drug misuse ... 845 Short-term exceptional drug therapy program ... 2270-71, 2498
E-cigarettes
Definition as tobaccolike product proposed ... 2108
Edmonton-Glenora (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 97-98 Overview ... 97
Electric power
Capacity market system ... 2028 Import from British Columbia ... 1814-15 Power purchase arrangements (PPAs) ... 271-72, 1932, 1934-35, 2028, 2035 Power purchase arrangements (PPAs), provincial lawsuit ... 1652-53, 1814-15, 1891-92, 1932 Power purchase arrangements (PPAs), provincial lawsuit, legal counsel ... 1603-4, 1656-57, 1892, 1984-85 Power purchase arrangements (PPAs), provincial lawsuit, points of order on debate, remarks withdrawn ... 1660
Electric power line construction
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities, clean-burning technology ... 1005 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 271-72, 1378, 1815-16, 2027-28 Coal-fired facilities retirement, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 2106 Coal-fired facilities retirement, points of order on debate, member's apology ... 1465 Gas-fired plants, capital funding ... 1935
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.)
Air ambulance service ... 272 Dispatch service centralization in Calgary ... 34, 228-29, 232, 391-92, 1305 Dispatch service centralization in Calgary, documents related to decision-making on (Motion for a Return 23: carried as amended), amendment to exclude documents constituting confidential advice to the minister, motion on (Carlier/Hoffman: carried) ... 2063 Employee morale ... 273 Interfacility transfer of nonemergency patients ... 1305 Wait times ... 272
Enmax Corporation
Dividends to shareholders ... 2028, 2035 Energy ministry communication with ... 2031
Essential Services Commissioner
New commissioner ... 1233
Eye diseases
Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for ... 77
Fentanyl use
Aboriginal community initiatives ... 35, 845 Fentanyl response team ... 1145 Naloxone kit availability ... 116-17, 845 Reduction strategies ... 1054
Fiscal Statutes Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 10)
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Record preservation under act ... 2031 Requests for information under act ... 2032
Government accountability
Government advertising
Provincial lawsuit on power purchase arrangements ... 1655
Government agencies, boards, and commissions
Vacant positions ... 2409
Government of Canada
Equalization and transfer payments ... 2105-6
Government policies
Policy development, publicly available information on ... 2030
Government services, public
Regional collaborative services delivery funding ... 146
Grande Prairie regional hospital
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Oil sands emissions cap ... 2177-78
Health care
Aboriginal traditional healing methods ... 1150 Access, children of immigrants ... 1151 Culturally sensitive service provision ... 1151 Efficiencies ... 1569 Employee long-term disability rate ... 710 Fraser Institute reports ... 2110 Rural services ... 511 Rural services, access to specialized services ... 343 Rural services, funding for ... 110-11 Rural services review ... 563 Urgent care services ... 594, 2275 Wait times ... 2054, 2110, 2336
Health care finance
Allocation of funds ... 661 Compensation for employees, sick leave ... 710 Executive compensation, sick leave ... 657-58, 709 Funding ... 2336
Health facilities
Private facilities ... 1212
Health Professions Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 14)
First reading ... 872 Second reading ... 983 Third reading ... 1077
Hospital construction
Edmonton hospitals, capital funding ... 1724
Hospitals
Chaplain contracts, central Alberta hospitals ... 2336 Rural hospitals, funding for ... 178
Immunization of children
Health ministry access to personal information, privacy issues ... 1942
Information and Privacy Commissioner's office investigations/inquiries
Commissioner's access to government records ... 2032
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017
International trade
Trade agreements ... 515 Trade agreements with United States ... 1813
Interprovincial/territorial trade
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
... 82, 293, 605, 654, 890, 1001, 1051, 1142, 1207-8, 1321, 1648, 1811, 1883-84, 2103, 2249, 2268, 2329, 2473, 2573
Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries)
MP for Edmonton Centre Randy Boissonnault ... 169
Job creation
Program evaluation ... 1233 Programs ... 270
Kinship care
Death of aboriginal child ("Marie"/Serenity), criminal investigation ... 2477, 2479-81
Lac La Biche (hamlet)
Kidney dialysis service ... 511
