Panda, Prasad (Calgary-Foothills, W)
Alberta Electric System Operator
Alberta Research and Innovation Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 11)
Budget process
Interim supply use ... 78-79
Calgary cancer centre
Funding for maintenance ... 2338 Project status ... 2338
Calgary-Foothills (constituency)
Calgary-McCall (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 374
Calgary Transit
Light-rail transit green line funding ... 1772
Climate Leadership Implementation Act (Bill 20)
Second reading ... 1341-43, 1361-63 Second reading, motion to not now read (economic impact study proposed, reasoned amendment RA1) (MacIntyre: defeated) ... 1361-63 Committee ... 1528-29, 1538-39 Committee, amendment A22 (economic impact assessment requirement) (Panda: defeated) ... 1538-39
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Oil sands projects ... 2538
Commercial real estate
Vacancy rate, Calgary ... 2055
Corporations
Access to capital ... 233 Support for ... 88
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Borrowing during economic downturn (countercyclical spending) ... 1275 Provincial credit rating ... 1276
Deputy Chair of Committees
Election, nomination of Prasad Panda ... 7
Election Recall Act (Bill 201)
Electric power
Export of surplus power ... 1753 Power purchase arrangements (PPAs), provincial lawsuit ... 1568
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 2039, 2043 Coal-fired facilities retirement, points of order on debate ... 1384-85
Electric Utilities Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 34)
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.)
Dispatch service centralization in Calgary ... 232 Dispatch service centralization in Calgary, members' statements ... 232
Energy industries
Clean technology ... 2385-86 Fort McMurray wildfire evacuation ... 816-17 Fort McMurray wildfire recovery ... 816-17, 881 Job creation (Motion Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... 317-18
Fair Elections Financing Act (Bill 35)
Committee ... 2421 Committee, amendment A1 (constituency association quarterly filing of financial reports) (Clark: defeated) ... 2421
Firefighters
Service awards, members' statements ... 1240
Fiscal policy
General remarks ... 326 Government spending ... 1380-81
Fiscal Statutes Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 10)
Food banks
Calgary veterans' food bank, members' statements ... 1725-26
Forest industries
Forest management agreements ... 2504
Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta
FireSmart program administration ... 2504
Government of Canada
Equalization and transfer payments, evaluation reports (Motion Other than Government Motion 509: defeated) ... 2073-74
Government policies
Consultation policy ... 317-18
Greenhouse gas emissions
Net carbon emissions ... 2385
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 1704 Oil sands emissions cap ... 1342
Hotels
Capital upgrades ... 1874
Hydroelectric power
Environmental impacts ... 1752
Immigrants
Employment opportunities ... 2384 Recognition of professional credentials ... 374 Service provision following Fort McMurray and area evacuation ... 817
Infrastructure
Leased properties ... 2055
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017
Estimates debate ... 78-79
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Investing in a Diversified Alberta Economy Act (Bill 30)
Second reading ... 1874 Committee ... 2159-60, 2164, 2166, 2172-74, 2213 Committee, amendment A1 (requirements for registration, section 35) (Panda: defeated) ... 2160, 2164, 2166 Committee, amendment A4 (tax credit program review by Auditor General) (Panda: defeated) ... 2172 Committee, amendment A5 (annual report) (Clark: defeated) ... 2173-74 Committee, amendment A9 (limitation on prosecution) (Panda: defeated) ... 2213 Third reading ... 2243-44
Market Surveillance Administrator
Oversight functions ... 1753
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Members' Statements (current session)
Calgary veterans' food drive ... 1725-26 Emergency medical dispatch services in Calgary ... 338 Firefighter service awards ... 1240 Fort McMurray and area wildfire relief ... 829 Hon. Peter Eric James Prentice, PC, QC ... 1894 Pipeline construction ... 2176-77 Unemployment ... 2329-30
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017 debate ... 78-79 Main estimates 2016-2017 debate, amendment A4 (minister's office, deputy minister's office, strategic policy and corporate services, communications, and secretariat support expenses) (Panda: defeated) ... 945 Performance measures ... 78-79
Office of the Premier
Former Premier Peter Eric James Prentice, PC, QC, members' statements ... 1894
Official Opposition
Job-creation plan ... 232
Oil sands advisory group
Mandate on recommendations on climate leadership plan implementation ... 1687-88, 1704 Membership ... 2385-86
Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act (Bill 25)
Second reading ... 1687-88, 1703-5, 1828, 1834-35 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment) (Panda: defeated) ... 1687-88, 1703-5 Second reading, motion to not read before oil sands advisory group tables recommendations (reasoned amendment REA1) (Loewen: defeated) ... 1828, 1834-35 Committee ... 2227, 2384-86, 2396, 2398, 2532-33, 2537-38, 2544-46 Committee, amendment A2 ( cap on upgrading emissions) (Aheer: defeated) ... 2227 Committee, amendment A5 (economic impact assessment) (Panda: defeated) ... 2386 Committee, amendment A6 (cogeneration emissions) (Aheer: defeated) ... 2396, 2398 Committee, amendment A7 (partial upgrading emissions) (Aheer: defeated) ... 2532-33 Committee, amendment A8 (biomass emissions) (Aheer/MacIntyre: defeated) ... 2544-46 Exemption for new upgrading ... 1705 Impact on small businesses ... 1834-35 Stakeholder consultation ... 2537-38
