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

Speaker 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 afternoons, 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 Speaker Index 1

Aheer, Leela Sharon (Chestermere-Rocky View, W) Aheer, Leela Sharon (Chestermere-Rocky View, W) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact (continued) the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Energy policies Second reading ... 506–7, 520 Members’ statements ... 547 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) (Bill 6) (Cooper: defeated) ... 520 Second reading ... 811–13, 1026–28 Committee ... 799 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 799 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1026–28 Third reading ... 927–28 Members’ statements ... 1050–51 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Fiscal policy Second reading ... 189, 223–24 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 260–61 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Government spending ... 113 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Flood damage mitigation 223–24 Calgary and area ... 298–99, 498–99 Committee ... 256 McLean Creek project review ... 298–99 Third reading ... 260–61 Provincial strategy ... 29–30 Referral to committee proposed ... 189 Springbank reservoir project ... 298–99, 498–99 Alberta Energy Regulator Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Review ... 189 143/1996) Alberta heritage savings trust fund Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Fund utilization ... 139 music venues (Motion Other than Government Alcohol retail sales Motion 507: carried) ... 898–99 Regulations for licensed establishments ... 899 Human rights Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Members’ statements ... 865 3) Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Second reading ... 113 Increase ... 189 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Second reading ... 138–39 ... 864 Banff-Cochrane (constituency) Legislative Assembly of Alberta Member’s remarks on Bill 6 referral amendment ... All-party co-operation ... 30 1051 Magna Carta Bitumen General remarks ... 865 Export of unprocessed bitumen ... 18 Members’ Statements (current session) Budget 2015-2016 Carbon tax ... 572 Members’ statements ... 340 Energy policies ... 547 Canadian energy strategy Human rights ... 865 Council of the Federation discussions ... 166 Jaydon Sommerfeld ... 20 Carbon levy Provincial budget ... 340 General remarks ... 547 Referral amendment on Bill 6 ... 1050–51 Members’ statements ... 572 Minimum wage Chestermere-Rocky View (constituency) Increase ... 189 Member’s personal and family history ... 189, 812, Ministry of Energy 898–99 Minister’s chief of staff ... 18 Overview ... 29 Ministry of Environment and Parks Climate change strategy Minister’s book preface ... 231–32 Federal strategy ... 1043–44 Minister’s previous work for NDP ... 232 Corporate taxation Ministry of Transportation Increase ... 189, 260–61 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A5 Debts, public (provincial debt) (minister’s office budget reduction) (Aheer: Debt-servicing costs ... 506–7 defeated) ... 611 Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 506– Music industry 7 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Education finance Government Motion 507: carried) ... 898–99 Funding ... 113 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Electric power Climate change strategy ... 1043 Microgeneration regulation and policy review Environment minister ... 231–32 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Flood damage mitigation on the Elbow River ... carried) ... 691–92 298–99 Energy industries Pipeline development ... 18, 166 Job losses ... 340 Promotion of Alberta’s energy industry ... 418 Provincial strategy ... 29 Royalty review ... 664–65 Energy industries and environment Springbank reservoir flood mitigation project ... Public image ... 418 498–99 2 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Aheer, Leela Sharon (Chestermere-Rocky View, W) Anderson, Shaye (Leduc-Beaumont, ND) (continued) (continued) Climate change strategy Persons with Developmental Disabilities Services Review panel recommendations ... 689–90 (Public Consultation) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Crêpe and Shake Café 205) Members’ statements ... 284–85 General remarks ... 813 Daycare centres Pipeline construction Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Provincial strategy ... 18, 166, 418 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... TransCanada Energy East project ... 418 316 TransCanada Energy East project, Premier’s Drought discussions with New Brunswick Premier ... 166 Assistance to farmers and ranchers ... 325–26 TransCanada Keystone XL project ... 18 Electric power TransCanada Keystone XL project, advocacy for ... Microgeneration regulation and policy review 418 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) carried) ... 689–90 Third reading ... 1005–6 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act School board responses ... 1005–6 (Bill 6) Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Second reading ... 751 Second reading ... 654, 656 Committee ... 1060–61 Railroads Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Transportation of oil and gas ... 18 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1060–61 Recall Act (Bill 206) Family farm provisions ... 644 First reading ... 649 Stakeholder consultation ... 644–45 Royalty structure (energy resources) Grazing lands, public Review ... 18, 664–65 Water use ... 325 Review, impact on energy industry employment ... Leduc No. 1 Energy Discovery Centre 189 Members’ statements ... 563 Small business Members’ Statements (current session) Support for ... 29–30 Crêpe and Shake Café ... 284–85 Sommerfeld, Jaydon Leduc No. 1 Energy Discovery Centre ... 563 General remarks ... 29 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Members’ statements ... 20 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 644–45 Speaker, The Support for agriculture ... 325–26 Election, nomination of Member for St. Albert ... 2– Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of 3 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Speech from the Throne Second reading ... 480 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 29–30 Anderson, Wayne (Highwood, W) Standing Orders Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Third reading ... 259–60 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, 3) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Second reading ... 113 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Disaster recovery program the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried 2013 floods, outstanding claims ... 297 with amendments) ... 361 Review ... 297 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in (Bill 6) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Third reading ... 1121 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1121 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Members’ statements ... 672–73 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 672 sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Executive Council amendments) ... 361 Reduction in size, cost savings ... 70 Taxation Fiscal policy Locomotive fuel tax ... 927–28 Government savings ... 70 United Nations universal declaration of human rights Government spending ... 113 General remarks ... 865 Floods Women 2013 flood, members’ statements ... 21 Public office holders ... 2–3 High River (town) Municipal Affairs minister’s visit ... 21 Anderson, Shaye (Leduc-Beaumont, ND) Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Agricultural insurance Increase ... 259–60 Crop insurance program ... 325–26 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Agriculture Estimates debate ... 70 Support for ... 325–26 Level of detail provided ... 113 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Second reading ... 402–3 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 3

Anderson, Wayne (Highwood, W) (continued) Babcock, Erin D. (Stony Plain, ND) (continued) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Oral Question Period (current session topics) ... 662 Aboriginal peoples’ economic development ... 863 Members’ Statements (current session) UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples Bill 6 opposition ... 672–73 ... 347–48 Flood recovery ... 21 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Ministry of Environment and Parks Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Second reading ... 482–83 ... 70 Third reading ... 890 Ministry of Executive Council Royalty structure (energy resources) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Review ... 139 ... 70 United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous Ministry of Municipal Affairs peoples Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Recommendations ... 347–48 ... 70 Wabamun (village) Ministry of Service Alberta Dragonfly Festival, members’ statements ... 173 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate History ... 173 ... 70 Barnes, Drew (Cypress-Medicine Hat, W) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A4 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact (minister’s office expense reduction) (Anderson, the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) W.: defeated) ... 610 Committee ... 756–57, 917 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Committee, amendment A2 (contingency account Disaster recovery program ... 297 use) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 756–57 Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic ... 713–14 Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 917 Second reading ... 652–53 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic Second reading ... 33–35 Facility closure ... 713–14 Application to special-interest groups ... 34–35 Water for life program Funding ... 70 Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 33–34 Okotoks application ... 70 Official Opposition position ... 34 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Babcock, Erin D. (Stony Plain, ND) Committee ... 248–49, 254–55 Aboriginal business investment fund Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective Funding ... 863 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 248–49 Aboriginal peoples’ economic development Agriculture Programs and partnerships ... 863 General remarks ... 313 Agriculture Provincial role ... 313 Incentives for young farmers ... 306 Alberta Health Services (authority) Sustainable practices ... 306 Centralization of services ... 53, 772, 960 Alberta heritage savings trust fund CEO resignation ... 772 Fund utilization ... 139 Employees earning more than $200,000 annually Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) (Written Question 1: accepted) ... 675 Second reading ... 306 Executive and management severance payments Stakeholder consultation ... 306 (Motion for a Return 2: accepted) ... 679 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Part-time employee overtime pay, 2013-2014, 2014- Second reading ... 139 2015 (Written Question 3: carried as amended) ... CNIB 676–77 Members’ statements ... 874 Performance measures ... 323 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act (Bill 6) Performance measures, minister’s supplementary Committee ... 1054 response ... 348 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Relations with Health ministry ... 772 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1054 Alberta Health Services Board Freson Bros. New board ... 295–96 60th anniversary, members’ statements ... 104 Alberta heritage savings trust fund Holodomor Memorial Day Comparison with other sovereign wealth funds ... Members’ statements ... 607 135 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Fund utilization ... 135 ... 426, 562, 770, 873, 953 Official Opposition position ... 136 Light Up Your Life Tri-Community Palliative/Hospice Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Care Society Second reading ... 313, 401 Members’ statements ... 424 Committee ... 575 Members’ Statements (current session) Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory CNIB ... 874 committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Freson Bros. 60th anniversary ... 104 proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 575 Holodomor Memorial Day ... 607 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Light Up Your Life Society in Stony Plain ... 424 Second reading ... 135–36 Wabamun Dragonfly Festival ... 173 4 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Barnes, Drew (Cypress-Medicine Hat, W) (continued) Barnes, Drew (Cypress-Medicine Hat, W) (continued) Boyle health care centre Health care Capital needs ... 55 Local decision-making ... 16–17, 43, 53 Budget 2015-2016 debate Out-of-country health services ... 313 Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... 554 Patient-first strategy ... 284 Budget process Quality of services ... 544 Review of efficiencies ... 553–54 Review ... 43 Calgary cancer centre Health care finance Project status ... 55, 121 Funding ... 53, 544 Cancer diagnosis and treatment Health facilities Capital funding ... 55 Capital funding ... 55–56 Capital plan Capital needs ... 55 Dodge report recommendations ... 121 Health promotion Chronic disease management Funding ... 55 Funding ... 55 High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies Clerk of the Legislative Assembly (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement, carried) ... 585–86 responses ... 1041 Home-care services Cypress-Medicine Hat (constituency) Funding ... 55 Agriculture ... 313 Hospital maintenance and repair Debts, public (provincial debt) Funding ... 54 Debt repayment ... 554 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) General remarks ... 136 Increase ... 554 Drug use Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Reduction strategies, other jurisdictions ... 586 Estimates debate ... 53–56 Electronic health records Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Funding ... 54 ... 229, 425, 462, 538–39, 663 Emergency management Medical laboratories Funding ... 757 Medicine Hat services moved to hospital ... 39 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Medicine Hat (city) Centralization of services ... 960 Emergency medical services ... 879 HALO air ambulance service ... 879 Medical laboratory services ... 39 Southern Alberta service ... 960 Medicine Hat Diagnostic Laboratory Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Members’ statements ... 39 (Bill 6) Members’ Statements (current session) Second reading ... 803–5, 930–32, 1022, 1035 Government policies ... 640 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Medical laboratory services in Medicine Hat ... 39 month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) Mental health services ... 1035 Funding ... 55 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Review ... 55 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Minimum wage amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 930–32, Increase ... 249 1022 Ministerial Statements (current session) Second reading, time allocation on debate ... 1042 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative Committee ... 1089–90 Assembly, responses ... 1041 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Ministry of Health workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1089–90 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm ... 53–56 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Misericordia community hospital (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Maintenance and repair, funding ... 54 1089–90 Public information ... 1043 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Stakeholder consultation ... 803–4 Forecasts ... 756 Farm produce Provincial reliance on ... 135–36 International trade agreements ... 313 Northern Lights regional hospital Interprovincial trade agreements ... 313 Capital needs ... 55 Fiscal policy Office of the Premier Government spending ... 136, 254, 756–57 Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, Government accountability ministerial statement, responses ... 276 General remarks ... 34 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Government policies Alberta Health Services ... 772 Consultation policies, Executive Council members’ Alberta Health Services Board ... 295–96 remarks ... 932 Alberta Health Services performance measures ... Consultation policies, Premier’s remarks ... 930–31 323, 348 General remarks ... 1043 Calgary cancer centre ... 121 Members’ statements ... 640 Emergency medical services in southern Alberta ... 960

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Barnes, Drew (Cypress-Medicine Hat, W) (continued) Bhullar, Manmeet Singh (Calgary-Greenway, PC; died Oral Question Period (current session topics) November 23, 2015) (continued) (continued) Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 1042–43 Progressive tax proposed ... 45 Health care review ... 43 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Health care system ... 284 Financial transactions, Energy ministry ... 60 Health care system decision-making ... 16–17 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Medicine Hat town hall meeting ... 879 Estimates debate ... 59–60 Royal Alexandra hospital renovation ... 432 Level of detail provided ... 59 Rural health care ... 544 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Political advertising Punjabi remarks ... 269 Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, Members of the Legislative Assembly advocacy groups, etc.) ... 34–35 Recognition by the chair ... 270 Political parties Members’ Statements (current session) Contributions by special-interest groups ... 34–35 Violence against Sikhs in India ... 398–99 Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 33–34 Minimum wage Royal Alexandra hospital Increase ... 283 Renovation project ... 432 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Rural health care Capital funding ... 59 Funding ... 544 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Quality of services ... 544 ... 59 Surgery procedures Ministry of Education Wait times, statistics for 2012-2013, 2013-2014, Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate 2014-2015 (Written Question 2: carried as ... 59 amended) ... 675–76 Ministry of Energy Taxation Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Locomotive fuel tax ... 554 ... 60 Wainwright health centre Ministry of Environment and Parks Capital needs ... 55 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Bhullar, Manmeet Singh (Calgary-Greenway, PC; died ... 60 November 23, 2015) Ministry of Health Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Second reading ... 202–3, 225–26 ... 60 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Mandate on capital planning ... 60 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Ministry of Human Services 225–26 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Third reading ... 269–70 ... 60 Affordable supportive living initiative Ministry of Seniors Funding ... 60 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Alberta Works ... 60 Funding ... 60 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Corporate taxes ... 126 3) Nonprofit organization employee wages ... 283 Committee ... 149–51, 160–61 Public service compensation ... 344–45 Budget 2015-2016 School construction ... 420–21 Human resource costs ... 59 School construction schedule ... 470–71 Calgary cancer centre Tax policy ... 45 Location in Foothills medical centre ... 60 Postsecondary educational institutions Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Funding ... 344–45 Member’s personal and family history ... 270 Public service Capital projects Collective agreements ... 59, 344–45 Government announcements ... 470–71 Cost of ... 344–45 Corporate human resources School construction Funding ... 59 Funding ... 59, 420–21 Corporate taxation New schools, timeline on ... 470–71 Increase ... 45, 126 Sikhs Economic development Indian violence against, members’ statements ... Opportunities for ... 270 398–99 Entrepreneurship University of Calgary General remarks ... 269 Staff collective agreement ... 344–45 Flood damage mitigation Bilous, Deron (Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, ND; Calgary and area ... 60 Minister of Municipal Affairs to October 22, 2015; McLean Creek project review ... 60 Minister of Service Alberta to October 22, 2015; Springbank reservoir project, funding for ... 60 Minister of Economic Development and Trade from Government contracts October 22, 2015) Renewal ... 59 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Health facilities the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Capital funding ... 60 Committee ... 753 6 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Bilous, Deron (Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, ND; Bilous, Deron (Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, ND; Minister of Municipal Affairs to October 22, 2015; Minister of Municipal Affairs to October 22, 2015; Minister of Service Alberta to October 22, 2015; Minister of Service Alberta to October 22, 2015; Minister of Economic Development and Trade from Minister of Economic Development and Trade from October 22, 2015) (continued) October 22, 2015) (continued) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Energy industries the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Incentives ... 375 (continued) Job losses ... 326–28, 427 Committee, amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per Support for ... 428 cent limit on in-year operating expense increase) Energy industries and environment (Bilous: carried) ... 753 Public image ... 441 Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated), point of (Bill 6) order on debate ... 761 Second reading ... 930 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Second reading ... 204 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Alberta Enterprise Corporation amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 930 Funding ... 442 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Alberta government offices Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral International offices’ mandate ... 606 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), point of order Trade development initiatives ... 710 on debate ... 1010 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Second reading, point of order on debate ... 819 Second reading ... 700 Committee ... 1104–5, 1107 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Committee, amendment A6 (committee review of Committee ... 574–75, 578, 583 act) (Fraser: defeated) ... 1104–5 Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into committee, reporting, local food awareness week, force) (Starke: defeated) ... 1107 proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 574–75 Committee, time allocation on debate (Government Use of word “agriculture” ... 578 Motion 27: carried) ... 1100 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Fiscal policy 3) Government spending ... 428 Committee ... 151 Flood damage mitigation ATB Financial Calgary and area, Municipal Affairs minister’s Loans to small and medium-sized businesses ... 496, meeting with mayor ... 122 546 High River ... 122 Blackfalds (town) High River, minister’s meeting with High River Registry services ... 171–72 mayor and councillors ... 122 Budget process Forest industries Interim supply ... 68 Diversification ... 568–69 Calgary (city) Job creation and retention ... 568 Economic development ... 863–64 Millar Western Forest Products sawmill closure ... Job creation in ... 863–64 568 Carbon levy Gender expression General remarks ... 530, 568 Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Point of order on debate ... 573 government’s position ... 700 Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, Gender identity First Nations, etc. ... 570 Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Revenue utilization ... 569, 570 government’s position ... 700 Community development Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) General remarks ... 606 Estimates debate ... 61, 67–68, 70 Disaster recovery program International trade 2013 floods ... 61, 122 General remarks ... 710 2013 floods, outstanding claims ... 122 Market development ... 422 Economic development Memorandum of understanding with Punjab Diversification ... 422, 446 province ... 606 Government role ... 863–64 Trade with Asia-Pacific region ... 422, 710 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) ... 11–12, 230, 274, 321, 425, 523, 595, 705, 769 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 409 Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Ambassador of the Czech Republic and consul ... 561 subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Consul general of the United States ... 661 and Accountability Committee (referral Republic of Korea ambassador and party ... 425 amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 409 Job creation Electric power plants Government role ... 441, 442 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 862 Grant program ... 428, 431–32, 496, 546 Employment training Private-sector role ... 427 Skill upgrading ... 496 Programs ... 326–28, 546 Provincial strategy ... 863–64 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 7

Bilous, Deron (Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, ND; Bilous, Deron (Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, ND; Minister of Municipal Affairs to October 22, 2015; Minister of Municipal Affairs to October 22, 2015; Minister of Service Alberta to October 22, 2015; Minister of Service Alberta to October 22, 2015; Minister of Economic Development and Trade from Minister of Economic Development and Trade from October 22, 2015) (continued) October 22, 2015) (continued) Members of the Legislative Assembly Standing Orders Responsibility to uphold the law ... 282 SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... 814 Minimum wage SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under, points of order Impact on employment rate ... 500 ... 814 Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (new Summer temporary employment program (STEP) ministry from October 22, 2015) Reinstatement ... 496, 546 New ministry ... 446 Taxation Ministry of Environment and Parks Fuel tax ... 569 Minister’s book preface ... 282 Locomotive fuel tax ... 569 Ministry of Municipal Affairs Provincial strategy ... 530 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate United Nations climate summit ... 61, 70 Premier’s attendance ... 441 Ministry of Service Alberta Water for life program Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Funding ... 67–68 ... 70 Carlier, Oneil (Whitecourt-Ste. Anne, ND; Minister of Ministry of Transportation Agriculture and Forestry) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Agricultural insurance ... 67 Crop insurance program ... 57, 325–26 Municipal finance Agriculture 3-year plans ... 45 Support for ... 325–26 Municipal sustainability initiative Sustainable practices ... 531 Funding ... 45 Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Northern Alberta Development Council Loans, funding for ... 57 Status of ... 434 Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency Oral Question Period (current session topics) Funding ... 57 Carbon tax ... 568, 570 Castle special management area Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 862 Land-use consultation ... 530 Economic development ... 442 Timber allocation cancellation ... 420, 530 Economic diversification ... 422, 446 Drought Energy industry ... 375 Assistance to farmers and ranchers ... 296, 325–26, Energy industry layoffs ... 327–28 531 Energy policies ... 427–28 Impact on agriculture ... 57 Environment minister ... 282 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Flood recovery and mitigation ... 122 (Bill 6) Forest industry issues ... 299, 568–69 Family farm provisions ... 668 International and local relationship building ... 606 Stakeholder consultation ... 665, 670 International trade ... 710 Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 666–67, Job creation ... 326, 431–32 668 Job creation and retention ... 441 Farm produce Job creation and retention in Calgary ... 863–64 Market development, funding for ... 56 Minimum wage increase ... 500, 546 Forest industries Municipal sustainability initiative funding ... 45 Environmental sustainability ... 394 Northern Alberta Development Council ... 434 Support for ... 394 Public consultation on land use ... 530 Timber allocations ... 299 Registry services in Blackfalds ... 171–72 Forest products Small-business assistance ... 496 Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement ... 299 Small-business tax ... 428 Forestry division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Tax policy ... 530 Operating budget ... 57 Points of order (current session) Government contracts Decorum ... 761 Renewal ... 59 Language creating disorder ... 819 Grazing lands, public Questions and comments under Standing Order Water use ... 325–26 29(2)(a) ... 814 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Referring to a member by name ... 573 General remarks ... 56 Relevance ... 1010 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy Comparison with previous years ... 56 Forest industry representation ... 299 Estimates debate ... 56–57, 59 Registry services Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Approval process ... 171–72 ... 292, 389, 425, 524, 539 Small business Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Provincial tax rate ... 428 Ambassador of Switzerland and party ... 461 Support for ... 496 Livestock industry Traceability programs, funding for ... 56 8 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Carlier, Oneil (Whitecourt-Ste. Anne, ND; Minister of Ceci, Joe (Calgary-Fort, ND; Minister of Treasury Agriculture and Forestry) (continued) Board and Finance) (continued) Meat Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact United States mandatory country of origin labelling the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) ... 236 (continued) Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Committee ... 753, 796, 853, 914, 925, 929–30 Capital funding ... 59 Committee, amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate cent limit on in-year operating expense increase) ... 56–57, 59 (Bilous: carried) ... 753 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Committee, amendment A5 (referendum on debt-to- Agricultural policies ... 296, 531 GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 796 Family farms and Bill 6 ... 668 Committee, amendment A7 (publication of projected Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... consolidated cash balance) (Fildebrandt: defeated) 666–67 ... 853 Forest fire fighting contracting ... 126 Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) Forest industry issues ... 299, 393–94 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 914 Government policies ... 670 Committee, amendment A10 (locomotive fuel tax Mandatory country of origin labelling ... 236 provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 925 Public consultation ... 665 Third reading ... 925–26 Public consultation on land use ... 530 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Rural economic development ... 234–35 First reading ... 104 Spray Lake Sawmills ... 420 Second reading ... 161–62, 201, 206 Support for agriculture ... 325–26 Committee ... 244–45, 250–53 Pine beetle control Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective Funding ... 57 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 244, 245 Harvesting as a control method ... 393–94 Committee, amendment A2 (implementation date) Rural development (Starke: defeated) ... 250–51 Funding ... 57 Committee, amendment A3 (personal income tax) Rural economic development action plan (Starke: defeated) ... 252–53 General remarks ... 234–35 Third reading ... 259 Trans-Pacific partnership (trade agreement) Alberta Provincial response ... 296 Net financial assets, 2015-2016 forecast ... 52 United States-Canada trade agreements Alberta Enterprise Corporation Softwood lumber agreement ... 299 Venture capital funding ... 335, 613 Wildfire prevention and control Alberta heritage savings trust fund Firefighting contracts ... 126 Comparison with other sovereign wealth funds ... Wildlife predator compensation program 333 Funding ... 57 Fund utilization ... 133 Carson, Jonathon (Edmonton-Meadowlark, ND) Inflation-proofing ... 380 Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities Investment in Alberta corporations ... 335–36 Members’ statements ... 955 Alberta Investment Management Corporation Gateway Association Investment policy ... 335–36 40th anniversary, members’ statements ... 492 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Hospital maintenance and repair First reading ... 612 Capital planning ... 881–82 Second reading ... 613 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Third reading ... 631, 638 General remarks ... 955 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) 3) ... 275, 367, 415, 538, 1039 First reading ... 77 Members’ Statements (current session) Second reading ... 107 Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities ... Committee ... 145–46, 148–49, 160–61 955 Third reading ... 182 Gateway Association 40th anniversary ... 492 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Second reading ... 133 Hospital infrastructure ... 881–82 ATB Financial Tourism industry ... 396–97 Capital available ... 335 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Loans to small and medium-sized businesses ... 613 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Auditor General’s office Third reading ... 887 Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Tourism Budget 2015-2016 Market development ... 396–97 Forecast deficit ... 52, 124 Ceci, Joe (Calgary-Fort, ND; Minister of Treasury Government spending ... 51–52 Board and Finance) Human resource costs ... 59 Aboriginal peoples’ economic development Timeline ... 18, 53 Access to capital ... 336 Budget 2015-2016 Address Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Address presented (Government Motion 13) ... 333– the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) 37 First reading ... 331–32 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 9

Ceci, Joe (Calgary-Fort, ND; Minister of Treasury Ceci, Joe (Calgary-Fort, ND; Minister of Treasury Board and Finance) (continued) Board and Finance) (continued) Budget documents Employment insurance program (federal) Consolidated financial statements ... 52 Provincial role ... 66 Quarterly updates ... 708–9 Energy industries and environment Budget process Impact on competitiveness ... 374 Balanced/deficit budgets ... 333–35, 337 Public image ... 336 Interim supply ... 18, 50, 52–53, 57, 59, 70–71 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Public input ... 333 (Bill 6) Calgary cancer centre Second reading ... 802, 1023–24 Funding ... 336 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Calgary Transit Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Funding ... 336 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1023–24 General remarks ... 336 Stakeholder consultation ... 802 Campgrounds, provincial Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Camping and cottage lease fees ... 67 Debate time and procedure, 2015-2016 main Capital plan estimates of supply ... 18 Dodge report recommendations ... 336 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates Capital projects 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Funding ... 336, 613 Ethics Commissioner’s office Government announcements ... 336 Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Proposal evaluation ... 336 Executive Council Carbon levy Compensation freeze proposed ... 333 Repeal proposed ... 882 Reduction in size, cost savings ... 70 Chief Electoral Officer’s office Family and community support services Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Funding ... 334 Child and Youth Advocate’s office Farm fuel program Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Changes to ... 380 Child benefit program Fiscal Management Act Implementation ... 381 Financial reporting provisions ... 52, 708–9 Climate change strategy Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act General remarks ... 334 Financial reporting provisions ... 379 Contingency account Limits on government borrowing ... 335 Fund utilization ... 926 Fiscal policy Corporate human resources Government savings ... 380 Funding ... 59 Government spending ... 124 Corporate taxation Operational spending increases ... 380 Collection of taxes in arrears ... 380 Flood damage mitigation Definition of small and large business ... 73 Calgary and area ... 336 Increase ... 43, 45–46, 282, 334 Funding ... 336 Increase, impact on employment ... 169 Fuel Tax Act Premier’s remarks in news media, 2012 ... 244 Investigations under act, officer protection from Revenue forecast ... 250–51 prosecution ... 380 Corporations Government accountability Capital available to small and medium-sized Financial reporting ... 53, 853 businesses ... 335 Government advertising Debts, public (provincial debt) Television and online advertisements ... 467 General remarks ... 419 Government agencies, boards, and commissions Net financial assets, 2015-2016 forecast ... 52 Review ... 333 Provincial borrowing ... 335, 638 Health care finance Provincial borrowing during economic downturn (countercyclical spending) ... 666 Funding ... 334–35 Provincial borrowing limit ... 335, 379–80 Health care levy Provincial credit rating ... 380, 666, 709 Cancellation ... 67 Drought Health facilities Assistance to farmers and ranchers ... 334 Capital funding ... 336 Economic development High River (town) Diversification ... 282, 333–36, 613, 958 Government buildings ... 336 Forecasts ... 958 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Value-added industries ... 335 Flat-tax rate ... 334 Edmonton (city) Increase ... 282 Health facilities ... 336 Progressive Conservative caucus position ... 251 Edmonton Transit System Progressive tax proposed ... 45–46 Funding ... 336 Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office General remarks ... 336 Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Education finance Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Funding ... 50–51, 59 General remarks ... 51–52 10 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Ceci, Joe (Calgary-Fort, ND; Minister of Treasury Ceci, Joe (Calgary-Fort, ND; Minister of Treasury Board and Finance) (continued) Board and Finance) (continued) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Basis for calculation ... 70–71 (continued) Estimates debate ... 50–53, 57, 59, 66–67, 70–71 Provincial budget ... 18 Estimates transmitted ... 23–24 Provincial debt ... 419 Level of detail provided ... 52 Provincial fiscal policies ... 124, 282 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Provincial fiscal position ... 666 ... 274, 491, 769 Provincial quarterly fiscal update ... 708–9 Job creation Public service compensation ... 344–45 General remarks ... 613 Resource revenue projections ... 394 Government role ... 335–36 Royalty framework ... 444 Grant program ... 336 Tax policy ... 45–46, 530 Labour relations Postsecondary education finance Funding ... 66 Funding ... 59 Legislative Assembly Office Postsecondary educational institutions Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Funding ... 50–51, 344–45 Legislative offices Public Interest Commissioner’s office Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Lethbridge College Public service Trades and technology renewal and innovation Collective agreements ... 59, 344–45 project funding ... 336 Cost of ... 344–45 Members of the Legislative Assembly Funding ... 334, 336–37 Compensation freeze proposed ... 333 Political staff compensation freeze proposed ... 333 Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (new Red Deer regional hospital ministry from October 22, 2015) Obstetric facilities funding ... 336 Mandate ... 336 Revenue Ministry of Education Forecasts, 2015-2016 ... 52, 124 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Road construction ... 50–51, 67 Funding ... 336 Ministry of Environment and Parks Road maintenance and repair Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Funding ... 336 ... 67 Royalty structure (energy resources) Ministry of Executive Council Review ... 336, 444, 882 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Review, timeline on ... 43, 133 ... 70 Sand and gravel royalties Ministers’ office budgets ... 646–47 Gravel royalty increase ... 444 Ministry of Health School construction Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Completion times ... 336 ... 59, 67 Small business Ministry of Human Services Capital available ... 335 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Provincial tax rate, comparison with other ... 50–51, 66, 67 jurisdictions ... 245 Ministry of innovation and advanced education Provincial tax rate, decrease of 1 per cent proposed (ministry to October 22, 2015) ... 244–45 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Provincial tax revenue ... 244, 245 ... 50–51, 67 Taxation Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Alcohol tax ... 335 Funding, comparison with previous years ... 66 Collection of taxes in arrears ... 380 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Family employment tax credit ... 381 ... 66 Fuel tax exemptions ... 380 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Insurance premium tax ... 380, 926 Forecasts ... 334, 394, 529, 666, 958–59 Locomotive fuel tax ... 380, 381, 926 Office of the Premier Progressive tax ... 613 Portraits of former Premiers ... 51 Tobacco products tax ... 335, 380, 381 Oil prices Treasury Board Budgetary implications ... 333, 529 Meeting schedule ... 73 Ombudsman’s office Unemployment Main estimates 2015-2016 tabled ... 333 Budgetary impacts ... 65–66 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Increase ... 882 Economic development ... 958–59 University of Calgary Energy industry ... 374 Staff collective agreement ... 344–45 Government advertising ... 467 Water/waste-water treatment Government policies ... 43, 882 Funding ... 336 Government revenue forecasts ... 529 Wildfire prevention and control Job creation and retention ... 169 Funding ... 334 Ministers’ office budgets ... 646–47 Women’s shelters Nonprofit organization employee wages ... 283 Funding ... 334 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 11

Chair of Committees (Jabbour, Deborah C.) Chair of Committees (Jabbour, Deborah C.) (continued) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Ethics Commissioner’s office the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit 74 of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated), point of Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 order on debate ... 761 Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Committee ... 87, 155 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Estimates debate procedure ... 50 (Cyr: defeated), point of order on debate ... 87 Estimates debate vote ... 74–77 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) guarantees) (Nixon: carried) ... 155 ... 845 Committee, relevance of debate ... 90 King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, The Introduction of amendments, procedure ... 90 (Bill Pr. 1) Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Committee ... 906 Committee ... 259 Legislative Assembly Office Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Committee, point of order on debate ... 626 74 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 3) Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Committee, question put ... 161 Pr. 7) Auditor General’s office Committee ... 906 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Ministry of Aboriginal Relations 74 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 75 Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 2) Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry from Committee ... 906 October 22, 2015) Bills, government (procedure) Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Amendments, introduction of ... 90 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Amendments, speaking procedure ... 583 75 Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 (Bill Pr. 4) Ministry of Culture and Tourism Committee ... 906 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Chief Electoral Officer’s office 75 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 74 Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (new Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 ministry from October 22, 2015) Child and Youth Advocate’s office Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Ministry of Education 75 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 75 Committee of the Whole Assembly Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A2 Procedure (dress code, refreshments permitted, (minister’s office budget reduction) (Smith: members’ requirement to sit in own seats) ... 242, defeated) vote ... 610 246 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Question put in committee ... 161 Ministry of Energy Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 6) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... 75 Committee ... 906 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees Ministry of Environment and Parks Election of Ms Jabbour, Member for Peace River ... Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... 4–5 75 Divisions (procedure) Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Division bells in Committee of Supply ... 609, 909, Ministry of Executive Council 912 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Shortening bell intervals in Committee of the Whole 75 ... 87–88 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Ministry of Health (Bill 6) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Committee, amendment A2 (Employment Standards 75 Code, Labour Relations Code application) Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 (Drysdale: defeated) ... 1101 Ministry of Human Services Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates 75 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 12 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Chair of Committees (Jabbour, Deborah C.) (continued) Chair of Committees (Jabbour, Deborah C.) (continued) Ministry of Infrastructure Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act (Bill Pr. 3) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Committee ... 906 75 Standing Orders Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A3 SO 64(4), appropriation bills in Committee of the (minister’s office budget reduction) (Hunter: Whole ... 161 defeated) vote ... 610 Clark, Greg (Calgary-Elbow, AP) Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 211 information and referral telephone line Ministry of innovation and advanced education Members’ statements ... 285 (ministry to October 22, 2015) Aboriginal communities Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Flood recovery funding ... 61 76 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Ministry of international and intergovernmental the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) relations (ministry to October 22, 2015) Second reading ... 504–5 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Committee ... 753, 761–62, 767, 924–25 76 Committee, amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour cent limit on in-year operating expense increase) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... (Bilous: carried) ... 753 76 Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 761–62 Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Committee, amendment A4 (borrowing for Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... operational expenses) (Starke: defeated) ... 767 76 Committee, amendment A10 (locomotive fuel tax Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 924–25 Ministry of Municipal Affairs Section 7(2)(c), exemptions related to collective Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... agreements ... 504 76 Section 7(2)(e), exemptions for entities covered Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 under the Financial Administration Act or Ministry of Seniors Regional Health Authorities Act ... 504 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) 76 Second reading ... 33–34, 38 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Committee ... 92–94, 155–56 Ministry of Service Alberta Committee, amendment A2 (donations in kind) (Cyr: Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... defeated) ... 92–94 76 Committee, amendment A4 (individual donation Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A4 limit) (Clark: defeated) ... 155–56 (minister’s office expense reduction) (Anderson, Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 33–34 W.: defeated) vote ... 610 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Committee ... 246–47, 251–54 Ministry of Status of Women Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 246–47 Ministry of Transportation Committee, amendment A2 (implementation date) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... (Starke: defeated) ... 251–52 76 Committee, amendment A3 (personal income tax) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A5 (Starke: defeated) ... 253–54 (minister’s office budget reduction) (Aheer: Third reading ... 261 defeated) vote ... 611 Addiction treatment Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Women’s services, Recovery Acres Society proposal Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance ... 441 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Alberta Health Services (authority) 76 Administration ... 280 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A6 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) (minister’s office budget reduction) (Stier: Second reading ... 694–95 defeated) vote ... 611 Third reading ... 911 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Ombudsman’s office Landowner compensation provisions ... 140–41 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Alberta Medical Association 74 Health minister’s meeting with ... 280 Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 Alberta Party opposition Points of order (current session) Alternative budget ... 343, 637 Decorum ... 761 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Factual accuracy ... 87 Third reading ... 636–37 Insulting language ... 626 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Public Interest Commissioner’s office Second reading ... 131 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) vote ... Budget 2015-2016 debate 74–75 Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... Main estimates 2015-2016 vote ... 611 550–52 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 13