Leap Manifesto (federal New Democratic Party document)
Leap year
Budgetary implications ... 65
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals)
Lung diseases
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treatment ... 1892-93 Prevention strategies ... 1816 Support for persons with ... 1816
Medical laboratories
Health Quality Council report ... 1004-5 Service contracts ... 438 Service provision ... 66
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Members' apologies ... 1465
Mental health services
Aboriginal traditional healing methods ... 1150 Culturally sensitive service provision ... 1151 High Level services ... 511 Services following emergency events ... 832, 863 Services following emergency events for first responders ... 832 Services for aboriginal peoples ... 1150
Ministerial Statements (current session)
Fort McMurray and area wildfire ... 827-28
Ministry of Health
Funding ... 148 Interim supply estimates 2016-2017 debate ... 65-66, 77 Minister's responses in Oral Question Period ... 2582 Operational expenses ... 77 Regional collaborative services delivery funding ... 146
Ministry of Human Services
Minister's response to deaths of children in care ... 2501
Motions (procedure)
No. 17, medical assistance in dying (Payne: carried), time for debate ... 1324-25
New Democratic Party, federal
New West Partnership
Addition of provinces proposed ... 339
Office of the Premier
Calgary office employee expenses ... 277 Communications staff ... 1469 Expenses ... 1469 Issues management unit ... 1149, 1469
Oil sands development
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) emissions ... 1215
Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act (Bill 25)
Committee ... 2122-23 Committee, amendment A1 (annual reporting) (Fraser: defeated) ... 2122-23
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills (constituency)
Opioid use
Deaths, reporting on ... 1145 Reduction strategies ... 1054
Oral Question Period (procedure)
Responses to questions ... 2582
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Access to information ... 2032 Affordable and special-needs housing ... 1604-5 Agriculture and energy policies ... 515 AISH administration ... 1815-16 Alberta College of Paramedics ... 1447-48 Alberta Health Services ... 390-91 Alberta Health Services decision-making ... 438, 1305 Amber Athwal ... 2056-57, 2503 Assisted dying regulations ... 1376-77, 1471 Blood plasma supply ... 1213-14 Budget 2016 ... 611-12 Business regulations ... 868-69 Calgary cancer centre ... 2338 Cancer care wait times ... 589-90 Capital infrastructure funding ... 1724 Carbon levy ... 607-8, 1302, 1375-76, 1452, 2178-79, 2333 Carbon levy and energy costs ... 1232-33 Carbon levy revenue utilization ... 1452-53, 1473 Cardiac care in central Alberta ... 1816-17 Chief adviser on labour negotiations ... 32-33 Child death review ministerial panel ... 2477-78 Child death review system ... 2479 Child intervention system ... 2029-30 Child protective services review ... 2270 Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 271-72, 1378 Coal strategy ... 1005 Continuing care facility in Bassano ... 664 Dental care costs ... 274-75 Dental profession oversight ... 2503 Didsbury hospital services ... 2057-58 Drug abuse ... 1145 Education achievement testing ... 1145-46 Education funding formula ... 712 Electric power system ... 1814-15, 2028 Electricity costs ... 2271 Electricity power purchase arrangement lawsuit ... 1603-4, 1652-53 Electricity power purchase arrangement lawsuit advertising ... 1655 Electricity power purchase arrangement lawsuit legal counsel ... 1656-57, 1984-85 Electricity power purchase arrangements ... 1891-92, 1932, 1934-35, 2034-35 Emergency funding for wildfire evacuees ... 830 Emergency medical dispatch services in Calgary ... 34, 228-29, 391-92 Emergency medical services ... 272-73, 1057 Energy industry competitiveness ... 2333 Energy policies ... 340, 437-39, 461, 1814, 1933, 2106 Essential Services Commissioner ... 1233 Federal equalization and transfer payments ... 2105-6 Fentanyl use prevention in indigenous communities ... 35 FireSmart program ... 1004 Fort McMurray disaster relief and recovery ... 885 Fort McMurray energy industry recovery ... 830-31 Fort McMurray home reconstruction ... 829-30 Fort McMurray re-entry health concerns ... 1378-79 Fort McMurray residents' housing concerns ... 862 Fort McMurray wildfire first responders ... 863 Fort McMurray wildfire recovery ... 1003-4 Government agencies, boards, and commissions ... 2409 Government communications with agencies ... 2031 Government policies ... 232, 270-72, 612, 713, 2027-28 Government policy development ... 2030 Government spending ... 