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Calgary cancer centre ... 2338 Calgary LRT green line funding ... 1772 Carbon levy ... 1143-44 Economic development ... 88 Education property tax in Calgary ... 1380-81 Energy policies ... 916-17, 1567-68 FireSmart community grant program ... 2504 Fort McMurray energy industry and contract workers ... 881 Government policies ... 232-33 Job creation ... 590-91, 612, 1007-8 Oil sands industry wildfire response and recovery ... 816-17 Pipeline construction ... 172-73 Provincial fiscal policies ... 1303 Tax policies ... 742-43 Vacancy rate in Calgary ... 2055
Petrochemicals diversification program
Pipeline construction
Approval process ... 172-73, 1007-8 Approval process (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: carried unanimously) ... 937-38 Enbridge line 3 replacement project approval ... 2176-77 Enbridge Northern Gateway project ... 917 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project ... 916-17 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project approval ... 2176-77 Members' statements ... 2176-77 TransCanada Energy East project ... 917
Points of order (current session)
Language creating disorder ... 1384-85
Promoting Job Creation and Diversification Act (Bill 1)
Second reading ... 686-87 Committee ... 988-89, 991, 993-94, 1019-20 Committee, amendment A1 (committee review of job creation programs) (Panda: defeated) ... 991 Committee, amendment A2 (ministerial reports) (Panda: defeated) ... 993-94 Committee, amendment A3 (red tape reduction provision) (Panda: defeated) ... 1019-20 Third reading ... 1175-76 General remarks ... 88 Minister's duties under act ... 988-89, 1175 Minister's duties under act, comparison with Government Organization Act ... 686-87 Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... 1175
Reform of Agencies, Boards and Commissions Compensation Act (Bill 19)
Renewable Electricity Act (Bill 27)
Second reading ... 1752-53, 2039-40, 2043 Second reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Gill: defeated) ... 2039-40, 2043 Committee ... 2554-55 Committee, amendment A11 (impact assessment of renewable targets) (Panda: defeated) ... 2554-55
Rental housing
Vacancy rate, Calgary ... 2055
Small business
Business incubators ... 590-91 Red tape reduction strategy proposed ... 1175
Solar energy
Industry development ... 1752
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 324-26 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 324-26 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 326-27, 374
Tankers
Access to northern British Columbia ports (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: carried unanimously) ... 937-38
Taxation
Alberta investor tax credit ... 612 Provincial sales tax ... 742-43 Tax rate ... 743, 1303
Ukrainian-Canadian Heritage Day Act (Bill 26)
Venture capital
Corporate registry ... 1874
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Evacuees housed in energy industry work camps ... 816 Relief efforts, members' statements ... 829 Services for evacuees, persons ineligible for employment insurance ... 881
Wildfire prevention and control
FireSmart program ... 2504
Wind power
Environmental impacts ... 1752 Infrastructure needs ... 1752
Wood Buffalo regional municipality
FireSmart grants ... 2504
Payne, Brandy (Calgary-Acadia, ND; Associate Minister of Health)
Addiction treatment
Opioid use ... 1006, 1565, 2578 Services for aboriginal peoples ... 766-67 Services for adolescents and families ... 2181 Services for wildfire evacuees ... 865-66
Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre
Alberta Health Services (authority)
Relations with Health ministry ... 766
Assisted dying
Auxiliary patient services (chaplains, counselling, etc.) ... 2336 Debate in the Assembly proposed ... 393 MLA consultation panel report (What We Heard) ... 1403 Public consultation ... 1321-22 Regulation development ... 1451 Regulation development (Government Motion 17: carried) ... 1321-22, 1403 Stakeholder consultation ... 1322 Support for medical personnel involved ... 394 Support for patients ... 393 Supreme Court decision ... 1321-22
Blood collection and preservation
Blood plasma costs, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016 (Written Question 21: carried as amended) ... 1575 Blood plasma costs from each supplier, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016 (Written Question 21: carried as amended), amendment to question on blood component costs by product, not by supplier (Payne: carried) ... 1575
Calgary-Acadia (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 18-20 Overview ... 18-19
Cardiac care
Central Alberta services ... 1769
Child mental health services
Services following emergency events ... 811
Didsbury district health services
Services provided ... 1769
Disaster recovery program
2013 floods, approved claims later deemed ineligible (Written Question 11: carried as amended) ... 1574 2013 floods, approved claims later deemed ineligible (Written Question 11: carried as amended), amendment to number of claims deemed ineligible and reason for ineligibility (Ganley: carried) ... 1574
Electronic health records
Review documentation, May 22, 2015, to March 7, 2016 (Motion for a Return 20: carried as amended) ... 1578 Review documentation, May 22, 2015, to March 7, 2016 (Motion for a Return 20: carried as amended), amendment to exclude confidential advice to minister (Payne: carried) ... 1578
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.)