Clark, Greg (Calgary-Elbow, AP) (continued) Clark, Greg (Calgary-Elbow, AP) (continued) Budget process Disaster recovery program Balanced/deficit budgets ... 131, 552 2013 floods ... 61 By-elections Education finance Ministerial announcements during ... 33 Contingency planning for student enrolment ... 61 Calgary (city) Funding ... 637 Addiction treatment, women’s services ... 441 Educational curricula Calgary cancer centre Sexual health education, inclusion of sexual consent, Funding ... 343 members’ statements ... 286 Calgary-Elbow (constituency) Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Constituency history ... 106 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Member’s personal and family history ... 106 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 406–7, Calgary-Greenway (constituency) 409–10 Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Bhullar, ministerial statement, responses ... 599 subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Capital projects and Accountability Committee (referral Funding ... 550, 552 amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 409–10 Prioritization, publicly available information Elections, municipal (“sunshine list”) ... 343 Governing legislation ... 33 Carbon levy Elections, provincial Revenue utilization ... 637 2015 election ... 44 Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Government spending announcements during ... 33 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement, Electric power responses ... 1042 Microgeneration regulation and policy review Climate change strategy (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Review ... 527–28 carried) ... 688 Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, Standing Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Provincial economic situation, request for debate Mason) ... 23 (not proceeded with) ... 967 Committee on Families and Communities, Standing Energy industries Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Value-added industries ... 44 Mason) ... 23 Energy policies Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing General remarks ... 551 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Mason) ... 23 (Bill 6) Committee on Members’ Services, Special Standing Second reading ... 748–49, 971–74 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Mason) ... 23 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Committee on Private Bills, Standing amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 971–74 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... Mason) ... 23 748–49 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders Family farm provisions ... 748–49 and Printing, Standing Regulatory provisions ... 748 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Stakeholder consultation ... 665–66, 748–49, 859–60 Mason) ... 23 Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Special Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Review of Election Act ... 407 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Fiscal policy Mason) ... 23 Keynesian economics ... 761 Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Flood damage mitigation Mason) ... 23 Calgary and area ... 61 Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, McLean Creek project review ... 61 Standing Program review ... 68 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Springbank reservoir project ... 61 Mason) ... 23 Flood plains Conflicts of Interest Act Floodway buyout program ... 68 Breaches under the act ... 406–7 Floods Corporate taxation 2013 flood ... 106 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 261 Fort McMurray-Conklin (constituency) Increase ... 637 Member’s federal political career ... 974 Corporations Freehold lands Access to capital ... 637 Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than Debts, public (provincial debt) Government Motion 501: carried) ... 140–41 Debt-servicing costs ... 504–5 Government policies General remarks ... 419 Consultation policies ... 665–66, 971 Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 551, 637 Health care Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 551, Long-term planning ... 280 637 Health care finance Provincial credit rating ... 504–5, 762 Funding ... 637 14 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Clark, Greg (Calgary-Elbow, AP) (continued) Clark, Greg (Calgary-Elbow, AP) (continued) Human rights Opposition caucuses Members’ statements ... 866 Shadow/alternative budgets ... 637 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Increase ... 261 Addiction treatment services for women in Calgary Progressive tax proposed ... 261, 637 ... 441 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Climate change and royalty reviews ... 527–28 Estimates debate ... 61–62, 68 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 859–60 Level of detail provided ... 61 Health care system ... 280 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Infrastructure capital funding ... 343 ... 95, 230, 274, 368, 390, 492, 706, 769, 855, 873, International postsecondary students ... 602 1040 Members’ accommodation allowance ... 1045 Job creation Minimum wage ... 167–68 Grant program ... 637 Provincial debt ... 419 Grant program eligibility criteria ... 343 Public consultation ... 665–66 Land Assembly Project Area Act (Bill 19, 2009) Value-added energy industries ... 44 General remarks ... 141 Petitions presented (current session) Legislative Assembly of Alberta Sexual consent, inclusion in sexual health education All-party co-operation ... 106–7 ... 286 Members’ Statements (current session) Pipeline construction 211 information and referral service ... 285 Provincial strategy ... 504 Human rights ... 866 Political candidates (provincial elections) Not-for-profit organizations ... 547 Contribution limit proposed ... 33 Minimum wage Political parties Impact on employment rate ... 167 Contributions by individuals, limit on proposed ... 33 Ministerial Statements (current session) Spending limits proposed ... 33 Constable Daniel Woodall, responses ... 41 Postsecondary students Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial International student recruitment ... 602 tribute, responses ... 599 Poverty Global violence and Syrian refugees, responses ... Reduction strategy ... 167 464 Primary care networks Truth and reconciliation, responses ... 119 Access to ... 280 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative Implementation strategy ... 61–62 Assembly, responses ... 1042 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Ministry of Aboriginal Relations Second reading ... 725–26 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Second reading, referral to Families and ... 61 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Ministry of Education amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 725–26 Former minister, announcements during by-election Committee ... 988, 994–96 ... 33, 406–7 Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: ... 61 carried) ... 988 Ministry of Environment and Parks Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) ... 61, 68 ... 994 Ministry of Health Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ employer Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate bargaining association exemptions from Financial ... 61–62 Administration Act, Alberta Public Agencies Ministry of Infrastructure Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Transparency Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: ... 68 defeated) ... 995–96 Ministry of Municipal Affairs Third reading ... 1000–1001 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Stakeholder consultation ... 725–26 ... 61 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Ministry of Transportation Committee ... 785–87, 789, 791, 793–94 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Committee, amendment A2 (teachers’ threshold) ... 68 (Smith: carried) ... 785 Nonprofit organizations Committee, amendment A3 (municipal employees’ Members’ statements ... 547 threshold) (Clark: carried) ... 785–86 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Forecasts ... 551 compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Royalty revenue ... 419 amended) ... 787 North West Redwater Partnership Committee, amendment A5 (publication of Bitumen upgrading project ... 44 aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... Office of the Premier 789, 791 Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, Committee, amendment A6 (publication of ministerial statement, responses ... 277 physicians’ median incomes by type of practice) (Swann: defeated) ... 793–94 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 15

Clark, Greg (Calgary-Elbow, AP) (continued) Clark, Greg (Calgary-Elbow, AP) (continued) Refugees Women’s shelters Refugees from Afghanistan ... 599 Funding ... 479 Refugees of the war in Syria, ministerial statement, Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer responses ... 464 killed on duty) Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Ministerial statement, responses ... 41 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Workers’ compensation Second reading ... 479 Exempted job categories ... 971–72 Committee ... 685 Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Deputy Chair of Committees requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685 Election of Mr. Feehan, Member for Edmonton- Third reading ... 886 Rutherford ... 5 Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... Members of the Legislative Assembly 479 Certificates of election ... 10 Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, 2012) Speaker, The General remarks ... 140 Election ... 1 Revenue Election of Mr. Wanner, Member for Medicine Hat Long-term forecast ... 419 ... 3 Royalty structure (energy resources) Connolly, Michael R.D. (Calgary-Hawkwood, ND) Review ... 419, 528 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) School boards and districts Second reading ... 693–94, 698, 701 Policies on issues involving LGBTQ students ... Second reading, point of order on debate ... 698 694–95 Committee ... 909 School construction Official Opposition participation in debate ... 698 Elbow Park school rebuild ... 61 Official Opposition participation in debate, question Small business withdrawn ... 698 Effective tax rate (integration with personal tax rate) Stakeholder consultation ... 693 ... 247 Alcohol retail sales Provincial tax rate ... 168 Regulations for licensed establishments ... 901 Speech from the Throne Calgary-Hawkwood (constituency) Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 106–7, 174 Member’s personal and family history ... 26 Standing Orders Overview ... 36 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Class size (elementary and secondary schools) division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Funding ... 63–64 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Education finance Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Funding ... 26, 64 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of English language the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Personal pronouns ... 701 with amendments) ... 363 Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, 143/1996) division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, music venues (Motion Other than Government Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Motion 507: carried) ... 901 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Gender identity the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried General remarks ... 693–94 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Health care sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Services for transgender and gender-variant persons amendments) ... 363 ... 669, 693–94 Taxation In Flanders Fields (poem) Alcohol tax ... 504 Centennial, members’ statements ... 447 Fuel tax ... 504 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Locomotive fuel tax ... 637 Estimates debate ... 63–64 Provincial strategy ... 551–52 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Tobacco products tax ... 504 ... 538, 855 Temporary accommodation allowance (for MLAs) Members of the Legislative Assembly Members’ expense claims, questions disallowed ... LGBTQ-plus members ... 26 1045 Members’ Statements (current session) Terrorist attacks In Flanders Fields poem centennial ... 447 Ministerial statement, responses ... 464 Postsecondary end of semester ... 1052 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Ministry of Education Final report, ministerial statement, responses ... 119 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Report recommendations, federal government ... 63–64 response ... 119 Music industry Tuition and fees, postsecondary Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than International student tuition ... 602 Government Motion 507: carried) ... 901 United Nations universal declaration of human rights General remarks ... 866 16 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Connolly, Michael R.D. (Calgary-Hawkwood, ND) Coolahan, Craig (Calgary-Klein, ND) (continued) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Climate change strategy ... 647–48 Health services for transgender and gender-variant Workplace safety Albertans ... 669 Fatalities, members’ statements ... 21 Postsecondary education accessibility ... 236–37 Cooper, Nathan (Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, W) Postsecondary education Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact General remarks ... 26–27 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Postsecondary educational institutions Second reading ... 515–16 Funding ... 237 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Programs offered ... 237 Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) Postsecondary educational institutions admissions (Cooper: defeated) ... 516 (enrolment) Committee ... 754, 795–96, 914 Accessibility ... 236–37 Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit Postsecondary students End of semester, members’ statements ... 1052 of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated), point of Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of order on debate ... 761 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Committee, amendment A5 (referendum on debt-to- Second reading ... 481 GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 795–96 Speech from the Throne Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) Address moved and seconded ... 26–27 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 914 Standing Orders Opposition amendments ... 754 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Second reading ... 35–37 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee ... 87, 91–93 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of (Cyr: defeated), point of order on debate ... 87 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Committee, amendment A2 (donations in kind) (Cyr: with amendments) ... 361 defeated) ... 91–93 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... 22 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 36 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Introduction of amendments, procedure ... 90 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Second reading ... 187–89, 191, 201, 215–17 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- with amendments), amendment A1 (morning month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with 216–17 amendments) ... 361 Committee ... 251 Unemployment Committee, amendment A2 (implementation date) Transgender and gender-variant persons ... 694 (Starke: defeated) ... 251 Coolahan, Craig (Calgary-Klein, ND) Third reading ... 265–66 Affordable housing Affordable supportive living initiative Members’ statements ... 368 Funding, points of order on debate ... 350 Calgary (city) Agriculture Affordable housing ... 368 Provincial role ... 311–12 Climate change strategy Alberta Health Services (authority) Impact on economic development ... 647–48 Executive and management compensation, 2009- Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act 2010 to 2014-2015, central zone (Written (Bill 6) Question 5: carried as amended) ... 678–79 Second reading ... 803, 979, 1034–35 Performance measures, point of order on debate ... 332 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) Committee ... 908–9 ... 1034–35 Committee, amendment A1 (provisions on Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing aboriginal heritage) (Swann: defeated) ... 908 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 979 Landowner compensation provisions ... 141 Stakeholder consultation ... 803 Repeal proposed ... 327 Hutterite colonies Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Bill 6 application to ... 1035 Second reading ... 311–12 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Third reading ... 895 ... 674 Regulatory provisions ... 312 Lions Club Stakeholder consultation ... 312 Calgary Festival of Lights, members’ statements ... Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) 672 Second reading ... 617 Members’ Statements (current session) Committee ... 621–22 Affordable housing in Calgary ... 368 Committee, point of order on debate ... 626 Calgary Lions Club Festival of Lights ... 672 Workplace fatalities ... 21 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 17

Cooper, Nathan (Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, W) Cooper, Nathan (Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, W) (continued) (continued) Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) 3) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Second reading ... 109–14 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 405–6, 408 Third reading ... 182 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Third reading, member’s withdrawal of remarks ... subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics 182 and Accountability Committee (referral Bills, government (procedure) amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 408 Amendments, introduction of ... 90 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Opposition members’ time for review ... 681, 722 subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Bills, private members’ public (procedure) and Accountability Committee (referral Amendments from government ... 681–82 amendment A1) (Gray: carried), motion to rescind Opposition members’ time for review ... 681 (Government Motion 24: carried) ... 449–50 Budget 2015-2016 Electric power plants Timeline ... 36 Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of, point of Budget process order on debate ... 716 Balanced/deficit budgets ... 350 Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50, 2009) Interim supply ... 70–71 General remarks ... 141 Calgary-Foothills (constituency) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act By-election, 2015 ... 406 (Bill 6) Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Second reading ... 738, 804, 808, 816, 818, 821, Death of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, motion to 835–37, 932, 934 adjourn Legislature for (Mason: carried) ... 591 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Capital projects Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Prioritization, publicly available information amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 835–37, (“sunshine list”) ... 187 932, 934 Projects listed but not contracted, 2007 to 2015 Committee ... 1085, 1107 (Motion for a Return 1: defeated) ... 680 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Carbon Capture and Storage Statutes Amendment Act, workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1085 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Pore space ownership provisions ... 142, 327 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Climate change strategy (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Energy company response, point of order on debate 1085 ... 781 Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into Committees of the Legislative Assembly force) (Starke: defeated) ... 1107 Referral of bills to, standing order amendments Committee, time allocation on debate (Government (Government Motion 23: carried) ... 449 Motion 27: carried) ... 1100–1101 Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Third reading ... 1124 Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Committee ... 906 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1124 Corporate taxation Third reading, time allocation on debate Flat-tax rate ... 265–66 (Government Motion 28: carried) ... 1118–19 Increase ... 282 Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... 535 Official Opposition position ... 49 Members’ statements ... 671 Provincial tax rate ... 188 Regulatory provisions, consultation on ... 821 Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. Stakeholder consultation, points of order on debate 6) ... 674, 781, 964, 965 Third reading ... 1076 Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Debate time and procedure, 2015-2016 main Daycare centres estimates of supply ... 358 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Fiscal policy Other than Government Motion 502: carried), Government spending ... 266, 622 point of order on debate ... 316 Food industry and trade Debts, public (provincial debt) Local producers ... 895 Debt repayment ... 515–16 Freehold lands General remarks ... 112 Landowner property rights ... 141, 327 Democracy Landowner property rights, review proposed ... 141 Personal choice and responsibility ... 49 Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than Deputy Chair of Committees Government Motion 501: carried) ... 141 Election of Mr. Feehan, Member for Edmonton- Government policies Rutherford ... 5–6 Consultation policies, Premier’s remarks ... 934 Economic development Local decision-making ... 49 Diversification ... 282 High-speed rail service Government role ... 265–66 General remarks ... 487–88 Education finance House leaders Funding ... 112 Discussions on Assembly schedule ... 357–58 18 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Cooper, Nathan (Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, W) Cooper, Nathan (Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, W) (continued) (continued) Hunting Points of order (current session) (continued) Changes to regulations, point of order on debate ... 242 Imputing motives ... 287, 316 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Insulting language ... 242, 626 Flat-tax rate ... 265–66 Interrupting a member ... 964 Increase ... 282 Language creating disorder ... 242, 350, 534 Official Opposition position ... 49 Maintaining order in the Assembly ... 964 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Parliamentary language ... 674, 716, 781, 965 Time allotted for consideration ... 109 Points of order withdrawn ... 781 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Referring to the absence of a member or members ... Basis for calculation ... 70–71 781 Estimates debate ... 70–71 Reflections on nonmembers ... 241 Referral to Committee of Supply (Government Tabling cited documents ... 534 Motion 7: carried) ... 24 Political parties Time allotted for consideration ... 24, 110–11 Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 35–36 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Privilege (current session) ... 12, 164, 322, 662, 770, 1098 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Legislative Assembly of Alberta (Budget Address remarks about Executive All-party co-operation ... 36 Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) Exhibits (props) use by members, point of order ... 351–53 withdrawn ... 534 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Morning sittings proposed ... 357–58 Second reading ... 720–22, 725–26 Lethbridge-East (constituency) Second reading, referral to Families and Member’s personal and family history ... 481 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 721–22, Pr. 7) 725–26 Second reading ... 905 Third reading ... 1003–5 Members of the Legislative Assembly School board responses ... 1004 Reference in Assembly to absence, point of order on Stakeholder consultation ... 720–22, 725–26 ... 781 Public transit Members’ Statements (current session) Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Bill 6 opposition ... 671 than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 487–88 Official Opposition policies ... 49 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Minimum wage Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Impact on employment rate ... 282–83, 500 Second reading ... 481 Impact on employment rate, point of order on debate Committee ... 681–82, 685–86, 883–84 ... 534 Committee, amendment A2 (time of coming into Ministry of Aboriginal Relations force) (Payne/Sabir: carried) ... 681–82 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) ... 109 Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Ministry of Environment and Parks requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685–86, 883–84 Minister’s book preface, point of order on debate ... Regulatory provisions, stakeholder consultation on 241 ... 681–82 Ministry of Executive Council School boards and districts Ministers’ office budgets ... 617, 621 Student participation on (Motion Other than Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... Forecasts, point of order on debate (withdrawn) ... 412–13 534 Standing Orders Official Opposition Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Policies, members’ statements ... 49 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Opposition caucuses Role ... 450 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Shadow/alternative budgets ... 621–22 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Oral Question Period (current session topics) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Landowner property rights ... 327 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Minimum wage increase ... 500 with amendments) ... 357–60, 452–53 Provincial fiscal policies ... 282–83 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Points of order (current session) division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Allegations against a member or members ... 332 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Anticipation ... 22, 535 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Decorum ... 761 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Factual accuracy ... 87 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Factual accuracy, member’s withdrawal of remarks sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with ... 182 amendments) ... 357–60 Imputing falsehoods against a member ... 241

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Cooper, Nathan (Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, W) Cortes-Vargas, Estefania (Strathcona-Sherwood Park, (continued) ND) (continued) Standing Orders (continued) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, ... 537 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Members’ Statements (current session) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, County Clothes-Line Foundation ... 571–72 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 954 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of NutraPonics Canada Corporation ... 671 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried NutraPonics Canada Corporation with amendments), amendment A1, Members’ statements ... 671 subamendment SA1 (Tuesday morning start time Oral Question Period (current session topics) of 10 a.m.) (Phillips/Mason: carried) ... 452 Agricultural policies ... 531 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Second reading ... 482 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Committee ... 685 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685 with amendments), amendment A2 (limit on Cyr, Scott J. (Bonnyville-Cold Lake, W) evening sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... 453 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Tabling Returns and Reports (procedure) the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Point of order ... 534 Committee ... 758–59 Cortes-Vargas, Estefania (Strathcona-Sherwood Park, Committee, amendment A2 (contingency account use) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 758–59 ND) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Second reading ... 30–31 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Committee ... 87, 90–91, 154–55 Committee ... 921 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Agriculture (Cyr: defeated) ... 86–87 Sustainable practices ... 531 Committee, amendment A2 (donations in kind) (Cyr: Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) defeated) ... 90–91 Second reading ... 700–702 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Official Opposition participation in debate ... 702 guarantees) (Nixon: carried) ... 154–55 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and First reading ... 105 guarantees) (Nixon: carried), subamendment SA1 Second reading ... 303, 403–4 (limits on loan payments) (Ganley: carried Committee ... 573–74, 582 unanimously) ... 154–55 Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 31, 86–87 committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 573–74 Second reading ... 212 Committee, amendment A2 (public-sector Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) procurement of local food) (van Dijken: defeated) Second reading ... 697 ... 582 Carbon levy Third reading ... 891 Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, County Clothes-Line Foundation First Nations, etc. ... 569–70 Members’ statements ... 571–72 Revenue utilization ... 570 Daycare centres Corporations Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Contributions to political parties, other jurisdictions Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ...... 31 313–14, 319 Distracted driving Drought Convictions from tickets issued, 2011 to 2015 Assistance to farmers and ranchers ... 531 (Written Question 4: carried as amended) ... 677– English language 78 Personal pronouns ... 701–2 Energy industries Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Job losses ... 327–28, 569–70 (Bill 6) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Members’ statements ... 954 (Bill 6) Explore Local initiative Second reading ... 738, 831–33, 936, 981–83, 1020 General remarks ... 303 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Farmers’ markets Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral General remarks ... 303 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 936, 981– Gender expression 83, 1020 Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Public information, government website ... 738 government’s position ... 700 Stakeholder consultation ... 833 Gender identity Highway 28 General remarks ... 701 Members’ statements ... 96 Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Hutterite colonies government’s position ... 700 Bill 6 application to ... 982 20 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Cyr, Scott J. (Bonnyville-Cold Lake, W) (continued) Dach, Lorne (Edmonton-McClung, ND) (continued) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Calgary Transit ... 321, 770 General remarks ... 569 Job creation GreenTRIP (green transit incentives program) Programs ... 327–28 funding ... 569 Members of the Legislative Assembly Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Responsibility to uphold the law ... 282 Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) Members’ Statements (current session) Third reading ... 1076 Highway 28 ... 96 Edmonton (city) Pipeline construction ... 472 Violent crimes ... 19–20 Ministry of Environment and Parks Edmonton Police Service Minister’s book preface ... 282 Officer injured on duty, Sergeant Jason Harley ... 29 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Edmonton Transit System Carbon tax ... 569–70 General remarks ... 569 Energy industry layoffs ... 327–28 Light rail transit expansion, GreenTRIP (green Environment minister ... 282 transit incentives program) funding ... 569 Parliamentary democracy Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Principles ... 831 ... 96, 339, 425, 562 Pipeline construction Members’ Statements (current session) Members’ statements ... 472 Academy of Learning College Edmonton west Political advertising campus ... 349 Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, Alberta Real Estate Association ... 435 advocacy groups, etc.) ... 31 Constable Daniel Woodall ... 19–20 Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, Ministry of Transportation advocacy groups, etc.), other jurisdictions ... 31 Minister’s communication with federal Political candidates (provincial elections) Infrastructure and Communities minister ... 569 Contribution limit proposed ... 86 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Political parties Public transit ... 569 Contributions by individuals, limit on proposed ... 86 Public transit Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) GreenTRIP (green transit incentives program) ... 569 Second reading ... 730–32 Light rail transit expansion, GreenTRIP (green Second reading, referral to Families and transit incentives program) funding ... 569 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Violent crimes amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 730–32 Community response ... 19–20 Stakeholder consultation ... 730–32 Dang, Thomas (Edmonton-South West, ND) Standing Orders Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Second reading ... 133–34 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Fiscal policy ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Government savings ... 133–34 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of ... 229, 275, 367, 562 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) with amendments) ... 362–63 British Columbia MLA Jane Shin ... 561 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Members’ Statements (current session) division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in South Pointe community centre ... 239 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Suicide and mental health ... 390–91 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Mental health services Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Postsecondary student services, members’ the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried statements ... 390–91 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Oral Question Period (current session topics) sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with School infrastructure funding ... 375 amendments) ... 362–63 Student assessment ... 1048–49 Unions Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Contributions to political parties, other jurisdictions Committee ... 992–93 ... 31 Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: Dach, Lorne (Edmonton-McClung, ND) Academy of Learning College carried) ... 992–93 Edmonton West Campus opening, members’ School boards and districts statements ... 349 Student participation on (Motion Other than Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) 410–11, 413 Second reading ... 519–20 School construction Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Funding ... 375 Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) School maintenance and repair (Cooper: defeated) ... 519–20 Funding ... 375 Alberta Real Estate Association South Pointe community centre Members’ statements ... 435 Members’ statements ... 239 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 21

Dang, Thomas (Edmonton-South West, ND) (continued) Drever, Deborah (Calgary-Bow; Ind. to January 11, Student testing (elementary and secondary) 2016; ND from January 11, 2016) (continued) Grade 12 examinations ... 1049 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Student learning assessments ... 1048–49 Committee ... 631 Suicide Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Members’ statements ... 390–91 3) Deputy Chair of Committees (Feehan, Richard) Committee ... 147 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Assured income for the severely handicapped the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Client benefits ... 466 Committee, point of order on debate ... 854 Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 204, Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Decorum, points of order ... 854 Victims of Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, Points of order (current session) 2015, bill to proceed directly to third reading Decorum ... 854 (unanimous consent granted) ... 884 Calgary (city) Deputy Speaker (Jabbour, Deborah C.) 2010 gas station spill, site remediation ... 393 Bills, government (procedure) Community gardens ... 401 Second reading, content of speeches ... 813 Calgary-Bow (constituency) Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Member’s personal and family history ... 884 Second reading, content of speeches ... 813 Calgary ring road Bills, private (procedure) Southwest portion, public-private partnership (P3) Second reading, content of speeches ... 813 contract ... 294–95 Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Community gardens Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh General remarks ... 401 Bhullar ... 620 Crown prosecutors Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Access to information on traffic fatalities ... 958 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Debts, public (provincial debt) Second reading (carried unanimously), point of order Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 631 on debate ... 477 Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 631 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Disaster recovery program (Bill 6) 2013 floods ... 122 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing 2013 floods, outstanding claims ... 122 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), point of order (Bill 6) on debate ... 1010 Committee ... 1063 Health care finance Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Funding, point of order on debate ... 378 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1063 Members of the Legislative Assembly Farmers’ markets Members out of seats ... 585, 654, 1009 General remarks ... 401 Reference in Assembly to absence ... 702 Flood damage mitigation Pipeline construction Calgary and area, Municipal Affairs minister’s Provincial strategy, point of order on debate ... 378 meeting with mayor ... 122 Points of order (current session) High River ... 122 Allegations against a member or members ... 378 High River, minister’s meeting with High River Imputing motives ... 477 mayor and councillors ... 122 Questions and comments under Standing Order Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons 29(2)(a) ... 814 Transgender issues, stakeholder consultation ... 699 Relevance ... 1010 Income support program Standing Orders Client benefits ... 466 SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... 814 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under, points of order Estimates debate ... 62 ... 814 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Drever, Deborah (Calgary-Bow; Ind. to January 11, against Women 2016; ND from January 11, 2016) General remarks ... 709 Aboriginal Awareness Week Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Calgary activities ... 119 ... 301, 368 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Lethbridge-East (constituency) Second reading ... 37 Member’s personal and family history ... 484, 884 Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 37 Members of the Legislative Assembly Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Recognition by the chair ... 270 Third reading ... 262, 270 Members’ Statements (current session) Affordable housing Pathways Community Services Association ... 376– Condition of facilities ... 565 77 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Simon House Recovery Centre ... 641 Second reading ... 699 Ministerial Statements (current session) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Truth and reconciliation, responses ... 119 Second reading ... 401 National Aboriginal Day General remarks ... 119 22 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Drever, Deborah (Calgary-Bow; Ind. to January 11, Drysdale, Wayne (Grande Prairie-Wapiti, PC) 2016; ND from January 11, 2016) (continued) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Calgary southwest ring road contract ... 294–95 (Bill 6) (continued) Flood recovery and mitigation ... 122 Committee ... 1096–97 Gas station leak site remediation ... 393 Committee, amendment A2 (Employment Standards Seniors’ housing ... 565–66 Code, Labour Relations Code application) Support for low-income Albertans ... 466 (Drysdale: defeated) ... 1096–97 Traffic accidents involving pedestrians ... 958 Family farm provisions ... 667 Violence against women and girls ... 709 MLA briefing ... 737–38 Pathways Community Services Association Public information, government website ... 738 Members’ statements ... 376–77 Scope of bill ... 737–38 Reclamation of land Stakeholder consultation ... 544–45, 737 Tank site remediation, corporate funding ... 393 Family farms Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Members’ statements ... 715 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Farm safety First reading ... 448 Education ... 737 Second reading ... 477–78, 484 Forest industries Committee ... 680–81, 685 Diversification ... 568 Committee, amendment A1 (inclusion of assisted Job creation and retention ... 568 and supported adult children or dependants) Millar Western Forest Products sawmill closure ... (Drever: carried) ... 680–81 568 Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Role in caribou habitat protection ... 883 requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685 Timber allocations ... 299 Committee, bill to proceed directly to third reading Forest products (unanimous consent granted) ... 884 Third reading ... 884–85, 890 Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement ... 299, Seniors’ benefit program 882 Low-income supports ... 565 Government accountability Seniors’ housing Openness and transparency ... 601 Funding ... 565–66 Health facilities Service stations Urgent care facilities ... 102 2010 Calgary spill, site remediation ... 393 Meat Simon House Recovery Centre United States mandatory country of origin labelling Members’ statements ... 641 ... 236 Social supports Members’ Statements (current session) Funding through taxation ... 270 Family farms ... 715 Traffic safety Progressive Conservative opposition ... 341 Pedestrian safety ... 958 Northern Alberta Development Council Traffic Safety Act Status of ... 434 Review ... 958 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Energy industry ... 374–75 Final report, ministerial statement, responses ... 119 Family farms and Bill 6 ... 667 Report recommendations ... 119 Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... Women and violence 544–45 Education and awareness ... 709 Forest industry issues ... 299, 568–69, 882–83 Programs and services ... 709 Mandatory country of origin labelling ... 236 Drysdale, Wayne (Grande Prairie-Wapiti, PC) Northern Alberta Development Council ... 434 4-H clubs Openness and transparency in government ... 601 General remarks ... 715 Urgent health care in Beaverlodge ... 102 Beaverlodge Pine beetle control Health care ... 102 Funding ... 883 Carbon capture and storage Pipeline construction Funding ... 374 Provincial strategy ... 375 Carbon levy Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy Revenue utilization ... 569 Forest industry representation ... 299 Caribou Progressive Conservative opposition Habitat protection, public consultation ... 883 Members’ statements ... 341 Child protective services School construction Child intervention system, 5-point plan ... 601 Prioritization, publicly available information Energy industries (“sunshine list”) ... 601 Incentives ... 375 Taxation Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Fuel tax ... 569 (Bill 6) Locomotive fuel tax ... 569 Second reading ... 737–38, 976–77 United States-Canada trade agreements Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Softwood lumber agreement ... 299, 882 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 976–77 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 23

Eggen, David (Edmonton-Calder, ND; Minister of Eggen, David (Edmonton-Calder, ND; Minister of Culture and Tourism, Minister of Education) Culture and Tourism, Minister of Education) Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) (continued) Second reading ... 698–99 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Alberta School Boards Association (continued) Spending on team-building activities ... 468 Film and television industry ... 545 Calgary (city) Government policies ... 166, 231 School construction ... 172 Inspiring Education framework ... 232 Calgary schools Public education collective bargaining legislation ... Evergreen middle school, project status ... 172 858 Capital projects Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta ... 442, Government announcements ... 470–71 711–12 Charter schools School board associations’ spending ... 468 Funding ... 19, 64 School construction ... 421 Class size (elementary and secondary schools) School construction schedule ... 470–71 Funding ... 63–64 School infrastructure funding ... 375 Committee on Families and Communities, Standing School nutrition programs ... 430 Consideration of sexual health education curriculum Services for francophone Albertans ... 777 proposed ... 776–77 Sexual health education in schools ... 776–77 Community initiatives program Student assessment ... 1048–49 Projects funded ... 604 Tourism industry ... 396–97 Education Private schools Francophone system ... 777 Funding ... 19, 64 Provincial framework (Inspiring Education) ... 46, Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) 232 First reading ... 649 Education finance Second reading ... 717–19, 726, 729–34 Contingency planning for student enrolment ... 61 Second reading, referral to Families and Funding ... 46, 64 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Funding, timeline on ... 168–69 amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 726, 729– Funding for new enrolment ... 46, 166, 168–69, 231 32 Funding for rural and remote schools ... 58 Committee ... 987–88, 990–92, 994, 996, 998–99 Grants for English language learners ... 168 Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer Educational curricula bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: Sexual health education, inclusion of LGBTQ issues carried) ... 987–88, 990–92 ... 776–77 Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements Film and television industry requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) Market development ... 545 ... 994 Francophones Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ employer Programs and services for ... 777 bargaining association exemptions from Financial Government agencies, boards, and commissions Administration Act, Alberta Public Agencies Cultural diversity ... 604 Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and Home-schooling Transparency Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: Funding ... 19, 64 defeated) ... 996 Independent schools Third reading ... 1000, 1006–7 Funding ... 19 Referral to committee proposed ... 858 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) School board responses ... 858, 992, 998, 1006 Estimates debate ... 58, 59, 61, 63–64 Stakeholder consultation ... 717, 719, 726, 733–34 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta ... 12, 273, 425, 426, 856, 953, 1039 Special-levy motion ... 442, 468, 711–12 Lac La Biche School boards and districts Schools ... 442 Ministry of Education Meetings with Education minister ... 168 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Policies on issues involving LGBTQ students ...... 58, 59, 61, 63–64 698–99 Multiculturalism Student participation on (Motion Other than Provincial initiatives ... 604 Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... Northern Lights school division No. 61 411–12 Response to Lac La Biche Catholic school School construction construction ... 442 Elbow Park school rebuild ... 61 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Evergreen middle school, project status ... 172 Air quality in Alberta ... 567 Funding ... 59, 375, 421 Bullying prevention ... 470 New schools, timeline on ... 470–71 Capital projects in Calgary-Lougheed ... 172 School maintenance and repair Diversity initiatives ... 604 Funding ... 375 School nutrition programs Education concerns ... 168 Breakfast and lunch programs ... 430 Education funding ... 19, 168–69 Schools Education system ... 46 Catholic school proposal ... 442 24 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Eggen, David (Edmonton-Calder, ND; Minister of Ellis, Mike (Calgary-West, PC) (continued) Culture and Tourism, Minister of Education) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) (continued) Student testing (elementary and secondary) Calgary southwest ring road ... 712–13 Grade 12 examinations ... 1049 Fentanyl use ... 497–98, 881 Student learning assessments ... 1048–49 Fentanyl use prevention ... 397–98 Teachers Impaired driving ... 124–25 Workload ... 168 Justices and Crown prosecutors ... 432–33 Tourism Legal aid ... 645–46 Market development ... 396–97 Minimum wage ... 326–27 Remember to Breathe advertising campaign ... 567 Minimum wage increase ... 546 Ellis, Mike (Calgary-West, PC) Police officer fatality ... 17 Alberta law enforcement response teams Registry services ... 605 Funding ... 961 Police Bail Officers killed on duty, investigations ... 17 Review of process ... 237–38 Safety, members’ statements ... 20 Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Registry services Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Service expansion ... 605 Bhullar, members’ statements ... 607 Rural communities Calgary ring road Registry services ... 605 Highway 8 corridor ... 712–13 Seniors’ charter Calgary-West (constituency) Members’ statements ... 472 Member’s personal and family history ... 41 Victims of crime Court of Queen’s Bench Drunk-driving victims, supports for ... 125 Number of justices ... 432–33 Victims of crime fund Criminal Code Fund utilization ... 646 Drunk-driving penalties ... 124–25 Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Crown prosecutors killed on duty) Funding ... 433 Memorial tribute ... 17, 20 Daycare centres Ministerial statement, responses ... 41 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Wynn, Constable David (RCMP officer killed on duty) Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... General remarks ... 41 316–17 Feehan, Richard (Edmonton-Rutherford, ND) Fentanyl use Aboriginal consultation Harm reduction strategies ... 881 Pipeline development ... 566 Pill seizure by police ... 961 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Reduction strategy ... 397–98, 497–98, 881 Second reading ... 205 First responders Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Safety ... 17 Second reading ... 697–98 Impaired driving Committee ... 909–10 Drug-testing device approval proposed ... 125 Official Opposition participation in debate ... 698 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Autism Edmonton ... 706, 953 General remarks ... 779 Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Autism spectrum disorder Edmonton entrepreneur Nusrat Akhtar ... 321 Members’ statements ... 779 Former MLA for Edmonton-Mill Woods Sohail Calgary (city) Quadri ... 321 Services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender Job creation persons ... 697 Programs ... 546 Deputy Chair of Committees Legal aid Election of Mr. Feehan, Member for Edmonton- Funding ... 645 Rutherford ... 5, 6 Review ... 645 Electric power Members’ Statements (current session) Microgeneration regulation and policy review Mr. Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 607 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Police officer safety ... 20 carried) ... 686–87, 692 Seniors’ charter ... 472 Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Minimum wage Services for ... 697 Increase ... 326–27, 546 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Ministerial Statements (current session) ... 437, 639, 662, 770, 1039 Constable Daniel Woodall, responses ... 41 Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Office of the Premier Members of the Alberta Association of Former Premier’s attendance at Constable Woodall’s funeral MLAs ... 437 ... 41 Members’ Statements (current session) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Autism spectrum disorder ... 779 Alberta law enforcement response teams ... 961 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Bail process review ... 237–38 Pipeline development ... 566 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 25