295 Grande Prairie hospital construction ... 395 Health care and education funding ... 661 Health care decision-making ... 1569 Health care in central Alberta ... 2275 Health care system ... 2336 Health care system employee sick leave ... 710 Health care system manager sick leave ... 657-58, 709 Health care wait times ... 2054, 2110 Health services for immigrants and their children ... 1151 Hospital chaplains in central Alberta ... 2336 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ... 1892-93 Indigenous relations ... 1150 Interprovincial trade ... 339-40 Investigation of death of child in kinship care ... 2477, 2479-81 Investigations of deaths ... 2029 Job creation ... 1233 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project ... 1093 Landowner and leaseholder rights ... 1090 Long-term care in Sundre ... 112-13, 178 Lung disease ... 1816 Medical laboratory services ... 1004-5 Member's change in caucus affiliation ... 1890-91 Mental health services for wildfire evacuees and first responders ... 832 Municipal grants in place of taxes ... 342 Naloxone kit availability ... 116-17 Oil and gas transportation to the west coast ... 2178 Oil sands secondary organic aerosol emissions ... 1215 Oil tanker transportation on the west coast ... 271 Openness and transparency in government ... 390 Opioid use prevention ... 1054 Oral Question Period questions and responses ... 2582 Organ and tissue donation ... 663-64 Organ transplantation ... 340-41, 393 Paramedics' professional governance ... 743-44 Parental choice in education ... 2106-7 Phoenix sex offender treatment program ... 2257 Physician-assisted dying ... 174 Physician services agreement ... 2030-31 Pipeline construction ... 2177-78 Premier's Calgary office employee expenses ... 277 Premier's office expenses ... 1469 Premier's office issues management unit ... 1149 Prescription drug coverage for rare diseases ... 2270-71, 2498 Protection of children in care ... 2482, 2501 Protection of indigenous children in care ... 2481 Provincial credit rating ... 1056 Provincial fiscal policies ... 439, 1303 Public safety in Fort McMurray ... 833 Public service size ... 1302 Publicly funded health care ... 1212 Red Deer regional hospital ... 231, 392-93, 396, 446 Restaurant industry support ... 1232 Rural health care ... 110-11, 511 Rural health services ... 343, 563-64 Rural physician action plan ... 174-75 Seniors' housing for couples ... 1722-23 Student assessment ... 2331-32 Support for municipalities ... 31 Support for wildfire-affected Albertans ... 833 Support for wildfire evacuees and Fort McMurray economic recovery ... 864 Tax policies ... 609, 1053-54 Tick-borne diseases ... 1307-8 Tobacco reduction strategy ... 2031-32, 2107-8 Trade with the United States ... 1813-14 Urgent health care in Sylvan Lake ... 594 W-18 use ... 740-41 Wainwright health care facilities ... 1060 Wildfire prevention and control ... 918
Organ and tissue donation
Awareness initiatives ... 663-64
Patients
Interfacility transfers in nonemergency vehicles ... 1057
Pharmacy and Drug (Pharmaceutical Equipment Control) Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 205)
Physicians
Contract negotiations ... 65 Rural physician action plan ... 31, 174-75, 272, 563-64 Rural physicians, recruitment and retention ... 343 Services agreement ... 2030-31
Pill press machines
Federal regulation proposed ... 844-45
Pipeline construction
Enbridge line 3 replacement project approval ... 2122-23, 2177 Enbridge Northern Gateway project ... 340, 2178 Interjurisdictional co-operation ... 437-38 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project approval ... 2122-23, 2177 Premier's advocacy for ... 438, 461 TransCanada Keystone XL project ... 1814
Points of order (current session)
Parliamentary language, remarks withdrawn ... 1660
Postsecondary educational institutions
Boards of governors vacancies ... 2408-9
Public Health Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 28)
Public service
Contract negotiations ... 438 Contract negotiations, chief adviser ... 32-33 Hiring ... 1302 Size of ... 611
Red Deer regional hospital
Registry services
Document replacement for wildfire-affected Albertans ... 828
Renewable/alternative energy industries
Seniors' housing
Accommodation of couples, rural areas ... 1722-23
Sex offenders
Phoenix treatment program ... 2257
Small business
Red tape reduction strategy proposed ... 868-69
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 97-98 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 97-98 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 98
Student testing (elementary and secondary)
