MacIntyre, Donald (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, W to July 23, 2017; UCP from July 24, 2017)
Agriculture
Farm solar energy program, greenhouse gas emission reduction ... RS477
Alberta Electric System Operator
Renewable electricity program, funding for ... RS511-12
Balancing Pool
Energy ministry directions to ... RS513 Financial position ... RS512-13 Provincial loans ... RS513
Bioenergy grant program (former)
Projects funded ... RS519
Bioenergy industries
Transfer of responsibility from Energy to Environment and Parks ministry ... RS519-20
Biofuel initiatives grant program
Projects funded ... RS519
Carbon competitiveness regulation
Revenue forecast ... RS458
Carbon offsetting
Cap on offsets ... RS458 Cap on offsets, economic impact assessments ... RS477
Climate change and emissions management fund
Electric power
Power purchase arrangements (PPAs), Balancing Pool holdings ... RS457-59
Electric power plants
Battle River 5, Balancing Pool possession of ... RS513 Black start capacity ... RS510-11 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... RS511 Facilities operated by Balancing Pool ... RS513 Gas-fired facilities ... RS510 Peaking plant requirements ... RS508
Electric power prices
Standby charges ... RS511
Energy Efficiency Alberta
Business, nonprofit, and institutional rebate program ... RS477 Efficiency program evaluation ... RS477 Personal information collection ... RS463 Residential no-charge energy savings program ... RS477 Residential no-charge energy savings program, contracted services ... RS461-63 Residential no-charge energy savings program costs ... RS461 Residential no-charge energy savings program evaluation ... RS461-62 Residential retail products program ... RS477 Solar rebate program ... RS477
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Measuring and verification ... RS477
Infrastructure
Energy efficiency initiatives, retrofits ... RS477
Lobbyists Act
Definition of lobbying, committee recommendation to include grassroots communication as in Nova Scotia legislation, motion on (Dang: carried) ... RS615-16
Lobbyists registry
Reporting by public office holders, committee recommendation, motion on (MacIntyre: defeated) ... RS605
Ministry of Environment and Parks
Municipalities
Solar energy program, greenhouse gas emission reduction ... RS477
Renewable/alternative energy sources
Schools
Environmental retrofits ... RS477
Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation 139/2007)
Participating corporations ... RS458
Malkinson, Brian (Calgary-Currie, NDP)
Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties
Request to present to committee ... RS639-40
Alberta heritage savings trust fund
Additions to principal ... RS593
Alberta Law Reform Institute
Research on adverse possession ... RS628
Alberta Recycling Management Authority
Request to present to committee ... RS639-40
Assured income for the severely handicapped
Bills, government (procedure)
Timeline from inception to proclamation ... RS628
Calgary cancer centre
Capital funding ... RS598
Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing
Requests to present to committee ... RS639-40 Requests to present to committee, chair to determine if organizations making requests over past two years still wish to appear, motion for (Malkinson: carried) ... RS640
Conflicts of Interest Act
Justice ministry recommendations ... RS653 Justice ministry technical briefing ... RS653
Economic indicators
General remarks ... RS592
Fiscal plan 2017-2020
Key energy and economic assumptions ... RS594 Operating expense growth projections ... RS593
Freehold lands
Adverse possession (squatters' rights), abolition, Property Rights Advocate's recommendation 2014.03 ... RS68-629 Landowner property rights, comparison with other jurisdictions ... RS630-31
Highway 15
Fort Saskatchewan bridge twinning, capital plan ... RS598
Independent Power Producers Society of Alberta
Request to present to committee ... RS639-40
Job creation
Provincial programs ... RS598
Legislative Assembly Office
Lobbyists
Consultant lobbyists, contingency fees ... RS613 Consultant lobbyists, contingency fees, committee recommendation of prohibition, motion on (Malkinson: carried) ... RS612-13 Gift giving, committee recommendation of restrictions on gifts to MLAs, deputy ministers, staff of Premier's and ministers' offices, and designated office holders, motion on (Rosendahl: carried as amended) ... RS610
Lobbyists Act