Feehan, Richard (Edmonton-Rutherford, ND) Fildebrandt, Derek Gerhard (Strathmore-Brooks, W) (continued) (continued) Pipeline construction Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Provincial strategy ... 566 (continued) Pipelines Committee ... 242–44, 246, 255–56 Safety issues ... 566 Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective Pride Centre of Edmonton tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 242–44, 246 General remarks ... 910 Committee, amendment A4 (small-business tax rate Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) of 9.9 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 255–56 Committee ... 788 Alberta Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Net financial assets, 2015-2016 forecast ... 51–52, 107 compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Alberta heritage savings trust fund amended) ... 788 Value of fund ... 130 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Third reading ... 911 Second reading ... 483 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Committee ... 686 Second reading ... 613–15 Fildebrandt, Derek Gerhard (Strathmore-Brooks, W) Committee ... 624, 627–28 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Second reading ... 107–8, 111 Second reading ... 501–3, 509–13, 517–19, 521 Committee ... 147–48 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Time allotment for debate ... 51 Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) (Cooper: defeated) ... 517–19, 521 Second reading ... 130–31 Second reading, points of order on debate ... 506, Berlin Wall, Germany 518 26th anniversary of fall, members’ statements ... 533 Committee ... 753–55, 757–60, 765, 767–68, 796– Bills, government (procedure) 98, 839–41, 846–50, 853–54, 867–69, 912–13, Amendments, availability in advance to opposition 915–17, 920–21, 923 caucuses proposed ... 783 Technical briefings ... 783 Committee, amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per Budget 2015-2016 cent limit on in-year operating expense increase) Forecast deficit ... 51–52, 107, 124 (Bilous: carried) ... 753 Government spending ... 51–52, 107 Committee, amendment A2 (contingency account Timeline ... 17–18, 51, 53 use) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 754–55, 757–58 Budget 2015-2016 debate Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 759–60 456–58 Committee, amendment A4 (borrowing for Debate participants (Government Motion 13), operational expenses) (Starke: defeated) ... 765 questions and comments ... 458 Committee, amendment A5 (referendum on debt-to- Budget documents GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 767–68, 796 Consolidated financial statements ... 512 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Quarterly updates ... 708–9 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 797–98, 839–41, 846– Budget process 48 Balanced/deficit budgets ... 130–31, 457, 754–55 Committee, amendment A7 (publication of projected Interim supply ... 17–18, 53 consolidated cash balance) (Fildebrandt: defeated) Canadian Taxpayers Federation ... 849–50, 853–54, 867–69 Debt clock ... 84 Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) Capital projects (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 913, 915–17 Prioritization, publicly available information Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax (“sunshine list”) ... 281 provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 920–21 Carbon levy Committee, amendment A10 (locomotive fuel tax General remarks ... 568, 614–15, 880 provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 923 Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Committee, point of order on debate ... 853–54 Report on 2014 activities presented ... 866 Third reading ... 929 Contingency account General remarks ... 614 Fund utilization ... 754–55, 912–13 Penalty provisions, lack of ... 502, 511 Corporate taxation Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Collection of taxes in arrears ... 108 Committee ... 90, 93 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 191 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Flat-tax rate ... 190, 192 (Cyr: defeated) ... 90 Premier’s remarks in news media, 2012 ... 243 Committee, amendment A2 (donations in kind) (Cyr: Revenue, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 192 defeated) ... 93 Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 6) Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) First reading ... 377 Second reading ... 188, 190–92, 207, 214, 218–19 Second reading ... 905 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Third reading ... 1076 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 218–19

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Fildebrandt, Derek Gerhard (Strathmore-Brooks, W) Fildebrandt, Derek Gerhard (Strathmore-Brooks, W) (continued) (continued) Debts, public (provincial debt) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Debt-servicing costs ... 502, 512 General remarks ... 51–52 Forecasts, 2015-2016 ... 51–52, 107 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) General remarks ... 84, 456–57 Estimates debate ... 51–53 Provincial borrowing during economic downturn Level of detail provided ... 51–52 (countercyclical spending) ... 627–28 New spending ... 111 Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 513 Referral to Committee of Supply (Government Provincial borrowing limit ... 502 Motion 7: carried) ... 24–25 Provincial credit rating ... 708–9 Time allotted for consideration ... 24–25, 51, 107, 111 Duchess Days Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) General remarks ... 173 ... 770 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Legislative Assembly of Alberta Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Decorum, points of order ... 853–54 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 475 German remarks ... 533 Emergency management Members of the Legislative Assembly Funding ... 757–58 Members’ apologies ... 1111 Employment Pension (Private Sector) Plans Amendment Members’ Statements (current session) Act, 2014 (Bill 10, 2014) Fall of the Berlin Wall 26th anniversary ... 533 General remarks ... 806–7 Provincial long-term fiscal plan ... 426–27 Energy industries Strathmore-Brooks constituency ... 173–74 Job losses ... 511–12 Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Appearance before Public Accounts Committee (Bill 6) proposed ... 645 Second reading ... 806, 814–16, 1015 Newell Foundation Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing General remarks ... 84 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Nonrenewable natural resource revenue amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1015 Forecasts ... 394, 426–27, 529 Second reading, point of order on debate ... 819 Notices of Motions (procedure) Third reading ... 1123–24 Statement of complete motions ... 651 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Office of the Premier month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1123– Portraits of former Premiers ... 51 24 Staff compensation, requests for information under Stakeholder consultation ... 806 FOIP ... 651 Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Oil prices Debate time and procedure, 2015-2016 main Budgetary implications ... 529 estimates of supply ... 18 Oral Question Period (procedure) Fiscal Management Act Number of opposition questions ... 1111 Financial reporting provisions ... 708–9 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Fiscal policy Affordable supportive living project approval ... Government spending ... 52, 107–8, 123–24, 190– 375–76 91, 244, 624 Carbon tax ... 568 Long-term plan ... 188 Government advertising ... 467 Long-term plan, members’ statements ... 426–27 Government revenue forecasts ... 529 Official Opposition position ... 130–31 Health and seniors’ care in Strathmore-Brooks ... 281 Government accountability Provincial budget ... 17–18 Financial reporting ... 53, 502, 512, 518, 850, 868–69 Provincial fiscal policies ... 123–24 Government advertising Provincial quarterly fiscal update ... 708–9 Television and online advertisements ... 467 Public consultation ... 880 Government policies Public service compensation ... 345 Consultation policies ... 880 Resource revenue projections ... 394 Health care levy Tobacco recovery lawsuit ... 645 Cancellation ... 108 Points of order (current session) Health facilities Decorum ... 853–54 Capital needs ... 281 Imputing motives ... 506 Health promotion Language creating disorder ... 819 High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies Speaking twice in a debate ... 518 (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: Privilege (current session) carried) ... 586–87 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) (Budget Address remarks about Executive Charitable tax credit ... 108 Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) Flat-tax rate ... 190, 192 ... 355 Progressive tax proposed ... 108 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Provincial revenue, comparison with other Second reading ... 651–52 jurisdictions ... 192 Committee ... 783–84, 787–91, 793, 795

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Fildebrandt, Derek Gerhard (Strathmore-Brooks, W) Fildebrandt, Derek Gerhard (Strathmore-Brooks, W) (continued) (continued) Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Standing Orders (continued) (continued) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Committee, amendment A1 (legislative offices division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in exemption from reporting disclosure to minister, ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, minister’s compliance and auditing power, Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing legislative offices’ co-operation in audits) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of (Ganley: carried) ... 783–84 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on with amendments), amendment A3 (estimates compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as debate time and procedure coming into force date) amended) ... 787–88 (Shepherd/McPherson: carried) ... 455 Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Strathmore-Brooks (constituency) compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Health facilities ... 281 amended), subamendment SA1 (removal of History ... 173 “special”) (Fildebrandt: carried) ... 788 Member’s apology ... 1111 Committee, amendment A5 (publication of Member’s personal and family history ... 83–85 aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... Members’ statements ... 173–74 789–91 Overview ... 83, 84 Committee, amendment A6 (publication of Rodeos ... 173–74 physicians’ median incomes by type of practice) Strathmore general hospital (Swann: defeated) ... 793, 795 Capital needs ... 281 Third reading ... 871 Taxation Public service Alcohol tax ... 517 Collective agreements ... 345 Insurance premium tax ... 517 Cost of ... 345 Provincial strategy ... 456–57, 517 Reports presented by standing and special committees Tobacco products tax ... 509, 517 Public Accounts Committee report of 2014 activities Tilley Heritage Day ... 866 General remarks ... 173 Revenue Tobacco industry Forecasts, 2015-2016 ... 51–52, 107–8, 124 Provincial lawsuit, law firm selection ... 645 Long-term forecast ... 426–27 Voting in the Assembly Rodeos Free votes ... 246 General remarks ... 173–74 Water/waste-water treatment Seniors’ housing Funding ... 860 Newell Foundation proposal ... 84, 281 Small business Fitzpatrick, Maria M. (Lethbridge-East, ND) Effective tax rate (integration with personal tax rate) 5th on 5th (Lethbridge youth services) ... 243 Members’ statements ... 239 Provincial tax rate ... 188, 191–92 AIDS Outreach Community Harm Reduction Education Provincial tax rate, decrease of 1 per cent proposed Support Society (ARCHES) ... 244 Members’ statements ... 416–17 Provincial tax revenue ... 244 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Red tape reduction proposed ... 188 Second reading ... 703 Support for ... 457–58 Climate change strategy Speaker, The Impact on economic development ... 671 Impartiality ... 1111 Daycare centres Speech from the Throne Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 83–84 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 84–85 318 Standing Orders Electric power plants Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 671 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, (Bill 6) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Second reading ... 973–74 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral with amendments) ... 359, 455 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 973–74 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Fort McMurray-Conklin (constituency) division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Member’s federal political career ... 974 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Freehold lands Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Government Motion 501: carried) ... 143 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) with amendments), amendment A1 (morning ... 273, 322, 415, 426, 437, 596 sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Lethbridge (city) amendments) ... 359 Team Lethbridge coalition, members’ statements ... 330–31 28 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Fitzpatrick, Maria M. (Lethbridge-East, ND) Fraser, Rick (Calgary-South East, PC) (continued) (continued) Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Lethbridge-East (constituency) Funding ... 861 Member’s personal and family history ... 479–80, Paramedic scope of practice ... 861 889–90 Energy industries Members’ Statements (current session) Land sales (leases for access) ... 172–73 5th on 5th Lethbridge youth services ... 239 Energy industries and environment ARCHES Society in Lethbridge ... 416–17 Public image ... 329–30, 373, 647 Team Lethbridge ... 330–31 Review ... 469 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Energy policies Climate change strategy ... 671 Members’ statements ... 172–73 Elder abuse ... 16 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of (Bill 6) Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Second reading ... 826 Second reading ... 479–80 Committee ... 1103–4 Committee ... 685 Committee, amendment A6 (committee review of Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration act) (Fraser: defeated) ... 1103–4 requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685 Family farm provisions ... 826 Third reading ... 889–90 Environmental protection Senior abuse and neglect Policy development ... 373 Local supports ... 16 Federal Public Building Fraser, Rick (Calgary-South East, PC) Naming in honour of former MLA Manmeet Singh Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Bhullar proposed ... 602 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Flood damage mitigation Committee ... 849 Calgary and area ... 531 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) High River ... 100 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 849 Project completion ... 100 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Springbank reservoir project ... 531 Second reading ... 205–6 Health Professions Act Committee ... 251 Inclusion of paramedics proposed ... 861 Committee, amendment A2 (implementation date) Immigrants (Starke: defeated) ... 251 Settlement services ... 602 Alberta community resilience program Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Funding ... 100 ... 323, 807, 857 Alberta Energy Regulator Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Review ... 172 Former MLA for Edmonton-Riverview Steve Young Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) ... 321 First reading ... 104–5 Members’ Statements (current session) Second reading ... 128–29, 302 Energy policies ... 172–73 Bills, government (procedure) Mental health services Money bills ... 128 Review, inclusion of paramedics in ... 861 Calgary-East (constituency) Ministry of Environment and Parks Overview ... 80 Minister’s dual portfolio with Status of Women Calgary-Greenway (constituency) ministry ... 530–31 Parliamentary legacy of former MLA Manmeet Ministry of Human Services Singh Bhullar ... 601–2 Recent initiatives ... 601 Calgary-South East (constituency) Ministry of Status of Women Member’s personal and family history ... 80, 251 Minister’s dual portfolio with Environment and Carbon levy Parks ministry ... 530–31 Impact on rural communities ... 714 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Revenue utilization ... 647 Climate change strategy ... 647, 714, 1046 Castle special management area Emergency medical services ... 861 Protected area designation ... 531 Environment and Parks ministry issues ... 530–31 Timber allocation cancellation ... 329 Environmental protection ... 373 Climate change and emissions management fund Flood damage mitigation in High River ... 100–101 Fund utilization ... 469 Legacy of former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Climate change strategy 601–2 Federal strategy ... 1046 Promotion of Alberta’s energy industry ... 469 Implementation cost ... 714 Resource industry policies ... 329–30 Implementation cost to farmers ... 714 Posttraumatic stress disorder Review ... 469 Inclusion in mental health review ... 861 Review panel recommendations ... 1046 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 6) Second reading ... 721 Third reading ... 1076 Second reading, referral to Families and Disaster recovery program Communities Committee, motion on (referral 2013 floods ... 100–101 amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 721 Electric power plants Stakeholder consultation ... 721 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 329, 714, 1046 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 29

Fraser, Rick (Calgary-South East, PC) (continued) Ganley, Kathleen T. (Calgary-Buffalo, ND; Minister of Renewable/alternative energy sources Aboriginal Relations, Minister of Justice and Solicitor Power purchase agreements ... 647 General) (continued) Transition to, cost ... 714 Bail Transition to, expert panel ... 373 Review of process ... 125, 237–38 Royalty structure (energy resources) Blood First Nation Review ... 172–73 Fentanyl use ... 444 Speech from the Throne Calgary Young Offender Centre Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 80 Decision to keep open ... 238, 445 Taxation Chief Electoral Officer Locomotive fuel tax ... 714 Consultation on Bill 1 ... 10 United Nations climate summit Climate change strategy Energy minister’s attendance ... 647 Impact on aboriginal communities ... 711 Ganley, Kathleen T. (Calgary-Buffalo, ND; Minister of Corporations Aboriginal Relations, Minister of Justice and Solicitor Contributions to political parties, legislation on ... 19 General) Court of Queen’s Bench Aboriginal business investment fund Number of justices ... 432–33 Funding ... 863 Criminal Code Aboriginal communities Drunk-driving penalties ... 125 Flood recovery funding ... 61 Crown prosecutors Aboriginal consultation Access to information on traffic fatalities ... 958 Lower Athabasca regional plan ... 862–63, 959–60 Funding ... 433 Aboriginal peoples Elections, provincial Relationship with provincial government ... 98 Financial reporting requirements ... 85 Aboriginal peoples’ economic development Review of laws and legislation ... 85–86 Access to capital ... 102 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Programs and partnerships ... 66, 863 (Bill 6) Small-business supports ... 102–3 Committee ... 1064–65, 1070–71 Aboriginal women and violence Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Missing and murdered women, inquiry proposed ... workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1064–65, 1070–71 603 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Programs and services ... 603 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) First reading ... 9–10 ... 1064–65, 1070–71 Second reading ... 30, 37–38 Fentanyl use Committee ... 85–87, 89, 91–94, 153–54, 156 Blood First Nation response ... 444 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Pill seizure by police ... 961–62 (Cyr: defeated) ... 87, 89 Reduction strategy ... 397–98, 497–98 Committee, amendment A2 (donations in kind) (Cyr: First responders defeated) ... 91–94 Safety ... 17 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Impaired driving guarantees) (Nixon: carried) ... 153–54 Drug-testing device approval proposed ... 125 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) guarantees) (Nixon: carried), subamendment SA1 Estimates debate ... 61, 66 (limits on loan payments) (Ganley: carried Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) unanimously) ... 153–54 ... 491, 537, 549 Committee, amendment A4 (individual donation Legal aid limit) (Clark: defeated) ... 156 Funding ... 528–29, 646 Third reading (carried unanimously) ... 157 Review ... 645 Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 30, 37–38, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta 85 Entrance into the Chamber ... 7 Interim financing provisions (loan repayments to Lower Athabasca regional plan (land-use framework) corporations and unions) ... 85 Report ... 862–63, 959 Penalty provisions ... 85 Ministry of Aboriginal Relations Administrator, the Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Entrance into the Assembly ... 1 ... 61, 66 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, minister’s written First reading ... 548 responses to questions ... 444 Second reading ... 618–19, 693, 703–4 Ministry of Energy Committee ... 908–9 Deputy minister ... 645 Committee, amendment A1 (provisions on Mothers Against Drunk Driving aboriginal heritage) (Swann: defeated) ... 908 Review of provincial legislation ... 125 Third reading ... 911 Northern Alberta Development Council Alberta law enforcement response teams Status of ... 434 Funding ... 961–62 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Aboriginal entrepreneurship ... 102–3 Committee ... 150 Aboriginal peoples’ economic development ... 863 Aboriginal relations ... 98–99, 444 30 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Ganley, Kathleen T. (Calgary-Buffalo, ND; Minister of Ganley, Kathleen T. (Calgary-Buffalo, ND; Minister of Aboriginal Relations, Minister of Justice and Solicitor Aboriginal Relations, Minister of Justice and Solicitor General) (continued) General) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Alberta law enforcement response teams ... 961–62 (continued) Bail process review ... 125, 237–38 Third reading ... 870–71 Calgary Young Offender Centre ... 238, 445 Physicians’ compensation disclosure under act ... Climate change strategy and First Nations ... 711 782 Court of Queen’s Bench justices ... 432–33 Privacy issues ... 1050 Donations to political parties ... 19 Regulatory provisions ... 1050 Fentanyl use ... 497–98 Scope ... 1050 Fentanyl use on First Nations ... 532 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Fentanyl use prevention ... 397–98 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Impaired driving ... 125 Committee ... 683 Legal aid ... 528–29, 645–46 Committee, amendment A2 (time of coming into Lower Athabasca regional land-use plan ... 862–63, force) (Payne/Sabir: carried) ... 683 959–60 Tobacco industry Northern Alberta Development Council ... 434 Provincial lawsuit, law firm selection ... 645 Police officer fatality ... 17 Traffic safety Public service compensation disclosure ... 1050 Pedestrian safety ... 958 Tobacco recovery lawsuit ... 645 Transgender Day of Remembrance Traffic accidents involving pedestrians ... 958 General remarks ... 704 UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ... 347–48 Report recommendations ... 98, 444 Violence against indigenous women and girls ... 603 Unions Youth addiction treatment services ... 431 Contributions to political parties, legislation on ... 19 Physicians United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous Compensation disclosure, regulations ... 1050 peoples Police Recommendations ... 347–48, 444 Officers killed on duty, investigations ... 17 Victims of crime Political advertising Drunk-driving victims, supports for ... 125 Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, Victims of crime fund advocacy groups, etc.) ... 85 Fund utilization ... 646 Political candidates (provincial elections) Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Contribution limit proposed ... 33, 85 killed on duty) Political parties Memorial tribute ... 17 Contributions by corporations and unions ... 19 Goehring, Nicole (Edmonton-Castle Downs, ND) Contributions by individuals, limit on proposed ... 33 Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 37 Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Prohibited contributions, reporting consequences ... business plans, amendments tabled for ministries 85 of Transportation and Treasury Board and Finance Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act ... 609 Court-ordered 10-day detoxification and Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and stabilization period provisions ... 431 business plans for ministries of Aboriginal Provincial secretary Relations, Energy, Environment and Parks, Message from the Lieutenant Governor ... 7 Municipal Affairs, Transportation, and Treasury Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Board and Finance ... 609 First reading ... 448 Domestic violence Second reading ... 619 Program funding ... 419–20 Committee ... 782–87, 789–91, 794 Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Committee, amendment A1 (legislative offices Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates exemption from reporting disclosure to minister, 2015-2016 debate, Committee on Resource minister’s compliance and auditing power, Stewardship report presented and amendments legislative offices’ co-operation in audits) tabled ... 609 (Ganley: carried) ... 782–84 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Committee, amendment A2 (teachers’ threshold) ... 389, 437, 706, 953 (Smith: carried) ... 785 Members’ Statements (current session) Committee, amendment A3 (municipal employees’ Charitable tax credit ... 640 threshold) (Clark: carried) ... 786 Remembrance Day ... 438–39 Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Ministry of Aboriginal Relations compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on amended) ... 787, 789 Resource Stewardship, report presented ... 609 Committee, amendment A5 (publication of Ministry of Energy aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on 789–91 Resource Stewardship, report presented ... 609 Committee, amendment A6 (publication of Ministry of Environment and Parks physicians’ median incomes by type of practice) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on (Swann: defeated) ... 794 Resource Stewardship, report presented ... 609 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 31

Goehring, Nicole (Edmonton-Castle Downs, ND) Gotfried, Richard (Calgary-Fish Creek, PC) (continued) (continued) Carbon levy Ministry of Municipal Affairs Implementation cost ... 648 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Revenue utilization ... 778 Resource Stewardship, report presented ... 609 Committees of the Legislative Assembly Ministry of Transportation Schedule change resulting from death of former Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 606 Resource Stewardship, amendment tabled Community development (amendment A5) ... 609 General remarks ... 606 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Corporate taxation Resource Stewardship, report presented ... 609 Increase ... 262–63 Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance Increase, impact on employment ... 169 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Economic development Resource Stewardship, amendment tabled Diversification ... 422, 543 (amendment A6) ... 609 Members’ statements ... 779 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Electric power plants Resource Stewardship, report presented ... 609 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 499, 649, 1049–50 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Energy industries Family violence ... 419–20 Job losses ... 169, 416 Remembrance Day Members’ statements ... 416 Members’ statements ... 438–39 Energy resources Reports presented by standing and special committees Export market ... 416 Resource Stewardship Committee report on 2015- Trade promotion ... 284 2016 main estimates and business plans, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act amendments tabled for ministries of (Bill 6) Transportation and Treasury Board and Finance ... Second reading ... 980–81 609 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Resource Stewardship Committee report on 2015- Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral 2016 main estimates and business plans for amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 980–81 ministries of Aboriginal Relations, Energy, Stakeholder consultation ... 963 Environment and Parks, Municipal Affairs, Fish Creek provincial park Transportation, and Treasury Board and Finance General remarks ... 174 ... 609 Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of 143/1996) Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Second reading ... 482 music venues (Motion Other than Government Taxation Motion 507: carried) ... 901 Charitable tax credit, members’ statements ... 640 Government policies Women’s shelters General remarks ... 779 Funding ... 420 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Progressive tax proposed, impact on charitable Gotfried, Richard (Calgary-Fish Creek, PC) donations ... 262–63 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) International trade Second reading ... 211 Market development ... 284, 422 Committee ... 247–48, 254 Memorandum of understanding with Punjab Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective province ... 606 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 247–48 Trade with Asia-Pacific region ... 284, 416, 422 Committee, amendment A3 (personal income tax) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) (Starke: defeated) ... 254 ... 163, 164, 322–23 Third reading ... 262–63 Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary Affordable housing hospitals) General remarks ... 175 New beds ... 347 Affordable supportive living initiative Members’ Statements (current session) Funding ... 103–4, 298, 347 Economic development ... 779 Alberta government offices Energy policies ... 416 International offices’ mandate ... 606 Music industry Alberta Social Housing Corporation Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Funding ... 103–4 Government Motion 507: carried) ... 901 Calgary-Fish Creek (constituency) Oral Question Period (procedure) Member’s personal and family history ... 174–75, Rule change to accommodate tribute to former MLA 980 Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 606 Overview ... 174–75 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Calgary history Affordable and special-needs housing ... 103–4 General remarks ... 174 Affordable supportive living initiative ... 298, 347 Carbon capture and storage Carbon levy revenue utilization ... 778 Funding ... 648 Climate change strategy ... 648–49

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Gotfried, Richard (Calgary-Fish Creek, PC) (continued) Gray, Christina (Edmonton-Mill Woods, ND) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) (continued) Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 499, Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) 1049–50 ... 301–2, 461, 705 Economic diversification ... 422 Job creation Energy policies ... 543 Government role ... 441–42 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 963 Members’ Statements (current session) Government policies ... 284 Friends of Medicare ... 641 International and local relationship building ... 606 Palliative care ... 471–72 Job creation and retention ... 169 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Economic development ... 441–42 Third reading ... 1003 Infrastructure project prioritization ... 47–48 School board responses ... 1003 Palliative care Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Members’ statements ... 471–72 Committee ... 790 St. Marguerite health services centre, Edmonton Committee, amendment A5 (publication of General remarks ... 471–72 aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... 790 School construction Royalty structure (energy resources) New schools ... 47–48 Review ... 543 School maintenance and repair Seniors’ benefit program Funding ... 48 Funding ... 103 Speech from the Throne Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 195–96 139/2007) Hanson, David B. (Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, W) Changes to ... 648 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Speech from the Throne the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 174–75 Second reading ... 506, 508, 513–15, 518–20 Workers’ compensation Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Exempted job categories ... 981 Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) Gray, Christina (Edmonton-Mill Woods, ND) (Cooper: defeated) ... 518–20 Agriculture Second reading, points of order on debate ... 518 Small producers ... 305 Committee ... 841 Alberta Enterprise Corporation Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Funding ... 442 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 841 Alberta heritage savings trust fund Penalty provisions, lack of ... 514 Fund utilization ... 129 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Second reading ... 35 Second reading ... 304–5 Committee ... 88–89 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Second reading ... 129–30 (Cyr: defeated) ... 88–89 Capital projects Official Opposition position ... 35 Prioritization ... 47–48 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Deputy Chair of Committees Second reading ... 183–84, 220 Election of Mr. Feehan, Member for Edmonton- Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Rutherford ... 5 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) 220 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 407–8 Loan eligibility criteria ... 307 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Alberta heritage savings trust fund subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Comparison with other sovereign wealth funds ... and Accountability Committee (referral amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 408 137 Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Special Public survey (Can We Interest You in an $11 Review of Election Act ... 407–8 Billion Decision?) ... 137 Explore Local initiative Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) General remarks ... 306 Second reading ... 306–7 Farmers’ markets Committee ... 574, 581–83 General remarks ... 305 Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory Friends of Medicare committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Members’ statements ... 641 proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 574 Grey Nuns community hospital Committee, amendment A2 (public-sector Palliative care facility ... 471–72 procurement of local food) (van Dijken: defeated) Health care finance ... 582 Publicly funded services ... 641 Advisory committee cost ... 307 Hospital construction Advisory committee membership ... 306–7 New hospitals ... 47 Application to public facilities ... 306, 581 Hospital maintenance and repair Alberta School Boards Association Funding ... 48 Spending on team-building activities ... 501 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 33

Hanson, David B. (Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, W) Hanson, David B. (Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, W) (continued) (continued) Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Second reading ... 108–9 (Bill 6) (continued) Third reading ... 182–83 Family farm provisions ... 834 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Impact on northern Alberta ... 1047 Second reading ... 137 Petitions presented ... 1052 Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Stakeholder consultation ... 745, 833, 1047 Amendments, speaking procedure ... 583 Farm produce Brooks (city) Product diversification ... 307 Health facilities ... 177 Farmers’ markets Budget 2015-2016 debate General remarks ... 582 Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... 552 Greenhouses Carbon levy Loan application ... 307 General remarks ... 530 Grocery stores Impact on northern Alberta ... 1047 Local food sourcing ... 581–82 Point of order on debate ... 572–73 Haying in the 30’s Corporate taxation General remarks ... 178 Collection of taxes in arrears ... 329 Health care Increase ... 183–84 Access to services ... 776 Debts, public (provincial debt) Health care finance Debt repayment ... 515 Funding, point of order on debate ... 378 Debt-servicing costs ... 508 Health facilities Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 514 Capital needs ... 177 Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 514 Facility condition ... 776 Provincial credit rating ... 508 Hutterite colonies Education Bill 6 application to ... 1033 Members’ statements ... 501 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Time allotted for consideration ... 109 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 475 ... 389, 707, 855 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Kidney dialysis (Bill 6) Mobile service ... 177, 237, 776 Second reading ... 745, 749, 823, 833–35, 837, 981, Mobile service, members’ statements ... 127 1032–33 Permanent unit proposed ... 237 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Lac La Biche month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) Health facilities ... 776 ... 1032–33 Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills (constituency) Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Member’s personal and family history ... 177 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Overview ... 177–78 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 837, 981 Members’ Statements (current session) Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Education concerns ... 501 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Mobile dialysis service ... 127 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), point of order Ministry of Aboriginal Relations on debate ... 1010 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) ... 108–9 Second reading, point of order on debate Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (withdrawn) ... 970 Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A1 Committee ... 1056–58, 1066–67, 1101–3 (minister’s office budget reduction) (Hanson: Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm defeated) ... 609–10 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1056–58, 1066–67 Ministry of Executive Council Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Ministers’ office budgets ... 646–47 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 Ministers’ office budgets, point of order on debate ... (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) 650 ... 1066–67 Municipal finance Committee, amendment A3 (Employment Standards Collection of taxes in arrears ... 329 Code, Labour Relations Code, Occupational Oil prices Health and Safety Act application) (Hanson: Impact on energy industry employment ... 184 defeated) ... 1101–2 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Committee, amendment A5 (provisions for small Dialysis service in Lac La Biche ... 237 farms and ranches) (Hanson: defeated) ... 1103 Ministers’ office budgets ... 646–47 Third reading ... 1124 Municipal tax collection ... 329 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Northern Alberta concerns ... 1047 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1124 Rural health care ... 776 Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... Tax policy ... 530 835 Two Hills Mennonite school construction ... 297 Owlseye (hamlet) General remarks ... 177 34 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Hanson, David B. (Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, W) Hanson, David B. (Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, W) (continued) (continued) Petitions presented (current session) Water for life program Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Funding ... 506 Workers Act, ... 1052 Workers’ compensation Pipeline construction Exempted job categories ... 981 Provincial strategy, point of order on debate ... 378 Hinkley, Bruce (Wetaskiwin-Camrose, ND) Points of order (current session) Aboriginal peoples’ economic development Allegations against a member or members ... 378 Access to capital ... 102 Items previously decided ... 650 Small-business supports ... 102–3 Questions and comments under Standing Order Alberta Energy Regulator 29(2)(a) ... 814 Landowner right of appeal ... 140 Referring to a member by name ... 572–73 Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Relevance ... 1010 Review of act proposed ... 140 Relevance (withdrawn) ... 970 Camrose Women’s Shelter Speaking twice in a debate ... 518 Services for aboriginal women ... 483 Political parties Carbon Capture and Storage Statutes Amendment Act, Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 35–36 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Portage College Pore space ownership provisions ... 140 Graduation ceremony ... 177 Climate change strategy Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Members’ statements ... 715–16 Second reading ... 726, 730–31 Farmers’ Advocate Second reading, referral to Families and Communities Effectiveness of office ... 140 Committee, motion on (referral amendment RA1) Freehold lands (Cooper: defeated) ... 726, 730–31 Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than Committee ... 998–99 Government Motion 501: carried) ... 139–40, 143 Third reading ... 1005, 1006 Hydraulic fracturing School board responses ... 1006 Nondisclosure agreements with landowners ... 140 Stakeholder consultation ... 726, 730–31 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta ... 491 Special-levy motion ... 501 Members’ Statements (current session) Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Climate change strategy ... 715–16 Second reading ... 656–57 National Child Day ... 547–48 Committee ... 792 National Child Day Committee, amendment A5 (publication of Members’ statements ... 547–48 aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... 792 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Public service Aboriginal entrepreneurship ... 102–3 Cost of ... 184 Strategic transportation infrastructure program ... Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of 467 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Property Rights Advocate Second reading ... 479 Effectiveness of office ... 140 Royalty structure (energy resources) Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Review, impact on energy industry employment ... Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) 183–84 Second reading ... 483 Rural health care Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, 2012) Access to services ... 776 Landowner appeal provisions ... 140 St. Paul (town) Speaker, The General remarks ... 178 Election, nomination of Member for Medicine Hat ... Smoky Lake (county) 1 Tax assessment for uncollected taxes ... 329 Strategic transportation infrastructure program (STIP) Speech from the Throne Funding ... 467 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 177–78 Surface Rights Act Standing Orders Amendments to act ... 140 SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... 814 Surface Rights Board SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under, points of order Decisions ... 140 ... 814 United Nations declaration on the rights of the child Taxation General remarks ... 547 Alcohol tax ... 514 Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Fuel tax ... 514 Health, Minister of Seniors) Insurance premium tax ... 514 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Locomotive fuel tax ... 514 Second reading ... 32–33, 36–37 Provincial strategy ... 530 Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 32 Tobacco products tax ... 514 Official Opposition position ... 32 Two Hills (town) Addiction treatment Greenhouses ... 307 Services for children and youth ... 431 Two Hills Mennonite school Women’s services, Recovery Acres Society proposal School construction, structural issues ... 177–78, 297 ... 441 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 35

Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Health, Minister of Seniors) (continued) Health, Minister of Seniors) (continued) Affordable housing Climate change strategy Condition of facilities ... 565–66 Energy company response ... 771–72 Funding ... 773–74 General remarks ... 564–65 Affordable supportive living initiative CNIB Funding ... 67, 103–4, 298, 347, 498 Funding ... 527 Airdrie (city) Consort hospital and care centre Urgent care facilities ... 170, 423, 543–44, 774–75 Road access ... 58 Urgent care services, nonrenewal of contract of Dr. Crowfoot Village Family Practice J. Kyne ... 544, 774–75, 861–62 Funding ... 1048 Alberta Dental Association and College Dentists Administration ... 878 Fees for services, publication of ... 878 Alberta Health Services (authority) Economic development Centralization of services ... 445, 772, 960 Government role ... 440–41 CEO resignation ... 772 Elections, municipal Executive and management compensation, 2009- Governing legislation ... 32 2010 to 2014-2015, central zone (Written Electric power plants Question 5: carried as amended) ... 678 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 526, 565, 1050 Part-time employee overtime pay, 2013-2014, 2014- Electronic health records 2015 (Written Question 3: carried as amended) ... Funding ... 54 677 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Performance measures ... 323 Ambulances decommissioned ... 1047–48 Performance measures, minister’s supplementary Centralization of services ... 445, 960 response ... 348 Eastern Alberta service ... 434 Relations with Health ministry ... 772–73 First responder scope of practice ... 495–96 Alberta Health Services Board Funding ... 861 New board ... 296 HALO air ambulance service ... 879 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Hours of service ... 433–34 Second reading ... 699–700, 703 Interfacility transfer of patients ... 496 Alberta Medical Association Naloxone administration by first responders ... 644 Health minister’s meeting with ... 280 Paramedic scope of practice ... 861 Alberta Social Housing Corporation Response times ... 434 Funding ... 103–4 Rural service ... 434, 445 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Southern Alberta service ... 960, 1047–48 3) Energy industries Committee ... 147, 149–51, 160 Job losses ... 525 Beaverlodge Energy industries and environment Health care ... 102 Public image ... 439 Boyle health care centre Energy policies Capital needs ... 55–56 Impact on employment rate ... 525 Budget 2015-2016 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Expert input into ... 81 (Bill 6) Timeline ... 36–37 Committee ... 1105 Calgary (city) Agriculture and Forestry minister’s remarks ... 771, Addiction treatment, women’s services ... 441 775 Calgary cancer centre Family farm provisions ... 668 Completion ... 422 Family farm provisions, comparison with other Funding ... 372 jurisdictions ... 526–27 Location in Foothills medical centre ... 60 Impact on northern Alberta ... 1047 Project status ... 55 Implementation cost ... 527 Cancer diagnosis and treatment Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... 707–8 Capital funding ... 55–56 Public information ... 773, 775, 777–78 Capital projects Public information, Premier’s remarks on ... 707, Prioritization, publicly available information 709 (“sunshine list”) ... 103, 281 Stakeholder consultation ... 663, 665–68, 771, 775, Carbon levy 1046, 1047, 1049 General remarks ... 525–26, 563–65, 568 Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 663–64, Impact on northern Alberta ... 1047 665, 709 Revenue utilization ... 564 Executive Council Carewest Garrison Green (Calgary long-term care Public access to ministers ... 439–40 facility) Eye diseases Standard of care ... 374 Retinal diseases ... 527 Childhood immunization Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for ... 396 Mandatory information to parents proposed ... 233 Fentanyl use Chronic disease management Aboriginal community issues ... 532 Funding ... 55 Harm reduction strategies ... 881 36 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Health, Minister of Seniors) (continued) Health, Minister of Seniors) (continued) Fentanyl use (continued) Lac La Biche Naloxone kit availability ... 55 Health facilities ... 776 Reduction strategy ... 397, 423, 644, 881 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Fort McMurray All-party co-operation ... 36 Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) ... 46–47 hospitals) Transgender issues, stakeholder consultation ... 699 Couples accommodations ... 498 Government policies Funding ... 54 Consultation policies ... 665–66 Health Quality Council of Alberta survey ... 373–74 Government services New beds ... 347, 542 Private delivery, elimination of proposed ... 73 New facilities, timeline on ... 46–47 Grande Prairie cancer centre Prevention of resident abuse ... 374 Funding ... 372 Medical laboratories Grande Prairie regional hospital DynaLife services ... 541–42 New hospital ... 430–31 DynaLife services, Health Quality Council of Health care Alberta review ... 541–42 Access to services ... 776 Public funding and operation proposed ... 542 Consultation on ... 82 Medicine Hat (city) Coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ... 171 Emergency medical services ... 879 Local decision-making ... 17, 43, 47, 54 Mental health services Long-term planning ... 280 Funding ... 55, 63 Patient-first strategy ... 284 Review ... 55 Private delivery, elimination of ... 73 Review, inclusion of paramedics in ... 861 Quality of services ... 544 Midwifery services Review ... 43 Access to ... 280–81 Services for transgender and gender-variant Funding ... 280–81, 604–5 Albertans ... 669 Minister responsible for the status of women Urgent care services ... 234 Funding ... 58, 60 Health care capacity issues Ministry of Education Wait times ... 69 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Health care finance ... 54 Funding ... 54, 372, 544 Ministry of Health Health facilities Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Capital funding ... 55–56, 60 ... 54–56, 58–60, 62–63, 67, 69, 73–74 Capital funding, information technology ... 58 Mandate on capital planning ... 60 Capital needs ... 55–56, 281 Ministry of Human Services Facility condition ... 776 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Urgent care facilities ... 102, 170, 423, 543–44, 774–75 ... 60 Health Professions Act Ministry of Seniors Inclusion of paramedics proposed ... 861 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Health promotion ... 67 Funding ... 55 Minister of Status of Women Home-care services NDP platform ... 58–59 Access ... 69 Misericordia community hospital Funding ... 54, 55, 542 Maintenance and repair, funding ... 55 Homelessness New Democratic Party Program funding ... 773 Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting with Executive Council members ... 439–40 Hospital maintenance and repair Northern Lights regional hospital Capital planning ... 881–82 Capital needs ... 55–56 Funding ... 55 Opioid use Hospitals Reduction strategy ... 644 Acute-care beds ... 58 Oral Question Period (procedure) Emergency service capacity issues ... 775 Ministers’ supplementary responses ... 348 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Estimates debate ... 54–56, 58–60, 62–63, 67, 69 Addiction treatment services for women in Calgary Level of detail provided ... 59, 234 ... 441 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Affordable and special-needs housing ... 103–4 ... 95, 164, 390, 461, 538, 561, 596, 639, 661, 705, Affordable housing ... 773–74 864 Affordable supportive living initiative ... 298, 347 Job creation Affordable supportive living project approval ... 376 Government role ... 440–41 Air quality in Alberta ... 567 Kidney dialysis Alberta Health Services ... 772–73 Mobile service ... 237, 776 Alberta Health Services Board ... 296 Permanent unit proposed ... 237 Alberta Health Services performance measures ... 323, 348 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 37

Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Health, Minister of Seniors) (continued) Health, Minister of Seniors) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Calgary cancer centre ... 422 UN climate summit ... 439 Cancer services ... 372 Urgent health care in Airdrie ... 170, 423, 543–44, Carbon tax ... 563–65, 568 774–75 Childhood immunization ... 233 Urgent health care in Beaverlodge ... 102 Climate change strategy ... 565 Urgent health care in Sylvan Lake ... 234 Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 1050 Victorian Order of Nurses ... 643–44 Dental care costs ... 878 Vision loss services ... 527 Dialysis service in Lac La Biche ... 237 Youth addiction treatment services ... 431 Drug treatment for retinal conditions ... 396 Persons with disabilities Elder abuse ... 16 Vision loss services ... 527 Emergency medical services ... 495–96, 861 Physicians Emergency medical services in eastern Alberta ... Allegations of intimidation ... 861–62 433–34 Recruitment and retention ... 775–76 Emergency medical services in southern Alberta ... Services agreement ... 861–62 960 Pipeline construction Emergency medical services in Willow Creek ... Provincial strategy ... 441 1047–48 Political advertising Energy policies ... 525–26, 771–72, 775 Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 526–27, 667– advocacy groups, etc.) ... 32 68, 707–8, 771, 773, 775, 1046, 1049 Political parties Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 32–33 663–64, 709 Posttraumatic stress disorder Fentanyl use ... 881 Inclusion in mental health review ... 861 Fentanyl use on First Nations ... 532 Primary care (medicine) Fentanyl use prevention ... 397, 423 Access ... 69 Government policies ... 777–78 Rural health care ... 69 Grande Prairie hospital ... 430–31, 443 Primary care networks Health and seniors’ care in Strathmore-Brooks ... Funding ... 496, 1048 281 Implementation strategy ... 62–63, 74 Health care decision-making ... 47 Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act Health care review ... 43 Court-ordered 10-day detoxification and Health care system ... 280, 284 stabilization period provisions ... 431 Health care system decision-making ... 17 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Health coverage for refugees and refugee claimants Second reading ... 727 ... 171 Second reading, referral to Families and Health facilities in Wainwright ... 103, 646 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Health services for transgender and gender-variant amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 727 Albertans ... 669 Committee ... 995 Hospital infrastructure ... 881–82 Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements Injured temporary foreign worker ... 233–34 requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) Job creation and retention ... 440–41 ... 995 Long-term care facility survey ... 373–74 Respect for Communities Act (Bill C-2, federal) Medical laboratory services ... 541–42 Impact on harm reduction strategies ... 644 Medicine Hat town hall meeting ... 879 Rocky Mountain House health centre Menthol-flavoured tobacco products ... 122 New facility, timeline on ... 545–46 Midwifery services ... 280–81, 604–5 Royal Alexandra hospital Northern Alberta concerns ... 1047 Renovation project ... 432 Opioid use ... 644 Royalty structure (energy resources) Physician service contracts ... 861–62 Review ... 664–65, 708, 772 Primary care networks ... 1048 Rural health care Public access to Executive Council members ... 439–40 Access to services ... 776 Public consultation ... 665–66 Funding ... 544 Rocky Mountain House hospital ... 545–46 Quality of services ... 544 Royal Alexandra hospital renovation ... 432 Rural health services review (2014-2015) ... 47 Royalty review ... 664–65, 708 Rural hospitals Rural emergency medical services ... 445 Acute-care beds ... 58 Rural health care ... 544, 775–76 Emergency service capacity issues ... 775 Seniors’ care ... 542 School boards and districts Seniors’ care in Fort McMurray ... 46–47 Elections, governing legislation ... 32 Seniors’ housing ... 565–66 Student participation on (Motion Other than Seniors’ housing for couples ... 498 Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic ... 713–14 413 Status of women ... 123 Senior abuse and neglect Tobacco use reduction strategy ... 394–95 Local supports ... 16 38 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Hoffman, Sarah (Edmonton-Glenora, ND; Minister of Horne, Trevor A.R. (Spruce Grove-St. Albert, ND) Health, Minister of Seniors) (continued) Aboriginal Awareness Day Seniors’ benefit program General remarks ... 39 Funding ... 103 Aboriginal Awareness Week Low-income supports ... 565 General remarks ... 39 Seniors’ housing Aboriginal peoples Couples’ accommodations ... 498 Members’ statements ... 39 Funding ... 565–66 Alexander First Nation Newell Foundation proposal ... 281 General remarks ... 39 Sheep River nurse practitioner clinic Debts, public (provincial debt) Facility closure ... 713–14 Provincial borrowing during economic downturn Speech from the Throne (countercyclical spending) ... 666 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 82 Provincial credit rating ... 666 Standing Orders Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, ... 340 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Members’ Statements (current session) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Aboriginal peoples ... 39 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orange Shirt Day ... 330 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Métis Nation of Alberta the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried General remarks ... 39 with amendments) ... 363 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Forecasts ... 666 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Oral Question Period (current session topics) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Provincial fiscal position ... 666 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orange Shirt Day Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Members’ statements ... 330 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Spruce Grove-St. Albert (constituency) with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Member’s personal and family history ... 39 sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada amendments) ... 363 Report recommendations ... 330 Strathmore-Brooks (constituency) United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous Health facilities ... 281 peoples Strathmore general hospital General remarks ... 39 Capital needs ... 281 Recommendations ... 330 Surgery procedures Hunter, Grant R. (Cardston-Taber-Warner, W) Wait times, statistics for 2012-2013, 2013-2014, Aboriginal peoples’ economic development 2014-2015 (Written Question 2: carried as Programs and partnerships ... 66 amended) ... 675–76 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Sylvan Lake (town) the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Health care ... 234 Second reading ... 516–17 Taxation Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Provincial strategy ... 526 Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) Tobacco products tax, revenue utilization ... 394–95 (Cooper: defeated) ... 516–17 Temporary foreign workers Committee ... 760–61, 922–23 Injured worker, support for ... 233–34 Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit Tobacco products of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 760–61 Electronic cigarettes ... 395 Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax Menthol-flavoured products, ban on ... 122, 394 provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 922–23 Menthol-flavoured products, link to youth smoking Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) ... 122 Second reading ... 185–86, 204, 221–22 Tobacco use Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Reduction strategy ... 394–95 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... United Nations climate summit 221–22 Premier’s attendance ... 439, 441 Committee ... 245–46 Valleyview (town) Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective Physicians ... 775–76 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 245–46 Victorian Order of Nurses Agriculture Alberta closure ... 643–44 Supply chain management ... 581 Wainwright (town) Sustainable practices ... 581 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) 433–34 Committee ... 580–81 Wainwright health centre Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Capital needs ... 55–56, 103 Committee ... 146 Condition of facility ... 646 Budget 2015-2016 Stakeholders’ meeting with Health minister ... 646 Government intentions ... 345 Willow Creek municipal district Budget process Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... Interim supply ... 65 1047–48 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 39

Hunter, Grant R. (Cardston-Taber-Warner, W) Hunter, Grant R. (Cardston-Taber-Warner, W) (continued) (continued) Corporate taxation Members’ Statements (current session) Increase ... 395 Job-creation grant program ... 434–35 Progressive tax proposed ... 185 Minimum wage ... 128 Daycare centres Water supply in Milk River and Coutts ... 492 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Minimum wage Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Impact on employment rate ... 100 315 Increase ... 48, 100, 235–36, 345 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Members’ statements ... 128 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Ministry of Aboriginal Relations Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 408–9, Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate 475–76 ... 66 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Ministry of Human Services subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate and Accountability Committee (referral ... 66 amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 408–9 Ministry of Infrastructure Employment insurance program (federal) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A3 Provincial role ... 66 (minister’s office budget reduction) (Hunter: Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act defeated) ... 610 (Bill 6) Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Second reading ... 735–37, 934–36, 1028, 1035–36 Funding, comparison with previous years ... 65–66 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) ... 65–66 ... 1035–36 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Farm and ranch safety ... 542–43 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 667–68, 860–61 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 934–36, Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... 1028 648, 880–81 Committee ... 1092–94 Government policies ... 345 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Job creation ... 395, 431–32 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1092–94 Minimum wage ... 48, 100, 235–36 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Petitions presented (current session) workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA3 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch (private insurance provision for small farms) Workers Act, ... 1052 (Hunter: defeated) ... 1092–94 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Third reading ... 1125 Second reading ... 723 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Second reading, referral to Families and month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1125 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Family farm provisions ... 668 amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 723 Family farm provisions, comparison with other Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) jurisdictions ... 542–43, 736 Second reading ... 653–54 Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... 860– Public service 61 Cost of ... 395 Petitions presented ... 1052 Size of ... 395 Public information ... 935–36 Small business Stakeholder consultation ... 542–43, 648, 667–68, Provincial tax rate, comparison with other 736, 860–61, 880–81 jurisdictions ... 245–46 Farm safety Socialism Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 735 General remarks ... 345 Farm workers Standing Orders Workers’ compensation coverage ... 66 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Fiscal policy division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Keynesian economics ... 761 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Hutterite colonies Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Bill 6 application to ... 1035, 1094 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Progressive tax proposed ... 185 with amendments) ... 364, 454 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Comparison with previous years ... 185 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Estimates debate ... 65–66 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing ... 662, 864, 913 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Job creation the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Grant program ... 431–32 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Grant program, members’ statements ... 434–35 sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Labour relations amendments) ... 364 Funding ... 66 40 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Hunter, Grant R. (Cardston-Taber-Warner, W) Jansen, Sandra (Calgary-North West, PC) (continued) (continued) Child mental health services Standing Orders (continued) Funding ... 603–4 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Child protective services division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Deaths of children in care, removal of publication ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, ban ... 603 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Committee on Families and Communities, Standing Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Consideration of sexual health education curriculum the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried proposed ... 776 with amendments), amendment A2 (limit on Constituency offices evening sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... 454 Staffing process, new NDP MLAs ... 281–82 Taxation Crowfoot Village Family Practice Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 185 Funding ... 1048 Unemployment Daycare Budgetary impacts ... 65–66 24-hour service ... 468 Water management New Democratic Party campaign platform ($25 per Milk River and Coutts water supply, members’ day cost) ... 468 statements ... 492 Daycare centres Jabbour, Deborah C. (Peace River, ND) Inclusion in new government buildings ... 468 Alcohol retail sales Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Regulations for licensed establishments ... 897 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians 315 General remarks ... 779 Educational curricula Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Sexual health education, inclusion of LGBTQ issues Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) ... 699, 776–77 Third reading ... 1076 Sexual health education, members’ statements ... 127 Daycare Employment Pension (Private Sector) Plans Amendment Health Sciences Association of Canada petition Act, 2014 (Bill 10, 2014) presented ... 240 General remarks ... 805–6 Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Election of Ms Jabbour, Member for Peace River ... (Bill 6) 4, 5 Second reading ... 805–7 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Stakeholder consultation ... 806 (Bill 6) Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 670 Third reading ... 1116–17 Family and community support services Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Funding ... 346 143/1996) Farm workers Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Children ... 805 music venues (Motion Other than Government Government accountability Motion 507: carried) ... 897 Openness and transparency ... 603 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Government caucus ... 491, 523, 537, 855, 1039 Relations with staff ... 281 Members’ Statements (current session) Home-schooling Peace River constituency ... 639–40 Funding ... 18–19 Women parliamentarians ... 779 Human rights Music industry Members’ statements ... 865–66 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Human services Government Motion 507: carried) ... 897 Front-line workers’ perception of former MLA Pages (Legislative Assembly) Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 603 Recognition, Speaker’s statement on ... 289 Independent schools Peace River (constituency) Funding ... 18–19 Member’s personal and family history ... 897, 1116 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Members’ statements ... 639–40 ... 856 Petitions presented (current session) Legislative Assembly of Alberta Health Sciences Association of Canada petition on Parliamentary language, members’ statements ... 874 access to daycare ... 240 Lethbridge-East (constituency) Women parliamentarians Member’s personal and family history ... 492 Members’ statements ... 779 Members’ Statements (current session) Jansen, Sandra (Calgary-North West, PC) Human rights ... 865–66 Addiction treatment Parliamentary language ... 874 Addiction and detoxification centre funding ... 345– Sexual health education curriculum ... 127 46, 431 Status of Women ministry estimates debate ... 492–93 Services for children and youth ... 345–46, 431 Mennonites Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Kanadier Mennonite farm workers ... 805 Second reading ... 698–99, 702 Minister responsible for the status of women Charter schools Funding ... 123 Funding ... 18–19 Mandate letter proposed ... 123 Role of Human Services ministry ... 123 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 41

Jansen, Sandra (Calgary-North West, PC) (continued) Jansen, Sandra (Calgary-North West, PC) (continued) Ministry of Status of Women Standing Orders Main estimates debate 2015-2016, members’ Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, statements ... 492–93 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Minister’s remarks in main estimates debate meeting ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, ... 529 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Oil sands development Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Provincial strategy ... 324–25 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Oral Question Period (current session topics) with amendments) ... 364 Addiction and mental health capital funding ... 345– Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, 46 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Child care supports ... 468 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Constituency office administration ... 281–82 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Education funding ... 18–19 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried 670 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Human services ... 603–4 sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Minister of Status of Women ... 529 amendments) ... 364 Oil sands development ... 324–25 Women and violence Primary care networks ... 1048 Anniversary of l’école Polytechnique de Montréal Sexual health education in schools ... 776–77 shootings ... 874 Status of women ... 123 Jean, Brian Michael, QC (Fort McMurray-Conklin, W) Youth addiction treatment services ... 431 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Pipeline construction Official Opposition amendments ... 278 Provincial strategy ... 325 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Primary care networks Second reading ... 206 Funding ... 1048 Third reading ... 268 Private schools Public consultation proposed ... 278 Funding ... 18–19 Alberta Energy Regulator Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act Review ... 165 Court-ordered 10-day detoxification and Alberta government offices stabilization period provisions ... 431 Washington, DC, energy industry advocacy role ... 98 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Alberta Health Services (authority) Committee ... 988, 992–94 Staff, ratio of management to front-line staff ... 384 Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: Second reading ... 702–3 carried) ... 988, 992 Official Opposition participation in debate ... 702 Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) Third reading ... 631–36 ... 993–94 Bills, government (procedure) Third reading ... 1000 Comparison with federal system ... 1112 School board responses ... 1000 Time allotted for debate ... 278 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Committee ... 786–88 Comparison with federal system ... 1112 Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Budget 2015-2016 compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Deficit ... 292–93 amended) ... 786–88 Forecast deficit ... 165 Refugees Government intentions ... 381 Resettlement in Alberta ... 866 Timeline ... 13–14, 42 Rental housing Budget 2015-2016 debate Potential for discrimination ... 683 Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of 381–88 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Budget documents Committee ... 683, 685 Preview by opposition caucuses (budget lock-up) ... Committee, amendment A2 (time of coming into 293–94 force) (Payne/Sabir: carried) ... 683 Budget process Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Balanced/deficit budgets ... 384, 387 requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685 Calgary-Foothills (constituency) Implications for landlords ... 683 Presentation of new member to the Assembly ... 291 School boards and districts Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Policies on issues involving LGBTQ students ... Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh 698–99 Bhullar, ministerial statement, responses ... 597–98 Speaker, The Canadian energy strategy Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-North Council of the Federation discussions ... 428 West ... 1 Capital plan Dodge report recommendations ... 342 42 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Jean, Brian Michael, QC (Fort McMurray-Conklin, W) Jean, Brian Michael, QC (Fort McMurray-Conklin, W) (continued) (continued) Capital projects Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Prioritization, publicly available information (Bill 6) (continued) (“sunshine list”) ... 342 Public information ... 857, 877, 957 Carbon levy Public information, Premier’s remarks on ... 707 General remarks ... 464–65, 525–26, 540, 563–65, Regulatory provisions ... 950–51, 957 633, 956 Stakeholder consultation ... 540, 635, 642–43, 663, Impact on small business ... 600 771, 857, 876–77 Increase ... 277 Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 663–64 Revenue utilization ... 564, 634, 641–42, 876 Workers’ compensation provisions ... 857, 877, 957 Climate change strategy Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Energy company response ... 771–72 Debate time and procedure, 2015-2016 main General remarks ... 564–65, 600 estimates of supply ... 293–94, 370 National strategy ... 540 Executive Council Corporate taxation Public access to ministers ... 439–40 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 120, 165 Farm safety Impact on employment rate ... 493–94 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 858 Increase ... 120, 268 Fiscal policy Provincial tax rate ... 632–33, 635 General remarks ... 950 Debts, public (provincial debt) Government spending ... 97, 382–83, 392, 428, 493– Debt repayment ... 632 94 General remarks ... 293, 341–42 Government spending, comparison with other Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 381– jurisdictions ... 385–87, 634–35 82 Progressive Conservative governments ... 385–86 Provincial credit rating ... 293, 341–42, 383, 637 Social impacts ... 955–56 Education finance Fort McMurray-Conklin (constituency) Funding for new enrolment ... 166, 231 Member’s federal political career ... 943–44, 949, Elections, federal 1112 2015 election ... 42 Member’s personal and family history ... 117, 942– Elections, provincial 43, 946–47 2015 election ... 13 Government accountability Electric power plants Audit of previous government proposed ... 14 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 464, 526, 642 Mechanisms for transparency ... 15 Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 Government policies Provincial economic situation, request for debate Consultation policies ... 948–49 (not proceeded with) ... 966 Grande Cache Coal Energy industries Mine closure ... 417 Job creation and retention ... 464–65 Highway 63 Job losses ... 369, 392, 427, 493–94, 525, 539, 632– Twinning, funding for ... 383 34, 636 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Job losses, Energy minister’s remarks ... 875 Increase ... 268 Market access ... 98, 382 Progressive tax proposed ... 120 Provincial strategy ... 427–28 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Support for ... 384, 427–28 ... 340 Energy industries and environment Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Public image ... 439 Former MP for Edmonton-Sherwood Park Ken Epp Energy policies and spouse, Betty ... 855 General remarks ... 464–65, 600 Job creation Impact on employment rate ... 493–94, 525–26, 539 Business incentives ... 417–18 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Government role ... 876 (Bill 6) Grant program ... 369, 391–92, 417–18, 428, 539, Second reading ... 941–51, 968–71, 1023–24 632, 636 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Private-sector role ... 381, 427 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Programs ... 635 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 941–51, Legislative Assembly of Alberta 968–71, 1023–24 Dene remarks ... 117 Second reading, point of order on debate ... 947 Legislative processes ... 370 Third reading ... 1111–13 Punjabi remarks ... 597 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Members of the Legislative Assembly month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1113 Former MLA Frank Pierpoint Appleby, memorial Agriculture and Forestry minister’s remarks ... 771 tribute ... 13 Family farm provisions ... 642–43, 857, 957 Former MLA Norman Allen Weiss, memorial tribute Family farm provisions, comparison with other ... 13 jurisdictions ... 526–27 Minimum wage Implementation cost ... 527 Impact on employment rate ... 120, 231, 635 Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... 707 Increase ... 166, 268, 392

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Jean, Brian Michael, QC (Fort McMurray-Conklin, W) Jean, Brian Michael, QC (Fort McMurray-Conklin, W) (continued) (continued) Ministerial Statements (current session) Pipeline construction (continued) Constable Daniel Woodall, responses ... 40 Provincial strategy ... 41–42, 97–98, 120, 388, 428 Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial TransCanada Energy East project ... 42, 382 tribute, responses ... 597–98 TransCanada Keystone XL project ... 41–42, 97 Global violence and Syrian refugees, responses ... TransCanada Keystone XL project, advocacy for ... 463 98 Truth and reconciliation, responses ... 117–18 Points of order (current session) Ministry of Energy Factual accuracy ... 947 Minister’s chief of staff ... 42 Political parties Ministry of international and intergovernmental Contributions of services by corporations or unions relations (ministry to October 22, 2015) ... 166 Priorities ... 98 Public service Municipal finance Compensation freeze proposed ... 384–85 Official Opposition 10-10 plan ... 13 Cost of ... 392 Taxation as revenue source ... 13 Management positions ... 635 National Aboriginal Day Size of ... 385 General remarks ... 117 Staff, ratio of management to front-line staff ... 384 National energy program (1980s) Refugees General remarks ... 633 Refugees from Afghanistan ... 598 New Democratic Party Refugees of the war in Syria, ministerial statement, Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting responses ... 463 with Executive Council members ... 439–40 Resettlement in Alberta ... 494 Oil sands development Renewable/alternative energy sources General remarks ... 632 Environment minister’s announcement ... 278 Job creation ... 633 Revenue Job losses ... 634 Forecasts, 2015-2016 ... 97 Premier’s position on ... 632, 633 Long-term forecast ... 341, 382–84, 387–88 Support for ... 382, 384 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Opposition caucuses Project Kare ... 118 Role ... 370, 381, 384 Royal Dutch Shell Oral Question Period (current session topics) Carmon Creek project cancellation ... 369 Budget debate process ... 370 Royalty structure (energy resources) Budget document preview by opposition ... 293–94 Review ... 417, 427, 708, 772 Carbon tax ... 464–65, 563–64, 641–42, 876 Review, timeline on ... 278 Energy industry environmental issues ... 540 St. Albert (constituency) Energy policies ... 277–78, 427–28, 525–26, 771–72 Member’s personal and family history ... 970 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 526–27, 540, Seniors’ benefit program 707–8, 771, 857–58, 876–77, 957 Funding ... 268 Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... Seniors’ housing 642–43, 663–64 Funding ... 268 Government accountability ... 14–15 Small business Government policies ... 165–66, 231, 955–56 Provincial tax rate ... 268, 428 Government revenue forecasts ... 341 Provincial tax rate, impact on seniors ... 268 Infrastructure capital funding ... 342 Socialism Job creation ... 391–92 General remarks ... 381 Job creation and retention ... 369, 417–18, 464, 493– Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation 94, 539–40, 875–76 139/2007) Legislative procedures ... 370 Changes to ... 277 Legislative process ... 278 Speech from the Throne Market access for energy resources ... 98 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 196–201 Pipeline development ... 41–42, 97–98, 120 Suicide Provincial budget ... 13–14, 292–93, 392 Statistics ... 966 Provincial budget timeline ... 42 Summer temporary employment program (STEP) Provincial debt ... 293, 341–42 Reinstatement ... 539 Provincial fiscal policies ... 97, 599–600 Taxation Public access to Executive Council members ... 439– Locomotive fuel tax ... 493–94 40 Lowering of taxes, policy on ... 120 Refugee resettlement ... 494 Provincial strategy ... 526, 599–600, 632–33, 956 Royalty review ... 417, 708 Sales tax, provincial strategy ... 13, 341 Small-business tax ... 428 Temporary foreign workers Tax policy ... 13, 120 Job-creation grant program eligibility ... 391 UN climate summit ... 439 Terrorist attacks Pipeline construction Ministerial statement, responses ... 463 Approval process ... 120 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Enbridge Northern Gateway project ... 42 Final report, ministerial statement, responses ... 117–18 Kinder Morgan project ... 42 Report recommendations ... 117–18 44 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Jean, Brian Michael, QC (Fort McMurray-Conklin, W) Kleinsteuber, Jamie (Calgary-Northern Hills, ND) (continued) (continued) Unemployment Public transit (continued) General remarks ... 632 Regional service, other jurisdictions ... 485 Group layoff notices ... 539 Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Increase ... 876 than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 484–85, Unions 489 Collective agreements, wage freezes ... 385 Rural service ... 487 United Nations climate summit Southern Alberta service ... 487 Premier’s attendance ... 439 Queen Elizabeth II highway (QE II) Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Congestion ... 485 killed on duty) School nutrition programs Ministerial statement, responses ... 40 Breakfast and lunch programs ... 430 Workers’ compensation Trails Exempted job categories ... 941–45, 968–70 Calgary to Cochrane trail, members’ statements ... Kazim, Anam (Calgary-Glenmore, ND) 640 Ashura Larivee, Danielle (Lesser Slave Lake, ND; Minister of Members’ statements ... 369 Municipal Affairs from October 22, 2015; Minister of Calgary-Glenmore (constituency) Service Alberta from October 22, 2015) Member’s personal and family history ... 27 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Overview ... 27 Second reading ... 135 Flood damage mitigation Condominium property regulation (Alberta Regulation Calgary and area ... 295 168/2000) Springbank reservoir project ... 295 Review ... 962 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Corporate taxation ... 770 Collection of taxes in arrears ... 329 Members’ Statements (current session) Disaster recovery program Ashura ... 369 2013 floods, outstanding claims ... 297 Ramadan ... 96–97 Review ... 297 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Flood damage mitigation on the Bow and Elbow (Bill 6) rivers ... 295 Agriculture and Forestry minister’s remarks ... 773 Ramadan Passage through the Assembly, timeline on ... 860–61 Members’ statements ... 96–97 Public information ... 773 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Stakeholder consultation ... 773, 860–61, 960–61, Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) 963 Third reading ... 886 Workers’ compensation provisions ... 778 Speech from the Throne Health care capacity issues Address moved and seconded ... 27–28 Wait times ... 69 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 27–28 Home-care services Kleinsteuber, Jamie (Calgary-Northern Hills, ND) Access ... 69 Alberta Bottle Depot Association Impaired driving Members’ statements ... 715 Members’ statements ... 286 Calgary-Northern Hills (constituency) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Member’s personal and family history ... 898 Estimates debate ... 69 Calgary Young Offender Centre Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Decision to keep open ... 238 ... 95, 292 Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Lesser Slave Lake (constituency) 143/1996) Member’s personal and family history ... 286 Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Members’ Statements (current session) music venues (Motion Other than Government Impaired driving ... 286 Motion 507: carried) ... 898 Ministry of Health Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate General remarks ... 640 ... 69 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Mothers Against Drunk Driving ... 706 General remarks ... 286 Members’ Statements (current session) Municipal finance Alberta Bottle Depot Association ... 715 Collection of taxes in arrears ... 329 Calgary to Cochrane trail ... 640 Municipal sustainability initiative Music industry Funding ... 298 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Government Motion 507: carried) ... 898 Provincial reliance on ... 135 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Calgary Young Offender Centre ... 238 Condominium Property Act regulations ... 962 School nutrition programs ... 430 Disaster recovery program ... 297 Public transit Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 773, 860–61, GreenTRIP (green transit incentives program) ... 485 960–61, 963 Regional service ... 487 Government policies ... 778 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 45

Larivee, Danielle (Lesser Slave Lake, ND; Minister of Loewen, Todd (Grande Prairie-Smoky, W) (continued) Municipal Affairs from October 22, 2015; Minister of Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Service Alberta from October 22, 2015) Second reading ... 211–12, 220–21 Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Linear property assessment and taxation ... 323–24 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Municipal infrastructure funding ... 298 220–21 Municipal tax collection ... 329 Third reading ... 263–64 Registry services ... 605 Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Primary care (medicine) Landowner appeal provisions ... 143 Access ... 69 Budget 2015-2016 debate Rural health care ... 69 Debate participants (Government Motion 13), Property tax questions and comments ... 458 Linear property assessment ... 323–24 Capital plan Registry services Dodge report recommendations ... 556 Service expansion ... 605 Carbon levy Rural communities General remarks ... 566 Linear property tax revenue use ... 323–24 Revenue utilization ... 670 Registry services ... 605 Climate change strategy Smoky Lake (county) Implementation cost ... 566–67 Tax assessment for uncollected taxes ... 329 Corporate taxation Stover, Vincent Revenue ... 263 Accidental death ... 286 Criminal Code Workers’ compensation Section 263(1), duty to guard a hole made in ice ... Premier’s remarks ... 778 324 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Debts, public (provincial debt) Speech from the Throne Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 556 Address given ... 7–8 Energy policies Littlewood, Jessica (Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, ND) Members’ statements ... 473 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Committee ... 910 (Bill 6) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Second reading ... 745–47, 983–85 (Bill 6) Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Committee ... 1070 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 983–85 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1070 Stakeholder consultation ... 670, 745–46, 875 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Family farms workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 General remarks ... 747 (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) Fiscal policy ... 1070 General remarks ... 556 Families First Society Government spending ... 263–64 Members’ statements ... 608 Freehold lands Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville (constituency) Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than Member’s personal and family history ... 1070 Government Motion 501: carried) ... 143 Health Link Government policies 811 phone line dementia support, members’ Consultation policies ... 670, 875 statements ... 376 Consultation policies, members’ statements ... 875 Highway 63 Grande Prairie regional hospital Twinning ... 433 New hospital ... 430–31 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Grande Prairie-Smoky (constituency) ... 115–16, 321, 323, 596, 639 Member’s personal and family history ... 555, 556 Members’ Statements (current session) Overview ... 555–56 Families First Society ... 608 Hospitals Health Link 811 phone line dementia support ... 376 Emergency service capacity issues ... 775 War Horse Awareness Foundation ... 1051 Hunting Oral Question Period (current session topics) Changes to regulations ... 235 Highway 63 twinning ... 433 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Parenting Provincial revenue ... 263 Parent link centres ... 608 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) War Horse Awareness Foundation ... 438, 674, 864 Members’ statements ... 1051 Job creation Loewen, Todd (Grande Prairie-Smoky, W) Grant program ... 346–47 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Lake aeration the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Suspension ... 324 Committee ... 763 Members’ Statements (current session) Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit Energy policies ... 473 of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 763 Public consultation ... 875 Third reading ... 928–29 Rural health care ... 165 46 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Loewen, Todd (Grande Prairie-Smoky, W) (continued) Loyola, Rod (Edmonton-Ellerslie, ND) (continued) Minimum wage Oral Question Period (current session topics) Impact on employment rate ... 263 Injured temporary foreign worker ... 233–34 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Syrian refugees ... 398 Energy policies ... 566–67 Postsecondary educational institutions Government policies ... 670 Funding ... 64–65 Grande Prairie hospital ... 430–31, 443 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Job-creation grant program ... 346–47 Second reading ... 650–51 Lake aeration ... 324 Third reading ... 871 Rural health care ... 775–76 Refugees Wildlife regulations ... 235 Resettlement in Alberta ... 398 Peace Country Sikhs Unemployment ... 346–47 Indian violence against, members’ statements ... 447 Physicians Temporary foreign workers Recruitment and retention ... 775–76 Injured worker, support for ... 233–34 Pipeline construction Tuition and fees, postsecondary Provincial strategy ... 566 Market modifiers (differential tuition for TransCanada Keystone XL project ... 473 professional programs) ... 65 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) United Nations universal declaration of human rights Committee ... 997–98 General remarks ... 864–65 School board responses ... 998 World Refugee Day Stakeholder consultation ... 875 Members’ statements ... 104 Rural hospitals Luff, Robyn (Calgary-East, ND) Emergency service capacity issues ... 775 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Service stations Second reading ... 402 Shell station award ... 556 Bullying Awareness Week Small business Members’ statements ... 548 Provincial tax revenue ... 263 Calgary-East (constituency) Speech from the Throne Constituency history ... 79 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 555–56 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 556 Member’s personal and family history ... 79–80, 402 Taxation Overview ... 79 Insurance premium tax ... 929 Calgary Young Offender Centre Locomotive fuel tax ... 670, 928 Decision to keep open ... 444–45 Unemployment Cornerstone Youth Centre Northern unemployment ... 346–47 Members’ statements ... 472–73 Valleyview (town) Daycare centres Physicians ... 775–76 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Service stations ... 556 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... 317 Loyola, Rod (Edmonton-Ellerslie, ND) Education finance Apprenticeship training Funding ... 79 Student spaces ... 65 Funding for new enrolment ... 168 Edmonton-Ellerslie (constituency) Grants for English language learners ... 168 Member’s personal and family history ... 104 Farmers’ markets Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) General remarks ... 402 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 408 ... 339 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Members’ Statements (current session) subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Bullying awareness and prevention ... 548 and Accountability Committee (referral Cornerstone Youth Centre ... 472–73 amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 408 Minimum wage Human rights Impact on employment rate ... 80 Members’ statements ... 864–65 Increase ... 79 Immigrants Oral Question Period (current session topics) Integration services ... 104 Calgary Young Offender Centre ... 444–45 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Education concerns ... 168 Estimates debate ... 64–65 PDD residential safety standards ... 878–79 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Persons with developmental disabilities ... 115, 230, 437 Housing safety standards ... 878–79 Members’ Statements (current session) School boards and districts Human rights ... 864–65 Meetings with Education minister ... 168 Violence against Sikhs in India ... 447 Speech from the Throne World Refugee Day ... 104 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 79–80 Ministry of innovation and advanced education Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 80 (ministry to October 22, 2015) Teachers Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Workload ... 168 ... 64–65 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 47