Mathematics achievement home testing proposal ... 1146 OECD PISA (program for international student assessment) results, mathematics ... 2331-32 Provincial achievement tests (PATs), grade 6 mathematics ... 1145 Standardized testing ... 2332
Sundre hospital and care centre
Supplementary supply estimates 2015-2016
Sylvan Lake (town)
Health care, urgent-care services ... 594, 2275
Tankers
Access to northern British Columbia ports ... 271, 340, 438, 2178
Tick-borne diseases
Diagnosis and treatment ... 1307-8 Prevention strategies ... 1307-8
Tobacco industry
Registered lobbyists ... 2108
Tobacco Reduction Amendment Act, 2013 (Bill 33, 2013)
Timeline on proclamation ... 2107-8
Tobacco use
Prevention programs, funding for ... 2031-32 Reduction strategies ... 2107-8
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 340-41, 393
Ukrainian-Canadian Heritage Day Act (Bill 26)
W-18 use
Reduction strategies ... 740-41
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Crime prevention ... 833 First responder entering of properties ... 862 Gastrointestinal illness among evacuees ... 864 Health care for first responders ... 863 Home reconstruction ... 829-30 Mandatory evacuation orders ... 828, 833 Ministerial statements ... 827-28 Premier's and Municipal Affairs minister's site visits ... 828 Resident access to property ... 1004 Resident return plan ... 862, 885 Resident return plan, health issues ... 1378-79 Services for businesses ... 1003-4 Services for businesses, emergency funding request ... 1003-4 Services for evacuees ... 828, 833, 863-64, 885 Services for evacuees, emergency debit cards ... 828, 830 Services for evacuees, employment supports ... 831 Services for evacuees, low-income persons ... 833 Services for evacuees, persons ineligible for employment insurance ... 831
Wildfire prevention and control
FireSmart program ... 918, 1004 Flat Top Complex report recommendations ... 918 Funding ... 918 Interjurisdictional co-ordination ... 863
Horne, Trevor A.R. (Spruce Grove-St. Albert, ND)
Aboriginal communities
Emergency management ... 837 Fort McMurray wildfire evacuee reception ... 837
Aboriginal consultation
Process development ... 194
Aboriginal Consultation Levy Repeal Act (Bill 12)
Aboriginal peoples, Treaty 8
Premier's meeting with Grand Chief Steve Courtoreille ... 837
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Borrowing during economic downturn (countercyclical spending) ... 1274 Borrowing for capital projects ... 1045 Debt-to-GDP ratio ... 678 Provincial credit rating ... 1225
Edmonton Transit Service
Passes for low-income residents ... 1231
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement, members' statements ... 338
Fiscal Statutes Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 10)
Second reading ... 678, 692-93 Committee ... 1045, 1111 Committee, amendment A1 (section 5, debt limit) (McIver: defeated) ... 1045 Committee, amendment A4 (debt-to-GDP ratio of 18 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 1111 Third reading ... 1225, 1274 Third reading, motion to not now read (provincial credit-rating plan, reasoned amendment RA1) (Hanson: defeated) ... 1225
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Members' Statements (current session)
Metis Week ... 1871 Municipal collaboration ... 597-98 Public transit ... 1231 Sturgeon Foundation seniors' housing ... 2504-5 Transition from coal-fired energy production ... 338
Métis consultation
Nonsettlement Métis consultation policy ... 444 Nonsettlement Métis consultation policy development ... 1935
Métis settlements
Consultation policy ... 443-44 Provincial consultation policy development ... 1935
Métis Week
Members' statements ... 1871
Ministry of Indigenous Relations
Minister's role in wildfire response and recovery ... 837
Municipalities
Intermunicipal collaboration, members' statements ... 597-98 Triregional area (Spruce Grove-Stony Plain-Parkland county) ... 597
Oil sands advisory group
Mandate on recommendations on climate leadership plan implementation ... 1705-6
Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act (Bill 25)
Second reading ... 1705-6, 1807-8, 1975-76 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment) (Panda: defeated) ... 1705-6 Second reading, motion to not read before oil sands advisory group tables recommendations (reasoned amendment REA1) (Loewen: defeated) ... 1807-8 Second reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Drysdale/Rodney: defeated) ... 1975-76 Committee ... 2241 Committee, amendment A3 (section 3(h)(ii), regulations governing purchase, auction, trading, or retirement of greenhouse gas emission allowances) (MacIntyre: defeated) ... 2241
