Alberta Hansard 2015-2016 (29th Legislature, First Session)

Subject Index

The cumulative index, which provides subject access to debates of the Alberta Legislature, is uploaded on a weekly basis. It is provided for reference purposes only and is unedited and unofficial.

The table below is a list to date of Alberta Hansard issue numbers, dates, and page ranges, with links to the text document. The index itself starts following the table. Use the search capabilities of Adobe Acrobat to search the index and find the topic you are interested in; note the page number(s) associated with it. Then click on the page number range in the table below to open the issue.

NOTE: Tabled documents are listed in the Sessional Papers for this session.

Alberta Hansard page and issue number information (29th Leg. / 1st Sess. 2015)

Issue No. Date Pages 0 (Election of the Speaker) ...... June 11 aft...... 1-6 1 (Speech from the Throne) ...... June 15 aft...... 7-10 2 ...... June 16 aft...... 11-38 3 ...... June 17 aft...... 39-72 3 ...... June 17 eve...... 73-94 4 ...... June 18 aft...... 95-114 5 ...... June 22 aft...... 115-144 5 ...... June 22 eve...... 145-162 6 ...... June 23 aft...... 163-194 6 ...... June 23 eve...... 195-228 7 ...... June 24 aft...... 229-258 7 ...... June 24 eve...... 259-272 8 ...... June 25 aft...... 273-290

...... Spring sitting: 9 days, 4 evenings

9 ...... October 26 aft...... 291-320 10 (Budget Address) ...... October 27 aft...... 321-338 11 ...... October 28 aft...... 339-366 12 ...... October 29 aft...... 367-388 13 ...... November 2 aft...... 389-414 14 ...... November 3 aft...... 415-424 15 ...... November 4 aft...... 425-436 16 ...... November 5 aft...... 437-460 17 ...... November 16 aft...... 461-490 18 ...... November 17 aft...... 491-522 19 ...... November 18 aft...... 523-536 20 ...... November 19 aft...... 537-560 21 ...... November 23 aft...... 561-590 22 ...... November 24 morn...... 591-592 23 ...... November 25 morn...... 593-594 23 ...... November 25 aft...... 595-620 24 ...... November 26 morn...... 621-638 24 ...... November 26 aft...... 639-660 25 ...... November 30 aft...... 661-692 26 ...... December 1 morn...... 693-704

(Issue No.) ...... (Date) ...... (Pages) 26 ...... December 1 aft...... 705-734 26 ...... December 1 eve...... 735-752 27 ...... December 2 morn...... 753-768 27 ...... December 2 aft...... 769-800 27 ...... December 2 eve...... 801-838 28 ...... December 3 morn...... 839-854 28 ...... December 3 aft...... 855-872 29 ...... December 7 aft...... 873-904 29 ...... December 7 eve...... 905-936 30 ...... December 8 morn...... 937-952 30 ...... December 8 aft...... 953-986 30 ...... December 8 eve...... 987-1018 31 ...... December 9 morn...... 1019-1038 31 ...... December 9 aft...... 1039-1072 31 ...... December 9 eve...... 1073-1110 32 ...... December 10 morn...... 1111-1128

...... Fall sitting: 8 mornings, 23 afternoons, 5 evenings

Main Estimates 2015-2016

The main estimates (budget) for 2015-2016 are all being considered in the legislative policy committees. Below is a list of ministries, the schedule of debate, and links to posted transcripts. At 7:30 p.m. on November 23 the Committee of Supply will meet.

Meetings are scheduled for three hours and start at 9 a.m. (morning), except for Executive Council debate, which starts at 10 a.m.; 3:30 p.m. (afternoon); or 7 p.m. (evening).

Listing by date:

Ministry Committee Meeting Date Agriculture and Forestry Alberta’s Economic Future November 2 evening (3 hours) Transportation Resource Stewardship November 2 evening (3 hours)

Culture and Tourism Families and Communities November 3 morning (3 hours)

Treasury Board and Finance Resource Stewardship November 3 morning (3 hours) Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Alberta’s Economic Future November 3 afternoon (3 hours)

Municipal Affairs Resource Stewardship November 3 afternoon (3 hours) Aboriginal Relations Resource Stewardship November 4 morning (3 hours)

Service Alberta Families and Communities November 4 morning (3 hours) Education Families and Communities November 4 afternoon (3 hours) Infrastructure Alberta’s Economic Future November 4 afternoon (3 hours) Energy Resource Stewardship November 16 evening (3 hours)

Health Families and Communities November 16 evening (3 hours) Executive Council Alberta’s Economic Future November 17 morning (2 hours) Status of Women Families and Communities November 17 morning (3 hours)

Economic Development and Trade Alberta’s Economic Future November 18 morning (3 hours) Justice and Solicitor General Families and Communities November 18 morning (3 hours) Environment and Parks Resource Stewardship November 18 afternoon (3 hours) Seniors Families and Communities November 18 afternoon (3 hours)

Advanced Education Alberta’s Economic Future November 19 morning (3 hours)

Human Services Families and Communities November 19 morning (3 hours)

2015 Hansard Subject Index 1

3P construction Aboriginal peoples (continued) Calgary ring road See Calgary ring road: Southwest Representation on government committees ... Notley portion, public-private partnership (P3) contract 328; Rodney 328 4-H clubs Representation on Premier’s Advisory Committee on General remarks ... Drysdale 715; Orr 821; Schneider the Economy See Premier’s Advisory Committee 818–19; Speaker, The 809; Starke 739 on the Economy: Aboriginal representation Show Your 4-H Colours Day, members’ statements ... Workforce participation ... Sabir 713; Woollard 713 Rosendahl 427 Aboriginal peoples’ economic development Steer sales ... Speaker, The 308; Starke 307 Access to capital ... Ceci 336; Ganley 102; Hinkley 5th on 5th (Lethbridge youth services) 102 Members’ statements ... Fitzpatrick 239 Programs and partnerships ... Babcock 863; Ganley 66, 10-10 municipal finance plan, Official Opposition 863; Hunter 66 See Municipal finance: Official Opposition 10-10 Small-business supports ... Ganley 102–3; Hinkley plan 102–3 211 information and referral telephone line Aboriginal Relations ministry Members’ statements ... Clark 285 See Ministry of Aboriginal Relations 811 health information telephone line Aboriginal training to employment program See Health Link See Employment training: Programs for aboriginal A Safe Place (women’s shelter) peoples General remarks ... McKitrick 885; Miranda 885 Aboriginal women and violence ABCs [See also Women and violence] See Government agencies, boards, and commissions Camrose area services See Camrose Women’s Shelter: Services for aboriginal women ABDA Federal-provincial-territorial justice framework ... See Alberta Bottle Depot Association Notley 117 Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week Missing and murdered women ... Notley 117 See HIV/AIDS: Awareness events, members’ Missing and murdered women, inquiry proposed ... statements Ganley 603; McIver 167; Miranda 603; Notley 167 Aboriginal Awareness Day Missing and murdered women, Walking with Our Sisters General remarks ... Horne 39 exhibit, members’ statements ... Schreiner 127 Aboriginal Awareness Week Programs and services ... Ganley 603; Miranda 602–3 Calgary activities ... Drever 119 RCMP project See Royal Canadian Mounted Police: General remarks ... Horne 39 Project Kare Aboriginal business investment fund Aboriginal women’s employment Funding ... Babcock 863; Ganley 863 Participation in North West Redwater Partnership Aboriginal children’s education project See North West Redwater Partnership: Residential school awareness events See Orange Shirt Members’ statements Day Aboriginal youth Residential school commission See Truth and Employment supports ... McIver 167; Notley 167 Reconciliation Commission of Canada Abuse of elders Aboriginal communities See Senior abuse and neglect Flood recovery funding ... Clark 61; Ganley 61 ACA (Alberta Conservation Association) Aboriginal consultation Delegated agency for lake aeration See Lake aeration Lower Athabasca regional plan ... Ganley 862–63, 959– Academy of Learning College 60; Rodney 862–63, 959–60 Pipeline development ... Feehan 566; McCuaig-Boyd [See also Postsecondary education] 566 Edmonton West Campus opening, members’ statements ... Dach 349 Aboriginal Day, National See National Aboriginal Day ACCD See Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities Aboriginal girls and violence See Aboriginal women and violence; Women and Access to the Future Act amendments violence Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Aboriginal peoples and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Climate change strategy impacts See Climate change strategy: Impact on aboriginal communities Accommodations industry Community services organizations See Pathways Amendments to legislation See Act to Implement Community Services Association Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Fentanyl use See Fentanyl use: Aboriginal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) community issues Revenue See Tourism levy Members’ statements ... Horne 39 Accountability and ethics select special committee Protection under human rights legislation See Alberta See Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7): Special Committee, amendment A1 (provisions on Accountability in government aboriginal heritage) (Swann: defeated) See Government accountability Relationship with provincial government ... Ganley 98; ACRP Notley 98; Rodney 98; Speaker, The 8; Swann 82 See Alberta community resilience program 2 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) First reading ... Ceci 331–32 (continued) Second reading ... Aheer 506–7, 520; Clark 504–5; Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Cooper 515–16; Dach 519–20; Fildebrandt 501–3, (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 849 509–13, 517–19, 521; Hanson 506, 508, 513–15, Committee, amendment A7 (publication of projected 518–20; Hunter 516–17; MacIntyre 505, 509–11; consolidated cash balance) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Malkinson 513; Mason 518–19; Orr 505–6, 520– Ceci 853; Fildebrandt 849–50, 853–54, 867–69; 21; Schneider 503–4; Stier 507–8, 521–22; Swann MacIntyre 851, 869–70; McIver 851–52; Smith 511–13; Taylor 505, 508–9, 511; Turner 515 852–53 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Committee, amendment A7 (publication of projected Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) consolidated cash balance) (Fildebrandt: defeated), (Cooper: defeated) ... Aheer 520; Cooper 516; Dach division ... 870 519–20; Fildebrandt 517–19, 521; Hanson 518–20; Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) Hunter 516–17; Mason 518–19; Orr 520–21; Stier (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Barnes 917; Ceci 914; 521–22 Cooper 914; Fildebrandt 913, 915–17; MacIntyre Second reading, points of order on debate ... 917–19; McIver 914–15 Fildebrandt 506, 518; Hanson 518; Mason 506, Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) 518; Orr 506; Speaker, The 506, 518 (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 919 Committee ... Aheer 799; Barnes 756–57, 917; Bilous Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax provisions) 753; Ceci 753, 796, 853, 914, 925, 929–30; Clark (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Fildebrandt 920–21; 753, 761–62, 767, 924–25; Cooper 754, 795–96, Hunter 922–23; Malkinson 921; McIver 921–22; 914; Cortes-Vargas 921; Cyr 758–59; Fildebrandt Pitt 921 753–55, 757–60, 765, 767–68, 796–98, 839–41, 846– Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax provisions) 50, 853–54, 867–69, 912–13, 915–17, 920–21, 923; (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 923 Fraser 849; Hanson 841; Hunter 760–61, 922–23; Committee, amendment A10 (locomotive fuel tax Loewen 763; MacIntyre 796–97, 844–45, 851, 869– provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Ceci 925; 70, 917–19; Malkinson 762, 766, 796, 921; Mason Clark 924–25; Fildebrandt 923; McIver 923–24 798–99; McIver 753, 755–56, 762–63, 851–52, 914– Committee, point of order on debate ... Deputy Chair 15, 921–24; Orr 843–44, 846; Panda 919–20; Pitt 854; Fildebrandt 853–54; Mason 853 848–49, 921; Rodney 757; Smith 841–43, 852–53; Third reading ... Aheer 927–28; Ceci 925–26; Starke 764–67; Taylor 845–46 Fildebrandt 929; Loewen 928–29; MacIntyre 926– Committee, amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per cent 27 limit on in-year operating expense increase) (Bilous: Third reading, division ... 930 carried) ... Bilous 753; Ceci 753; Clark 753; Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House Fildebrandt 753; McIver 753 sitting) Committee, amendment A2 (contingency account use) General remarks ... Fildebrandt 614 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Barnes 756–57; Cyr 758– Opposition amendments ... Cooper 754 59; Fildebrandt 754–55, 757–58; McIver 755–56 Penalty provisions, lack of ... Fildebrandt 502, 511; Committee, amendment A2 (contingency account use) Hanson 514; MacIntyre 510–11; Stier 507 (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 759 Section 7(2)(c), exemptions related to collective Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit of agreements ... Clark 504 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Clark 761–62; Section 7(2)(e), exemptions for entities covered under Fildebrandt 759–60; Hunter 760–61; Loewen 763; the Financial Administration Act or Regional Health Malkinson 762; McIver 762–63 Authorities Act ... Clark 504 Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit of Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 763– First reading ... Ganley 9–10 64 Second reading ... Barnes 33–35; Clark 33–34, 38; Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit of Cooper 35–37; Cyr 30–31; Drever 37; Ganley 30, 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated), point of order on 37–38; Hanson 35; Hoffman 32–33, 36–37; Mason debate ... Bilous 761; Chair 761; Cooper 761 33–34, 38; Nixon 31–32, 34; Pitt 37; Rodney 34; Committee, amendment A4 (borrowing for operational Smith 35 expenses) (Starke: defeated) ... Clark 767; Committee ... Chair 87, 155; Clark 92–94, 155–56; Fildebrandt 765; Malkinson 766; Starke 764–66 Cooper 87, 91–93; Cyr 87, 90–91, 154–55; Committee, amendment A4 (borrowing for operational Fildebrandt 90, 93; Ganley 85–87, 89, 91–94, 153– expenses) (Starke: defeated), division ... 767 54, 156; Hanson 88–89; Mason 87, 92–93, 155; Committee, amendment A5 (referendum on debt-to- Nixon 89, 152–54, 156; Orr 93; Pitt 87; Schneider GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Ceci 796; 88; Smith 89; Swann 156; van Dijken 88; Yao 153 Cooper 795–96; Fildebrandt 767–68, 796; Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) MacIntyre 796–97; Malkinson 796 (Cyr: defeated) ... Cyr 86–87; Fildebrandt 90; Committee, amendment A5 (referendum on debt-to- Ganley 87, 89; Hanson 88–89; Nixon 89; Pitt 87; GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 797 Schneider 88; Smith 89; van Dijken 88 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Aheer 799; Fildebrandt (Cyr: defeated), division ... 90 797–98, 839–41, 846–48; Fraser 849; Hanson 841; Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) MacIntyre 844–45; Mason 798–99; Orr 843–44, (Cyr: defeated), point of order on debate ... Chair 87; 846; Pitt 848–49; Smith 841–43; Taylor 845–46 Cooper 87; Mason 87

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Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) (continued) (continued) Committee, amendment A2 (donations in kind) (Cyr: Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- defeated) ... Clark 92–94; Cooper 91–93; Cyr 90–91; month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated), division Fildebrandt 93; Ganley 91–94; Mason 92–93 ... 227 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- guarantees) (Nixon: carried) ... Chair 155; Cyr 154– month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated), point of 55; Ganley 153–54; Mason 155; Nixon 152–54; Yao order raised ... Pitt 216; Speaker, The 216 153 Committee ... Aheer 256; Barnes 248–49, 254–55; Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Ceci 244–45, 250–53; Chair 259; Clark 246–47, guarantees) (Nixon: carried), subamendment SA1 251–54; Cooper 251; Fildebrandt 242–44, 246, (limits on loan payments) (Ganley: carried 255–56; Fraser 251; Gotfried 247–48, 254; Hunter unanimously) ... Cyr 154–55; Ganley 153–54; 245–46; Mason 256; McIver 244–45, 253; Nixon Mason 155; Nixon 154 248; Schneider 249–50; Starke 250, 252; Swann Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and 246 guarantees) (Nixon: carried), subamendment SA1 Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective (limits on loan payments) (Ganley: carried unanimously), division ... 155 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Barnes 248–49; Committee, amendment A4 (individual donation limit) Ceci 244, 245; Clark 246–47; Fildebrandt 242–44, (Clark: defeated) ... Clark 155–56; Ganley 156; 246; Gotfried 247–48; Hunter 245–46; McIver 244– Nixon 156; Swann 156 45; Nixon 248; Schneider 249–50; Swann 246 Committee, relevance of debate ... Chair 90 Committee, amendment A1 (small-business tax rate of 9 Third reading (carried unanimously) ... Ganley 157; per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 250 Nixon 157–58; Notley 158 Committee, amendment A2 (implementation date) Third reading (carried unanimously), division ... 158–59 (Starke: defeated) ... Ceci 250–51; Clark 251–52; Royal Assent ... 29 June 2015 (outside of House sitting) Cooper 251; Fraser 251; Starke 250 Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... Cooper 22; Committee, amendment A3 (personal income tax) Mason 22; Speaker, The 22 (Starke: defeated) ... Ceci 252–53; Clark 253–54; Anticipation of debate, Speaker’s statement on ... Gotfried 254; McIver 253; Starke 252 Speaker, The 49–50 Committee, amendment A4 (small-business tax rate of Application to special-interest groups ... Barnes 34–35 9.9 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Fildebrandt General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 255–56; Mason 256 Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... Barnes 33– Committee, amendment A4 (small-business tax rate of 34; Clark 33–34; Cooper 36; Cyr 31, 86–87; Drever 9.9 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 256– 37; Ganley 30, 37–38, 85; Hoffman 32; Nixon 31, 57 34; Pitt 37 Third reading ... Aheer 260–61; Anderson, W. 259–60; Interim financing provisions (loan repayments to Bhullar 269–70; Ceci 259; Clark 261; Cooper corporations and unions) ... Ganley 85 265–66; Drever 262, 270; Gotfried 262–63; Jean Introduction of amendments, procedure ... Chair 90; 268; Loewen 263–64; McIver 270–71; Nixon 261; Cooper 90; Mason 90 Pitt 259; Smith 264; Starke 266–68; Strankman Official Opposition amendments ... Jean 278; Notley 262; Swann 268; van Dijken 264–65; Yao 262 278–79 Third reading, division ... 271 Official Opposition position ... Barnes 34; Hanson 35; Royal Assent ... 29 June 2015 (outside of House sitting) Hoffman 32; Nixon 31 Bill to come into force on January 1, 2015 ... Starke Penalty provisions ... Ganley 85; Nixon 32 192 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 First reading ... Ceci 104 Implementation timeline ... van Dijken 264 Second reading ... Aheer 189, 223–24; Bhullar 202–3, Personal income tax calculation, section 6.1(2) ... Starke 225–26; Bilous 204; Ceci 161–62, 201, 206; Cooper 192–93 187–89, 191, 201, 215–17; Cyr 212; Feehan 205; Public consultation proposed ... Jean 278; Notley 278 Fildebrandt 188, 190–92, 207, 214, 218–19; Fraser Referral to committee proposed ... Aheer 189 205–6; Gotfried 211; Hanson 183–84, 220; Hunter 185–86, 204, 221–22; Jean 206; Loewen 211–12, Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away, An (book) 220–21; MacIntyre 208–9, 221; Mason 186–87, See Ministry of Environment and Parks: Minister’s 217–18; Nixon 192, 202, 206, 219; Orr 209–10; Pitt book preface 207–8, 223; Schneider 206–7, 226; Shepherd 184– Acute health care facilities 86; Smith 185–86, 224–25; Starke 192–93, 201, See Hospitals 217–18; Strankman 192, 209, 212–14, 221; Swann Acute health care facilities construction 187–89; Taylor 209; van Dijken 189–90, 222; Yao See Hospital construction 215, 222–23 Acute health care facilities maintenance and repair Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- See Hospital maintenance and repair; Misericordia month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Aheer community hospital: Maintenance and repair 223–24; Bhullar 225–26; Cooper 216–17; Fildebrandt 218–19; Hanson 220; Hunter 221–22; Acute health care system Loewen 220–21; MacIntyre 221; Mason 217; Nixon See Health care 219; Pitt 223; Schneider 226; Smith 224–25; Acute health care system finance Speaker, The 216; Starke 217–18; Strankman 221; See Health care finance van Dijken 222; Yao 222–23 4 2015 Hansard Subject Index

ADAC Affordable housing See Alberta Dental Association and College Condition of facilities ... Drever 565; Hoffman 565–66 Addiction treatment Funding ... Hoffman 773–74; Swann 773–74 Addiction and detoxification centre funding ... Jansen Funding through Alberta Social Housing Corporation 345–46, 431; Mason 346, 431 See Alberta Social Housing Corporation: Funding Fentanyl addiction See Fentanyl use General remarks ... Gotfried 175 General remarks ... Nixon 588; Swann 589 Members’ statements ... Coolahan 368 Men’s services See Simon House Recovery Centre Affordable housing organizations Services for children and youth ... Hoffman 431; Jansen See Habitat for Humanity 345–46, 431; Mason 345–46 Affordable supportive living initiative Women’s services, Recovery Acres Society proposal ... Funding ... Bhullar 60; Gotfried 103–4, 298, 347; Clark 441; Hoffman 441 Hoffman 67, 103–4, 298, 347, 498; Starke 67; Yao Adjournment of the Legislature 498 See Legislative Assembly of Alberta adjournment Funding, points of order on debate ... Cooper 350; Administrator, the Mason 350; Speaker, The 350; Starke 105 Entrance into the Assembly ... Ganley 1 Funding, points of order on debate, member’s Adolescent psychiatric care withdrawal of remarks ... Mason 105; Speaker, The See Child mental health services 105 Adult learning Afghanistan, refugees from [See also Postsecondary education] See Refugees: Refugees from Afghanistan Review ... Sigurdson 421; Taylor 421 AFSC Advanced education See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation See Postsecondary education AGA (Auditor General Act) amendments Advanced Education ministry Law and legislation See Public Sector Compensation See Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry Transparency Act (Bill 5) from October 22, 2015); Ministry of innovation Agencies, boards, and commissions, government and advanced education (ministry to October 22, See Government agencies, boards, and commissions 2015) Aging population Advanced educational institutions Abuse of See Senior abuse and neglect See Postsecondary educational institutions Benefits program See Seniors’ benefit program Advanced educational institutions admissions Housing for See Seniors’ housing (enrolment) Ministry responsible for See Ministry of Seniors See Postsecondary educational institutions Agricultural commodities admissions (enrolment) See Farm produce Advanced technology commercialization enterprise Agricultural insurance See Alberta Enterprise Corporation [See also Drought: Assistance to farmers and Advertising by government ranchers] See Government advertising Crop insurance program ... Anderson, S. 325–26; Advertising by political parties during elections Carlier 57, 325–26; Strankman 57 See Election (Restrictions on Government Agricultural labourers Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) See Farm workers Advertising by third-party groups Agricultural products See Political advertising See Farm produce Advertising during elections Agricultural programs Law and legislation See Election (Restrictions on See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 Agricultural value-added production (Bill 203) See Food industry and trade Advisory Committee on the Economy, Premier’s Agricultural worker safety See Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy See Farm safety Advocate for children and youth, office Agriculture See Child and Youth Advocate’s office Advisory committee proposed See Alberta Local Food Advocate for farmers Act (Bill 202) See Farmers’ Advocate Awareness events, Open Farm Days ... McKitrick 894; Advocate for property rights Starke 308; Sweet 310 See Property Rights Advocate Climate change strategy implementation See Climate AEC change strategy See Alberta Enterprise Corporation General remarks ... Barnes 313 AEMA Incentives for young farmers ... Babcock 306 Disaster recovery program administration See Disaster Members’ statements ... Starke 238–39; Stier 770–71 recovery program Provincial role ... Barnes 313; Cooper 311–12 Regulation ... Nixon 577 AER Small producers ... Gray 305; Strankman 577 See Alberta Energy Regulator Supply chain management ... Hunter 581 AFFB (Alberta farm fuel benefit) Support for ... Anderson, S. 325–26; Carlier 325–26; See Farm fuel program Orr 181; Turner 179 2015 Hansard Subject Index 5

Agriculture (continued) Alberta Bottle Depot Association Sustainable practices ... Babcock 306; Carlier 531; Members’ statements ... Kleinsteuber 715 Cortes-Vargas 531; Hunter 581; van Dijken 305 Alberta College of Art and Design Technology development ... Nixon 577–78 See Postsecondary education Technology development corporations See Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities NutraPonics Canada Corporation Members’ statements ... Carson 955 Urban farming, health and safety standards ... Strankman 576–77 Alberta community resilience program Funding ... Fraser 100; Phillips 100–101 Agriculture and Forestry ministry See Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Alberta Conservation Association Delegated agency for lake aeration See Lake aeration Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Drought assistance provision See Drought: Assistance Alberta Corporate Tax Act amendments to farmers and ranchers Insurance premium tax provisions See Taxation: Insurance programs See Agricultural insurance Insurance premium tax Loan eligibility criteria ... Hanson 307 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Loans, funding for ... Carlier 57; Strankman 57 Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Agrifood industry See Food industry and trade Alberta Dental Association and College Administration ... Hoffman 878; Swann 878 AHS See Alberta Health Services (authority) Alberta Disaster Services See Disaster recovery program AHSB See Alberta Health Services Board Alberta economy Downturn, request for emergency debate on See AHSTF Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 See Alberta heritage savings trust fund Alberta Emergency Management Agency AHSTF, Standing Committee on Disaster recovery program administration See Disaster See Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings recovery program Trust Fund, Standing Alberta Energy Regulator AHW (Alberta health and wellness) Appeal process ... McCuaig-Boyd 124; Stier 124 See Ministry of Health Landowner right of appeal ... Hinkley 140 AIDS Day, World Mandate ... McIver 294; Notley 294 See HIV/AIDS: Awareness events, members’ Review ... Aheer 189; Fraser 172; Jean 165; Notley statements 165 AIDS Outreach Community Harm Reduction Alberta Enterprise Corporation Education Support Society (ARCHES) Funding ... Bilous 442; Gray 442 Members’ statements ... Fitzpatrick 416–17 Venture capital funding ... Ceci 335, 613 AIMCo Alberta farm fuel benefit See Alberta Investment Management Corporation See Farm fuel program Air ambulance service Alberta government offices See Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.); International offices’ mandate ... Bilous 606; Gotfried Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) 606 Air quality Trade development initiatives ... Bilous 710; Malkinson General remarks ... Starke 567 710 Methane reduction, climate change strategy See Washington, DC, energy industry advocacy role ... Jean Climate change strategy: Methane reduction 98; Notley 98 component Alberta Health Services (authority) Airdrie (city) Administration ... Clark 280; Notley 280 Health facilities ... Pitt 78 Cellphone plan costs ... Yao 655–56 Urgent care facilities ... Hoffman 170, 423, 543–44, Centralization of services ... Barnes 53, 772, 960; 774–75; Pitt 170, 423, 476, 543–44, 774 Hoffman 445, 772, 960; Stier 445 Urgent care services, nonrenewal of contract of Dr. J. CEO resignation ... Barnes 772; Hoffman 772 Kyne ... Hoffman 544, 774–75, 861–62; Pitt 543–44, Employees earning more than $200,000 annually 774, 861–62 (Written Question 1: accepted) ... Barnes 675 Airdrie (constituency) Executive and management compensation, 2009-2010 Member’s personal and family history ... Pitt 77, 78 to 2014-2015, central zone (Written Question 5: Overview ... Pitt 77–78 carried as amended) ... Cooper 678–79; Hoffman AISH 678 See Assured income for the severely handicapped Executive and management severance payments (Motion for a Return 2: accepted) ... Barnes 679 Alaska permanent fund Law and legislation, public information disclosure See See Alberta heritage savings trust fund: Comparison Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act with other sovereign wealth funds (Bill 5) Alberta Part-time employee overtime pay, 2013-2014, 2014- Net financial assets, 2015-2016 forecast ... Ceci 52; 2015 (Written Question 3: carried as amended) ... Fildebrandt 51–52, 107 Barnes 676–77; Hoffman 677 Population ... Speech from the Throne 7 Performance measures ... Barnes 323; Hoffman 323

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Alberta Health Services (authority) (continued) Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Performance measures, minister’s supplementary (continued) response ... Barnes 348; Hoffman 348 Committee, amendment A1 (provisions on aboriginal Performance measures, point of order on debate ... heritage) (Swann: defeated) ... Cooper 908; Ganley Cooper 332; Mason 332; Speaker, The 332; Starke 908; Mason 908; Swann 907–8 332 Third reading ... Clark 911; Fildebrandt 911; Ganley 911 Relations with Health ministry ... Barnes 772; Hoffman Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House 772–73 sitting) Reserve fund use See Act to Implement Various Tax Official Opposition participation in debate ... Connolly Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and 698; Cortes-Vargas 702; Feehan 698; Jean 702; Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Committee, Westhead 702 amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per cent limit on Official Opposition participation in debate, question in-year operating expense increase) withdrawn ... Connolly 698 Staff, ratio of management to front-line staff ... Jean Stakeholder consultation ... Connolly 693 384 Alberta Investment Management Corporation Alberta Health Services (authority) service delivery Investment policy ... Ceci 335–36 See Health care Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Alberta Health Services Board General remarks ... Stier 142 New board ... Barnes 295–96; Hoffman 296 Landowner appeal provisions ... Loewen 143; Stier 142 Alberta heritage savings trust fund Landowner compensation provisions ... Clark 140–41; Comparison with other sovereign wealth funds ... Cooper 141; Stier 142 Barnes 135; Ceci 333; Hanson 137; Starke 132; Repeal proposed ... Cooper 327; Mason 124, 327; Stier Swann 138 124 Fund utilization ... Aheer 139; Babcock 139; Barnes Review of act proposed ... Hinkley 140 135; Ceci 133; Gray 129; Mason 136–37; McIver Alberta law enforcement response teams 134–35; Orr 133; Rodney 131; Starke 132–33; Funding ... Ellis 961; Ganley 961–62 Swann 137–38, 512, 553 Alberta Liberal caucus Inflation-proofing ... Ceci 380 See Opposition caucuses Investment in Alberta corporations ... Ceci 335–36 Alberta Liberal Party Mandatory savings from nonrenewable resource History ... Speech from the Throne 8 revenue, law and legislation See Assuring Alberta’s Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Funding ... Carlier 57; Strankman 57 Official Opposition position ... Barnes 136 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Public survey (Can We Interest You in an $11 Billion First reading ... Cortes-Vargas 105 Decision?) ... Hanson 137 Second reading ... Anderson, S. 402–3; Babcock 306; Value of fund ... Fildebrandt 130 Barnes 313, 401; Cooper 311–12; Cortes-Vargas Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, Standing 303, 403–4; Drever 401; Gray 304–5; Hanson 306– Committee on the 7; Luff 402; McIver 310–11; Miranda 311; Nielsen See Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings 403; Orr 309–10; Pitt 310; Starke 307–8; Trust Fund, Standing Strankman 303–4; Sucha 312–13; Swann 401–2; Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund Act amendments Sweet 310; van Dijken 305–6; Westhead 308–9 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Second reading, division ... 404 Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Committee ... Barnes 575; Bilous 574–75, 578, 583; and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Cortes-Vargas 573–74, 582; Hanson 574, 581–83; Alberta history Hunter 580–81; MacIntyre 574, 582–83; McIver General remarks ... Strankman 404 576; McKitrick 574; Nixon 574, 577–78; Orr 574, Legislative history ... Speech from the Throne 8 579–80; Starke 578–79; Strankman 576–77; Swann Residential school history, commission on See Truth 580; Taylor 575; van Dijken 582 and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Alberta Hospital Edmonton proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... Barnes Members’ statements ... Sweet 874–75 575; Bilous 574–75; Cortes-Vargas 573–74; Hanson Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) 574; MacIntyre 574; McKitrick 574; Nixon 574; Orr First reading ... Ganley 548 574; Taylor 575 Second reading ... Bilous 700; Clark 694–95; Connolly Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory 693–94, 698, 701; Cortes-Vargas 700–702; Cyr 697; committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Drever 699; Eggen 698–99; Feehan 697–98; proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried), division ... Fitzpatrick 703; Ganley 618–19, 693, 703–4; 575–76 Hoffman 699–700, 703; Jansen 698–99, 702; Jean Committee, amendment A2 (public-sector procurement 702–3; McIver 700; Miranda 695–97; Nielsen 697; of local food) (van Dijken: defeated) ... Cortes- Shepherd 702–3; Swann 700–701; Westhead 702 Vargas 582; Hanson 582; MacIntyre 582–83; van Second reading, division ... 704 Dijken 582–83 Second reading, point of order on debate ... Connolly Third reading ... Cooper 895; Cortes-Vargas 891; 698; Speaker, The 698; Starke 698 Malkinson 891; McKitrick 894; Nielsen 894–95; Committee ... Connolly 909; Cooper 908–9; Feehan Strankman 892–93; Turner 891–92; Westhead 893– 909–10; Ganley 908–9; Littlewood 910; Mason 94; Woollard 895 908; Notley 907; Swann 907–8 Advisory committee cost ... Hanson 307; Orr 310 Advisory committee membership ... Hanson 306–7 2015 Hansard Subject Index 7

Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) (continued) Alberta Regulations (continued) Application to public sector … Hanson 306, 581; Pitt Education and Culture and Tourism minister’s remarks 310; Strankman 304 ... Starke 740 Purpose of bill ... van Dijken 305–6 Alberta School Boards Association Regulatory provisions ... Cooper 312; Starke 308, 579; Response to Bill 8 See Public Education Collective Swann 580; van Dijken 305–6 Bargaining Act (Bill 8): School board responses Stakeholder consultation ... Babcock 306; Cooper 312; Spending on team-building activities ... Eggen 468; Orr 309–10; Strankman 304 Hanson 501; Smith 468 Use of word “agriculture” ... Bilous 578; Strankman 576 Alberta seniors’ benefit program Alberta lottery fund See Seniors’ benefit program Budget allocation See Estimates of Supply Alberta Social Housing Corporation (government expenditures) Funding ... Gotfried 103–4; Hoffman 103–4 Interim supply estimates See Interim supply estimates Alberta special waste treatment centre 2015-2016 (No. 1); Interim supply estimates 2015- See Swan Hills Treatment Centre 2016 (No. 2) Main estimates See Estimates of Supply (government Alberta Teachers’ Association expenditures) Collective bargaining, law and legislation See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Alberta Medical Association Health minister’s meeting with ... Clark 280; Hoffman Alberta Treasury Branches 280 See ATB Financial Members’ participation in assisted dying proposed See Alberta Works Assisted dying Funding ... Bhullar 60; Sabir 60 Alberta municipal water/waste-water program General remarks ... Renaud 584 See Water/waste-water treatment Alberta’s Economic Future, Standing Committee on Alberta Opportunity Company (former) See Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Standing Alberta Parks Alcohol retail sales See Parks, provincial Regulations for licensed establishments ... Aheer 899; Connolly 901; Jabbour 897; Mason 900–901; Alberta parks ministry McIver 899; Orr 898; Shepherd 896–97; Sucha 902 See Ministry of Environment and Parks Alcohol tax Alberta Party opposition See Taxation: Alcohol tax [See also Opposition caucuses] Alcohol use as fuel Alternative budget ... Clark 343, 637 Red Deer business enterprises See Permolex Members’ statement rotation See Members’ International LLP Statements (procedure): Rotation of statements Oral Question Period rotation See Oral Question ALERT Period (procedure): Rotation of questions See Alberta law enforcement response teams Alberta Personal Income Tax Act amendments Alexander First Nation Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various General remarks ... Horne 39 Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning ALMA and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4); Act to Restore See Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) ALSA Alberta Public Agencies Governance Act See Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Teachers’ employer bargaining association exemption AltaLink See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act Agreement on upstream flow on Bow and Elbow rivers (Bill 8): Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ ... Phillips 16; Swann 16 employer bargaining association exemptions from Alzheimer’s disease Financial Administration Act, Alberta Public Telephone support See Health Link: 811 phone line Agencies Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and dementia support Transparency Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: AMA defeated) See Alberta Medical Association Alberta Real Estate Association Ambrose University College Members’ statements ... Dach 435 See Postsecondary education Alberta Registries Ambulances See Registry services See Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Alberta Regulations Animals, compensation programs AR 27/2008 See Electric power: Microgeneration See Wildlife predator compensation program and policy review (Motion Other than Anne Chorney public library Government Motion 506: carried) See Waskatenau (village): Anne Chorney public AR 139/2007 See Specified gas emitters regulation library (Alberta Regulation 139/2007) AR 143/1996 See Gaming and liquor regulation Announcements by government during elections (Alberta Regulation 143/1996) Law and legislation See Election (Restrictions on AR 168/2000 See Condominium property regulation Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 (Alberta Regulation 168/2000) (Bill 203)

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Announcements by government during elections Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) (continued) (continued) Spending announcements See Elections, provincial: Third reading ... Ceci 182; Cooper 182; Hanson 182– Government spending announcements during 83; Mason 183; Nixon 182 Announcements by government on capital spending Third reading, division ... 213 See Capital projects: Government announcements Third reading, member’s withdrawal of remarks ... AOC (Alberta Opportunity Company) (former) Cooper 182; Mason 182; Speaker, The 182 See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Royal Assent ... 29 June 2015 (outside of House sitting) Time allotment for debate ... Fildebrandt 51 AP (Alberta Party) opposition See Opposition caucuses ARCHES See AIDS Outreach Community Harm Reduction APAGA (Alberta Public Agencies Governance Act) Education Support Society (ARCHES) Teachers’ employer bargaining association exemption See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act AREA (Bill 8): Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ See Alberta Real Estate Association employer bargaining association exemptions from Art and Design College, Alberta Financial Administration Act, Alberta Public See Postsecondary education Agencies Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and Arts and culture Transparency Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: General remarks ... Orr 182 defeated) ASB (Alberta seniors’ benefit) Apologies by Members of the Legislative Assembly See Seniors’ benefit program See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Member’s ASBA apologies See Alberta School Boards Association Appleby, Frank Pierpoint ASD See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Former See Autism spectrum disorder MLA Frank Pierpoint Appleby, memorial tribute ASHC Apprenticeship training See Alberta Social Housing Corporation Student spaces ... Loyola 65; Sigurdson 65 Ashura Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Members’ statements ... Kazim 369 First reading ... Ceci 612 First reading, bill to proceed directly to second reading Asia Pacific region trade (unanimous consent granted) ... Mason 612 See International trade Second reading ... Ceci 613; Cooper 617; Fildebrandt ASLI 613–15; McIver 616–18; Starke 615–17 See Affordable supportive living initiative Second reading, division ... 618 Assisted dying Committee ... Cooper 621–22; Drever 631; Members’ statements ... Swann 446–47 Fildebrandt 624, 627–28; MacIntyre 629; Mason Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, Canadian 628–29; McIver 629–30; Smith 622–25; Taylor Forecasts for drilling operating days See Energy 625–26; Turner 626–27 industries: Drilling operating days, forecasts for Committee, point of order on debate ... Chair 626; Cooper 626; Mason 626; Starke 626 Assured income for the severely handicapped Committee, agreement to clauses, division ... 631 Client benefits ... Drever 466; Sabir 466–67 Committee, bill to proceed directly to third reading Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) (unanimous consent granted) ... Mason 631 First reading ... Fraser 104–5 Third reading ... Ceci 631, 638; Clark 636–37; Jean Second reading ... Aheer 138–39; Babcock 139; Barnes 631–36; Mason 631; Swann 636 135–36; Ceci 133; Clark 131; Dang 133–34; Third reading, division ... 638 Fildebrandt 130–31; Fraser 128–29, 302; Gray Royal Assent ... 27 November 2015 (outside of House 129–30; Hanson 137; Larivee 135; Mason 136–37; sitting) McIver 134–35; Orr 133; Rodney 131–32; Starke Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) 132–33; Swann 137–38 [See also Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2)] Second reading, division ... 302 First reading ... Ceci 77 Second reading, point of order on debate ... Mason 129; Second reading ... Aheer 113; Anderson, W. 113; Ceci Speaker, The 129, 135; Starke 129 107; Cooper 109–14; Fildebrandt 107–8, 111; ATA (Alberta Teachers’ Association) Hanson 108–9; Mason 110–12; McIver 109–11; Collective bargaining, law and legislation See Public Schneider 111–12; Smith 112–13; Yao 112 Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Second reading, division ... 114 ATB Financial Committee ... Bhullar 149–51, 160–61; Bilous 151; Capital available ... Ceci 335 Ceci 145–46, 148–49, 160–61; Drever 147; History ... Speech from the Throne 8 Fildebrandt 147–48; Ganley 150; Hoffman 147, Loans to small and medium-sized businesses ... Bilous 149–51, 160; Hunter 146; Mason 147, 149, 151–52; 496, 546; Ceci 613; Nielsen 496; Notley 959; Panda McIver 148–49; Pitt 159; Sabir 150; Smith 145–46; 959; Swann 553 Taylor 159–60; Yao 148 Athabasca University Committee, question put ... Chair 161 See Postsecondary education Committee, question put, division ... 161 Attorney General ministry See Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General 2015 Hansard Subject Index 9

Auditor General Act Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 Teachers’ employer bargaining association exemption Petition presented for private bill ... McPherson 331 See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill Private Bills Committee report presented, compliance 8): Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ employer with standing orders ... McPherson 349 bargaining association exemptions from Financial Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. Administration Act, Alberta Public Agencies 2) Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and Transparency First reading ... Nielsen 377 Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: defeated) Second reading ... Mason 905 Auditor General Act amendments Committee ... Chair 906 Law and legislation See Public Sector Compensation Third reading ... Nielsen 1074–75 Transparency Act (Bill 5) Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House Auditor General’s office sitting) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that Chair 74 bill proceed ... McPherson 673 Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 Bevacizumab use for retinal diseases Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly See Eye diseases: Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used ... Speaker, The 333 for Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Bhullar, Manmeet Singh Autism Edmonton Death See Calgary-Greenway (constituency): Death General remarks ... Feehan 779 of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar Autism spectrum disorder Bicycle riding awareness Members’ statements ... Feehan 779 See Bike Month Auxiliary hospitals Big game hunting See Long-term care facilities (nursing See Hunting homes/auxiliary hospitals) Bike Month Babysitting services, private Members’ statements ... Shepherd 164–65 See Daycare in private homes Bills, government (procedure) Bail Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, Review of process ... Ellis 237–38; Ganley 125, 237– committee, amendment A1 (Cyr: defeated), division 38; Renaud 125 ... 90 Banff Centre Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, See Postsecondary education committee, amendment A3, subamendment A1 Banff-Cochrane (constituency) (Ganley: carried unanimously), division ... 155 Member’s remarks on Bill 6 referral amendment ... Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, third Aheer 1051 reading, division (carried unanimously) ... 158–59 Banks Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, See ATB Financial second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Barley month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated), division Alberta production ... Orr 309 ... 227 Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, Bassano (town) committee, amendment A1 (Fildebrandt: defeated), Nonprofit organizations See Newell Foundation division ... 250 Hospital capital project proposal See Seniors’ Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, housing: Newell Foundation proposal committee, amendment A4 (Fildebrandt: defeated), Bassano Amateur Rodeo division ... 256–57 See Strathmore-Brooks (constituency): Rodeos Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, Beauchesne’s Parliamentary Rules & Forms third reading, division ... 271 Section 493(4), remarks about persons outside the Bill 3, Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. House See Points of order: Reflections on 2), second reading division ... 114 nonmembers Bill 3, Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. Beaumont business enterprises 2), committee, question put, division ... 161 See Crêpe and Shake Café Bill 3, Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. Beaverlodge 2), third reading, division ... 213 Health care ... Drysdale 102; Hoffman 102 Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Beddington Heights little free library Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, second See Book exchanges reading, referral to committee, motion on (referral amendment A1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 516–22 Beef Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and See Meat to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Beef industry committee, amendment A2 (Fildebrandt: defeated), Sustainable practices ... McIver 541, 550; Phillips 541 division ... 759 Berlin Wall, Germany Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and 26th anniversary of fall, members’ statements ... to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Fildebrandt 533 committee, amendment A3 (Fildebrandt: defeated), division ... 763–64