MacIntyre, Donald (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, W) MacIntyre, Donald (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, W) (continued) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) (Bill 6) (continued) Second reading ... 505, 509–11 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Committee ... 796–97, 844–45, 851, 869–70, 917–19 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Committee, amendment A5 (referendum on debt-to- amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 974–76, GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 796–97 1025 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Committee ... 1068–70, 1081–82 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 844–45 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Committee, amendment A7 (publication of projected workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1068–70, 1081–82 consolidated cash balance) (Fildebrandt: defeated) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm ... 851, 869–70 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 917–19 ... 1068–70 Third reading ... 926–27 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Penalty provisions, lack of ... 510–11 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Second reading ... 208–9, 221 1081–82 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Implementation cost ... 712 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 221 Public information ... 777–78 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Stakeholder consultation ... 712 Committee ... 574, 582–83 Workers’ compensation provisions ... 778 Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory Fiscal policy committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Government spending, comparison with other proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 574 jurisdictions ... 926–27 Committee, amendment A2 (public-sector Government accountability procurement of local food) (van Dijken: defeated) Financial reporting ... 851 ... 582–83 Health care Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Urgent care services ... 234 Committee ... 629 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Bills, government (procedure) Level of detail provided ... 234 Referral to committee ... 727 Members’ Statements (current session) Carbon levy Climate change strategy ... 570–71 Effectiveness ... 567 Environmental advocacy ... 231 General remarks ... 496–97 Ministry of Environment and Parks Implementation cost ... 712 Minister’s book preface ... 231 Revenue utilization ... 629 Office of the Premier Climate change strategy Premier’s deputy chief of staff ... 280 Members’ statements ... 570–71 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Corporate taxation Carbon tax ... 496–97, 567 Increase, implementation cost ... 712 Energy industry ... 374 Debts, public (provincial debt) Government policies ... 712, 777–78 Provincial borrowing during economic downturn Urgent health care in Sylvan Lake ... 234 (countercyclical spending) ... 629 Pipeline construction Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 629 Provincial strategy ... 374 Provincial credit rating ... 505, 509 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Second reading ... 718–19, 727, 730 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Second reading, referral to Families and Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 408 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 727, 730 subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Stakeholder consultation ... 718–19, 730 and Accountability Committee (referral Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 408 Second reading ... 656 Electric power Committee ... 786–88 Distributed generation ... 689 Committee, amendment A3 (municipal employees’ Microgeneration regulation and policy review threshold) (Clark: carried) ... 786 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on carried) ... 688–89 compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Electric power plants amended) ... 787–88 Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 689 Renewable/alternative energy sources Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of ... 712 General remarks ... 571–72 Energy industries and environment Standing Orders Advocacy for, members’ statements ... 231 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Impact on competitiveness ... 374 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, (Bill 6) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Second reading ... 750–51, 811, 974–76, 1025 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried with amendments) ... 361–63 48 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

MacIntyre, Donald (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, W) Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; (continued) Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Standing Orders (continued) Transportation) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Second reading ... 518–19 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried (Cooper: defeated) ... 518–19 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning Second reading, points of order on debate ... 506, 518 sittings starting of 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Committee ... 798–99 amendments) ... 361–63 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Sylvan Lake (town) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 798–99 Health care ... 234 Committee, point of order on debate ... 853 Taxation Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Locomotive fuel tax ... 712 Second reading ... 33–34, 38 Unemployment Committee ... 87, 92–93, 155 Statistics ... 509 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Workers’ compensation (Cyr: defeated), point of order on debate ... 87 Premier’s remarks ... 778 Committee, amendment A2 (donations in kind) (Cyr: Malkinson, Brian (Calgary-Currie, ND) defeated) ... 92–93 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) guarantees) (Nixon: carried) ... 155 Second reading ... 513 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Committee ... 762, 766, 796, 921 guarantees) (Nixon: carried), subamendment SA1 Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit (limits on loan payments) (Ganley: carried of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 762 unanimously) ... 155 Committee, amendment A4 (borrowing for Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... 22 operational expenses) (Starke: defeated) ... 766 Introduction of amendments, procedure ... 90 Committee, amendment A5 (referendum on debt-to- Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) GDP ratio) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 796 Second reading ... 186–87, 217–18 Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 921 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 217 Alberta government offices Committee ... 256 Trade development initiatives ... 710 Committee, amendment A4 (small-business tax rate Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) of 9.9 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 256 Third reading ... 891 Addiction treatment Calgary-Shaw (constituency) Addiction and detoxification centre funding ... 346, Member’s personal and family history ... 558 431 Debts, public (provincial debt) Services for children and youth ... 345–46 Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 513 Affordable supportive living initiative Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary Funding, points of order on debate ... 350 Members’ statements ... 349 Funding, points of order on debate, member’s Farmers’ markets withdrawal of remarks ... 105 General remarks ... 891 Alberta Health Services (authority) Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Performance measures, point of order on debate ... 143/1996) 332 Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Alberta heritage savings trust fund music venues (Motion Other than Government Fund utilization ... 136–37 Motion 507: carried) ... 899–900 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) International trade Committee ... 908 General remarks ... 710 Committee, amendment A1 (provisions on Trade with Asia-Pacific region ... 710 aboriginal heritage) (Swann: defeated) ... 908 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) ... 769 Repeal proposed ... 124, 327 Killarney-Glengarry Community Association Alcohol retail sales 60th anniversary, members’ statements ... 286 Regulations for licensed establishments ... 900–901 Members’ Statements (current session) Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Elizabeth Fry Society ... 349 First reading, bill to proceed directly to second Killarney-Glengarry Community Association 60th reading (unanimous consent granted) ... 612 anniversary ... 286 Committee ... 628–29 Music industry Committee, point of order on debate ... 626 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Committee, bill to proceed directly to third reading Government Motion 507: carried) ... 899–900 (unanimous consent granted) ... 631 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Third reading ... 631 International trade ... 710 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Speech from the Throne Second reading ... 110–12 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 558 Committee ... 147, 149, 151–52 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 49

Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Transportation) (continued) Transportation) (continued) Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) ) Carbon Capture and Storage Statutes Amendment Act, (continued) 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Third reading ... 183 Pore space ownership provisions ... 327 Third reading, member’s withdrawal of remarks ... Carbon levy 182 Revenue utilization ... 647 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Caribou Second reading ... 136–37 Habitat protection, public consultation ... 883 Second reading, point of order on debate ... 129 Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 2) Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement ... Second reading ... 905 1040–41 Bills, government (procedure) Climate change strategy Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, first reading, bill to Energy company response, point of order on debate proceed directly to second reading following first ... 781 reading (unanimous consent granted) ... 612 Coalhurst (town) Bill 9, Appropriation Act, 2015, bill to proceed Access road, funding for upgrade ... 170 directly to third reading following committee Committee of Supply (unanimous consent granted) ... 631 Assembly resolution into (Government Motion 5: Amendments, introduction of ... 90 carried) ... 23 Discussion of items previously decided ... 1030 Committee of the Whole Assembly Interim supply bills ... 183 Assembly resolution into to consider bills Bridge construction (Government Motion 4: carried) ... 23 Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, Standing Funding ... 58 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Rural bridges, funding for ... 58 carried) ... 22 Bridge maintenance and repair Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not Funding ... 58, 170 moved) ... 456 Local road bridge program ... 101 Membership and chair changes (Government Motion Local road bridge program, funding from interim 20: carried) ... 378–79 supply ... 170 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Rural bridges, funding for ... 58 Mason) ... 22–23 Budget 2015-2016 Committee on Families and Communities, Standing Government intentions ... 345 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Timeline ... 110, 183 carried) ... 22 Budget process Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not Balanced/deficit budgets ... 350 moved) ... 456 Interim supply ... 59, 183 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Calgary cancer centre Mason) ... 22–23 Funding ... 63 Membership changes (Government Motion 20: Calgary-Greenway (constituency) carried) ... 378–79 Death of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, motion to Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing adjourn Legislature for (Mason: carried) ... 593 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Calgary ring road carried) ... 22 Highway 8 corridor ... 712–13 Membership, chair, and deputy chair changes Southwest portion, completion ... 172 (Government Motion 20: carried) ... 378–79 Southwest portion, public-private partnership (P3) Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: contract ... 295 Mason) ... 22–23 Calgary Transit Committee on Members’ Services, Special Standing General remarks ... 121, 569 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: GreenTRIP (green transit incentives program) carried) ... 22 funding ... 569 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Light rail transit expansion, funding for ... 121 Mason) ... 22–23 Canadian Taxpayers Federation Membership changes (Government Motion 20: Letters of commendation to Member for Edmonton- carried) ... 378–79 Highlands-Norwood ... 85 Committee on Private Bills, Standing Capital plan Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Dodge report recommendations ... 342 carried) ... 22 Capital projects Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Government announcements ... 344, 471 Mason) ... 22–23 Prioritization ... 47–48, 283 Membership and deputy chair changes (Government Prioritization, publicly available information Motion 20: carried) ... 378–79 (“sunshine list”) ... 101, 187, 344, 372–73, 494–95 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders Project management ... 344 and Printing, Standing Projects listed but not contracted, 2007 to 2015 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: (Motion for a Return 1: defeated) ... 679–80 carried) ... 22 Membership and chair changes (Government Motion 20: carried) ... 378–79 50 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Transportation) (continued) Transportation) (continued) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders Education finance and Printing, Standing (continued) Funding ... 110 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Funding for new enrolment ... 183 Mason) ... 22–23 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Review of morning sittings of the Assembly Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) proposed ... 357 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 475, 477 Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics carried) ... 22 and Accountability Committee (referral Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: amendment A1) (Gray: carried), motion to rescind Mason) ... 22–23 (Government Motion 24: carried) ... 449 Committee on Resource Stewardship, Standing Second reading (carried unanimously), point of order Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: on debate ... 476–77 carried) ... 22 Second reading (carried unanimously), referral to Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not Ethics and Accountability Committee, motion on moved) ... 456 (Mason: carried) ... 477 Membership and chair changes (Government Motion Elections, provincial 20: carried) ... 378–79 Government spending announcements during ... 33– Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: 34 Mason) ... 22–23 Electric power plants Property Rights Advocate 2014 annual report Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of, point of referred to committee (Government Motion 21: order on debate ... 716–17 carried) ... 379 Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50, 2009) Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, General remarks ... 124 Standing Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Provincial economic situation, request for debate carried) ... 22 (not proceeded with) ... 967–68 Membership and chairs (Government Motion 3: Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Mason) ... 22–23 (Bill 6) Membership changes (Government Motion 20: Second reading ... 1023, 1030–31 carried) ... 378–79 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Committees of the Legislative Assembly month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) Referral of bills to, standing order amendments ... 1031 (Government Motion 23: carried) ... 448–49 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1023 Second reading ... 905 Second reading, point of order on debate ... 947, 973 Daycare centres Second reading, time allocation on debate Inclusion in new government buildings ... 468 (Government Motion 26: carried) ... 1028–29 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Committee ... 1065 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm 316 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1065 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Other than Government Motion 502: carried), workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 point of order on debate ... 316 (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) Debts, public (provincial debt) ... 1065 Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 532, Committee, time allocation on debate (Government 628–29 Motion 27: carried) ... 1100 Deputy Chair of Committees Third reading ... 1111, 1113–14, 1124 Election of Mr. Feehan, Member for Edmonton- Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Rutherford ... 6 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1113– Distracted driving 14, 1124 Violation tickets issued, 2011 to 2015 (Written Third reading, time allocation on debate Question 4: carried as amended) ... 677–78 (Government Motion 28: carried) ... 1118 Divisions (procedure) Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... 534–35 Division bells in Committee of Supply ... 912 Stakeholder consultation, points of order on debate Shortening bell intervals in Committee of the Whole ... 674, 781, 964, 966 ... 87–88 Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Timing of bells ... 357 Debate time and procedure, 2015-2016 main Edmonton Transit System estimates of supply ... 357, 370 General remarks ... 569 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates Light rail transit expansion, GreenTRIP (green 2015-2016 schedule, conflict with Remembrance transit incentives program) funding ... 569 Day observances ... 429 Edmonton-Whitemud (constituency) Member’s personal and family history ... 180 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 51

Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Transportation) (continued) Transportation) (continued) Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Special Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Appointment of committee and membership ... 116, 367, 461, 523, 537, 595, 887, 1124 (Government Motion 12: carried) ... 289–90 Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Bill 203, Election (Restrictions on Government Ambassador of Ecuador ... 523 Advertising) Amendment Act, 2015, referred after King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, The second reading, motion on (Mason: carried) ... 477 (Bill Pr. 1) Executive Council Second reading ... 905 Public access to ministers ... 440 Land Assembly Project Area Act (Bill 19, 2009) Farm machinery General remarks ... 124 Highway safety ... 470 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Fiscal policy All-party co-operation ... 112 General remarks ... 186–87 Constituency week starting November 9, 2015 Government spending ... 110 (Government Motion 15: carried) ... 365–66 Flood damage mitigation Decorum, points of order ... 853 Calgary and area ... 63, 295 Evening sittings (Government Motion 6: carried) ... Springbank reservoir project ... 295 23 Upstream mitigation, funding for ... 63 Evening sittings (Government Motion 16: carried) ... Flood plains 366 Floodway buyout program ... 68 Morning sittings proposed ... 357, 370 Forest industries Legislative Assembly of Alberta adjournment Role in caribou habitat protection ... 883 Fall 2015 session adjourned to February 2016 Forest products pursuant to Government Motion 14 ... 1126 Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement ... 883 Fall 2015 session to be extended beyond first Freehold lands Thursday in December (Government Motion 14: Landowner property rights ... 124, 327 carried) ... 717 Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Spring 2015 sitting adjourned (Government Motion 143/1996) 9: carried) ... 289 Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Spring 2015 sitting adjourned to October 26, 2015, music venues (Motion Other than Government pursuant to Government Motion 9 ... 290 Motion 507: carried) ... 900–901 Legislative policy committees Government accountability Appointment of committee (Government Motion 2: Openness and transparency ... 601 carried) ... 22 Health care finance Mandate changes (Government Motion 22: not Funding ... 110 moved) ... 456 Funding, point of order on debate ... 378 Members of the Legislative Assembly Health facilities Reference in Assembly to absence, point of order on New facilities ... 103 ... 781 New facilities, timeline on ... 646 Responsibility to uphold the law ... 282 High-speed rail service Mental Health Amendment Act, 2007 General remarks ... 346, 488 Referral to Standing Committee on Families and Highway 23 Communities (Government Motion 10: carried) ... Highway 519 intersection, funding for upgrade ... 289 170 Minimum wage Highway 63 Impact on employment rate, point of order on debate Fatalities ... 283 ... 534 Twinning ... 433 Ministerial Statements (current session) Twinning, funding for ... 283 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative Hospital construction Assembly ... 1040–41 New hospitals ... 47 Ministry of Environment and Parks Hospital maintenance and repair Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Funding ... 48 ... 63, 70 House leaders Minister’s book preface, point of order on debate ... Discussions on Assembly schedule ... 357 241 Human services finance Minister’s dual portfolio with Status of Women Funding ... 110 ministry ... 531 Hunting Ministry of Executive Council Changes to regulations, point of order on debate ... Ministers’ office budgets, point of order on debate ... 242 650 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Ministry of Health Estimates debate ... 59, 63, 68, 70 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Level of detail provided ... 59 ... 59, 63 New spending ... 110 Ministry of Infrastructure Referral to Committee of Supply (Government Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Motion 7: carried) ... 24–26 ... 63, 68 Time allotted for consideration ... 25, 111 52 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Transportation) (continued) Transportation) (continued) Ministry of Municipal Affairs Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Traffic accidents involving pedestrians ... 958 ... 63 Transportation infrastructure priorities ... 101, 283 Ministry of Status of Women Two Hills Mennonite school construction ... 297 Minister’s dual portfolio with Environment and Youth addiction treatment services ... 431 Parks ministry ... 531 Personal Information Protection Act Minister’s remarks in main estimates debate meeting Referral to Standing Committee on Alberta’s ... 529 Economic Future (Government Motion 11: Ministry of Transportation carried) ... 289 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Pine beetle control ... 58, 68 Funding ... 883 Minister’s communication with federal Pipeline construction Infrastructure and Communities minister ... 569 Provincial strategy, point of order on debate ... 378 Music industry Points of order (current session) Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Allegations against a member or members ... 332, Government Motion 507: carried) ... 900–901 378 New Democratic Party Anticipation ... 22, 534–35 Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting Decorum ... 853 with Executive Council members ... 440 Factual accuracy ... 87, 947 Notices of Motions (procedure) Factual accuracy, member’s withdrawal of remarks Statement of complete motions ... 651 ... 182 Office of the Premier Imputing falsehoods against a member ... 241 Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, Imputing motives ... 129, 287–88, 316, 476–77, 506 ministerial statement, responses ... 277 Insulting language ... 242, 626 Staff appointments ... 395–96 Interrupting a member ... 964 Opposition caucuses Items previously decided ... 650 Role ... 370 Language creating disorder ... 242, 350, 534 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Maintaining order in the Assembly ... 964 Addiction and mental health capital funding ... 346 Parliamentary language ... 674, 716–17, 781, 966 Budget debate process ... 370 Questions and comments under Standing Order Calgary southwest ring road ... 712–13 29(2)(a) ... 973 Calgary southwest ring road contract ... 295 Referring to the absence of a member or members ... Capital plan ... 372–73 781 Capital projects in Calgary-Lougheed ... 172 Reflections on nonmembers ... 241 Child care supports ... 468 Repetition ... 355 Climate change strategy ... 647 Speaking twice in a debate ... 518 Energy policies ... 427 Tabling cited documents ... 534 Environment and Parks ministry issues ... 531 Political candidates (provincial elections) Environment minister ... 282 Contribution limit proposed ... 33 Environmental policies ... 860 Political parties Flood damage mitigation on the Bow and Elbow Contributions by individuals, limit on proposed ... 33 rivers ... 295 Spending limits proposed ... 33 Forest industry issues ... 883 Postsecondary educational institutions Government policies ... 345, 429, 670 Funding ... 110 Health facilities in Wainwright ... 103, 646 Privilege (procedure) Highway 63 twinning ... 433 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Highway safety ... 470 (Budget Address remarks about Executive Infrastructure capital funding ... 342, 344, 532 Council, MLA, and political staff compensation), Infrastructure priorities and municipal funding ... procedure in absence of Minister of Treasury 494–95 Board and Finance ... 351 Infrastructure project prioritization ... 47–48 Privilege (current session) Landowner property rights ... 124, 327 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Legislative procedures ... 370 (Budget Address remarks about Executive Members’ accommodation allowance ... 1045 Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) Minister of Status of Women ... 529 ... 353–54 Openness and transparency in government ... 601 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Public access to Executive Council members ... 440 (Budget Address remarks about Executive Public service senior appointments ... 395–96 Council, MLA, and political staff compensation), Public transit ... 121–22, 569 point of order on debate ... 355 Queen Elizabeth II highway congestion ... 346 Property Rights Advocate Ride-sharing services ... 443 2014 annual report referred to Resource Stewardship Rural transportation infrastructure ... 170 Committee (Government Motion 21: carried) ... School construction schedule ... 471 379 Strategic transportation infrastructure program ... Property tax 467 Linear property assessment ... 495 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 53

Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Mason, Brian (Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, ND; Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Transportation) (continued) Transportation) (continued) Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Standing Orders Second reading ... 719 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Stakeholder consultation ... 719 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Committee ... 788, 791–92 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried amended) ... 788 with amendments) ... 356–57, 451–54, 456 Committee, amendment A5 (publication of Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in 791–92 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Public service Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Senior management appointments ... 395–96 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Public transit the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Bus service ... 488 with amendments), amendment A1, Commuter rail service ... 488 subamendment SA1 (Tuesday morning start time Funding ... 488 of 10 a.m.) (Phillips/Mason: carried) ... 451–52 Greenhouse gas emission reduction ... 860 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, GreenTRIP (green transit incentives program) ... 569 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Light rail transit expansion, GreenTRIP (green ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, transit incentives program) funding ... 569 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 488–89 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Rural service ... 121–22 with amendments), amendment A2 (limit on Queen Elizabeth II highway (QE II) evening sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... 453–54 Congestion ... 346 SO 23(i), imputing motives ... 241 Registry services SO 23(l), offending the practices and precedents of Fees ... 183 the Assembly ... 129 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... 973 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Strategic transportation infrastructure program (STIP) Second reading ... 484 Funding ... 467 Committee ... 684 Strathmore-Brooks (constituency) Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Member’s personal and family history ... 85 requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 684 Tabling Returns and Reports (procedure) Ride-sharing services Point of order ... 534 Oversight of ... 443 Taxation Road construction Locomotive fuel tax ... 670 Access road, funding for upgrade ... 170 Temporary accommodation allowance (for MLAs) Project prioritization ... 283 Members’ expense claims, questions disallowed ... Road maintenance and repair 1045 Funding ... 101 Toll roads and bridges Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act (Bill Pr. 3) General remarks ... 532 Second reading ... 905 Tow trucks Royalty structure (energy resources) Operator safety ... 470 Review ... 427 Traffic safety Rural communities Regulatory review proposed ... 470 Bus service ... 488 Traffic Safety Act School construction Review ... 958 New schools ... 47–48 Transportation plan New schools, timeline on ... 471 50-year plan ... 488 Prioritization, publicly available information Two Hills Mennonite school (“sunshine list”) ... 373, 601 School construction, structural issues ... 297 School maintenance and repair United States-Canada trade agreements Funding ... 48 Softwood lumber agreement ... 883 Socialism Wainwright (town) General remarks ... 345 Health facilities ... 103, 646 Speech from the Throne Water for life program Address in reply, question put on December 2, 2015, Funding ... 70, 860 unless debate on motion previously concluded Water/waste-water treatment (Government Motion 17: carried) ... 366 Funding ... 860 Address in reply engrossed and presented to McCuaig-Boyd, Margaret (Dunvegan-Central Peace- Lieutenant Governor (Government Motion 18: Notley, ND; Minister of Energy) carried) ... 798 Aboriginal consultation Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 85, Pipeline development ... 566 180 54 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

McCuaig-Boyd, Margaret (Dunvegan-Central Peace- McCuaig-Boyd, Margaret (Dunvegan-Central Peace- Notley, ND; Minister of Energy) (continued) Notley, ND; Minister of Energy) (continued) Alberta Energy Regulator Pipelines Appeal process ... 124 Safety issues ... 566 Carbon levy Renewable/alternative energy sources Revenue utilization ... 778 Provincial initiatives ... 774 China Alberta Petroleum Centre Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, 2012) General remarks ... 500 Landowner appeal provisions ... 124 Climate change strategy Royalty structure (energy resources) Impact on energy industries ... 1045 Review ... 18, 543 Economic development Review, timeline on ... 43 Diversification ... 543 McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC) Electric power plants Aboriginal women and violence Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 1046, 1050 Missing and murdered women, inquiry proposed ... Energy industries 167 Drilling operating days, forecasts for ... 43 Aboriginal youth Government consultation with ... 44 Employment supports ... 167 Investment in Alberta ... 1045 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Job losses ... 171 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Market development ... 1045 Committee ... 753, 755–56, 762–63, 851–52, 914– Value-added industries ... 44 15, 921–24 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Committee, amendment A1 (exemptions to 1 per (Bill 6) cent limit on in-year operating expense increase) Third reading ... 1123 (Bilous: carried) ... 753 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Committee, amendment A2 (contingency account month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1123 use) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 755–56 Executive Council Committee, amendment A3 (debt-to-GDP ratio limit Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum of 7 per cent) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 762–63 Producers ... 44 Committee, amendment A7 (publication of projected Greenhouse gas mitigation consolidated cash balance) (Fildebrandt: defeated) Technology development ... 171 ... 851–52 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Committee, amendment A8 (2015 quarterly update) Financial transactions, Energy ministry ... 60 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 914–15 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax Estimates debate ... 60 provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 921–22 International investment Committee, amendment A10 (locomotive fuel tax Chinese investment in Alberta’s energy sector ... provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 923–24 499–500 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) International trade Committee ... 244–45, 253 Trade with China, energy industry initiatives ... 499– Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective 500 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 244–45 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Committee, amendment A3 (personal income tax) ... 390 (Starke: defeated) ... 253 Ministry of Energy Third reading ... 270–71 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Alberta Energy Regulator ... 60 Mandate ... 294 North West Redwater Partnership Alberta heritage savings trust fund Bitumen upgrading project ... 45 Fund utilization ... 134–35 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Carbon levy revenue utilization ... 778 Second reading ... 700 Climate change and royalty reviews ... 528 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Climate change strategy ... 1046 Second reading ... 310–11 Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 1050 Committee ... 576 Energy industry consultation ... 44 Alcohol retail sales Energy policies ... 543 Regulations for licensed establishments ... 899 Energy resource trade with China ... 499–500 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Government policies ... 43 Second reading ... 616–18 Job creation and retention ... 169, 171 Committee ... 629–30 Landowner property rights ... 124 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Pipeline development ... 18, 166–67, 566 3) Promotion of Alberta’s energy industry ... 1045 Second reading ... 109–10, 111 Renewable energy ... 774 Committee ... 148–49 Value-added energy industries ... 44 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Pipeline construction Second reading ... 134–35 Interprovincial co-operation ... 1045 Beef industry Provincial strategy ... 18, 166–67, 566 Sustainable practices ... 541, 550 Bills, government (procedure) Referral to committee ... 727–28 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 55

McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC) (continued) McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC) (continued) Budget 2015-2016 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Timeline ... 109–10 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Budget 2015-2016 debate Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 474–75 Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... Elections, provincial 458–59, 549–50 2015 election ... 15 Budget process Electric power Balanced/deficit budgets ... 458, 755–56 Microgeneration regulation and policy review Interim supply ... 58–59 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Calgary cancer centre carried) ... 687 Funding ... 58 Electric power plants Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 565, 571 Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 Bhullar, ministerial statement, responses ... 598– Provincial economic situation, request for debate 99 (not proceeded with) ... 966–67 Calgary-Hays (constituency) Emergency management Member’s personal and family history ... 743 Funding ... 755–56 Calgary ring road Energy industries Southwest portion, funding ... 58 Drilling operating days, forecasts for ... 43 Southwest portion, land agreement with Tsuut’ina Job creation and retention ... 393 First Nation ... 118 Job losses ... 458 Calgary Transit Provincial strategy ... 419 General remarks ... 121 Energy industries and environment Light rail transit expansion, funding for ... 121 Public image ... 429, 441, 541 Capital projects Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Job creation ... 466 (Bill 6) Carbon levy Second reading ... 743–45, 937–39, 1033–34 Funds spent in Alberta ... 279 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- General remarks ... 571 month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, ... 1033–34 First Nations, etc. ... 957 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Revenue utilization ... 957 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Climate change strategy amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 937–39 General remarks ... 279, 565 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Members’ statements ... 571 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral CNIB amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), point of order Funding ... 527 on debate ... 1010 Community initiatives program Second reading, point of order on debate ... 973 Projects funded ... 604 Committee ... 1058–60, 1087–88, 1097–98, 1106–8 Corporate taxation Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Definition of small and large business ... 73 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1058–60, 1087–88 Impact on employment rate ... 466 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Increase ... 15, 43, 459 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Increase, impact on employment ... 270–71 (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Revenue forecast ... 15, 244 1087–88 Daycare centres Committee, amendment A2 (Employment Standards Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Code, Labour Relations Code application) Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... (Drysdale: defeated) ... 1097–98 318–19 Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into Debts, public (provincial debt) force) (Starke: defeated) ... 1106–8 Debt repayment ... 342–43, 617–18, 629–30 Third reading ... 1115–16, 1124 Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 630, 763 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Provincial borrowing limit ... 342–43 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1115– Deputy Chair of Committees 16, 1124 Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Agriculture and Forestry minister’s remarks ... 773 Lougheed ... 5 Implementation cost ... 549 Economic development Ministers’ responses to questions ... 1044 Diversification ... 418–19, 429, 458 Public information ... 773 Government role ... 440–41 Public information, Premier’s remarks on ... 709 Edmonton Transit System Regulatory provisions ... 1044 General remarks ... 121 Stakeholder consultation ... 665, 720, 743–44, 773, Light rail transit expansion, funding for ... 121 859, 877 Education finance Stakeholder consultation, points of order on debate Funding ... 109–10 ... 965 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 665, ... 58 709 56 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC) (continued) McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC) (continued) Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates Former MLA for Sherwood Park Dave Quest ... 273 2015-2016 schedule, conflict with Remembrance Former MLA for Sherwood Park Dave Quest and Day observances ... 429 spouse, Fiona Beland-Quest ... 855 Executive Council Job creation Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum Business incentives ... 418–19 Producers ... 43 General remarks ... 466 Eye diseases Government role ... 440–41 Retinal diseases ... 527 Grant program ... 392–93, 458–59, 466 Family and community support services Programs ... 549 Funding ... 73 Members’ Statements (current session) Farm produce Climate change strategy ... 571 International trade agreements ... 311 Constable Daniel Woodall ... 39–40 Interprovincial trade agreements ... 311 Government policies ... 300 Fiscal policy Progressive Conservative opposition ... 954 General remarks ... 300 Minimum wage Government spending ... 109–10, 244 Impact on employment rate ... 232–33, 458–59, 466 Flood damage mitigation Minister responsible for the status of women Funding ... 58 Funding ... 58 Food industry and trade Ministerial Statements (current session) Diversification ... 549–50 Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation tribute, responses ... 598–99 143/1996) Global violence and Syrian refugees, responses ... Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live 463 music venues (Motion Other than Government Ministry of Environment and Parks Motion 507: carried) ... 899 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Gender expression ... 58, 74 Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Ministry of Health government’s position ... 700 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Gender identity ... 58–59, 73–74 Inclusion in Alberta Human Rights Act, previous Ministry of Human Services government’s position ... 700 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Government agencies, boards, and commissions ... 73 Cultural diversity ... 604 Ministry of Status of Women Government contracts NDP platform ... 58 Public relations firm hosting Grande Prairie meeting Ministry of Transportation ... 665 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Government policies ... 58 Consultation policies ... 294, 665, 877 Multiculturalism Members’ statements ... 300 Provincial initiatives ... 604 Government services Music industry Private delivery, elimination of proposed ... 73 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Health care Government Motion 507: carried) ... 899 Private delivery, elimination of ... 73–74 Office of the Premier Health care finance Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, Funding ... 109–10 ministerial statement, responses ... 276–77 Highway 2 Premier’s attendance at Constable Woodall’s funeral Twinning, funding for ... 58 ... 39–40 Highway 63 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Twinning, funding for ... 58 Carbon tax ... 957 Human services finance Climate change strategy ... 565 Funding ... 109–10 Diversity initiatives ... 604 Hutterite colonies Energy policies ... 279 Bill 6 application to ... 1059 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 773, 859, 1044 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... Time allotted for consideration ... 109 709 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Government policies ... 43, 167, 294, 429 Estimates debate ... 58–59 Job creation ... 392–93 Estimates debate procedure ... 73 Job creation and retention ... 418–19, 440–41, 466 New spending ... 109–10 Minimum wage ... 232–33 Referral to Committee of Supply (Government Provincial budget ... 370–71 Motion 7: carried) ... 25–26 Provincial debt ... 342–43 Time allotted for consideration ... 25–26 Public consultation ... 665, 877 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Public transit ... 121 ... 673–74 Resource industry environmental issues ... 541

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McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC) (continued) McIver, Ric (Calgary-Hays , PC) (continued) Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation Ride-sharing services ... 442–43 139/2007) Tax policy ... 15 Changes to ... 279 Victorian Order of Nurses ... 643 Standing Orders Vision loss services ... 527 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Persons with disabilities division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Vision loss services ... 527 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Pipeline construction Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Provincial strategy ... 440–41 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Points of order (current session) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Interrupting a member ... 965 with amendments) ... 359–60, 454–55 Maintaining order in the Assembly ... 965 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Questions and comments under Standing Order division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in 29(2)(a) ... 973 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Relevance ... 1010 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Postsecondary educational institutions Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Funding ... 109–10 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Primary care networks with amendments), amendment A2 (limit on Implementation strategy ... 74 evening sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... 454–55 Progressive Conservative opposition SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... 973 Members’ statements ... 954 Summer temporary employment program (STEP) Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Reinstatement ... 459 Second reading ... 720, 727–28 Taxation Second reading, referral to Families and Progressive tax, forecast revenue from ... 15 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Progressive tax, impact on take-home pay ... 15 amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 727–28 Provincial strategy ... 294 Committee ... 994 Telus Corporation Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements Layoffs ... 466 requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) Terrorist attacks ... 994 Ministerial statement, responses ... 463 Third reading ... 1005–6 Tourism levy Stakeholder consultation ... 720, 727, 877 Transfer to general revenue ... 616 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Treasury Board Committee ... 787, 789–92 Meeting schedule ... 73 Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Report recommendations ... 118, 167 amended) ... 787 Unemployment Committee, amendment A5 (publication of Provincial response ... 167 aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... United Nations climate summit 789–92 Premier’s attendance ... 441, 541 Public transit Victorian Order of Nurses Rural service ... 121 Alberta closure ... 643 Refugees Wildfire prevention and control Refugees from Afghanistan ... 598 Firefighting, funding for ... 74 Refugees of the war in Syria, ministerial statement, Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer responses ... 463 killed on duty) Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Members’ statements ... 39–40 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Workers’ compensation Third reading ... 885–86 Premier’s remarks ... 1044 Restaurants Canada Youth employment Response to proposed minimum wage increase ... Support for ... 167 232, 244–45 McKitrick, Annie (Sherwood Park, ND) Ride-sharing services A Safe Place (women’s shelter) Oversight of ... 442–43 General remarks ... 885 Road maintenance and repair Agriculture Funding ... 58 Awareness events, Open Farm Days ... 894 Royalty structure (energy resources) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Review ... 294 Committee ... 574 Review, timeline on ... 43 Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory School construction committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Funding ... 58 proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 574 Small business Third reading ... 894 Provincial tax rate, decrease of 1 per cent proposed County Clothes-Line Foundation ... 244 Members’ statements ... 49 Provincial tax revenue ... 244 Daycare centres Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... 317 58 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

McKitrick, Annie (Sherwood Park, ND) (continued) McLean, Stephanie V. (Calgary-Varsity, ND) Education (continued) Francophone system ... 777 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Francophones ... 116, 340, 706 Programs and services for ... 777 Kennedy, Sheldon Greenmunch Members’ statements ... 173 Members’ statements ... 447 Legal aid Health care Funding ... 528 Coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ... 171 Members’ Statements (current session) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Sheldon Kennedy ... 173 ... 163, 230, 339, 415, 426, 438, 491, 857 Varsity Community Association ... 493 Legislative Assembly of Alberta World AIDS Day ... 707 French remarks ... 777 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Members’ Statements (current session) Legal aid ... 528 County Clothes-Line Foundation ... 49 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Greenmunch ecostore ... 447 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Mustard Seed Society Second reading ... 483–84 History ... 560 Third reading ... 888–89 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Speaker, The Health coverage for refugees and refugee claimants Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-Varsity ... 171 ... 2 Services for francophone Albertans ... 777 Standing Orders Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Second reading ... 718, 722–23 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Second reading, referral to Families and ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Communities Committee, motion on (referral amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 722–23 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Committee ... 993 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: with amendments) ... 362 carried) ... 993 Varsity Community Association Third reading ... 1000 50th anniversary, members’ statements ... 493 Stakeholder consultation ... 722 McPherson, Karen M. (Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill, ND) Public transit Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Petition presented for private bill ... 331 than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 489 Private Bills Committee report presented, Suburban service ... 489 compliance with standing orders ... 349 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) 2) Third reading ... 885 Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre (constituency) bill proceed ... 673 Member’s personal and family history ... 560 Book exchanges School boards and districts Little free library in Beddington Heights, members’ Student participation on (Motion Other than statements ... 127–28 Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 412 Petition presented for private bill ... 331 Seniors’ housing Private Bills Committee report presented, Newell Foundation proposal ... 85 compliance with standing orders ... 349 Speech from the Throne Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 85, (Bill Pr. 4) 560 Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that Student financial aid (postsecondary students) bill proceed ... 673 Scholarships ... 49 Committee on Private Bills, Standing McLean, Stephanie V. (Calgary-Varsity, ND) Report presented on bills Pr. 1 and Pr. 5, Calgary-Bow (constituency) recommendation that bills proceed with Member’s personal and family history ... 889 amendments, proposed amendments tabled ... 673 Calgary-Varsity (constituency) Report presented on bills Pr. 1 to Pr. 7, compliance Member’s personal and family history ... 707 with standing orders ... 349 Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Report presented on bills Pr. 2, Pr. 3, Pr. 4, Pr. 6, and Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) Pr. 7, recommendation that bills proceed ... 673 First reading ... 377 Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Second reading ... 905 Act, 2015 Committee, amendment A1 (degree programs) Petition presented for private bill ... 331 (Schmidt/McLean: carried) ... 906 Private Bills Committee report presented, Third reading ... 1076 compliance with standing orders ... 349 HIV/AIDS Awareness events, members’ statements ... 707 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 59