Section 2, reporting requirements, committee recommendation that threshold for reporting be lowered from 100 to 50 hours, motion on (Malkinson: carried) ... RS606-8 Section 2, reporting requirements, committee recommendation that threshold for reporting be lowered from 100 to 50 hours, motion on (Malkinson: carried), amendment to change 50 hours to one hour, motion on (Hanson: defeated) ... RS608
Lobbyists registry
Registration criteria, 100-hour threshold ... RS606-7
Local authorities pension plan
Funded ratio, performance measures ... RS592-93 Governance ... RS593
Management employees pension plan
Funded ratio, performance measures ... RS592-93
Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance
Business plan 2017-2020, performance measures ... RS592-93 Main estimates 2017-2018 debate ... RS592-94, 598 Main estimates 2017-2018 debate, points of order raised ... RS576
Open government portal
Posting of progress on Property Rights Advocate's recommendations proposed ... RS633
Pensions
Funded ratio, performance measures ... RS592
Property Rights Advocate's office
Annual report 2016 ... RS628, 630-31, 633 Annual report 2016, committee deliberation ... RS637-39 Annual report 2016, committee research services to prepare draft report on review and chair and deputy chair authorized to approve final report, motion for (Malkinson: carried) ... RS639 Presentation on 2016 annual report, motion to invite (Rosendahl: carried as amended) ... RS619-20 Presentation on 2016 annual report, motion to invite (Rosendahl: carried as amended), amendment to include representatives from Environment and Parks, Justice, and Municipal Affairs ministries, motion on (Loewen: carried) ... RS619-20 Recommendation 2015.02, tracking process for recommendation implementation ... RS633 Recommendation 2016.01, crossministry discussion of options on property rights dispute settlement, committee endorsement, motion for (Rosendahl: carried) ... RS637-38
Public service pension plan
Funded ratio, performance measures ... RS592-93 Governance ... RS593
Red Deer justice centre
Capital funding ... RS598
Revenue
Investment income ... RS593
School construction
Funding ... RS598 Modernizations, funding for ... RS598
Special services pension plan
Funded ratio, performance measures ... RS592-93
Tax policy
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... RS594
University of Calgary
MacKimmie Library, capital funding ... RS598
Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, NDP; Minister of Infrastructure to October 17, 2017; Minister of Transportation)
Alberta community transit fund
General remarks ... RS484
Anthony Henday Drive
Capital funding ... RS483 LED lighting ... RS500 Northeast portion completion ... RS501
Border crossings
Highway 41 Wild Horse crossing (Alberta-Montana) ... RS502
Bridge construction
Capital funding ... RS483, 500-501 Northeast river crossing (NERC), Edmonton-Fort Saskatchewan ... RS492
Bridge maintenance and repair
Calgary Transit
LRT green line, capital funding ... RS485, 500
Capital maintenance and renewal program
General remarks ... RS483
Capital projects
Project delays ... RS490 Project management, time and cost efficiencies ... RS496 Project prioritization ... RS483 Provincial-municipal-developer cost-shared projects ... RS498, 502 Public tenders ... RS490 Unfunded projects ... RS490-93, 500
Carbon levy
Revenue utilization ... RS485
Cardston county
Water/waste-water infrastructure ... RS487
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Dams
Dickson dam silt buildup ... RS488
Deerfoot Trail
212th Avenue interchange, capital funding ... RS483, 492, 501 212th Avenue interchange, provincial-municipal-developer funding ... RS493
Economic development
Relation to capital plan ... RS483
Edmonton (city)
Urban expansion outside ring road area ... RS498-99
Flood damage mitigation
High River projects ... RS487-88 Redwood Meadows projects, consultation with Tsuut'ina First Nation on ... RS488 Springbank reservoir project ... RS487-88, 493-95 Springbank reservoir project, consultation with Tsuut'ina First Nation ... RS494-95 Springbank reservoir project, environmental impact assessment ... RS494 Springbank reservoir project, land acquisition ... RS495
Government accountability
Openness and transparency ... RS482
Highway 1
Interchanges, Chestermere and Rocky View county ... RS498
Highway 2
CrossIron Mills interchange ... RS499, 502 Edmonton interchange, LED lighting ... RS500 Gaetz Avenue interchange, Red Deer, capital funding ... RS501 Peace River bridge twinning, capital funding ... RS501 St. Albert bypass, Ray Gibbons Drive, capital plan ... RS490