Dispatch service centralization in Calgary ... 1009-10, 1057 Interfacility transfer of nonemergency patients ... 1057 Posttraumatic stress disorder in front-line workers ... 273
Fentanyl use
Deaths, aboriginal peoples ... 917 Naloxone kit availability ... 842 Naloxone kit availability on First Nations ... 917 Naloxone nasal spray availability ... 2111 Overdose statistics ... 1888-89 Reduction strategies ... 842, 1005-6, 1147-48, 2334 Reduction strategies, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 892-93
Fiscal policy
Government spending ... 19-20
Health cards
Fraud prevention procedures (Motion for a Return 21: defeated) ... 1732-33
Health care finance
Funding ... 20 Medical equipment replacement and upgrade program ... 73
Health facility capacity issues
Increased demand following Fort McMurray and area evacuation ... 814
Health information
Clinical information systems ... 800
Hospitals
Chaplain contracts, central Alberta hospitals ... 2337
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Mental health services
Review ... 766, 2272 Services following emergency events ... 811-12, 814, 865-66, 894 Services following emergency events for first responders ... 812 Services for aboriginal peoples ... 766-67
Ministry of Health
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017 debate ... 73
Motions (procedure)
No. 17, medical assistance in dying (Payne: carried), time for debate ... 1402
Nonrenewable natural resource revenue
General remarks ... 19-20
Northern Lights regional health centre
Facility condition ... 811 Facility condition following wildfire ... 811 Wildfire evacuation of patients and long-term care residents ... 811, 816
Oil prices
Budgetary implications ... 19-20
Opioid use
Aboriginal community initiatives ... 1565, 1656 Deaths, reporting on ... 2578 Federal-provincial conference and summit ... 2111 Harm reduction strategies ... 1821 Reduction strategies ... 892-93, 917, 1565, 1821, 2111 Reduction strategies, performance measures ... 2272
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Addiction and mental health strategy ... 2272 Addiction treatment services for adolescents ... 2181 Assisted dying regulations ... 1451 Clinical information systems ... 800 Education, PDD, and health program reviews ... 2334 Emergency medical services ... 273, 1057 Fentanyl overdoses ... 1888-89 Health care in central Alberta ... 1769 Health services for Fort McMurray residents ... 811 Health services for wildfire-affected Albertans ... 865 Health services for wildfire evacuees ... 814 Hospital chaplains in central Alberta ... 2336-37 Indigenous community concerns ... 1656 Mental health services ... 766-67 Mental health services for wildfire evacuees and first responders ... 894 Midwifery services ... 466, 767, 769 Northern Lights regional health centre evacuation ... 816 Opioid addiction treatment and death reporting ... 2578 Opioid use ... 1147-48 Opioid use in indigenous communities ... 917 Opioid use prevention ... 892-93, 1005-6, 1821 Opioid use prevention and mitigation ... 2111 Opioid use prevention and treatment ... 1565 Palliative care ... 341-42 Physician-assisted dying ... 393-94 Rural ambulance dispatch service ... 1009-10 Support for wildfire evacuees and first responders ... 811-12 Wainwright health care facilities ... 1059 Wildfire control and support for recovery ... 866
Pharmacy and Drug (Pharmaceutical Equipment Control) Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 205)
Second reading ... 842 Committee ... 925-27 Committee, amendment A1 (sections 18.81, pharmaceutical equipment ownership; 18.82, regulatory provisions) (Ellis: carried as amended) ... 925-27 Committee, amendment A1 (sections 18.81, pharmaceutical equipment ownership; 18.82, regulatory provisions) (Ellis: carried as amended), subamendment SA1 (section 18.8, pharmaceutical equipment definition) (Cyr: defeated) ... 927
Postsecondary educational institutions
Primary care (medicine)
Mental health services ... 2272
Primary care networks
Expansion proposed ... 766 Review documentation (Motion for a Return 22: defeated on amended motion), amendment to exclude confidential advice to minister, motion on (Payne: carried) ... 1735
Seniors' benefit program
Prescription drug coverage (Motion Other than Government Motion 503: carried) ... 485-86
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 18-20 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 18-20
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Gastrointestinal illness among evacuees ... 865 Gastrointestinal illness among first responders ... 865 Health care for evacuees ... 814, 865 Health care for first responders ... 865 Mandatory evacuation orders ... 816
Phillips, Shannon (Lethbridge-West, ND; Minister of Environment and Parks)
