Hansard Speaker Index - 2nd Session of the 23rd Legislature

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Kasperski, Mr. Lindy (NDP, Regina Sherwood)
- Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne
  - Speakers, 229–231
- Agriculture
  - Diversification, 230
- Budget
  - Balanced, 231
  - Deficit, 231
- Child poverty
  - Action plan for children, 231
  - National child benefit, 231
- Crown corporations, 230
- Dance
  - Polonia Dance Ensemble, Regina, ninth annual performance of Polish folk song and dance, member's statement, 1397
- Discrimination and racism
  - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, 1997, member's statement, 314
- Drugs and pharmaceuticals
  - Patent legislation, repeal, moved (Pringle), 1039–1040
- Economic development
  - Northern Saskatchewan, 230
- Economy
  - Growth
    - Northern Saskatchewan, 230
- Education, 230–231
  - Learning in the classroom, support, better tools providing, 231
- Employment, 230
- Employment development, 230
- Environment protection
  - Earth Day, April 22, 1997, member's statement, 1023
- French language
  - National Francophone Week, March 16-22, 1997, member's statement, 208–209
- Government
  - Financial management, responsible, 231
  - Priorities, 230
- Grain transportation
  - Freight rates, subsidies, Western Grain Transportation Act, Crow rate, elimination, 231
- Health care, 231
- Health care reform, 231
  - Professionals, partnerships, strengthening, 231
- Hog industry
  - Expansion, member's statement, 1999
- Hospitality industry, 230
- Housing
  - Starts, 230
- Income
  - Working income supplement, 231
- Information technology, 230
- Labour force, 230
- Medicare, 231
- Municipalities
  - Canada-Saskatchewan infrastructure works program, 230
- National unity
  - Preservation, public consultation, Humboldt constituency, moved (Julé), 1971
- Natural gas
  - Rights, sale, 230
- Oil industry, 230
- Population, 230
- Poverty
  - Reduction, 231
- Rail transportation/railways
  - Lines, abandonment, 231
- Retail industry
  - Sales, 230
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
  - North-west region headquarters, Regina, announcement, member's statement, 1201
- School divisions
  - Amalgamation, 231
- Senior citizens
  - Health care, 231
- Social assistance
  - Employment, best way to escape, 231
- Tourism, 230
- Trade, 230
- Training programs, 230–231
  - Provincial training allowance, 231
  - Saskatchewan Training Strategy: Bridges to Employment 231
  - Youth Futures program, 231
- Transportation
  - Strategy, comprehensive, 231
- Unemployment, 230
- Universities
  - Revitalization, (MacKay) report
    - Implementation, 231
- Uranium industry
  - Sales, 230
- Utilities
  - Rate increases
    - Proposed, review, all party committee, establishing, moved (Gantefoer); amendment (Lorje), 675–677
      - Questions and comments 683
Koenker, Mr. E. Mark (NDP, Saskatoon Sutherland)
- Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne
  - Speakers, 76, 94–100
- Agri-Food innovation fund
  - Memorandum of understanding, University of Saskatchewan, member's statement, 177
- Art/artists
  - Landscape artist, Darlene Hay, new exhibition, member's statement, 892
- Budget
  - Balanced, 94, 99, 442–443
  - Deficit, elimination, 442
  - Deficit, reduction, 442
- Budget (March 20, 1997)
  - Speakers, 441–444
- Canola
  - Mycogen Corporation, San Diego, relocation to Saskatoon, member's statement, 298
- Child care
  - Inner city neighbourhoods, investment, action plan for children, 96
  - Northern Saskatchewan, investment, action plan for children, 96
  - Rural communities
    - Investment, action plan for children, 96
- Child poverty, 94–96, 99
  - Action plan for children, 96, 99
  - Action plan for children, funding, 442
  - Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, statement (1995), 95, 97
  - Employment, best way to address, 96
  - National child benefit, 96–97
  - Reduction, 96
  - Reduction, government action moved (Murray), amendment (Julé), 875–878
- Children
  - Nutrition programs, strengthening, action plan for children, 96
- Drunk driving
  - Students Against Drinking and Driving, Hall of Fame, Government of Saskatchewan, induction, member's statement, 1153–1154
- Economic development, 96
- Economy
  - Growth, 443
- Education, 98, 443–444
- Employment, 94, 96
- Employment development, 443
- Environment protection
  - Destination conservation program, Saskatoon (West) School Division, member's statement, 2029
  - Ecol Laser, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council environmental award, member's statement, 1024