McPherson, Karen M. (Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill, ND) McPherson, Karen M. (Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill, ND) (continued) (continued) Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Reports presented by standing and special committees Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) Private Bills Committee report on bills Pr. 1 to Pr. 7, Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that compliance with standing orders ... 349 bill proceed with amendments, proposed Private Bills Committee report on bills Pr. 2, Pr. 3, amendments tabled ... 673 Pr. 4, Pr. 6, and Pr. 7 with recommendation that Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 bills proceed, report on bills Pr. 1 and Pr. 5 with Petition presented for private bill ... 331 recommendation that bills proceed with Private Bills Committee report presented, amendments and proposed amendments tabled ... compliance with standing orders ... 349 673 Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 6) Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) bill proceed ... 673 Committee ... 884 Energy industries Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act Government consultation with ... 44 Petition presented for private bill ... 331 Executive Council Private Bills Committee report presented, Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum compliance with standing orders ... 349 Producers ... 44 Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act (Bill Pr. 3) International Day for the Elimination of Violence Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that against Women bill proceed ... 673 General remarks ... 608 School boards and districts International investment Student participation on (Motion Other than Chinese investment in Alberta’s energy sector ... Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... 499–500 413 International trade Standing Orders Trade with China, energy industry initiatives ... 499– Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, 500 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Technology industry professional Trent Johnsen ... Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing 321 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, The the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Petition presented for private bill ... 331 with amendments) ... 362, 455 Private Bills Committee report presented, Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, compliance with standing orders ... 349 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, The ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, (Bill Pr. 1) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of bill proceed with amendments, proposed the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried amendments tabled ... 673 with amendments), amendment A3 (estimates Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 debate time and procedure coming into force date) Petition presented for private bill ... 331 (Shepherd/McPherson: carried) ... 455 Private Bills Committee report presented, Women and violence compliance with standing orders ... 349 Members’ statements ... 608 Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Miller, Barb (Red Deer-South, ND) Pr. 7) Central Alberta AIDS Network Society Private Bills Committee report, recommendation that General remarks ... 585 bill proceed ... 673 Members’ statements ... 571 Members’ Statements (current session) Climate change strategy Little free library in Beddington Heights ... 127–28 Impact on energy industries ... 1045 Violence against women ... 608 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Neighbour Day (Calgary annual event) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) General remarks ... 127–28 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 406 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Energy industries Energy industry consultation ... 44 Investment in Alberta ... 1045 Energy resource trade with China ... 499–500 Market development ... 1045 Petitions for Private Bills (current session) Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Special Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 ... 331 Review of Election Act ... 406 Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 Fentanyl use ... 331 Harm reduction strategies ... 585 Concordia University College of Alberta Health promotion Amendment Act, 2015 ... 331 High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies Covenant Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 ... 331 (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: The King’s University College Amendment Act, carried) ... 584–85, 589–90 2015 ... 331 HIV/AIDS Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 ... Awareness events, members’ statements ... 672 331 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act ... 331 ... 339, 367–68, 461, 562–63, 873 60 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Miller, Barb (Red Deer-South, ND) (continued) Miranda, Ricardo (Calgary-Cross, ND) (continued) Members’ Statements (current session) Members’ Statements (current session) Central Alberta AIDS Network Society ... 571 STARS air ambulance ... 369 HIV/AIDS awareness ... 672 Transgender Day of Remembrance ... 547 Municipal sustainability initiative Ministry of Advanced Education (new ministry from Funding ... 298 October 22, 2015) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Municipal infrastructure funding ... 298 Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... Promotion of Alberta’s energy industry ... 1045 609 Pipeline construction Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Interprovincial co-operation ... 1045 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Public transit Alberta’s Economic Future, amendment tabled Central Alberta service ... 485 (amendment A1) ... 609 Regional service ... 485 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 485 609 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (new Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) ministry from October 22, 2015) Second reading ... 482 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Miranda, Ricardo (Calgary-Cross, ND) Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... A Safe Place (women’s shelter) 609 General remarks ... 885 Ministry of Executive Council Aboriginal women and violence Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Missing and murdered women, inquiry proposed ... Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... 603 609 Programs and services ... 602–3 Ministry of Infrastructure Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Second reading ... 695–97 Alberta’s Economic Future, amendment tabled Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) (amendment A3) ... 609 Second reading ... 311 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Calgary (city) Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... 609 Community gardens ... 311 Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour Services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on persons ... 697 Alberta’s Economic Future, report presented ... Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future, Standing 609 Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Oral Question Period (current session topics) business plans, amendments tabled for ministries Donations to political parties ... 19 of Agriculture and Forestry and Infrastructure ... Violence against indigenous women and girls ... 609 602–3 Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Political parties business plans for Executive Council and Contributions by corporations and unions ... 19 ministries of Advanced Education, Agriculture Reports presented by standing and special committees and Forestry, Economic Development and Trade, Alberta’s Economic Future Committee report on Infrastructure, and Jobs, Skills, Training and 2015-2016 main estimates and business plans, Labour ... 609 amendments tabled for ministries of Agriculture Community gardens and Forestry and Infrastructure ... 609 Vista Heights container food garden ... 311 Alberta’s Economic Future Committee report on Corporations 2015-2016 main estimates and business plans for Contributions to political parties, legislation on ... 19 Executive Council and ministries of Advanced Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Education, Agriculture and Forestry, Economic Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates Development and Trade, Infrastructure, and Jobs, 2015-2016 debate, Committee on Alberta’s Skills, Training and Labour ... 609 Economic Future report presented and Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of amendments tabled ... 609 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender persons Third reading ... 885 Services for ... 697 Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) Violence against ... 695 Members’ statements ... 369 Health care Transgender Day of Remembrance Services for transgender and gender-variant persons Members’ statements ... 547 ... 696–97 Unemployment Health promotion Transgender and gender-variant persons ... 695–96 High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies Unions (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: Contributions to political parties, legislation on ... 19 carried) ... 586 Voting in provincial elections Homeless persons Identification requirements, transgender and gender- Transgender and gender-variant persons ... 696 variant persons ... 697 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) ... 537 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 61

Nielsen, Christian E. (Edmonton-Decore, ND) Nixon, Jason (Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) W) (continued) Second reading ... 697 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Second reading ... 192, 202, 206, 219 Second reading ... 403 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Third reading ... 894–95 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... ATB Financial 219 Loans to small and medium-sized businesses ... 496 Committee ... 248 Bethesda Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 2) Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective First reading ... 377 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 248 Third reading ... 1074–75 Third reading ... 261 Edmonton-Decore (constituency) Addiction treatment Member’s personal and family history ... 83 General remarks ... 588 Overview ... 83 Agriculture Emeralds Show and Dance Band Regulation ... 577 Members’ statements ... 524 Technology development ... 577–78 Employment training Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Skill upgrading ... 496 Committee ... 574, 577–78 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory (Bill 6) committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Second reading ... 939 proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 574 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Third reading ... 182 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 939 Budget 2015-2016 Committee ... 1094 Timeline ... 182 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Canadian Wheat Board workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1094 General remarks ... 180 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Corporate taxation workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA3 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 261 (private insurance provision for small farms) Revenue, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 192 (Hunter: defeated) ... 1094 Debts, public (provincial debt) Grey Cup Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 556 Western final, members’ statements ... 548 Drumheller (town) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Flood damage mitigation ... 102 ... 390, 462, 491, 523–24, 562, 596, 639, 662, 706, Edmonton-Whitemud (constituency) 883, 1039 Member’s personal and family history ... 180 Job creation Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Grant program ... 496 (Bill 6) Members’ Statements (current session) Second reading ... 740–41, 824–26, 828, 830–33, The Emeralds Show and Dance Band ... 524 941, 975–77, 979, 985, 1013, 1024, 1028 Grey Cup western final ... 548 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Oral Question Period (current session topics) Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Small-business assistance ... 496 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 941, 975– Small business 77, 979, 985, 1013, 1024, 1028 Support for ... 496 Second reading, time allocation on debate Speech from the Throne (Government Motion 26: carried) ... 1029 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 82–83 Committee ... 1062–63, 1065, 1080–81, 1095–96, 1107 Summer temporary employment program (STEP) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Reinstatement ... 496 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1062–63, 1065, Nixon, Jason (Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, 1080–81 W) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 Second reading ... 31–32, 34 (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) Committee ... 89, 152–54, 156 ... 1065 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm (Cyr: defeated) ... 89 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... guarantees) (Nixon: carried) ... 152–53, 154 1080–81 Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into guarantees) (Nixon: carried), subamendment SA1 force) (Starke: defeated) ... 1107 (limits on loan payments) (Ganley: carried Third reading ... 1125–26 unanimously) ... 154 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Committee, amendment A4 (individual donation month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1125–26 limit) (Clark: defeated) ... 156 Family farm provisions ... 668, 825–26, 830–31 Third reading (carried unanimously) ... 157–58 Municipal Affairs minister’s remarks ... 985 Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 31, 34 Public information ... 975–76 Official Opposition position ... 31 Stakeholder consultation ... 832–33, 1045–46 Penalty provisions ... 32 Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 668 62 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Nixon, Jason (Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Nixon, Jason (Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, W) (continued) W) (continued) Executive Council Privilege (current session) Public access to ministers ... 440, 465 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Farm safety (Budget Address remarks about Executive Deaths, Catriona, Jana, and Dara Bott, members’ Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) statements ... 301 ... 354–55 Flood damage mitigation Public Affairs Bureau Medicine Hat projects ... 102 Management appointments ... 395–96 Project funding ... 102 Public service Provincial strategy ... 101–2 Senior management appointments ... 395–96 Sundre projects ... 102 Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre (constituency) Flood plains Member’s personal and family history ... 558–59, Mapping ... 101 560, 588–89 Government accountability Rocky Mountain House health centre General remarks ... 559–60 New facility, timeline on ... 545–46 Grande Prairie-Smoky (constituency) Speech from the Throne Member’s personal and family history ... 556 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 558–60 Health promotion Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 180, High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies 556, 560 (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: Tobacco industry carried) ... 587–89 Provincial lawsuit, law firm selection ... 645 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Notley, Rachel (Edmonton-Strathcona, ND; Minister of Increase ... 261 International and Intergovernmental Relations to Increase, impact on seniors ... 261 October 22, 2015; Premier) Provincial revenue, comparison with other Aboriginal peoples jurisdictions ... 192 Relationship with provincial government ... 98 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Representation on government committees ... 328 Time allotted for consideration ... 182 Aboriginal women and violence Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Federal-provincial-territorial justice framework ...... 12, 462, 538, 705 117 Living Faith Bible College Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill Missing and murdered women ... 117 Pr. 7) Missing and murdered women, inquiry proposed ... First reading ... 377 167 Third reading ... 1076 Aboriginal youth Members’ Statements (current session) Employment supports ... 167 Catriona, Jana, and Dara Bott ... 301 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Minimum wage Third reading (carried unanimously) ... 158 Increase ... 248 Official Opposition amendments ... 278–79 Ministry of Energy Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Deputy minister ... 645 Public consultation proposed ... 278 Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Alberta Energy Regulator Appearance before Public Accounts Committee Mandate ... 294 proposed ... 645 Review ... 165 Mustard Seed Society Alberta government offices General remarks ... 588 Washington, DC, energy industry advocacy role ... 98 History ... 558–59, 560 Alberta Health Services (authority) New Democratic Party Administration ... 280 Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) with Executive Council members ... 440 Committee ... 907 Office of the Premier ATB Financial Premier’s Calgary office staff appointment ... 465 Loans to small and medium-sized businesses ... 959 Staff appointments ... 395–96 Bills, government (procedure) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Time allotted for debate ... 278 Family farms and Bill 6 ... 668 Bitumen Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 1045–46 Export of unprocessed bitumen ... 18 Flood damage mitigation ... 101–2 Budget 2015-2016 Public access to Executive Council members ... 440 Deficit ... 292–93 Public access to Executive Council members, Forecast deficit ... 165 Premier’s Calgary office appointment ... 465 Timeline ... 14, 42 Public service senior appointments ... 395–96 Budget documents Rocky Mountain House hospital ... 545–46 Preview by opposition caucuses (budget lock-up) ... Tobacco recovery lawsuit ... 645 293–94 Political parties Calgary cancer centre Loan guarantees by corporations or unions ... 32 Funding ... 343 Project status ... 121 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 63

Notley, Rachel (Edmonton-Strathcona, ND; Minister of Notley, Rachel (Edmonton-Strathcona, ND; Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations to International and Intergovernmental Relations to October 22, 2015; Premier) (continued) October 22, 2015; Premier) (continued) Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Energy resources Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Trade promotion ... 284 Bhullar, ministerial statement ... 597 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Parliamentary legacy of former MLA Manmeet (Bill 6) Singh Bhullar ... 602 Second reading, time allocation on debate ... 1043 Canadian energy strategy Family farm provisions ... 642–43, 857, 957 Council of the Federation discussions ... 166, 428 Ministers’ responses to questions ... 1045 Capital plan Public information ... 857, 877, 957, 1043 Dodge report recommendations ... 121 Regulatory provisions ... 957, 1044 Capital projects Stakeholder consultation ... 540–41, 642–43, 857, Job creation ... 466 859–60, 877, 882, 1043 Prioritization, publicly available information Workers’ compensation provisions ... 857, 877, 879– (“sunshine list”) ... 342–43 80, 957, 962–63 Carbon levy Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Funds spent in Alberta ... 279 Debate time and procedure, 2015-2016 main General remarks ... 465, 540, 880, 950 estimates of supply ... 293–94 Impact on industry costs ... 959 Ethics Commissioner Impact on small business ... 600 Former commissioner’s acceptance of honoraria ... Increase ... 278 99 Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, Executive Council First Nations, etc. ... 957 Meeting with Canadian Association of Petroleum Revenue utilization ... 641–42, 876, 957–58 Producers ... 43–44 Climate change strategy Public access to ministers ... 465 Federal strategy ... 1044, 1046–47 Farm safety General remarks ... 279–80, 600 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 858 National strategy ... 540 Farm workers’ exclusion from legislation ... 429 Review panel recommendations ... 1046 Farm workers Constituency offices Labour protection ... 429 Staffing process, new NDP MLAs ... 281–82 Federal Public Building Corporate taxation Naming in honour of former MLA Manmeet Singh Collection of taxes administered by province ... 325 Bhullar proposed ... 602 Collection of taxes in arrears ... 325 Fiscal policy Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 120, 165 Government spending ... 97, 428, 493–94 Impact on employment rate ... 466, 493–94 Social impacts ... 955–56 Increase ... 15, 120, 126 Government accountability Revenue forecast ... 15 Audit of previous government proposed ... 14–15 Debts, public (provincial debt) Mechanisms for transparency ... 15 Debt repayment ... 343 Government agencies, boards, and commissions General remarks ... 293, 341–42, 419 Appointment process ... 99 Provincial borrowing limit ... 343 Review ... 99 Provincial credit rating ... 293, 341–42 Government caucus Economic development Relations with staff ... 281 Diversification ... 418–19, 429 Government policies Edmonton Transit System Consultation policies ... 294, 877–78, 880 General remarks ... 121 General remarks ... 1043 Light rail transit expansion, funding for ... 121 Grande Cache Coal Education Mine closure ... 417 Provincial framework (Inspiring Education) ... 232 Health care Elections, federal Long-term planning ... 280 2015 election ... 42 Human services Electric power plants Front-line workers’ perception of former MLA Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 464, 642 Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 603 Energy industries Humanitarian aid Job creation and retention ... 464–65 International initiatives ... 600 Job losses ... 369, 392, 493–94, 539–40, 959 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Job losses, Energy minister’s remarks ... 875–76 Progressive tax proposed ... 120 Market access ... 98 International trade Provincial strategy ... 419, 427–28 Market development ... 284 Support for ... 428 Trade with Asia-Pacific region ... 284 Energy industries and environment Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Public image ... 418, 429, 541 ... 229, 415 Energy policies Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) General remarks ... 464–65, 600 Advocates for missing and murdered aboriginal Impact on employment rate ... 493–94, 539–40 women ... 115 Calgary mayor and chief of staff ... 163 64 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Notley, Rachel (Edmonton-Strathcona, ND; Minister of Notley, Rachel (Edmonton-Strathcona, ND; Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations to International and Intergovernmental Relations to October 22, 2015; Premier) (continued) October 22, 2015; Premier) (continued) Job creation Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Business incentives ... 418–19 Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... General remarks ... 466 642–43 Government role ... 876 Farm worker labour protection and safety ... 429 Grant program ... 369, 371–72, 391–92, 418, 466, Government accountability ... 14–15 539 Government policies ... 43–44, 165–67, 231, 284, Legislative Assembly of Alberta 294, 429, 882, 955–56 Legislative processes ... 370 Government revenue forecasts ... 341 Meat Health care system ... 280 United States mandatory country of origin labelling Human services ... 603 ... 236 Infrastructure capital funding ... 342, 343 Minimum wage Inspiring Education framework ... 232 Impact on employment rate ... 120–21, 167, 231, International humanitarian aid ... 600–601 232, 466 Job creation ... 391–92 Increase ... 166, 392 Job creation and retention ... 369, 371–72, 417–19, Minister responsible for the status of women 464, 466, 493–94, 539–40, 875–76, 959 Funding ... 123 Legacy of former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Mandate letter proposed ... 123 602 Ministerial Statements (current session) Legislative procedures ... 370 Constable Daniel Woodall ... 40 Legislative process ... 278–80 Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial Mandatory country of origin labelling ... 236 tribute ... 597 Market access for energy resources ... 98 Global violence and Syrian refugees ... 462 Medicine Hat town hall meeting ... 879 Truth and reconciliation ... 116–17 Minimum wage ... 167–68, 232 Ministry of Energy Oil sands development ... 324–25 Minister’s chief of staff ... 18 Pipeline development ... 18, 41–42, 97–98, 120–21, Ministry of Environment and Parks 166 Minister’s book preface ... 231–32 Promotion of Alberta’s energy industry ... 418 Minister’s previous work for NDP ... 232 Provincial budget ... 14, 292–93, 371, 392 Ministry of international and intergovernmental Provincial budget timeline ... 42 relations (ministry to October 22, 2015) Provincial debt ... 293, 341–43, 419 Priorities ... 98 Provincial fiscal policies ... 97, 599–600 Ministry of Status of Women Public access to Executive Council members, Role of Human Services ministry ... 123 Premier’s Calgary office appointment ... 465–66 Municipal finance Public appointment process ... 99 Official Opposition 10-10 plan ... 13 Public consultation ... 877–78, 880 Taxation as revenue source ... 13 Public service senior appointments ... 396 National Aboriginal Day Public transit ... 121 General remarks ... 117 Refugee resettlement ... 494 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Resource industry environmental issues ... 541 Royalty revenue ... 419 Royalty review ... 417 Office of the Premier Rural economic development ... 235 Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, Small-business tax ... 428 ministerial statement ... 275–76 Status of women ... 123 Premier’s attendance at Constable Woodall’s funeral Tax policy ... 13, 15, 120 ... 40 Victorian Order of Nurses ... 643 Premier’s Calgary office staff appointment ... 465–66 Workers’ compensation for farm and ranch workers Oil sands development ... 962–63 Provincial strategy ... 324–25 Workers’ compensation for farm workers ... 879–80 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Pipeline construction Aboriginal relations ... 98–99, 328 Approval process ... 120 Budget document preview by opposition ... 293–94 Enbridge Northern Gateway project ... 42 Calgary cancer centre ... 121 Kinder Morgan project ... 42 Carbon tax ... 465, 641–42, 876, 957–58 Provincial strategy ... 41–42, 97–98, 120, 325, 374, Climate change strategy ... 1044, 1046–47 418, 428 Constituency office administration ... 281–82 TransCanada Energy East project ... 42, 418 Corporate tax collection ... 325 TransCanada Energy East project, Premier’s Corporate taxes ... 126 discussions with New Brunswick Premier ... 166 Energy industry ... 374 TransCanada Keystone XL project ... 18, 42, 97 Energy industry environmental issues ... 540 TransCanada Keystone XL project, advocacy for ... Energy policies ... 278–80, 427–28 98, 418 Environment minister ... 231–32 Political parties Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 540–41, 857– Contributions of services by corporations or unions 60, 877, 957, 1043–45 ... 166

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Notley, Rachel (Edmonton-Strathcona, ND; Minister of Notley, Rachel (Edmonton-Strathcona, ND; Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations to International and Intergovernmental Relations to October 22, 2015; Premier) (continued) October 22, 2015; Premier) (continued) Poverty Unemployment Reduction strategy ... 167–68 Group layoff notices ... 539 Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy Increase ... 876 Aboriginal representation ... 328 United Nations climate summit Primary care networks Premier’s attendance ... 541 Access to ... 280 United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous Public Affairs Bureau peoples Management appointments ... 396 General remarks ... 98 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Recommendations ... 328 Stakeholder consultation ... 877 Victorian Order of Nurses Public service Alberta closure ... 643 Cost of ... 392 Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Railroads killed on duty) Transportation of oil and gas ... 18 Ministerial statement ... 40 Refugees Workers’ compensation Refugees from Afghanistan ... 600 Education and Culture and Tourism minister’s Refugees of the war in Syria, ministerial statement ... remarks ... 962 462 Premier’s remarks ... 962, 1044 Resettlement in Alberta ... 494, 601 Youth employment Renewable/alternative energy sources Support for ... 167 Environment minister’s announcement ... 278 Orr, Ron (Lacombe-Ponoka, W) Restaurants Canada 4-H clubs Response to proposed minimum wage increase ... General remarks ... 821 232–33 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Revenue the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Forecasts, 2015-2016 ... 97 Second reading ... 505–6, 520–21 Long-term forecast ... 341, 419 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Royal Dutch Shell Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) Carmon Creek project cancellation ... 369 (Cooper: defeated) ... 520–21 Royalty structure (energy resources) Second reading, points of order on debate ... 506 Review ... 294, 417, 419, 427 Committee ... 843–44, 846 Review, timeline on ... 44, 278 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Rural development (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 843–44, 846 Public input on ... 235 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Sexual orientation Committee ... 93 Inclusion in human rights legislation ... 907 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Small business Second reading ... 209–10 Provincial tax rate ... 168, 428 Agriculture Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation Support for ... 181 139/2007) Alberta heritage savings trust fund Changes to ... 278–80 Fund utilization ... 133 Speech from the Throne Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Consideration on June 16, 2015, motion on (Notley: Second reading ... 309–10 carried) ... 10 Committee ... 574, 579–80 Summer temporary employment program (STEP) Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory Reinstatement ... 539 committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Taxation proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 574 Locomotive fuel tax ... 493–94 Advisory committee cost ... 310 Lowering of taxes, policy on ... 120 Stakeholder consultation ... 309–10 Progressive tax, forecast revenue from ... 15 Alcohol retail sales Progressive tax, impact on take-home pay ... 15 Regulations for licensed establishments ... 898 Provincial strategy ... 294, 599–600, 956 Arts and culture Sales tax, provincial strategy ... 13, 341 General remarks ... 182 Telus Corporation Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Layoffs ... 466 Second reading ... 133 Temporary foreign workers Barley Job-creation grant program eligibility ... 391 Alberta production ... 309 Terrorist attacks Bills, government (procedure) Ministerial statement ... 462 Amendments by bill sponsor ... 682 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Final report, ministerial statement ... 116–17 Amendments by bill sponsor ... 682–83 Report recommendations ... 98–99, 116–17, 167, Blackfalds (town) 328 Registry services ... 171–72 66 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Orr, Ron (Lacombe-Ponoka, W) (continued) Orr, Ron (Lacombe-Ponoka, W) (continued) Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 Members’ Statements (current session) (Bill Pr. 4) Charitable donations ... 435–36 First reading ... 377 Family farms ... 716 Second reading ... 905 Grassroots change ... 285 Third reading ... 1075 Minimum wage Carbon levy Increase ... 397 Impact on industry costs ... 580 Ministry of Education Charity School board chair’s letter to minister ... 728 Members’ statements ... 435–36 Music industry Electric power plants Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 862 Government Motion 507: carried) ... 898 Energy industries Oral Question Period (current session topics) Support for ... 397 Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 862 Youth employment ... 397 Registry services in Blackfalds ... 171–72 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Youth employment ... 397 (Bill 6) Performing arts Second reading ... 818–22, 985–86, 1008–9, 1017 General remarks ... 182 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Petitions presented (current session) Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 985–86, Workers Act, withdrawal ... 866 1008–9, 1017 Points of order (current session) Committee ... 1065–66, 1082–83, 1094–95 Imputing motives ... 506 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1065–66, 1082–83, Second reading ... 726, 728–30 1094–95 Second reading, referral to Families and Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Communities Committee, motion on (referral workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 726, 728– (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) 30 ... 1065–66 Committee ... 994 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ...... 994 1082–83 Stakeholder consultation ... 728–29 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA3 Committee ... 790 (private insurance provision for small farms) Committee, amendment A5 (publication of (Hunter: defeated) ... 1094–95 aggregated information) (McIver: defeated) ... 790 Third reading ... 1124 Registry services Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Approval process ... 171–72 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1124 Rental housing Family farm provisions ... 819, 820 Potential for discrimination ... 682–83 Regulatory provisions, consultation on ... 821–22 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Withdrawal, petition presented on ... 866 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Workers’ compensation provisions ... 818, 821–22 Committee ... 682 Family farms Committee, amendment A2 (time of coming into Members’ statements ... 716 force) (Payne/Sabir: carried) ... 682–83 Farm produce Implications for landlords ... 682–83 International trade agreements ... 310, 580 Rodeos Farm safety Long Ear Days ... 182 General remarks ... 820–21 Social change Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Members’ statements ... 285 143/1996) Speech from the Throne Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 180–82 music venues (Motion Other than Government Standing Orders Motion 507: carried) ... 898 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Government accountability division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Financial reporting ... 505 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Greenhouses Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Local food provision ... 309 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried ... 562 with amendments) ... 361 Lacombe-Ponoka (constituency) Water for life program Arts and culture ... 182 Funding ... 506 Charity ... 435–36 Water/waste-water treatment Member’s personal and family history ... 180–81, 846 Infrastructure needs, Lacombe-Ponoka Overview ... 181–82 (constituency) ... 181 Rodeos ... 182 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 67

Orr, Ron (Lacombe-Ponoka, W) (continued) Payne, Brandy (Calgary-Acadia, ND) (continued) Youth employment Members’ Statements (current session) Support for ... 397 Anniversary of l’école Polytechnique shootings ... Panda, Prasad (Calgary-Foothills from September 23, 778–79 2015; W) Calgary Dream Centre ... 48–49 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Fish Creek library 30th anniversary ... 301 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Midwifery services Committee ... 919–20 Access to ... 280 ATB Financial Funding ... 280 Loans to small and medium-sized businesses ... 959 Municipal Climate Change Action Centre Calgary (city) Funding ... 99–100 Job creation in ... 863–64 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Calgary cancer centre Forecasts ... 958 Completion ... 421–22 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Calgary-Foothills (constituency) Economic development ... 958 Member’s personal and family history ... 807 Fentanyl use prevention ... 422–23 Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Midwifery services ... 280 Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Municipal greenhouse gas emissions reduction ... Bhullar, members’ statements ... 606–7 99–100 Carbon levy Public transit Impact on industry costs ... 959 Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Diwali than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 489 Members’ statements ... 368 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Energy industries Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Job losses ... 326, 959 Committee ... 681 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Committee, amendment A2 (time of coming into (Bill 6) force) (Payne/Sabir: carried) ... 681 Second reading ... 742, 807–9, 1011–13 Third reading ... 888 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Standing Orders Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1011–13 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Stakeholder consultation ... 742 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Workers’ compensation provisions ... 808 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of ... 302, 322, 807, 856 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Job creation with amendments) ... 360–61 Programs ... 326 Women and violence Provincial strategy ... 863–64 Anniversary of l’école Polytechnique de Montréal Legislative Assembly of Alberta shootings, members’ statements ... 778–79 Punjabi remarks ... 607 Phillips, Shannon (Lethbridge-West, ND; Minister of Members’ Statements (current session) Environment and Parks, Minister of Status of Diwali ... 368 Women from December 16, 2015) Mr. Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 606–7 Alberta community resilience program Oral Question Period (current session topics) Funding ... 100–101 Calgary cancer centre ... 421–22 AltaLink Job creation ... 326 Agreement on upstream flow on Bow and Elbow Job creation and retention ... 959 rivers ... 16 Job creation and retention in Calgary ... 863–64 Beef industry Prakash Purab Sustainable practices ... 541 General remarks ... 607 Calgary (city) Refugees 2010 gas station spill, site remediation ... 393 Refugees from Afghanistan ... 607 Carbon capture and storage Payne, Brandy (Calgary-Acadia, ND) Funding ... 374, 648–49 Calgary Dream Centre Carbon levy Members’ statements ... 48–49 Effectiveness ... 567–68 Calgary public library General remarks ... 496–97, 566, 569–70 Fish Creek library 30th anniversary, members’ Impact on rural communities ... 714 statements ... 301 Implementation cost ... 648, 712 Economic development Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, Diversification ... 958 First Nations, etc. ... 570 Forecasts ... 958 Revenue utilization ... 670 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Castle special management area Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Protected area designation ... 471, 531 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 405 Timber allocation cancellation ... 329 Ethics and Accountability Committee, Select Special Climate change and emissions management fund Review of Election Act ... 405 Fund utilization ... 469 Fentanyl use Reduction strategy ... 422–23 68 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Phillips, Shannon (Lethbridge-West, ND; Minister of Phillips, Shannon (Lethbridge-West, ND; Minister of Environment and Parks, Minister of Status of Environment and Parks, Minister of Status of Women from December 16, 2015) (continued) Women from December 16, 2015) (continued) Climate change strategy Government policies Impact on aboriginal communities ... 711 Consultation policies ... 670 Impact on economic development ... 647–48, 671 Hunting Implementation cost ... 567, 714 Changes to regulations ... 235 Implementation cost to farmers ... 714 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Methane reduction component ... 567 Estimates debate ... 60, 61, 68 Review ... 469, 495, 528 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Review, submissions received ... 497 ... 95, 274, 340, 367, 415, 492, 596, 639 Review panel recommendations ... 687–88 Lake aeration Committees of the Legislative Assembly Suspension ... 324 Referral of bills to, standing order amendments Ministry of Environment and Parks (Government Motion 23: carried) ... 448–49 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Corporate taxation ... 60–61, 68 Increase, implementation cost ... 712 Ministry of Status of Women Criminal Code Minister’s remarks in main estimates debate meeting Section 263(1), duty to guard a hole made in ice ...... 529 324 Municipal Climate Change Action Centre Disaster recovery program Funding ... 99–100 2013 floods ... 100–101 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Drumheller (town) Air quality in Alberta ... 567 Flood damage mitigation ... 102 Carbon tax ... 497, 567–70 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Castle special management area ... 471 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Climate change and royalty reviews ... 528 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Climate change strategy ... 647–49, 671, 714 subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Climate change strategy and First Nations ... 711 and Accountability Committee (referral Coal-fired electric power plant retirement ... 499 amendment A1) (Gray: carried), motion to rescind Energy industry ... 374–75 (Government Motion 24: carried) ... 449–50 Energy industry environmental issues ... 495 Electric power Energy policies ... 279, 566–67 Microgeneration regulation and policy review Environment and Parks ministry issues ... 531 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Environmental protection ... 373 Flood damage mitigation ... 101–2 carried) ... 687–88 Flood damage mitigation in High River ... 100–101 Electric power plants Flood damage mitigation on the Bow and Elbow Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 329, 499, 649, 671, rivers ... 16 714 Flood damage mitigation on the Elbow River ... 299 Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of ... 712 Gas station leak site remediation ... 393 Energy industries Government policies ... 670, 712 Job losses ... 495, 570 Lake aeration ... 324 Energy industries and environment Minister of Status of Women ... 529 Public image ... 330, 373, 647 Municipal greenhouse gas emissions reduction ... Review ... 469, 495 99–100 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Promotion of Alberta’s energy industry ... 469 (Bill 6) Public consultation on land use ... 530 Implementation cost ... 712 Resource industry environmental issues ... 541 Environmental protection Resource industry policies ... 329–30 Policy development ... 373 Royalty framework ... 443–44 Flood damage mitigation Springbank reservoir flood mitigation project ... Calgary and area ... 16, 60–61, 299, 498–99, 530–31 498–99 High River ... 100 UN climate summit ... 439 McLean Creek project review ... 60, 61, 299 Violence against women and girls ... 710 Medicine Hat projects ... 102 Wildlife regulations ... 235 Program review ... 68 Pipeline construction Project completion ... 100 Provincial strategy ... 375, 566 Project funding ... 102 Reclamation of land Provincial strategy ... 101–2 Tank site remediation, corporate funding ... 393 Springbank reservoir project ... 61, 299, 498–99, 531 Renewable/alternative energy sources Springbank reservoir project, funding for ... 60 Power purchase agreements ... 647 Springbank reservoir project, public consultation ... Transition to, cost ... 714 530 Transition to, expert panel ... 373 Sundre projects ... 102 Royalty structure (energy resources) Upstream mitigation ... 16 Review ... 528 Flood plains Sand and gravel royalties Floodway buyout program ... 68 Gravel royalty increase ... 443–44 Mapping ... 101–2 Service stations 2010 Calgary spill, site remediation ... 393 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 69

Phillips, Shannon (Lethbridge-West, ND; Minister of Piquette, Colin (Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, ND) Environment and Parks, Minister of Status of (continued) Women from December 16, 2015) (continued) Members’ Statements (current session) Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation Anne Chorney public library renovations ... 331 139/2007) North West Redwater Partnership ... 416 Changes to ... 279, 648 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ... 238 Standing Orders North West Redwater Partnership Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Members’ statements ... 416 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Oral Question Period (current session topics) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Child care supports ... 328–29 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Transportation infrastructure priorities ... 283 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Road construction the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Project prioritization ... 283 with amendments) ... 451–53 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Members’ statements ... 238 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Waskatenau (village) ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Anne Chorney public library, members’ statements Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing ... 331 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Pitt, Angela D. (Airdrie, W) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact with amendments), amendment A1, the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) subamendment SA1 (Tuesday morning start time Committee ... 848–49, 921 of 10 a.m.) (Phillips/Mason: carried) ... 451–52 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 848–49 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Committee, amendment A9 (insurance tax ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, provisions) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 921 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Second reading ... 37 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Committee ... 87 with amendments), amendment A2 (limit on Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) evening sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... 453 (Cyr: defeated) ... 87 Taxation Implementation effective 15 June 2015 ... 37 Locomotive fuel tax ... 712, 714 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) United Nations climate summit Second reading ... 207–8, 223 Energy minister’s attendance ... 647 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- United Nations UNiTE to End Violence against Women month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 223 Orange the World campaign ... 710 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Women and violence month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated), point Education and awareness ... 710 of order raised ... 216 Piquette, Colin (Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater, ND) Third reading ... 259 Capital projects Airdrie (city) Prioritization ... 283 Health facilities ... 78 Daycare Urgent care facilities ... 170, 423, 476, 543–44, 774 Affordability ... 328 Urgent care services, nonrenewal of contract of Dr. Spaces ... 329 J. Kyne ... 543–44, 774, 861–62 Daycare in private homes Airdrie (constituency) Accreditation ... 328 Member’s personal and family history ... 77, 78 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Overview ... 77–78 (Bill 6) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Second reading ... 823–24 Second reading ... 310 Committee ... 1080–81 Application to public sector ... 310 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1080–81 Committee ... 159 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Child protective services workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Deaths of children in care, inquiries ... 279 (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Oversight ... 279 1080–81 Daycare centres Highway 63 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Fatalities ... 283 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Twinning, funding for ... 283 314–15 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Domestic violence ... 11, 322, 339, 415–16, 537 Family violence prevention month, members’ Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) statements ... 416 Former MLA and father of member, Leo Piquette ... Education finance 229 Funding ... 78 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) French remarks ... 238 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 476 70 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Pitt, Angela D. (Airdrie, W) (continued) Pitt, Angela D. (Airdrie, W) (continued) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Speech from the Throne (Bill 6) Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 77–78 Second reading ... 747, 1024–26 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 78 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Standing Orders Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1024–26 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Fiscal policy ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Government spending ... 259 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of 143/1996) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live with amendments) ... 363–64, 452–53 music venues (Motion Other than Government Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Motion 507: carried) ... 900 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Health care ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Local decision-making ... 78 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Health care finance Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Funding ... 78 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Health facilities with amendments), amendment A2 (limit on Capacity issues ... 78 evening sittings) (Pitt: defeated) ... 452–53 Urgent care facilities ... 170, 423, 476, 543–44, 774 Voter turnout (provincial elections) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) General remarks ... 78 ... 561, 769–70, 856 Women Members’ Statements (current session) Public office holders ... 1, 2 Family Violence Prevention Month ... 416 Renaud, Marie F. (St. Albert, ND) Minimum wage Alberta Works Impact on employment rate ... 78, 260 General remarks ... 584 Increase ... 78 Bail Minister responsible for the status of women Review of process ... 125 Funding ... 123 Down syndrome Music industry Members’ statements ... 399 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Government Motion 507: carried) ... 900 General remarks ... 348 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Child protective services ... 279 (Bill 6) PDD residential safety standards ... 468–69 Second reading ... 941, 970 Physician service contracts ... 861–62 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Status of women ... 123 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Urgent health care in Airdrie ... 170, 423, 543–44, amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 941, 970 774 Committee ... 1088–89 Persons with developmental disabilities Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Housing safety standards ... 468–69 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1088–89 Physicians Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Allegations of intimidation ... 861–62 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Services agreement ... 861–62 (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Poverty 1088–89 Relation to minimum wage ... 260 First responders Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Members’ statements ... 348 Second reading ... 722 Food banks Second reading, referral to Families and Statistics ... 176 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Government policies amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 722 Consultation policies ... 941 Third reading ... 1006–7 Hole, Lois (former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta) School board responses ... 1006–7 General remarks ... 176 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Second reading ... 657, 658 ... 116, 274, 339, 390, 438, 562 Disclosure threshold ... 657 Members’ Statements (current session) Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Down syndrome ... 399 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) First responders ... 348 Second reading ... 478–79 Speech from the Throne ... 20–21 Committee ... 683–85 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Bail process review ... 125 requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 683–85 Renewable energy ... 774 Speaker, The Persons with developmental disabilities program Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-North Supports intensity scale (SIS) assessment ... 584 West ... 1 Persons with Developmental Disabilities Services (Public Election, nomination of Member for Calgary-Varsity Consultation) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 205) ... 2 First reading ... 533 Second reading ... 583–84 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 71