Aboriginal consultation
Process development ... 182
Act to Ensure Independent Environmental Monitoring, An (Bill 18)
Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services, An (Bill 4)
Adoption
Review of restrictions on advertising by prospective parents (Motion Other than Government Motion 510: carried unanimously) ... 2291
Agriculture
Environmentally sustainable practices ... 1383
Airlines
Direct international flights ... 1236
Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties
Fall 2016 convention ... 1932-33 Ministerial forum ... 272
Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency
Calgary Transit
Light-rail transit, green line project ... 177
Carbon levy
Application to coal-fired electric power plants ... 864 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 714, 1500, 1723, 2109 Economic impact studies ... 1379, 1654-55, 1818 General remarks ... 916 Impact on affordable housing costs ... 1305 Impact on agricultural costs ... 1236, 1383, 2275 Impact on AISH recipient income ... 1306 Impact on Albertans on fixed incomes ... 913 Impact on charitable organization costs ... 1090 Impact on consumer prices ... 609-10, 614, 712, 898, 1148, 2583 Impact on education costs ... 796-97, 867 Impact on energy costs ... 898 Impact on health care costs ... 867, 893 Impact on municipal costs ... 608, 745, 1932-33 Impact on nonprofit organization costs ... 746, 893 Impact on postsecondary education costs ... 714, 1089, 1214, 1934 Impact on seniors' costs ... 745-46, 797-98, 2405 Impact on seniors' housing costs ... 1305, 2405 Impact on transportation industry costs ... 1148, 1163 Implementation in Lloydminster ... 2581 Provisions for interjurisdictional carriers ... 1163 Public reporting on ... 1470 Rate ... 2258-59 Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, First Nations, etc. ... 713, 741, 745-46, 797-98, 1146, 1163-64, 1306, 2583 Referendum proposed ... 1818-19 Revenue utilization ... 609, 714, 1164, 1304, 1470, 1473, 2333 Small-business exemption proposed ... 962
Carbon offsetting
Reverification process ... 2483
Caribou
Little Smoky and A La Peche range plan ... 1773, 1818
Climate change and emissions management fund
Climate Leadership (report by Dr. Andrew Leach)
Climate Leadership Implementation Act (Bill 20)
First reading ... 1095 Second reading ... 1163-65, 1183, 1185 Committee ... 1479, 1491, 1493-94, 1496, 1500, 1508, 1513 Committee, amendment A5 (receipts issued for documents removed by inspectors) (Ellis: carried) ... 1479 Committee, amendment A7 (performance measures) (Swann: defeated) ... 1491, 1493-94 Committee, amendment A8 (Auditor General reviews) (Swann: defeated) ... 1496 Committee, amendment A9 (aviation fuel tax) (Starke: defeated) ... 1500 Committee, amendment A11 (forest industries fuel exemption) (Drysdale: defeated) ... 1508 Committee, amendment A13 (registered charities exemption) (Pitt: defeated) ... 1513 Third reading ... 1541 Schedule 1, carbon levy on fuel ... 1163 Schedule 2, Energy Efficiency Alberta enactment ... 1163-64 Schedule 3, changes to existing legislation (Alberta Corporate Tax Act, Alberta Personal Income Tax Act, Climate Change and Emissions Management Act) ... 1163-64 Sections 4-13, carbon levy application to fuels ... 1163
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Education and awareness initiatives ... 1164 General remarks ... 1146 Impact on pipeline support ... 1473 Implementation ... 177 Job creation ... 1470 Plan development ... 185, 614, 714
Coal
Thermal coal exports ... 958
Diesel fuel
Marked fuel exemption from carbon levy ... 608, 1508
Disaster recovery program
Electric power
Power purchase arrangements (PPAs) ... 91, 864-65 Power purchase arrangements (PPAs), provincial lawsuit ... 1817
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities, clean-burning technology ... 1005, 1377-78 Coal-fired facilities, conversion to natural gas ... 958 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 88-90, 175, 232, 440-41, 709, 958, 1005, 1238-39, 1377-78, 1817, 1819, 1933, 1936, 2109 Coal-fired facilities retirement, government communication with affected communities ... 2058 Coal-fired facilities retirement, points of order on debate ... 1385
Electric power prices
Forecasts ... 958 Renewable/alternative energy costs ... 898
Elk
Population management ... 770-71 Population management, Suffield area ... 1721, 1725
Energy Efficiency Alberta
Energy industries
Clean technology ... 1817 Fort McMurray wildfire recovery ... 865-66 Job losses ... 712 Support for ... 712
Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6, 2015)
Environmental protection
Local initiatives ... 184
Fertilizer industry
Environmental performance standards ... 1236
Fishing
Allowable catches ... 564 Allowable catches, walleye ... 564 Sport fishing management ... 563