Highway 14
Maintenance contract ... RS484
Highway 15
Capital funding ... RS501 Fort Saskatchewan bridge twinning, capital plan ... RS488-89, 492
Highway 19
Capital funding ... RS492
Highway 43X
Grande Prairie bypass, capital funding ... RS501 Grande Prairie bypass, capital plan ... RS500
Highway 61
Capital plan, Foremost to Manyberries portion ... RS498
Lethbridge Northern irrigation district
Marijuana
Legalization in Canada ... RS497
Ministry of Transportation
Motor vehicles
Autonomous (driverless) vehicles ... RS491, 495
Municipal sustainability initiative
Municipalities
Growth planning, urban sprawl ... RS498-99
New building Canada fund (federal program)
Project approval timelines ... RS490 Projects funded ... RS486-87
Okotoks (town)
Water/waste-water infrastructure ... RS487
Pacific Gateway Alliance
General remarks ... RS497
Pincher Creek municipal district
Water/waste-water capital project ... RS501
Railroads
West coast access ... RS497
Ring road construction
Calgary ring road, capital funding ... RS483
Road construction
Capital funding ... RS482-83, 500-501 Capital funding, impact of urban expansion ... RS499 Interchanges, intersections, and safety upgrades ... RS498 Twinning, widening, and expansion, capital funding ... RS490
Road maintenance and repair
Capital funding ... RS500-501 Highway maintenance, funding for ... RS483 Impact on traffic safety ... RS484 Provincial contracts ... RS484 Rehabilitation projects ... RS499-500 Rehabilitation projects, 4-year plan ... RS483
Roads
Secondary highways, municipal responsibility for ... RS483
Strategic transportation infrastructure program (STIP)
Taber
Waste-water project, provincial grant application ... RS486
Traffic safety
Accident locations, Official Opposition FOIP request on ... RS502 Education and awareness initiatives ... RS496 Provincial collaboration and partnerships ... RS497 Provincial strategy ... RS482-83 Transportation safety plan development ... RS496
Transportation
Driverless vehicles (driverless cars, drones, etc.) ... RS491, 495
Transportation infrastructure
50-year capital plan ... RS491, 495 50-year plan ... RS502 Capital plan 2017-2018 by region, member's request for information ... RS490 Western Canadian supply-chain co-operation, 10-point plan ... RS497
Trucking industry
Regulations, harmonization with other jurisdictions ... RS497
United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
Water for life strategy and action fund
Disbursement of funds ... RS486-87 Grant program eligibility criteria ... RS486 Projects funded ... RS501 Projects funded, aboriginal communities ... RS486
Water quality
Drinking water quality, aboriginal communities ... RS485-86 Drinking water quality, aboriginal communities, capital funding ... RS482
Water/waste-water management
Commercial and industrial properties ... RS486 Federal funding ... RS486 Federal-provincial-municipal capital funding ... RS482, 486-87 Government-owned infrastructure, capital funding ... RS501 Municipal water/waste-water partnership grant program ... RS501 Regional systems, aboriginal community access to ... RS485-86
Women's Coulee canal
Capital plan, irrigation and environmental requirements ... RS487-88
Massolin, Dr. Philip (Manager of Research and Committee Services, Legislative Assembly Office)
Conflicts of Interest Act review (2015-2016)
Update by committee research services ... RS644
Conflicts of Interest Act review (2017-2018)
Committee research services ... RS644
Property Rights Advocate's office
Presentation on 2016 annual report, motion to invite (Rosendahl: carried as amended) ... RS619 Presentation on 2016 annual report, motion to invite (Rosendahl: carried as amended), amendment to include representatives from Environment and Parks, Justice, and Municipal Affairs ministries, motion on (Loewen: carried) ... RS619
McCuaig-Boyd, Margaret (Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley, NDP; Minister of Energy)
Alberta carbon trunk line
Carbon dioxide market ... RS524
Alberta Electric System Operator
Disaster management mandate ... RS526 Renewable electricity program ... RS518 Renewable electricity program, energy auctions ... RS504, 526 Renewable electricity program, funding for ... RS512
Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission
Alberta Utilities Commission
Bioenergy grant program (former)
Projects funded ... RS519