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Bills, government (procedure) (continued) Bills, government (procedure) (continued) Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Workers Act, third reading, division ... 1126 committee, amendment A4 (Starke: defeated), Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch division ... 767 Workers Act, third reading, motion that bill be not Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and now read (6-month hoist amendment) (Jean: to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, defeated), division ... 1126 committee, amendment A5 (Fildebrandt: defeated), Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch division ... 797 Workers Act, third reading, time allocation on debate Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and (Government Motion 28: carried), division ... 1119 to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Bill 7, Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015, committee, amendment A6 (Fildebrandt: defeated), second reading, division ... 704 division ... 849 Bill 8, Public Education Collective Bargaining Act, Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and second reading, referral amendment RA1 (Cooper: to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, defeated) ... 721–32 committee, amendment A7 (Fildebrandt: defeated), Bill 8, Public Education Collective Bargaining Act, division ... 870 second reading, referral amendment RA1 (Cooper: Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and defeated), division ... 733 to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Bill 8, Public Education Collective Bargaining Act, committee, amendment A8 (Fildebrandt: defeated), third reading division ... 1007–8 division ... 919 Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, first reading, bill to Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and proceed directly to second reading following first to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, reading (unanimous consent granted) ... Mason 612 committee, amendment A9 (Fildebrandt: defeated), Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, second reading, division ... 923 Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and division ... 618 to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, committee, agreement third reading, division ... 930 to clauses, division ... 631 Bill 5, Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act, Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, bill to proceed directly second reading, division ... 659–60 to third reading following committee (unanimous Bill 5, Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act, consent granted) ... Mason 631 committee, amendment A5 (McIver: defeated), Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, third reading, division division ... 792 ... 638 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Amendments, availability in advance to opposition Act, second reading, referral amendment R1 (Cooper: caucuses proposed ... Fildebrandt 783 defeated) ... 835–37, 930–51, 968–86, 1011–28 Amendments, consideration of ... Starke 266–67 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Amendments, introduction of ... Chair 90; Cooper 90; Workers Act, second reading, referral amendment R1 Mason 90 (Cooper: defeated), division ... 1030 Amendments by bill sponsor ... Orr 682 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Comparison with federal system ... Jean 1112 Workers Act, second reading, motion that bill be not Discussion of items previously decided [See also Points now read (6-month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: of order (current session)]; Mason 1030 defeated), division ... 1036–37 Interim supply bills ... Mason 183 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Money bills ... Fraser 128 Workers Act, second reading, division ... 1037 Opposition members’ time for review ... Cooper 681, 722 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Questions under Standing Order 29(2)(a) See Standing Workers Act, second reading time allocation, motion Orders: SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under on (Mason: carried), division ... 1029 Referral to committee ... MacIntyre 727; McIver 727–28 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Referral to committee, amendments to standing orders Act, committee, amendment A1, subamendment SA2 See Committees of the Legislative Assembly: (Starke: defeated), division ... 1092 Referral of bills to, standing order amendments Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch (Government Motion 23: carried) Workers Act, committee, amendment A1 (Babcock: Second reading, content of speeches ... Deputy Speaker carried), division ... 1095 813; Speaker, The 820 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Technical briefings ... Fildebrandt 783 Workers Act, committee, amendment A7 (Starke: Time allotted for debate ... Jean 278; Notley 278 defeated), division ... 1108 Bills, government (current session) Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Information about any of the following bills may be Workers Act, committee, request to report bill, found by looking under the title of the bill. division ... 1108–9 Bill 1 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Bill 2 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An Workers Act, committee, time allocation on debate (Bill 2) (Government Motion 27: carried), division ... 1101 Bill 3 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3)

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Bills, government (current session) (continued) Bills, private members’ public (procedure) (continued) Bill 4 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Bill 204, Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015, third (Bill 4) reading (carried unanimously), division ... 890 Bill 5 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act Amendments, speaking procedure ... Chair 583; (Bill 5) Hanson 583 Bill 6 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Amendments by bill sponsor ... Orr 682–83 Workers Act (Bill 6) Amendments from government ... Cooper 681–82 Bill 7 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 Comparison with federal system ... Jean 1112 (Bill 7) Opposition members’ time for review ... Cooper 681 Bill 8 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Questions under Standing Order 29(2)(a) See Standing Bill 9 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Orders: SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under Bills, private members’ public (previous sessions, 1998) Referral to committee, amendments to standing orders Information about any of the following bills may be See Committees of the Legislative Assembly: found by looking under the title of the bill. Referral of bills to, standing order amendments Bill 19 Protection Against Family Violence Act (Bill (Government Motion 23: carried) 19, 1998) Second reading, content of speeches ... Deputy Speaker Bills, government (previous session, 2009) 813; Speaker, The 820 Information about any of the following bills may be Bills, private members’ public (current session) found by looking under the title of the bill. Information about any of the following bills may be Bill 19 Land Assembly Project Area Act (Bill 19, 2009) found by looking under the title of the bill. Bill 36 Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Bill 201 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Bill 50 Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50, 2009) Bill 202 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Bills, government (previous session, 2012) Bill 203 Election (Restrictions on Government Information about any of the following bills may be Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) found by looking under the title of the bill. Bill 204 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Bill 2 Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2012) 2015 (Bill 204) Bills, government (previous session, 2014) Bill 205 Persons with Developmental Disabilities Information about any of the following bills may be Services (Public Consultation) Amendment Act, 2015 found by looking under the title of the bill. (Bill 205) Bill 10 Employment Pension (Private Sector) Plans Bill 206 Recall Act (Bill 206) Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 10, 2014) Bills, private members’ public (previous sessions, 1996) Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Information about any of the following bills may be Bill 201, Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act, second found by looking under the title of the bill. reading, division ... 302 Bill 214 Victims of Domestic Violence Act (Bill 214, Bill 202, Alberta Local Food Act, second reading, 1996) division ... 404 Bills, private (procedure) Bill 202, Alberta Local Food Act, committee, Petitions presented See Petitions for Private Bills amendment A1 (Cortes-Vargas: carried), division ... (current session) 575–76 Second reading, content of speeches ... Deputy Speaker Bill 203, Election (Restrictions on Government 813; Speaker, The 820 Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015, motion that bill be withdrawn and subject matter referred to the Select Bills, private (current session) Special Ethics and Accountability Committee Information about any of the following bills may be (referral amendment A1) (Gray: carried) … 408–10 found by looking under the title of the bill. Bill 203, Election (Restrictions on Government Pr. 1 King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015, motion that bill The (Bill Pr. 1) be withdrawn and subject matter referred to the Select Pr. 2 Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 Special Ethics and Accountability Committee (Bill Pr. 2) (referral amendment A1) (Gray: carried), division ... Pr. 3 Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act (Bill Pr. 3) 410 Pr. 4 Canadian University College Amendment Act, Bill 203, referral motion A1 rescinded ... See Election 2015 (Bill Pr. 4) (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Pr. 5 Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203): Second reading, Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) motion that bill be withdrawn and subject matter Pr. 6 Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 referred to the Select Special Ethics and (Bill Pr. 6) Accountability Committee (referral amendment Pr. 7 Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 A1) (Gray: carried), motion to rescind (Bill Pr. 7) (Government Motion 24: carried) Bioenergy corporations Bill 203, Election (Restrictions on Government See Permolex International LLP Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015, referral to Ethics Bisexual persons and Accountability Committee after second reading See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons (Mason: carried) ... 477 Bill 204, Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Bitumen Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, Export of unprocessed bitumen ... Aheer 18; Notley 18 2015, bill to proceed directly to third reading Bitumen development (unanimous consent granted) ... Drever 884 See Oil sands development 12 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Bitumen royalty in kind (BRIK) program royalties Bridge maintenance and repair See Royalty structure (energy resources) Funding ... Mason 58, 170; Schneider 169; Strankman 58 Bitumen upgrading Local road bridge program ... Mason 101; van Dijken 101 North West project See North West Redwater Local road bridge program, funding from interim supply Partnership ... Mason 170; Schneider 169–70 Blackfalds (town) Rural bridges, funding ... Mason 58; Strankman 58 Registry services ... Bilous 171–72; Orr 171–72 BRIK (bitumen royalty in kind program) Blind persons’ service See Royalty structure (energy resources) See Persons with disabilities: Vision loss services Brooks (city) Blood First Nation Health facilities [See also Strathmore-Brooks Fentanyl use ... Ganley 444; Rodney 444 (constituency): Health facilities]; Hanson 177 Boards, government Kinsmen pro rodeo See Strathmore-Brooks See Government agencies, boards, and commissions (constituency): Rodeos Seniors’ housing See Seniors’ housing: Newell Boards of education Foundation proposal See School boards and districts Bobawsky, Phil Brownfield remediation Members’ statements ... Sucha 300–301 See Reclamation of land BOLT regional transit service Bryden, Philip See Public transit: Central Alberta service See Ministry of Energy: Deputy minister Book exchanges Budget 2015-2016 Little free library in Beddington Heights, members’ Deficit ... Jean 292–93; Notley 292–93 statements ... McPherson 127–28 Expert input into ... Hoffman 81; Swann 81 Forecast deficit ... Ceci 52, 124; Fildebrandt 51–52, Borrowing by government 107, 124; Jean 165; Notley 165 See Debts, public (provincial debt) Government intentions ... Hunter 345; Jean 381; Borstad, Elmer Elsworth (former Member for Grande Mason 345 Prairie) Government spending ... Ceci 51–52; Fildebrandt 51– See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Former 52, 107 MLA Elmer Elsworth Borstad, memorial tribute Human resource costs ... Bhullar 59; Ceci 59 Bott, Catriona, Jana, and Dara Implementing legislation See Appropriation Act, 2015 See Farm safety: Deaths, Catriona, Jana, and Dara (Bill 9) Bott Interim supply See Interim supply estimates 2015- Bottle Depot Association, Alberta 2016 (No. 1); Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 See Alberta Bottle Depot Association (No. 2) Bow River Members’ statements ... Aheer 340 Flood damage mitigation See Flood damage Operational funding, public service compensation See mitigation Public service: Cost of Bow Valley College Timeline ... Ceci 18, 53; Cooper 36; Fildebrandt 17– See Postsecondary education 18, 51, 53; Hoffman 36–37; Jean 13–14, 42; Mason Boyle (village) 110, 183; McIver 109–10; Nixon 182; Notley 14, Forest industries See Forest industries: Millar 42; Speech from the Throne 8; Swann 62, 81 Western Forest Products Budget 2015-2016 Address Boyle health care centre Address presented (Government Motion 13) ... Ceci Capital needs ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55–56 333–37 Boyle Street Community Services Budget 2015-2016 debate Streetworks program ... Shepherd 587 Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... Barnes Bragg Creek (hamlet) 554; Clark 550–52; Fildebrandt 456–58; Hanson Flood damage mitigation See Flood damage 552; Jean 381–88; McIver 458–59, 549–50; Starke mitigation 549; Swann 552–54 Debate participants (Government Motion 13), questions Brander Gardens ROCKS and comments ... Fildebrandt 458; Loewen 458; See Edmonton-Whitemud (constituency): Members’ Speaker, The 458 statements Budget debate procedure Breakfast programs in schools See Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) See School nutrition programs Budget documents Brentuximab See Cancer diagnosis and treatment Consolidated financial statements ... Ceci 52; Fildebrandt 512; Swann 513 Brewing industry Level of detail provided See Interim supply estimates Craft breweries ... Starke 308; Sucha 312; Westhead 308 2015-2016 (No. 2): Level of detail provided Markup rate changes ... Westhead 894 Preview by opposition caucuses (budget lock-up) ... Bridge construction Jean 293–94; Notley 293–94 Funding ... Mason 58; Strankman 58 Quarterly updates ... Ceci 708–9; Fildebrandt 708–9 Funding through tolls See Toll roads and bridges Rural bridges, funding for ... Mason 58; Strankman 58 2015 Hansard Subject Index 13

Budget process Calgary (city) (continued) Balanced/deficit budgets ... Ceci 333–35, 337; Clark Community associations See Killarney-Glengarry 131, 552; Cooper 350; Fildebrandt 130–31, 457, Community Association; Varsity Community 754–55; Jean 384, 387; Mason 350; McIver 458, Association 755–56; Smith 622–23 Community gardens ... Drever 401; Miranda 311 Interim supply [See also Appropriation (Interim Economic development ... Bilous 863–64 Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3)]; Bilous 68; Ceci Flood damage mitigation See Flood damage 18, 50, 52–53, 57, 59, 70–71; Cooper 70–71; mitigation Fildebrandt 17–18, 53; Hunter 65; Mason 59, 183; Job creation in ... Bilous 863–64; Panda 863–64 McIver 58–59; Starke 67–68; Strankman 57 Nonprofit organizations See Calgary Dream Centre; Public input ... Ceci 333 Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary; Nathan O’Brien Review of efficiencies ... Barnes 553–54; Swann 554 Children’s Foundation; Pathways Community Buildings, government Services Association Inclusion of daycare facilities See Daycare centres: School construction ... Eggen 172; Rodney 172 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender Other than Government Motion 502: carried) persons ... Feehan 697; Miranda 697 Bullet train feasibility Violent crimes See Workplace safety: Fatalities, See High-speed rail service members’ statements Volunteers See Bobawsky, Phil Bullying Gay, lesbian, and transgender students ... Sabir 470; Calgary, University of Sucha 470 See University of Calgary Prevention strategies ... Sabir 470; Sucha 469–70 Calgary-Acadia (constituency) Bullying Awareness Week Social service organizations See Calgary Dream Members’ statements ... Luff 548 Centre Burman University Calgary-Bow (constituency) See Postsecondary education Member’s personal and family history ... Drever 884; McLean 889 Burman University name change See Canadian University College Amendment Act, Calgary cancer centre 2015 (Bill Pr. 4) Completion ... Hoffman 422; Panda 421–22 Funding ... Ceci 336; Clark 343; Hoffman 372; Mason Buses 63; McIver 58; Notley 343; Swann 63; Turner 372 See Public transit Location in Foothills medical centre ... Bhullar 60; Bush fire prevention and control Hoffman 60 See Wildfire prevention and control Project status ... Barnes 55, 121; Hoffman 55; Notley 121 Business enterprise taxation Calgary Dream Centre See Corporate taxation Members’ statements ... Payne 48–49 Business enterprises Calgary-East (constituency) See Corporations Constituency history ... Luff 79 Business enterprises, small Member’s personal and family history ... Luff 79–80, See Small business 402 By-elections Overview ... Fraser 80; Luff 79 Ministerial announcements during ... Clark 33 Calgary-Elbow (constituency) Ministerial announcements during, law and legislation Constituency history ... Clark 106 See Election (Restrictions on Government Member’s personal and family history ... Clark 106 Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Calgary family shelters C train, Calgary See Inn from the Cold (homeless shelter) See Calgary Transit Calgary-Fish Creek (constituency) CAANS [See also Progressive Conservative opposition: See Central Alberta AIDS Network Society Members’ statements] Cabinet ministers Member’s personal and family history ... Gotfried 174– See Executive Council 75, 980 Cabinet ministers ministry Overview ... Gotfried 174–75 See Ministry of Executive Council Calgary-Foothills (constituency) Cabinet ministers’ statements By-election, 2015 ... Cooper 406 See Ministerial Statements (current session) Member’s personal and family history ... Panda 807 Presentation of new member to the Assembly ... Jean Calgary (city) 291; Speaker, The 291 2010 gas station spill, site remediation ... Drever 393; Phillips 393 Calgary-Glenmore (constituency) Aboriginal awareness initiatives See Aboriginal Member’s personal and family history ... Kazim 27 Awareness Week: Calgary activities Overview ... Kazim 27 Addiction treatment, men’s services See Simon House Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Recovery Centre [See also Progressive Conservative opposition: Addiction treatment, women’s services ... Clark 441; Members’ statements] Hoffman 441 Death of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Speaker, The Affordable housing ... Coolahan 368 591 Book exchanges See Book exchanges 14 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Calgary-Greenway (constituency) (continued) Calgary-Northern Hills (constituency) Death of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, motion to Member’s personal and family history ... Kleinsteuber adjourn Legislature for (Mason: carried) ... Cooper 898 591; Mason 593 Calgary public library Member’s personal and family history ... Bhullar 270 Fish Creek library 30th anniversary, members’ Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh statements ... Payne 301 Bhullar ... Deputy Speaker 620 Calgary residents Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Volunteers See Bobawsky, Phil Bhullar, members’ statements ... Ellis 607; Panda 606–7; Sabir 608 Calgary ring road Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Highway 8 corridor ... Ellis 712–13; Mason 712–13 Bhullar, ministerial statement ... Notley 597 Southwest portion, completion ... Mason 172; Rodney Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh 172 Bhullar, ministerial statement, responses ... Clark Southwest portion, funding ... McIver 58 599; Jean 597–98; McIver 598–99; Speaker, The Southwest portion, land agreement with Tsuut’ina First 599; Swann 599 Nation ... McIver 118 Naming of Federal Public Building for former member Southwest portion, public-private partnership (P3) proposed See Federal Public Building: Naming in contract ... Drever 294–95; Mason 295 honour of former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar Calgary schools proposed Elbow Park school rebuild See School construction: Parliamentary legacy of former MLA Manmeet Singh Elbow Park school rebuild Bhullar ... Fraser 601–2; Notley 602; Sabir 601–2 Evergreen middle school, project status ... Eggen 172; Calgary-Hawkwood (constituency) Rodney 172 Member’s personal and family history ... Connolly 26 Calgary-Shaw (constituency) Overview ... Connolly 36 Member’s personal and family history ... Malkinson Calgary-Hays (constituency) 558; Sucha 557–58 [See also Progressive Conservative opposition: Overview ... Sucha 557–58 Members’ statements] Calgary-South East (constituency) Member’s personal and family history ... McIver 743 [See also Progressive Conservative opposition: Calgary history Members’ statements] General remarks ... Gotfried 174 Member’s personal and family history ... Fraser 80, Calgary homeless persons 251 Nonprofit service organizations See Calgary Dream Calgary Stampeders Centre See Grey Cup Calgary homeless shelters Calgary trails See Inn from the Cold (homeless shelter) See Trails: Calgary to Cochrane trail Calgary hospitals Calgary Transit Foothills medical centre, location of cancer centre in Funding ... Ceci 336 See Calgary cancer centre: Location in Foothills General remarks ... Ceci 336; Dach 569; Mason 121, medical centre 569; McIver 121 Calgary Lions Club Festival of Lights GreenTRIP (green transit incentives program) funding See Lions Club: Calgary Festival of Lights ... Dach 569; Mason 569 Calgary-Lougheed (constituency) Light rail transit expansion, funding for ... Mason 121; See Progressive Conservative opposition: Members’ McIver 121 statements Calgary-Varsity (constituency) Member’s nomination as Deputy Chair of Committees Member’s nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: See Deputy Chair of Committees: Election, Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- nomination of Member for Calgary-Lougheed Varsity Member’s nomination as Deputy Speaker and Chair of Member’s personal and family history ... McLean 707; Committees See Deputy Speaker and Chair of Speaker, The 707 Committees: Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-West (constituency) Calgary-Lougheed [See also Progressive Conservative opposition: Member’s nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: Members’ statements] Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Member’s personal and family history ... Ellis 41 Lougheed Calgary Young Offender Centre Calgary-Mountain View (constituency) Decision to keep open ... Ganley 238, 445; Kleinsteuber Member’s personal and family history ... Swann 80–81, 238; Luff 444–45 802 Call centres Calgary nonprofit organizations See 211 information and referral telephone line See Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation Call centres for health information Calgary-North West (constituency) See Health Link See Progressive Conservative opposition: Members’ Campgrounds, provincial statements Camping and cottage lease fees ... Ceci 67; Starke 67 Member’s nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Campus Alberta North West See Postsecondary education 2015 Hansard Subject Index 15

Camrose Women’s Shelter CAODC Services for aboriginal women ... Hinkley 483 Forecasts for drilling operating days See Energy Canada-United States relations industries: Drilling operating days, forecasts for See International trade Capital for research and development Canada-United States trade agreements See Alberta Enterprise Corporation See United States-Canada trade agreements Capital plan Canada’s Walk of Fame Dodge report recommendations ... Barnes 121; Ceci Award recipients See Emeralds Show and Dance 336; Jean 342; Loewen 556; Mason 342; Notley Band 121; Turner 556 Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors Capital projects Forecasts for drilling operating days See Energy [See also School construction] industries: Drilling operating days, forecasts for Funding ... Ceci 336, 613; Clark 550, 552 Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Funding through borrowing See Debts, public Meeting with Executive Council See Executive (provincial debt) Council: Meeting with Canadian Association of Government announcements ... Bhullar 470–71; Ceci 336; Petroleum Producers Eggen 470–71; Mason 344, 471; Schneider 344 Government announcements during elections or by- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation elections See Elections, provincial: Government See CBC Edmonton spending announcements during Canadian energy strategy Inclusion of daycare facilities See Daycare centres: Council of the Federation discussions ... Aheer 166; Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Jean 428; Notley 166, 428 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) Canadian Food Inspection Agency Job creation ... McIver 466; Notley 466; Swann 553 See Food safety Prioritization ... Gray 47–48; Mason 47–48, 283; Canadian National Institute for the Blind Piquette 283; Swann 553 See CNIB Prioritization, publicly available information (“sunshine Canadian National Institute for the Blind volunteers list”) ... Clark 343; Cooper 187; Fildebrandt 281; See Bobawsky, Phil Hoffman 103, 281; Jean 342; Mason 101, 187, 344, 372–73, 494–95; Notley 342–43; Schneider 344, Canadian Senate 372–73, 494–95; Swann 553; Taylor 103; van Contributions to candidates, legislation on See Act to Dijken 101 Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Project management ... Mason 344; Schneider 344 Canadian Taxpayers Federation Projects listed but not contracted, 2007 to 2015 (Motion Debt clock ... Fildebrandt 84; Schmidt 84 for a Return 1: defeated) ... Cooper 680; Mason Letters of commendation to Member for Edmonton- 679–80; van Dijken 679–80 Highlands-Norwood ... Mason 85 Proposal evaluation ... Ceci 336 Canadian University College CAPP See Postsecondary education Meeting with Executive Council See Executive Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 Council: Meeting with Canadian Association of Petition presented for private bill ... McPherson 331 Petroleum Producers Private Bills Committee report presented, compliance Carbon capture and storage with standing orders ... McPherson 349 Funding ... Drysdale 374; Gotfried 648; Phillips 374, Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 648–49 (Bill Pr. 4) Law and legislation See Carbon Capture and Storage First reading ... Orr 377 Statutes Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Second reading ... Orr 905 Carbon Capture and Storage Statutes Amendment Act, Committee ... Chair 906 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Third reading ... Orr 1075; Schmidt 1075 Pore space ownership provisions ... Cooper 142, 327; Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House Hinkley 140; Mason 327; Stier 142–43 sitting) Carbon dioxide sequestration Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that See Carbon capture and storage bill proceed ... McPherson 673 Carbon levy Canadian Wheat Board [See also Climate change strategy] General remarks ... Nixon 180; Turner 179 Effectiveness ... MacIntyre 567; Phillips 567–68 Cancer centre in Calgary Funds spent in Alberta ... McIver 279; Notley 279 See Calgary cancer centre General remarks ... Aheer 547; Bilous 530, 568; Cancer centre in Grande Prairie Fildebrandt 568, 614–15, 880; Hanson 530; See Grande Prairie cancer centre Hoffman 525–26, 563–65, 568; Jean 464–65, 525– Cancer diagnosis and treatment 26, 540, 563–65, 633, 956; Loewen 566; MacIntyre Brentuximab approval, advocacy for ... Turner 179 496–97; McIver 571; Notley 465, 540, 880, 956; Capital funding ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55–56 Phillips 496–97, 566, 569–70; Rodney 570; Swann Comparison with other jurisdictions ... Turner 179 512, 636 Leukemia treatment, cellular therapy ... Yao 779–80 Impact on industry costs ... Notley 959; Orr 580; Screening programs ... Swann 69 Panda 959 Support for patients, charitable organizations See Impact on northern Alberta ... Hanson 1047; Hoffman Haying in the 30’s 1047

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Carbon levy (continued) CEO Impact on rural communities ... Fraser 714; Phillips See Chief Electoral Officer 714; Starke 615 Certificates of election Impact on small business ... Jean 600; Notley 600 See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Implementation cost ... Gotfried 648; MacIntyre 712; Certificates of election Phillips 648, 712 CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) Increase ... Jean 277; Notley 278; van Dijken 265 See Food safety Members’ statements ... Aheer 572 Point of order on debate ... Bilous 573; Hanson 572– Chair of Committees 73; Speaker, The 573 Election See Deputy Speaker and Chair of Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, First Committees: Election Nations, etc. ... Bilous 570; Cyr 569–70; McIver Chair of Committees, Deputy 957; Notley 957; Phillips 570; Rodney 570 See Deputy Chair of Committees Repeal proposed ... Ceci 882; Smith 882 Chamber (Legislative Assembly) Revenue utilization ... Bilous 569, 570; Clark 637; Cyr Cellphone use in ... Speaker, The 737 570; Drysdale 569; Fraser 647; Gotfried 778; Members’ entrance and exit procedure ... Speaker, The 435 Hoffman 564; Jean 564, 634, 641–42, 876; Loewen Champion schools 670; MacIntyre 629; Mason 647; McCuaig-Boyd See Hope Christian school 778; McIver 957; Notley 641–42, 876, 957–58; Change, social Phillips 670 See Social change Career development ministry Charitable organizations See Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour See Nonprofit organizations Carewest Garrison Green (Calgary long-term care Charity facility) Members’ statements ... Orr 435–36 Standard of care ... Hoffman 374; Yao 374 Charter for seniors proposed Caribou See Seniors’ charter Habitat protection, public consultation ... Drysdale 883; Mason 883 Charter schools Funding ... Eggen 19, 64; Jansen 18–19 CAs (constituency associations) Corporate and union donations, legislation on See Act Chestermere-Rocky View (constituency) to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Member’s personal and family history ... Aheer 189, Loan repayments to corporations and unions See Act to 812, 898–99 Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1): Interim Overview ... Aheer 29 financing provisions (loan repayments to Chief Electoral Officer corporations and unions) Consultation on Bill 1 ... Ganley 10 Castle special management area Chief Electoral Officer’s office Land-use consultation ... Carlier 530; Stier 530, 715 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Protected area designation ... Fraser 531; Phillips 471, Chair 74 531; Westhead 471 Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 Timber allocation cancellation ... Carlier 420, 530; Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly Fraser 329; Phillips 329; Stier 530; Strankman 420 ... Speaker, The 333 Catholic Social Services Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 See Immigrants: Integration services Child and family services Cattle See Family and community support services Age verification system See Livestock industry: Child and family support centres Traceability programs See Terra Child and Family Support Centre CBC Amendment Act, 2015 Child and Youth Advocate Act amendments See Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 Law and legislation See Public Sector Compensation (Bill Pr. 6) Transparency Act (Bill 5) CBC Radio Edmonton Child and Youth Advocate’s office Turkey drive, members’ statements ... Schmidt 875 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... CCS Chair 75 Law and legislation See Carbon Capture and Storage Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 Statutes Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly ... Speaker, The 333 CDM Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 See Chronic disease management Child benefit program Central Alberta Implementation ... Ceci 381 Public transit See Public transit: Central Alberta service Child care centres Water/waste-water treatment See Water/waste-water See Daycare centres treatment: Infrastructure needs, Lacombe-Ponoka Child Day, National (constituency) See National Child Day Central Alberta AIDS Network Society Child development General remarks ... Miller 585 Early childhood mapping project ... Swann 69 Members’ statements ... Miller 571 Funding, early childhood program ... Sabir 68–69; Swann 68 2015 Hansard Subject Index 17

Child farm workers Clark, Robert See Children; Farm workers Performance of God Save the Queen See God Save the Child intervention services Queen See Child protective services Performance of O Canada See O Canada Child mental health services Class size (elementary and secondary schools) Funding ... Jansen 603–4; Sabir 604 Funding ... Connolly 63–64; Eggen 63–64 Child protective services Clayton, Jill, office of Child intervention system, 5-point plan ... Drysdale See Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office 601; Sabir 601 Clearwater College Deaths of children in care, inquiries ... Pitt 279; Sabir Name change, legislation on See Living Faith Bible 279 College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 7) Deaths of children in care, removal of publication ban ... Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Jansen 603; Sabir 602–3 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement ... Mason Funding ... Sabir 65; Sweet 65 1040–41 Oversight ... Pitt 279; Sabir 279 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement, responses Child sexual abuse advocates ... Barnes 1041; Clark 1042; Speaker, The 1041, See Kennedy, Sheldon 1042; Starke 1041–42; Swann 1042 Childbirth care Climate change and emissions management fund See Midwifery services Fund utilization ... Fraser 469; Phillips 469 Childhood immunization Management of contributions See Carbon levy: Funds See Immunization of children spent in Alberta Children Climate change strategy Introduction in the Assembly ... Speaker, The 12 Carbon tax component See Carbon levy Children’s advocate’s office Clean technology incentives ... Swann 636 See Child and Youth Advocate’s office Energy company response ... Hoffman 771–72; Jean 771–72 Children’s mental health services Energy company response, point of order on debate ... See Child mental health services Cooper 781; Mason 781; Speaker, The 781 Children’s services Federal strategy ... Aheer 1043–44; Fraser 1046; See Child protective services Notley 1044, 1046–47 China Alberta Petroleum Centre General remarks ... Ceci 334; Hoffman 564–65; Jean General remarks ... McCuaig-Boyd 500 564–65, 600; McIver 279, 565; Notley 279–80, 600; CHR Turner 627 See Corporate human resources Impact on aboriginal communities ... Ganley 711; Christcity Theological Institute Phillips 711; Rodney 711 See Postsecondary education Impact on economic development ... Coolahan 647–48; Fitzpatrick 671; Phillips 647–48, 671 Christcity Theological Institute name change Impact on energy industries ... McCuaig-Boyd 1045; See Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 Miller 1045 (Bill Pr. 2) Implementation cost ... Fraser 714; Loewen 566–67; Christian schools Phillips 567, 714 See Private schools Implementation cost to farmers ... Fraser 714; Phillips Chronic disease management 714 Funding ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55 Members’ statements ... Hinkley 715–16; MacIntyre Chronic disease prevention 570–71; McIver 571 See Health promotion Methane reduction component ... Phillips 567; Starke CIA (Conflicts of Interest Act) 567 See Conflicts of Interest Act National strategy ... Jean 540; Notley 540 Review [See also Energy industries and environment: Cigarettes Review]; Clark 527–28; Fraser 469; Phillips 469, See Tobacco products 495, 528; Starke 495 CIP Review, submissions received ... Phillips 497 See Community initiatives program Review panel recommendations ... Anderson, S. 689– CIT (corporate income tax) 90; Fraser 1046; Notley 1046; Phillips 687–88 See Corporate taxation CNIB Cities and towns Funding ... Hoffman 527; McIver 527 Greenhouse gas mitigation funding See Municipal Members’ statements ... Babcock 874 Climate Change Action Centre CNIB volunteers Provincial water/waste-water program See See Bobawsky, Phil Water/waste-water treatment CO2 sequestering Cities and towns finance See Carbon capture and storage See Municipal finance Coal-fired electric power plants Civil service See Electric power plants: Coal-fired facilities See Public service Coal mines and mining See Grande Cache Coal 18 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Coalhurst (town) Committee on Families and Communities, Standing Access road, funding for upgrade ... Mason 170; (continued) Schneider 170 Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not moved) Cochrane trails ... Mason 456 See Trails: Calgary to Cochrane trail Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) Cold Lake roads ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 See Highway 28 Membership changes (Government Motion 20: carried) ... Mason 378–79 Collective Bargaining Act, Public Education Mental Health Amendment Act, 2007, referred to See See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill Mental Health Amendment Act, 2007: Referral to 8) Standing Committee on Families and College of Art and Design Communities (Government Motion 10: carried) See Postsecondary education Referral motion on Bill 8 See Public Education Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8): Second reading, See Postsecondary education motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Combined low-expenditure tax assessment (CLEA) Committee (referral amendment RA1) (Cooper: See Property tax: Linear property assessment defeated) Commissions, government Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and See Government agencies, boards, and commissions business plans, amendments tabled for ministries of Education and Service Alberta ... Sweet 609 Committee of Supply Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Assembly resolution into (Government Motion 5: business plans for ministries of Culture and Tourism, carried) ... Mason 23 Education, Health, Human Services, Justice and Division bells See Divisions (procedure) Solicitor General, Seniors, Service Alberta, and Committee of the Whole Assembly Status of Women ... Sweet 609 Assembly resolution into to consider bills (Government Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing Motion 4: carried) ... Mason 23 [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly] Procedure (dress code, refreshments permitted, Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: members’ requirement to sit in own seats) ... Chair carried) ... Mason 22 242, 246 Membership, chair, and deputy chair changes Procedure for divisions See Divisions (procedure) (Government Motion 20: carried) ... Mason 378–79 Question put in committee ... Chair 161 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, Standing ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly; Committee on Members’ Services, Special Standing Legislative policy committees] [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly] Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: carried) ... Mason 22 carried) ... Mason 22 Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not moved) Independence, point of privilege raised See Privilege ... Mason 456 (current session): Obstructing a member in Membership and chair changes (Government Motion performance of duty (Budget Address remarks 20: carried) ... Mason 378–79 about Executive Council, MLA, and political staff Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) compensation) ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) Personal Information Protection Act referral to See ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 Personal Information Protection Act: Referral to Membership changes (Government Motion 20: carried) Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic ... Mason 378–79 Future (Government Motion 12: carried) Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Committee on Private Bills, Standing business plans, amendments tabled for ministries of [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly] Agriculture and Forestry and Infrastructure ... Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Miranda 609 carried) ... Mason 22 Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) business plans for Executive Council and ministries ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 of Advanced Education, Agriculture and Forestry, Membership and deputy chair changes (Government Economic Development and Trade, Infrastructure, Motion 20: carried) ... Mason 378–79 and Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour ... Miranda Report presented on bills Pr. 1 and Pr. 5, 609 recommendation that bills proceed with amendments, proposed amendments tabled ... McPherson 673 Committee on Ethics and Accountability, Select Special Report presented on bills Pr. 1 to Pr. 7, compliance with See Committees of the Legislative Assembly; Ethics standing orders ... McPherson 349 and Accountability Committee, Select Special Report presented on bills Pr. 2, Pr. 3, Pr. 4, Pr. 6, and Pr. Committee on Families and Communities, Standing 7, recommendation that bills proceed ... McPherson [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly; 673 Legislative policy committees] Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Orders and Printing, Standing carried) ... Mason 22 [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly] Consideration of sexual health education curriculum Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: proposed ... Eggen 776–77; Jansen 776 carried) ... Mason 22

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Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Committees of the Legislative Assembly Orders and Printing, Standing (continued) General remarks ... Speaker, The 449 Membership and chair changes (Government Motion Oral Question Period questions to chairs ... Speaker, The 20: carried) ... Mason 378–79 650 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) Referral of bills to, standing order amendments ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 (Government Motion 23: carried) ... Cooper 449; Review of morning sittings of the Assembly proposed ... Mason 448–49; Phillips 448–49 Mason 357 Schedule change resulting from death of former MLA Review of morning sittings of the Legislative Assembly, Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Gotfried 606 motion on See Standing Orders: Amendments Commodities, primary (sitting time and sessional calendar, division bell Agricultural commodities See Farm produce timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, Energy commodities See Energy resources estimates debate time and procedure, Committee Producers, members’ statements ... van Dijken 446 on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Printing to review morning sittings of the General remarks ... Jabbour 779 Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments) Communities and Families, Standing Committee on See Committee on Families and Communities, Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Standing [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly] Appearance of Justice and Solicitor General ministry Community associations proposed See Ministry of Justice and Solicitor See Killarney-Glengarry Community Association; General: Appearance before Public Accounts Varsity Community Association Committee proposed Community centres Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: See Meadows community recreation centre and carried) ... Mason 22 library; South Pointe community centre Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) Community development ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 General remarks ... Bilous 606; Gotfried 606 Report on 2014 activities presented ... Fildebrandt 866 Community development, rural Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing See Rural development [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly; Community gardens Legislative policy committees] General remarks ... Drever 401 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Vista Heights container food garden ... Miranda 311 carried) ... Mason 22 Community initiatives program Bill 4 referral to in second reading, motion on See Act Projects funded ... Eggen 604; McIver 604 to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An Community paramedic program, Calgary (Bill 4): Second reading, motion to refer bill to See Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.): Resource Stewardship Committee (referral First responder scope of practice amendment A1) (Cooper: defeated) Community resilience program, Alberta Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not moved) See Alberta community resilience program ... Mason 456 Community support services program Membership and chair changes (Government Motion See Family and community support services 20: carried) ... Mason 378–79 Community supports ministry Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) See Ministry of Human Services ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 Compensation Transparency Act, Public Sector Property Rights Advocate 2014 annual report referred to See Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act committee (Government Motion 21: carried) ... (Bill 5) Mason 379 Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Complainant protection legislation business plans, amendments tabled for ministries of Amendments, law and legislation See Public Sector Transportation and Treasury Board and Finance ... Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Goehring 609 Review by select special committee See Ethics and Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Accountability Committee, Select Special business plans for ministries of Aboriginal Relations, Concordia University College of Alberta Energy, Environment and Parks, Municipal Affairs, See Postsecondary education Transportation, and Treasury Board and Finance ... Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Goehring 609 Act, 2015 Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Petition presented for private bill ... McPherson 331 Fund, Standing Private Bills Committee report presented, compliance [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly] with standing orders ... McPherson 349 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment carried) ... Mason 22 Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Mason) First reading ... McLean 377 ... Clark 23; Mason 22–23 Second reading ... Mason 905; McLean 905 Membership changes (Government Motion 20: carried) Committee ... Cooper 906; Schmidt 906 ... Mason 378–79 Committee, amendment A1 (degree programs) Committees, Deputy Chair of (Schmidt/McLean: carried) ... McLean 906; Schmidt See Deputy Chair of Committees 906 20 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Corporate human resources Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) (continued) Funding ... Bhullar 59; Ceci 59 Third reading ... Dach 1076; Jabbour 1076; McLean Corporate Tax Act amendment 1076; Schmidt 1076 See Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House (Bill 2) sitting) Corporate taxation Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that Carbon tax See Carbon levy bill proceed with amendments, proposed amendments Collection of taxes administered by province ... Notley tabled ... McPherson 673 325; Swann 325 Condom use by sex workers and injection drug users Collection of taxes in arrears ... Ceci 380; Fildebrandt See Health promotion: High-risk behaviour 108; Hanson 329; Larivee 329; Notley 325; Swann Condominium property regulation (Alberta Regulation 325 168/2000) Collection of taxes in arrears, Auditor General’s Review ... Larivee 962; Shepherd 962 recommendations ... Swann 188 Conflict of interest commissioner Comparison with other jurisdictions ... Clark 261; See Ethics Commissioner Fildebrandt 191; Jean 120, 165; Nixon 261; Notley Conflicts of Interest Act 120, 165 Breaches under the act ... Clark 406–7 Definition of small and large business ... Ceci 73; McIver 73 Conflicts of Interest Act amendments Flat-tax rate ... Cooper 265–66; Fildebrandt 190, 192; Law and legislation See Public Sector Compensation Shepherd 185; Strankman 192 Transparency Act (Bill 5) Impact on employment rate ... Jean 493–94; McIver Conflicts of Interest Act review committee 466; Notley 466, 493–94; Swann 554 See Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Increase ... Aheer 189, 260–61; Bhullar 45, 126; Ceci Special 43, 45–46, 282, 334; Clark 637; Cooper 282; Conservation of the environment Gotfried 262–63; Hanson 183–84; Hunter 395; See Environmental protection Jean 120, 268; McIver 15, 43, 459; Notley 15, 120, Conservative opposition, Progressive 126; Sigurdson 395; Starke 268; Swann 82, van See Opposition caucuses; Progressive Conservative Dijken 265 opposition Increase, impact on employment ... Ceci 169; Gotfried Consolidated financial statements 169; McIver 270–71; van Dijken 189–90 See Budget documents: Consolidated financial Increase, implementation cost ... MacIntyre 712; statements Phillips 712 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Consort hospital and care centre Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Road access ... Hoffman 58; Strankman 58 and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4); Act to Restore Constituency associations Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Corporate and union donations, legislation on See Act Official Opposition position ... Cooper 49 to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Premier’s remarks in news media, 2012 ... Ceci 244; Loan repayments to corporations and unions See Act to Fildebrandt 243 Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1): Interim Progressive tax proposed ... Hunter 185; Shepherd financing provisions (loan repayments to 185–86; Smith 185 corporations and unions) Provincial tax rate ... Cooper 188; Jean 632–33, 635; Constituency offices Swann 187–89 Staffing process, new NDP MLAs ... Jansen 281–82; Revenue ... Loewen 263 Notley 281–82 Revenue, comparison with other jurisdictions ... Constituency weeks (Legislative Assembly calendar) Fildebrandt 192; Nixon 192 See Legislative Assembly of Alberta: Constituency Revenue forecast ... Ceci 250–51; McIver 15, 244; week starting November 9, 2015 Notley 15; Starke 250 Consultation policies, government Corporations See Government policies: Consultation policies [See also Crêpe and Shake Café; Entrepreneurship; Consumer affairs ministry Freson Bros.; Greenmunch] See Ministry of Service Alberta Access to capital ... Clark 637 Capital available to small and medium-sized businesses Container recycling associations ... Ceci 335 See Alberta Bottle Depot Association Contributions to political parties, legislation on [See Contingency account also Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill Fund utilization ... Ceci 926; Fildebrandt 754–55, 1)]; Ganley 19; Miranda 19 912–13; Rodney 757; Starke 616 Contributions to political parties, other jurisdictions ... Limits proposed See Act to Implement Various Tax Cyr 31 Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Job creation See Job creation Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Committee, Locomotive fuel costs See Taxation: Locomotive fuel amendment A2 (contingency account use) tax (Fildebrandt: defeated) Corporations, small Cooper, Bo See Small business Members’ statements ... Yao 779–80 Correction centre for youth in Calgary Cornerstone Youth Centre See Calgary Young Offender Centre Members’ statements ... Luff 472–73 2015 Hansard Subject Index 21