Flood damage mitigation
Southern Alberta projects, Bighorn MD, Canmore, Bragg Creek, and Redwood Meadows ... 2111-12
Forest industries
Environmental initiatives ... 2483 Timber allocations ... 1773, 1818
Gasoline
Marked fuel exemption from carbon levy ... 608, 1508
Grazing lands, public
Leaseholder environmental stewardship ... 1090
Greenhouse gas emissions
Emission intensity, use of term ... 1723 Reporting, Auditor General's recommendations ... 2116-17
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 1723, 2109 Performance standards ... 1723
Housing
Energy efficiency program ... 800
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017
Estimates debate ... 93-94
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
... 81, 267, 386, 436, 457, 642, 654, 803, 1001, 1083-84, 1093, 1142, 1811, 2269, 2474
Iyãhé Nakoda First Nation
Flood damage mitigation projects ... 2112
Lethbridge (city)
Environmental protection, local initiatives ... 184
Lethbridge-West (constituency)
Minimum wage
Impact on tourism industry ... 1236
Ministry of Environment and Parks
Interim supply estimates 2016-2017 debate ... 93-94 Minister's responses in Oral Question Period ... 2582
Nonprofit organizations
Energy efficiency program ... 800
Oil sands advisory group
Mandate on recommendations on climate leadership plan implementation ... 2030
Oil sands development
General remarks ... 272 Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) emissions ... 1215
Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act (Bill 25)
First reading ... 1606 Second reading ... 1641-42 Committee ... 2116-17 Committee, amendment A1 (annual reporting) (Fraser: defeated) ... 2116-17 Third reading ... 2588-89 Exemption for new upgrading ... 1641 Stakeholder consultation ... 2116
Ontario
Climate change strategy ... 1091
Oral Question Period (procedure)
Responses to questions ... 2582
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Affordable housing ... 1305 Agricultural environmental practices ... 1382-83 Bioenergy initiatives ... 178-79 Bovine tuberculosis ... 1721 Budget 2016 ... 709 Carbon levy ... 608-10, 713-14, 800, 867, 1148, 1818-19, 2333, 2583 Carbon levy and agricultural costs ... 1236, 2275 Carbon levy and AISH recipients ... 1306 Carbon levy and charitable organizations' costs ... 1090 Carbon levy and education costs ... 796-97, 1235 Carbon levy and health care costs ... 893 Carbon levy and postsecondary education costs ... 1089, 1214 Carbon levy and seniors ... 797-98, 2405 Carbon levy and vulnerable Albertans ... 913, 1379 Carbon levy in Lloydminster ... 2581 Carbon levy rate ... 2258-59 Carbon levy revenue utilization ... 1470, 1473 Carbon policies ... 1723, 2109 Climate change strategy ... 177, 614 Climate leadership plan ... 1146 Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 88-90, 175, 232, 440-41, 1238-39, 1377-78, 1819, 1936, 2058, 2109 Coal strategy ... 90-91, 958, 1005 Economic competitiveness ... 1309 Electric power prices ... 958 Electricity costs ... 2273-74 Electricity power purchase arrangements ... 864-65 Elk population ... 770-71 Energy and environmental policies ... 514 Energy efficiency programs ... 2334-35 Energy policies ... 898, 916-17, 1817, 1932-33 Environmental monitoring ... 511-13, 516 Environmental monitoring and reporting ... 341, 441-42 Fish and wildlife conservation ... 462-63 Flood damage mitigation in southern Alberta ... 2111-12 Forest industries and the environment ... 2483 Forest industry issues ... 1773 Fort McMurray and area environmental monitoring, province-wide fire ban ... 868 Fort McMurray energy industry recovery ... 865-66 Fuel tax and carbon levy revenue utilization ... 1934 Government policies ... 272, 613, 712, 741, 962, 1654-55 Government policy development ... 2030 Landowner and leaseholder rights ... 1090 Little Smoky and A La Peche caribou range plan ... 1818 Municipal funding and tax collection ... 745 Off-road vehicle safety ... 1472 Oil sands secondary organic aerosol emissions ... 1215 Oral Question Period questions and responses ... 2582 Postsecondary education funding ... 714 Renewable energy contracts ... 2256-57 Renewable energy strategy ... 1091, 1304, 1989 Sage grouse protection order ... 1380 Seniors and the carbon levy ... 745-46 Sport fishing management strategies ... 564 Tourism industry support ... 1236 Wildfire-affected animals ... 817 Wildlife management ... 1724-25
Peter Lougheed provincial park
William Watson Lodge ... 94
Pipeline construction
Approval process ... 2117 Enbridge Northern Gateway project ... 917 Interjurisdictional co-operation ... 514 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project ... 917 TransCanada Energy East project ... 917
Points of order (current session)
Language creating disorder ... 1385