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Consultation with Métis people ... 1935 Emergency management in indigenous communities ... 837 Métis consultation policy development ... 443-44 Wildfire season ... 659
Public transit
Members' statements ... 1231
Renewable/alternative energy sources
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 194-96 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 194-96 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 196
Spruce Grove (city)
Local environmental initiatives ... 195
Spruce Grove-St. Albert (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 194-96 Overview ... 194-96
Student financial aid (postsecondary students)
Sturgeon Foundation
Seniors' housing, members' statements ... 2504-5
Tuition and fees, postsecondary
United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
Implementation, application to Métis people ... 1935
Veterinary Profession Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
Second reading ... 967 Third reading ... 1069 Stakeholder consultation ... 967
Wildfire prevention and control
Funding ... 659 Land outside forest protection area ... 659 Spring preparation ... 659
Hunter, Grant R. (Cardston-Taber-Warner, W)
Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services, An (Bill 4)
Second reading ... 285-87 Committee ... 379-80, 382-83, 401, 403, 407, 409-13 Committee, amendment A1 (contents of essential services agreement, regulatory provisions) (Hunter: carried) ... 379 Committee, amendment A2 (penalties for prohibited strikes) (Hunter: defeated) ... 380, 382-83 Committee, amendment A3 (replacement workers) (Hunter: defeated) ... 383, 401, 403 Committee, amendment A4 (general offence and penalty) (Hunter: defeated) ... 403 Committee, amendment A6 (essential services definition) (Hunter: defeated) ... 407 Committee, amendment A7 (expiry of amendments) (Hunter: defeated) ... 409-10 Committee, amendment A8 (commissioner residency requirement) (Hunter: defeated) ... 410-11 Committee, amendment A9 (replacement workers) (Hunter: defeated) ... 412-13 Ban on replacement worker use during strikes and lockouts ... 286 Section 95.3(2), determination of essential service ... 286-87 Section 95.41(1), essential services agreements ... 287
Alberta Affordable Housing Review Committee Act (Bill 202)
Alberta Works
Employment services ... 143-44
Assisted dying
Other jurisdictions ... 1393-94 Regulation development (Government Motion 17: carried) ... 1393-94 Supreme Court decision ... 1393
By-elections, federal
2016 Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner by-election, members' statements ... 1598
Calgary-Greenway (constituency)
Former member Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 762-63
Canada-Alberta job fund
Grant program ... 143-44 Public announcements ... 879
Carbon levy
Impact on business costs ... 1447
Cardston (town)
Former mayor Thelma Milne ... 1937-38
Cardston-Taber-Warner (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 329-30 Overview ... 329
Child and Youth Advocate's office investigations/inquiries
Death of aboriginal child in kinship care ("Marie"/Serenity) ... 2496
Child protective services
Death review ministerial panel ... 2496-97 Members' statements ... 2496-97
Climate Leadership Implementation Act (Bill 20)
Committee ... 1518-19, 1525, 1540 Committee, amendment A14 (greenhouses exemption) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1518-19 Committee, amendment A15 (carbon levy reporting on bills and receipts) (Pitt: defeated) ... 1525 Committee, amendment A25 (warrantless searches) (Hunter/Cooper: defeated) ... 1540
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Corporations
Investment in Alberta ... 1263-64 Red tape reduction strategy proposed ... 868-69
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Borrowing during economic downturn (countercyclical spending) ... 1283 Borrowing for operational expenses ... 1283-84 Debt-servicing costs ... 699-701 Debt-to-GDP ratio ... 699-700, 1263 General remarks ... 329-30
Economic development
Investment attraction ... 1698
Election Recall Act (Bill 201)
Employment training
Grants for employers ... 143-44 Participation rate ... 144
Essential Services Commissioner
New commissioner ... 1233
Fiscal Statutes Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 10)
Second reading ... 699-701 Third reading ... 1263-64, 1273, 1283-84 Third reading, motion to not now read (provincial credit-rating plan, reasoned amendment RA1) (Hanson: defeated) ... 1263-64 Third reading, points of order on debate, remarks withdrawn ... 1273
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Investing in a Diversified Alberta Economy Act (Bill 30)
Second reading ... 1992-93 Ministerial discretion under act ... 1993