Correctional facilities Crown prosecutors See Prisons Access to information on traffic fatalities ... Drever Council of the Federation 958; Ganley 958 Energy strategy discussions See Canadian energy Funding ... Ellis 433; Ganley 433 strategy: Council of the Federation discussions Crude, synthetic Counselling services See Bitumen See Mental health services Crude, synthetic, development Country of origin labelling on meat See Oil sands development See Meat: United States mandatory country of origin Crude, synthetic, upgrading labelling North West Project See North West Redwater County Clothes-Line Foundation Partnership Members’ statements ... Cortes-Vargas 571–72; CUC Amendment Act, 2015 McKitrick 49 See Canadian University College Amendment Act, Court decision on refugee health care 2015 (Bill Pr. 4) See Health care: Coverage for refugees and refugee Culinary tourism claimants See Tourism: Culinary tourism Court of Queen’s Bench Cultural industries Number of justices ... Ellis 432–33; Ganley 432–33 See Arts and culture Coutts water supply Culture and Tourism ministry See Water management: Milk River and Coutts See Ministry of Culture and Tourism water supply Curricula Covenant Bible College See Educational curricula See Postsecondary education CWB Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 See Canadian Wheat Board Petition presented for private bill ... McPherson 331 CYA’s office Private Bills Committee report presented, compliance See Child and Youth Advocate’s office with standing orders ... McPherson 349 Cyberbullying Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 6) See Bullying First reading ... Fildebrandt 377 Second reading ... Fildebrandt 905 Cycling awareness events Committee ... Chair 906 See Bike Month Third reading ... Cooper 1076; Fildebrandt 1076; Cypress-Medicine Hat (constituency) Fraser 1076 Agriculture ... Barnes 313 Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House Dairies sitting) See Vermilion-Lloydminster (constituency): Dairies Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that Day homes, private bill proceed ... McPherson 673 See Daycare in private homes Creative industries Daycare See Arts and culture 24-hour service ... Jansen 468; Sabir 468 Credit rating of province Affordability ... Piquette 328; Sabir 68, 328; Swann 68 See Debts, public (provincial debt): Provincial credit Health Sciences Association of Canada petition rating presented ... Jabbour 240 Crêpe and Shake Café New Democratic Party campaign platform ($25 per day Members’ statements ... Anderson, S. 284–85 cost) ... Jansen 468; Sabir 468 Crime victims’ fund Spaces ... Piquette 329; Sabir 329 See Victims of crime fund Daycare centres Crimes, violent Inclusion in new government buildings ... Jansen 468; See Violent crimes; Workplace safety: Fatalities, Mason 468 members’ statements Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Anderson, Criminal Code Drunk-driving penalties ... Ellis 124–25; Ganley 125 S. 316; Cortes-Vargas 313–14, 319; Ellis 316–17; Section 263(1), duty to guard a hole made in ice ... Fitzpatrick 318; Hunter 315; Jansen 315; Luff 317; Loewen 324; Phillips 324 Mason 316; McIver 318–19; McKitrick 317; Pitt 314–15; Sucha 318; van Dijken 318 Crop insurance Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Other See Agricultural insurance than Government Motion 502: carried), division ... Crowfoot Village Family Practice 319 Funding ... Hoffman 1048; Jansen 1048 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Other Crown-controlled organizations than Government Motion 502: carried), point of order Reserve fund use See Act to Implement Various Tax on debate ... Cooper 316; Mason 316; Speaker, The Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and 316 Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Committee, Daycare in private homes amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per cent limit on Accreditation ... Piquette 328; Sabir 328 in-year operating expense increase) Death of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar Crown lands used for grazing See Calgary-Greenway (constituency): Death of See Grazing lands, public MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar 22 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Deaths in accidents Dementia See Sommerfeld, Jaydon; Stover, Vincent Telephone support See Health Link: 811 phone line Deaths in workplaces dementia support See Workplace safety: Fatalities Democracy Deaths of children in care Personal choice and responsibility ... Cooper 49 See Child protective services Democracy, parliamentary Deaths of former MLAs, Speaker’s statements on See Parliamentary democracy See Speaker’s statements Democracy in Alberta, An Act to Renew Deaths of police officers See Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) See Speaker’s statements: Death of Constable Ezio Dene remarks in the Assembly Faraone; Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton See Legislative Assembly of Alberta: Dene remarks police officer killed on duty); Wynn, Constable Dental Association and College, Alberta David (RCMP officer killed on duty) See Alberta Dental Association and College Deaths on farms Dentists See Farm safety: Deaths Fees for services, publication of ... Hoffman 878; Debtors’ Assistance Act amendments Swann 878 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Department of Aboriginal Relations Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning See Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Department of Advanced Education Debts, private See Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry Student loans See Student financial aid from October 22, 2015); Ministry of innovation (postsecondary students) and advanced education (ministry to October 22, Debts, public (provincial debt) 2015) Debt repayment ... Barnes 554; Cooper 515–16; Department of Agriculture and Forestry Hanson 515; Jean 632; McIver 342–43, 617–18, See Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 629–30; Notley 343; Swann 512, 554, 636 Department of Culture and Tourism Debt-servicing costs ... Aheer 506–7; Clark 504–5; See Ministry of Culture and Tourism Fildebrandt 502, 512; Hanson 508; Stier 507–8; Swann 512 Department of Economic Development and Trade Forecasts, 2015-2016 ... Fildebrandt 51–52, 107 See Ministry of Economic Development and Trade General remarks ... Barnes 136; Ceci 419; Clark 419; (new ministry from October 22, 2015) Cooper 112; Fildebrandt 84, 456–57; Jean 293, Department of Education 341–42; Notley 293, 341–42, 419; Schmidt 84; Smith See Ministry of Education 112–13, 398 Department of Energy Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various See Ministry of Energy Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Department of Environment and Parks and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) See Ministry of Environment and Parks Net financial assets, 2015-2016 forecast ... Ceci 52 Department of Executive Council Provincial borrowing ... Ceci 335, 638; Starke 764 See Executive Council; Ministry of Executive Provincial borrowing during economic downturn Council (countercyclical spending) ... Ceci 666; Fildebrandt 627–28; Horne 666; MacIntyre 629; Turner 626–27 Department of Health Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... Clark 551, See Ministry of Health 637; Drever 631; Fildebrandt 513; Hanson 514; Department of Human Services Malkinson 513; Mason 532, 628–29; McIver 630, See Ministry of Human Services 763; Schneider 532 Department of Infrastructure Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... Aheer See Ministry of Infrastructure 506–7; Clark 551, 637; Drever 631; Hanson 514; Department of international and intergovernmental Jean 381–82; Loewen 556; MacIntyre 629; Nixon relations 556; Swann 512 See Ministry of international and intergovernmental Provincial borrowing for operational funding, law and relations (ministry to October 22, 2015) legislation See Act to Implement Various Tax Department of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and See Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Transparency Act, An (Bill 4); Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act Department of Justice and Solicitor General Provincial borrowing limit ... Ceci 335, 379–80; See Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Fildebrandt 502; McIver 342–43; Notley 343; Department of Municipal Affairs Schneider 503 See Ministry of Municipal Affairs Provincial borrowing limit, law and legislation See Act Department of Seniors to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact See Ministry of Seniors the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An Department of Service Alberta (Bill 4) See Ministry of Service Alberta Provincial credit rating ... Ceci 380, 666, 709; Clark Department of Status of Women 504–5, 762; Fildebrandt 708–9; Hanson 508; Horne See Ministry of Status of Women 666; Jean 293, 341–42, 383, 637; MacIntyre 505, 509; Notley 293, 341–42; Schneider 504; Stier 507– Department of Transportation 8; Taylor 505, 508, 511 See Ministry of Transportation 2015 Hansard Subject Index 23

Department of Treasury Board and Finance Divisions (procedure) (continued) See Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance Shortening bell intervals in Committee of the Whole ... Deputy Chair of Committees Chair 87–88; Mason 87–88 Election ... Speaker, The 5 Timing of bells ... Mason 357 Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-Lougheed Timing of bells, motion to change See Standing ... McIver 5; Rodney 5 Orders: Amendments (sitting time and sessional Election, Speaker’s statement ... Speaker, The 21–22 calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting Election of Mr. Feehan, Member for Edmonton- changes in ministries, estimates debate time and Rutherford ... Clerk, The 5; Cooper 5–6; Feehan 5, procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, 6; Gray 5; Mason 6; Speaker, The 6 Standing Orders and Printing to review morning Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: Election ... Speaker, The 4 carried with amendments) Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-Lougheed Divisions (recorded votes) ... Rodney 4; Starke 4 Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, Election of Ms Jabbour, Member for Peace River ... committee amendment A1 (Cyr: defeated) ... 90 Chair 4–5; Jabbour 4, 5; Shepherd 4 Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, Development, rural committee amendment A3, subamendment A1 See Rural development (Ganley: carried unanimously) ... 155 Developmental disabilities, persons with Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, third See Persons with developmental disabilities reading (carried unanimously) ... 158–59 Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, Developmental disabilities, programs for persons with second reading, motion to not now read (6-month See Persons with developmental disabilities program hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 227 Diabetes Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, Members’ statements ... Westhead 500–501 committee, amendment A1 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Dialysis 250 See Kidney dialysis Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, Dignitaries, introduction of committee, amendment A4 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... See Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) 256–57 Dirks, Gordon Bill 2, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, See Ministry of Education: Former minister third reading ... 271 Disabled persons Bill 3, Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. See Persons with developmental disabilities 2), second reading ... 114 program; Persons with disabilities Bill 3, Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2), committee, question put ... 161 Disabled persons, programs for Bill 3, Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. See Persons with developmental disabilities program 2), third reading ... 213 Disaster management Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and See Emergency management; Flood damage to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, mitigation committee, amendment A2 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Disaster recovery program 759 2013 floods ... Bilous 61, 122; Clark 61; Drever 122; Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and Fraser 100–101; Phillips 100–101 to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, 2013 floods, outstanding claims ... Anderson, W. 297; committee, amendment A3 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Bilous 122; Drever 122; Larivee 297 763–64 Funding for aboriginal communities See Aboriginal Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and communities: Flood recovery funding to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Review ... Anderson, W. 297; Larivee 297 committee, amendment A4 (Starke: defeated) ... 767 Disclosure of information Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Public-sector compensation, legislation on See Public committee, amendment A5 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) 797 Diseases, chronic, management Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and See Chronic disease management to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Diseases, chronic, prevention committee, amendment A6 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... See Health promotion 849 Diseases of the eye Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and See Eye diseases to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Distracted driving committee, amendment A7 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... Convictions from tickets issued, 2011 to 2015 (Written 870 Question 4: carried as amended) ... Cyr 677–78 Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and Violation tickets issued, 2011 to 2015 (Written Question to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, 4: carried as amended) ... Mason 677–78 committee, amendment A8 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 919 Divisions (procedure) Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and Division bells in Committee of Supply ... Chair 609, to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, 909, 912; Mason 912; Swann 909 committee, amendment A9 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 923 24 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Divisions (recorded votes) (continued) Divisions (recorded votes) (continued) Bill 4, An Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and Bill 204, Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, third reading ... 930 2015, third reading (carried unanimously) ... 890 Bill 5, Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act, Government Motion 19, standing order amendments second reading (carried unanimously) ... 659–60 (sitting time and sessional calendar; division bell Bill 5, Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act, timing; changes reflecting ministry name changes; committee, amendment A5 (McIver: defeated) ... 792 estimates debate time and procedure; Committee on Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Workers Act, second reading, referral amendment R1 Printing to review morning sittings of the Assembly) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1030 (Mason: carried with amendments), amendment A1, Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch motion to adjourn debate (Schmidt: carried) ... 365 Workers Act, second reading, motion that bill be not Legislative Assembly Office, interim supply estimates now read (6-month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... 74 defeated) ... 1036–37 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch 2016 vote ... 611–12 Workers Act, second reading ... 1037 Main estimates 2015-2016, Agriculture and Forestry Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch ministry, amendment A1 (minister’s office budget Workers Act, second reading time allocation, motion reduction) (Hanson: defeated) ... 609–10 on (Mason: carried) ... 1029 Main estimates 2015-2016, Education ministry, Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch amendment A2 (minister’s office budget reduction) Workers Act, committee, amendment A1 (Babcock: (Smith: defeated) ... 610 carried) ... 1095 Main estimates 2015-2016, Infrastructure ministry, Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch amendment A3 (minister’s office budget reduction) Workers Act, committee, amendment A1, (Hunter: defeated) ... 610 subamendment SA2 (private insurance provisions) Main estimates 2015-2016, Service Alberta ministry, (Starke: defeated) ... 1092 amendment A4 (minister’s office budget reduction) Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch (W. Anderson: defeated) ... 610–11 Workers Act, committee, amendment A7 (Starke: Main estimates 2015-2016, Transportation ministry, defeated) ... 1108 amendment A5 (minister’s office budget reduction) Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch (Aheer: defeated) ... 611 Workers Act, committee, request to report bill ... Main estimates 2015-2016, Treasury Board and Finance 1108–9 ministry, amendment A6 (minister’s office budget Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch reduction) (Stier: defeated) ... 611 Workers Act, time allocation on debate, Committee Motion Other than Government Motion 502, daycare of the Whole (Government Motion 27: carried) ... facility inclusion in new government buildings 1101 (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 319 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Treasury Board and Finance interim supply estimates Workers Act, third reading ... 1126 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... 75–76 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Diwali Workers Act, third reading, motion that bill be not Members’ statements ... Panda 368 now read (6-month hoist) ... 1126 Doctors Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch See Physicians Workers Act, third reading, time allocation on debate (Government Motion 28: carried) ... 1119 Dodge, David A. Bill 7, Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015, Recommendations to government on capital plan See second reading ... 704 Capital plan: Dodge report recommendations Bill 8, Public Education Collective Bargaining Act, Domestic violence second reading, referral amendment RA1 (Cooper: Family violence prevention month, members’ defeated) ... 733 statements ... Pitt 416 Bill 8, Public Education Collective Bargaining Act, Housing-related issues, law and legislation See third reading ... 1007–8 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, second reading ... 618 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, committee, agreement 204) to clauses ... 631 Program funding ... Goehring 419–20; Sabir 420 Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, third reading ... 638 Down syndrome Bill 201, Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act, second Members’ statements ... Renaud 399 reading ... 302 Dragonfly Festival, Wabamun Bill 202, Alberta Local Food Act, second reading ... 404 See Wabamun (village): Dragonfly Festival Bill 202, Alberta Local Food Act, committee, Drayton Valley-Devon (constituency) amendment A1 (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 575–76 Member’s personal and family history ... Smith 28, Bill 203, Election (Restrictions on Government 829–30 Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015, second reading, Overview ... Smith 28 motion that bill be withdrawn and subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics and Drilling Contractors, Canadian Association of Oilwell Accountability Committee (referral amendment A1) Forecasts for drilling operating days See Energy (Gray: carried) ... 410 industries: Drilling operating days, forecasts for

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Driver safety Economic development See Traffic safety [See also Job creation] Driving distracted Diversification ... Bilous 422, 446; Ceci 282, 333–36, See Distracted driving 613, 958; Cooper 282; Gotfried 422, 543; McCuaig- Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs Boyd 543; McIver 418–19, 429, 458; Notley 418– See Impaired driving 19, 429; Payne 958; Sigurdson 170–71; Starke 170– 71, 445; Swann 553–54 Drought Diversification, agriculture See Farm produce: Assistance to farmers and ranchers ... Anderson, S. Product diversification 325–26; Carlier 296, 325–26, 531; Ceci 334; Diversification, food industry and trade See Food Cortes-Vargas 531; Starke 296 Impact on agriculture ... Carlier 57; Strankman 57 industry and trade: Diversification Diversification, forest industries See Forest industries: Drought damage mitigation Diversification Members’ statements ... Swann 96 Forecasts ... Ceci 958; Payne 958 DRP General remarks ... Smith 264 See Disaster recovery program Government role ... Bilous 863–64; Cooper 265–66; Drug addiction treatment Hoffman 440–41; McIver 440–41 See Addiction treatment Members’ statements ... Gotfried 779 Drug plan (seniors) Opportunities for ... Bhullar 270 See Seniors’ benefit program Value-added industries ... Ceci 335 Drug use Value-added industries, agriculture See Food industry Fentanyl See Fentanyl use and trade Harm reduction See Health promotion: High-risk Value-added industries, energy See Energy industries: behaviour, harm reduction policies Value-added industries Reduction strategies, other jurisdictions ... Barnes 586 Economic development, rural Drugs See Rural development Off-label use of bevacizumab See Eye diseases: Economic Development and Trade ministry Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for See Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Drugs, driving under the influence of (new ministry from October 22, 2015) See Impaired driving Economic Future, Alberta’s, Standing Committee on Drumheller (town) See Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, Flood damage mitigation ... Nixon 102; Phillips 102 Standing Drumheller-Stettler (constituency) Economy Member’s personal and family history ... Strankman Downturn, request for emergency debate on See 304, 741–42, 1019 Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 Drunk driving Economy, Premier’s Advisory Committee on See Impaired driving See Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy Duchess Days Edmonton (city) General remarks ... Fildebrandt 173 Community centres See Meadows community Dying, medically assisted recreation centre and library; South Pointe See Assisted dying community centre Film and television industry See Mosaic Dying patient care Entertainment See Palliative care Health facilities ... Ceci 336 DynaLife Heroes of 107th Avenue project, members’ statements Contract extension See Medical laboratories: ... Shepherd 340 DynaLife services Medical laboratories See Medical laboratories: e-cigarettes DynaLife services See Tobacco products: Electronic cigarettes Nonprofit organizations See Gateway Association Early childhood development Violent crimes ... Dach 19–20 See Child development Edmonton, Alberta Hospital Early childhood mental health services See Alberta Hospital Edmonton See Child mental health services Edmonton autism services Early intervention (health care) See Autism Edmonton See Health promotion Edmonton-Centre (constituency) Eastern Alberta Member’s personal and family history ... Shepherd Emergency medical services See Emergency medical 164–65, 888 services (ambulances, etc.): Eastern Alberta Edmonton community centres service See South Pointe community centre Ecological conservation Edmonton-Decore (constituency) See Environmental protection Member’s personal and family history ... Nielsen 83; Schmidt 83 Overview ... Nielsen 83

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Edmonton-Ellerslie (constituency) Education, postsecondary institutions admissions Member’s personal and family history ... Loyola 104 (enrolment) Edmonton Eskimos See Postsecondary educational institutions See Grey Cup admissions (enrolment) Edmonton-Fort McMurray highway Education Act See Highway 63 Proclamation ... Smith 728 Edmonton-Gold Bar (constituency) Education Act amendments Member’s personal and family history ... Schmidt 1075 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Edmonton Immigrant Services Association Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning See Immigrants: Integration services and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4); Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8); Edmonton live music (ELM) initiative Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act General remarks ... Shepherd 895–96 (Bill 5) Edmonton-Manning (constituency) Education administration Member’s personal and family history ... Sweet 886 See School boards and districts Edmonton Police Service Education Collective Bargaining Act, Public Officer injured on duty, Sergeant Jason Harley ... Dach 29 See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Officers killed on duty See Faraone, Constable Ezio ; Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police Education finance officer killed on duty) Contingency planning for student enrolment ... Clark 61; Eggen 61 Edmonton public library Funding ... Aheer 113; Ceci 50–51, 59; Clark 637; Community collaborations See Meadows community Connolly 26, 64; Cooper 112; Eggen 46, 64; Luff recreation centre and library 79; Mason 110; McIver 109–10; Pitt 78; Smith 46, Edmonton public library, Meadows branch 112–13; Speech from the Throne 8 See Meadows community recreation centre and Funding, timeline on ... Eggen 168–69; Smith 168–69 library Funding for new enrolment ... Eggen 46, 166, 168–69, Edmonton public transit 231; Jean 166, 231; Luff 168; Mason 183; Smith See Edmonton Transit System 46, 168–69 Edmonton roads Funding for rural and remote schools ... Eggen 58; See Highway 28 Strankman 58 Edmonton-Rutherford (constituency) Grants for English language learners ... Eggen 168; Luff Member’s election as Deputy Chair of Committees See 168 Deputy Chair of Committees: Election of Mr. Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate [See Feehan, Member for Edmonton-Rutherford also Ministry of Education: Interim supply Member’s nomination as Deputy Chair of Committees estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate]; McIver 58 See Deputy Chair of Committees: Election, Education ministry nomination of Member for Edmonton-Rutherford See Ministry of Education Edmonton Transit System Education ministry, postsecondary Funding ... Ceci 336 See Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry General remarks ... Ceci 336; Dach 569; Mason 569; from October 22, 2015); Ministry of innovation and McIver 121; Notley 121 advanced education (ministry to October 22, 2015) Light rail transit expansion, funding for ... McIver 121; Educational curricula Notley 121 Sexual health education, inclusion of LGBTQ issues ... Light rail transit expansion, GreenTRIP (green transit Eggen 776–77; Jansen 699, 776–77 incentives program) funding ... Dach 569; Mason Sexual health education, inclusion of sexual consent, 569 members’ statements ... Clark 286 Edmonton-Whitemud (constituency) Sexual health education, members’ statements ... Jansen Member’s personal and family history ... Mason 180; 127 Nixon 180; Turner 178–80, 892 Educational institutions, elementary and secondary Members’ statements ... Turner 525 See Schools Edmonton’s Food Bank Educational institutions, postsecondary Fundraisers See CBC Radio Edmonton: Turkey See Postsecondary educational institutions drive, members’ statements Educators Education See Teachers Comparison with other jurisdictions ... Turner 180 Educators’ association Francophone system ... Eggen 777; McKitrick 777 Collective bargaining, law and legislation See Public Lifelong learning See Adult learning Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Long-term planning ... Speech from the Throne 8 Members’ statements ... Hanson 501 EHR Provincial framework (Inspiring Education) ... Eggen See Electronic health records 46, 232; Notley 232; Smith 46, 232 EI program (federal) Education, postsecondary See Employment insurance program (federal) See Postsecondary education Elbow Park school Education, postsecondary institutions See School construction: Elbow Park school rebuild See Postsecondary educational institutions 2015 Hansard Subject Index 27

Elbow River Elections, provincial Flood damage mitigation See Flood damage 15th anniversary of elected member, Speaker’s mitigation: Calgary and area statement ... Speaker, The 22 Elder abuse 2015 election ... Clark 44; Jean 13; McIver 15; Speech See Senior abuse and neglect from the Throne 8; Swann 15 2015 election, Speaker’s remarks ... Speaker, The 9 Election Act 2015 election 6-month anniversary, members’ Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... statements ... Starke 524–25 Schneider 474 2015 election 7-month anniversary ... Rodney 1051 Review by select special committee See Ethics and By-elections See By-elections Accountability Committee, Select Special Candidates in elections See Political candidates Election Act amendments (provincial elections) Law and legislation See Election (Restrictions on Financial reporting requirements ... Ganley 85 Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 Government spending announcements during ... Clark (Bill 203); Public Sector Compensation 33; Mason 33–34 Transparency Act (Bill 5) Members’ certificates of election See Members of the Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Legislative Assembly: Certificates of election Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Review of laws and legislation ... Ganley 85–86 First reading ... Strankman 349 Elections, Standing Orders and Printing, and Privilege, Second reading (carried unanimously) ... Bilous 409; Standing Committee on Clark 406–7, 409–10; Cooper 405–6, 408; See Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Fildebrandt 475; Gray 407–8; Hanson 475; Hunter Orders and Printing, Standing 408–9, 475–76; Loyola 408; MacIntyre 408; Mason Elections Alberta officer 475, 477; McIver 474–75; Miller 406; Payne 405; See Chief Electoral Officer Pitt 476; Schneider 474; Smith 474; Strankman Electric power 404–5, 409, 476–77; Swann 410 Distributed generation ... MacIntyre 689 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Microgeneration regulation and policy review (Motion subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Other than Government Motion 506: carried) ... Aheer and Accountability Committee (referral amendment 691–92; Anderson, S. 689–90; Clark 688; Feehan A1) (Gray: carried) ... Bilous 409; Clark 409–10; 686–87, 692; MacIntyre 688–89; McIver 687; Cooper 408; Gray 408; Hunter 408–9; Loyola 408; Phillips 687–88; Strankman 690; Turner 691 MacIntyre 408; Strankman 409; Swann 410 Transmission cost ... Strankman 690 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Electric power, coal-produced subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics See Electric power plants: Coal-fired facilities and Accountability Committee (referral amendment A1) (Gray: carried), division ... 410 Electric power plants Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Coal-fired facilities retirement ... Bilous 862; subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Fitzpatrick 671; Fraser 329, 714, 1046; Gotfried and Accountability Committee (referral amendment 499, 649, 1049–50; Hoffman 526, 565, 1050; Jean A1) (Gray: carried), motion to rescind (Government 464, 526, 642; MacIntyre 689; McCuaig-Boyd 1046, Motion 24: carried) ... Cooper 449–50; Mason 449; 1050; McIver 565, 571; Notley 464, 642; Orr 862; Phillips 449–50 Phillips 329, 499, 649, 671, 714 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of ... MacIntyre subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics 712; Phillips 712 and Accountability Committee (referral amendment Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of, point of order on A1) (Gray: carried), Speaker’s remarks on debate ... Cooper 716; Mason 716–17; Speaker, The interpretation ... Speaker, The 408 717, 781–82; Starke 717 Second reading (carried unanimously), point of order on Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50, 2009) debate ... Deputy Speaker 477; Mason 476–77; General remarks ... Cooper 141; Mason 124 Strankman 477 Electronic cigarettes Second reading (carried unanimously), referral to Ethics See Tobacco products: Electronic cigarettes and Accountability Committee, motion on (Mason: Electronic health records carried) ... Mason 477 Funding ... Barnes 54; Hoffman 54 General remarks ... Strankman 424 Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act Members’ statements ... Malkinson 349 amendments Law and legislation See Act to Renew Democracy in Elizabeth II highway Alberta, An (Bill 1) See Highway 2 Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act ELM initiative review committee See Edmonton live music (ELM) initiative See Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Emeralds Show and Dance Band Special Members’ statements ... Nielsen 524 Elections, federal Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 2015 election ... Jean 42; Notley 42 Provincial economic situation, request for debate (not Elections, municipal proceeded with) ... Clark 967; Jean 966; Mason Governing legislation ... Clark 33; Hoffman 32 967–68; McIver 966–67

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Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 (continued) EMS Provincial economic situation, request for debate (not See Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) proceeded with), Speaker’s ruling ... Speaker, The Enbridge pipeline projects 968 See Pipeline construction: Enbridge Northern Emergency management Gateway project Funding ... Barnes 757; Fildebrandt 757–58; McIver End-of-life care 755–56 See Light Up Your Life Tri-Community Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Palliative/Hospice Care Society; Palliative care Air ambulance See Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society Energy, alternative/renewable sources (STARS) See Renewable/alternative energy sources Ambulances decommissioned ... Hoffman 1047–48; Energy East pipeline project Stier 1047–48 See Pipeline construction: TransCanada Energy East Centralization of services ... Barnes 960; Hoffman 445, project 960; Stier 445 Energy industries Eastern Alberta service ... Hoffman 434; Taylor 434 Diversification See Economic development: First responder scope of practice ... Hoffman 495–96; Diversification Swann 495–96 Drilling operating days, forecasts for ... McCuaig-Boyd Funding ... Fraser 861; Hoffman 861 43; McIver 43 General remarks ... Renaud 348 Exploration and drilling activities on private lands See HALO air ambulance service ... Barnes 879; Hoffman Freehold lands 879 Government consultation with ... McCuaig-Boyd 44; Hours of service ... Hoffman 433–34; Taylor 433–34 McPherson 44 Interfacility transfer of patients ... Hoffman 496; Swann Historical interpretive centres See Leduc No. 1 Energy 496 Discovery Centre Naloxone administration by first responders ... Hoffman Incentives ... Bilous 375; Drysdale 375 644; Swann 644 Interjurisdictional partnerships ... Speech from the Paramedic scope of practice ... Fraser 861; Hoffman Throne 8 861 International market development See International Response times ... Hoffman 434; Taylor 434 trade: Trade with China, energy industry Rural service [See also Shock Trauma Air Rescue initiatives Society (STARS)]; Hoffman 434, 445; Stier 445; Investment in Alberta ... McCuaig-Boyd 1045; Miller Taylor 434 1045 Southern Alberta service ... Barnes 960; Hoffman 960, Job creation and retention ... Jean 464–65; McIver 393; 1047–48; Stier 1047–48 Notley 464–65; Sigurdson 393 Emergency social services Job losses ... Aheer 340; Bilous 326–28, 427; Cyr See Child protective services; Homelessness 327–28, 569–70; Fildebrandt 511–12; Gotfried 169, Emissions management fund 416; Hoffman 525; Jean 369, 392, 427, 493–94, 525, See Climate change and emissions management fund 539, 632–34, 636; McCuaig-Boyd 171; McIver 458; Employee-employer relations Notley 369, 392, 493–94, 539–40, 959; Panda 326, See Labour relations 959; Phillips 495, 570; Sigurdson 169; Starke 170, 495; Swann 552–53 Employee-employer relations code Job losses, Energy minister’s remarks ... Jean 875; Farm worker coverage, law and legislation See Notley 875–76 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Job losses, point of order on debate ... Speaker, The 350 Workers Act (Bill 6) Land sales (leases for access) ... Fraser 172–73 Employment and immigration ministry Market access ... Jean 98, 382; Notley 98 See Ministry of Human Services Market development ... McCuaig-Boyd 1045; Miller 1045 Employment insurance program (federal) Members’ statements ... Gotfried 416; Starke 330 Provincial role ... Ceci 66; Hunter 66 Provincial strategy ... Aheer 29; Jean 427–28; McIver Employment ministry 419; Notley 419, 427–28 See Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Support for ... Bilous 428; Jean 384, 427–28; Notley Employment of youth 428; Orr 397; Sigurdson 397 See Youth employment Sustainability ... Speech from the Throne 8 Value-added industries [See also North West Redwater Employment Pension (Private Sector) Plans Amendment Act, 2014 (Bill 10, 2014) Partnership]; Clark 44; McCuaig-Boyd 44 General remarks ... Fildebrandt 806–7; Jansen 805–6 Youth employment ... Orr 397; Sigurdson 397 Employment programs Energy industries and environment See Alberta Works [See also Climate change strategy] Advocacy for, members’ statements ... MacIntyre 231 Employment Standards Code Impact on competitiveness ... Ceci 374; MacIntyre 374 Farm worker coverage, law and legislation See Public image ... Aheer 418; Bilous 441; Ceci 336; Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Fraser 329–30, 373, 647; Hoffman 439; Jean 439; Workers Act (Bill 6) McIver 429, 441, 541; Notley 418, 429, 541; Phillips Employment training 330, 373, 647 Programs for aboriginal peoples ... Sabir 713; Woollard Review [See also Climate change strategy: Review]; 713 Fraser 469; Phillips 469, 495; Starke 495 Skill upgrading ... Bilous 496; Nielsen 496 Technology development ... Swann 554 2015 Hansard Subject Index 29

Energy ministry Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act See Ministry of Energy (Bill 6) (continued) Energy policies Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Carbon tax See Carbon levy Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral General remarks ... Clark 551; Jean 464–65, 600; amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) (continued) ... Notley 464–65, 600 Fildebrandt 1015; Fitzpatrick 973–74; Gotfried Impact on employment rate ... Hoffman 525; Jean 493– 980–81; Hanson 837, 981; Hunter 934–36, 1028; 94, 525–26, 539; Notley 493–94, 539–40 Jean 941–51, 968–71, 1023–24; Loewen 983–85; Members’ statements ... Aheer 547; Fraser 172–73; MacIntyre 974–76, 1025; Mason 1023; McIver Loewen 473 937–39; Nielsen 939; Nixon 941, 975–77, 979, 985, Resource royalties See Royalty structure (energy 1013, 1024, 1028; Orr 985–86, 1008–9, 1017; Panda resources) 1011–13; Pitt 1024–26; Renaud 941, 970; Schneider 1009, 1015–18; Smith 977–80; Starke 932–34; Stier Energy Regulator, Alberta 1013–15; Strankman 977, 980–81, 1019–21; Swann See Alberta Energy Regulator 1009–11; Taylor 1021–22; van Dijken 939–41; Energy resources Westhead 971, 983, 1011 [See also Bitumen; Oil prices] Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Export market ... Gotfried 416 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Provincial jurisdiction ... Speech from the Throne 8 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), division ... 1030 Revenue See Nonrenewable natural resource Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing revenue Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Trade promotion ... Gotfried 284; Notley 284 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), point of order on Energy strategy, Canadian debate ... Bilous 1010; Deputy Speaker 1010; See Canadian energy strategy Hanson 1010; McIver 1010; Swann 1010 English language Second reading, points of order on debate ... Acting Personal pronouns ... Connolly 701; Cortes-Vargas Speaker (Feehan) 973; Bilous 819; Fildebrandt 701–2 819; Jean 947; Mason 947, 973; McIver 973; Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Speaker, The 819–20, 947 (Bill 6) Second reading, points of order on debate (withdrawn) First reading ... Sigurdson 501 ... Hanson 970; Speaker, The 970 Second reading, time allocation on debate ... Barnes Second reading ... Aheer 811–13, 1026–28; Anderson, 1042; Notley 1043; Strankman 1043 S. 751; Barnes 803–5, 930–32, 1022, 1035; Bilous Second reading, time allocation on debate (Government 930; Ceci 802, 1023–24; Clark 748–49, 971–74; Motion 26: carried) ... Mason 1028–29; Nixon 1029 Coolahan 803, 979, 1034–35; Cooper 738, 804, 808, Second reading, time allocation on debate (Government 816, 818, 821, 835–37, 932, 934; Cyr 738, 831–33, Motion 26: carried), division ... 1029 936, 981–83, 1020; Drysdale 737–38, 976–77; Second reading, division ... 1037 Fildebrandt 806, 814–16, 1015; Fitzpatrick 973–74; Committee ... Anderson, S. 1060–61; Babcock 1054; Fraser 826; Gotfried 980–81; Hanson 745, 749, Barnes 1089–90; Bilous 1104–5, 1107; Cooper 823, 833–35, 837, 981, 1032–33; Hunter 735–37, 1085, 1107; Drever 1063; Drysdale 1096–97; 934–36, 1028, 1035–36; Jansen 805–7; Jean 941– Fraser 1103–4; Ganley 1064–65, 1070–71; Hanson 51, 968–71, 1023–24; Loewen 745–47, 983–85; 1056–58, 1066–67, 1101–3; Hoffman 1105; Hunter MacIntyre 750–51, 811, 974–76, 1025; Mason 1023, 1092–94; Littlewood 1070; MacIntyre 1068–70, 1030–31; McIver 743–45, 937–39, 1033–34; Nielsen 1081–82; Mason 1065; McIver 1058–60, 1087–88, 939; Nixon 740–41, 824–26, 828, 830–33, 941, 975– 1097–98, 1106–8; Nielsen 1094; Nixon 1062–63, 77, 979, 985, 1013, 1024, 1028; Orr 818–22, 985– 1065, 1080–81, 1095–96, 1107; Orr 1065–66, 1082– 86, 1008–9, 1017; Panda 742, 807–9, 1011–13; 83, 1094–95; Piquette 1080–81; Renaud 1088–89; Piquette 823–24; Pitt 747, 1024–26; Renaud 941, Rosendahl 1078; Schneider 1076–78; Schreiner 970; Rodney 1030–31; Schneider 745, 816–19, 1090–91; Shepherd 1092; Smith 1054–56, 1083–84; 1009, 1015–18; Sigurdson 619–20; Smith 829–31, Starke 1061–62, 1079–80, 1098–1100, 1105–6; 977–80; Starke 738–41, 932–34; Stier 809–11, Strankman 1063–64, 1102–3; van Dijken 1091–92, 1013–15; Strankman 740–43, 977, 980–81, 1019–21; 1106; Westhead 1058, 1086–87, 1095; Yao 1083 Swann 801–3, 809, 1009–11; Taylor 738, 822–24, Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm 1021–22; Turner 835; van Dijken 939–41; Westhead workers) (Babcock: carried) ... Anderson, S. 1060–61; 813–14, 971, 983, 1011, 1034; Yao 826–29 Babcock 1054; Barnes 1089–90; Cooper 1085; Drever Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- 1063; Ganley 1064–65, 1070–71; Hanson 1056–58, month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) ... 1066–67; Hunter 1092–94; Littlewood 1070; MacIntyre Barnes 1035; Coolahan 1034–35; Hanson 1032–33; 1068–70, 1081–82; Mason 1065; McIver 1058–60, Hunter 1035–36; Mason 1031; McIver 1033–34; 1087–88; Nielsen 1094; Nixon 1062–63, 1065, 1080– Rodney 1030–31; Westhead 1034 81; Orr 1065–66, 1082–83, 1094–95; Piquette 1080– Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- 81; Renaud 1088–89; Rosendahl 1078; Schneider month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated), 1076–78; Schreiner 1090–91; Shepherd 1092; Smith division ... 1036–37 1054–56, 1083–84; Starke 1061–62, 1079–80; Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Strankman 1063–64; van Dijken 1091–92; Westhead Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral 1058, 1086–87, 1095; Yao 1083 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... Aheer 1026– Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm 28; Barnes 930–32, 1022; Bilous 930; Ceci 1023– workers) (Babcock: carried), division ... 1095 24; Clark 971–74; Coolahan 979; Cooper 835–37, 932, 934; Cyr 936, 981–83, 1020; Drysdale 976–77; 30 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6) (continued) (Bill 6) (continued) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated), division ... (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) ... 1126 Ganley 1064–65, 1070–71; Hanson 1066–67; Third reading, time allocation on debate (Government Littlewood 1070; MacIntyre 1068–70; Mason 1065; Motion 28: carried) ... Cooper 1118–19; Mason 1118 Nixon 1065; Orr 1065–66; Schneider 1076–78; Third reading, time allocation on debate (Government Strankman 1063–64 Motion 28: carried), division ... 1119 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Third reading, division ... 1126 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... sitting) Barnes 1089–90; Cooper 1085; MacIntyre 1081– Agriculture and Forestry minister’s remarks ... Hoffman 82; McIver 1087–88; Nixon 1080–81; Orr 1082–83; 771, 775; Jean 771; Larivee 773; McIver 773; Piquette 1080–81; Renaud 1088–89; Schreiner Starke 775 1090–91; Shepherd 1092; Smith 1083–84; Starke Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... Cooper 1079–80; van Dijken 1091–92; Westhead 1086–87; 535; Mason 534–35; Speaker, The 535, 539; Starke Yao 1083 535 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... Clark workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 748–49; Hanson 835; Strankman 741–42, 977; (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated), Turner 835 division ... 1092 Economic Development and Trade minister’s remarks ... Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Schneider 1122 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA3 Family farm provisions ... Anderson, S. 644; Carlier (private insurance provision for small farms) (Hunter: defeated) ... Hunter 1092–94; Nielsen 1094; Orr 668; Clark 748–49; Drysdale 667; Fraser 826; 1094–95; Westhead 1095 Hanson 834; Hoffman 668; Hunter 668; Jean 642– Committee, amendment A2 (Employment Standards 43, 857, 957; Nixon 668, 825–26, 830–31; Notley Code, Labour Relations Code application) (Drysdale: 642–43, 857, 957; Orr 819–20; Schneider 818–19; defeated) ... Chair 1101; Drysdale 1096–97; McIver Sigurdson 644, 667; Smith 831; Starke 672; Stier 1097–98; Starke 1098–1100 810; Yao 826–27 Committee, amendment A3 (Employment Standards Family farm provisions, comparison with other Code, Labour Relations Code, Occupational Health jurisdictions ... Hoffman 526–27; Hunter 542–43, and Safety Act application) (Hanson: defeated) ... 736; Jean 526–27; Sigurdson 542–43 Hanson 1101–2 Impact on northern Alberta ... Hanson 1047; Hoffman Committee, amendment A4 (Labour Relations Code 1047 exemptions) (Strankman: defeated) ... Strankman Implementation cost ... Hoffman 527; Jean 527; 1102–3 MacIntyre 712; McIver 549; Phillips 712 Committee, amendment A5 (provisions for small farms Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour minister’s remarks ... and ranches) (Hanson: defeated) ... Hanson 1103 Schneider 1122; Starke 1099 Committee, amendment A6 (committee review of act) Members’ statements ... Aheer 1050–51; Anderson, W. (Fraser: defeated) ... Bilous 1104–5; Fraser 1103–4 672–73; Cooper 671; Cortes-Vargas 954; Smith Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into force) 1052; Starke 672; Strankman 524, 954; Turner (Starke: defeated) ... Bilous 1107; Cooper 1107; 1051–52; van Dijken 874; Westhead 955 McIver 1106–8; Nixon 1107; Starke 1105–6; van Ministers’ responses to questions ... McIver 1044; Dijken 1106 Notley 1045 Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into force) MLA briefing ... Drysdale 737–38 (Starke: defeated), division ... 1108 Municipal Affairs minister’s remarks ... Nixon 985 Committee, request to report bill, division ... 1108–9 Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... Hoffman Committee, time allocation on debate (Government 707–8; Hunter 860–61; Jean 707; Larivee 860–61 Motion 27: carried) ... Bilous 1100; Cooper 1100– Petitions presented ... Hanson 1052; Hunter 1052; 1101; Mason 1100 Schneider 1052; Strankman 1052 Committee, time allocation on debate (Government Public information ... Barnes 1043; Hoffman 773, 775, Motion 27: carried), division ... 1101 777–78; Hunter 935–36; Jean 857, 877, 957; Third reading ... Anderson, W. 1121; Cooper 1124; Larivee 773; MacIntyre 777–78; McIver 773; Nixon Fildebrandt 1123–24; Hanson 1124; Hunter 1125; 975–76; Notley 857, 877, 957, 1043; Starke 775, Jabbour 1116–17; Jean 1111–13; Mason 1111, 932–33; Strankman 954; Westhead 983 1113–14, 1124; McCuaig-Boyd 1123; McIver 1115– Public information, government website ... Cyr 738; 16, 1124; Nixon 1125–26; Orr 1124; Schneider Drysdale 738 1121–22; Smith 1125; Starke 1119–21; Strankman Public information, Premier’s remarks on ... Hoffman 1117–18, 1121; van Dijken 1114–15 707, 709; Jean 707; McIver 709; Sigurdson 709 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Regulatory provisions ... Clark 748; Jean 950–51, 957; month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... McIver 1044; Notley 957, 1044; Strankman 743 Anderson, W. 1121; Cooper 1124; Fildebrandt Regulatory provisions, consultation on ... Cooper 821; 1123–24; Hanson 1124; Hunter 1125; Jean 1113; Orr 821–22 Mason 1113–14, 1124; McCuaig-Boyd 1123; Regulatory provisions, Education and Culture and McIver 1115–16, 1124; Nixon 1125–26; Orr 1124; Tourism minister’s remarks ... Starke 740 Schneider 1121–22; Smith 1125; Starke 1119–21; Regulatory provisions, farm machinery ... Sigurdson Strankman 1117–18, 1121; van Dijken 1114–15 669; Starke 669 2015 Hansard Subject Index 31

Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) (Bill 6) (continued) (continued) Scope of bill ... Drysdale 737–38; Taylor 738 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Stakeholder consultation ... Anderson, S. 644–45; 2016 debate, Committee on Alberta’s Economic Barnes 803–4; Carlier 665, 670; Ceci 802; Clark Future report presented and amendments tabled ... 665–66, 748–49, 859–60; Coolahan 803; Cyr 833; Miranda 609 Drysdale 544–45, 737; Fildebrandt 806; Gotfried Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- 963; Hanson 745, 833, 1047; Hoffman 663, 665–68, 2016 debate, Committee on Families and 771, 775, 1046–47, 1049; Hunter 542–43, 648, 667– Communities report presented and amendments 68, 736, 860–61, 880–81; Jansen 806; Jean 540, tabled ... Sweet 609 635, 642–43, 663, 771, 857, 876–77; Larivee 773, Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- 860–61, 960–61, 963; Loewen 670, 745–46, 875; 2016 debate, Committee on Resource Stewardship report MacIntyre 712; McIver 665, 720, 743–44, 773, 859, presented and amendments tabled ... Goehring 609 877; Nixon 832–33, 1045–46; Notley 540–41, 642– Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- 43, 857, 859–60, 877, 882, 1043; Panda 742; Rodney 2016 implementation, legislation See Appropriation 720; Schneider 710–11; Sigurdson 542–45, 644–45, Act, 2015 (Bill 9) 648, 710–12, 880–81; Smith 882; Starke 740, 775; Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Stier 714–15; Strankman 742–43, 960–61, 1043; 2016 schedule, conflict with Remembrance Day Swann 802–3; Taylor 822–23, 1049 observances ... Mason 429; McIver 429 Stakeholder consultation, points of order on debate ... Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Cooper 674, 781, 964, 965; Mason 674, 781, 964, 2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 966; McIver 965; Speaker, The 674, 781, 965–66 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... Anderson, 2016 transmitted to the Assembly ... Speaker, The 333 W. 672; Carlier 666–68; Hoffman 663–65, 709; Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Jansen 670; Jean 663–64; McIver 665, 709; Nixon 2016 vote ... Chair 611 668; Sigurdson 670–71, 709; Strankman 666–67 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Withdrawal, petition presented on ... Orr 866 2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Workers’ compensation provisions ... Jean 857, 877, Main estimates 2015-2016, Agriculture and Forestry 957; Larivee 778; MacIntyre 778; Notley 857, 877, ministry, amendment A1 (minister’s office budget 879–80, 957, 962–63; Orr 818, 821–22; Panda 808; reduction) (Hanson: defeated), division ... 609–10 Schneider 818, 962–63; Starke 879–80; Swann Main estimates 2015-2016, Education ministry, 1011; Westhead 1011 amendment A2 (minister’s office budget reduction) Enterprise Corporation, Alberta (Smith: defeated), division ... 610 See Alberta Enterprise Corporation Main estimates 2015-2016, Infrastructure ministry, Entrepreneurship amendment A3 (minister’s office budget reduction) [See also Corporations; Small business] (Hunter: defeated), division ... 610 General remarks ... Bhullar 269 Main estimates 2015-2016, Service Alberta ministry, amendment A4 (minister’s office budget reduction) Environment and Parks ministry (Anderson, W.: defeated), division ... 610–11 See Ministry of Environment and Parks Main estimates 2015-2016, Transportation ministry, Environmental emergency planning amendment A5 (minister’s office budget reduction) See Emergency management (Aheer: defeated), division ... 611 Environmental issues Main estimates 2015-2016, Treasury Board and Finance See Agriculture: Sustainable practices; Climate ministry, amendment A6 (minister’s office budget change strategy; Energy industries: reduction) (Stier: defeated), division ... 611 Environmental issues; Forest industries: Ethanol industry Environmental sustainability; Pipelines See Permolex International LLP Environmental protection Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Special Policy development ... Fraser 373; Phillips 373 [See also Committees of the Legislative Assembly] EPS officers killed on duty Appointment of committee and membership See Faraone, Constable Ezio; Woodall, Constable (Government Motion 12: carried) ... Mason 289–90 Daniel (Edmonton police officer killed on duty) Bill 203, Election (Restrictions on Government Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015, referral to Budget 2015-2016 See Budget 2015-2016 committee proposed See Election (Restrictions on Debate time and procedure, 2015-2016 main estimates Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 of supply ... Ceci 18; Cooper 358; Fildebrandt 18; (Bill 203): Second reading, motion that bill be Jean 293–94, 370; Mason 357, 370; Notley 293–94 withdrawn and subject matter referred to the Debate time and procedure, motion on See Standing Select Special Ethics and Accountability Orders: Amendments (sitting time and sessional Committee (referral amendment A1) (Gray: calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting carried) changes in ministries, estimates debate time and Bill 203, Election (Restrictions on Government procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015, referred after Standing Orders and Printing to review morning second reading, motion on (Mason: carried) ... Mason sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: 477 carried with amendments) Review of Election Act ... Clark 407; Gray 407–8; Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 See Interim Miller 406; Payne 405 supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1); Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) 32 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Ethics Commissioner Fairness to Public Revenue, An Act to Restore Former commissioner’s acceptance of honoraria ... See Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An Notley 99; Swann 99 (Bill 2) Ethics Commissioner’s office Families and Communities, Standing Committee on Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... See Committee on Families and Communities, Chair 74 Standing Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 Families First Society Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly Members’ statements ... Littlewood 608\ ... Speaker, The 333 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Family and community support services [See also Families First Society] ETS Funding ... Ceci 334; Jansen 346; McIver 73; Sabir See Edmonton Transit System 65, 73, 344, 346; Sweet 65, 343–44 Evergreen middle school Family day homes See Calgary schools: Evergreen middle school, See Daycare in private homes project status Family farms Everitt, Harry Keith (former Member for St. Albert) Bill 6 impact, members’ statements ... Rosendahl 866 See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Former Definition ... Strankman 576 MLA Harry Keith Everitt, memorial tribute General remarks ... Loewen 747 Executive Council Members’ statements ... Drysdale 715; Orr 716 [See also Ministry of Executive Council] Safety, law and legislation See Enhanced Protection Compensation freeze proposed ... Ceci 333 for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6): Compensation freeze proposed, point of privilege raised Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation, See Privilege (current session): Obstructing a family farm provisions member in performance of duty (Budget Address remarks about Executive Council, MLA, and Family shelters political staff compensation) See Women’s shelters Compensation reduction if debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds Family violence 15 per cent proposed See Act to Implement Various See Domestic violence Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Family Violence Act and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Committee, See Protection Against Family Violence Act (Bill 19, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) (Fildebrandt: 1998) defeated) Faraone, Constable Ezio Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum 25th anniversary of death, Speaker’s statement on ... Producers ... McCuaig-Boyd 44; McIver 43; Speaker, The 273 McPherson 44; Notley 43–44 Farm and Ranch Workers Act Public access to ministers ... Hoffman 439–40; Jean See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch 439–40; Mason 440; Nixon 440, 465; Notley 465 Workers Act (Bill 6) Public access to ministers, Speaker’s ruling on reference to nonmember ... Speaker, The 440 Farm families Reduction in size, cost savings ... Anderson, W. 70; See Family farms Ceci 70 Farm fatalities Exhibits used by members See Farm safety See Legislative Assembly of Alberta: Exhibits Farm financial programs (props) use by members See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Explore Local initiative Farm fuel program General remarks ... Cortes-Vargas 303; Gray 306; van Changes to ... Ceci 380 Dijken 305 Farm machinery Exports Bill 6 regulatory provisions, question on See Enhanced See International trade Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill Extended health benefits (seniors) 6): Regulatory provisions, farm machinery See Seniors’ benefit program Highway safety ... Mason 470; Strankman 470 Extractive industries Farm produce See Energy industries; Grande Cache Coal [See also Commodities, primary] Eye diseases Direct sale to consumers ... Sweet 310 Retinal diseases ... Hoffman 527; McIver 527 International trade agreements ... Barnes 313; McIver Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for ... Hoffman 311; Orr 310, 580 396; Starke 396 Interprovincial trade agreements ... Barnes 313; McIver Services for persons with vision loss See Persons with 311 disabilities: Vision loss services Local market development, advisory committee proposed See Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) FAA (Financial Administration Act) Market development ... Strankman 304 Exemptions under Bill 4 See Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Market development, funding for ... Carlier 56; Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Strankman 56 Section 7(2)(e), exemption for entities covered Marketing boards ... Strankman 577 under the Financial Administration Act or Product diversification ... Hanson 307 Regional Health Authorities Act Public-sector purchasing See Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202): Application to public sector 2015 Hansard Subject Index 33

Farm produce (continued) Fentanyl use (continued) Traceability See Livestock industry: Traceability Harm reduction strategies ... Ellis 881; Hoffman 881; programs Miller 585 Farm produce processing Naloxone administration by first responders See See Food industry and trade Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.): Farm production Naloxone administration by first responders See Agriculture Naloxone kit availability ... Hoffman 55 Pill seizure by police ... Ellis 961; Ganley 961–62 Farm safety Reduction strategy ... Ellis 397–98, 497–98, 881; Comparison with other jurisdictions ... Hunter 735; Ganley 397–98, 497–98; Hoffman 397, 423, 644, Jean 858; Notley 858 881; Payne 422–23; Swann 644 Deaths, Catriona, Jana, and Dara Bott, members’ statements ... Nixon 301 Fifth on 5th Deaths, Kevan Chandler ... Swann 801–2; Westhead See 5th on 5th (Lethbridge youth services) 814 Film and television industry Education ... Drysdale 737; Sigurdson 668–69; Starke [See also Mosaic Entertainment] 668–69; Stier 811; Taylor 822–23 Market development ... Eggen 545; Shepherd 545 Farm workers’ exclusion from legislation ... Notley Finance ministry 429; Sigurdson 429–30; Swann 429 See Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance General remarks ... Orr 820–21 Financial Administration Act Injuries, Philippa Thomas ... Swann 801; Westhead Exemptions under Bill 4 See Act to Implement 813–14 Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Farm Safety Advisory Council Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Action plan ... Sigurdson 669; Starke 669 Section 7(2)(e), exemption for entities covered Farm workers under the Financial Administration Act or Children ... Jansen 805; Swann 801 Regional Health Authorities Act Labour protection ... Notley 429; Swann 429 Teachers’ employer bargaining association exemption Workers’ compensation coverage ... Hunter 66; See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act Sigurdson 66, 429; Swann 429 (Bill 8): Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ Workers’ compensation coverage, law and legislation employer bargaining association exemptions from See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Financial Administration Act, Alberta Public Workers Act (Bill 6): Workers’ compensation Agencies Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and provisions Transparency Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: Farmers’ Advocate defeated) Effectiveness of office ... Hinkley 140 Financial Administration Act amendments Farmers’ markets Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various General remarks ... Cortes-Vargas 303; Drever 401; Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Gray 305; Hanson 582; Luff 402; Malkinson 891; and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Sweet 310; Turner 891–92 Financial aid, postsecondary students Oversight ... Strankman 304 See Student financial aid (postsecondary students) Farming Financial institutions See Agriculture See ATB Financial Farming and ranch exemption regulation (Alberta Fire prevention and control Regulation 27/95), repeal See Wildfire prevention and control See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Firefighters Workers Act (Bill 6) See First responders FCSS First Nation-provincial agreement on land for Calgary See Family and community support services ring road Federal Public Building See Calgary ring road: Southwest portion, land Daycare space proposed See Daycare centres: agreement with Tsuut’ina First Nation Inclusion in new government buildings First Nations Naming in honour of former MLA Manmeet Singh See Aboriginal peoples Bhullar proposed ... Fraser 602; Notley 602 First Nations children’s education Feehan, Richard Residential school awareness events See Orange Shirt Election as Deputy Chair of Committees See Deputy Day Chair of Committees: Election of Mr. Feehan, Residential school commission See Truth and Member for Edmonton-Rutherford Reconciliation Commission of Canada Fees (user charges) First Nations consultation Health care charges See Health care levy See Aboriginal consultation Provincial campgrounds See Campgrounds, First Nations ministry provincial See Ministry of Aboriginal Relations Registry fees See Registry services: Fees First Nations people Fentanyl use See Aboriginal peoples Aboriginal community issues ... Hoffman 532; Rodney First Nations women and violence 532 See Aboriginal women and violence Blood First Nation response ... Ganley 444; Rodney 444 34 2015 Hansard Subject Index

First Nations women’s employment Fiscal policy (continued) Participation in North West Redwater Partnership Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various project See North West Redwater Partnership: Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Members’ statements and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4); Assuring First responders Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) [See also Emergency medical services (ambulances, Long-term plan ... Fildebrandt 188; Swann 187–88 etc.); Police; Wildfire prevention and control] Long-term plan, members’ statements ... Fildebrandt Members’ statements ... Renaud 348 426–27 Safety ... Ellis 17; Ganley 17 Members’ statements ... Smith 398; Yao 300 STARS air ambulance See Shock Trauma Air Rescue Official Opposition position ... Fildebrandt 130–31 Society (STARS) Operational spending increases ... Ceci 380 Support organizations See War Horse Awareness Progressive Conservative governments ... Jean 385–86; Foundation Swann 268 Fiscal capacity Social impacts ... Jean 955–56; Notley 955–56 See Revenue: Government capacity to generate Fish Creek library Fiscal Future Act, Assuring Alberta’s See Calgary public library See Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Fish Creek provincial park Fiscal Management Act General remarks ... Gotfried 174 Financial reporting provisions ... Ceci 52, 708–9; Fisheries ministry Fildebrandt 708–9 See Ministry of Environment and Parks Fiscal Management Act, SA 2013 cF-14.5, repeal Flood damage mitigation See Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Calgary and area ... Aheer 298–99, 498–99; Bhullar Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, 60; Ceci 336; Clark 61; Fraser 531; Kazim 295; An (Bill 4) Mason 63, 295; Phillips 16, 60–61, 299, 498–99, Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act 530–31; Stier 530; Swann 15–16, 63; Westhead 399 Financial reporting provisions ... Ceci 379 Calgary and area, Municipal Affairs minister’s meeting Limits on government borrowing ... Ceci 335 with mayor ... Bilous 122; Drever 122 Teachers’ employer bargaining association exemption Funding ... Ceci 336; McIver 58 See Public Education Collective Bargaining Act Grant programs See Alberta community resilience (Bill 8): Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ program employer bargaining association exemptions from High River ... Bilous 122; Drever 122; Fraser 100; Financial Administration Act, Alberta Public Phillips 100 Agencies Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and High River, minister’s meeting with High River mayor Transparency Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: and councillors ... Bilous 122; Drever 122 defeated) McLean Creek project review ... Aheer 298–99; Bhullar 60; Clark 61; Phillips 60, 61, 299 Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, legislation to Medicine Hat projects ... Nixon 102; Phillips 102 implement Members’ statements ... Swann 96 See Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Program review ... Clark 68; Phillips 68 Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Project completion ... Fraser 100; Phillips 100 An (Bill 4) Project funding ... Nixon 102; Phillips 102 Fiscal policy Provincial strategy ... Aheer 29–30; Nixon 101–2; [See also Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9); Budget Phillips 101–2 2015-2016] Springbank reservoir project ... Aheer 298–99, 498–99; Alberta Party position See Alberta Party opposition: Clark 61; Fraser 531; Kazim 295; Mason 295; Alternative budget Phillips 61, 299, 498–99, 531 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... Aheer 260–61 Springbank reservoir project, funding for ... Bhullar 60; General remarks ... Jean 950; Loewen 556; Mason Phillips 60 186–87; McIver 300; Smith 186; Stier 955 Springbank reservoir project, members’ statements ... Government borrowing See Debts, public (provincial Westhead 399 debt) Springbank reservoir project, public consultation ... Government savings ... Anderson, W. 70; Ceci 380; Phillips 530; Stier 530 Dang 133–34; Swann 511–12; Yao 112 Sundre projects ... Nixon 102; Phillips 102 Government spending ... Aheer 113; Anderson, W. Upstream mitigation ... Phillips 16; Swann 15–16 113; Barnes 136, 254, 756–57; Bilous 428; Ceci Upstream mitigation, funding for ... Mason 63; Swann 63 124; Cooper 266, 622; Fildebrandt 52, 107–8, 123– Flood plains 24, 190–91, 244, 624; Jean 97, 382–83, 392, 428, Floodway buyout program ... Clark 68; Mason 68; 493–94; Loewen 263–64; Mason 110; McIver 109– Phillips 68 10, 244; Notley 97, 428, 493–94; Pitt 259; Smith Mapping ... Nixon 101; Phillips 101–2 623–25; Starke 615–16; Stier 507–8, 955; Turner 626–27; Yao 780 Floods Government spending, comparison with other 2013 flood ... Clark 106 jurisdictions ... Jean 385–87, 634–35; MacIntyre 2013 flood, members’ statements ... Anderson, W. 21; 926–27; Schneider 503 Westhead 96 Keynesian economics ... Clark 761; Hunter 761 Recovery program See Disaster recovery program Recovery program, aboriginal communities See Aboriginal communities: Flood recovery funding

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FMA Forest industries (continued) See Fiscal Management Act Diversification ... Bilous 568–69; Drysdale 568 FMC (Foothills medical centre) Environmental sustainability ... Carlier 394; Rosendahl Location of cancer centre in See Calgary cancer 394 centre: Location in Foothills medical centre Job creation and retention ... Bilous 568; Drysdale 568 FNMI (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) Millar Western Forest Products sawmill closure ... See Aboriginal peoples Bilous 568; Drysdale 568 Role in caribou habitat protection ... Drysdale 883; FNMI (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) children’s Mason 883 education Support for ... Carlier 394; Rosendahl 394 Residential school awareness events See Orange Shirt Timber allocations ... Carlier 299; Drysdale 299 Day Residential school commission See Truth and Forest management Reconciliation Commission of Canada See Castle special management area FNMI (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) women and Forest products violence See also Commodities, primary See Aboriginal women and violence Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement ... Carlier 299; Drysdale 299, 882; Mason 883 FNMI (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) women’s employment Forestry division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Participation in North West Redwater Partnership Operating budget ... Carlier 57; Strankman 57 project See North West Redwater Partnership: Forestry ministry Members’ statements See Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Food Act, Alberta Local Fort McMurray See Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary Food banks hospitals) ... Hoffman 46–47; Yao 46–47 Statistics ... Renaud 176 Fort McMurray-Conklin (constituency) Food industry and trade Member’s federal political career ... Clark 974; Diversification ... McIver 549–50 Fitzpatrick 974; Jean 943–44, 949, 1112 Local producers ... Cooper 895; Strankman 892–93; Member’s personal and family history ... Jean 117, Westhead 893 942–43, 946–47 Transportation, greenhouse gas emissions ... Turner 892 Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo (constituency) Food Inspection Agency, Canadian Member’s personal and family history ... Yao 827–28 See Food safety Fort Saskatchewan family and community support Food producer financial programs services See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation See Families First Society Food production Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville (constituency) See Agriculture Member’s personal and family history ... Littlewood 1070 Food safety Local food market ... Strankman 576 Fracking (engineering) Traceability See Livestock industry: Traceability See Hydraulic fracturing programs Framework for education Food tourism See Education: Provincial framework (Inspiring See Tourism: Culinary tourism Education) Football championships France, acts of violence in See Grey Cup See Ministerial Statements (current session): Global violence and Syrian refugees Foothills medical centre Cancer centre See Calgary cancer centre Francophone celebrations See Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day Foreign investments See International investment Francophones Programs and services for ... Eggen 777; McKitrick Foreign offices, Albertan 777 See Alberta government offices Fraser, Chief Justice Catherine Foreign trade See Administrator, the See International trade Free trade Foreign workers, temporary See International trade See Temporary foreign workers Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Forest fire prevention and control amendments See Wildfire prevention and control Law and legislation See Public Sector Compensation Forest firefighters Transparency Act (Bill 5) See Wildfire prevention and control Freehold lands Contracting process See Wildfire prevention and Landowner property rights ... Cooper 141, 327; Mason control: Firefighting contracts 124, 327; Stier 124 Forest industries Landowner property rights, review proposed ... Cooper [See also Castle special management area: Timber 141 allocation cancellation] 36 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Freehold lands (continued) Gas royalties Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than See Nonrenewable natural resource revenue; Royalty Government Motion 501: carried) ... Clark 140–41; structure (energy resources) Cooper 141; Fitzpatrick 143; Hinkley 139–40, 143; Gas stations Loewen 143; Stier 142–43 See Service stations French remarks in Legislature Gas transportation See Legislative Assembly of Alberta: French See Pipeline construction; Railroads remarks Gasoline tax legislation French-speaking Albertans See Fuel Tax Act See Francophones Gateway Association Freson Bros. 40th anniversary, members’ statements ... Carson 492 60th anniversary, members’ statements ... Babcock 104 Gateway pipeline Friends of Medicare See Pipeline construction: Enbridge Northern Members’ statements ... Gray 641 Gateway project Fuel program Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons See Farm fuel program Health care services See Health care: Services for Fuel tax transgender and gender-variant persons See Taxation Information inclusion in school health curricula See Fuel Tax Act Educational curricula: Sexual health education, Investigations under act, officer protection from inclusion of LGBTQ issues prosecution ... Ceci 380 Members of the Legislative Assembly See Members of Fuel Tax Act amendment the Legislative Assembly: LGBTQ members See Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to School policies on transgender students See School Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, boards and districts: Policies on issues involving An (Bill 4) LGBTQ students Services for ... Feehan 697; Miranda 697 Fuel tax exemptions Student bullying See Bullying: Gay, lesbian, and See Taxation: Fuel tax exemptions transgender students Fund, Alberta heritage savings trust Transgender issues, stakeholder consultation ... Drever See Alberta heritage savings trust fund 699; Hoffman 699 Fund, climate change and emissions management Transgender issues, unemployment See See Climate change and emissions management fund Unemployment: Transgender and gender-variant Fund, general revenue and lottery persons Contingency account See Contingency account Violence against ... Miranda 695 Estimates of supply See Estimates of Supply Violence against gender-variant persons, (government expenditures) commemoration See Transgender Day of Estimates of supply, interim See Interim supply Remembrance estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1); Interim supply Gay rodeo, Strathmore estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) See Strathmore-Brooks (constituency): Rodeos Fund, victims of crime GCC See Victims of crime fund See Grande Cache Coal Gallant, Brian (Premier of New Brunswick) GDP Discussions on Energy East pipeline project See See Gross domestic product Pipeline construction: TransCanada Energy East Gender expression project, Premier’s discussions with New Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, law and Brunswick Premier legislation See Alberta Human Rights Amendment Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Act, 2015 (Bill 7) 143/1996) Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live music government’s position ... Bilous 700; Cortes-Vargas venues (Motion Other than Government Motion 507: 700; McIver 700 carried) ... Aheer 898–99; Connolly 901; Gotfried Gender identity 901; Jabbour 897; Kleinsteuber 898; Malkinson General remarks ... Connolly 693–94; Cortes-Vargas 899–900; Mason 900–901; McIver 899; Orr 898; 701 Pitt 900; Rosendahl 901–2; Shepherd 895–97, 902– Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, law and 3; Sucha 902 legislation See Alberta Human Rights Amendment Gardens, community-based Act, 2015 (Bill 7) See Community gardens Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Gas government’s position ... Bilous 700; Cortes-Vargas See Commodities, primary 700; McIver 700 Gas and oil industries Gender in English language See Energy industries See English language: Personal pronouns Gas Plus spill Gender-variant persons See Service stations: 2010 Calgary spill, land See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons remediation General revenue fund Budget See Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) 2015 Hansard Subject Index 37

General revenue fund (continued) Government caucus Contingency account See Contingency account [See also New Democratic Party] Estimates of supply, interim See Interim supply Relations with opposition caucuses See Legislative estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1); Interim supply Assembly of Alberta: All-party co-operation estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Relations with staff ... Jansen 281; Notley 281 German remarks in the Assembly Government contracts See Legislative Assembly of Alberta: German Forest fire fighting See Wildfire prevention and remarks control: Firefighting contracts GHG (greenhouse gas) mitigation Medical laboratories See Medical laboratories: See Climate change strategy; Greenhouse gas DynaLife services mitigation Physicians’ contracts See Airdrie (city): Urgent care GLBTQ community services, nonrenewal of contract of Dr. J. Kyne; See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Physicians: Services agreement Public-private partnerships See Calgary ring road: Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation Southwest portion, public-private partnership (P3) General remarks ... Kleinsteuber 640 contract Global warming strategy Public relations firm hosting Grande Prairie meeting ... See Climate change strategy McIver 665; Sigurdson 665 God Save the Queen Renewal ... Bhullar 59; Carlier 59 Performed by Robert Clark and Royal Canadian Government debt, provincial Artillery Band ... Speaker, The 8–9 See Debts, public (provincial debt) Gogo, John Albert (former MLA) Government motions See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Former See Motions (current session) MLA John Albert Gogo, memorial tribute Government policies Government accountability [See also Elections, provincial: 2015 election 6-month Audit of previous government proposed ... Jean 14; anniversary] Notley 14–15 Consultation policies ... Clark 665–66, 971; Financial reporting ... Ceci 53, 853; Fildebrandt 53, Fildebrandt 880; Hoffman 665–66; Jean 948–49; 502, 512, 518, 850, 868–69; MacIntyre 851; Orr 505 Loewen 670, 875; McIver 294, 665, 877; Notley Financial reporting, law and legislation See Act to 294, 877–78, 880; Phillips 670; Renaud 941; Stier Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact 714–15; van Dijken 941 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An Consultation policies, aboriginal peoples See (Bill 4): Committee, amendment A8 (2015 Aboriginal consultation quarterly update) (Fildebrandt: defeated) Consultation policies, Executive Council members’ General remarks ... Barnes 34; Nixon 559–60 remarks ... Barnes 932; Stier 1014–15; van Dijken Mechanisms for transparency ... Jean 15; Notley 15 940 Openness and transparency ... Drysdale 601; Jansen Consultation policies, members’ statements ... Loewen 603; Mason 601; Sabir 601, 603 875 Government advertising Consultation policies, Premier’s remarks ... Barnes Advertising during elections, law and legislation See 930–31; Cooper 934 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) General remarks ... Barnes 1043; Gotfried 779; Notley Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) 1043; Swann 81–82 Television and online advertisements ... Ceci 467; Local decision-making ... Cooper 49 Fildebrandt 467 Members’ statements ... Barnes 640; McIver 300; Government agencies, boards, and commissions Rodney 1051; Stier 714–15, 955 Appointment process ... Notley 99; Swann 99 Government savings/spending Cultural diversity ... Eggen 604; McIver 604 See Fiscal policy Local food purchase See Alberta Local Food Act (Bill Government services 202): Committee, amendment A2 Private delivery, elimination of proposed ... Hoffman Public information disclosure, legislation on See Public 73; McIver 73 Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Government services ministry Review ... Ceci 333; Notley 99; Swann 99 See Ministry of Service Alberta Government announcements during elections or by- Graff, Del, office of elections See Child and Youth Advocate’s office See Elections, provincial: Government spending announcements during Grande Cache Coal Law and legislation See Election (Restrictions on Mine closure ... Jean 417; Notley 417 Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 Grande Prairie cancer centre (Bill 203) Funding ... Hoffman 372; Turner 372 Government announcements on capital spending Grande Prairie Regional College See Capital projects: Government announcements See Postsecondary education Government bills Grande Prairie regional hospital See Bills, government (current session) New hospital ... Hoffman 430–31; Loewen 430–31 Government buildings Grande Prairie-Smoky (constituency) Inclusion of daycare facilities proposed, motion on See Member’s personal and family history ... Loewen 555– Daycare centres: Inclusion in new government 56; Nixon 556; Turner 556 buildings Overview ... Loewen 555–56 38 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Grande Prairie-Wapiti (constituency) Hawkesworth, Bob See Progressive Conservative opposition: Members’ Appointment to Premier’s Calgary office staff See statements Office of the Premier: Premier’s Calgary office Grant programs staff appointment See Bridge maintenance and repair; Education Haying in the 30’s finance: Grants for English language learners; Job General remarks ... Hanson 178; Turner 178 creation Hazard preparedness Grassroots change See Emergency management See Social change Hazardous waste treatment plant, Swan Hills Gravel royalties See Swan Hills Treatment Centre See Sand and gravel royalties Health authority, single Grazing lands, public See Alberta Health Services (authority) Water use ... Anderson, S. 325; Carlier 325–26 Health board, single Green line, Calgary See Alberta Health Services Board See Calgary Transit Health care Green transit incentives program (GreenTRIP) [See also Health facilities; Hospitals] See Public transit: GreenTRIP (green transit Access to services ... Hanson 776; Hoffman 776 incentives program) Consultation on ... Hoffman 82; Swann 82 Greenhouse effect strategy Coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ... Hoffman See Climate change strategy 171; McKitrick 171 Greenhouse gas mitigation Local decision-making ... Barnes 16–17, 43, 53; Methane reduction See Climate change strategy: Hoffman 17, 43, 47, 54; Pitt 78; Starke 47 Methane reduction component Long-term planning ... Clark 280; Hoffman 280; Municipal funding See Municipal Climate Change Notley 280; Speech from the Throne 8 Action Centre Nurse practitioner clinics See Sheep River nurse Public transit See Public transit: Greenhouse gas practitioner clinic emission reduction Out-of-country health services ... Barnes 313 Technology development ... McCuaig-Boyd 171; Starke Patient-first strategy ... Barnes 284; Hoffman 284 171 Primary care See Primary care (medicine) Private delivery, elimination of ... Hoffman 73; McIver Greenhouses 73–74 Loan application ... Hanson 307 Quality of services ... Barnes 544; Hoffman 544 Local food provision ... Orr 309 Review ... Barnes 43; Hoffman 43 Greenmunch Rural service See Rural health care Members’ statements ... McKitrick 447 Services for transgender and gender-variant persons ... GreenTRIP Connolly 669, 693–94; Hoffman 669; Miranda 696– See Public transit: GreenTRIP (green transit 97 incentives program) Surgery procedures See Surgery procedures Grey Cup Urgent care services ... Hoffman 234; MacIntyre 234 Western final, members’ statements ... Nielsen 548 Urgent care services, nonrenewal of contract of Dr. J. Grey Nuns community hospital Kyne See Airdrie (city): Urgent care services Palliative care facility ... Gray 471–72 Health care administration Grocery stores See Alberta Health Services (authority) [See also Freson Bros.] Health care capacity issues Local food sourcing ... Hanson 581–82 Wait times ... Hoffman 69; Larivee 69 Gross domestic product Wait times for surgery See Surgery procedures: Wait Comparison with other jurisdictions ... Starke 267 times Corporate profits ... Swann 268 Health care finance Guests, Introduction of Funding ... Barnes 53, 544; Ceci 334–35; Clark 637; See Introduction of Guests (school groups, Hoffman 54, 372, 544; Mason 110; McIver 109–10; individuals) Pitt 78; Speech from the Throne 8; Swann 636; Turner 372, 515 Guru Nanak Dev Ji Funding, point of order on debate ... Deputy Speaker Anniversary of birth (Gurparab) See Prakash Purab 378; Hanson 378; Mason 378; Starke 378 Habitat for Humanity Funding from interim supply See Ministry of Health: Members’ statements ... Schreiner 300 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Handicapped, assured income for the severely Health levy See Health care levy See Assured income for the severely handicapped Publicly funded services ... Gray 641 Handicapped persons Health care levy See Persons with developmental disabilities; Persons Cancellation ... Ceci 67; Fildebrandt 108; Starke 67; with disabilities Swann 187 Handicapped persons, programs for Health care networks, primary See Persons with developmental disabilities program See Primary care networks Harley, Sergeant Jason Health centre, Wainwright See Edmonton Police Service: Officer injured on See Wainwright health centre duty, Sergeant Jason Harley 2015 Hansard Subject Index 39

Health facilities High River (town) (continued) [See also Hospitals] Government buildings ... Ceci 336 Capacity issues ... Pitt 78 Municipal Affairs minister’s visit ... Anderson, W. 21 Capital funding ... Barnes 55–56; Bhullar 60; Ceci High-speed rail service 336; Hoffman 55–56, 60 General remarks ... Cooper 487–88; Mason 346, 488 Capital funding, information technology ... Hoffman 58; Highway 2 Strankman 58 Calgary to Edmonton See Queen Elizabeth II Capital needs ... Barnes 55; Fildebrandt 281; Hanson highway (QE II) 177; Hoffman 55–56, 281 Twinning, funding for ... McIver 58 Edmonton centres See St. Marguerite health services centre, Edmonton Highway 8 Facility condition ... Hanson 776; Hoffman 776 Calgary ring road portion See Calgary ring road: Grande Prairie centres See Grande Prairie cancer Highway 8 corridor centre Highway 23 New facilities ... Mason 103; Taylor 103 Highway 519 intersection, funding for upgrade ... New facilities, timeline on ... Mason 646; Taylor 646 Mason 170; Schneider 170 Urgent care facilities ... Drysdale 102; Hoffman 102, Highway 28 170, 423, 543–44, 774–75; Pitt 170, 423, 476, 543– Members’ statements ... Cyr 96 44, 774 Highway 63 Health Link Fatalities ... Mason 283; Piquette 283 811 phone line dementia support, members’ statements Twinning ... Littlewood 433; Mason 433 ... Littlewood 376 Twinning, funding for ... Jean 383; Mason 283; Health ministry McIver 58; Piquette 283 See Ministry of Health Highway construction Health Professions Act See Road construction Inclusion of paramedics proposed ... Fraser 861; Highway construction ministry Hoffman 861 See Ministry of Transportation Health promotion Highway maintenance Funding ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55 See Road maintenance and repair High-risk behaviour, harm reduction See Central Highway safety Alberta AIDS Network Society See Traffic safety High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies (Motion Hiking trails Other than Government Motion 505: carried) ... See Trails Barnes 585–86; Fildebrandt 586–87; Miller 584– 85, 589–90; Miranda 586; Nixon 587–89; Shepherd Hindu observances 587; Swann 589; Turner 589 See Diwali Health Quality Council of Alberta Hinton business enterprises Long-term care family experience survey See Long- See Freson Bros. term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary History hospitals): Health Quality Council of Alberta See Alberta history survey HIV/AIDS Review of northern Alberta medical laboratory services Awareness events, members’ statements ... McLean See Medical laboratories: DynaLife services, 707; Miller 672 Health Quality Council of Alberta review HIV/AIDS support associations Health Services, Alberta See AIDS Outreach Community Harm Reduction See Alberta Health Services (authority) Education Support Society (ARCHES); Central Health Services Board, Alberta Alberta AIDS Network Society See Alberta Health Services Board Hog industry Heavy oil (synthetic crude) Free-range hogs ... Speaker, The 308; Starke 307 See Bitumen Hole, Lois (former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta) Heavy oil (synthetic crude) development General remarks ... Renaud 176 See Oil sands development Holodomor Memorial Day Heritage savings trust fund, Alberta Members’ statements ... Babcock 607 See Alberta heritage savings trust fund Holyrood school Heritage Savings Trust Fund, Standing Committee on Edmonton turkey drive participation See CBC Radio the Edmonton: Turkey drive, members’ statements See Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Home-care services Trust Fund, Standing Access ... Hoffman 69; Larivee 69 Heritage Savings Trust Fund Act amendments Funding ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 54, 55, 542; Schmidt Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various 542 Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Service provision by first responders See Emergency and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) medical services (ambulances, etc.): First responder High River (town) scope of practice; Emergency medical services Flood damage mitigation See Flood damage (ambulances, etc.): Paramedics’ scope of practice mitigation: High River Victorian Order of Nurses service provision See Victorian Order of Nurses 40 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Home heating Housing, affordable See Electric power See Affordable housing Home-schooling Housing, rental [See also Hope Christian school] See Rental housing Funding ... Eggen 19, 64; Jansen 18–19 Housing organizations Homeless persons See Habitat for Humanity Nonprofit service organizations See Calgary Dream HQCA (Health Quality Council of Alberta) Centre Long-term care family experience survey See Long- Transgender and gender-variant persons ... Miranda term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary 696; Shepherd 702 hospitals): Health Quality Council of Alberta Homeless shelters survey See Inn from the Cold (homeless shelter) Review of northern Alberta medical laboratory services Homelessness See Medical laboratories: DynaLife services, General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 Health Quality Council of Alberta review Program funding ... Hoffman 773; Swann 773 HRA (Horse Racing Alberta) Amendment Act, 2014, Hope Christian school amendments Members’ statements ... Schneider 399 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Horse Racing Alberta Amendment Act, 2014, and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) amendments Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various HSR Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning See High-speed rail service and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Hudema, Mike Hospice care Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away, An See Light Up Your Life Tri-Community (book) See Ministry of Environment and Parks: Palliative/Hospice Care Society Minister’s book preface Hospital construction Human immunodeficiency virus General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 See HIV/AIDS New hospitals ... Gray 47; Mason 47 Human immunodeficiency virus support associations Hospital maintenance and repair See AIDS Outreach Community Harm Reduction Capital planning ... Carson 881–82; Hoffman 881–82 Education Support Society (ARCHES) Funding ... Barnes 54; Gray 48; Hoffman 55; Mason 48 Human rights General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 Members’ statements ... Aheer 865; Clark 866; Jansen Hospitality industry 865–66; Loyola 864–65; Swann 865 Regulations for licensed establishments See Alcohol Human Rights Amendment Act, Alberta retail sales: Regulations for licensed See Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 establishments (Bill 7) Hospitals Human services [See also Alberta Hospital Edmonton; Boyle health [See also Social supports] care centre; Calgary cancer centre; Consort Front-line workers’ perception of former MLA hospital and care centre; Grande Prairie regional Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Jansen 603; Notley 603 hospital; Health facilities; Misericordia Support for front-line workers ... Sabir 344; Sweet 344 community hospital; Northern Lights regional Human services finance hospital; Rocky Mountain House health centre; Funding ... Mason 110; McIver 109–10; Speech from Royal Alexandra hospital; Strathmore general the Throne 8 hospital; Wainwright health centre] Human Services ministry Acute-care beds ... Hoffman 58; Strankman 57–58 See Ministry of Human Services Emergency service capacity issues ... Hoffman 775; Humanitarian aid Loewen 775 [See also Refugees] Foothills medical centre, location of cancer centre in International initiatives ... Notley 600; Rodney 600 See Calgary cancer centre: Location in Foothills Hunting medical centre Changes to regulations ... Loewen 235; Phillips 235 Laboratory service transfer from Medicine Hat Changes to regulations, point of order on debate ... Diagnostic Laboratory See Medical laboratories: Cooper 242; Mason 242; Speaker, The 242 Medicine Hat services moved to hospital Hutterite colonies Hospitals, auxiliary Bill 6 application to ... Coolahan 1035; Cyr 982; See Long-term care facilities (nursing Hanson 1033; Hunter 1035, 1094; McIver 1059; homes/auxiliary hospitals) Starke 933; Strankman 954 Hourihan, Peter, office of Hydraulic fracturing See Public Interest Commissioner’s office Nondisclosure agreements with landowners ... Hinkley House leaders 140 Agreement on oral question and members’ statement IIR rotation ... Speaker, The 12–13 See Ministry of international and intergovernmental Discussions on Assembly schedule ... Cooper 357–58; relations (ministry to October 22, 2015) Mason 357 Immigrant services ministry See Ministry of Human Services 2015 Hansard Subject Index 41

Immigrant workers, temporary India See Temporary foreign workers History of Sikhs See Sikhs Immigrants International trade See International trade: [See also Refugees] Memorandum of understanding with Punjab Community activities See Edmonton: Heroes of 107th province Avenue project Indigenous children’s education Integration services ... Loyola 104 Residential school awareness events See Orange Shirt Settlement services ... Fraser 602; Sabir 602 Day Immigration ministry Residential school commission See Truth and See Ministry of Human Services; Ministry of Jobs, Reconciliation Commission of Canada Skills, Training and Labour Indigenous peoples Immunization of children See Aboriginal peoples Mandatory information to parents proposed ... Hoffman Indigenous peoples consultation 233; Swann 233 See Aboriginal consultation Impaired driving Indigenous relations ministry Criminal Code provisions See Criminal Code See Ministry of Aboriginal Relations Drug-testing device approval proposed ... Ellis 125; Indigenous women and violence Ganley 125 See Aboriginal women and violence Members’ statements ... Larivee 286 Support for victims See Victims of crime Indigenous women’s employment Participation in North West Redwater Partnership In Flanders Fields (poem) project See North West Redwater Partnership: Centennial, members’ statements ... Connolly 447 Members’ statements Income support program Indigenous youth Client benefits ... Drever 466; Sabir 466–67 See Aboriginal youth Income support program for the severely handicapped Industrial property tax See Assured income for the severely handicapped See Property tax: Linear property assessment Income tax, corporate Infant development See Corporate taxation See Child development Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Infant protective services [See also Taxation] See Child protective services Calculation in Bill 2 See Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2): Personal income tax Inflation calculation, section 6.1(2) Factors influencing ... van Dijken 264–65 Charitable tax credit ... Fildebrandt 108 Information access and privacy legislation, private Flat-tax rate ... Ceci 334; Cooper 265–66; Fildebrandt sector 190, 192; Shepherd 185; Strankman 192 See Personal Information Protection Act Increase ... Aheer 189; Anderson, W. 259–60; Barnes Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office 554; Ceci 282; Clark 261; Cooper 282; Jean 268; Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 Nixon 261; Starke 193 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly Increase, impact on seniors ... Nixon 261; Strankman ... Speaker, The 333 262; Yao 262 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Law and legislation See Act to Restore Fairness to Information disclosure Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Public-sector compensation, legislation on See Public Official Opposition position ... Cooper 49 Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Personal tax exemption ... van Dijken 190 Progressive Conservative caucus position ... Ceci 251 Information management services (government Progressive tax proposed ... Bhullar 45; Ceci 45–46; ministry) Clark 261, 637; Fildebrandt 108; Hunter 185; Jean See Ministry of Service Alberta 120; Notley 120; Shepherd 185–86; Smith 185 Information services, telephone Progressive tax proposed, impact on charitable See 211 information and referral telephone line; donations ... Gotfried 262–63 Health Link Provincial revenue ... Loewen 263 Infrastructure Provincial revenue, comparison with other jurisdictions Inclusion of daycare facilities See Daycare centres: ... Fildebrandt 192; Nixon 192 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Independent members Other than Government Motion 502: carried) Members’ statement rotation See Members’ Infrastructure, municipal, funding for Statements (procedure): Rotation of statements See Municipal sustainability initiative Oral Question Period rotation See Oral Question Infrastructure construction Period (procedure): Rotation of questions See Capital plan; Capital projects Independent opposition caucuses Infrastructure ministry See Opposition caucuses See Ministry of Infrastructure Independent schools Infrastructure program, strategic transportation [See also Private schools] See Strategic transportation infrastructure program Funding ... Eggen 19; Jansen 18–19 (STIP)