Postsecondary educational institutions
Reform of Agencies, Boards and Commissions Compensation Act (Bill 19)
Committee, amendment A1 (chief scientist and science advisory panel appointments) (Clark: defeated) ... 1192-93
Renewable/alternative energy industries
Environmental liability ... 2257 Private investment in ... 1989 Provincial contracts, requests for proposals ... 2256-57
Renewable/alternative energy sources
Provincial initiatives ... 1091, 1239 Provincial program eligibility criteria ... 2274 Provincial targets ... 1304 Transition to ... 1309, 1819, 2109 Transition to, funding ... 2273-74
Rocky Mountains
Eastern slopes land management ... 1472
Sage grouse
Federal protection order ... 1380
Schoolchildren's transportation
Schools
Renewable/alternative energy use ... 1235
Species at Risk Act (federal)
Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation 139/2007)
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 182-84 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 182-84 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 184-85
Tourism
Sport fishing tourism ... 564
TransCanada Energy
Power purchase arrangement ... 91
Tsuut'ina First Nation
Flood damage mitigation projects ... 2112
United Nations framework convention on climate change
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Environmental monitoring ... 868 Wildlife conservation following ... 817
Wildfire prevention and control
Wildlife conservation
Fort McMurray wildfire impact ... 817 Provincial strategy ... 462-63
Wildlife damage compensation program
Predator-related damage ... 1725
Piquette, Colin (Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, ND)
Aboriginal Consultation Levy Repeal Act (Bill 12)
Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater (constituency)
Land conservation ... 1209 Member's personal and family history ... 42, 44, 500 Overview ... 42-43
Athabasca University
Geophysical research ... 1209 Information technology system consolidation ... 273 Sustainability ... 43-44, 273
Bon Accord Equinox Festival
Members' statements ... 1717
Bullying
Cyberbullying in schools, awareness and prevention initiatives (Motion Other than Government Motion 507: carried) ... 1260
Forest and Prairie Protection Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 24)
Second reading ... 1631-32 Penalties under act ... 1631
Heritage sports
Members' statements ... 2401
Home repair and improvement
Impact on insurance payments ... 501
Insurance industry
Public- vs. private-sector delivery ... 500-501
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Lac La Biche (hamlet)
Kidney dialysis service ... 511
Land conservation
Members' statements ... 1209
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
French language use ("Piquette affair") ... 42
Members' Statements (current session)
Equinox Festival in Bon Accord ... 1717 Fort McMurray and area wildfire relief ... 828-29 Katherine Spencer and heritage sports ... 2401 Land conservation in Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater ... 1209 Portage College Pipeline Training Centre ... 517
Mental health services
High Level services ... 511
Modernized Municipal Government Act (Bill 21)
Second reading ... 1592-94, 1640 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1640 Committee ... 2011, 2013 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) ... 2011, 2013 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 SA1 (intermunicipal collaboration frameworks) (McIver: defeated) ... 2011, 2013 Regulation development ... 2011, 2013 Stakeholder consultation ... 1592, 1640, 2011, 2013
Municipalities
Governance ... 1592 Growth management boards ... 1592-93 Intermunicipal collaboration frameworks ... 1592-94 Municipal development plans ... 1593-94 Regional partnerships ... 1592-93
Off-road vehicles
Restrictions on use in areas at high risk of wildfire ... 1631
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Athabasca University ... 273 Fort McMurray disaster relief and recovery ... 812-13 Fort McMurray wildfire recovery ... 1699-1700 Petrochemicals diversification program ... 2404 Rural health care ... 511 Wildfire management ... 770
Petrochemicals diversification program
Portage College
Pipeline training facility, members' statements ... 517
Seniors' benefit program
Special-needs assistance ... 501
Seniors' Home Adaptation and Repair Act (Bill 5)
Smoky Lake (town)
Dogsledding world championship hosting ... 2401
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 42-43 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 42-43 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 44
Spencer, Katherine
Members' statements ... 2401
Ukrainian-Canadian Heritage Day Act (Bill 26)
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Wildfire prevention and control