Leninade
Members' statements ... 746-47
Members' Statements (current session)
Fort McMurray and area wildfire relief ... 870 Leninade ... 746-47 Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner 2016 by-election ... 1598 Minimum wage ... 1003 Parliamentary debate ... 1937-38 Protection of children in care ... 2496-97 Waste-water treatment in Taber ... 227
Minimum wage
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 916 Impact on employment ... 916, 1447 Increase, impact study (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: defeated) ... 853-54 Increase, impact study (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: defeated), point of order on debate ... 854 Increase, stakeholder consultation on ... 1008 Members' statements ... 1003
Ministerial Statements (current session)
National Day of Mourning, North American Occupational Safety and Health Week, responses ... 763
Ministry of Labour
Main estimates 2016-2017 debate, amendment A11 (minister's office, deputy minister's office, communications, human resources, and corporate services expenses) (Hunter: defeated) ... 948 Supplementary supply estimates 2015-2016 debate ... 143
Modernized Municipal Government Act (Bill 21)
Committee ... 2196-97, 2220 Committee, amendment A1 (off-site levies, growth management boards, intermunicipal collaboration frameworks, intermunicipal development plans, municipal councillor training, regional appeal board representation, municipally controlled corporations outside Alberta, alternative decision-making timelines) (Larivee: carried as amended) ... 2196-97 Committee, amendment A1 (off-site levies, growth management boards, intermunicipal collaboration frameworks, intermunicipal development plans, municipal councillor training, regional appeal board representation, municipally controlled corporations outside Alberta, alternative decision-making timelines) (Larivee: carried as amended), subamendment SA6 (mandatory councillor training) (Cooper/Schneider: defeated) ... 2197 Committee, amendment A2 (consultation on regulations) (McIver: defeated) ... 2220
National Day of Mourning (workplace deaths, injuries, and illnesses)
Ministerial statement, responses ... 763
North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
Ministerial statement, responses ... 763
Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act (Bill 25)
Second reading ... 2005 Second reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Drysdale/Rodney: defeated) ... 2005 Committee ... 2324-25 Committee, amendment A4 (consultation on regulations) (Drysdale/Fraser: defeated) ... 2324 Third reading ... 2590-91 Impact on current leaseholders ... 2005
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Bovine tuberculosis ... 1820 Business regulations ... 868-69 Economic development ... 1698 Essential Services Commissioner ... 1233 Job creation ... 512, 879 Job creation and retention ... 661 Minimum wage ... 916, 1008 Renewable energy contracts ... 2256-57 Support for business ... 1447 Waste-water treatment in Taber ... 275
Points of order (current session)
Language creating disorder ... 854 Parliamentary language, remarks withdrawn ... 1273
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day Act (Bill 206)
Promoting Job Creation and Diversification Act (Bill 1)
Second reading ... 689-91 Minister's duties under act, comparison with Government Organization Act ... 690
Renewable/alternative energy industries
Environmental liability ... 2257 Provincial contracts, requests for proposals ... 2256-57
Renewable Electricity Act (Bill 27)
Second reading ... 2040-41, 2044 Second reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Gill: defeated) ... 2040-41, 2044
Seniors' benefit program, federal
Seniors' Home Adaptation and Repair Act (Bill 5)
Committee ... 541-43 Program eligibility criteria ... 541, 543
Small business
Red tape reduction strategy proposed ... 868-69 Support for ... 661
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 329-30 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 329-30 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 330, 372
Supplementary supply estimates 2015-2016
Taber (town)
Water/waste-water infrastructure ... 275 Water/waste-water infrastructure, members' statements ... 227
Tuberculosis management (livestock industries)
Support for ranchers ... 1820
Veterinary Profession Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
Second reading ... 966-67 Stakeholder consultation ... 966
Water/waste-water management
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Relief efforts, members' statements ... 870
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