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Innovation and advanced education ministry (former) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) (continued) See Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry Treasury Board and Finance interim supply estimates from October 22, 2015); Ministry of innovation 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote, division ... 75–76 and advanced education (ministry to October 22, International and intergovernmental relations ministry 2015) See Ministry of international and intergovernmental Innovation and technology commercialization relations (ministry to October 22, 2015) See Alberta Enterprise Corporation International Day for the Elimination of Violence Inspiring Education (provincial framework) against Women See Education: Provincial framework (Inspiring General remarks ... Drever 709; McPherson 608; Sabir Education) 709 Insurance Act amendments International Day of Persons with Disabilities Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various General remarks ... Carson 955 Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning International economic relations and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) See International trade Insurance agency, agricultural International investment See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Chinese investment in Alberta’s energy sector ... Insurance for farm workers McCuaig-Boyd 499–500; McPherson 499–500 See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch International offices Workers Act (Bill 6); Farm workers: Workers’ See Alberta government offices compensation coverage International trade Insurance premiums Energy resources export See Energy resources: Taxation See Taxation: Insurance premium tax Export market Intellectually disabled General remarks ... Bilous 710; Malkinson 710 See Persons with developmental disabilities Market development ... Bilous 422; Gotfried 284, 422; Intellectually disabled persons, programs for Notley 284 See Persons with developmental disabilities program Memorandum of understanding with Punjab province ... Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Bilous 606; Gotfried 606 Financial transactions, Energy ministry ... Bhullar 60; Trade with Asia-Pacific region [See also Trans-Pacific McCuaig-Boyd 60 partnership (trade agreement)]; Bilous 422, 710; General remarks ... Carlier 56; Ceci 51–52; Gotfried 284, 416, 422; Malkinson 710; Notley 284 Fildebrandt 51–52; Strankman 56 Trade with China, energy industry initiatives ... Time allotted for consideration ... Cooper 109; Hanson McCuaig-Boyd 499–500; McPherson 499–500 109; McIver 109 International trade agreements Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) See Farm produce: International trade agreements; [See also specific ministries] International trade: Memorandum of Basis for calculation ... Ceci 70–71; Cooper 70–71 understanding with Punjab province; Trans- Comparison with previous years ... Carlier 56; Hunter Pacific partnership (trade agreement) 185; Shepherd 185; Strankman 56 Intimate partner violence Estimates debate ... Anderson, W. 70; Barnes 53–56; See Domestic violence Bhullar 59–60; Bilous 61, 67–68, 70; Carlier 56– Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) 57, 59; Ceci 50–53, 57, 59, 66–67, 70–71; Clark 61– ... Aheer 864; Anderson, W. 662; Babcock 426, 562, 62, 68; Connolly 63–64; Cooper 70–71; Drever 62; 770, 873, 953; Barnes 229, 425, 462, 538–39, 663; Eggen 58, 59, 61, 63–64; Fildebrandt 51–53; Bilous 11–12, 230, 274, 321, 425, 523, 595, 705, Ganley 61, 66; Hoffman 54–56, 58–60, 62–63, 67, 769; Carlier 292, 389, 425, 524, 539; Carson 275, 69; Hunter 65–66; Larivee 69; Loyola 64–65; 367, 415, 538, 1039; Ceci 274, 491, 769; Chair 845; Mason 59, 63, 68, 70; McCuaig-Boyd 60; McIver Clark 95, 230, 274, 368, 390, 492, 706, 769, 855, 58–59; Phillips 60, 61, 68; Sabir 60, 65–66, 68; 873, 1040; Connolly 538, 855; Coolahan 674; Sigurdson 64–66; Starke 66–68; Strankman 56–58; Cooper 12, 164, 322, 662, 770, 1098; Cortes-Vargas Swann 62–63, 68–69; Sweet 65 537; Cyr 321, 770; Dach 96, 339, 425, 562; Dang Estimates debate procedure ... Chair 50; McIver 73 229, 275, 367, 562; Drever 301, 368; Eggen 12, 273, Estimates debate vote ... Chair 74–77 425, 426, 856, 953, 1039; Ellis 706, 953; Feehan Estimates transmitted ... Ceci 23–24 437, 639, 662, 770, 1039; Fildebrandt 770; Law and legislation See Appropriation (Interim Fitzpatrick 273, 322, 415, 426, 437, 596; Fraser Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) 323, 807, 857; Ganley 491, 537, 549; Goehring 389, Level of detail provided ... Anderson, W. 113; Bhullar 437, 706, 953; Gotfried 163, 164, 322–23; Gray 59; Ceci 52; Clark 61; Fildebrandt 51–52; Hoffman 301–2, 461, 705; Hanson 389, 707, 855; Hinkley 59, 234; MacIntyre 234; Mason 59; Schneider 112; 491; Hoffman 95, 164, 390, 461, 538, 561, 596, 639, Starke 66–67 661, 705, 864; Horne 340; Hunter 662, 864, 913; New spending ... Fildebrandt 111; Mason 110; McIver Jabbour 491, 523, 537, 855, 1039; Jansen 856; Jean 109–10 340; Kazim 770; Kleinsteuber 706; Larivee 95, 292; Referral to Committee of Supply (Government Motion Littlewood 115–16, 321, 323, 596, 639; Loewen 438, 7: carried) ... Cooper 24; Fildebrandt 24–25; Mason 674, 864; Loyola 115, 230, 437; Luff 339; Malkinson 24–26; McIver 25–26 769; Mason 116, 367, 461, 523, 537, 595, 887, 1124; Time allotted for consideration ... Cooper 24, 110–11; McCuaig-Boyd 390; McIver 673–74; McKitrick Fildebrandt 24–25, 51, 107, 111; Mason 25, 111; 163, 230, 339, 415, 426, 438, 491, 857; McLean 116, McIver 25–26; Nixon 182; Starke 66; Swann 62 340, 706; Miller 339, 367–68, 461, 562–63, 873; 2015 Hansard Subject Index 43

Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) (continued) (continued) Technology industry professional Trent Johnsen ... … Miranda 537; Nielsen 390, 462, 491, 523–24, 562, McPherson 321 596, 639, 662, 706, 883, 1039; Nixon 12, 462, 538, Investment, international 705; Notley 229, 415; Orr 562; Panda 302, 322, See International investment 807, 856; Phillips 95, 274, 340, 367, 415, 492, 596, Investment Management Corporation, Alberta 639; Piquette 11, 322, 339, 415–16, 537; Pitt 561, See Alberta Investment Management Corporation 769–70, 856; Renaud 116, 274, 339, 390, 438, 562; Rodney 322, 438, 561–62; Rosendahl 770; Sabir IPV (intimate partner violence) 389–90, 438, 595–96, 705–6, 856; Schmidt 275, 415, See Domestic violence 461, 562, 662, 856, 1073; Schreiner 115, 292, 426, Iraq, acts of violence in 769; Shepherd 163–64, 339, 367, 425–26, 562, 661– See Ministerial Statements (current session): Global 62, 873; Sigurdson 164, 229–30, 292, 321, 367, 389, violence and Syrian refugees 491, 523, 524, 596; Smith 230, 661; Speaker, The 4, Islamic observances 491, 523, 537, 769, 1039; Starke 674; Stier 953, See Ashura; Ramadan 981; Strankman 663, 769; Sucha 1039–40; Swann Jabbour, Deborah Cecile 12, 39, 95, 368, 426, 437–38, 492, 596, 663, 770, Election as Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees 855, 1040; Sweet 116, 705–6, 873; Taylor 321–22, See Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees: 864; Turner 12, 523, 538, 953; van Dijken 367, 390, Election of Ms Deborah Jabbour, Member for 561; Westhead 292, 1040; Woollard 769, 953; Yao Peace River 322, 769, 1091 Jansen, Sandra Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: Election, Advocates for missing and murdered aboriginal women nomination of Member for Calgary-North West ... Notley 115 Job creation Ambassador of Ecuador ... Mason 523 [See also Economic development] Ambassador of Switzerland and party ... Carlier 461 Business incentives ... Jean 417–18; McIver 418–19; Ambassador of the Czech Republic and consul ... Bilous Notley 418–19 561 Construction industry jobs See Capital projects: Job British Columbia MLA Jane Shin ... Dang 561 creation Calgary mayor and chief of staff ... Notley 163 Energy industries See Energy industries: Job creation Consul general of the United States ... Bilous 661 and retention; Oil sands development: Job Edmonton entrepreneur Nusrat Akhtar ... Ellis 321 creation Family of former MLA Elmer Elsworth Borstad ... Forest industries See Forest industries: Job creation Speaker, The 291 and retention Family of former MLA Frank Appleby ... Speaker, The General remarks ... Ceci 613; McIver 466; Notley 466 11 Government role ... Bilous 441–42; Ceci 335–36; Gray Family of former MLA Harry Keith Everitt ... Speaker, 441–42; Hoffman 440–41; Jean 876; McIver 440– The 291 41; Notley 876 Family of former MLA John Gogo ... Speaker, The 11 Grant program ... Bilous 428, 431–32, 496, 546; Ceci Family of former MLA Norman Weiss ... Speaker, The 336; Clark 637; Hunter 431–32; Jean 369, 391–92, 11 417–18, 428, 539, 632, 636; Loewen 346–47; McIver Family of former MLA Stewart Alden McCrae ... 392–93, 458–59, 466; Nielsen 496; Notley 369, 371– Speaker, The 291 72, 391–92, 418, 466, 539; Sigurdson 346–47, 393; Family of former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather ... Swann Swann 371 595 Grant program, members’ statements ... Hunter 434–35 Former MLA and father of member, Leo Piquette ... Grant program eligibility criteria ... Clark 343; Piquette 229 Sigurdson 343 Former MLA for Calgary-Glenmore Linda Johnson ... Local food production ... Swann 402 Rodney 321 Private-sector role ... Bilous 427; Jean 381, 427 Former MLA for Edmonton-Mill Woods Sohail Quadri Programs ... Bilous 326–28, 546; Cyr 327–28; Ellis ... Ellis 321 546; Jean 635; McIver 549; Panda 326 Former MLA for Edmonton-Riverview Steve Young ... Programs, point of order on debate ... Speaker, The 350 Fraser 321 Provincial strategy ... Bilous 863–64; Panda 863–64 Former MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Jacquie Youth employment See Youth employment: Support for Fenske ... Starke 1039 Former MLA for Sherwood Park Dave Quest ... McIver Job losses 273 See Unemployment Former MLA for Sherwood Park Dave Quest and Jobs, Skills, Training, and Labour ministry spouse, Fiona Beland-Quest ... McIver 855 See Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Former MP for Edmonton-Sherwood Park Ken Epp and JSTL spouse, Betty ... Jean 855 See Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Former Premier Dave Hancock and family ... Speaker, Judges in Court of Queen’s Bench The 273 See Court of Queen’s Bench: Number of justices Former Speaker Mr. Gene Zwozdesky ... Speaker, The Justice and Solicitor General ministry 1039 See Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Members of the Alberta Association of Former MLAs ... Feehan 437 Justice system Republic of Korea ambassador and party ... Bilous 425 Prosecutor services See Crown prosecutors 44 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Justice system administration Labour relations See Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Funding ... Ceci 66; Hunter 66 Juvenile correction centre in Calgary Labour Relations Code See Calgary Young Offender Centre Farm worker coverage, law and legislation See Kaminsky, Vicki Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch See Alberta Health Services (authority): CEO Workers Act (Bill 6) resignation Labour supply, temporary Kare project See Temporary foreign workers See Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Project Kare Lac La Biche Kennedy, Sheldon Dialysis service See Kidney dialysis: Mobile service Members’ statements ... McLean 173 Health facilities ... Hanson 776; Hoffman 776 Kenya, acts of violence in Schools ... Eggen 442; Smith 442 See Ministerial Statements (current session): Global Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills (constituency) violence and Syrian refugees Local support for cancer patients, charitable Keyano College organizations See Haying in the 30’s See Postsecondary education Member’s personal and family history ... Hanson 177 Overview ... Hanson 177–78 Keystone XL pipeline project Support for patients, charitable organizations See See Pipeline construction: TransCanada Keystone Haying in the 30’s XL project Lacombe-Ponoka (constituency) Khadr, Omar Arts and culture ... Orr 182 University studies ... Schmidt 1073–74 Charity ... Orr 435–36 Kidney dialysis Member’s personal and family history ... Orr 180–81, 846 Mobile service ... Hanson 177, 237, 776; Hoffman 237, Overview ... Orr 181–82 776 Rodeos ... Orr 182 Mobile service, members’ statements ... Hanson 127 Water/waste-water treatment See Water/waste-water Permanent unit proposed ... Hanson 237; Hoffman 237 treatment: Infrastructure needs, Lacombe-Ponoka Killarney-Glengarry Community Association (constituency) 60th anniversary, members’ statements ... Malkinson Lake aeration 286 Suspension ... Loewen 324; Phillips 324 Kinder Morgan pipeline projects Lakeland College See Pipeline construction: Kinder Morgan project See Postsecondary education King’s University College, The Land Assembly Project Area Act (Bill 19, 2009) See Postsecondary education General remarks ... Clark 141; Mason 124 King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, The Land ownership Petition presented for private bill ... McPherson 331 See Freehold lands Private Bills Committee report presented, compliance Land reclamation with standing orders ... McPherson 349 See Reclamation of land; Service stations: 2010 King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, The Calgary spill, land remediation (Bill Pr. 1) Land Stewardship Act, Alberta First reading ... Schmidt 377 See Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Second reading ... Mason 905 Committee ... Chair 906; Schmidt 905 Land tenure Committee, amendment A1 (degree, diploma, and See Freehold lands certificate programs) (Schmidt: carried) ... Schmidt Land-use plans, regional 905 See Lower Athabasca regional plan (land-use Third reading ... Schmidt 1073–74 framework) Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House Landowner rights advocate sitting) See Property Rights Advocate Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that LAO bill proceed with amendments, proposed amendments See Legislative Assembly Office tabled ... McPherson 673 LAPA Act Knowledge, advanced See Land Assembly Project Area Act (Bill 19, 2009) See Postsecondary education LARP Knowledge, advanced institutions See Lower Athabasca regional plan (land-use See Postsecondary educational institutions framework) Krahulec, Julie Law enforcement See Waskatenau (village): Anne Chorney public See Edmonton Police Service; Police; Royal library, members’ statements Canadian Mounted Police Kyne, Dr. Julian Law enforcement response teams, Alberta Airdrie health centre contract nonrenewal See Airdrie See Alberta law enforcement response teams (city): Urgent care services, nonrenewal of Lawyers, access to contract of Dr. J. Kyne See Legal aid Labour ministry See Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour 2015 Hansard Subject Index 45

Learning Legislative Assembly of Alberta adjournment See Education; Postsecondary educational Fall 2015 session adjourned to February 2016 pursuant institutions to Government Motion 14 ... Mason 1126 Learning curricula Fall 2015 session to be extended beyond first Thursday See Educational curricula in December (Government Motion 14: carried) ... Learning finance Mason 717 See Education finance Schedule change resulting from death of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar See Calgary-Greenway Learning ministry, elementary and secondary (constituency): Death of MLA Manmeet Singh See Ministry of Education Bhullar, motion to adjourn Legislature for Learning ministry, postsecondary (Mason: carried) See Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry Spring 2015 sitting adjourned (Government Motion 9: from October 22, 2015); Ministry of innovation and carried) ... Mason 289 advanced education (ministry to October 22, 2015) Spring 2015 sitting adjourned to October 26, 2015, Lebanon, acts of violence in pursuant to Government Motion 9 ... Mason 290 See Ministerial Statements (current session): Global Legislative Assembly Office violence and Syrian refugees Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Leduc No. 1 Energy Discovery Centre Chair 74 Members’ statements ... Anderson, S. 563 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote, Legal aid division ... 74 Funding ... Ellis 645; Ganley 528–29, 646; McLean 528 Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 Review ... Ellis 645; Ganley 645 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly Legislative Assembly Act amendments ... Speaker, The 333 Law and legislation See Public Sector Compensation Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Transparency Act (Bill 5) Staff ... Speaker, The 14 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Legislative officers All-party co-operation ... Aheer 30; Clark 106–7; See Chief Electoral Officer; Ethics Commissioner Cooper 36; Hoffman 36; Mason 112; Rodney 34; Legislative offices Speaker, The 3, 9; Starke 266–67; Swann 81–82; [See also Auditor General’s office; Chief Electoral Yao 112 Officer’s office; Child and Youth Advocate’s Chamber See Chamber (Legislative Assembly) office; Ethics Commissioner’s office; Information Constituency week starting November 9, 2015 and Privacy Commissioner’s office; Ombudsman’s (Government Motion 15: carried) ... Mason 365–66 office; Public Interest Commissioner’s office] Decorum [See also Points of order (current session); Law and legislation, public information disclosure Speaker’s rulings; Speaker’s statements]; Speaker, provisions See Public Sector Compensation The 546, 707, 878 Transparency Act (Bill 5) Decorum, points of order ... Deputy Chair 854; Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 Fildebrandt 853–54; Mason 853 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly Decorum, Speaker’s rulings ... Speaker, The 446, 961 ... Speaker, The 333 Dene remarks ... Jean 117 Legislative Offices, Standing Committee on Evening sittings (Government Motion 6: carried) ... See Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing Mason 23 Evening sittings (Government Motion 16: carried) ... Legislative policy committees Mason 366 [See also Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, Exhibits (props) use by members ... Speaker, The 174 Standing; Committee on Families and Exhibits (props) use by members, point of order Communities, Standing; Committee on Resource withdrawn ... Cooper 534 Stewardship, Standing] French remarks ... McKitrick 777; Piquette 238 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: German remarks ... Fildebrandt 533; Starke 1099 carried) ... Mason 22 Interparty co-operation, members’ statements ... Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not moved) Strankman 424 ... Mason 456 Legislative processes ... Jean 370; Notley 370 Referral of bills to, standing order amendments See Morning sittings proposed ... Cooper 357–58; Mason Committees of the Legislative Assembly: Referral 357, 370 of bills to, standing order amendments Parliamentary language, members’ statements ... Jansen (Government Motion 23: carried) 874 Legislature Building Parliamentary language, points of order See Points of General remarks ... Speaker, The 3 order (current session) Legislature Library Punjabi remarks ... Bhullar 269; Jean 597; Panda 607 Research services ... Westhead 1086 Sitting times and sessional calendar, motion to change Lennox, Deanna See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time See War Horse Awareness Foundation and sessional calendar, division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates Lesbians debate time and procedure, Committee on See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Lesser Slave Lake (constituency) Printing to review morning sittings of the Member’s personal and family history ... Larivee 286 Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments) 46 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Lethbridge (city) Livestock industry Team Lethbridge coalition, members’ statements ... Traceability programs ... Strankman 576, 892–93 Fitzpatrick 330–31 Traceability programs, funding for ... Carlier 56; Lethbridge College Strankman 56 [See also Postsecondary education] Livestock industry losses to wildlife Trades and technology renewal and innovation project See Wildlife predator compensation program funding ... Ceci 336 Living Faith Bible College Lethbridge-East (constituency) See Postsecondary education Member’s personal and family history ... Cooper 481; Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 Drever 484, 884; Fitzpatrick 479–80, 889–90; Petition presented for private bill ... McPherson 331 Jansen 492 Private Bills Committee report presented, compliance Lethbridge nonprofit organizations with standing orders ... McPherson 349 See AIDS Outreach Community Harm Reduction Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Education Support Society (ARCHES) Pr. 7) Lethbridge youth services First reading ... Nixon 377 See 5th on 5th (Lethbridge youth services) Second reading ... Cooper 905 Levy on carbon Committee ... Chair 906 See Carbon levy Third reading ... Nixon 1076 Levy on health care services Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House See Health care levy sitting) Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that LGBTQ community bill proceed ... McPherson 673 See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Loan agencies, agricultural Liberal opposition See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Caucus See Opposition caucuses Members’ statement rotation See Members’ Loans, student Statements (procedure): Rotation of statements See Student financial aid (postsecondary students) Oral Question Period rotation See Oral Question Loans to political parties Period (procedure): Rotation of questions See Political parties: Loan payments by corporations Liberal Party, Alberta or unions See Alberta Liberal Party Loans to political parties, guarantees on Libraries See Political parties: Loan guarantees by Calgary See Calgary public library corporations or unions Community collaborations See Meadows community Local Food Act, Alberta recreation centre and library See Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Legislature Library See Legislature Library Local food advisory committee proposed Waskatenau library See Waskatenau (village): Anne See Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Chorney public library Local road bridge program Libraries, little free See Bridge maintenance and repair: Local road See Book exchanges bridge program Licensed practical nurses Local transit See Victorian Order of Nurses See Public transit Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Locomotive fuel tax Entrance into the Chamber ... Ganley 7; Speaker, The 7 See Taxation: Locomotive fuel tax Installation ... Speaker, The 6 Logging Transmittal of 2015-2016 main and Legislative See Forest industries Assembly offices estimates ... Speaker, The 333 Long Ears Days Light rail transit See Lacombe-Ponoka (constituency): Rodeos See Calgary Transit; Edmonton Transit System; Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary Public transit hospitals) Light Up Your Life Tri-Community Palliative/Hospice Couples accommodations ... Hoffman 498; Yao 498 Care Society Funding ... Hoffman 54 Members’ statements ... Babcock 424 Health Quality Council of Alberta survey ... Hoffman Linear property tax 373–74; Yao 373–74 See Property tax: Linear property assessment New beds ... Gotfried 347; Hoffman 347, 542; Schmidt Lions Club 542 Calgary Festival of Lights, members’ statements ... New facilities, timeline on ... Hoffman 46–47; Yao 46–47 Coolahan 672 Prevention of resident abuse ... Hoffman 374; Yao 374 Liquor retail sales Lottery fund See Alcohol retail sales Budget allocation See Estimates of Supply Little free libraries (government expenditures) See Book exchanges Interim supply estimates See Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1); Interim supply estimates 2015- Livestock and Meat Agency 2016 (No. 2) See Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency Main estimates See Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) 2015 Hansard Subject Index 47

Lovsin, Frank Medical care facilities construction See Freson Bros. See Hospital construction Low-income housing corporation Medical care system See Alberta Social Housing Corporation See Health care Low-income support program Medical care system administration See Income support program See Alberta Health Services (authority) Lower Athabasca regional plan (land-use framework) Medical care system finance Report ... Ganley 862–63, 959; Rodney 862–63, 959 See Health care finance LPNs (licensed practical nurses) Medical care system ministry See Victorian Order of Nurses See Ministry of Health LRT Medical doctors See Calgary Transit; Edmonton Transit System; See Physicians Public transit Medical laboratories Lunch programs in schools DynaLife services ... Hoffman 541–42; Swann 541 See School nutrition programs DynaLife services, Health Quality Council of Alberta MacEwan University review ... Hoffman 541–42; Swann 541 See Postsecondary education Medicine Hat services moved to hospital ... Barnes 39 MADD Public funding and operation proposed ... Hoffman 542; See Mothers Against Drunk Driving Swann 541 Magna Carta Medically assisted dying 800th anniversary of signing ... Speaker, The 8 See Assisted dying General remarks ... Aheer 865 Medicare, Friends of Speaker’s statements ... Speaker, The 705 See Friends of Medicare Visit to Alberta ... Smith 28 Medication Maiden speeches Off-label use of bevacizumab See Eye diseases: See Speech from the Throne: Addresses in reply, Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for maiden speeches Medicine, preventive Main estimates of supply See Health promotion See Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Medicine Hat (city) Materials Emergency medical services ... Barnes 879; Hoffman 879 See Commodities, primary Flood damage mitigation See Flood damage Mather, Weslyn Melva (former MLA) mitigation: Medicine Hat projects See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Former Medical laboratory services ... Barnes 39 MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial tribute Medicine Hat (constituency) McCrae, Lt.-Col. John Member’s election as Speaker See Speaker, The: See In Flanders Fields (poem) Election of Mr. Wanner, Member for Medicine Hat McCrae, Stewart Alden (former Member for Calgary- Member’s nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: Foothills) Election, nomination of Member for Medicine Hat See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Former MLA Stewart Alden McCrae, memorial tribute Medicine Hat College See Postsecondary education McGrath, Anne See Office of the Premier: Premier’s deputy chief of Medicine Hat Diagnostic Laboratory staff Members’ statements ... Barnes 39 McLean, Stephanie Medicine Hat regional hospital Nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: Election, Laboratory service transfer from Medicine Hat nomination of Member for Calgary-Varsity Diagnostic Laboratory See Medical laboratories: Medicine Hat services moved to hospital McNeil, Dr. W.J. David See Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Members of the Legislative Assembly Anniversaries of election See Elections, provincial MCOOL Certificates of election ... Clerk, The 10 See Meat: United States mandatory country of origin Compensation freeze proposed ... Ceci 333 labelling Compensation freeze proposed, point of privilege raised Meadows community recreation centre and library See Privilege (current session): Obstructing a Members’ statements ... Woollard 285–86 member in performance of duty (Budget Address Meat remarks about Executive Council, MLA, and United States mandatory country of origin labelling ... political staff compensation) Carlier 236; Drysdale 236; Notley 236 Female MLAs See Women parliamentarians Medical Association, Alberta Former MLA Elmer Elsworth Borstad, memorial tribute See Alberta Medical Association ... Speaker, The 291 Medical care, private Former MLA Frank Pierpoint Appleby, memorial See Health care: Private delivery tribute ... Jean 13; Speaker, The 11 Former MLA Harry Keith Everitt, memorial tribute ... Medical care facilities Speaker, The 291 See Health facilities; Hospitals Former MLA John Albert Gogo, memorial tribute ... Speaker, The 11 48 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Members of the Legislative Assembly (continued) Members’ Statements (current session) (continued) Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar (died in office, CBC Radio Edmonton turkey drive ... Schmidt 875 November 23, 2015) See Calgary-Greenway Central Alberta AIDS Network Society ... Miller 571 (constituency): Death of MLA Manmeet Singh Charitable donations ... Orr 435–36 Bhullar Charitable tax credit ... Goehring 640 Former MLA Norman Allen Weiss, memorial tribute ... Climate change strategy ... Hinkley 715–16; MacIntyre Jean 13; Speaker, The 11 570–71; McIver 571 Former MLA Stewart Alden McCrae, memorial tribute CNIB ... Babcock 874 ... Speaker, The 291 Co-operation in the Legislative Assembly on Bill 6 ... Former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial tribute Strankman 954 ... Speaker, The 595; Swann 595 Commodity producers ... van Dijken 446 LGBTQ-plus members ... Connolly 26 Constable Daniel Woodall ... Dach 19–20; McIver 39– Maiden speeches See Speech from the Throne: 40 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches Cornerstone Youth Centre ... Luff 472–73 Members’ apologies ... Fildebrandt 1111 County Clothes-Line Foundation ... Cortes-Vargas Members out of seats ... Deputy Speaker 585, 654, 1009 571–72; McKitrick 49 Members’ passing notes to each other in the Assembly Crêpe and Shake Café ... Anderson, S. 284–85 ... Speaker, The 219–20 Diabetes awareness ... Westhead 500–501 Recall of members ... Smith 29 Diwali ... Panda 368 Recognition by the chair ... Bhullar 270; Drever 270 Down syndrome ... Renaud 399 Reference in Assembly by name ... Rodney 34; Economic development ... Gotfried 779 Speaker, The 48 Edmonton-Whitemud community activities ... Turner Reference in Assembly to absence ... Deputy Speaker 525 702; Westhead 702 Education concerns ... Hanson 501 Reference in Assembly to absence, point of order on ... Elizabeth Fry Society ... Malkinson 349 Cooper 781; Mason 781; Speaker, The 180, 781; The Emeralds Show and Dance Band ... Nielsen 524 Strankman 180 Energy policies ... Aheer 547; Fraser 172–73; Gotfried Reference in Assembly to absence, point of order on, 416; Loewen 473; Starke 330 member’s withdrawal of remarks ... Turner 180 Environmental advocacy ... MacIntyre 231 Responsibility to uphold the law ... Bilous 282; Cyr Fall of the Berlin Wall 26th anniversary ... Fildebrandt 282; Mason 282 533 Statistics, 29th Legislature ... Speaker, The 9; Speech Families First Society ... Littlewood 608 from the Throne 8 Family farms ... Drysdale 715; Orr 716 Members’ Services, Special Standing Committee on Family farms and Bill 6 ... Rosendahl 866 See Committee on Members’ Services, Special Family Violence Prevention Month ... Pitt 416 Standing Farm and ranch worker legislation ... Cortes-Vargas Members’ Statements (procedure) 954; Smith 1052; Strankman 524; Turner 1051–52; Rotation of statements, Speaker’s statement ... Speaker, van Dijken 874; Westhead 955 The 12–13 Farmers ... Stier 770–71 First responders ... Renaud 348 Members’ Statements (current session) Fish Creek library 30th anniversary ... Payne 301 5th on 5th Lethbridge youth services ... Fitzpatrick 239 Flood and drought damage mitigation ... Swann 96 211 information and referral service ... Clark 285 Flood recovery ... Anderson, W. 21 Aboriginal peoples ... Horne 39 Flooding in southern Alberta, 2013 ... Westhead 96 Academy of Learning College Edmonton west campus Former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial tribute ... Dach 349 ... Swann 595 Affordable housing in Calgary ... Coolahan 368 Freson Bros. 60th anniversary ... Babcock 104 Alberta Bottle Depot Association ... Kleinsteuber 715 Friends of Medicare ... Gray 641 Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities ... Gateway Association 40th anniversary ... Carson 492 Carson 955 Government policies ... Barnes 640; McIver 300; Alberta Hospital Edmonton ... Sweet 874–75 Rodney 1051; Stier 714–15, 955 Alberta Real Estate Association ... Dach 435 Grassroots change ... Orr 285 Anne Chorney public library renovations ... Piquette Greenmunch ecostore ... McKitrick 447 331 Grey Cup western final ... Nielsen 548 Anniversary of l’école Polytechnique shootings ... Habitat for Humanity ... Schreiner 300 Payne 778–79 Health Link 811 phone line dementia support ... ARCHES Society in Lethbridge ... Fitzpatrick 416–17 Littlewood 376 Ashura ... Kazim 369 Heroes of 107th Avenue project ... Shepherd 340 Autism spectrum disorder ... Feehan 779 Highway 28 ... Cyr 96 Bike Month ... Shepherd 164–65 HIV/AIDS awareness ... Miller 672 Bill 6 opposition ... Anderson, W. 672–73; Cooper 671; Holodomor Memorial Day ... Babcock 607 Starke 672 Hope Christian School ... Schneider 399 Bo Cooper ... Yao 779–80 Human rights ... Aheer 865; Clark 866; Jansen 865– Bullying awareness and prevention ... Luff 548 66; Loyola 864–65; Swann 865 Calgary Dream Centre ... Payne 48–49 Impaired driving ... Larivee 286 Calgary Lions Club Festival of Lights ... Coolahan 672 In Flanders Fields poem centennial ... Connolly 447 Calgary to Cochrane trail... Kleinsteuber 640 Interparty co-operation ... Strankman 424 Carbon tax ... Aheer 572 Jaydon Sommerfeld ... Aheer 20 Catriona, Jana, and Dara Bott ... Nixon 301 2015 Hansard Subject Index 49

Members’ Statements (current session) (continued) Members’ Statements (current session) (continued) Job-creation grant program ... Hunter 434–35 Status of Women ministry estimates debate ... Jansen Killarney-Glengarry Community Association 60th 492–93 anniversary ... Malkinson 286 Strathmore-Brooks constituency ... Fildebrandt 173–74 Leduc No. 1 Energy Discovery Centre ... Anderson, S. Suicide and mental health ... Dang 390–91 563 Team Lethbridge ... Fitzpatrick 330–31 Light Up Your Life Society in Stony Plain ... Babcock Terra Centre ... Schmidt 473 424 Transgender Day of Remembrance ... Miranda 547 Little free library in Beddington Heights ... McPherson Varsity Community Association ... McLean 493 127–28 Violence against Sikhs in India ... Bhullar 398–99; Mr. Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Ellis 607; Panda 606– Loyola 447 7; Sabir 608 Violence against women ... McPherson 608 Meadows community recreation centre and library ... Wabamun Dragonfly Festival ... Babcock 173 Woollard 285–86 Walking with Our Sisters ... Schreiner 127 Medical laboratory services in Medicine Hat ... Barnes War Horse Awareness Foundation ... Littlewood 1051 39 Water supply in Milk River and Coutts ... Hunter 492 Mental health services for postsecondary students ... Women parliamentarians ... Jabbour 779 Taylor 330 Workplace fatalities ... Coolahan 21 Minimum wage ... Hunter 128 World AIDS Day ... McLean 707 Mobile dialysis service ... Hanson 127 World Refugee Day ... Loyola 104 Mosaic Entertainment ... Woollard 532–33 Mennonite Centre for Newcomers Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation ... Rodney 239 See Immigrants: Integration services National Child Day ... Hinkley 547–48 Mennonite school, Two Hills North West Redwater Partnership ... Piquette 416 See Two Hills Mennonite school Not-for-profit organizations ... Clark 547 Mennonites NutraPonics Canada Corporation ... Cortes-Vargas 671 Kanadier Mennonite farm workers ... Jansen 805; Official Opposition ... Strankman 331 Swann 801 Official Opposition policies ... Cooper 49 Mental Health Amendment Act, 2007 Orange Shirt Day ... Horne 330 Referral to Standing Committee on Families and Palliative care ... Gray 471–72 Communities (Government Motion 10: carried) ... Parliamentary language ... Jansen 874 Mason 289 Pathways Community Services Association ... Drever Mental health services 376–77 Funding ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55, 63; Swann 62 Peace River constituency ... Jabbour 639–40 Postsecondary student services, members’ statements ... Permolex International zero-waste facility ... Schreiner Dang 390–91; Taylor 330 435 Review ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55 Phil Bobawsky ... Sucha 300–301 Review, inclusion of paramedics in ... Fraser 861; Physician-assisted dying ... Swann 446–47 Hoffman 861 Pipeline construction ... Cyr 472 Mental health services for children Police officer safety ... Ellis 20 See Child mental health services Postsecondary end of semester ... Connolly 1052 Progressive Conservative opposition ... Drysdale 341; Menthol cigarettes McIver 954 See Tobacco products: Menthol-flavoured products Provincial budget ... Aheer 340 Métis Provincial election 6-month anniversary ... Starke 524– See Aboriginal peoples 25 Métis (government department) Provincial fiscal policies ... Smith 398; Yao 300 See Ministry of Aboriginal Relations Provincial long-term fiscal plan ... Fildebrandt 426–27 Métis children’s education Public consultation ... Loewen 875 Residential school awareness events See Orange Shirt Ramadan ... Kazim 96–97 Day Referral amendment on Bill 6 ... Aheer 1050–51 Residential school commission See Truth and Remembrance Day ... Goehring 438–39 Reconciliation Commission of Canada Rural health care ... Loewen 165 Métis Nation of Alberta Rural issues ... Starke 238–39 General remarks ... Horne 39 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ... Piquette 238 Métis women and violence Seniors’ charter ... Ellis 472 See Aboriginal women and violence Sexual health education curriculum ... Jansen 127 Métis women’s employment Sheldon Kennedy ... McLean 173 Participation in North West Redwater Partnership Show Your 4-H Colours Day ... Rosendahl 427 project See North West Redwater Partnership: Simon House Recovery Centre ... Drever 641 Members’ statements Slovenian Canadian Association 50th anniversary ... Sweet 127 Mexican Mennonite farm workers South Pointe community centre ... Dang 239 See Mennonites: Kanadier Mennonite farm workers Speech from the Throne ... Renaud 20–21 Microgeneration regulation (Alberta Regulation Springbank reservoir flood mitigation plan ... Westhead 27/2008) 399 See Electric power: Microgeneration and policy STARS air ambulance ... Miranda 369 review (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: carried) 50 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Midwifery services Ministry of Aboriginal Relations (continued) Access to ... Hoffman 280–81; Payne 280 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Funding ... Hoffman 280–81, 604–5; Payne 280; Starke Clark 61; Ganley 61, 66; Hunter 66 604–5, 615 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Milk River water supply Chair 75 See Water management: Milk River and Coutts Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, minister’s written water supply responses to questions ... Ganley 444; Rodney 444 Millar Western Forest Products Ltd Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Resource Stewardship, report presented ... Goehring 609 See Forest industries: Millar Western Forest Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Products sawmill closure Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Minerals Minister’s participation in Walking with Our Sisters See Commodities, primary exhibit on missing and murdered aboriginal women ... Mines and mining Schreiner 127 See Grande Cache Coal Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry from Minimum wage October 22, 2015) Impact on employment rate ... Bilous 500; Clark 167; Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Cooper 282–83, 500; Hunter 100; Jean 120, 231, Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future. 635; Loewen 263; Luff 80; McIver 232–33, 458–59, [See also Ministry of innovation and advanced 466; Notley 120–21, 167, 231, 232, 466; Pitt 78, education (ministry to October 22, 2015)] 260; Sigurdson 100, 233, 282–83, 500; Strankman Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on 78, 80 Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... Impact on employment rate, point of order on debate ... Miranda 609 Cooper 534; Mason 534; Speaker, The 534 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Increase ... Aheer 189; Barnes 249; Bhullar 283; Ellis Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 326–27, 546; Hunter 48, 100, 235–36, 345; Jean Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries 166, 268, 392; Luff 79; Nixon 248; Notley 166, 392; See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time Orr 397; Pitt 78; Sigurdson 48, 100, 235–36, 283, and sessional calendar, division bell timing, 326–27, 345, 397, 546; Speech from the Throne 8; changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates Starke 268; Swann 82, 553, van Dijken 265 debate time and procedure, Committee on Members’ statements ... Hunter 128 Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Minister responsible for the status of women Printing to review morning sittings of the [See also Ministry of Status of Women] Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Funding ... Hoffman 58, 60; Jansen 123; McIver 58; amendments) Notley 123; Pitt 123 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Mandate letter proposed ... Jansen 123; Notley 123 Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Role of Human Services ministry ... Jansen 123; Notley Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future. Ministerial Statements (procedure) Capital funding ... Bhullar 59; Carlier 59 Speakers ... Speaker, The 40 Forestry division See Forestry division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ministerial Statements (current session) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Constable Daniel Woodall ... Notley 40 Bhullar 59; Carlier 56–57, 59; Strankman 56–57 Constable Daniel Woodall, responses ... Clark 41; Ellis Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... 41; Jean 40; Swann 41 Chair 75 Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial tribute Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A1 (minister’s ... Notley 597 office budget reduction) (Hanson: defeated) ... Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial Hanson 609–10 tribute, responses ... Clark 599; Jean 597–98; Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A1 (minister’s McIver 598–99; Speaker, The 599; Swann 599 office budget reduction) (Hanson: defeated) vote ... 609 Global violence and Syrian refugees ... Notley 462 Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A1 (minister’s Global violence and Syrian refugees, responses ... Clark office budget reduction) (Hanson: defeated) vote, 464; Jean 463; McIver 463; Swann 463–64 division ... 609–10 Truth and reconciliation ... Notley 116–17 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Truth and reconciliation, responses ... Clark 119; Alberta’s Economic Future, amendment tabled Drever 119; Jean 117–18; Swann 118–19 (amendment A1) ... Miranda 609 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Assembly ... Mason 1040–41 Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Miranda 609 responses ... Barnes 1041; Clark 1042; Speaker, The Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 1041, 1042; Starke 1041–42; Swann 1042 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Ministry budgets Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries See Budget 2015-2016; Estimates of Supply See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time (government expenditures) and sessional calendar, division bell timing, Ministry of Aboriginal Relations changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the debate time and procedure, Committee on Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) ... Cooper Printing to review morning sittings of the 109; Hanson 108–9 Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments) 2015 Hansard Subject Index 51

Ministry of Culture and Tourism Ministry of Education (continued) Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A2 (minister’s Standing Committee on Families and Communities. office budget reduction) (Smith: defeated) vote, Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... division ... 610 Chair 75 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Families and Communities, amendment tabled Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet (amendment A2) ... Sweet 609 609 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 609 Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 and sessional calendar, division bell timing, Minister’s meetings with school boards See School changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates boards and districts: Meetings with Education debate time and procedure, Committee on minister Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Minister’s remarks on public consultation See Printing to review morning sittings of the Government policies: Consultation policies, Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Executive Council members’ remarks amendments) Role in teacher contract negotiations, law and Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (new legislation See Public Education Collective ministry from October 22, 2015) Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the School board chair’s letter to minister ... Orr 728 Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future. Ministry of Energy Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. Miranda 609 Deputy minister ... Ganley 645; Nixon 645 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Bhullar 60; McCuaig-Boyd 60 Mandate ... Ceci 336 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Minister’s remarks on Bill 6 See Enhanced Protection Chair 75 for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6): Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Economic Development and Trade minister’s Resource Stewardship, report presented ... Goehring remarks 609 Ministers’ remarks on public consultation See Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Workers Act (Bill 6): Economic Development and Minister’s attendance at United Nations climate change Trade minister’s remarks summit See United Nations climate summit: New ministry ... Bilous 446; Starke 446 Energy minister’s attendance Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries Minister’s chief of staff ... Aheer 18; Jean 42; Notley See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time 18 and sessional calendar, division bell timing, Minister’s meeting with Canadian Association of changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates Petroleum Producers See Executive Council: debate time and procedure, Committee on Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Producers Printing to review morning sittings of the Minister’s remarks on job losses See Energy Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with industries: Job losses, Energy minister’s remarks amendments) Ministry of Environment and Parks Ministry of Education Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Standing Committee on Families and Communities. Anderson, W. 70; Bhullar 60; Ceci 67; Clark 61, Former minister, announcements during by-election ... 68; Mason 63, 70; McIver 58, 74; Phillips 60–61, Clark 33, 406–7 68; Starke 67; Swann 63 Former minister, reference to in Assembly ... Rodney 34 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Chair 75 Bhullar 59; Ceci 50–51, 67; Clark 61; Connolly Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on 63–64; Eggen 58, 59, 61, 63–64; Hoffman 54; Starke Resource Stewardship, report presented ... Goehring 67; Strankman 58 609 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Chair 75 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A2 (minister’s Minister’s announcement on renewable energy See office budget reduction) (Smith: defeated) ... Smith Renewable/alternative energy sources: 610 Environment minister’s announcement Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A2 (minister’s Minister’s book preface ... Aheer 231–32; Bilous 282; office budget reduction) (Smith: defeated) vote ... Cyr 282; MacIntyre 231; Notley 231–32 Chair 610