Fire bans ... 1631 Flat Top Complex report recommendations ... 1631 Incendiary ammunition ban ... 1631 Spring preparation ... 770
Pitt, Angela D. (Airdrie, W)
Addiction treatment
Services for adolescents and families ... 2181
Affordable supportive living initiative
Grant funding ... 152 Performance measures ... 153
Airdrie (constituency)
Member's personal and family history ... 1281-82
Airdrie Home & Lifestyle Show
Members' statements ... 748
Airdrie roads
Sierra Springs commercial area access ... 961
Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre
Alberta Affordable Housing Review Committee Act (Bill 202)
Second reading ... 309-10 Public consultation ... 309
Alberta Health Services (authority)
Resignation letter of former CEO Vickie Kaminski ... 396
Assured income for the severely handicapped
Applicant wait times ... 1767 Auditor General's report ... 1767
Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock (constituency)
Carbon levy
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 1410 Economic impact studies ... 1379, 1818 Impact on AISH recipient income ... 1379 Impact on charitable organization costs ... 1089-90 Impact on consumer prices ... 1142-43, 1359-60, 1364 Impact on education costs ... 1358-59 Impact on energy costs ... 1359-60 Impact on municipal costs ... 1359 Impact on nonprofit organization costs ... 792, 1856 Impact on seniors' income ... 1378 Members' statements ... 1142-43 Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, First Nations, etc. ... 1379 Referendum proposed ... 1818 Revenue utilization ... 1406
Child and Youth Advocate's office investigations/inquiries
Death of aboriginal child in kinship care ("Marie"/Serenity) ... 1889, 1933
Child protective services
Child and Youth Advocate's recommendations ... 1889 Children in care ... 1470-71 Death review ministerial panel ... 2479, 2501 Death review system ... 2479 Deaths of children in care, members' statements ... 1928-29 Jordan's principle (child first) ... 1933 Provincial action plan ... 2501 Round-table on child care, 2014 ... 1904 Serious injuries of children in care ... 1889 Service provision following Fort McMurray and area evacuation ... 815
Climate Leadership (report by Dr. Andrew Leach)
Climate Leadership Implementation Act (Bill 20)
Second reading ... 1358-60, 1364, 1368, 1406 Second reading, motion to not now read (economic impact study proposed, reasoned amendment RA1) (MacIntyre: defeated) ... 1358-60, 1364, 1368 Committee ... 1410-12, 1510-11, 1520-21 Committee, amendment A1 (carbon levy revenue utilization) (McIver/Fraser: defeated) ... 1410-12 Committee, amendment A13 (registered charities exemption) (Pitt: defeated) ... 1510-11 Committee, amendment A15 (carbon levy reporting on bills and receipts) (Pitt: defeated) ... 1520-21
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Economic development
Diversification ... 101-2
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 1954
Emergency debate under Standing Order 30
Deaths of children in care ... 1904-5
Employment training
Eligibility criteria ... 175-76
Energy industries
Environmental protection, public perception ... 102 Market access ... 102, 223
Fair Elections Financing Act (Bill 35)
Second reading ... 2372-73 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Starke: defeated) ... 2372-73
Family support for children with disabilities (FSCD) program
Services for wildfire-affected families ... 815
Fiscal Statutes Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 10)
Foster care
Support services ... 1933
Government accountability
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Performance measures ... 1368
Health care
Members' statements ... 396
Home-schooling
Members' statements ... 1716 Trinity Christian School Association loss of accreditation ... 1716
Human services
Government contracts ... 2406
Human trafficking
Prevention strategies ... 592-93
Immunization
Education and awareness initiatives ... 1846
Immunization of children
Health ministry access to personal information, privacy issues ... 1847
Income support program
Learner income support ... 175-76
International relief
Ethiopia, Rainbow for the Future project ... 208
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Kinship care
Child and Youth Advocate's recommendations ... 1889 Child placement process ... 1933 Support services ... 1933
Maintenance enforcement program (family support)
Accounts in arrears ... 1450 Review ... 1450
Members' Statements (current session)
Airdrie Home & Lifestyle Show ... 748 Carbon levy ... 1142-43 Charities ... 792 Deaths of children in care ... 1928-29 Health care system ... 396 Home-schooling ... 1716 National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women ... 2331