- Family Maintenance Act, 1997 (No. 74), 96
- Film industry
  - Venture capital tax credit, 443
- Firearms Act (C-68)
  - Opposition, 442
- Forest industry
  - Arbor Day, May 5, 1997, member's statement, 1337–1338
- Gasoline tax, 442
- Government
  - Financial management, responsible, 94
  - Role, 98
- Government expenditures
  - Debt, 94, 442–443
  - Debt, reduction, 442–443
- Health care, 443
- Highways and roads
  - Deterioration, 443
  - Funding, 443
    - $2.5 billion over next 10 years, 444
  - Highway No. 16
    - Twinning, continuation, Saskatoon to North Battleford, 443
- Infrastructure, 443
- Investment, 443
- Livestock industry
  - Livestock and horticultural facilities incentive program, 443
- Manufacturing industry
  - Investment tax credit, extension, used equipment, 443
- Mental health
  - Mental Health Week, May 5-9, 1997, member's statement, 1480
- Municipalities
  - Revenue sharing
    - Reduction, 442
- Parks
  - Funding, 442
- Points of order
  - Member using offensive words against members, withdrawal and apology, 935
- Pollution
  - Clean-up, legislation, moved (Goohsen); amendment (Koenker), 2068–2069
- Poverty, 95, 98
- Sales taxes
  - Exemptions, 444
  - Medical equipment, exemption, 442
  - Reduction, 441–444
- Saskatchewan Applied Science Technologists and Technicians Act (No. 18)
  - Second reading, 1074
- Saskatchewan Assistance Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 58), 96
- Social assistance, 98
  - Employment, best way to escape, 96
  - Redesigning/reform, 94
- Social programs, 99, 442
- Social services, 443
- Taxation
  - Reduction, 442–443
- Training programs, 98
  - Provincial training allowance, 96
  - Youth Futures program, 96
- Transfer payments
  - Reduction, 97–98
- Unemployment, 98
- Universities
  - Tuition fees, increase, moved (Thomson), 1055–1056
- Wildlife
  - National wildlife week, April 7-11, 1997, member's statement, 774
  - Swainson's hawk, preservation, Dr. Stuart Houston, member's statement, 1247
- Young Offenders' Services Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 34), 96
- Youth
  - Unemployment, 98
Kowalsky, Mr. P. Myron (NDP, Prince Albert Carlton)
- Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne
  - Motion for presentation to Lieutenant Governor (Kowalsky), 281
  - Speakers, 235–237, 239–243
- Agricultural products
  - Can-Oats Milling Products Inc., member's statement, 1999
- Business
  - New, openings and expansion, 242–243
- Child poverty, 241
  - Action plan for children, 241
  - Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, statement (1995), 241
  - National child benefit, 241–242
  - Reduction, 241
- Children's Advocate
  - Estimates, committee referral, moved (Kowalsky), 1073
- Commonwealth Day
  - Observance, recess, moved (Kowalsky), 45
- Communication Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 612
- Condolences
  - Zipchen, Dmytro (Dick) (former MLA), moved (Romanow), 93–94
- Constitutional Affairs Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 612
- Crown Corporations Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 1487
- Easter
  - Ukrainian, greetings, 1150
- Economy
  - Growth, 241
  - Strong, 242
- Education, 236, 240
  - Curriculum, 240
  - Funding, 241
  - Parental involvement, 240
- Education Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 612
- Education, post-secondary, 240
- Employment development, 242–243
- Environment Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 612
- Equipment manufacturing, 242
- Estimates Committee
  - Legislative Assembly, Estimates and Supplementary Estimates, Ombudsman and Children's Advocate, Estimates and Provincial Auditor, Estimates, committee referral, moved (Kowalsky), 1073
- Farmers/producers
  - Cash receipts, 241
- Floods
  - Manitoba, victims, fund-raising, member's statement, 1276
- Forest industry, 242
- Government
  - Bankruptcy, return from, 236
  - Credit rating, 243
  - Financial management, responsible, 243
  - Priorities, 236
- Government expenditures
  - Debt, interest payments, 243
  - Debt, reduction, 241, 243
- Grain
  - Terminals, inland, new, 243
- Grain transportation
  - Freight rates, subsidies, Western Grain Transportation Act, Crow rate, elimination, 243
- Health care, 236
  - Chelation clinics, 240
  - Funding, 236, 241
  - Kelran Microbiologicals, Prince Albert, expansion, member's statement, 393–394
  - Palliative Care Week, May 12-16, 1997, member's statement, 1693
  - Parkinson's disease, World Health Organization's committee member, Dr. Ali Rajput, University of Saskatchewan, member's statement, 1594
- Health care reform, 236, 239–240
- Health districts