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Ministry of Environment and Parks (continued) Ministry of Human Services (continued) Minister’s book preface, point of order on debate ... Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Cooper 241; Mason 241; Speaker, The 242, 288; Chair 75 Starke 241–42 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Minister’s dual portfolio with Status of Women ministry Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet ... Fraser 530–31; Mason 531 609 Minister’s meeting with Canadian Association of Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Petroleum Producers See Executive Council: Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum Minister’s remarks on public consultation See Producers Government policies: Consultation policies, Minister’s previous work for NDP ... Aheer 232; Notley Executive Council members’ remarks 232 Recent initiatives ... Fraser 601; Sabir 601–2 Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries Staff morale, corporate surveys ... Swann 69 See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time Ministry of indigenous relations and sessional calendar, division bell timing, See Ministry of Aboriginal Relations changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee on Ministry of Infrastructure Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Printing to review morning sittings of the Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future. Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) ... amendments) Schneider 111–12 Ministry of Executive Council Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Clark 68; Mason 63, 68; Swann 63 Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future. Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... [See also Executive Council] Chair 75 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A3 Anderson, W. 70; Ceci 70 (minister’s office budget reduction) (Hunter: Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... defeated) ... Hunter 610 Chair 75 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A3 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on (minister’s office budget reduction) (Hunter: Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... defeated) vote ... Chair 610 Miranda 609 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A3 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 (minister’s office budget reduction) (Hunter: Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 defeated) vote, division ... 610 Ministers’ office budgets ... Ceci 646–47; Cooper 617, Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on 621; Hanson 646–47; Starke 617 Alberta’s Economic Future, amendment tabled Ministers’ office budgets, point of order on debate ... (amendment A3) ... Miranda 609 Hanson 650; Mason 650; Speaker, The 650, 674–75 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Ministry of Health Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Miranda 609 Standing Committee on Families and Communities. Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Barnes 53–56; Bhullar 60; Ceci 59, 67; Clark 61– Ministry of innovation and advanced education 62; Hoffman 54–56, 58–60, 62–63, 67, 69, 73–74; (ministry to October 22, 2015) Larivee 69; Mason 59, 63; McIver 58–59, 73–74; Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Starke 67; Strankman 57–58; Swann 62–63 Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future. Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... [See also Ministry of Advanced Education (new Chair 75 ministry from October 22, 2015)] Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet Ceci 50–51, 67; Loyola 64–65; Sigurdson 64–65; 609 Starke 67 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Chair 76 Mandate on capital planning ... Bhullar 60; Hoffman Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries 60 See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time Minister’s meetings with physicians See Alberta and sessional calendar, division bell timing, Medical Association: Health minister’s meeting changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates with debate time and procedure, Committee on Relations with Alberta Health Services See Alberta Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Health Services (authority): Relations with Health Printing to review morning sittings of the ministry Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Ministry of Human Services amendments) Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Ministry of international and intergovernmental Standing Committee on Families and Communities. relations (ministry to October 22, 2015) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Bhullar 60; Ceci 50–51, 66, 67; Hoffman 60; Chair 76 Hunter 66; McIver 73; Sabir 60, 65–66, 68, 73; Priorities ... Jean 98; Notley 98 Starke 67; Swann 68–69; Sweet 65 2015 Hansard Subject Index 53

Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Ministry of Seniors Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future. Standing Committee on Families and Communities. Funding, comparison with previous years ... Ceci 66; Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Hunter 65–66 Bhullar 60; Hoffman 67; Starke 67 Group layoff notices received See Unemployment: Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Group layoff notices Chair 76 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Ceci 66; Hunter 65–66; Sigurdson 66 Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... 609 Chair 76 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... Ministry of Service Alberta Miranda 609 Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Standing Committee on Families and Communities. Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Minister’s remarks on Bill 6 See Enhanced Protection Anderson, W. 70; Bilous 70 for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6): Jobs, Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Skills, Training and Labour minister’s remarks Chair 76 Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A4 See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time (minister’s office expense reduction) (Anderson, W.: and sessional calendar, division bell timing, defeated) ... Anderson, W. 610 changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A4 debate time and procedure, Committee on (minister’s office expense reduction) (Anderson, W.: Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and defeated) vote ... Chair 610 Printing to review morning sittings of the Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A4 Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with (minister’s office expense reduction) (Anderson, W.: amendments) defeated) vote, division ... 610–11 Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Families and Communities, amendment tabled ... Standing Committee on Families and Communities. Sweet 609 Appearance before Public Accounts Committee Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on proposed ... Fildebrandt 645; Nixon 645 Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet Framework on violence against aboriginal women See 609 Aboriginal women and violence: Federal- Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 provincial-territorial justice framework Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Ministry of Status of Women Chair 76 Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Standing Committee on Families and Communities. Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet [See also Minister responsible for the status of 609 women] Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Families and Communities, report presented ... Sweet Ministry of Municipal Affairs 609 Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... Main estimates debate 2015-2016, members’ statements Anderson, W. 70; Bilous 61, 70; Clark 61; Mason ... Jansen 492–93 63; Swann 63 Minister’s dual portfolio with Environment and Parks ministry ... Fraser 530–31; Mason 531 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Minister’s remarks in main estimates debate meeting ... Chair 76 Jansen 529; Mason 529; Phillips 529 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on NDP platform ... Hoffman 58–59; McIver 58 Resource Stewardship, report presented ... Goehring Standing orders changed to reflect changes in ministries 609 See Standing Orders: Amendments (sitting time Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 and sessional calendar, division bell timing, Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates Minister’s remarks on Bill 6 See Enhanced Protection debate time and procedure, Committee on for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6): Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Municipal Affairs minister’s remarks Printing to review morning sittings of the Minister’s visit to Calgary and area See Flood damage Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with mitigation: Calgary and area, Municipal Affairs amendments) minister’s meeting with mayor Minister’s visit to High River See Flood damage Ministry of Transportation mitigation: High River, minister’s meeting with Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the mayor and councillors; High River: Municipal Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. Affairs minister’s visit Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... 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Ministry of Transportation (continued) Motions (procedure) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... No. 19, standing order amendments (sitting time and Chair 76 sessional calendar; division bell timing; changes Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A5 reflecting ministry name changes; estimates debate (minister’s office budget reduction) (Aheer: defeated) time and procedure; Committee on Privileges and ... Aheer 611 Elections, Standing Orders and Printing to review Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A5 morning sittings of the Assembly) (Mason: carried (minister’s office budget reduction) (Aheer: defeated) with amendments), amendment A1 (start time of 10 vote ... Chair 611 a.m.), motion to adjourn debate (Schmidt: carried), Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A5 division ... 365 (minister’s office budget reduction) (Aheer: defeated) No. 27, time allocation on Bill 6 debate in Committee of vote, division ... 611 the Whole (Mason: carried), division ... 1101 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on No. 502, child care facility inclusion in new government Resource Stewardship, amendment tabled buildings, division ... 319 (amendment A5) ... Goehring 609 General revenue fund and lottery fund, interim supply Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote, division ... 75–76 Resource Stewardship, report presented ... Goehring Legislative Assembly Office, interim supply estimates 609 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote, division ... 74 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 2015- Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Minister’s communication with federal Infrastructure Main estimates 2015-2016, Agriculture and Forestry and Communities minister ... Dach 569; Mason 569 ministry, amendment A1 (minister’s office budget Minister’s remarks on public consultation See reduction) (Hanson: defeated), division ... 609–10 Government policies: Consultation policies, Main estimates 2015-2016, Education ministry, Executive Council members’ remarks amendment A2 (minister’s office budget reduction) Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance (Smith: defeated), division ... 610 Note: Main estimates 2015-2016 were debated in the Main estimates 2015-2016, Infrastructure ministry, Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. amendment A3 (minister’s office budget reduction) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... (Hunter: defeated), division ... 610 Chair 76 Main estimates 2015-2016, Service Alberta ministry, Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote, amendment A4 (minister’s office budget reduction) (Anderson, W.: defeated), division ... 610–11 division ... 75–76 Main estimates 2015-2016, Transportation ministry, Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A6 amendment A5 (minister’s office budget reduction) (minister’s office budget reduction) (Stier: defeated) (Aheer: defeated), division ... 611 ... Stier 611 Main estimates 2015-2016, Treasury Board and Finance Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A6 ministry, amendment A6 (minister’s office budget (minister’s office budget reduction) (Stier: defeated) reduction) (Stier: defeated), division ... 611 vote ... Chair 611 Questions asked under Standing Order 29(2)(a) See Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A6 Standing Orders: SO 29(2)(a) (minister’s office budget reduction) (Stier: defeated) vote, division ... 611 Motions (current session) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Note: Government motions are numbered sequentially Resource Stewardship, amendment tabled starting with 1; motions other than government (amendment A6) ... Goehring 609 motions are numbered starting with 501. Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on No. 1, Speech from the Throne consideration on June Resource Stewardship, report presented ... Goehring 16, 2015 (Notley: carried) 10 609 No. 2, committee appointments for 29th Legislature, Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 standing committees on Privileges and Elections, Main estimates 2015-2016 vote, division ... 611–12 Standing Orders and Printing; Public Accounts; Private Bills; Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, and Ministry of women Legislative Offices; Special Standing Committee on See Minister responsible for the status of women; Members’ Services; and standing committees on Ministry of Status of Women Families and Communities, Alberta’s Economic Future, Misericordia community hospital and Resource Stewardship (Mason: carried) ... 22 Maintenance and repair, funding ... Barnes 54; Hoffman No. 3, committee membership appointments: standing 55 committees on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Mitchell, Hon. Lois, CM, AOE Fund; Legislative Offices; Private Bills; Privileges See Lieutenant Governor of Alberta and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing; and MLAs Public Accounts; Special Standing Committee on See Members of the Legislative Assembly Members’ Services; and standing committees on Mosaic Entertainment Alberta’s Economic Future, Families and Members’ statements ... Woollard 532–33 Communities, and Resource Stewardship (Mason: carried) ... 22–23 Mothers Against Drunk Driving General remarks ... Larivee 286 No. 4, Assembly resolution into Committee of the Review of provincial legislation ... Ganley 125 Whole to consider bills (Mason: carried) ... 23 No. 5, Assembly resolution into Committee of Supply Motion picture industry (Mason: carried) ... 23 See Film and television industry No. 6, evening sittings (Mason: carried) ... 23

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Motions (current session) (continued) Motions (current session) (continued) No. 7, interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) No. 507, liquor regulations for live music venues referred to Committee of Supply (Mason: carried) ... (Shepherd: carried) ... 895–903 24–26 Motions for Returns (current session) No. 8, interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) M1, construction projects not yet contracted, 2015 to considered for three hours on June 17, 2015 ... 26 2015 (van Dijken: defeated) ... 679–80 No. 9, spring 2015 session adjourned (Mason: carried) M2, Alberta Health Services executive and management ... 289 severance payments (Barnes: accepted) ... 679 No. 10, Mental Health Amendment Act, 2007, referred Motions Other than Government Motions to Standing Committee on Families and Communities See Motions (current session) (Mason: carried) ... 289 No. 11, Personal Information Protection Act referred to Motor vehicle safety Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future See Traffic safety (Mason: carried) ... 289 Mount Royal University No. 12, Select Special Ethics and Accountability See Postsecondary education Committee appointment and membership (Mason: Mountain pine beetle control carried) ... 289–90 See Pine beetle control No. 13, Budget Address ... 333–37, 381–88, 456–59, Movie industry 549–54 See Film and television industry No. 14, fall 2015 session adjourned (Mason: carried) ... MSI 717 See Municipal sustainability initiative No. 15, constituency week (Mason: carried) ... 365–66 No. 16, evening sittings (Mason: carried) ... 366 Multiculturalism No. 17, address in reply to Speech from the Throne, Provincial initiatives ... Eggen 604; McIver 604 question put on December 2, 2015, unless debate on Municipal Affairs ministry motion previously concluded (Mason: carried) ... 366 See Ministry of Municipal Affairs No. 18, address in reply to Speech from the Throne Municipal Climate Change Action Centre (Mason: carried) ... 798 Funding ... Payne 99–100; Phillips 99–100 No. 19, standing order amendments (sitting time and Municipal district of Rocky View flood damage sessional calendar; division bell timing; changes mitigation reflecting ministry name changes; estimates debate See Flood damage mitigation: Springbank reservoir time and procedure; Committee on Privileges and project Elections, Standing Orders and Printing to review Municipal district of Willow Creek morning sittings of the Assembly) (Mason: carried See Willow Creek municipal district with amendments) ... 357–65, 450–56 No. 20 committee membership changes (Alberta Municipal elections Heritage Savings Trust Fund; Legislative Offices; See Elections, municipal Private Bills; Privileges and Elections, Standing Municipal finance Orders and Printing; Members’ Services; Alberta’s 3-year plans ... Bilous 45; Stier 45 Economic Future; Families and Communities; Collection of taxes in arrears ... Hanson 329; Larivee Resource Stewardship) (Mason: carried) ... 378–79 329 No. 21, Property Rights Advocate’s office 2014 annual Linear taxation formula See Property tax: Linear report referred to Resource Stewardship Committee property assessment (Mason: carried) ... 379 Official Opposition 10-10 plan ... Jean 13; Notley 13 No. 22, standing order amendments to legislative policy Taxation as revenue source ... Jean 13; Notley 13 committee mandates (Mason: not moved) ... 456 Municipal sustainability initiative No. 23, standing order amendments on bill referral to Funding ... Bilous 45; Larivee 298; Miller 298; Stier committee (Phillips/Mason: carried) ... 448–49 44–45 No. 24, Bill 203, rescinding of motion to refer to Municipalities committee (Phillips/Mason: carried) ... 449–50 Greenhouse gas mitigation funding See Municipal No. 26, time allocation on Bill 6, second reading Climate Change Action Centre (Mason: carried) ... 1028–29 Provincial water/waste-water program See No. 27, time allocation on Bill 6, Committee of the Water/waste-water treatment Whole (Bilous/Mason: carried) ... 1100–1101 Music award recipients No. 28, time allocation on Bill 6, third reading (Mason: See Emeralds Show and Dance Band carried) ... 1118–19 No. 501, surface rights legislation review (Hinkley: Music festivals carried) ... 139–43 Alcohol sales ... Rosendahl 901–2 No. 502, child care facility inclusion in new government Music industry buildings (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 313–19 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than No. 503, student participation on school boards (Dang: Government Motion 507: carried) ... Aheer 898–99; carried unanimously) ... 410–13 Connolly 901; Gotfried 901; Jabbour 897; No. 504, regional public transit service feasibility study Kleinsteuber 898; Malkinson 899–900; Mason 900– (Kleinsteuber: carried) ... 484–89 901; McIver 899; Orr 898; Pitt 900; Rosendahl No. 505, harm reduction policies (Miller: carried) ... 901–2; Shepherd 895–97, 902–3; Sucha 902 584–90 Muslim observances No. 506, microgenerator regulations and policies See Ashura; Ramadan (Feehan: carried) ... 686–92 56 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Mustard Seed Society Nonprofit organizations General remarks ... Nixon 588 [See also AIDS Outreach Community Harm History ... McKitrick 560; Nixon 558–60 Reduction Education Support Society (ARCHES); NADC Calgary Dream Centre; Central Alberta AIDS See Northern Alberta Development Council Network Society; County Clothes-Line Naloxone Foundation; Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary; See Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.): Gateway Association; Light Up Your Life Tri- Naloxone administration by first responders; Community Palliative/Hospice Care Society; Fentanyl use: Naloxone kit availability Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation; Newell Foundation; Pathways Community Services Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation Association] Members’ statements ... Rodney 239 Donor tax credit See Taxation: Charitable tax credit National Aboriginal Day Members’ statements ... Clark 547 General remarks ... Drever 119; Jean 117; Notley 117 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue National Child Day [See also Energy resources] Members’ statements ... Hinkley 547–48 Forecasts ... Barnes 756; Ceci 334, 394, 529, 666, National energy program (1980s) 958–59; Clark 551; Fildebrandt 394, 426–27, 529; General remarks ... Jean 633 Horne 666; Payne 958; Swann 553 Native children’s education Forecasts, point of order on debate (withdrawn) ... Residential school awareness events See Orange Shirt Cooper 534 Day Provincial reliance on ... Barnes 135–36; Larivee 135 Residential school commission See Truth and Royalty revenue ... Clark 419; Notley 419 Reconciliation Commission of Canada Nonrenewable natural resources Native peoples See Commodities, primary See Aboriginal peoples NorQuest College Native peoples consultation See Postsecondary education See Aboriginal consultation North West Redwater Partnership Native women and violence Bitumen upgrading project ... Clark 44; McCuaig-Boyd See Aboriginal women and violence 45 Native women’s employment Members’ statements ... Piquette 416 Participation in North West Redwater Partnership Northern Alberta Development Council project See North West Redwater Partnership: Status of ... Bilous 434; Drysdale 434; Ganley 434 Members’ statements Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Natural gas See Postsecondary education See Commodities, primary; Energy industries Northern Gateway pipeline project Natural gas royalties See Pipeline construction: Enbridge Northern See Royalty structure (energy resources) Gateway project ND caucus Northern Lakes College See Government caucus See Postsecondary education Needle-exchange programs Northern Lights regional hospital See Health promotion: High-risk behaviour Capital needs ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55–56 Neighbour Day (Calgary annual event) Northern Lights school division No. 61 General remarks ... McPherson 127–28 Response to Lac La Biche Catholic school construction New Brunswick ... Eggen 442; Smith 442 Premier’s discussions on Energy East pipeline project Norwegian sovereign fund See Pipeline construction: TransCanada Energy See Alberta heritage savings trust fund: Comparison East project, Premier’s discussions with New with other sovereign wealth funds Brunswick Premier Notices of Motions (procedure) New Democratic caucus Statement of complete motions ... Fildebrandt 651; See Government caucus Mason 651; Speaker, The 651 New Democratic Party November 11 Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting with See Remembrance Day Executive Council members ... Hoffman 439–40; NPOs Jean 439–40; Mason 440; Nixon 440 See Nonprofit organizations Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting with Nurse practitioner clinic, Sheep River Executive Council members, Speaker’s ruling on See Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic reference to nonmember ... Speaker, The 440 Nursery schools Newell Foundation See Daycare centres General remarks ... Fildebrandt 84 Nurses, Victorian Order of Seniors’ housing proposal See Seniors’ housing: See Victorian Order of Nurses Newell Foundation proposal Nursing homes See Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals)

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NutraPonics Canada Corporation Officers of the Legislature Members’ statements ... Cortes-Vargas 671 See Auditor General’s office; Chief Electoral Nutrition programs in schools Officer; Ethics Commissioner See School nutrition programs Offices of the Legislative Assembly NWR See Legislative offices See North West Redwater Partnership Official Opposition O Canada Members’ statement rotation See Members’ Performed by Robert Clark and Royal Canadian Statements (procedure): Rotation of statements Artillery Band ... Speaker, The 7 Members’ statements ... Strankman 331 O’Brien, Nathan, foundation Oral Question Period rotation See Oral Question See Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation Period (procedure): Rotation of questions Policies, members’ statements ... Cooper 49 Occupational Health and Safety Act amendments Law and legislation See Enhanced Protection for Oil Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6) See Commodities, primary OEC (office of the Ethics Commissioner) Oil and gas industries See Ethics Commissioner’s office See Energy industries Off-reservation boarding schools commission Oil prices See Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Budgetary implications ... Ceci 333, 529; Fildebrandt 529; Speech from the Throne 8 Office of the Auditor General Impact on energy industry employment ... Hanson 184 See Auditor General’s office Oil royalties Office of the Chief Electoral Officer See Nonrenewable natural resource revenue; Royalty See Chief Electoral Officer’s office structure (energy resources) Office of the Child and Youth Advocate Oil sands development See Child and Youth Advocate’s office Foreign workers See Temporary foreign workers Office of the Ethics Commissioner General remarks ... Jean 632 See Ethics Commissioner’s office Job creation ... Jean 633 Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner Job losses ... Jean 634 See Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office Premier’s position on ... Jean 632–33 Office of the Ombudsman Provincial strategy ... Jansen 324–25; Notley 324–25 See Ombudsman’s office Support for ... Jean 382, 384 Office of the Premier Oil sands products Advisory committees See Premier’s Advisory See Bitumen Committee on the Economy Oil sands royalties in kind Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, See Royalty structure (energy resources) ministerial statement ... Notley 275–76 Oil sands upgrading project Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, See North West Redwater Partnership: Bitumen ministerial statement, responses ... Barnes 276; Clark upgrading project 277; Mason 277; McIver 276–77; Swann 277 Oil transportation Portraits of former Premiers ... Ceci 51; Fildebrandt 51 See Pipeline construction; Railroads Premier’s attendance at Constable Woodall’s funeral ... Ellis 41; McIver 39–40; Notley 40 Oilwell Drilling Contractors, Canadian Association of Premier’s attendance at UN climate summit See United Forecasts for drilling operating days See Energy Nations climate summit: Premier’s attendance industries: Drilling operating days, forecasts for Premier’s Calgary office staff appointment ... Nixon OIPC 465; Notley 465–66 See Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office Premier’s deputy chief of staff ... MacIntyre 280 Okotoks Premier’s meeting with Canadian Association of Health care services See Sheep River nurse Petroleum Producers See Executive Council: practitioner clinic Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum Water management See Water for life program: Producers Okotoks application Premier’s remarks on consultation See Government Older people policies: Consultation policies, Premier’s remarks Abuse and neglect of See Senior abuse and neglect Premier’s remarks on corporate taxation See Corporate Benefit programs See Seniors’ benefit program taxation: Premier’s remarks in news media, 2012 Housing for See Seniors’ housing Staff appointments ... Mason 395–96; Nixon 395–96 Ministry responsible for See Ministry of Seniors Staff compensation, requests for information under Olds College FOIP ... Fildebrandt 651 See Postsecondary education Office of the Premier of New Brunswick Ombudsman Act amendments Premier’s discussions on Energy East pipeline project Law and legislation See Public Sector Compensation See Pipeline construction: TransCanada Energy Transparency Act (Bill 5) East project, Premier’s discussions with New Brunswick Premier Ombudsman’s office Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Office of the Public Interest Commissioner Chair 74 See Public Interest Commissioner’s office Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333

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Ombudsman’s office (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly Agricultural policies ... Carlier 296, 531; Cortes- ... Speaker, The 333 Vargas 531; Starke 296 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Air quality in Alberta ... Eggen 567; Hoffman 567; Open-source society Phillips 567; Starke 567 See Social change Alberta Health Services ... Barnes 772; Hoffman 772– Opioid use 73 [See also Fentanyl use] Alberta Health Services Board ... Barnes 295–96; Reduction strategy ... Hoffman 644; Swann 644 Hoffman 296 Alberta Health Services performance measures ... Opportunity Company, Alberta (former) Barnes 323, 348; Hoffman 323, 348 See Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Alberta law enforcement response teams ... Ellis 961; Opposition, Official Ganley 961–62 See Official Opposition Bail process review ... Ellis 237–38; Ganley 125, 237– Opposition caucuses 38; Renaud 125 [See also Official Opposition; Progressive Budget debate process ... Jean 370; Mason 370 Conservative opposition] Budget document preview by opposition ... Jean 293– Proposal of amendments to bills ... Starke 266–67 94; Notley 293–94 Relationship with government caucus See Legislative Bullying prevention ... Eggen 470; Sabir 470; Sucha Assembly of Alberta: All-party co-operation 469–70 Role ... Cooper 450; Jean 370, 381, 384; Mason 370 Calgary cancer centre ... Barnes 121; Hoffman 422; Shadow/alternative budgets ... Clark 637; Cooper 621– Notley 121; Panda 421–22 22 Calgary southwest ring road ... Ellis 712–13; Mason OQP procedure 712–13 See Oral Question Period (procedure) Calgary southwest ring road contract ... Drever 294–95; OQP topics Mason 295 See Oral Question Period (current session topics) Calgary Young Offender Centre ... Ganley 238, 445; Kleinsteuber 238; Luff 444–45 Oral Question Period (procedure) Cancer services ... Hoffman 372; Turner 372 Additional time allotted for first OQP ... Speaker, The Capital plan ... Mason 372–73; Schneider 372–73 13 Capital projects in Calgary-Lougheed ... Eggen 172; Addressing the Speaker ... Speaker, The 295 Mason 172; Rodney 172 Communication between participants, Bhullar Carbon levy revenue utilization ... Gotfried 778; phenomenon ... Speaker, The 606 McCuaig-Boyd 778 Ministers’ supplementary responses ... Hoffman 348; Carbon tax ... Bilous 568, 570; Cyr 569–70; Speaker, The 348 Fildebrandt 568; Hoffman 563–65, 568; Jean 464– Number of opposition questions ... Fildebrandt 1111 65, 563–64, 641–42, 876; MacIntyre 496–97, 567; Preambles to supplementary questions ... Speaker, The McIver 957; Notley 465, 641–42, 876, 957–58; 13, 123, 345, 391, 395, 421, 430, 493 Phillips 497, 567–70; Rodney 570 Questions to committee chairs ... Speaker, The 650 Castle special management area ... Phillips 471; Rotation of questions, Speaker’s statement ... Speaker, Westhead 471 The 12–13 Child care supports ... Jansen 468; Mason 468; Rule change to accommodate tribute to former MLA Piquette 328–29; Sabir 328–29, 468 Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Gotfried 606; Starke 604 Child protective services ... Pitt 279; Sabir 279 Speaker’s leniency on questions ... Speaker, The 493 Childhood immunization ... Hoffman 233; Swann 233 Time allotted ... Speaker, The 773 Climate change and royalty reviews ... Clark 527–28; Time allotted, 35-second rule ... Speaker, The 13 McCuaig-Boyd 528; Phillips 528 Time allotted, Speaker’s rulings on ... Speaker, The Climate change strategy ... Aheer 1043; Coolahan 777, 780–81 647–48; Fitzpatrick 671; Fraser 647, 714, 1046; Oral Question Period (current session topics) Gotfried 648–49; Hoffman 565; Mason 647; Aboriginal entrepreneurship ... Ganley 102–3; Hinkley McCuaig-Boyd 1046; McIver 565; Notley 1044, 102–3 1046–47; Phillips 647–49, 671, 714 Aboriginal peoples’ economic development ... Babcock Climate change strategy and First Nations ... Ganley 863; Ganley 863 711; Phillips 711; Rodney 711 Aboriginal relations ... Ganley 98–99, 444; Notley 98– Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... Bilous 99, 328; Rodney 98–99, 328, 444 862; Gotfried 499, 1049–50; Hoffman 1050; Aboriginal workforce participation ... Sabir 713; McCuaig-Boyd 1050; Orr 862; Phillips 499 Woollard 713 Condominium Property Act regulations ... Larivee 962; Addiction and mental health capital funding ... Jansen Shepherd 962 345–46; Mason 346; Sabir 346 Constituency office administration ... Jansen 281–82; Addiction treatment services for women in Calgary ... Notley 281–82 Clark 441; Hoffman 441 Corporate tax collection ... Notley 325; Swann 325 Affordable and special-needs housing ... Gotfried 103– Corporate taxes ... Bhullar 126; Notley 126 4; Hoffman 103–4 Dental care costs ... Hoffman 878; Swann 878 Affordable housing ... Hoffman 773–74; Swann 773–74 Dialysis service in Lac La Biche ... Hanson 237; Affordable supportive living initiative ... Gotfried 298, Hoffman 237 347; Hoffman 298, 347 Disaster recovery program ... Anderson, W. 297; Affordable supportive living project approval ... Larivee 297 Fildebrandt 375–76; Hoffman 376 2015 Hansard Subject Index 59

Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Diversity initiatives ... Eggen 604; McIver 604 Fentanyl use ... Ellis 497–98, 881; Ganley 497–98; Donations to political parties ... Ganley 19; Miranda Hoffman 881 19 Fentanyl use on First Nations ... Ganley 532; Hoffman Drug treatment for retinal conditions ... Hoffman 396; 532; Rodney 532 Starke 396 Fentanyl use prevention ... Ellis 397–98; Ganley 397– Economic development ... Bilous 442; Ceci 958–59; 98; Hoffman 397, 423; Payne 422–23 Gray 441–42; Payne 958 Film and television industry ... Eggen 545; Shepherd Economic diversification ... Bilous 422, 446; Gotfried 545 422; Starke 445–46 Flood damage mitigation ... Nixon 101–2; Phillips Education concerns ... Eggen 168; Luff 168 101–2 Education funding ... Eggen 19, 168–69; Jansen 18– Flood damage mitigation in High River ... Fraser 100– 19; Smith 168–69 101; Phillips 100–101 Education system ... Eggen 46; Smith 46 Flood damage mitigation on the Bow and Elbow rivers Elder abuse ... Fitzpatrick 16; Hoffman 16 ... Kazim 295; Mason 295; Phillips 16; Swann 15– Emergency medical services ... Fraser 861; Hoffman 16 495–96, 861; Swann 495–96 Flood damage mitigation on the Elbow River ... Aheer Emergency medical services in eastern Alberta ... 298–99; Phillips 299 Hoffman 433–34; Taylor 433–34 Flood recovery and mitigation ... Bilous 122; Drever Emergency medical services in southern Alberta ... 122 Barnes 960; Hoffman 960 Forest fire fighting contracting ... Carlier 126; Emergency medical services in Willow Creek ... Strankman 126 Hoffman 1047–48; Stier 1047–48 Forest industry issues ... Bilous 299, 568–69; Carlier Energy industry ... Bilous 375; Ceci 374; Drysdale 299, 393–94; Drysdale 299, 568–69, 882–83; Mason 374–75; MacIntyre 374; Notley 374; Phillips 374– 883; Rosendahl 393–94 75 Gas station leak site remediation ... Drever 393; Energy industry consultation ... McCuaig-Boyd 44; Phillips 393 McPherson 44 Government accountability ... Jean 14–15; Notley 14– Energy industry environmental issues ... Jean 540; 15 Notley 540; Phillips 495; Starke 495 Government advertising ... Ceci 467; Fildebrandt 467 Energy industry layoffs ... Bilous 327–28; Cyr 327–28 Government policies ... Carlier 670; Ceci 43, 882; Energy policies ... Bilous 427–28; Gotfried 543; Eggen 166, 231; Gotfried 284; Hoffman 777–78; Hoffman 525–26, 771–72, 775; Jean 277–78, 427– Hunter 345; Jean 165–66, 231, 955–56; Larivee 28, 525–26, 771–72; Loewen 566–67; Mason 427; 778; Loewen 670; MacIntyre 712, 777–78; Mason McCuaig-Boyd 543; McIver 279; Notley 278–80, 345, 429, 670; McCuaig-Boyd 43; McIver 43, 167, 427–28; Phillips 279, 566–67 294, 429; Notley 43–44, 165–67, 231, 284, 294, 429, Energy resource trade with China ... McCuaig-Boyd 882, 955–56; Phillips 670, 712; Sigurdson 167, 345, 499–500; McPherson 499–500 712; Smith 882 Environment and Parks ministry issues ... Fraser 530– Government revenue forecasts ... Ceci 529; Fildebrandt 31; Mason 531; Phillips 531 529; Jean 341; Notley 341 Environment minister ... Aheer 231–32; Bilous 282; Grande Prairie hospital ... Hoffman 430–31, 443; Cyr 282; Mason 282; Notley 231–32 Loewen 430–31, 443 Environmental policies ... Mason 860; Westhead 860 Health and seniors’ care in Strathmore-Brooks ... Environmental protection ... Fraser 373; Phillips 373 Fildebrandt 281; Hoffman 281 Family farms and Bill 6 ... Carlier 668; Drysdale 667; Health care decision-making ... Hoffman 47; Starke 47 Nixon 668; Sigurdson 667 Health care review ... Barnes 43; Hoffman 43 Family violence ... Goehring 419–20; Sabir 420 Health care system ... Barnes 284; Clark 280; Hoffman Farm and ranch safety ... Hunter 542–43; Sigurdson 280, 284; Notley 280 542–43 Health care system decision-making ... Barnes 16–17; Farm and ranch worker legislation ... Anderson, S. 644– Hoffman 17 45; Barnes 1042–43; Clark 859–60; Gotfried 963; Health coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ... Hoffman 526–27, 667–68, 707–8, 771, 773, 775, Hoffman 171; McKitrick 171 1046, 1049; Hunter 667–68, 860–61; Jean 526–27, Health facilities in Wainwright ... Hoffman 103, 646; 540, 707–8, 771, 857–58, 876–77, 957; Larivee 773, Mason 103, 646; Taylor 103, 646 860–61, 960–61, 963; McIver 773, 859, 1044; Nixon Health services for transgender and gender-variant 1045–46; Notley 540–41, 857–60, 877, 957, 1043– Albertans ... Connolly 669; Hoffman 669 45; Sigurdson 644–45; Starke 775; Strankman 960– Highway 63 twinning ... Littlewood 433; Mason 433 61, 1043; Taylor 1049 Highway safety ... Mason 470; Strankman 470 Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... Hospital infrastructure ... Carson 881–82; Hoffman Carlier 666–67; Drysdale 544–45; Hoffman 663– 881–82 64, 709; Hunter 648, 880–81; Jansen 670; Jean Human services ... Jansen 603–4; Notley 603; Sabir 642–43, 663–64; McIver 709; Notley 642–43; 344, 603–4; Sweet 343–44 Schneider 710–11; Sigurdson 544–45, 648, 670–71, Impaired driving ... Ellis 124–25; Ganley 125 709–11, 880–81; Strankman 666–67 Infrastructure capital funding ... Clark 343; Jean 342; Farm safety ... Sigurdson 668–69; Starke 668–69 Mason 342, 344, 532; Notley 342–43; Schneider Farm worker labour protection and safety ... Notley 344, 532; Sigurdson 343 429; Sigurdson 429–30; Swann 429 Infrastructure priorities and municipal funding ... Mason 494–95; Schneider 494–95 60 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Infrastructure project prioritization ... Gray 47–48; Ministers’ office budgets ... Ceci 646–47; Hanson Mason 47–48 646–47 Injured temporary foreign worker ... Hoffman 233–34; Municipal greenhouse gas emissions reduction ... Payne Loyola 233–34; Sigurdson 234 99–100; Phillips 99–100 Inspiring Education framework ... Eggen 232; Notley Municipal infrastructure funding ... Larivee 298; Miller 232; Smith 232 298 International and local relationship building ... Bilous Municipal sustainability initiative funding ... Bilous 45; 606; Gotfried 606 Stier 44–45 International humanitarian aid ... Notley 600–601; Municipal tax collection ... Hanson 329; Larivee 329 Rodney 600 Nonprofit organization employee wages ... Bhullar 283; International postsecondary students ... Clark 602; Ceci 283; Sigurdson 283 Sigurdson 602 Northern Alberta concerns ... Hanson 1047; Hoffman International trade ... Bilous 710; Malkinson 710 1047 Job creation ... Bilous 326, 431–32; Hunter 395, 431– Northern Alberta Development Council ... Bilous 434; 32; Jean 391–92; McIver 392–93; Notley 391–92; Drysdale 434; Ganley 434 Panda 326; Sigurdson 393, 395 Oil sands development ... Jansen 324–25; Notley 324–25 Job creation and retention ... Bilous 441; Ceci 169; Openness and transparency in government ... Drysdale Gotfried 169; Hoffman 440–41; Jean 369, 417–18, 601; Mason 601; Sabir 601 464, 493–94, 539–40, 875–76; McCuaig-Boyd 169, Opioid use ... Hoffman 644; Swann 644 171; McIver 418–19, 440–41, 466; Notley 369, 371– PDD residential safety standards ... Luff 878–79; Pitt 72, 417–19, 464, 466, 493–94, 539–40, 875–76, 959; 468–69; Sabir 469, 878–79 Panda 959; Sigurdson 169–71; Starke 170–71; Physician service contracts ... Hoffman 861–62; Pitt Swann 371 861–62 Job creation and retention in Calgary ... Bilous 863–64; Pipeline development ... Aheer 18, 166; Feehan 566; Panda 863–64 Jean 41–42, 97–98, 120; McCuaig-Boyd 18, 166– Job-creation grant program ... Loewen 346–47; 67, 566; Notley 18, 41–42, 97–98, 120–21, 166 Sigurdson 346–47 Police officer fatality ... Ellis 17; Ganley 17 Justices and Crown prosecutors ... Ellis 432–33; Ganley Postsecondary education accessibility ... Connolly 236– 432–33 37; Sigurdson 236–37 Lake aeration ... Loewen 324; Phillips 324 Postsecondary education funding ... Sigurdson 421; Landowner property rights ... Cooper 327; Mason 124, Taylor 421 327; McCuaig-Boyd 124; Stier 124 Primary care networks ... Hoffman 1048; Jansen 1048 Legacy of former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Promotion of Alberta’s energy industry ... Aheer 418; Fraser 601–2; Notley 602; Sabir 601–2 Fraser 469; McCuaig-Boyd 1045; Miller 1045; Legal aid ... Ellis 645–46; Ganley 528–29, 645–46; Notley 418; Phillips 469 McLean 528 Provincial budget ... Ceci 18; Fildebrandt 17–18; Jean Legislative procedures ... Jean 370; Mason 370; Notley 13–14, 292–93, 392; McIver 370–71; Notley 14, 370 292–93, 371, 392 Legislative process ... Jean 278; Notley 278–80 Provincial budget timeline ... Jean 42; Notley 42 Linear property assessment and taxation ... Larivee Provincial debt ... Ceci 419; Clark 419; Jean 293, 323–24; Stier 323–24 341–42; McIver 342–43; Notley 293, 341–43, 419 Long-term care facility survey ... Hoffman 373–74; Yao Provincial fiscal policies ... Ceci 124, 282; Cooper 373–74 282–83; Fildebrandt 123–24; Jean 97, 599–600; Lower Athabasca regional land-use plan ... Ganley Notley 97, 599–600; Sigurdson 282–83 862–63, 959–60; Rodney 862–63, 959–60 Provincial fiscal position ... Ceci 666; Horne 666 Mandatory country of origin labelling ... Carlier 236; Provincial quarterly fiscal update ... Ceci 708–9; Drysdale 236; Notley 236 Fildebrandt 708–9 Market access for energy resources ... Jean 98; Notley Public access to Executive Council members ... 98 Hoffman 439–40; Jean 439–40; Mason 440; Nixon Medical laboratory services ... Hoffman 541–42; Swann 440 541 Public access to Executive Council members, Premier’s Medicine Hat town hall meeting ... Barnes 879; Calgary office appointment ... Nixon 465; Notley Hoffman 879; Notley 879 465–66 Members’ accommodation allowance ... Clark 1045; Public appointment process ... Notley 99; Swann 99 Mason 1045 Public consultation ... Carlier 665; Clark 665–66; Menthol-flavoured tobacco products ... Hoffman 122; Fildebrandt 880; Hoffman 665–66; McIver 665, Turner 122 877; Notley 877–78, 880; Sigurdson 665 Midwifery services ... Hoffman 280–81, 604–5; Payne Public consultation on land use ... Bilous 530; Carlier 280; Starke 604–5 530; Phillips 530; Stier 530 Minimum wage ... Clark 167–68; Ellis 326–27; Hunter Public education collective bargaining legislation ... 48, 100, 235–36; McIver 232–33; Notley 167–68, Eggen 858; Smith 858 232; Sigurdson 48, 100, 233, 235–36, 326–27 Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta ... Eggen Minimum wage increase ... Bilous 500, 546; Cooper 442, 711–12; Smith 442, 711–12 500; Ellis 546; Sigurdson 500, 546 Public service compensation ... Bhullar 344–45; Ceci Minister of Status of Women ... Jansen 529; Mason 344–45; Fildebrandt 345 529; Phillips 529 Public service compensation disclosure ... Ganley 1050; Turner 1050 2015 Hansard Subject Index 61

Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Public service senior appointments ... Mason 395–96; Support for low-income Albertans ... Drever 466; Sabir Nixon 395–96; Notley 396 466–67 Public transit ... Dach 569; Mason 121–22, 569; Syrian refugees ... Loyola 398; Sigurdson 398 McIver 121; Notley 121 Tax policy ... Bhullar 45; Bilous 530; Ceci 45–46, Queen Elizabeth II highway congestion ... Mason 346; 530; Hanson 530; Jean 13, 120; McIver 15; Notley Schreiner 346 13, 15, 120 Refugee resettlement ... Jean 494; Notley 494 Tobacco recovery lawsuit ... Fildebrandt 645; Ganley Registry services ... Ellis 605; Larivee 605 645; Nixon 645 Registry services in Blackfalds ... Bilous 171–72; Orr Tobacco use reduction strategy ... Hoffman 394–95; 171–72 Rodney 394–95 Renewable energy ... McCuaig-Boyd 774; Renaud 774 Tourism industry ... Carson 396–97; Eggen 396–97 Resource industry environmental issues ... McIver 541; Traffic accidents involving pedestrians ... Drever 958; Notley 541; Phillips 541 Ganley 958; Mason 958 Resource industry policies ... Fraser 329–30; Phillips Transportation infrastructure priorities ... Mason 101, 329–30 283; Piquette 283; van Dijken 101 Resource revenue projections ... Ceci 394; Fildebrandt Two Hills Mennonite school construction ... Hanson 394 297; Mason 297 Ride-sharing services ... Mason 443; McIver 442–43 UN climate summit ... Hoffman 439; Jean 439; Phillips Rocky Mountain House hospital ... Hoffman 545–46; 439 Nixon 545–46 UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples ... Royal Alexandra hospital renovation ... Barnes 432; Babcock 347–48; Ganley 347–48 Hoffman 432 Urgent health care in Airdrie ... Hoffman 170, 423, Royalty framework ... Ceci 444; Phillips 443–44; van 543–44, 774–75; Pitt 170, 423, 543–44, 774 Dijken 443–44 Urgent health care in Beaverlodge ... Drysdale 102; Royalty review ... Aheer 664–65; Hoffman 664–65, Hoffman 102 708; Jean 417, 708; Notley 417 Urgent health care in Sylvan Lake ... Hoffman 234; Rural economic development ... Carlier 234–35; Notley MacIntyre 234 235; Starke 234–35 Value-added energy industries ... Clark 44; McCuaig- Rural emergency medical services ... Hoffman 445; Boyd 44 Stier 445 Victorian Order of Nurses ... Hoffman 643–44; McIver Rural health care ... Barnes 544; Hanson 776; Hoffman 643; Notley 643 544, 775–76; Loewen 775–76 Violence against indigenous women and girls ... Ganley Rural transportation infrastructure ... Mason 170; 603; Miranda 602–3 Schneider 169–70 Violence against women and girls ... Drever 709; School board associations’ spending ... Eggen 468; Phillips 710; Sabir 709 Smith 468 Vision loss services ... Hoffman 527; McIver 527 School construction ... Bhullar 420–21; Eggen 421 Wildlife regulations ... Loewen 235; Phillips 235 School construction schedule ... Bhullar 470–71; Eggen Workers’ compensation for farm and ranch workers ... 470–71; Mason 471 Notley 962–63; Schneider 962–63 School infrastructure funding ... Dang 375; Eggen 375 Workers’ compensation for farm workers ... Notley School nutrition programs ... Eggen 430; Kleinsteuber 879–80; Starke 879–80 430 Youth addiction treatment services ... Ganley 431; Seniors’ care ... Hoffman 542; Schmidt 542 Hoffman 431; Jansen 431; Mason 431 Seniors’ care in Fort McMurray ... Hoffman 46–47; Yao Youth employment ... Orr 397; Sigurdson 397 46–47 Orange Shirt Day Seniors’ housing ... Drever 565–66; Hoffman 565–66 Members’ statements ... Horne 330 Seniors’ housing for couples ... Hoffman 498; Yao 498 Osborne, Helen Betty Services for francophone Albertans ... Eggen 777; See Aboriginal women and violence: Missing and McKitrick 777 murdered women Sexual health education in schools ... Eggen 776–77; Jansen 776–77 Our Savior Lutheran church Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic ... Anderson, W. See Violent crimes: Community response 713–14; Hoffman 713–14 Overseas offices, Albertan Small-business assistance ... Bilous 496; Nielsen 496 See Alberta government offices Small-business tax ... Bilous 428; Jean 428; Notley Owlseye (hamlet) 428 General remarks ... Hanson 177 Spray Lake Sawmills ... Carlier 420; Strankman 420 P3 Springbank reservoir flood mitigation project ... Aheer Calgary ring road See Calgary ring road: Southwest 498–99; Phillips 498–99 portion, public-private partnership (P3) contract Status of women ... Hoffman 123; Jansen 123; Notley PAB 123; Pitt 123 See Public Affairs Bureau Strategic transportation infrastructure program ... Hinkley 467; Mason 467 PAC Student assessment ... Dang 1048–49; Eggen 1048–49 See Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Support for agriculture ... Anderson, S. 325–26; Carlier Pacific regional international trade 325–26 See International trade: Trade with Asia-Pacific region; Trans-Pacific partnership (trade agreement) 62 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Pages (Legislative Assembly) Performing arts General remarks ... Speaker, The 5 [See also Arts and culture] Recognition, Speaker’s statement on ... Jabbour 289; General remarks ... Orr 182 Speaker, The 288–89 Perinatal care Palliative care See Midwifery services Members’ statements ... Gray 471–72 Permolex International LLP Panda, Prasad Zero-waste facility, members’ statements ... Schreiner Presentation to the Assembly See Calgary-Foothills 435 (constituency): Presentation of new member to the Perpetuities Act amendment Assembly Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Paradise Valley (village) Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Hog industry ... Speaker, The 308; Starke 307 and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Paramedics Personal Information Protection Act See Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Referral to Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Parenting Future (Government Motion 11: carried) ... Mason Parent link centres ... Littlewood 608 289 Parkash Purab Persons with developmental disabilities See Prakash Purab Employment, support organizations See Gateway Parks, provincial Association [See also Fish Creek provincial park] Housing safety standards ... Luff 878–79; Pitt 468–69; General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 Sabir 469, 878–79 Provincial plan (plan for parks) ... Starke 616 Programs and services, law and legislation See Persons Parks ministry with Developmental Disabilities Services (Public See Ministry of Environment and Parks Consultation) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 205) Parliamentary democracy Persons with developmental disabilities program Principles ... Cyr 831 Supports intensity scale (SIS) assessment ... Renaud Westminster system ... Speaker, The 3 584 Women’s participation See Women parliamentarians Persons with Developmental Disabilities Services Parsons Creek development, Fort McMurray (Public Consultation) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill See Fort McMurray: Long-term care facilities 205) (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) First reading ... Renaud 533 Second reading ... Renaud 583–84 Pathways Community Services Association General remarks ... Aheer 813 Members’ statements ... Drever 376–77 Persons with disabilities Patient-directed dying Advocacy for See Bobawsky, Phil See Assisted dying Employment, support organizations See Gateway PC opposition Association See Opposition caucuses; Progressive Conservative Programs and services, law and legislation See Persons opposition with Developmental Disabilities Services (Public PCHAD Act Consultation) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 205) See Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act Throne speech references ... Renaud 20 PCNs Vision loss See Eye diseases See Primary care networks Vision loss services ... Hoffman 527; McIver 527 PDD Persons with disabilities committee See Persons with developmental disabilities See Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities PDD program Pesticides See Persons with developmental disabilities program Cosmetic use ... Swann 82 Peace Country Peter Lougheed Leadership Institute Unemployment ... Loewen 346–47; Sigurdson 347 See Postsecondary education Peace River (constituency) Petitions for Private Bills (current session) Member’s election as Deputy Speaker and Chair of Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 ... Committees See Deputy Speaker and Chair of McPherson 331 Committees: Election of Ms Deborah Jabbour, Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 ... Member for Peace River McPherson 331 Member’s personal and family history ... Jabbour 897, Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment 1116 Act, 2015 ... McPherson 331 Members’ statements ... Jabbour 639–40 Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 ... McPherson 331 Pedestrian safety The King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015 See Traffic safety ... McPherson 331 Pediatric psychiatric care Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 ... See Child mental health services McPherson 331 Penrod, Rev. Philip Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act ... McPherson 331 See Violent crimes: Community response 2015 Hansard Subject Index 63

Petitions presented (current session) Pipeline construction (continued) Note: Petitions that do not meet all criteria can be Provincial strategy ... Aheer 18, 166, 418; Clark 504; tabled as documents. These are listed on the Drysdale 375; Feehan 566; Hoffman 441; Jansen Legislative Assembly of Alberta website 325; Jean 41–42, 97–98, 120, 388, 428; Loewen (http://www.assembly.ab.ca) under Assembly 566; MacIntyre 374; McCuaig-Boyd 18, 166–67, Documents and Records. 566; McIver 440–41; Notley 41–42, 97–98, 120, Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch 325, 374, 418, 428; Phillips 375, 566 Workers Act, ... Hanson 1052; Hunter 1052; Provincial strategy, point of order on debate ... Deputy Schneider 1052; Strankman 1052 Speaker 378; Hanson 378; Mason 378; Starke 378 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch TransCanada Energy East project ... Aheer 418; Jean Workers Act, withdrawal ... Orr 866 42, 382; Notley 42, 418 Health Sciences Association of Canada petition on TransCanada Energy East project, Premier’s discussions access to daycare ... Jabbour 240 with New Brunswick Premier ... Aheer 166; Notley 166 Sexual consent, inclusion in sexual health education ... TransCanada Keystone XL project ... Aheer 18; Jean Clark 286 41–42, 97; Loewen 473; Notley 18, 42, 97 Petroleum industry TransCanada Keystone XL project, advocacy for ... See Energy industries Aheer 418; Jean 98; Notley 98, 418 Petroleum prices Pipelines See Oil prices Safety issues ... Feehan 566; McCuaig-Boyd 566 Petroleum Producers, Canadian Association of PIT (personal income tax) Meeting with Executive Council See Executive See Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Council: Meeting with Canadian Association of Poems Petroleum Producers See In Flanders Fields (poem) Phone information lines Points of order (current session) See 211 information and referral telephone line; [See also Speaker’s statements] Health Link Allegations against a member or members ... Cooper Phone use in the Assembly 332; Deputy Speaker 378; Hanson 378; Mason 332, See Chamber (Legislative Assembly): Cellphone use 378; Speaker, The 332, 350; Starke 332, 378 in Anticipation ... Cooper 22, 535; Mason 22, 534–35; Physician-assisted dying Speaker, The 22, 535, 539; Starke 535 See Assisted dying Anticipation, Speaker’s statement on ... Speaker, The 49–50 Physicians Decorum ... Bilous 761; Chair 761; Cooper 761; Allegations of intimidation ... Hoffman 861–62; Pitt Deputy Chair 854; Fildebrandt 853–54; Mason 853 861–62 Factual accuracy ... Chair 87; Cooper 87; Jean 947; Compensation disclosure, legislation on (“sunshine Mason 87, 947; Speaker, The 947 list”) See Public Sector Compensation Factual accuracy, member’s withdrawal of remarks ... Transparency Act (Bill 5) Cooper 182; Mason 182; Speaker, The 182 Compensation disclosure, regulations ... Ganley 1050; Imputing falsehoods against a member ... Cooper 241; Turner 1050 Mason 241; Speaker, The 241–42, 288; Starke 241– Minister’s meetings with See Alberta Medical 42 Association: Health minister’s meeting with Imputing motives ... Cooper 287, 316; Deputy Speaker Recruitment and retention ... Hoffman 775–76; Loewen 477; Fildebrandt 506; Mason 129, 287–88, 316, 775–76 476–77, 506; Orr 506; Speaker, The 129, 288, 316, Services agreement ... Hoffman 861–62; Pitt 861–62 506; Starke 129; Strankman 477 PIDA (Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Insulting language ... Chair 626; Cooper 242, 626; Protection) Act) Mason 242, 626; Speaker, The 242; Starke 626 Amendments, law and legislation See Public Sector Interrupting a member ... Cooper 964; Mason 964; Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) McIver 965; Speaker, The 965 Review by select special committee See Ethics and Items previously decided ... Hanson 650; Mason 650; Accountability Committee, Select Special Speaker, The 650, 674–75 Pine beetle control Language creating disorder ... Bilous 819; Cooper 242, Funding ... Carlier 57; Drysdale 883; Mason 883; 350, 534; Fildebrandt 819; Mason 242, 350, 534; Strankman 57 Speaker, The 242, 350–51, 534, 819–20 Harvesting as a control method ... Carlier 393–94; Maintaining order in the Assembly ... Cooper 964; Rosendahl 393 Mason 964; McIver 965; Speaker, The 965 PIPA Parliamentary language ... Cooper 674, 716, 781, 965; See Personal Information Protection Act Mason 674, 716–17, 781, 966; Speaker, The 674, Pipeline construction 717, 781–82, 966; Starke 717 Approval process ... Jean 120; Notley 120 Points of order withdrawn ... Cooper 781 Enbridge Northern Gateway project ... Jean 42; Notley Questions and comments under Standing Order 29(2)(a) 42 ... Acting Speaker (Feehan) 973; Bilous 814; Deputy Interprovincial co-operation ... McCuaig-Boyd 1045; Speaker 814; Hanson 814; Mason 973; McIver 973 Miller 1045 Referring to a member by name ... Bilous 573; Hanson Kinder Morgan project ... Jean 42; Notley 42 572–73; Speaker, The 573 Members’ statements ... Cyr 472 Referring to the absence of a member or members ... Cooper 781; Mason 781; Speaker, The 180, 781; Strankman 180 64 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Points of order (current session) (continued) Political parties (continued) Referring to the absence of a member or members, Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... Barnes member’s withdrawal of remarks ... Turner 180 33–34; Cooper 35–36; Ganley 37; Hanson 35–36; Reflections on nonmembers ... Cooper 241; Mason Hoffman 32–33; Nixon 32 241; Speaker, The 241–42, 288; Starke 241–42 Loan repayments to corporations or unions See Act to Relevance ... Bilous 1010; Deputy Speaker 1010; Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1): Interim Hanson 1010; McIver 1010; Swann 1010 financing provisions (loan repayments to Relevance (withdrawn) ... Hanson 970; Speaker, The corporations and unions) 970 Prohibited contributions, reporting consequences ... Repetition ... Mason 355; Speaker, The 355 Ganley 85 Speaking twice in a debate ... Fildebrandt 518; Hanson Spending limits proposed ... Clark 33; Mason 33 518; Mason 518; Speaker, The 518 Ponoka Tabling cited documents ... Cooper 534; Mason 534; Water/waste-water treatment See Water/waste-water Speaker, The 534 treatment: Infrastructure needs, Lacombe-Ponoka Use of exhibits in the Assembly See Legislative (constituency) Assembly of Alberta: Exhibits (props) use by Ponoka Stampede members See Lacombe-Ponoka (constituency): Rodeos Points of privilege Poor families See Privilege (current session) See Poverty Police Portage College [See also Edmonton Police Service; Royal Canadian [See also Postsecondary education] Mounted Police] Graduation ceremony ... Hanson 177 Officers injured on duty See Edmonton Police Service: Officer injured on duty, Sergeant Jason Postsecondary education Harley [See also Adult learning] Officers killed on duty, Edmonton See Faraone, General remarks ... Connolly 26–27 Constable Ezio; Woodall, Constable Daniel Postsecondary education finance (Edmonton police officer killed on duty) Funding ... Ceci 59 Officers killed on duty, investigations ... Ellis 17; Postsecondary education ministry Ganley 17 See Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry Officers killed on duty, St. Albert See Wynn, from October 22, 2015); Ministry of innovation and Constable David (RCMP officer killed on duty) advanced education (ministry to October 22, 2015) Safety, members’ statements ... Ellis 20 Postsecondary educational institutions Policies of government [See also Academy of Learning College; Lethbridge See Government policies College; Portage College; University of Calgary] Policy committees, legislative Funding ... Bhullar 344–45; Ceci 50–51, 344–45; See Legislative policy committees Connolly 237; Loyola 64–65; Mason 110; McIver Political advertising 109–10; Sigurdson 64–65, 237, 421; Taylor 421 Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, advocacy Funding from interim supply See Ministry of groups, etc.) ... Barnes 34–35; Cyr 31; Ganley 85; innovation and advanced education (ministry to Hoffman 32; Smith 35 October 22, 2015): Interim supply estimates 2015- Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, advocacy 2016 (No. 2), debate groups, etc.), other jurisdictions ... Cyr 31 Law and legislation See Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 2); Canadian Political advertising during elections University College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. Law and legislation See Election (Restrictions on 4); Concordia University College of Alberta Government Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5); Covenant Bible (Bill 203) College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 6); King’s Political candidates (provincial elections) University College Amendment Act, 2015, The Contribution limit proposed ... Clark 33; Cyr 86; (Bill Pr. 1); Living Faith Bible College Ganley 33, 85; Mason 33 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 7) Loan repayments to corporations and unions See Act to Law and legislation, public information disclosure Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1): Interim provisions See Public Sector Compensation financing provisions (loan repayments to Transparency Act (Bill 5) corporations and unions) Programs offered ... Connolly 237; Sigurdson 237 Political parties Reserve fund use See Act to Implement Various Tax Contributions by corporations and unions ... Ganley 19; Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and Miranda 19 Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Committee, Contributions by corporations and unions, legislation on amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per cent limit on See Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill in-year operating expense increase) 1) Postsecondary educational institutions admissions Contributions by individuals, limit on proposed ... Clark (enrolment) 33; Cyr 86; Ganley 33; Mason 33 Accessibility ... Connolly 236–37; Sigurdson 236–37 Contributions by special-interest groups ... Barnes 34– Postsecondary students 35; Smith 35 End of semester, members’ statements ... Connolly Contributions of services by corporations or unions ... 1052 Jean 166; Notley 166

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Postsecondary students (continued) Printing, select standing committee on International student recruitment ... Clark 602; See Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Sigurdson 602 Orders and Printing, Standing Mental health services See Mental health services: Prisons Postsecondary student services, members’ Food production ... Strankman 304 statements Privacy Commissioner Posttraumatic stress disorder See Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office Inclusion in mental health review ... Fraser 861; Privacy legislation, private sector Hoffman 861 See Personal Information Protection Act Support organizations See War Horse Awareness Foundation Privacy legislation, public sector Amendments See Public Sector Compensation Poverty Transparency Act (Bill 5) General remarks ... Renaud 176 Reduction strategy ... Clark 167; Notley 167–68 Privacy services (government ministry) Relation to minimum wage ... Pitt 260 See Ministry of Service Alberta Power, electrical Private bills See Electric power See Bills, private (current session) Power plants, electric Private bills, petitions for See Electric power plants See Petitions for Private Bills (current session) Power purchase agreements for renewable energy Private Bills, Standing Committee on sources (PPAs) See Committee on Private Bills, Standing See Renewable/alternative energy sources: Power Private day homes purchase agreements See Daycare in private homes Practical nurses Private members’ motions See Victorian Order of Nurses See Motions (current session) Prakash Purab Private-public partnerships General remarks ... Panda 607 Calgary ring road See Calgary ring road: Southwest Prayer walk portion, public-private partnership (P3) contract See Violent crimes: Community response Private schools [See also Hope Christian school] Pregnancy care Funding ... Eggen 19, 64; Jansen 18–19 See Midwifery services Private-sector organizations Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy See Corporations; Nonprofit organizations Aboriginal representation ... Notley 328; Rodney 328 Forest industry representation ... Bilous 299; Drysdale Privilege (procedure) 299 General remarks ... Speaker, The 400 Obstructing a member in performance of duty (Budget Premiers’ conferences Address remarks about Executive Council, MLA, and Energy strategy discussions See Canadian energy political staff compensation), procedure in absence of strategy: Council of the Federation discussions Minister of Treasury Board and Finance ... Mason Premier’s Office 351; Speaker, The 351 See Office of the Premier Privilege (current session) Prenatal care Obstructing a member in performance of duty (Budget Street-involved women See Boyle Street Community Address remarks about Executive Council, MLA, and Services: Streetworks program political staff compensation) ... Cooper 351–53; Prescription drugs Fildebrandt 355; Mason 353–54; Nixon 354–55; Off-label use of bevacizumab See Eye diseases: Speaker, The 353, 355; Starke 354; van Dijken 355 Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for Obstructing a member in performance of duty (Budget Preventive medicine Address remarks about Executive Council, MLA, and See Health promotion political staff compensation), point of order on debate ... Mason 355; Speaker, The 355 Preventive social service program Obstructing a member in performance of duty (Budget See Family and community support services Address remarks about Executive Council, MLA, and Pride Centre of Edmonton political staff compensation), Speaker’s ruling (no General remarks ... Feehan 910 prima facie question of privilege found) ... Speaker, Primary care (medicine) The 400–401 Access ... Hoffman 69; Larivee 69 Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing, Rural health care ... Hoffman 69; Larivee 69 Standing Committee on Primary care networks See Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Access to ... Clark 280; Notley 280 Orders and Printing, Standing Funding ... Hoffman 496, 1048; Jansen 1048; Swann Progressive Conservative opposition 69, 496 [See also Opposition caucuses] Implementation strategy ... Clark 61–62; Hoffman 62– Members’ statement rotation See Members’ 63, 74; McIver 74; Swann 62–63 Statements (procedure): Rotation of statements Primary health care Members’ statements ... Drysdale 341; McIver 954 See Primary care (medicine) Oral Question Period rotation See Oral Question Period (procedure): Rotation of questions 66 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) History ... Speech from the Throne 8 First reading ... Eggen 649 Progressive tax rate Second reading ... Clark 725–26; Cooper 720–22, See Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) 725–26; Cyr 730–32; Eggen 717–19, 726, 729–34; Project Kare Fraser 721; Hanson 726, 730–31; Hoffman 727; See Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Project Kare Hunter 723; MacIntyre 718–19, 727, 730; Mason 719; McIver 720, 727–28; McKitrick 718, 722–23; Property Rights Advocate Orr 726, 728–30; Pitt 722; Rodney 719–20, 722; 2014 annual report referred to Resource Stewardship Smith 723–25, 728; Sucha 718, 726–27; Swann 724, Committee (Government Motion 21: carried) ... Mason 379 726 Effectiveness of office ... Hinkley 140 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment RA1) Property rights of landowners (Cooper: defeated) ... Clark 725–26; Cooper 721–22 See Freehold lands 725–26; Cyr 730–32; Eggen 726, 729–32; Fraser Property tax 721; Hanson 726, 730–31; Hoffman 727; Hunter Linear property assessment ... Larivee 323–24; Mason 723; MacIntyre 727, 730; McIver 727–28; McKitrick 495; Schneider 495; Stier 323–24; Swann 636 722–23; Orr 726, 728–30; Pitt 722; Rodney 722; Props, use in the Assembly Smith 723–25, 728; Sucha 726–27; Swann 724, 726 See Legislative Assembly of Alberta: Exhibits Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and (props) use by members Communities Committee (referral amendment RA1) Protection Against Family Violence Act (Bill 19, 1998) (Cooper: defeated), division ... 733 General remarks ... Swann 481 Committee ... Clark 988, 994–96; Dang 992–93; Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act, Eggen 987–88, 990–92, 994, 996, 998–99; Hanson Enhanced 998–99; Hoffman 995; Jansen 988, 992–94; Loewen See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch 997–98; McIver 994; McKitrick 993; Orr 994; Workers Act (Bill 6) Smith 989–92, 996; Starke 994–95; Sucha 992; van Dijken 995–97; Yao 999 Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer Court-ordered 10-day detoxification and stabilization bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: period provisions ... Ganley 431; Hoffman 431; carried) ... Clark 988; Dang 992–93; Eggen 987– Jansen 431 88, 990–92; Jansen 988, 992; McKitrick 993; Smith Provincial campgrounds 989–92; Sucha 992 See Campgrounds, provincial Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements Provincial debt requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) ... See Debts, public (provincial debt) Clark 994; Eggen 994; Hoffman 995; Jansen 993– Provincial elections 94; McIver 994; Orr 994; Starke 994–95; van See Elections, provincial Dijken 995 Provincial parks Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ employer See Parks, provincial bargaining association exemptions from Financial Administration Act, Alberta Public Agencies Provincial sales tax Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and Transparency See Taxation Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: defeated) ... Clark Provincial secretary 995–96; Eggen 996; Smith 996 Message from the Lieutenant Governor ... Ganley 7 Third reading ... Aheer 1005–6; Clark 1000–1001; PSBAA Cooper 1003–5; Eggen 1000, 1006–7; Gotfried See Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta 1003; Hanson 1005–6; Jansen 1000; McIver 1005– PSI 6; McKitrick 1000; Pitt 1006–7; Rodney 1002–3; See Postsecondary educational institutions Smith 1001–2; Sucha 1003 PST (provincial sales tax) Third reading, division ... 1007–8 See Taxation Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House sitting) Psychiatric services Referral to committee proposed ... Eggen 858; Smith See Mental health services 858 Psychiatric services for children School board responses ... Aheer 1005–6; Cooper See Child mental health services 1004; Eggen 858, 992, 998, 1006; Gotfried 1003; PTSD Hanson 1006; Jansen 1000; Loewen 998; Pitt See Posttraumatic stress disorder 1006–7; Rodney 1002–3; Smith 858, 991–92, 1001– Public Accounts, Standing Committee on 2; Sucha 1003; van Dijken 997; Yao 999 See Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Stakeholder consultation ... Clark 725–26; Cooper Public Affairs Bureau 720–22, 725–26; Cyr 730–32; Eggen 717, 719, 726, Management appointments ... Nixon 395–96; Notley 396 733–34; Fraser 721; Hanson 726, 730–31; Loewen 875; MacIntyre 718–19, 730; Mason 719; McIver Public debt 720, 727, 877; McKitrick 722; Notley 877; Orr See Debts, public (provincial debt) 728–29; Rodney 719–20; Smith 723–25; Sucha Public education 726–27 See Education; Postsecondary educational Public education curricula institutions See Educational curricula 2015 Hansard Subject Index 67

Public education finance Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) See Education finance (continued) Public education ministry Committee, amendment A5 (publication of aggregated See Ministry of Education information) (McIver: defeated) ... Clark 789, 791; Public housing corporation Fildebrandt 789–91; Ganley 789–91; Gotfried 790; See Alberta Social Housing Corporation Hanson 792; Mason 791–92; McIver 789–92; Orr 790 Public Interest Commissioner’s office Committee, amendment A5 (publication of aggregated Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... information) (McIver: defeated), division ... 792 Chair 74–75 Committee, amendment A6 (publication of physicians’ Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... Ceci 333 median incomes by type of practice) (Swann: Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly defeated) ... Clark 793–94; Fildebrandt 793, 795; ... Speaker, The 333 Ganley 794; Schmidt 794–95; Swann 792–93 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... Chair 611 Third reading ... Fildebrandt 871; Ganley 870–71; Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Loyola 871 Act Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House Amendments, law and legislation See Public Sector sitting) Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Disclosure threshold ... Pitt 657 Review by select special committee See Ethics and Education authority threshold provision ... Smith 655; Accountability Committee, Select Special Yao 655 Public lands used for grazing Physicians’ compensation disclosure under act ... See Grazing lands, public Ganley 782 Public-private partnerships (P3) Privacy issues ... Ganley 1050; Turner 1050 Calgary ring road See Calgary ring road: Southwest Regulatory provisions ... Ganley 1050; Turner 1050 portion, public-private partnership (P3) contract Scope ... Ganley 1050; Turner 1050 Public Revenue, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public service See Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An Collective agreements ... Bhullar 59, 344–45; Ceci 59, (Bill 2) 344–45; Fildebrandt 345 Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta Compensation, public disclosure of (“sunshine list”), Special-levy motion ... Eggen 442, 468, 711–12; law and legislation See Public Sector Hanson 501; Smith 442, 468, 711–12 Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Compensation freeze proposed ... Jean 384–85 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Cost of ... Bhullar 344–45; Ceci 344–45; Fildebrandt First reading ... Ganley 448 345; Hanson 184; Hunter 395; Jean 392; Notley Second reading ... Aheer 654, 656; Anderson, W. 652– 392; Sigurdson 395 53; Fildebrandt 651–52; Ganley 619; Hanson 656– Funding ... Ceci 334, 336–37 57; Hunter 653–54; Loyola 650–51; MacIntyre 656; Management positions ... Jean 635 Pitt 657–58; Renaud 652; Smith 654–55; Stier Political staff compensation freeze proposed ... Ceci 658–59; Strankman 659; Yao 655–56 333 Second reading (carried unanimously), division ... 659– Political staff compensation freeze proposed, point of 60 privilege raised See Privilege (current session): Committee ... Clark 785–87, 789, 791, 793–94; Feehan Obstructing a member in performance of duty 788; Fildebrandt 783–84, 787–91, 793, 795; Ganley (Budget Address remarks about Executive 782–87, 789–91, 794; Gotfried 790; Hanson 792; Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) Jansen 786–88; MacIntyre 786–88; Mason 788, Senior management appointments ... Mason 395–96; 791–92; McIver 787, 789–92; Orr 790; Schmidt Nixon 395–96 794–95; Smith 784–85, 788; Swann 792–93; van Size of ... Hunter 395; Jean 385; Sigurdson 395; Smith Dijken 784–85, 787 264 Committee, amendment A1 (legislative offices exemption Staff, ratio of management to front-line staff ... Jean from reporting disclosure to minister, minister’s 384 compliance and auditing power, legislative offices’ co- Support for human services front-line workers See operation in audits) (Ganley: carried) ... Fildebrandt Human services: Support for front-line workers 783–84; Ganley 782–84; van Dijken 784 Committee, amendment A2 (teachers’ threshold) Public transit (Smith: carried) ... Clark 785; Ganley 785; Smith [See also Calgary Transit; Edmonton Transit 784–85; van Dijken 785 System] Committee, amendment A3 (municipal employees’ Bus service ... Mason 488 threshold) (Clark: carried) ... Clark 785–86; Ganley Central Alberta service ... Miller 485; Schreiner 486 786; MacIntyre 786 Commuter rail service ... Mason 488; van Dijken 486 Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Funding ... Mason 488; van Dijken 486 compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as General remarks ... Schreiner 486; Speech from the amended) ... Clark 787; Feehan 788; Fildebrandt Throne 8; van Dijken 486; Westhead 487 787–88; Ganley 787, 789; Jansen 786–88; Greenhouse gas emission reduction ... Mason 860; MacIntyre 787–88; Mason 788; McIver 787; Smith Westhead 860 788; van Dijken 787 GreenTRIP (green transit incentives program) ... Dach Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on 569; Kleinsteuber 485; Mason 569 compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as High-speed rail service See High-speed rail service amended), subamendment SA1 (removal of “special”) (Fildebrandt: carried) ... Fildebrandt 788 68 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Public transit (continued) RCMP Light rail transit expansion, GreenTRIP (green transit See Royal Canadian Mounted Police incentives program) funding ... Dach 569; Mason Officers killed on duty See Wynn, Constable David 569 (RCMP officer killed on duty) Privately owned services ... van Dijken 486 Real Estate Association, Alberta Regional service ... Kleinsteuber 487; Miller 485; See Alberta Real Estate Association Westhead 487 Recall Act (Bill 206) Regional service, other jurisdictions ... Kleinsteuber First reading ... Aheer 649 485 Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other than Reclamation of land Government Motion 504: carried) ... Cooper 487–88; Tank site remediation, corporate funding ... Drever Kleinsteuber 484–85, 489; Mason 488–89; 393; Phillips 393 McKitrick 489; Miller 485; Payne 489; Schreiner Recorded votes 486; van Dijken 486–87; Westhead 487 See Divisions (recorded votes) Rural service ... Kleinsteuber 487; Mason 121–22; Records management services (government ministry) McIver 121; van Dijken 486; Westhead 487 See Ministry of Service Alberta Services for seniors and persons with disabilities ... van Recovery Acres Society Dijken 486 Calgary women’s addiction treatment centre proposal Southern Alberta service ... Kleinsteuber 487; van See Addiction treatment: Women’s services, Dijken 486; Westhead 487 Recovery Acres Society proposal Suburban service ... McKitrick 489 Recreational trails Public transit alternatives See Trails See Ride-sharing services Recycling Public transportation services ministry See Greenmunch See Ministry of Transportation Recycling associations Public works See Alberta Bottle Depot Association See Capital plan; Capital projects Red Deer (city) Public works, supply and services ministry Bioenergy industry See Permolex International LLP See Ministry of Infrastructure Public transit ... Schreiner 486 Punjabi remarks in the Legislature Red Deer College See Legislative Assembly of Alberta: Punjabi See Postsecondary education remarks Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery Pupil-teacher ratio (elementary and secondary school) Exhibit on missing and murdered aboriginal women See Class size (elementary and secondary schools) See Aboriginal women and violence: Missing and Queen Elizabeth II highway (QE II) murdered women, Walking with Our Sisters [See also Highway 2] exhibit, members’ statements Congestion ... Kleinsteuber 485; Mason 346; Schreiner Red Deer regional hospital 346 Obstetric facilities funding ... Ceci 336 Queen’s Bench REDA See Court of Queen’s Bench See Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, Queer persons 2012) See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Redwater Question Period Bitumen upgrading See North West Redwater See Oral Question Period (procedure); Oral Partnership Question Period (current session topics) Redwood Meadows flood damage mitigation Radiation treatment See Flood damage mitigation: Springbank reservoir See Cancer diagnosis and treatment project RAH Referendums proposed See Royal Alexandra hospital See Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Railroads Enact the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, Fuel tax See Taxation: Locomotive fuel tax An (Bill 4): Committee, amendment A5 Transportation of oil and gas ... Aheer 18; Notley 18 (referendum on debt-to-GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: Ramadan defeated) Members’ statements ... Kazim 96–97 Refineries for bitumen Ranch workers act See North West Redwater Partnership: Bitumen See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch upgrading project Workers Act (Bill 6) Refugee Day, World Rangeland, public See World Refugee Day See Grazing lands, public Refugees RAPID program [See also Humanitarian aid; Immigrants] See Eye diseases: Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used Health coverage See Health care: Coverage for for refugees and refugee claimants Refugees from Afghanistan ... Clark 599; Jean 598; Rashidi, Maryam McIver 598; Notley 600; Panda 607; Rodney 600; See Workplace safety: Fatalities, members’ Sabir 608 statements 2015 Hansard Subject Index 69

Refugees (continued) Rental housing Refugees of the war in Syria, ministerial statement ... Law and legislation, domestic violence related issues Notley 462 See Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Refugees of the war in Syria, ministerial statement, Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, responses ... Clark 464; Jean 463; McIver 463; 2015 (Bill 204) Swann 463–64 Potential for discrimination ... Jansen 683; Orr 682–83 Resettlement in Alberta ... Jansen 866; Jean 494; Reports, tabling of (procedure) Loyola 398; Notley 494, 601; Rodney 600; Note: Tablings are available on the Legislative Sigurdson 398 Assembly website (http://www.assembly.ab.ca) under Regional children’s services Assembly Documents and Records. See Family and community support services Reports presented by standing and special committees Regional economic development Alberta’s Economic Future Committee report on 2015- See Rural development 2016 main estimates and business plans, amendments Regional Health Authorities Act tabled for ministries of Agriculture and Forestry and Exemptions under Bill 4 See Act to Implement Infrastructure ... Miranda 609 Alberta’s Economic Future Committee report on 2015- Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal 2016 main estimates and business plans for Executive Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Council and ministries of Advanced Education, Section 7(2)(e), exemption for entities covered Agriculture and Forestry, Economic Development under the Financial Administration Act or and Trade, Infrastructure, and Jobs, Skills, Training Regional Health Authorities Act and Labour ... Miranda 609 Regional health authority, single/province-wide Families and Communities Committee report on 2015- See Alberta Health Services (authority) 2016 main estimates and business plan for ministries Registered nurses of Culture and Tourism, Education, Health, Human See Victorian Order of Nurses Services, Justice and Solicitor General, Seniors, Registry services Service Alberta, and Status of Women ... Sweet 609 Approval process ... Bilous 171–72; Orr 171–72 Families and Communities Committee report on 2015- Fees ... Mason 183 2016 main estimates and business plans, amendments Fees, cancellation of proposed increases ... Swann 187 tabled for ministries of Education and Service Alberta Service expansion ... Ellis 605; Larivee 605 ... Sweet 609 Private Bills Committee report on bills Pr. 1 to Pr. 7, Religious schools compliance with standing orders ... McPherson 349 See Private schools Private Bills Committee report on bills Pr. 2, Pr. 3, Pr. 4, Remember to Breathe advertising campaign Pr. 6, and Pr. 7 with recommendation that bills, report See Tourism: Remember to Breathe advertising on bills Pr. 1 and Pr. 5 with recommendation that bills campaign proceed with amendments and proposed amendments Remembrance Day tabled ... McPherson 673 Members’ statements ... Goehring 438–39 Public Accounts Committee report of 2014 activities ... Speaker’s ceremony See Estimates of Supply Fildebrandt 866 (government expenditures): Main and Legislative Resource Stewardship Committee report on 2015-2016 Assembly offices estimates 2015-2016 schedule, main estimates and business plans, amendments conflict with Remembrance Day observances tabled for ministries of Transportation and Treasury Remembrance Day poem Board and Finance ... Goehring 609 See In Flanders Fields (poem) Resource Stewardship Committee report on 2015-2016 main estimates and business plans for ministries of Renal dialysis Aboriginal Relations, Energy, Environment and See Kidney dialysis Parks, Municipal Affairs, Transportation, and Renaud, Marie Treasury Board and Finance ... Goehring 609 Nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: Election, Resek, Frank nomination of Member for St. Albert See Freson Bros. Renewable/alternative energy sources Resek, Leo [See also Commodities, primary] See Freson Bros. Environment minister’s announcement ... Jean 278; Residential schools Notley 278 Awareness events See Orange Shirt Day General remarks ... MacIntyre 571–72 Commission of Canada See Truth and Reconciliation Microgeneration regulations and policies See Electric Commission of Canada power: Microgeneration regulation and policy General remarks ... Renaud 176 review (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: carried) Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Power purchase agreements ... Fraser 647; Phillips 647 First reading ... Drever 448 Provincial initiatives ... McCuaig-Boyd 774; Renaud 774 Second reading ... Anderson, S. 480; Babcock 482–83; Transition to, cost ... Fraser 714; Phillips 714 Clark 479; Connolly 481; Cooper 481; Cortes- Transition to, expert panel ... Fraser 373; Phillips 373 Vargas 482; Drever 477–78, 484; Feehan 483; Renewable natural resources Fitzpatrick 479–80; Goehring 482; Hanson 479; See Commodities, primary Hinkley 483; Mason 484; McLean 483–84; Miller 482; Pitt 478–79; Shepherd 482; Swann 480–81; van Dijken 483 70 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Retina antivascular endothelial growth factor program Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) (RAPID) (continued) See Eye diseases: Retinal diseases Committee ... Clark 685; Cooper 681–82, 685–86, Returns and Reports, Tabling of (procedure) 883–84; Cortes-Vargas 685; Drever 680–81, 685; Note: Tablings are available on the Legislative Feehan 686; Fitzpatrick 685; Ganley 683; Jansen Assembly website (http://www.assembly.ab.ca) under 683, 685; Mason 684; McPherson 884; Orr 682; Assembly Documents and Records. Payne 681; Pitt 683–85; Schmidt 684–85; Revenue Strankman 685; Turner 685 Forecasts, 2015-2016 ... Ceci 52, 124; Fildebrandt 51– Committee, amendment A1 (inclusion of assisted and 52, 107–8, 124; Jean 97; Notley 97 supported adult children or dependants) (Drever: Government capacity to generate ... Starke 267 carried) ... Drever 680–81 Long-term forecast ... Clark 419; Fildebrandt 426–27; Committee, amendment A2 (time of coming into force) Jean 341, 382–84, 387–88; Notley 341, 419 (Payne/Sabir: carried) ... Cooper 681–82; Ganley Oil and gas royalty revenue See Nonrenewable 683; Jansen 683; Orr 682–83; Payne 681 natural resource revenue Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Saving, law and legislation See Assuring Alberta’s requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... Clark 685; Cooper Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) 685–86, 883–84; Cortes-Vargas 685; Drever 685; Sources of revenue ... Swann 554 Fitzpatrick 685; Jansen 685; Mason 684; Pitt 683– Tax revenue See Corporate taxation; Income tax, 85; Schmidt 684–85; Strankman 685; Turner 685 provincial (personal income tax): Provincial Committee, bill to proceed directly to third reading revenue; Small business: Provincial tax revenue; (unanimous consent granted) ... Drever 884 Taxation Third reading ... Babcock 890; Carson 887; Clark 886; Drever 884–85, 890; Fitzpatrick 889–90; Revenue, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Kazim 886; McIver 885–86; McKitrick 885; See Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An McLean 888–89; Miranda 885; Payne 888; (Bill 2) Shepherd 888; Swann 886–87; Sweet 886 Revenue fund, general Third reading, division (carried unanimously) ... 890 Budget See Estimates of Supply (government Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House expenditures) sitting) Estimates of supply See Estimates of Supply Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... Clark (government expenditures) 479 Estimates of supply, interim See Interim supply Implications for landlords ... Jansen 683; Orr 682–83 estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1); Interim supply Regulatory provisions, stakeholder consultation on ... estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Cooper 681–82 RHA Act (Regional Health Authorities Act) Resilience program for Alberta communities Exemptions under Bill 4 See Act to Implement See Alberta community resilience program Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Resler, Glen L. Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): See Chief Electoral Officer Section 7(2)(e), exemption for entities covered Resolutions, debatable under the Financial Administration Act or See Motions (current session) Regional Health Authorities Act Resolutions, debatable, recorded votes Ride-sharing services See Divisions (recorded votes) Oversight of ... Mason 443; McIver 442–43 Resource development ministry Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre (constituency) See Ministry of Energy Member’s personal and family history ... McKitrick 560; Nixon 558–60, 588–89 Resource economy [See also Agriculture; Energy industries; Forest Ring roads industries] Calgary See Calgary ring road General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 River flood plains Resource Stewardship, Standing Committee on See Flood plains See Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing RNs (registered nurses) Respect for Communities Act (Bill C-2, federal) See Victorian Order of Nurses Impact on harm reduction strategies ... Hoffman 644; Road construction Swann 644 Access road, funding for upgrade ... Mason 170; Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, 2012) Schneider 170 General remarks ... Clark 140; Stier 142 Funding ... Ceci 336 Landowner appeal provisions ... Hinkley 140; Funding through tolls See Toll roads and bridges McCuaig-Boyd 124; Stier 124, 143 Project prioritization ... Mason 283; Piquette 283 Landowner compensation provisions ... Stier 143 Road construction ministry Restaurants See Ministry of Transportation Local food purchase ... Sucha 312–13 Road maintenance and repair Restaurants Canada Funding ... Ceci 336; Mason 101; McIver 58; van Response to proposed minimum wage increase ... Dijken 101 McIver 232, 244–45; Notley 232–33; Sigurdson 233 Road safety See Traffic safety 2015 Hansard Subject Index 71