Renaud, Marie F. (St. Albert, ND) (continued) Rodney, Dave (Calgary-Lougheed, PC) (continued) Persons with disabilities Contingency account Throne speech references ... 20 Fund utilization ... 757 Poverty Deputy Chair of Committees General remarks ... 176 Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Lougheed ... 5 Second reading ... 652 Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees Renewable/alternative energy sources Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Provincial initiatives ... 774 Lougheed ... 4 Residential schools Elections, provincial General remarks ... 176 2015 election 7-month anniversary ... 1051 St. Albert (city) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... (Bill 6) 348 Second reading ... 1030–31 Food banks ... 176 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- History ... 176 month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) Residential schools ... 176 ... 1030–31 St. Albert (constituency) Stakeholder consultation ... 720 Member’s personal and family history ... 176–77, Fentanyl use 970, 1089 Aboriginal community issues ... 532 Overview ... 175–76 Blood First Nation response ... 444 School boards and districts Government policies Student participation on (Motion Other than Members’ statements ... 1051 Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... Humanitarian aid 412 International initiatives ... 600 Speaker, The Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Election, nomination of Member for St. Albert ... 3 ... 322, 438, 561–62 Speech from the Throne Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 175–77 Former MLA for Calgary-Glenmore Linda Johnson Members’ statements ... 20–21 ... 321 Suicide Legislative Assembly of Alberta Statistics ... 970 All-party co-operation ... 34 United Nations International Day of Persons with Lower Athabasca regional plan (land-use framework) Disabilities Report ... 862–63, 959 General remarks ... 583 Members of the Legislative Assembly Women and violence Reference in Assembly by name ... 34 Relation to poverty ... 176 Members’ Statements (current session) Rodney, Dave (Calgary-Lougheed, PC) Government policies ... 1051 Aboriginal consultation Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation ... 239 Lower Athabasca regional plan ... 862–63, 959–60 Ministry of Aboriginal Relations Aboriginal peoples Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, minister’s written Relationship with provincial government ... 98 responses to questions ... 444 Representation on government committees ... 328 Ministry of Education Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Former minister, reference to in Assembly ... 34 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation Committee ... 757 Members’ statements ... 239 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Second reading ... 34 Aboriginal relations ... 98–99, 328, 444 Alberta heritage savings trust fund Capital projects in Calgary-Lougheed ... 172 Fund utilization ... 131 Carbon tax ... 570 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Climate change strategy and First Nations ... 711 Second reading ... 131–32 Fentanyl use on First Nations ... 532 Blood First Nation International humanitarian aid ... 600 Fentanyl use ... 444 Lower Athabasca regional land-use plan ... 862–63, Calgary (city) 959–60 School construction ... 172 Tobacco use reduction strategy ... 394–95 Calgary ring road Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy Southwest portion, completion ... 172 Aboriginal representation ... 328 Calgary schools Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Evergreen middle school, project status ... 172 Second reading ... 719–20, 722 Carbon levy Second reading, referral to Families and General remarks ... 570 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Rebate for families, small business, coal industry, amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 722 First Nations, etc. ... 570 Third reading ... 1002–3 Climate change strategy School board responses ... 1002–3 Impact on aboriginal communities ... 711 Stakeholder consultation ... 719–20 72 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Rodney, Dave (Calgary-Lougheed, PC) (continued) Sabir, Irfan (Calgary-McCall, ND; Minister of Human Refugees Services) (continued) Refugees from Afghanistan ... 600 Bullying Resettlement in Alberta ... 600 Gay, lesbian, and transgender students ... 470 School construction Prevention strategies ... 470 Evergreen middle school, project status ... 172 Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Speaker, The Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Bhullar, members’ statements ... 608 Lougheed ... 2 Parliamentary legacy of former MLA Manmeet Taxation Singh Bhullar ... 601–2 Tobacco products tax, revenue utilization ... 394–95 Child development Tobacco products Funding, early childhood program ... 68–69 Electronic cigarettes ... 395 Child mental health services Menthol-flavoured products, ban on ... 394 Funding ... 604 Tobacco use Child protective services Reduction strategy ... 394–95 Child intervention system, 5-point plan ... 601 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Deaths of children in care, inquiries ... 279 Report recommendations ... 98–99, 328, 444 Deaths of children in care, removal of publication United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous ban ... 602, 603 peoples Funding ... 65 General remarks ... 98 Oversight ... 279 Recommendations ... 328, 444 Daycare Rosendahl, Eric (West Yellowhead, ND) 24-hour service ... 468 4-H clubs Affordability ... 68, 328 Show Your 4-H Colours Day, members’ statements New Democratic Party campaign platform ($25 per ... 427 day cost) ... 468 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Spaces ... 329 (Bill 6) Daycare in private homes Committee ... 1078 Accreditation ... 328 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Domestic violence workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1078 Program funding ... 420 Family farms Employment training Bill 6 impact, members’ statements ... 866 Programs for aboriginal peoples ... 713 Forest industries Family and community support services Environmental sustainability ... 394 Funding ... 65, 73, 344, 346 Support for ... 394 Government accountability Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Openness and transparency ... 601, 603 143/1996) Human services Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Support for front-line workers ... 344 music venues (Motion Other than Government Immigrants Motion 507: carried) ... 901–2 Settlement services ... 602 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Income support program ... 770 Client benefits ... 466–67 Members’ Statements (current session) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Family farms and Bill 6 ... 866 Estimates debate ... 60, 65–66, 68 Show Your 4-H Colours Day ... 427 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Music festivals against Women Alcohol sales ... 901–2 General remarks ... 709 Music industry Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than ... 389–90, 438, 595–96, 705–6, 856 Government Motion 507: carried) ... 901–2 Members’ Statements (current session) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Mr. Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 608 Forest industry issues ... 393–94 Ministry of Human Services Pine beetle control Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Harvesting as a control method ... 393 ... 60, 65–66, 68, 73 West Yellowhead (constituency) Recent initiatives ... 601–2 Member’s personal and family history ... 1078 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Sabir, Irfan (Calgary-McCall, ND; Minister of Human Aboriginal workforce participation ... 713 Services) Addiction and mental health capital funding ... 346 Aboriginal peoples Bullying prevention ... 470 Workforce participation ... 713 Child care supports ... 328–29, 468 Alberta Works Child protective services ... 279 Funding ... 60 Family violence ... 420 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Human services ... 344, 603–4 Committee ... 150 Legacy of former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... Assured income for the severely handicapped 601–2 Client benefits ... 466–67 Openness and transparency in government ... 601 PDD residential safety standards ... 469, 878–79 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 73

Sabir, Irfan (Calgary-McCall, ND; Minister of Human Schmidt, Marlin (Edmonton-Gold Bar, ND) (continued) Services) (continued) Speech from the Throne Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 83, Support for low-income Albertans ... 466–67 84, 556 Violence against women and girls ... 709 Standing Orders Persons with developmental disabilities Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Housing safety standards ... 469, 878–79 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Refugees ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Refugees from Afghanistan ... 608 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Unemployment Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Budgetary impacts ... 66 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Women and violence with amendments) ... 360, 361, 451 Programs and services ... 709 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Women’s shelters division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Funding ... 65, 344, 420 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Schmidt, Marlin (Edmonton-Gold Bar, ND) Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Canadian Taxpayers Federation Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Debt clock ... 84 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Canadian University College Amendment Act, 2015 with amendments), amendment A1 (morning (Bill Pr. 4) sittings starting at 10 a.m.) (Cooper: carried with Third reading ... 1075 amendments), motion to adjourn debate (Schmidt: CBC Radio Edmonton carried) ... 365 Turkey drive, members’ statements ... 875 Strathmore-Brooks (constituency) Concordia University College of Alberta Amendment Member’s personal and family history ... 84 Act, 2015 (Bill Pr. 5) Terra Child and Family Support Centre Committee ... 906 Members’ statements ... 473 Committee, amendment A1 (degree programs) Valleyview (town) (Schmidt/McLean: carried) ... 906 Service stations ... 556 Third reading ... 1076 Schneider, David A. (Little Bow, W) Debts, public (provincial debt) 4-H clubs General remarks ... 84 General remarks ... 818–19 Edmonton-Decore (constituency) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Member’s personal and family history ... 83 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Edmonton-Gold Bar (constituency) Second reading ... 503–4 Member’s personal and family history ... 1075 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Home-care services Committee ... 88 Funding ... 542 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) (Cyr: defeated) ... 88 ... 275, 415, 461, 562, 662, 856, 1073 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Khadr, Omar Second reading ... 206–7, 226 University studies ... 1073–74 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- King’s University College Amendment Act, 2015, The month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 226 (Bill Pr. 1) Committee ... 249–50 First reading ... 377 Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective Committee ... 905 tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 249–50 Committee, amendment A1 (degree, diploma, and Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) certificate programs) (Schmidt: carried) ... 905 Second reading ... 111–12 Third reading ... 1073–74 Bridge maintenance and repair Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary Funding ... 169 hospitals) Local road bridge program, funding from interim New beds ... 542 supply ... 169–70 Capital projects Members’ Statements (current session) Government announcements ... 344 CBC Radio Edmonton turkey drive ... 875 Prioritization, publicly available information Terra Centre ... 473 (“sunshine list”) ... 344, 372–73, 494–95 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Project management ... 344 Seniors’ care ... 542 Coalhurst (town) Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Access road, funding for upgrade ... 170 Committee ... 794–95 Debts, public (provincial debt) Committee, amendment A6 (publication of Provincial borrowing for capital projects ... 532 physicians’ median incomes by type of practice) (Swann: defeated) ... 794–95 Provincial borrowing limit ... 503 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Provincial credit rating ... 504 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Election Act Committee ... 684–85 Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... 474 Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 684–85 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Service stations Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 474 Shell station award ... 556 74 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Schneider, David A. (Little Bow, W) (continued) Schneider, David A. (Little Bow, W) (continued) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Toll roads and bridges (Bill 6) General remarks ... 532 Second reading ... 745, 816–19, 1009, 1015–18 Workers’ compensation Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Education and Culture and Tourism minister’s Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral remarks ... 962 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1009, Premier’s remarks ... 962 1015–18 Schreiner, Kim (Red Deer-North, ND) Committee ... 1076–78 Aboriginal women and violence Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Missing and murdered women, Walking with Our workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1076–78 Sisters exhibit, members’ statements ... 127 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 (Bill 6) (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) Committee ... 1090–91 ... 1076–78 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Third reading ... 1121–22 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1090–91 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1121– workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 22 (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Economic Development and Trade minister’s 1090–91 remarks ... 1122 Habitat for Humanity Family farm provisions ... 818–19 Members’ statements ... 300 Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour minister’s remarks Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) ... 1122 ... 115, 292, 426, 769 Petitions presented ... 1052 Members’ Statements (current session) Stakeholder consultation ... 710–11 Habitat for Humanity ... 300 Workers’ compensation provisions ... 818, 962–63 Permolex International zero-waste facility ... 435 Fiscal policy Walking with Our Sisters ... 127 Government spending, comparison with other Ministry of Aboriginal Relations jurisdictions ... 503 Minister’s participation in Walking with Our Sisters Highway 23 exhibit on missing and murdered aboriginal Highway 519 intersection, funding for upgrade ... women ... 127 170 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Hope Christian school Queen Elizabeth II highway congestion ... 346 Members’ statements ... 399 Permolex International LLP Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Zero-waste facility, members’ statements ... 435 Level of detail provided ... 112 Public transit Members’ Statements (current session) Central Alberta service ... 486 Hope Christian School ... 399 General remarks ... 486 Ministry of Infrastructure Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) ... 111–12 than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 486 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Queen Elizabeth II highway (QE II) Capital plan ... 372–73 Congestion ... 346 Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... Red Deer (city) 710–11 Public transit ... 486 Infrastructure capital funding ... 344, 532 Shepherd, David (Edmonton-Centre, ND) Infrastructure priorities and municipal funding ... Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) 494–95 Second reading ... 184–86 Rural transportation infrastructure ... 169–70 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Workers’ compensation for farm and ranch workers Second reading ... 702–3 ... 962–63 Alcohol retail sales Petitions presented (current session) Regulations for licensed establishments ... 896–97 Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Bike Month Workers Act, ... 1052 Members’ statements ... 164–65 Property tax Boyle Street Community Services Linear property assessment ... 495 Streetworks program ... 587 Road construction Condominium property regulation (Alberta Regulation Access road, funding for upgrade ... 170 168/2000) School construction Review ... 962 Prioritization, publicly available information Corporate taxation (“sunshine list”) ... 372–73 Flat-tax rate ... 185 Small business Progressive tax proposed ... 185–86 Provincial tax rate, comparison with other Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees jurisdictions ... 249–50 Election of Ms Jabbour, Member for Peace River ... 4 Swan Hills Treatment Centre Edmonton (city) Funding ... 112 Heroes of 107th Avenue project, members’ statements ... 340 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 75

Shepherd, David (Edmonton-Centre, ND) (continued) Shepherd, David (Edmonton-Centre, ND) (continued) Edmonton-Centre (constituency) Taxation Member’s personal and family history ... 164–65, 888 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 185–86 Edmonton live music (ELM) initiative Sigurdson, Lori (Edmonton-Riverview, ND; Minister of General remarks ... 895–96 Innovation and Advanced Education to October 22, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act 2015; Minister of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour; (Bill 6) Minister of Advanced Education from October 22, Committee ... 1092 2015) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Adult learning workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1092 Review ... 421 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Apprenticeship training workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Student spaces ... 65 (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Corporate taxation 1092 Increase ... 395 Film and television industry Economic development Market development ... 545 Diversification ... 170–71 Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation Energy industries 143/1996) Job creation and retention ... 393 Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Job losses ... 169 music venues (Motion Other than Government Support for ... 397 Motion 507: carried) ... 895–97, 902–3 Youth employment ... 397 Health promotion Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies (Bill 6) (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: First reading ... 501 carried) ... 587 Second reading ... 619–20 Homeless persons Family farm provisions ... 644, 667 Transgender and gender-variant persons ... 702 Family farm provisions, comparison with other Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) jurisdictions ... 542–43 Flat-tax rate ... 185 Public information, Premier’s remarks on ... 709 Progressive tax proposed ... 185–86 Regulatory provisions, farm machinery ... 669 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Stakeholder consultation ... 542–45, 644–45, 648, Comparison with previous years ... 185 710–11, 712, 880–81 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 670–71, ... 163–64, 339, 367, 425–26, 562, 661–62, 873 709 Members’ Statements (current session) Farm safety Bike Month ... 164–65 Education ... 668–69 Heroes of 107th Avenue project ... 340 Farm workers’ exclusion from legislation ... 429–30 Music industry Farm Safety Advisory Council Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Action plan ... 669 Government Motion 507: carried) ... 895–97, 902– Farm workers 3 Workers’ compensation coverage ... 66, 429 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Government contracts Condominium Property Act regulations ... 962 Public relations firm hosting Grande Prairie meeting Film and television industry ... 545 ... 665 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Estimates debate ... 64–66 Second reading ... 482 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Third reading ... 888 ... 164, 229–30, 292, 321, 367, 389, 491, 523, 524, 596 Rosary Hall, Edmonton Repeal Act (Bill Pr. 3) Job creation First reading ... 377 Grant program ... 346–47, 393 Third reading ... 1075 Grant program eligibility criteria ... 343 Standing Orders Minimum wage Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Impact on employment rate ... 100, 233, 282–83, 500 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Increase ... 48, 100, 326–27, 345, 397, 546 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Increase ... 235–36, 283 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Ministry of innovation and advanced education Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of (ministry to October 22, 2015) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate with amendments) ... 455 ... 64–65 Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, ... 66 Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Oral Question Period (current session topics) Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Family farms and Bill 6 ... 667 the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Farm and ranch safety ... 542–43 with amendments), amendment A3 (estimates Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 644–45 debate time and procedure coming into force date) Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... (Shepherd/McPherson: carried) ... 455 544–45, 648, 670–71, 709–11, 880–81 76 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Sigurdson, Lori (Edmonton-Riverview, ND; Minister of Smith, Mark W. (Drayton Valley-Devon, W) (continued) Innovation and Advanced Education to October 22, Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) 2015; Minister of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour; Second reading ... 185–86, 224–25 Minister of Advanced Education from October 22, Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- 2015) (continued) month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Oral Question Period (current session topics) (continued) 224–25 Farm safety ... 668–69 Third reading ... 264 Farm worker labour protection and safety ... 429–30 Alberta School Boards Association Government policies ... 167, 345, 712 Spending on team-building activities ... 468 Infrastructure capital funding ... 343 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Injured temporary foreign worker ... 234 Committee ... 622–25 International postsecondary students ... 602 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Job creation ... 393, 395 Second reading ... 112–13 Job creation and retention ... 169–71 Committee ... 145–46 Job-creation grant program ... 346–47 Budget process Minimum wage ... 48, 100, 233, 235–36, 326–27 Balanced/deficit budgets ... 622–23 Minimum wage increase ... 500, 546 Carbon levy Nonprofit organization employee wages ... 283 Repeal proposed ... 882 Postsecondary education accessibility ... 236–37 Corporate taxation Postsecondary education funding ... 421 Progressive tax proposed ... 185 Provincial fiscal policies ... 282–83 Debts, public (provincial debt) Public consultation ... 665 General remarks ... 112–13, 398 Syrian refugees ... 398 Drayton Valley-Devon (constituency) Youth employment ... 397 Member’s personal and family history ... 28, 829–30 Peace Country Overview ... 28 Unemployment ... 347 Economic development Postsecondary educational institutions General remarks ... 264 Funding ... 64–65, 237, 421 Education Programs offered ... 237 Provincial framework (Inspiring Education) ... 46, Postsecondary educational institutions admissions 232 (enrolment) Education Act Accessibility ... 236–37 Proclamation ... 728 Postsecondary students Education finance International student recruitment ... 602 Funding ... 46, 112–13 Public service Funding, timeline on ... 168–69 Cost of ... 395 Funding for new enrolment ... 46, 168–69 Size of ... 395 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Refugees Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Resettlement in Alberta ... 398 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 474 Restaurants Canada Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Response to proposed minimum wage increase ... (Bill 6) 233 Second reading ... 829–31, 977–80 Tuition and fees, postsecondary Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing International student tuition ... 602 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Market modifiers (differential tuition for amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 977–80 professional programs) ... 64–65 Committee ... 1054–56, 1083–84 Two-year freeze ... 421 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Unemployment workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1054–56, 1083–84 Northern unemployment ... 347 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Provincial response ... 167, 171 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Youth employment (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Support for ... 397 1083–84 Smith, Mark W. (Drayton Valley-Devon, W) Third reading ... 1125 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1125 Committee ... 841–43, 852–53 Family farm provisions ... 831 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Members’ statements ... 1052 (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 841–43 Stakeholder consultation ... 882 Committee, amendment A7 (publication of projected Fiscal policy consolidated cash balance) (Fildebrandt: defeated) General remarks ... 186 ... 852–53 Government spending ... 623–25 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Members’ statements ... 398 Second reading ... 35 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Committee ... 89 Progressive tax proposed ... 185 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) (Cyr: defeated) ... 89 ... 230, 661 Lac La Biche Schools ... 442 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 77

Smith, Mark W. (Drayton Valley-Devon, W) (continued) Smith, Mark W. (Drayton Valley-Devon, W) (continued) Magna Carta School boards and districts Visit to Alberta ... 28 Student participation on (Motion Other than Members of the Legislative Assembly Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ... Recall of members ... 29 411 Members’ Statements (current session) Schools Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 1052 Catholic school proposal ... 442 Provincial fiscal policies ... 398 Speech from the Throne Ministry of Education Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 28–29 Main estimates 2015-2016, amendment A2 Standing Orders (minister’s office budget reduction) (Smith: Amendments (sitting time and sessional calendar, defeated) ... 610 division bell timing, changes reflecting changes in Northern Lights school division No. 61 ministries, estimates debate time and procedure, Response to Lac La Biche Catholic school Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing construction ... 442 Orders and Printing to review morning sittings of Oral Question Period (current session topics) the Assembly) (Government Motion 19: carried Education funding ... 168–69 with amendments) ... 364–65 Education system ... 46 Student testing (elementary and secondary) Government policies ... 882 Student learning assessments pilot project cost, 2010 Inspiring Education framework ... 232 to 2015 (Written Question 6: accepted) ... 675 Public education collective bargaining legislation ... Unemployment 858 Increase ... 882 Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta ... 442, Voting in the Assembly 711–12 Free votes ... 29 School board associations’ spending ... 468 Speaker, The (Wanner, Robert E.) Political advertising 4-H clubs Third-party advertising (corporations, unions, General remarks ... 809 advocacy groups, etc.) ... 35 Steer sales ... 308 Political parties Aboriginal peoples Contributions by special-interest groups ... 35 Relationship with provincial government ... 8 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Second reading ... 723–25, 728 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Second reading, referral to Families and Second reading, points of order on debate ... 506, 518 Communities Committee, motion on (referral Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 723–25, Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... 22 728 Anticipation of debate, Speaker’s statement on ... Committee ... 989–92, 996 49–50 Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- carried) ... 989–92 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Committee, amendment A3 (teachers’ employer 216 bargaining association exemptions from Financial Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Administration Act, Alberta Public Agencies month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated), point Governance Act, Fiscal Planning and of order raised ... 216 Transparency Act, Auditor General Act) (Clark: Affordable supportive living initiative defeated) ... 996 Funding, points of order on debate ... 350 Third reading ... 1001–2 Funding, points of order on debate, member’s Referral to committee proposed ... 858 withdrawal of remarks ... 105 School board responses ... 858, 991–92, 1001–2 Alberta Health Services (authority) Stakeholder consultation ... 723–25 Performance measures, point of order on debate ... Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta 332 Special-levy motion ... 442, 468, 711–12 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Second reading, point of order on debate ... 698 Second reading ... 654–55 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill Committee ... 784–85, 788 3) Committee, amendment A2 (teachers’ threshold) Third reading, member’s withdrawal of remarks ... (Smith: carried) ... 784–85 182 Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Second reading, point of order on debate ... 129, 135 amended) ... 788 Auditor General’s office Education authority threshold provision ... 655 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Public service Assembly ... 333 Size of ... 264 Bills, government (procedure) Royalty structure (energy resources) Second reading, content of speeches ... 820 Review ... 882 Bills, private members’ public (procedure) Second reading, content of speeches ... 820 Bills, private (procedure) Second reading, content of speeches ... 820 78 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Speaker, The (Wanner, Robert E.) (continued) Speaker, The (Wanner, Robert E.) (continued) Budget 2015-2016 debate Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Debate participants (Government Motion 13), (Bill 6) (continued) questions and comments ... 458 Second reading, point of order on debate Calgary-Foothills (constituency) (withdrawn) ... 970 Presentation of new member to the Assembly ... 291 Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... 535, 539 Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Stakeholder consultation, points of order on debate Death of MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 591 ... 674, 781, 965–66 Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Bhullar, ministerial statement, responses ... 599 Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates Calgary-Varsity (constituency) 2015-2016 transmitted to the Assembly ... 333 Member’s personal and family history ... 707 Ethics Commissioner’s office Carbon levy Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Point of order on debate ... 573 Assembly ... 333 Chamber (Legislative Assembly) Executive Council Cellphone use in ... 737 Public access to ministers, Speaker’s ruling on Members’ entrance and exit procedure ... 435 reference to nonmember ... 440 Chief Electoral Officer’s office Faraone, Constable Ezio Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the 25th anniversary of death, Speaker’s statement on ... Assembly ... 333 273 Child and Youth Advocate’s office God Save the Queen Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Performed by Robert Clark and Royal Canadian Assembly ... 333 Artillery Band ... 8–9 Children Hog industry Introduction in the Assembly ... 12 Free-range hogs ... 308 Clerk of the Legislative Assembly House leaders Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement, Agreement on oral question and members’ statement responses ... 1041, 1042 rotation ... 12–13 Climate change strategy Hunting Energy company response, point of order on debate Changes to regulations, point of order on debate ...... 781 242 Committees of the Legislative Assembly Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office General remarks ... 449 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Oral Question Period questions to chairs ... 650 Assembly ... 333 Daycare centres Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion ... 4, 491, 523, 537, 769, 1039 Other than Government Motion 502: carried), Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) point of order on debate ... 316 Family of former MLA Elmer Elsworth Borstad ... Deputy Chair of Committees 291 Election ... 5 Family of former MLA Frank Appleby ... 11 Election, Speaker’s statement ... 21–22 Family of former MLA Harry Keith Everitt ... 291 Election of Mr. Feehan, Member for Edmonton- Family of former MLA John Gogo ... 11 Rutherford ... 6 Family of former MLA Norman Weiss ... 11 Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees Family of former MLA Stewart Alden McCrae ... Election ... 4 291 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Former Premier Dave Hancock and family ... 273 Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Former Speaker Mr. Gene Zwozdesky ... 1039 Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Job creation subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Programs, point of order on debate ... 350 and Accountability Committee (referral Legislative Assembly of Alberta amendment A1) (Gray: carried), Speaker’s All-party co-operation ... 3, 9 remarks on interpretation ... 408 Decorum ... 546, 707, 878 Elections, provincial Decorum, Speaker’s rulings ... 446, 961 15th anniversary of elected member, Speaker’s Exhibits (props) use by members ... 174 statement ... 22 Legislative Assembly Office 2015 election, Speaker’s remarks ... 9 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Electric power plants Assembly ... 333 Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of, point of Staff ... 14 order on debate ... 717, 781–82 Legislative offices Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Provincial economic situation, request for debate Assembly ... 333 (not proceeded with), Speaker’s ruling ... 968 Legislature Building Energy industries General remarks ... 3 Job losses, point of order on debate ... 350 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Entrance into the Chamber ... 7 (Bill 6) Installation ... 6 Second reading, point of order on debate ... 819–20, Transmittal of 2015-2016 main and Legislative 947 Assembly offices estimates ... 333 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 79

Speaker, The (Wanner, Robert E.) (continued) Speaker, The (Wanner, Robert E.) (continued) Magna Carta Pages (Legislative Assembly) 800th anniversary of signing ... 8 General remarks ... 5 Speaker’s statements ... 705 Recognition, Speaker’s statement on ... 288–89 Members of the Legislative Assembly Paradise Valley (village) Former MLA Elmer Elsworth Borstad, memorial Hog industry ... 308 tribute ... 291 Parliamentary democracy Former MLA Frank Pierpoint Appleby, memorial Westminster system ... 3 tribute ... 11 Points of order (current session) Former MLA Harry Keith Everitt, memorial tribute Allegations against a member or members ... 332, ... 291 350 Former MLA John Albert Gogo, memorial tribute ... Anticipation ... 22, 535, 539 11 Anticipation, Speaker’s statement on ... 49–50 Former MLA Norman Allen Weiss, memorial tribute Factual accuracy ... 947 ... 11 Factual accuracy, member’s withdrawal of remarks Former MLA Stewart Alden McCrae, memorial ... 182 tribute ... 291 Imputing falsehoods against a member ... 241–42, Former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial 288 tribute ... 595 Imputing motives ... 129, 288, 316, 506 Members’ passing notes to each other in the Insulting language ... 242 Assembly ... 219–20 Interrupting a member ... 965 Reference in Assembly by name ... 48 Items previously decided ... 650, 674–75 Reference in Assembly to absence, point of order on Language creating disorder ... 242, 350–51, 534, ... 180, 781 819–20 Statistics, 29th Legislature ... 9 Maintaining order in the Assembly ... 965 Members’ Statements (procedure) Parliamentary language ... 674, 717, 781–82, 966 Rotation of statements, Speaker’s statement ... 12–13 Referring to a member by name ... 573 Minimum wage Referring to the absence of a member or members ... Impact on employment rate, point of order on debate 180, 781 ... 534 Reflections on nonmembers ... 241–42, 288 Ministerial Statements (procedure) Relevance (withdrawn) ... 970 Speakers ... 40 Repetition ... 355 Ministerial Statements (current session) Speaking twice in a debate ... 518 Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial Tabling cited documents ... 534 tribute, responses ... 599 Privilege (procedure) Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative General remarks ... 400 Assembly, responses ... 1041, 1042 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Ministry of Environment and Parks (Budget Address remarks about Executive Minister’s book preface, point of order on debate ... Council, MLA, and political staff compensation), 242, 288 procedure in absence of Minister of Treasury Ministry of Executive Council Board and Finance ... 351 Ministers’ office budgets, point of order on debate ... Privilege (current session) 650, 674–75 Obstructing a member in performance of duty New Democratic Party (Budget Address remarks about Executive Announcement for fundraiser referencing meeting Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) with Executive Council members, Speaker’s ... 353, 355 ruling on reference to nonmember ... 440 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Notices of Motions (procedure) (Budget Address remarks about Executive Statement of complete motions ... 651 O Canada Council, MLA, and political staff compensation), Performed by Robert Clark and Royal Canadian point of order on debate ... 355 Artillery Band ... 7 Obstructing a member in performance of duty Ombudsman’s office (Budget Address remarks about Executive Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Council, MLA, and political staff compensation), Assembly ... 333 Speaker’s ruling (no prima facie question of Oral Question Period (procedure) privilege found) ... 400–401 Additional time allotted for first OQP ... 13 Public Interest Commissioner’s office Addressing the Speaker ... 295 Main estimates 2015-2016 transmitted to the Communication between participants, Bhullar Assembly ... 333 phenomenon ... 606 Royal Canadian Artillery Band Ministers’ supplementary responses ... 348 History ... 7 Preambles to supplementary questions ... 13, 123, Performance of God Save the Queen ... 8–9 345, 391, 395, 421, 430, 493 Performance of O Canada ... 7 Questions to committee chairs ... 650 Speaker, The Rotation of questions, Speaker’s statement ... 12–13 Member acknowledgement on entering and leaving Speaker’s leniency on questions ... 493 the Chamber ... 5 Time allotted ... 773 Speaker’s rulings Time allotted, 35-second rule ... 13 Decorum ... 446, 961 Time allotted, Speaker’s rulings on ... 777, 780–81 Intemperate language ... 431 80 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Speaker, The (Wanner, Robert E.) (continued) Speech from the Throne (continued) Speaker’s rulings (continued) Education Questions and comments under Standing Order Long-term planning ... 8 29(2)(a) ... 747–48 Education finance Reference to nonmembers ... 440 Funding ... 8 Request for emergency debate on provincial Elections, provincial economic situation ... 968 2015 election ... 8 Timing in question period ... 777, 780–81 Energy industries Speaker’s statements Interjurisdictional partnerships ... 8 15th anniversary of elected member ... 22 Sustainability ... 8 Anticipation ... 49–50 Energy resources Death of Constable Ezio Faraone, 25th anniversary Provincial jurisdiction ... 8 ... 273 Health care Election of Deputy Chair of Committees ... 21–22 Long-term planning ... 8 Former MLA Elmer Elsworth Borstad, memorial Health care finance tribute ... 291 Funding ... 8 Former MLA Frank Pierpoint Appleby, memorial Homelessness tribute ... 11 General remarks ... 8 Former MLA Harry Keith Everitt, memorial tribute Hospital construction ... 291 General remarks ... 8 Former MLA John Albert Gogo, memorial tribute ... Hospital maintenance and repair 11 General remarks ... 8 Former MLA Norman Allen Weiss, memorial tribute Human services finance ... 11 Funding ... 8 Former MLA Stewart Alden McCrae, memorial Members of the Legislative Assembly tribute ... 291 Statistics, 29th Legislature ... 8 Former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial Minimum wage tribute ... 595 Increase ... 8 Magna Carta ... 705 Oil prices Remarks following election ... 3 Budgetary implications ... 8 Rotation of questions and members’ statements ... Parks, provincial 12–13 General remarks ... 8 Speech from the Throne Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta Address tabled ... 9 History ... 8 Standing Orders Public transit SO 23(l), offending the practices and precedents of General remarks ... 8 the Assembly ... 129, 135 Resource economy SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under ... 362–63, 550, General remarks ... 8 720 Rural development SO 29(2)(a), questions asked under, Speaker’s General remarks ... 8 rulings ... 747–48 School construction Tabling Returns and Reports (procedure) General remarks ... 8 Point of order ... 534 Social Credit Party Temporary accommodation allowance (for MLAs) History ... 8 Members’ expense claims, questions disallowed ... Taxation 1045 Progressive tax ... 8 Voting in the Assembly United Farmers of Alberta Securing of the doors during ... 5 History ... 8 Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Women killed on duty) Respect for ... 7 Memorial tribute ... 3, 39, 41 Women and violence Speech from the Throne Murdered and missing women ... 7 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Starke, Dr. Richard (Vermilion-Lloydminster, PC) General remarks ... 8 4-H clubs Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) General remarks ... 739 General remarks ... 8 Steer sales ... 307 Alberta Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Population ... 7 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Alberta history Committee ... 764–67 Legislative history ... 8 Committee, amendment A4 (borrowing for Alberta Liberal Party operational expenses) (Starke: defeated) ... 764–66 History ... 8 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) ATB Financial Second reading ... 192–93, 201, 217–18 History ... 8 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Budget 2015-2016 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Timeline ... 8 217–18 Committee ... 250, 252