Bioenergy industries
Transfer of responsibility from Energy to Environment and Parks ministry ... RS519-20
Biofuel initiatives grant program
Projects funded ... RS519
Bitumen royalty in kind (BRIK) program
Cost of bitumen ... RS520
Electric power
Capacity market system ... RS504, 514-15 Capacity market system, economic impact assessments ... RS525-26
Electric power plants
Clean technology ... RS521-22 Coal-fired facilities, transition payments to corporations ... RS521 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... RS504, 517-18 Coal-fired facilities retirement, member's request for government documentation ... RS516 Coal-fired facilities retirement, transition payments to corporations ... RS518 Peaking plant requirements ... RS508
Electric power supply
Minimum margin over peak demand, targets ... RS525-26 Risk assessment ... RS525-26
Energy Diversification Advisory Committee
Energy industries
Aboriginal participation ... RS522 Bankruptcies ... RS506 Competitiveness ... RS506 Competitiveness, comparison with Saskatchewan ... RS527 Diversification ... RS505 Drilling activity ... RS504, 506 Land sales (lease for access), landowner recourse for bankruptcies ... RS523 Liability management, federal funding ... RS518-19 Liability management review ... RS518-19
Energy resources
Market development ... RS519
Enhanced hydrocarbon recovery program
Royalty reduction forecast ... RS509
Hydroelectric power
British Columbia site C power purchase proposal, cost analysis requested ... RS521-22
Market Surveillance Administrator (electric power market)
Offer behaviour enforcement guidelines ... RS525
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Co-ordination with Environment and Parks ministry ... RS515
North West Redwater Partnership
Bitumen upgrading costs ... RS524 Bitumen upgrading project ... RS515, 520, 522-23 Bitumen upgrading project, revenue forecasts ... RS524 Sturgeon refinery ... RS522-23
Oil sands development
Emissions cap ... RS507 International investment in ... RS506-7 Project data, publicly available information ... RS517
Petrochemicals diversification program
Pipeline construction
Enbridge line 3 replacement project approval ... RS504, 506, 522 General remarks ... RS515-16 Job creation ... RS516 Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project ... RS504 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project ... RS504 Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project ... RS506, 522, 524 Legal challenges, funding for ... RS524 TransCanada Keystone XL project ... RS504
Pipelines
Comparison with railroad transport ... RS522
Reclamation of land
Job creation ... RS525 Orphan well sites, federal funding for ... RS525 Orphan well sites, provincial role in ... RS523 Orphan wells, federal funding for ... RS518
Renewable/alternative energy industries
Renewable/alternative energy sources
Revenue
Freehold mineral rights tax ... RS523
Royalty structure (energy resources)
Framework development ... RS504-5 Modernized royalty framework ... RS517 Review ... RS506-7 Royalty reduction programs, performance tracking ... RS509 Royalty review advisory panel ... RS517
United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
Utilities Consumer Advocate
General remarks ... RS518
McDonald, Bruce (Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Safety, Ministry of Municipal Affairs)
Alberta building code
Automated adoption of new codes ... RS543 Review ... RS546
Ministry of Municipal Affairs
Safety Codes Act
Code areas under act, automatic adoption of new codes ... RS543
McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC to July 23, 2017; UCP from July 24, 2017)
Alberta building code
Automated adoption of new codes ... RS543
Alberta Emergency Management Agency
Provincial Operations Centre, capital plan ... RS541
Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission
Alberta Investment Management Corporation
Board of director appointments ... RS587
Assured income for the severely handicapped
Review of program ... RS597
ATB Financial
Business growth and economic diversification loans ... RS587
Beaverlodge regional hospital
New hospital, capital plan ... RS586
Budget process
Macroeconomic model ... RS588
Calgary (city)
West Village area redevelopment, land remediation ... RS551
Calgary Growth Management Board
Calgary Transit
LRT green line, capital funding ... RS541
Capital Region Board
Growth management board, funding for ... RS540 Mandate ... RS540 Membership criteria ... RS540