Roads Royalty structure (energy resources) (continued) See Highway 2; Highway 23; Highway 28; Highway 63; Review, impact on energy industry employment ... Queen Elizabeth II highway (QE II) Aheer 189; Hanson 183–84 Ring roads See Calgary ring road Review, timeline on ... Ceci 43, 133; Jean 278; Roam Public Transit McCuaig-Boyd 43; McIver 43; Notley 44, 278 See Public transit: Southern Alberta service Rulings by the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, or Acting Rocky Mountain House health centre Speaker New facility, timeline on ... Hoffman 545–46; Nixon See Speaker’s rulings 545–46 Rural bridges Rocky View municipal district flood damage mitigation See Bridge construction: Rural bridges; Bridge See Flood damage mitigation: Springbank reservoir maintenance and repair: Rural bridges project Rural communities Rodeos Bus service ... Mason 488 General remarks ... Fildebrandt 173–74; Turner 179 Linear property tax revenue use ... Larivee 323–24; Long Ear Days ... Orr 182 Stier 323–24 Registry services ... Ellis 605; Larivee 605 Rodney, Dave Nomination as Deputy Chair of Committees See Rural development Deputy Chair of Committees: Election, Funding ... Carlier 57; Strankman 56–57 nomination of Member for Calgary-Lougheed General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8; Starke 615 Nomination as Deputy Speaker and Chair of Public input on ... Notley 235; Starke 235 Committees See Deputy Speaker and Chair of Rural economic development action plan Committees: Election, nomination of Member for General remarks ... Carlier 234–35; Starke 234–35 Calgary-Lougheed Rural emergency medical service Nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: Election, See Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.): nomination of Member for Calgary-Lougheed Rural service Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act Rural health care Petition presented for private bill ... McPherson 331 [See also Health care] Private Bills Committee report presented, compliance Access to services ... Hanson 776; Hoffman 776 with standing orders ... McPherson 349 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) [See Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act (Bill Pr. 3) also Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS)]; First reading ... Shepherd 377 Hoffman 434, 445; Stier 445; Taylor 434 Second reading ... Mason 905 Funding ... Barnes 544; Hoffman 544 Committee ... Chair 906 Primary care See Primary care (medicine): Rural Third reading ... Shepherd 1075 health care Royal Assent ... 11 December 2015 (outside of House Quality of services ... Barnes 544; Hoffman 544 sitting) Rural health services review (2014-2015) ... Hoffman Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that 47; Starke 47, 616 bill proceed ... McPherson 673 Rural hospitals Royal Alexandra hospital Acute-care beds ... Hoffman 58; Strankman 57–58 Renovation project ... Barnes 432; Hoffman 432 Emergency service capacity issues ... Hoffman 775; Royal Canadian Artillery Band Loewen 775 History ... Speaker, The 7 Rural public transit Performance of God Save the Queen ... Speaker, The 8– See Public transit: Rural service 9 Safe Place, A Performance of O Canada ... Speaker, The 7 See A Safe Place (women’s shelter) Royal Canadian Mounted Police Safety of food [See also Police] See Food safety Officers killed on duty See Wynn, Constable David Safety on farms (RCMP officer killed on duty) See Farm safety Project Kare ... Jean 118 Safety on roads Royal Dutch Shell See Traffic safety Awards See Service stations: Shell station award Saher, Merwan, office of Carmon Creek project cancellation ... Jean 369; Notley See Auditor General’s office 369 St. Albert (city) Royalties on sand and gravel Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... See Sand and gravel royalties Renaud 348 Royalty revenue Food banks ... Renaud 176 See Nonrenewable natural resource revenue History ... Renaud 176 Royalty structure (energy resources) Residential schools ... Renaud 176 Review ... Aheer 18, 664–65; Babcock 139; Ceci 336, St. Albert (constituency) 444, 882; Clark 419, 528; Fraser 172–73; Gotfried Member’s nomination as Speaker See Speaker, The: 543; Hoffman 664–65, 708, 772; Jean 417, 427, 708, Election, nomination of Member for St. Albert 772; Mason 427; McCuaig-Boyd 18, 543; McIver Member’s personal and family history ... Jean 970; 294; Notley 294, 417, 419, 427; Phillips 528; Smith Renaud 176–77, 970, 1089 882; Swann 636; van Dijken 265, 444 Overview ... Renaud 175–76 72 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day School groups, introduction of Members’ statements ... Piquette 238 See Introduction of Guests (school groups, St. Marguerite health services centre, Edmonton individuals) General remarks ... Gray 471–72 School maintenance and repair St. Mary’s University Funding ... Dang 375; Eggen 375; Gray 48; Mason See Postsecondary education 48 St. Paul (constituency) School nutrition programs See Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills (constituency) Breakfast and lunch programs ... Eggen 430; St. Paul (town) Kleinsteuber 430 Dialysis service See Kidney dialysis: Mobile service Schooling at home General remarks ... Hanson 178 See Home-schooling St. Thomas More Catholic parish Schools See Edmonton-Whitemud (constituency): Members’ Catholic school proposal ... Eggen 442; Smith 442 statements Schools, charter Sales tax See Charter schools See Taxation Schools, independent Sand and gravel royalties See Independent schools Gravel royalty increase ... Ceci 444; Phillips 443–44; Schools, private van Dijken 443–44 See Hope Christian school; Private schools Saskatchewan Schwetz, Shawnalee Taxation ... Starke 193 See Waskatenau (village): Anne Chorney public Scholarships, postsecondary library, members’ statements See Student financial aid (postsecondary students) Science and technology commercialization enterprise School boards and districts See Alberta Enterprise Corporation Consultation on Bill 8 See Public Education Secretary, provincial Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8): Stakeholder See Provincial secretary consultation Security planning Elections, governing legislation ... Hoffman 32 See Emergency management Meetings with Education minister ... Eggen 168; Luff Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee 168 See Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Policies on issues involving LGBTQ students ... Clark Special 694–95; Eggen 698–99; Jansen 698–99 Reserve fund use See Act to Implement Various Tax Select Standing Committee on Legislative Offices Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning and See Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Committee, Select Standing Committee on Private Bills amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per cent limit on See Committee on Private Bills, Standing in-year operating expense increase) Select Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections, Response to Bill 8 See Public Education Collective Standing Orders and Printing Bargaining Act (Bill 8): School board responses See Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Student participation on (Motion Other than Orders and Printing, Standing Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts Cooper 412–13; Dang 410–11, 413; Eggen 411–12; See Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Hoffman 413; McKitrick 412; McPherson 413; Select Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Renaud 412; Smith 411; Swann 413 Savings Trust Fund School Boards Association, Alberta See Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings See Alberta School Boards Association Trust Fund, Standing School Boards’ Association of Alberta, Public Senate, Canadian See Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta Contributions to candidates, legislation on See Act to School construction Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Completion times ... Ceci 336 Senior abuse and neglect Elbow Park school rebuild ... Clark 61; Eggen 61 Local supports ... Fitzpatrick 16; Hoffman 16 Evergreen middle school, project status ... Eggen 172; Seniors’ benefit program Rodney 172 Funding ... Gotfried 103; Hoffman 103; Jean 268; Funding ... Bhullar 59, 420–21; Dang 375; Eggen 59, Starke 268 375, 421; McIver 58 Low-income supports ... Drever 565; Hoffman 565 General remarks ... Speech from the Throne 8 New schools ... Gray 47–48; Mason 47–48 Seniors’ charter New schools, timeline on ... Bhullar 470–71; Eggen Members’ statements ... Ellis 472 470–71; Mason 471 Seniors’ housing Prioritization, publicly available information (“sunshine Couples’ accommodations ... Hoffman 498; Yao 498 list”) ... Drysdale 601; Mason 373, 601; Schneider Funding ... Drever 565–66; Hoffman 565–66; Jean 372–73 268; Starke 268 Two Hills school See Two Hills Mennonite school: Newell Foundation proposal ... Fildebrandt 84, 281; School construction Hoffman 281; McKitrick 85 School curricula Seniors ministry See Educational curricula See Ministry of Seniors 2015 Hansard Subject Index 73

Sequestration of carbon dioxide SLAs Law and legislation See Carbon Capture and Storage See Student testing (elementary and secondary): Statutes Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Student learning assessments Service Alberta ministry Slovenian Canadian Association of Edmonton See Ministry of Service Alberta 50th anniversary, members’ statements ... Sweet 127 Service stations Small business 2010 Calgary spill, site remediation ... Drever 393; [See also Corporations; Entrepreneurship] Phillips 393 Aboriginal businesses See Aboriginal peoples’ Shell station award ... Loewen 556; Schmidt 556 economic development Sex workers Agriculture See Agriculture: Small producers Health risks See Health promotion: High-risk Capital available ... Ceci 335 behaviour Effective tax rate (integration with personal tax rate) Sexual health education in schools [See also Act to Restore Fairness to Public See Educational curricula: Sexual health education, Revenue, An (Bill 2): Committee, amendment A1 members’ statements (small-business effective tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated)]; Clark 247; Fildebrandt 243 Sexual minorities Provincial tax rate ... Bilous 428; Clark 168; See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Fildebrandt 188, 191–92; Jean 268, 428; Notley Sexual orientation 168, 428; Swann 187–88, 636 Inclusion in human rights legislation ... Notley 907 Provincial tax rate, comparison with other jurisdictions Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic ... Ceci 245; Hunter 245–46; Schneider 249–50; Facility closure ... Anderson, W. 713–14; Hoffman Swann 246 713–14 Provincial tax rate, decrease of 1 per cent proposed ... Shell oil Ceci 244–45; Fildebrandt 244; McIver 244 See Royal Dutch Shell; Service stations: Shell station Provincial tax rate, impact on low-income earners ... van award Dijken 265 Shelters, women’s Provincial tax rate, impact on seniors ... Jean 268; See Women’s shelters Starke 268 Provincial tax revenue ... Ceci 244–45; Fildebrandt Sherwood Park (city) 244; Loewen 263; McIver 244 Business enterprises See NutraPonics Canada Red tape reduction proposed ... Fildebrandt 188; Swann Corporation 188 Women’s shelters See A Safe Place (women’s shelter) Support for ... Aheer 29–30; Bilous 496; Fildebrandt Sherwood Park (constituency) 457–58; Nielsen 496; Swann 82, 552–54 Nonprofit service organizations See County Clothes- Smoking Line Foundation See Tobacco industry Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) Smoky Lake (county) Members’ statements ... Miranda 369 Tax assessment for uncollected taxes ... Hanson 329; Show Your 4-H Colours Day Larivee 329 See 4-H clubs SO Sikh observances See Standing Orders See Prakash Purab So God Made a Farmer Sikhs See Agriculture: Members’ statements Indian violence against, members’ statements ... Bhullar Social assistance 398–99; Loyola 447 See Alberta Works; Income support program Siksika Rodeo Cowboys Association Social change Summer series See Strathmore-Brooks Members’ statements ... Orr 285 (constituency): Rodeos Social Credit Party Simon House Recovery Centre History ... Speech from the Throne 8 Members’ statements ... Drever 641 Social Housing Corporation SIS See Alberta Social Housing Corporation See Persons with developmental disabilities program: Supports intensity scale (SIS) Social services ministry assessment See Ministry of Human Services Sittings of the Legislative Assembly Social supports See Legislative Assembly of Alberta [See also Human services] Funding through taxation ... Drever 270 Skill development ministry See Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Socialism General remarks ... Hunter 345; Jean 381; Mason 345 Skilled trades training See Apprenticeship training Softwood lumber agreement, Canada-United States See Forest products: Canada-U.S. softwood lumber Skilled trades training programs for women agreement Participation in North West Redwater Partnership project See North West Redwater Partnership: Solicitor General ministry Members’ statements See Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General

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Sommerfeld, Jaydon Speaker’s statements (continued) General remarks ... Aheer 29 Former MLA Elmer Elsworth Borstad, memorial tribute Members’ statements ... Aheer 20 ... Speaker, The 291 South Pointe community centre Former MLA Frank Pierpoint Appleby, memorial Members’ statements ... Dang 239 tribute ... Speaker, The 11 Southern Alberta Former MLA Harry Keith Everitt, memorial tribute ... Emergency medical services See Emergency medical Speaker, The 291 services (ambulances, etc.): Southern Alberta Former MLA John Albert Gogo, memorial tribute ... service Speaker, The 11 Flood recovery program See Disaster recovery Former MLA Norman Allen Weiss, memorial tribute ... program Speaker, The 11 Flood recovery program, aboriginal communities See Former MLA Stewart Alden McCrae, memorial tribute Aboriginal communities: Flood recovery funding ... Speaker, The 291 Floods See Floods: 2013 floods Former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial tribute Public transit See Public transit: Southern Alberta ... Speaker, The 595 service Magna Carta ... Speaker, The 705 Water management See Water management: Milk Remarks following election ... Speaker, The 3 River and Coutts water supply Rotation of questions and members’ statements ... Speaker, The 12–13 Southern Alberta Institute of Technology See Postsecondary education Special Committee on Ethics and Accountability, Select See Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Sovereign wealth funds Special See Alberta heritage savings trust fund; Alberta heritage savings trust fund: Comparison with Special-interest groups other sovereign wealth funds Law and legislation See Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1): Application to special-interest Speaker, Deputy groups See Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees Special needs, persons with Speaker, The See Persons with developmental disabilities; Persons Election ... Clerk, The 1 with disabilities Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-Lougheed ... Rodney 2; Starke 1–2 Special needs, programs for persons with Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-North See Persons with developmental disabilities program West ... Jansen 1; Pitt 1 Special waste treatment centre Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-Varsity ... See Swan Hills Treatment Centre McLean 2; Pitt 2 Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation Election, nomination of Member for Medicine Hat ... 139/2007) Hinkley 1; Wanner 1 Changes to ... Gotfried 648; Jean 277; McIver 279; Election, nomination of Member for St. Albert ... Aheer Notley 278–80; Phillips 279, 648; van Dijken 265 2–3; Renaud 3 Speech from the Throne Election of Mr. Wanner, Member for Medicine Hat ... Address given ... Lieutenant Governor 7–8 Clerk, The 3 Address in reply, question put on December 2, 2015, Impartiality ... Fildebrandt 1111 unless debate on motion previously concluded Member acknowledgement on entering and leaving the (Government Motion 17: carried) ... Mason 366 Chamber ... Speaker, The 5 Address in reply engrossed and presented to Lieutenant Remembrance Day ceremony See Estimates of Supply Governor (Government Motion 18: carried) ... Mason (government expenditures): Main and Legislative 798 Assembly offices estimates 2015-2016 schedule, Address moved and seconded ... Connolly 26–27; conflict with Remembrance Day observances Kazim 27–28 Speaker’s rulings Address tabled ... Speaker, The 9 [See also Points of order (current session); Privilege Addresses in reply ... Swann 80–82 (current session)] Addresses in reply, maiden speeches; Aheer 29–30; Decorum ... Speaker, The 446, 961 Clark 106–7, 174; Fildebrandt 83–84; Gotfried Intemperate language ... Speaker, The 431 174–75; Gray 195–96; Hanson 177–78; Jean 196– Questions and comments under Standing Order 29(2)(a) 201; Kazim 27–28; Loewen 555–56; Luff 79–80; [See also Standing Orders: SO 29(2)(a)]; Speaker, Nielsen 82–83; Nixon 558–60; Orr 180–82; Pitt The 747–48 77–78; Renaud 175–77; Smith 28–29; Sucha 557– Reference to nonmembers ... Speaker, The 440 58; Turner 178–80 Request for emergency debate on provincial economic Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... situation ... Speaker, The 968 Fildebrandt 84–85; Fraser 80; Hoffman 82; Loewen Timing in question period ... Speaker, The 777, 780–81 556; Luff 80; Malkinson 558; Mason 85, 180; Speaker’s statements McKitrick 85, 560; Nixon 180, 556, 560; Pitt 78; 15th anniversary of elected member ... Speaker, The 22 Schmidt 83–84, 556; Strankman 78, 80; Sucha 558; Anticipation ... Speaker, The 49–50 Turner 180, 556 Death of Constable Ezio Faraone, 25th anniversary ... Consideration on June 16, 2015, motion on (Notley: Speaker, The 273 carried) ... Notley 10 Election of Deputy Chair of Committees ... Speaker, Members’ statements ... Renaud 20–21 The 21–22 Spending policy, government See Fiscal policy 2015 Hansard Subject Index 75

Spray Lake Sawmills Standing Orders (continued) Timber allocation See Castle special management Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, area: Timber allocation cancellation division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Spruce Grove-St. Albert (constituency) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Member’s personal and family history ... Horne 39 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the See Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Standing amendments), amendment A1, subamendment SA1 (Tuesday morning start time of 10 a.m.) (Phillips/ Standing Committee on Families and Communities Mason: carried) ... Cooper 452; Mason 451–52; See Committee on Families and Communities, Phillips 451–52 Standing Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Standing Committee on Legislative Offices, Select division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in See Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Standing Committee on Members’ Services, Special Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing See Committee on Members’ Services, Special Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Standing Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Standing Committee on Private Bills, Select amendments), amendment A2 (limit on evening See Committee on Private Bills, Standing sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... Cooper 453; Hunter 454; Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections, Mason 453–54; McIver 454–55; Phillips 453; Pitt Standing Orders and Printing, Select 452–53 See Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Orders and Printing, Standing division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Select Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing See Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with See Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing amendments), amendment A3 (estimates debate time Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings and procedure coming into force date) (Shepherd/ Trust Fund, Select McPherson: carried) ... Fildebrandt 455; McPherson See Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings 455; Shepherd 455 Trust Fund, Standing Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Standing committees of the Legislative Assembly division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Referral of bills to, standing order amendments See ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committees of the Legislative Assembly: Referral Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing of bills to, standing order amendments Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the (Government Motion 23: carried) Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Standing Orders amendments), amendment A1 (morning sittings starting at 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, amendments), motion to adjourn debate (Schmidt: division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in carried) ... Schmidt 365 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing amendments) ... Aheer 361; Clark 363; Connolly Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the 361; Cooper 357–60, 452–53; Cyr 362–63; Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with Fildebrandt 359, 455; Hoffman 363; Hunter 364, amendments), amendment A1 (morning sittings 454; Jansen 364; MacIntyre 361–63; Mason 356– starting at 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with 57, 451–54, 456; McIver 359–60, 454–55; McLean amendments), motion to adjourn debate (Schmidt: 362; McPherson 362, 455; Orr 361; Payne 360–61; carried), division ... 365 Phillips 451–53; Pitt 363–64, 452–53; Schmidt Referral of bills to committee (SO 8(7)(c), 52.02, 360–61, 451; Shepherd 455; Smith 364–65 74.1(1), 74.2(1), 78.1, 78.2, 78.4) See Committees Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, of the Legislative Assembly: Referral of bills to, division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in standing order amendments (Government Motion ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, 23: carried) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing SO 4(1), night sittings See Legislative Assembly of Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Alberta: Night sittings Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with SO 7(4), members’ statements See Members’ amendments), amendment A1 (morning sittings Statements (procedure): Rotation of statements starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with SO 11(1), election of Speaker See Speaker, The: amendments) ... Aheer 361; Clark 363; Connolly Election 361; Cooper 357–60; Cyr 362–63; Fildebrandt 359; SO 23(e), anticipation of debate See Points of order Hoffman 363; Hunter 364; Jansen 364; MacIntyre (current session): Anticipation; Speaker’s 361–63 statements: Anticipation SO 23(i), imputing motives ... Mason 241

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Standing Orders (continued) Strathmore-Brooks (constituency) (continued) SO 23(i), imputing motives, points of order See Points Member’s personal and family history ... Fildebrandt of order (current session): Imputing motives 83–85; Mason 85; Schmidt 84 SO 23(j), abusive or insulting language of a nature Members’ statements ... Fildebrandt 173–74 likely to create disorder See Points of order: Overview ... Fildebrandt 83, 84 Language creating disorder Rodeos ... Fildebrandt 173–74; Turner 179 SO 23(l), offending the practices and precedents of the Seniors’ housing See Seniors’ housing: Newell Assembly ... Mason 129; Speaker, The 129, 135; Foundation proposal Starke 129 Strathmore gay rodeo SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... Acting Speaker See Strathmore-Brooks (constituency): Rodeos (Feehan) 973; Bilous 814; Deputy Speaker 814; Hanson 814; Mason 973; McIver 973; Speaker, The Strathmore general hospital 362–63, 550, 720 Capital needs ... Fildebrandt 281; Hoffman 281 SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under, points of order ... Strathmore Stampede Bilous 814; Deputy Speaker 814; Hanson 814 See Strathmore-Brooks (constituency): Rodeos SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under, Speaker’s rulings ... Streetworks program Speaker, The 747–48 See Boyle Street Community Services SO 30, request for emergency debate See Emergency Student employment (secondary and postsecondary debate under Standing Order 30 students) SO 32(3.1), division bells See Divisions (procedure) See Summer temporary employment program SO 61(1), interim and supplementary supply estimates (STEP) consideration See Interim supply estimates 2015- 2016 (No. 2): Referral to Committee of Supply Student financial aid (postsecondary students) (Government Motion 7: carried) Scholarships ... McKitrick 49 SO 64(4), appropriation bills in Committee of the Student participation on school boards Whole ... Chair 161 See School boards and districts: Student SO 90 to 94, private bills See Committee on Private participation on (Motion Other than Government Bills, Standing: Report presented on bills Pr. 1 to Motion 503: carried unanimously) Pr. 7, compliance with standing orders Student-teacher ratio (K to 12) Time allotted for budget debates ... Swann 62 See Class size (elementary and secondary schools) Standing Orders and Printing, Privilege and Elections, Student testing (elementary and secondary) Standing Committee on Grade 12 examinations ... Dang 1049; Eggen 1049 See Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Student learning assessments ... Dang 1048–49; Eggen Orders and Printing, Standing 1048–49 STARS Student learning assessments pilot project cost, 2010 to See Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) 2015 (Written Question 6: accepted) ... Smith 675 Statements by the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, or Acting Sturgeon refinery Speaker See North West Redwater Partnership See Speaker’s statements Subsidized housing corporation Status of women, minister responsible for See Alberta Social Housing Corporation See Minister responsible for the status of women Suicide Status of Women ministry Assisted dying See Assisted dying See Ministry of Status of Women Members’ statements ... Dang 390–91 STEP program Statistics ... Jean 966; Renaud 970 See Summer temporary employment program Summer temporary employment program (STEP) (STEP) Reinstatement ... Bilous 496, 546; Jean 539; McIver STIP 459; Nielsen 496; Notley 539; Starke 615 See Strategic transportation infrastructure program Sundre (town) (STIP) Flood damage mitigation See Flood damage Stony Plain (town) mitigation: Sundre projects Business enterprises See Freson Bros. Sunshine list, capital planning Nonprofit organizations See Light Up Your Life Tri- See Capital projects: Prioritization, publicly Community Palliative/Hospice Care Society available information (“sunshine list”); School Stover, Vincent construction: Prioritization, publicly available Accidental death ... Larivee 286 information (“sunshine list”) Strategic transportation infrastructure program (STIP) Sunshine list, public service compensation Funding ... Hinkley 467; Mason 467 See Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act Strathcona (county) (Bill 5) Corporations See Greenmunch Supportive living initiative, affordable Nonprofit organizations See County Clothes-Line See Affordable supportive living initiative Foundation Supports intensity scale Recycling See Greenmunch See Persons with developmental disabilities Strathmore-Brooks (constituency) program: Supports intensity scale (SIS) Health facilities ... Fildebrandt 281; Hoffman 281 assessment History ... Fildebrandt 173 Member’s apology ... Fildebrandt 1111 2015 Hansard Subject Index 77

Surface rights Taxation (continued) Law and legislation review, motion on See Freehold Fuel tax exemptions ... Ceci 380 lands: Surface rights legislation review (Motion Insurance premium tax [See also Act to Implement Other than Government Motion 501: carried) Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Surface Rights Act Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Amendments to act ... Hinkley 140 Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax Provisions for corporate bankruptcies (section 36) ... provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated)]; Ceci 380, Stier 142 926; Fildebrandt 517; Hanson 514; Loewen 929 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Surface Rights Board Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Decisions ... Hinkley 140 and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4); Act to Restore Surgery procedures Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Wait times, statistics for 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014- Locomotive fuel tax See also Act to Implement 2015 (Written Question 2: carried as amended) ... Various Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Barnes 675–76; Hoffman 675–76 Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4): Sustainability fund (former) Committee, amendment A10 (locomotive fuel tax See Contingency account provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated)]; Aheer 927– Swan Hills Treatment Centre 28; Barnes 554; Bilous 569; Ceci 380–81, 926; Funding ... Schneider 112 Clark 637; Drysdale 569; Fraser 714; Hanson 514; Sylvan Lake (town) Jean 493–94; Loewen 670, 928; MacIntyre 712; Health care ... Hoffman 234; MacIntyre 234 Mason 670; Notley 493–94; Phillips 712, 714 Lowering of taxes, policy on ... Jean 120; Notley 120 Synthetic crude Progressive tax ... Ceci 613; Speech from the Throne 8 See Bitumen Progressive tax, forecast revenue from ... McIver 15; Synthetic crude development Notley 15 See Oil sands development Progressive tax, impact on take-home pay ... McIver 15; Foreign workers See Temporary foreign workers Notley 15 Synthetic crude upgrading projects Provincial strategy ... Bilous 530; Clark 551–52; See North West Redwater Partnership: Bitumen Fildebrandt 456–57, 517; Hanson 530; Hoffman upgrading project 526; Jean 526, 599–600, 632–33, 956; McIver 294; Syrian civil war refugees Notley 294, 599–600, 956; Stier 955; Taylor 625 See Refugees Sales tax, provincial strategy ... Jean 13, 341; Notley 13, 341 Tabling of Speech from the Throne Tax credits ... Swann 553–54 See Speech from the Throne: Address tabled Tobacco products tax ... Ceci 335, 380–81; Clark 504; Tabling Returns and Reports (procedure) Fildebrandt 509, 517; Hanson 514; Swann 512; Note: Tablings are available on the Legislative Taylor 508–9 Assembly website (http://www.assembly.ab.ca) under Tobacco products tax, revenue utilization ... Hoffman Assembly Documents and Records. 394–95; Rodney 394–95 Point of order ... Cooper 534; Mason 534; Speaker, Taxation, municipal The 534 See Property tax Tar sands development Taxi alternatives See Oil sands development See Ride-sharing services Foreign workers See Temporary foreign workers Taylor, Marliss Tar sands products See Boyle Street Community Services See Bitumen Teacher-student ratio (K-12) Tar sands upgrading project See Class size (elementary and secondary schools) See North West Redwater Partnership: Bitumen upgrading project Teachers Compensation disclosure, law and legislation See Tax on carbon proposed Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act See Carbon levy (Bill 5) Tax on property Workload ... Eggen 168; Luff 168 See Property tax Teachers’ Association Tax policy (Saskatchewan) Collective bargaining, law and legislation See Public See Saskatchewan: Taxation Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Taxation Team Lethbridge [See also Corporate taxation; Income tax, provincial See Lethbridge: Team Lethbridge coalition (personal income tax)] TEBA (teachers’ employer bargaining association) Alcohol tax ... Ceci 335; Clark 504; Fildebrandt 517; Establishment See Public Education Collective Hanson 514; Swann 512 Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Charitable tax credit, members’ statements ... Goehring 640 Technical schools Collection of taxes in arrears ... Ceci 380 See Postsecondary educational institutions Comparison with other jurisdictions ... Hunter 185; Technology commercialization enterprise Shepherd 185–86 See Alberta Enterprise Corporation Family employment tax credit ... Ceci 381 Teenage prostitution Fuel tax ... Bilous 569; Clark 504; Drysdale 569; See Child protective services Hanson 514 78 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Telephone health information lines Tobacco use See Health Link Reduction strategy ... Hoffman 394–95; Rodney 394–95 Telephone information lines Toddler development See 211 information and referral telephone line See Child development Television and motion picture industry Toll roads and bridges See Film and television industry General remarks ... Mason 532; Schneider 532 Telus Corporation Tourism Layoffs ... McIver 466; Notley 466 Culinary tourism ... Starke 308; Sucha 312; Westhead Temporary accommodation allowance (for MLAs) 308–9, 893–94 Members’ expense claims, questions disallowed ... Market development ... Carson 396–97; Eggen 396–97 Clark 1045; Mason 1045; Speaker, The 1045 Provincial framework ... Starke 616 Temporary foreign workers Remember to Breathe advertising campaign ... Eggen Injured worker, support for ... Hoffman 233–34; Loyola 567; Starke 567 233–34 Tourism and culture ministry Job-creation grant program eligibility ... Jean 391; See Ministry of Culture and Tourism Notley 391 Tourism levy Terminally ill patient care Transfer to general revenue ... McIver 616; Starke 616–17 See Palliative care Tourism Levy Act amendments Terra Child and Family Support Centre Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various Members’ statements ... Schmidt 473 Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning Terrorist attacks and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Ministerial statement ... Notley 462 Tow trucks Ministerial statement, responses ... Clark 464; Jean Operator safety ... Mason 470; Strankman 470 463; McIver 463; Swann 463–64 TPP Terwillegar Riverbend Advisory Council See Trans-Pacific partnership (trade agreement) See Edmonton-Whitemud (constituency): Members’ Trade, international statements See International trade Testing of students Trade agreements See Student testing (elementary and secondary) See Farm produce: International trade agreements; TFW Forest products: Canada-U.S. softwood lumber See Temporary foreign workers agreement; Trans-Pacific partnership (trade The King’s University agreement) See Postsecondary education Trade ministry The King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015 See Ministry of Economic Development and Trade See King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, (new ministry from October 22, 2015) The Trade offices Throne Speech See Alberta government offices See Speech from the Throne Tradespeople’s training Tilley Heritage Day See Apprenticeship training General remarks ... Fildebrandt 173 Traffic safety Timber harvesting Highway deaths See Sommerfeld, Jaydon See Forest industries Pedestrian safety ... Drever 958; Ganley 958 Timber quotas Regulatory review proposed ... Mason 470; Strankman See Forest industries: Timber allocations 470 Speeding fines ... Starke 67 Time allocation motions on Bill 6 See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Traffic Safety Act Workers Act (Bill 6) Review ... Drever 958; Mason 958 Tobacco industry Trails Provincial lawsuit, law firm selection ... Fildebrandt Calgary to Cochrane trail, members’ statements ... 645; Ganley 645; Nixon 645 Kleinsteuber 640 Tobacco products Training, apprenticeship Electronic cigarettes ... Hoffman 395; Rodney 395 See Apprenticeship training Menthol-flavoured products, ban on ... Hoffman 122, Tran, Evan 394; Rodney 394; Turner 122 See Suicide: Members’ statements Menthol-flavoured products, link to youth smoking ... Trans-Pacific partnership (trade agreement) Hoffman 122 [See also International trade: Trade with Asia- Taxes See Taxation: Tobacco products tax Pacific region] Tobacco Tax Act amendment Provincial response ... Carlier 296; Starke 296 Law and legislation See Act to Implement Various TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline Tax Measures and to Enact the Fiscal Planning See Pipeline construction: TransCanada Keystone and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) XL project

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Transgender Day of Remembrance Two-spirit persons General remarks ... Ganley 704 See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Members’ statements ... Miranda 547 U of C Transgender persons See University of Calgary See Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons UFA Transit services See United Farmers of Alberta See Public transit Ukraine famine memorial Transparency Act, Fiscal Planning and See Holodomor Memorial Day See Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act UNDRIP Transportation, public (buses, light rail, etc.) See United Nations declaration on the rights of See Public transit indigenous peoples Transportation infrastructure program, strategic Unemployment See Strategic transportation infrastructure program [See also Emergency debate under Standing Order (STIP) 30: Provincial economic situation] Transportation ministry Budgetary impacts ... Ceci 65–66; Hunter 65–66; Sabir See Ministry of Transportation 66 Transportation plan Energy industries See Energy industries: Job losses 50-year plan ... Mason 488 General remarks ... Jean 632; Stier 955 Group layoff notices ... Jean 539; Notley 539 TRC Increase ... Ceci 882; Jean 876; Notley 876; Smith 882 See Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Northern unemployment ... Loewen 346–47; Sigurdson Treasury Board 347 Meeting schedule ... Ceci 73; McIver 73 Provincial response [See also Alberta Works; Job Treasury Branches creation]; McIver 167; Sigurdson 167, 171; Starke 171 See ATB Financial Statistics ... MacIntyre 509 Treasury ministry (financial management and Transgender and gender-variant persons ... Connolly planning) 694; Miranda 695–96 See Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance Unemployment insurance program (federal) Trellis Foundation See Employment insurance program (federal) Name change from Covenant Bible College, legislation Unions on See Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, Collective agreements, wage freezes ... Jean 385 2015 (Bill Pr. 6) Contributions to political parties, legislation on [See Trussler, Marguerite, QC, office of also Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill See Ethics Commissioner’s office 1)]; Ganley 19; Miranda 19 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Contributions to political parties, other jurisdictions ... [See also Residential schools] Cyr 31 Final report, ministerial statement ... Notley 116–17 United Farmers of Alberta Final report, ministerial statement, responses ... Clark History ... Speech from the Throne 8 119; Drever 119; Jean 117–18; Swann 118–19 United Nations climate summit Report recommendations ... Drever 119; Ganley 98, Energy minister’s attendance ... Fraser 647; Phillips 444; Horne 330; Jean 117–18; McIver 118, 167; 647 Notley 98–99, 116–17, 167, 328; Rodney 98–99, Premier’s attendance ... Bilous 441; Hoffman 439, 441; 328, 444; Swann 118–19 Jean 439; McIver 441, 541; Notley 541 Report recommendations, federal government response United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous ... Clark 119 peoples Tsuut’ina First Nation General remarks ... Horne 39; Notley 98; Rodney 98 Agreement on land for Calgary ring road See Calgary Recommendations ... Babcock 347–48; Ganley 347– ring road: Southwest portion, land agreement with 48, 444; Horne 330; Notley 328; Rodney 328, 444 Tsuut’ina First Nation United Nations declaration on the rights of the child Tuition and fees, postsecondary General remarks ... Hinkley 547 International student tuition ... Clark 602; Sigurdson United Nations International Day of Persons with 602 Disabilities Market modifiers (differential tuition for professional General remarks ... Renaud 583 programs) ... Loyola 65; Sigurdson 64–65 United Nations UNiTE to End Violence against Women Two-year freeze ... Sigurdson 421; Taylor 421 Orange the World campaign ... Phillips 710 Two Hills (town) United Nations universal declaration of human rights Greenhouses ... Hanson 307 General remarks ... Aheer 865; Clark 866; Loyola Two Hills constituency 864–65; Swann 865 See Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills (constituency) United States-Canada trade agreements Two Hills dialysis service Softwood lumber agreement ... Carlier 299; Drysdale See Kidney dialysis: Mobile service 299, 882; Mason 883 Two Hills Mennonite school University education School construction, structural issues ... Hanson 177– See Postsecondary education 78, 297; Mason 297 University of Alberta See Postsecondary education 80 2015 Hansard Subject Index

University of Calgary Violent crimes [See also Postsecondary education] Community response ... Dach 19–20 Staff collective agreement ... Bhullar 344–45; Ceci Crimes committed in workplaces See Workplace 344–45 safety: Fatalities, members’ statements University of Lethbridge Vision loss services See Postsecondary education See Persons with disabilities: Vision loss services Upgrading of bitumen Visitors, introduction of North West project See North West Redwater See Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Partnership Vocational schools Urban affairs ministry See Postsecondary educational institutions See Ministry of Municipal Affairs Vocational schools admissions (enrolment) Urban agriculture See Postsecondary educational institutions See Agriculture: Urban farming admissions (enrolment) Urban areas Voluntary organizations Greenhouse gas mitigation funding See Municipal See Nonprofit organizations Climate Change Action Centre Volunteers Provincial water/waste-water program See See Bobawsky, Phil; Waskatenau (village): Anne Water/waste-water treatment Chorney public library, members’ statements Urban finance VON See Municipal finance See Victorian Order of Nurses User charges Voter turnout (provincial elections) Health care fees See Health care levy General remarks ... Pitt 78 Provincial campgrounds See Campgrounds, provincial Voting in provincial elections Registry services See Registry services: Fees Identification requirements, transgender and gender- variant persons ... Miranda 697 Utilities, electric See Electric power plants Voting in the Assembly Free votes ... Fildebrandt 246; Smith 29; Swann 246 Utilities ministry Securing of the doors during ... Speaker, The 5 See Ministry of Energy Vulnerable children Valleyview (town) See Child protective services Physicians ... Hoffman 775–76; Loewen 775–76 Service stations ... Loewen 556; Schmidt 556 Vulnerable persons, services for See Ministry of Human Services Value-added agriculture See Food industry and trade Wabamun (village) Dragonfly Festival, members’ statements ... Babcock 173 Varsity Community Association History ... Babcock 173 50th anniversary, members’ statements ... McLean 493 Wages Vehicle safety Minimum wage See Minimum wage See Traffic safety Wainwright (town) Venancio, Vicky Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... See Temporary foreign workers: Injured worker, Hoffman 433–34; Taylor 433–34 support for Health facilities ... Mason 103, 646; Taylor 103, 646 Venture capital enterprise Wainwright health centre See Alberta Enterprise Corporation Capital needs ... Barnes 55; Hoffman 55–56, 103; Vermilion-Lloydminster (constituency) Taylor 103 [See also Progressive Conservative opposition: Condition of facility ... Hoffman 646; Taylor 646 Members’ statements] Stakeholders’ meeting with Health minister ... Hoffman Dairies ... Starke 308 646; Taylor 646 Member’s personal and family history ... Starke 193, Walking with Our Sisters 738–39, 1098–99 See Aboriginal women and violence: Missing and Victims of crime murdered women, Walking with Our Sisters Drunk-driving victims, supports for ... Ellis 125; exhibit, members’ statements Ganley 125 Wanner, Robert E. Victims of crime fund Election as Speaker See Speaker, The: Election Fund utilization ... Ellis 646; Ganley 646 War Horse Awareness Foundation Victims of domestic violence Members’ statements ... Littlewood 1051 See Domestic violence Waskatenau (village) Victims of Domestic Violence Act (Bill 214, 1996) Anne Chorney public library, members’ statements ... General remarks ... Swann 480–81 Piquette 331 Victorian Order of Nurses Water for life program Alberta closure ... Hoffman 643–44; McIver 643; Funding ... Anderson, W. 70; Bilous 67–68; Hanson Notley 643 506; Mason 70, 860; Orr 506; Starke 67–68; Violence, domestic Westhead 860 See Domestic violence Okotoks application ... Anderson, W. 70 2015 Hansard Subject Index 81

Water management Women and violence Milk River and Coutts water supply, members’ [See also Aboriginal women and violence] statements ... Hunter 492 Anniversary of l’école Polytechnique de Montréal Water/waste-water treatment shootings ... Jansen 874 Funding ... Ceci 336; Fildebrandt 860; Mason 860 Anniversary of l’école Polytechnique de Montréal Infrastructure needs, Lacombe-Ponoka (constituency) ... shootings, members’ statements ... Payne 778–79 Orr 181 Education and awareness ... Drever 709; Phillips 710 WCB Members’ statements ... McPherson 608 See Workers’ compensation; Workers’ Murdered and missing women ... Speech from the Compensation Board Throne 7 Programs and services ... Drever 709; Sabir 709 WCB coverage for farm workers Relation to poverty ... Renaud 176 See Farm workers: Workers’ compensation coverage Women Building Futures skilled trades program WCB coverage for farm workers, law and legislation Participation in North West Redwater Partnership See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch project See North West Redwater Partnership: Workers Act (Bill 6) Members’ statements Weiss, Norman Allen (former MLA) Women parliamentarians See Members of the Legislative Assembly: Former Members’ statements ... Jabbour 779 MLA Norman Allen Weiss, memorial tribute Women’s shelters Wellness initiatives [See also A Safe Place (women’s shelter); Camrose See Health promotion Women’s Shelter] Wellness ministry Funding ... Ceci 334; Clark 479; Goehring 420; Sabir See Ministry of Health 65, 344, 420; Starke 615; Sweet 65, 344 Wells, Mark Women’s Status ministry Public Affairs Bureau appointment See Public Affairs See Minister responsible for the status of women; Bureau: Management appointments Ministry of Status of Women West Yellowhead (constituency) Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Member’s personal and family history ... Rosendahl killed on duty) 1078 Members’ statements ... McIver 39–40 Wheat Board Memorial tribute ... Ellis 17, 20; Ganley 17; Speaker, See Canadian Wheat Board The 3, 39, 41; Starke 4, 47 Whistle-blower protection act Ministerial statement ... Notley 40 Amendments, law and legislation See Public Sector Ministerial statement, responses ... Clark 41; Ellis 41; Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Jean 40; Swann 41 Review by select special committee See Ethics and Woodland caribou Accountability Committee, Select Special See Caribou Wildfire prevention and control Workers’ compensation Firefighting, funding for ... McIver 74 Education and Culture and Tourism minister’s remarks Firefighting contracts ... Carlier 126; Strankman 126 ... Notley 962; Schneider 962 Funding ... Ceci 334 Exempted job categories ... Clark 971–72; Gotfried Wildlife hunting 981; Hanson 981; Jean 941–45, 968–70 See Hunting Farm worker coverage See Farm workers: Workers’ Wildlife ministry compensation coverage See Ministry of Environment and Parks Farm worker coverage, law and legislation See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Wildlife predator compensation program Funding ... Carlier 57; Strankman 57 Workers Act (Bill 6) Premier’s remarks ... Larivee 778; MacIntyre 778; Wildrose opposition McIver 1044; Notley 962, 1044; Schneider 962 See Official Opposition; Opposition caucuses Workers’ Compensation Board Wilkinson, Neil (former Ethics Commissioner) Partners in injury reduction program ... Westhead 983 See Ethics Commissioner: Former commissioner’s acceptance of honoraria Working poor See Poverty Willow Creek municipal district Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... Workplace conditions Hoffman 1047–48; Stier 1047–48 Farm worker coverage, law and legislation See Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Withrow (hamlet) Workers Act (Bill 6) Farm fatalities See Farm safety: Deaths, Catriona, Jana, and Dara Bott Workplace safety Fatalities, members’ statements ... Coolahan 21 Women Public office holders ... Aheer 2–3; Pitt 1–2 World AIDS Day Respect for ... Speech from the Throne 7 See HIV/AIDS: Awareness events, members’ Social service organizations See Elizabeth Fry Society statements of Calgary World Refugee Day Women, ministry of Members’ statements ... Loyola 104 See Ministry of Status of Women 82 2015 Hansard Subject Index

Written questions Young Offender Centre, Calgary Q1, Alberta Health Services employees earning more See Calgary Young Offender Centre than $200,000 annually (Barnes: accepted) ... 675 Youth advocate’s office Q2, surgery procedure postponements, 2012-2013, See Child and Youth Advocate’s office 2013-2014, 2014-2015 (Barnes: carried as amended) Youth centres ... 675–76 See Cornerstone Youth Centre; Terra Child and Q3, Alberta Health Services part-time employee Family Support Centre overtime pay, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 (Barnes: carried as amended) ... 676–77 Youth employment Q4, distracted driving convictions from violation Support for ... McIver 167; Notley 167; Orr 397; tickets, 2011 to 2015 (Cyr: carried as amended) ... Sigurdson 397 677–78 Youth services in Lethbridge Q5, Alberta Health Services central zone employee See 5th on 5th (Lethbridge youth services) earnings, 2009-2010 to 2014-2015 (Cooper: carried Youth Services ministry as amended) ... 678–79 See Ministry of Human Services Q6, student learning assessment pilot project spending Zinck, Arlette (King’s University College professor) (Smith: accepted) ... 675 See Khadr, Omar: University studies Wynn, Constable David (RCMP officer killed on duty) General remarks ... Ellis 41