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Starke, Dr. Richard (Vermilion-Lloydminster, PC) Starke, Dr. Richard (Vermilion-Lloydminster, PC) (continued) (continued) Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Drought (continued) Assistance to farmers and ranchers ... 296 Committee, amendment A2 (implementation date) Economic development (Starke: defeated) ... 250 Diversification ... 170–71, 445 Committee, amendment A3 (personal income tax) Elections, provincial (Starke: defeated) ... 252 2015 election 6-month anniversary, members’ Third reading ... 266–68 statements ... 524–25 Bill to come into force on January 1, 2015 ... 192 Electric power plants Personal income tax calculation, section 6.1(2) ... Coal-fired facilities retirement, cost of, point of 192–93 order on debate ... 717 Affordable supportive living initiative Energy industries Funding ... 67 Job losses ... 170, 495 Funding, points of order on debate ... 105 Members’ statements ... 330 Agriculture Energy industries and environment Awareness events, Open Farm Days ... 308 Review ... 495 Members’ statements ... 238–39 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Air quality (Bill 6) General remarks ... 567 Second reading ... 738–41, 932–34 Alberta Health Services (authority) Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Performance measures, point of order on debate ... Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral 332 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 932–34 Alberta heritage savings trust fund Committee ... 1061–62, 1079–80, 1098–1100, 1105–6 Comparison with other sovereign wealth funds ... 132 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Fund utilization ... 132–33 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1061–62, 1079–80 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Second reading, point of order on debate ... 698 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Second reading ... 307–8 1079–80 Committee ... 578–79 Committee, amendment A2 (Employment Standards Regulatory provisions ... 308, 579 Code, Labour Relations Code application) Alberta regulations (Drysdale: defeated) ... 1098–1100 Education and Culture and Tourism minister’s Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into remarks ... 740 force) (Starke: defeated) ... 1105–6 Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Third reading ... 1119–21 Second reading ... 615–17 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Committee, point of order on debate ... 626 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1119–21 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Agriculture and Forestry minister’s remarks ... 775 Second reading ... 132–33 Anticipation of debate, point of order on ... 535 Second reading, point of order on debate ... 129 Family farm provisions ... 672 Bills, government (procedure) Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour minister’s remarks Amendments, consideration of ... 266–67 ... 1099 Brewing industry Members’ statements ... 672 Craft breweries ... 308 Public information ... 775, 932–33 Budget 2015-2016 debate Regulatory provisions, Education and Culture and Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... 549 Tourism minister’s remarks ... 740 Budget process Regulatory provisions, farm machinery ... 669 Interim supply ... 67–68 Stakeholder consultation ... 740, 775 Campgrounds, provincial Workers’ compensation provisions ... 879–80 Camping and cottage lease fees ... 67 Eye diseases Carbon levy Impact on rural communities ... 615 Retinal diseases, bevacizumab used for ... 396 Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Farm safety Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement, Education ... 668–69 responses ... 1041–42 Farm Safety Advisory Council Climate change strategy Action plan ... 669 Methane reduction component ... 567 Fiscal policy Review ... 495 Government spending ... 615–16 Contingency account Greenhouse gas mitigation Fund utilization ... 616 Technology development ... 171 Corporate taxation Gross domestic product Increase ... 268 Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 267 Revenue forecast ... 250 Health care Debts, public (provincial debt) Local decision-making ... 47 Provincial borrowing ... 764 Health care finance Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees Funding, point of order on debate ... 378 Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Health care levy Lougheed ... 4 Cancellation ... 67 82 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Starke, Dr. Richard (Vermilion-Lloydminster, PC) Starke, Dr. Richard (Vermilion-Lloydminster, PC) (continued) (continued) Hog industry Oral Question Period (current session topics) Free-range hogs ... 307 Agricultural policies ... 296 Hutterite colonies Air quality in Alberta ... 567 Bill 6 application to ... 933 Drug treatment for retinal conditions ... 396 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Economic diversification ... 445–46 Increase ... 193 Energy industry environmental issues ... 495 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 775 Estimates debate ... 66–68 Farm safety ... 668–69 Level of detail provided ... 66–67 Health care decision-making ... 47 Time allotted for consideration ... 66 Job creation and retention ... 170–71 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Midwifery services ... 604–5 ... 674 Rural economic development ... 234–35 Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Workers’ compensation for farm workers ... 879–80 Former MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Paradise Valley (village) Jacquie Fenske ... 1039 Hog industry ... 307 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Parks, provincial All-party co-operation ... 266–67 Provincial plan (plan for parks) ... 616 German remarks ... 1099 Pipeline construction Members’ Statements (current session) Provincial strategy, point of order on debate ... 378 Bill 6 opposition ... 672 Points of order (current session) Energy policies ... 330 Allegations against a member or members ... 332, 378 Provincial election 6-month anniversary ... 524–25 Anticipation ... 535 Rural issues ... 238–39 Imputing falsehoods against a member ... 241–42 Midwifery services Imputing motives ... 129 Funding ... 604–5, 615 Insulting language ... 626 Minimum wage Parliamentary language ... 717 Increase ... 268 Reflections on nonmembers ... 241–42 Ministerial Statements (current session) Privilege (current session) Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative Obstructing a member in performance of duty Assembly, responses ... 1041–42 (Budget Address remarks about Executive Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (new Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) ministry from October 22, 2015) ... 354 New ministry ... 446 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Ministry of Education Committee ... 994–95 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements ... 67 requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) Ministry of Environment and Parks ... 994–95 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Revenue ... 67 Government capacity to generate ... 267 Minister’s book preface, point of order on debate ... Rural development 241–42 General remarks ... 615 Ministry of Executive Council Public input on ... 235 Ministers’ office budgets ... 617 Rural economic development action plan Ministry of Health General remarks ... 234–35 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Rural health care ... 67 Rural health services review (2014-2015) ... 47, 616 Ministry of Human Services Saskatchewan Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Taxation ... 193 ... 67 Seniors’ benefit program Ministry of innovation and advanced education Funding ... 268 (ministry to October 22, 2015) Seniors’ housing Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Funding ... 268 ... 67 Small business Ministry of Seniors Provincial tax rate, impact on seniors ... 268 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Speaker, The ... 67 Election, nomination of Member for Calgary- Ministry of Transportation Lougheed ... 1–2 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Standing Orders ... 67 SO 23(l), offending the practices and precedents of Opposition caucuses the Assembly ... 129 Proposal of amendments to bills ... 266–67 Summer temporary employment program (STEP) Oral Question Period (procedure) Reinstatement ... 615 Rule change to accommodate tribute to former MLA Tourism Manmeet Singh Bhullar ... 604 Culinary tourism ... 308 Provincial framework ... 616 Remember to Breathe advertising campaign ... 567 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 83

Starke, Dr. Richard (Vermilion-Lloydminster, PC) Stier, Pat (Livingstone-Macleod, W) (continued) (continued) Flood damage mitigation Tourism levy Calgary and area ... 530 Transfer to general revenue ... 616–17 Springbank reservoir project, public consultation ... Traffic safety 530 Speeding fines ... 67 Freehold lands Trans-Pacific partnership (trade agreement) Landowner property rights ... 124 Provincial response ... 296 Surface rights legislation review (Motion Other than Unemployment Government Motion 501: carried) ... 142–43 Provincial response ... 171 Government policies Vermilion-Lloydminster (constituency) Consultation policies ... 714–15 Dairies ... 308 Consultation policies, Executive Council members’ Member’s personal and family history ... 193, 738– remarks ... 1014–15 39, 1098–99 Members’ statements ... 714–15, 955 Water for life program Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Funding ... 67–68 ... 953, 981 Women’s shelters Members’ Statements (current session) Funding ... 615 Farmers ... 770–71 Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Government policies ... 714–15, 955 killed on duty) Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance Memorial tribute ... 4, 47 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate, amendment A6 Stier, Pat (Livingstone-Macleod, W) (minister’s office budget reduction) (Stier: Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact defeated) ... 611 the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Municipal finance Second reading ... 507–8, 521–22 3-year plans ... 45 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Municipal sustainability initiative Stewardship Committee (referral amendment A1) Funding ... 44–45 (Cooper: defeated) ... 521–22 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Penalty provisions, lack of ... 507 Emergency medical services in Willow Creek ... 1047–48 Agriculture Landowner property rights ... 124 Members’ statements ... 770–71 Linear property assessment and taxation ... 323–24 Alberta Energy Regulator Municipal sustainability initiative funding ... 44–45 Appeal process ... 124 Public consultation on land use ... 530 Alberta Health Services (authority) Rural emergency medical services ... 445 Centralization of services ... 445 Property tax Alberta Land Stewardship Act (Bill 36, 2009) Linear property assessment ... 323–24 General remarks ... 142 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Landowner appeal provisions ... 142 Second reading ... 658–59 Landowner compensation provisions ... 142 Responsible Energy Development Act (Bill 2, 2012) Repeal proposed ... 124 General remarks ... 142 Carbon Capture and Storage Statutes Amendment Act, Landowner appeal provisions ... 124, 143 2010 (Bill 24, 2010) Landowner compensation provisions ... 143 Pore space ownership provisions ... 142–43 Rural communities Castle special management area Linear property tax revenue use ... 323–24 Land-use consultation ... 530, 715 Surface Rights Act Timber allocation cancellation ... 530 Provisions for corporate bankruptcies (section 36) ... Debts, public (provincial debt) 142 Debt-servicing costs ... 507–8 Taxation Provincial credit rating ... 507–8 Provincial strategy ... 955 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Unemployment Ambulances decommissioned ... 1047–48 General remarks ... 955 Centralization of services ... 445 Willow Creek municipal district Rural service ... 445 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... Southern Alberta service ... 1047–48 1047–48 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Strankman, Rick (Drumheller-Stettler, W) (Bill 6) Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Second reading ... 809–11, 1013–15 Second reading ... 192, 209, 212–14, 221 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1013–15 221 Family farm provisions ... 810 Third reading ... 262 Stakeholder consultation ... 714–15 Agricultural insurance Farm safety Crop insurance program ... 57 Education ... 811 Agriculture Fiscal policy Small producers ... 577 General remarks ... 955 Urban farming, health and safety standards ... 576– Government spending ... 507–8, 955 77

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Strankman, Rick (Drumheller-Stettler, W) (continued) Strankman, Rick (Drumheller-Stettler, W) (continued) Agriculture Financial Services Corporation Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Loans, funding for ... 57 (Bill 6) (continued) Alberta history Committee, amendment A4 (Labour Relations Code General remarks ... 404 exemptions) (Strankman: defeated) ... 1102–3 Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency Third reading ... 1117–18, 1121 Funding ... 57 Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1117– Second reading ... 303–4 18, 1121 Committee ... 576–77 Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... Third reading ... 892–93 741–42, 977 Application to public sector ... 304 Members’ statements ... 524, 954 Stakeholder consultation ... 304 Petitions presented ... 1052 Use of word “agriculture” ... 576 Public information ... 954 Bridge construction Regulatory provisions ... 743 Funding ... 58 Stakeholder consultation ... 742–43, 960–61, 1043 Rural bridges, funding for ... 58 Stakeholder consultation, public meetings ... 666–67 Bridge maintenance and repair Family farms Funding ... 58 Definition ... 576 Rural bridges, funding for ... 58 Farm machinery Budget process Highway safety ... 470 Interim supply ... 57 Farm produce Castle special management area Market development ... 304 Timber allocation cancellation ... 420 Market development, funding for ... 56 Consort hospital and care centre Marketing boards ... 577 Road access ... 58 Farmers’ markets Corporate taxation Oversight ... 304 Flat-tax rate ... 192 Food industry and trade Drought Local producers ... 892–93 Impact on agriculture ... 57 Food safety Drumheller-Stettler (constituency) Local food market ... 576 Member’s personal and family history ... 304, 741– Forestry division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 42, 1019 Operating budget ... 57 Education finance Health facilities Funding for rural and remote schools ... 58 Capital funding, information technology ... 58 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Hospitals Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Acute-care beds ... 57–58 First reading ... 349 Hutterite colonies Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 404–5, 409, Bill 6 application to ... 954 476–77 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Flat-tax rate ... 192 subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics Increase, impact on seniors ... 262 and Accountability Committee (referral Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 1) amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 409 General remarks ... 56 Second reading (carried unanimously), point of order Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) on debate ... 477 Comparison with previous years ... 56 General remarks ... 424 Estimates debate ... 56–58 Electric power Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Microgeneration regulation and policy review ... 663, 769 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Legislative Assembly of Alberta carried) ... 690 Interparty co-operation, members’ statements ... 424 Transmission cost ... 690 Livestock industry Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Traceability programs ... 576, 892–93 (Bill 6) Traceability programs, funding for ... 56 Second reading ... 740–43, 977, 980–81, 1019–21 Members of the Legislative Assembly Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Reference in Assembly to absence, point of order on Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral ... 180 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 977, 980– Members’ Statements (current session) 81, 1019–21 Co-operation in the Legislative Assembly on Bill 6 Second reading, time allocation on debate ... 1043 ... 954 Committee ... 1063–64, 1102–3 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 524 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Interparty co-operation ... 424 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1063–64 Official Opposition ... 331 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Minimum wage workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA1 Impact on employment rate ... 78, 80 (small-business exemption) (Strankman: defeated) Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry ... 1063–64 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate ... 56–57 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 85

Strankman, Rick (Drumheller-Stettler, W) (continued) Sucha, Graham (Calgary-Shaw, ND) (continued) Ministry of Education Daycare centres Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion ... 58 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Ministry of Health 318 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Gaming and liquor regulation (Alberta Regulation ... 57–58 143/1996) Ministry of Transportation Amendment to extend hours of liquor sale in live Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate music venues (Motion Other than Government ... 58 Motion 507: carried) ... 902 Official Opposition Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Members’ statements ... 331 ... 1039–40 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Members’ Statements (current session) Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 960–61, 1043 Phil Bobawsky ... 300–301 Farm and ranch worker legislation consultation ... Music industry 666–67 Live music venues, supports for (Motion Other than Forest fire fighting contracting ... 126 Government Motion 507: carried) ... 902 Highway safety ... 470 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Spray Lake Sawmills ... 420 Bullying prevention ... 469–70 Petitions presented (current session) Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Bill 6, Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Second reading ... 718, 726–27 Workers Act, ... 1052 Second reading, referral to Families and Pine beetle control Communities Committee, motion on (referral Funding ... 57 amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 726–27 Points of order (current session) Committee ... 992 Imputing motives ... 477 Committee, amendment A1 (teachers’ employer Referring to the absence of a member or members ... bargaining association establishment) (Eggen: 180 carried) ... 992 Prisons Third reading ... 1003 Food production ... 304 School board responses ... 1003 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Stakeholder consultation ... 726–27 Second reading ... 659 Restaurants Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Local food purchase ... 312–13 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Speech from the Throne Committee ... 685 Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 557–58 Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 558 requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685 Tourism Rural development Culinary tourism ... 312 Funding ... 56–57 Swann, Dr. David (Calgary-Mountain View, AL) Rural hospitals Aboriginal peoples Acute-care beds ... 57–58 Relationship with provincial government ... 82 Speech from the Throne Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 78, the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) 80 Second reading ... 511–13 Tow trucks Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Operator safety ... 470 Committee ... 156 Traffic safety Committee, amendment A4 (individual donation Regulatory review proposed ... 470 limit) (Clark: defeated) ... 156 Wildfire prevention and control Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Firefighting contracts ... 126 Second reading ... 187–89 Wildlife predator compensation program Committee ... 246 Funding ... 57 Committee, amendment A1 (small-business effective tax rate) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 246 Sucha, Graham (Calgary-Shaw, ND) Third reading ... 268 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Addiction treatment Second reading ... 312–13 Alcohol retail sales General remarks ... 589 Regulations for licensed establishments ... 902 Affordable housing Bobawsky, Phil Funding ... 773–74 Members’ statements ... 300–301 Alberta Dental Association and College Brewing industry Administration ... 878 Craft breweries ... 312 Alberta heritage savings trust fund Bullying Comparison with other sovereign wealth funds ... Gay, lesbian, and transgender students ... 470 138 Prevention strategies ... 469–70 Fund utilization ... 137–38, 512, 553 Calgary-Shaw (constituency) Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Member’s personal and family history ... 557–58 Second reading ... 700–701 Overview ... 557–58 Committee ... 907–8 Committee, amendment A1 (provisions on aboriginal heritage) (Swann: defeated) ... 907–8 86 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Swann, Dr. David (Calgary-Mountain View, AL) Swann, Dr. David (Calgary-Mountain View, AL) (continued) (continued) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Dentists Second reading ... 401–2 Fees for services, publication of ... 878 Committee ... 580 Divisions (procedure) Regulatory provisions ... 580 Division bells in Committee of Supply ... 909 AltaLink Drought damage mitigation Agreement on upstream flow on Bow and Elbow Members’ statements ... 96 rivers ... 16 Economic development Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Diversification ... 553–54 Third reading ... 636 Election (Restrictions on Government Advertising) Assisted dying Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 203) Members’ statements ... 446–47 Second reading (carried unanimously) ... 410 Assuring Alberta’s Fiscal Future Act (Bill 201) Second reading, motion that bill be withdrawn and Second reading ... 137–38 subject matter referred to the Select Special Ethics ATB Financial and Accountability Committee (referral Loans to small and medium-sized businesses ... 553 amendment A1) (Gray: carried) ... 410 Budget 2015-2016 Elections, provincial Expert input into ... 81 2015 election ... 15 Timeline ... 62, 81 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) Budget 2015-2016 debate First responder scope of practice ... 495–96 Debate participants (Government Motion 13) ... Interfacility transfer of patients ... 496 552–54 Naloxone administration by first responders ... 644 Budget documents Energy industries Consolidated financial statements ... 513 Job losses ... 552–53 Budget process Energy industries and environment Review of efficiencies ... 554 Technology development ... 554 Calgary cancer centre Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Funding ... 63 (Bill 6) Calgary-Greenway (constituency) Second reading ... 801–3, 809, 1009–11 Memorial tribute to former MLA Manmeet Singh Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Bhullar, ministerial statement, responses ... 599 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Calgary-Mountain View (constituency) amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1009–11 Member’s personal and family history ... 80–81, 802 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Cancer diagnosis and treatment Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Screening programs ... 69 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated), point of order Capital projects on debate ... 1010 Job creation ... 553 Stakeholder consultation ... 802–3 Prioritization ... 553 Workers’ compensation provisions ... 1011 Prioritization, publicly available information Ethics Commissioner (“sunshine list”) ... 553 Former commissioner’s acceptance of honoraria ... Carbon levy 99 General remarks ... 512, 636 Farm safety Child development Deaths, Kevan Chandler ... 801, 802 Early childhood mapping project ... 69 Farm workers’ exclusion from legislation ... 429 Funding, early childhood program ... 68 Injuries, Philippa Thomas ... 801 Childhood immunization Farm workers Mandatory information to parents proposed ... 233 Children ... 801 Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Labour protection ... 429 Dr. W.J. David McNeil, ministerial statement, Workers’ compensation coverage ... 429 responses ... 1042 Fentanyl use Climate change strategy Reduction strategy ... 644 Clean technology incentives ... 636 Fiscal policy Corporate taxation Government savings ... 511–12 Collection of taxes administered by province ... 325 Long-term plan ... 187–88 Collection of taxes in arrears ... 325 Progressive Conservative governments ... 268 Collection of taxes in arrears, Auditor General’s Flood damage mitigation recommendations ... 188 Calgary and area ... 15–16, 63 Impact on employment rate ... 554 Members’ statements ... 96 Increase ... 82 Upstream mitigation ... 15–16 Provincial tax rate ... 187–89 Upstream mitigation, funding for ... 63 Daycare Government agencies, boards, and commissions Affordability ... 68 Appointment process ... 99 Debts, public (provincial debt) Review ... 99 Debt repayment ... 512, 554, 636 Government policies Debt-servicing costs ... 512 General remarks ... 81–82 Provincial borrowing for operational funding ... 512 Gross domestic product Corporate profits ... 268 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 87

Swann, Dr. David (Calgary-Mountain View, AL) Swann, Dr. David (Calgary-Mountain View, AL) (continued) (continued) Health care Ministry of Human Services Consultation on ... 82 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Health care finance ... 68–69 Funding ... 636 Staff morale, corporate surveys ... 69 Health care levy Ministry of Infrastructure Cancellation ... 187 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Health promotion ... 63 High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies Ministry of Municipal Affairs (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate carried) ... 589 ... 63 Homelessness Nonrenewable natural resource revenue Program funding ... 773 Forecasts ... 553 Human rights Office of the Premier Members’ statements ... 865 Former Premier Dave Hancock, QC, tribute to, Inn from the Cold (homeless shelter) ministerial statement, responses ... 277 General remarks ... 887 Opioid use Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) Reduction strategy ... 644 Estimates debate ... 62–63, 68–69 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Time allotted for consideration ... 62 Affordable housing ... 773–74 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Childhood immunization ... 233 ... 12, 39, 95, 368, 426, 437–38, 492, 596, 663, 770, Corporate tax collection ... 325 855, 1040 Dental care costs ... 878 Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries) Emergency medical services ... 495–96 Family of former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather ... Farm worker labour protection and safety ... 429 595 Flood damage mitigation on the Bow and Elbow Job creation rivers ... 15–16 Grant program ... 371 Job creation and retention ... 371 Local food production ... 402 Medical laboratory services ... 541 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Opioid use ... 644 All-party co-operation ... 81–82 Public appointment process ... 99 Medical laboratories Pesticides DynaLife services ... 541 Cosmetic use ... 82 DynaLife services, Health Quality Council of Points of order (current session) Alberta review ... 541 Relevance ... 1010 Public funding and operation proposed ... 541 Primary care networks Members of the Legislative Assembly Funding ... 69, 496 Former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial Implementation strategy ... 62–63 tribute ... 595 Property tax Members’ Statements (current session) Linear property assessment ... 636 Flood and drought damage mitigation ... 96 Protection Against Family Violence Act (Bill 19, 1998) Former MLA Weslyn Melva Mather, memorial General remarks ... 481 tribute ... 595 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Human rights ... 865 Second reading ... 724, 726 Physician-assisted dying ... 446–47 Second reading, referral to Families and Mennonites Communities Committee, motion on (referral Kanadier Mennonite farm workers ... 801 amendment RA1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 724, 726 Mental health services Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) Funding ... 62 Committee ... 792–93 Minimum wage Committee, amendment A6 (publication of Increase ... 82, 553 physicians’ median incomes by type of practice) Ministerial Statements (current session) (Swann: defeated) ... 792–93 Constable Daniel Woodall, responses ... 41 Refugees Former MLA Manmeet Singh Bhullar, memorial Refugees of the war in Syria, ministerial statement, tribute, responses ... 599 responses ... 463–64 Global violence and Syrian refugees, responses ... Registry services 463–64 Fees, cancellation of proposed increases ... 187 Truth and reconciliation, responses ... 118–19 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Dr. W.J. David McNeil, Clerk of the Legislative Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Assembly, responses ... 1042 Second reading ... 480–81 Ministry of Environment and Parks Third reading ... 886–87 Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Respect for Communities Act (Bill C-2, federal) ... 63 Impact on harm reduction strategies ... 644 Ministry of Health Revenue Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate Sources of revenue ... 554 ... 62–63 Royalty structure (energy resources) Review ... 636 88 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Swann, Dr. David (Calgary-Mountain View, AL) Sweet, Heather (Edmonton-Manning, ND) (continued) (continued) Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2) School boards and districts Estimates debate ... 65 Student participation on (Motion Other than Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Government Motion 503: carried unanimously) ...... 116, 705–6, 873 413 Members’ Statements (current session) Small business Alberta Hospital Edmonton ... 874–75 Provincial tax rate ... 187–88, 636 Slovenian Canadian Association 50th anniversary ... Provincial tax rate, comparison with other 127 jurisdictions ... 246 Ministry of Culture and Tourism Red tape reduction proposed ... 188 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Support for ... 82, 552–54 Families and Communities, report presented ... Speech from the Throne 609 Addresses in reply ... 80–82 Ministry of Education Standing Orders Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Time allotted for budget debates ... 62 Families and Communities, amendment tabled Taxation (amendment A2) ... 609 Alcohol tax ... 512 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Tax credits ... 553–54 Families and Communities, report presented ... Tobacco products tax ... 512 609 Terrorist attacks Ministry of Health Ministerial statement, responses ... 463–64 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Families and Communities, report presented ... Final report, ministerial statement, responses ... 118–19 609 Report recommendations ... 118–19 Ministry of Human Services United Nations universal declaration of human rights Interim supply estimates 2015-2016 (No. 2), debate General remarks ... 865 ... 65 Victims of Domestic Violence Act (Bill 214, 1996) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on General remarks ... 480–81 Families and Communities, report presented ... Voting in the Assembly 609 Free votes ... 246 Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General Woodall, Constable Daniel (Edmonton police officer Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on killed on duty) Families and Communities, report presented ... Ministerial statement, responses ... 41 609 Sweet, Heather (Edmonton-Manning, ND) Ministry of Seniors Agriculture Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Awareness events, Open Farm Days ... 310 Families and Communities, report presented ... Alberta Hospital Edmonton 609 Members’ statements ... 874–75 Ministry of Service Alberta Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Second reading ... 310 Families and Communities, amendment tabled ... Child protective services 609 Funding ... 65 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Committee on Families and Communities, Standing Families and Communities, report presented ... Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and 609 business plans, amendments tabled for ministries Ministry of Status of Women of Education and Service Alberta ... 609 Main estimates 2015-2016 debate in Committee on Report presented on 2015-2016 main estimates and Families and Communities, report presented ... 609 business plans for ministries of Culture and Oral Question Period (current session topics) Tourism, Education, Health, Human Services, Human services ... 343–44 Justice and Solicitor General, Seniors, Service Reports presented by standing and special committees Alberta, and Status of Women ... 609 Families and Communities Committee report on Edmonton-Manning (constituency) 2015-2016 main estimates and business plan for Member’s personal and family history ... 886 ministries of Culture and Tourism, Education, Estimates of Supply (government expenditures) Health, Human Services, Justice and Solicitor Main and Legislative Assembly offices estimates General, Seniors, Service Alberta, and Status of 2015-2016 debate, Committee on Families and Women ... 609 Communities report presented and amendments Families and Communities Committee report on tabled ... 609 2015-2016 main estimates and business plans, Family and community support services amendments tabled for ministries of Education Funding ... 65, 343–44 and Service Alberta ... 609 Farm produce Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Direct sale to consumers ... 310 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Farmers’ markets Third reading ... 886 General remarks ... 310 Slovenian Canadian Association of Edmonton Human services 50th anniversary, members’ statements ... 127 Support for front-line workers ... 344 Women’s shelters Funding ... 65, 344 2015 Hansard Speaker Index 89

Taylor, Wes (Battle River-Wainwright, W) Taylor, Wes (Battle River-Wainwright, W) (continued) Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Wainwright health centre the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Capital needs ... 103 Second reading ... 505, 508–9, 511 Condition of facility ... 646 Committee ... 845–46 Stakeholders’ meeting with Health minister ... 646 Committee, amendment A6 (penalty provisions) Turner, Dr. A. Robert (Edmonton-Whitemud, ND) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 845–46 Act to Implement Various Tax Measures and to Enact Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, An (Bill 4) Second reading ... 209 Second reading ... 515 Adult learning Agriculture Review ... 421 Support for ... 179 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Committee ... 575 Third reading ... 891–92 Committee, amendment A1 (bill purpose, advisory Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) committee, reporting, local food awareness week, Committee ... 626–27 proclamation) (Cortes-Vargas: carried) ... 575 Calgary cancer centre Appropriation Act, 2015 (Bill 9) Funding ... 372 Committee ... 625–26 Canadian Wheat Board Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) General remarks ... 179 Committee ... 159–60 Cancer diagnosis and treatment Capital projects Brentuximab approval, advocacy for ... 179 Prioritization, publicly available information Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 179 (“sunshine list”) ... 103 Capital plan Debts, public (provincial debt) Dodge report recommendations ... 556 Provincial credit rating ... 505, 508, 511 Climate change strategy Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) General remarks ... 627 Eastern Alberta service ... 434 Debts, public (provincial debt) Hours of service ... 433–34 Provincial borrowing during economic downturn Response times ... 434 (countercyclical spending) ... 626–27 Rural service ... 434 Edmonton-Whitemud (constituency) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Member’s personal and family history ... 178–80, (Bill 6) 892 Second reading ... 738, 822–24, 1021–22 Members’ statements ... 525 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Education Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 180 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1021–22 Electric power Scope of bill ... 738 Microgeneration regulation and policy review Stakeholder consultation ... 822–23, 1049 (Motion Other than Government Motion 506: Farm safety carried) ... 691 Education ... 822–23 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Health facilities (Bill 6) New facilities ... 103 Second reading ... 835 New facilities, timeline on ... 646 Comparison with other jurisdictions’ legislation ... Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) 835 ... 321–22, 864 Members’ statements ... 1051–52 Members’ Statements (current session) Farmers’ markets Mental health services for postsecondary students ... General remarks ... 891–92 330 Fiscal policy Mental health services Government spending ... 626–27 Postsecondary student services, members’ Food industry and trade statements ... 330 Transportation, greenhouse gas emissions ... 892 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Grande Prairie cancer centre Emergency medical services in eastern Alberta ... Funding ... 372 433–34 Grande Prairie-Smoky (constituency) Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 1049 Member’s personal and family history ... 556 Health facilities in Wainwright ... 103, 646 Haying in the 30’s Postsecondary education funding ... 421 General remarks ... 178 Postsecondary educational institutions Health care finance Funding ... 421 Funding ... 372, 515 Taxation Health promotion Provincial strategy ... 625 High-risk behaviour, harm reduction policies Tobacco products tax ... 508–9 (Motion Other than Government Motion 505: Tuition and fees, postsecondary carried) ... 589 Two-year freeze ... 421 Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Wainwright (town) ... 12, 523, 538, 953 Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) ... Members of the Legislative Assembly 433–34 Reference in Assembly to absence, point of order on, Health facilities ... 103, 646 member’s withdrawal of remarks ... 180 90 2015 Hansard Speaker Index

Turner, Dr. A. Robert (Edmonton-Whitemud, ND) van Dijken, Glenn (Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, W) (continued) (continued) Members’ Statements (current session) Corporate taxation Edmonton-Whitemud community activities ... 525 Increase ... 265 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 1051–52 Increase, impact on employment ... 189–90 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Daycare centres Cancer services ... 372 Inclusion in new government buildings (Motion Menthol-flavoured tobacco products ... 122 Other than Government Motion 502: carried) ... Public service compensation disclosure ... 1050 318 Physicians Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Compensation disclosure, regulations ... 1050 (Bill 6) Points of order (current session) Second reading ... 939–41 Referring to the absence of a member or members, Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing member’s withdrawal of remarks ... 180 Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 939–41 Privacy issues ... 1050 Committee ... 1091–92, 1106 Regulatory provisions ... 1050 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Scope ... 1050 workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1091–92 Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Committee ... 685 (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Committee, amendment A3 (statutory declaration 1091–92 requirement) (Pitt: withdrawn) ... 685 Committee, amendment A7 (time of coming into Rodeos force) (Starke: defeated) ... 1106 General remarks ... 179 Third reading ... 1114–15 Speech from the Throne Third reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Addresses in reply, maiden speeches ... 178–80 month hoist amendment) (Jean: defeated) ... 1114–15 Addresses in reply, questions and comments ... 180, Members’ statements ... 874 556 Explore Local initiative Strathmore-Brooks (constituency) General remarks ... 305 Rodeos ... 179 Government policies Tobacco products Consultation policies ... 941 Menthol-flavoured products, ban on ... 122 Consultation policies, Executive Council members’ van Dijken, Glenn (Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, W) remarks ... 940 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Committee ... 88 Personal tax exemption ... 190 Committee, amendment A1 (retroactive provisions) Inflation (Cyr: defeated) ... 88 Factors influencing ... 264–65 Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Second reading ... 189–90, 222 ... 367, 390, 561 Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Members’ Statements (current session) month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Commodity producers ... 446 222 Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 874 Third reading ... 264–65 Minimum wage Implementation timeline ... 264 Increase, impact on low-income earners ... 265 Agriculture Increase, impact on small business ... 265 Sustainable practices ... 305 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Royalty framework ... 443–44 Second reading ... 305–6 Transportation infrastructure priorities ... 101 Committee ... 582 Privilege (current session) Committee, amendment A2 (public-sector Obstructing a member in performance of duty procurement of local food) (van Dijken: defeated) (Budget Address remarks about Executive ... 582, 583 Council, MLA, and political staff compensation) Purpose of bill ... 305–6 ... 355 Regulatory provisions ... 305–6 Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Bridge maintenance and repair Committee ... 995–97 Local road bridge program ... 101 Committee, amendment A2 (collective agreements Capital projects requiring increases in funding) (Jansen: defeated) Prioritization, publicly available information ... 995 (“sunshine list”) ... 101 School board responses ... 997 Projects listed but not contracted, 2007 to 2015 Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) (Motion for a Return 1: defeated) ... 679–80 Committee ... 784–85, 787 Carbon levy Committee, amendment A1 (legislative offices Increase ... 265 exemption from reporting disclosure to minister, Commodities, primary minister’s compliance and auditing power, Producers, members’ statements ... 446 legislative offices’ co-operation in audits) (Ganley: carried) ... 784

2015 Hansard Speaker Index 91 van Dijken, Glenn (Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, W) Westhead, Cameron (Banff-Cochrane, ND) (continued) (continued) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) (Bill 6) (continued) (continued) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Committee, amendment A2 (teachers’ threshold) workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 (Smith: carried) ... 785 (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Committee, amendment A4 (committee reports on 1086–87 compensation disclosure) (Jansen: carried as Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm amended) ... 787 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA3 Public transit (private insurance provision for small farms) Commuter rail service ... 486 (Hunter: defeated) ... 1095 Funding ... 486 Members’ statements ... 955 General remarks ... 486 Public information ... 983 Privately owned services ... 486 Workers’ compensation provisions ... 1011 Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Farm safety than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 486–87 Deaths, Kevan Chandler ... 814 Rural service ... 486 Injuries, Philippa Thomas ... 813–14 Services for seniors and persons with disabilities ... Flood damage mitigation 486 Calgary and area ... 399 Southern Alberta service ... 486 Springbank reservoir project, members’ statements Residential Tenancies (Safer Spaces for Victims of ... 399 Domestic Violence) Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 204) Floods Second reading ... 483 2013 flood, members’ statements ... 96 Road maintenance and repair Food industry and trade Funding ... 101 Local producers ... 893 Royalty structure (energy resources) Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Review ... 265, 444 ... 292, 1040 Sand and gravel royalties Legislature Library Gravel royalty increase ... 443–44 Research services ... 1086 Small business Members of the Legislative Assembly Provincial tax rate, impact on low-income earners ... Reference in Assembly to absence ... 702 265 Members’ Statements (current session) Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation Diabetes awareness ... 500–501 139/2007) Farm and ranch worker legislation ... 955 Changes to ... 265 Flooding in southern Alberta, 2013 ... 96 Springbank reservoir flood mitigation plan ... 399 Wanner, Robert E. (Medicine Hat, ND) Oral Question Period (current session topics) Speaker, The Castle special management area ... 471 Election, nomination of Member for Medicine Hat ... Environmental policies ... 860 1 Public transit Westhead, Cameron (Banff-Cochrane, ND) General remarks ... 487 Alberta Human Rights Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 7) Greenhouse gas emission reduction ... 860 Second reading ... 702 Regional service ... 487 Official Opposition participation in debate ... 702 Regional service feasibility study (Motion Other Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) than Government Motion 504: carried) ... 487 Second reading ... 308–9 Rural service ... 487 Third reading ... 893–94 Southern Alberta service ... 487 Brewing industry Tourism Craft breweries ... 308 Culinary tourism ... 308–9, 893–94 Markup rate changes ... 894 Water for life program Castle special management area Funding ... 860 Protected area designation ... 471 Workers’ Compensation Board Diabetes Partners in injury reduction program ... 983 Members’ statements ... 500–501 Woollard, Denise (Edmonton-Mill Creek, ND) Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Aboriginal peoples (Bill 6) Workforce participation ... 713 Second reading ... 813–14, 971, 983, 1011, 1034 Alberta Local Food Act (Bill 202) Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Third reading ... 895 month hoist amendment H1) (Rodney: defeated) Employment training ... 1034 Programs for aboriginal peoples ... 713 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Standing Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) Committee on Resource Stewardship (referral ... 769, 953 amendment R1) (Cooper: defeated) ... 971, 983, Meadows community recreation centre and library 1011 Members’ statements ... 285–86 Committee ... 1058, 1086–87, 1095 Members’ Statements (current session) Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Meadows community recreation centre and library ... workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1058, 1086–87, 285–86 1095 Mosaic Entertainment ... 532–33

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Woollard, Denise (Edmonton-Mill Creek, ND) (continued) Yao, Tany (Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, W) Mosaic Entertainment (continued) Members’ statements ... 532–33 Fiscal policy Oral Question Period (current session topics) Government savings ... 112 Aboriginal workforce participation ... 713 Government spending ... 780 Yao, Tany (Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, W) Members’ statements ... 300 Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 1) Fort McMurray Committee ... 153 Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary Committee, amendment A3 (loan payments and hospitals) ... 46–47 guarantees) (Nixon: carried) ... 153 Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo (constituency) Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, An (Bill 2) Member’s personal and family history ... 827–28 Second reading ... 215, 222–23 Income tax, provincial (personal income tax) Second reading, motion that bill be not now read (6- Increase, impact on seniors ... 262 month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals) 222–23 ... 322, 769, 1091 Third reading ... 262 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Affordable supportive living initiative All-party co-operation ... 112 Funding ... 498 Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary Alberta Health Services (authority) hospitals) Cellphone plan costs ... 655–56 Couples accommodations ... 498 Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2015 (No. 2) (Bill 3) Health Quality Council of Alberta survey ... 373–74 Second reading ... 112 New facilities, timeline on ... 46–47 Committee ... 148 Prevention of resident abuse ... 374 Cancer diagnosis and treatment Leukemia treatment, cellular therapy ... 779–80 Members’ Statements (current session) Carewest Garrison Green (Calgary long-term care Bo Cooper ... 779–80 facility) Provincial fiscal policies ... 300 Standard of care ... 374 Oral Question Period (current session topics) Cooper, Bo Long-term care facility survey ... 373–74 Members’ statements ... 779–80 Seniors’ care in Fort McMurray ... 46–47 Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act Seniors’ housing for couples ... 498 (Bill 6) Public Education Collective Bargaining Act (Bill 8) Second reading ... 826–29 Committee ... 999 Committee ... 1083 School board responses ... 999 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (Bill 5) workers) (Babcock: carried) ... 1083 Second reading ... 655–56 Committee, amendment A1 (application to paid farm Education authority threshold provision ... 655 workers) (Babcock: carried), subamendment SA2 Seniors’ housing (private insurance provisions) (Starke: defeated) ... Couples’ accommodations ... 498 1083 Family farm provisions ... 826–27