Ministerial Statements (current session)
Leilani O'Malley Muir, responses ... 269 Women's suffrage centennial, responses ... 655
Ministry of Human Services
Minister's response to deaths of children in care ... 2501
Ministry of Infrastructure
Budget 2015-2016, undeployed funding ... 152
Ministry of Seniors and Housing
Supplementary supply estimates 2015-2016 debate ... 152
Ministry of Service Alberta
Main estimates 2016-2017 debate, amendment A12 (minister's office, deputy minister's office, and corporate services expenses) (Pitt: defeated) ... 948
Muir, Leilani O'Malley
Ministerial statement, responses ... 269
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women
Members' statements ... 2331
Nonprofit organizations
Charities, members' statements ... 792 Social service provision ... 2406
Office of the Premier
Premier's attendance at Ontario ND fundraiser ... 102
Oil sands advisory group
Mandate on recommendations on climate leadership plan implementation ... 1777-78
Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act (Bill 25)
Second reading ... 1777-80, 1856 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment) (Panda: defeated) ... 1777-80 Second reading, motion to not read before oil sands advisory group tables recommendations (reasoned amendment REA1) (Loewen: defeated) ... 1856 Third reading ... 2593 Third reading, motion to not now read (6-month hoist amendment HA) (Loewen: defeated) ... 2593 Stakeholder consultation ... 2593
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Addiction treatment services for adolescents ... 2181 Airdrie's Sierra Springs commercial area access ... 961 AISH administration ... 1767 Carbon levy ... 1818 Carbon levy and charitable organizations' costs ... 1089-90 Carbon levy and vulnerable Albertans ... 1379 Child death review system ... 2479 Children in care ... 1470-71 Deaths and injuries of children in care ... 1889 Emergency funding for wildfire evacuees ... 830 Employment training ... 175-76 Human trafficking ... 592-93 Maintenance enforcement program ... 1450 Midwifery services ... 465-66, 769 Nonprofit social services providers ... 2406 PDD service delivery ... 297-98, 1603 PDD service eligibility ... 1212-13 Protection of children in care ... 1933, 2501 Safety standards for persons in care ... 563 Seniors' Advocate ... 880-81 Support for wildfire-affected vulnerable Albertans ... 815
Persons in care
Safety standards, stakeholder consultation on ... 563
Persons with developmental disabilities
Safety standards for bathing ... 563 Service provision following Fort McMurray and area evacuation ... 815
Persons with developmental disabilities program
Eligibility criteria, persons with cerebral palsy ... 1212-13 Funding criteria ... 1603 General remarks ... 297-98 Supports intensity scale (SIS) assessment ... 1603
Pharmacy and Drug (Pharmaceutical Equipment Control) Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 205)
Pipeline construction
Approval process ... 102 TransCanada Energy East project ... 102
Public health
Disease incidence reporting requirements, privacy issues ... 1847
Public Health Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 28)
Public Trustee
Human Services ministry review documents (Cooper/Pitt: defeated) ... 2286
Renewable/alternative energy industries
Other jurisdictions ... 1953-54 Private investment in ... 1954
Renewable/alternative energy sources
Renewable Electricity Act (Bill 27)
Second reading ... 1953-55 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Aheer: defeated) ... 1953-55 Section 14, ministerial direction to ISO ... 1954
Rental housing
Rent control, Economic Development and Trade minister's remarks on ... 309
Seniors
Service provision following Fort McMurray and area evacuation ... 815
Seniors' Advocate
Independence ... 880-81 Interim appointment ... 880
Seniors' benefit program
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 578-79
Seniors' Home Adaptation and Repair Act (Bill 5)
Committee ... 555 Committee, amendment A2 (expiry of act) (Yao: defeated) ... 555 Third reading ... 578-80 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 578-79
Sexually transmitted diseases
Incidence reporting requirements ... 1847
Speech from the Throne
Addresses in reply ... 101-2 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 102-3, 208, 223
Supplementary supply estimates 2015-2016
TransCanada Energy
Power purchase arrangement ... 101
Wildfire, Fort McMurray (2016)
Services for evacuees, emergency debit cards ... 830
Wind power
Environmental impacts ... 1954-55 Provincial capacity ... 1953
Women
Right to vote in Alberta, centennial, ministerial statement, responses ... 655
Youth at risk
Service provision following Fort McMurray and area evacuation ... 815
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