Carbon levy
Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, First Nations, etc., distribution based on tax returns ... RS597 Revenue utilization ... RS542
Community revitalization levy
General remarks ... RS542
Community viability
Programs and services ... RS542
Corporations
Businesses that dissolved in 2016 ... RS586 Businesses that left Alberta in 2016 ... RS586
Economic indicators
Provincial tracking of ... RS586
Elections, municipal
Election finance rules ... RS550
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement, impact on royalty revenue ... RS589, 596
Emergency 911 grants regulation (Alberta Regulation 19/2014)
Municipal Affairs ministry oversight ... RS541
Emergency 911 levy regulation (Alberta Regulation 18/2014)
Treasury Board and Finance ministry oversight ... RS541
Fiscal plan 2017-2020
Key energy and economic assumptions ... RS588
Government agencies, boards, and commissions
Quasi-judicial boards, performance measures ... RS551
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Municipal infrastructure programs ... RS542
Homeless persons
Carbon levy rebate eligibility ... RS597
Land-use framework
Protection of farmland under ... RS540
Local Authorities Election Act
Review following 2017 election ... RS550
Ministry of Municipal Affairs
Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance
Municipal financial information system (database)
Municipal Government Board
Administrative amalgamation with Surface Rights Board, Land Compensation Board, and New Home Buyer Protection Board ... RS551 Funding ... RS550-51 Performance measures ... RS551
Municipal sustainability initiative
Base funding ... RS541 New program ... RS541 Projects funded, off-reserve aboriginal communities ... RS551
Municipalities
Intermunicipal collaboration frameworks ... RS540 Solar energy program ... RS542
New home buyer protection plan
Petrochemicals diversification program
Economic impact assessments ... RS596
Property tax
Industrial assessment centralization ... RS542-43
Public service
Collective agreement negotiations ... RS586 Compensation ... RS589 Compensation, increase in average weekly earnings, 2016 ... RS586 Compensation, increase in average weekly earnings, forecast for 2017 ... RS586 Size, full-time equivalents (FTEs) ... RS589
Public transit
Green infrastructure ... RS542
Reclamation of land
Orphan wells, funding for municipally owned wells ... RS551
Revenue
Forecasts ... RS586 Forecasts, risk adjustment ... RS596 Nonrenewable resource revenue ... RS588-89, 596 Projections, inclusion of new pipelines ... RS588
Safety Codes Act
Code areas under act, automatic adoption of new codes ... RS543
Seniors' home adaptation and repair program
Small business
Tax reduction, cost of ... RS586
Student financial aid (postsecondary students)
Loans, default rate ... RS586
Villages
Viability reviews ... RS542
McPherson, Karen M. (Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill, NDP to October 3, 2017; Ind. from October 4 to 30, 2017; AP from October 30, 2017)
Conflicts of Interest Act
Ethics Commissioner recommendations ... RS653 Ethics Commissioner technical briefing ... RS652-53 Justice ministry technical briefing ... RS653-54
Conflicts of Interest Act review (2017-2018)
Use of documents collected by Ethics and Accountability Committee ... RS653
Conflicts of Interest Act review (2017-2018), public/stakeholder input
Justice ministry submission on policy proposed ... RS653-54 Stakeholder list ... RS660 Stakeholder list, committee research to prepare list and invitations to be sent, motion for (Woollard: carried as amended) ... RS658 Stakeholder list, committee research to prepare list and invitations to be sent, motion for (Woollard: carried as amended), amendment for chair and deputy chair approval of list, motion for (Rosendahl: carried) ... RS659 Stakeholder list, committee research to prepare updated list, and invitations to be sent, motion for (Woollard: carried as amended) ... RS659
Conflicts of Interest Act review (2017-2018), public/stakeholder written submissions
Public submissions ... RS660
Information disclosure of deputy ministers/senior officials
Additional positions included under Bill 27 ... RS652
Legislative policy committees
Mandates, committee recommendation that standing orders be revised to empower committees to priorities inquiries over matters of business referred by the Assembly, motion for (Hanson: defeated) ... RS661-63
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