  - First nations partnerships, member's statement, 1452
- Hospitality industry, 242
- Housing
  - Starts, 241–242
- Income
  - Working income supplement, 242
- Information technology
  - Employment, 240
- Legislative Assembly
  - Estimates and Supplementary estimates, committee referral, moved (Kowalsky), 1073
- Legislative Assembly, adjournment
  - May 21, 1997, moved (Upshall), 1940
- Legislative Assembly, hours of sitting
  - March 27-April 2, 1997, moved (Kowalsky), 445
  - May 13, 1997, moved (Kowalsky), 1599
  - May 21, 1997, moved (Kowalsky), 1877
- Medicare, 236
- Mining industry, 242
- Natural gas, 242
- Nominations Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 612
- Oil industry, 242
- Ombudsman
  - Estimates, committee referral, moved (Kowalsky), 1073
- Points of order
  - Decorum, budget speech, disrespectful behaviour, 322
  - Member using offensive words against members, withdrawal and apology, 934
  - Members
    - Imputing bad motives or motives different from those acknowledged by a member, 387
    - Making personal charge against member, 383–384, 387
  - Speaker, drawing into debate, 853
- Potash industry, 242
- Prince Albert Health District
  - Aboriginal employment, 240
  - Home care and home support services, 236
- Privileges and Elections Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 612
- Provincial Auditor
  - Estimates, committee referral, moved (Kowalsky), 1073
- Psychologists Act, 1997 (No. 47)
  - Second reading, 1110
- Public Accounts Committee
  - Name substitution, moved (Kowalsky), 612
- Rail transportation/railways
  - Lines, abandonment, 243
- Regional colleges, 241
- Retail industry
  - Sales, 241–242
- Sales taxes
  - Harmonization, opposition, moved (Van Mulligen), 1222
- Saskatchewan Assistance Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 58), 242
- Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, 241
- Schools
  - Community schools program, 241
- Sports
  - Saskatchewan Indian Winter Games, 23rd, Prince Albert, member's statement, 513
  - Western Canada Summer Games and 1999 Midget AAA Air Canada Cup Tournament, Prince Albert, member's statement, 1507
- Students
  - Canadian studies conference, Prince Albert, member's statement, 1338
- Teachers
  - Salaries and benefits, 240
- Training programs, 240–241
  - Future Skills program, 241
  - JobStart program, 241
  - Provincial training allowance, 242
  - Saskatchewan Training Strategy: Bridges to Employment 241
- Transfer payments, 241
  - Reduction, 236
- Transportation
  - National policy, development, cooperation, moved (Whitmore), 710
  - Strategy, comprehensive, 243
- Unemployment
  - Rate, 241
- Uranium industry, 242
- Utilities
  - Rate increases
    - Proposed, review, all party committee, establishing, moved (Gantefoer); amendment (Lorje)
      - Questions and comments 683
- Volunteers
  - Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal
    - Recipients, recognition, moved (Kowalsky), 293
- Women
  - Income
    - Low, enhanced business training, Prince Albert, member's statement, 178
Krawetz, Mr. Ken (Liberal/Saskatchewan Party, Canora-Pelly)
- Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne
  - Speakers, 60–67
- Agricultural products
  - Durafibre straw processing plant, Canora, member's statement, 345
- Agriculture, 62, 383
- Budget
  - Balanced, Cameco shares, sale, 382, 384
- Budget (March 20, 1997)
  - Speakers, 382–387
- Canadian Armed Forces
  - CFB 15 Wing Moose Jaw
    - Future, moved (Romanow), 1032
- Child poverty, 62
  - Reduction, 62
- Children
  - Hunger, 61
- Communities
  - Community development program, video lottery terminals, revenue, 66
- Community, 66
- Condolences
  - Leith, George Gordon (former MLA), moved (Romanow), 90
- Condominium Property Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 21)
  - Second reading, 806
- Constituency Boundaries Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 11)
  - Second reading, 1075–1077
  - Committee of the Whole Assembly, 1684–1686
- Crop insurance, 383
- Easter
  - Greetings, 508
  - Ukrainian, greetings, 1149–1150
- Economy
  - Growth, 62
- Education, 63–64, 67
  - Departments, two, 66
  - Funding, 63–64, 147–148, 258, 384
  - Funding vs. property tax, 386–387, 1281–1282
  - Special education, funding, Prince Albert, 287–288
- Education Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 59)
  - Second reading, 1349, 1489–1490
  - Committee of the Whole Assembly, 1669–1670, 1927–1928, 1930–1931
- Education Department
  - Estimates (1997-98), 941–949, 1437–1443
- Education development fund, 385–386
- Elections, federal (June 2, 1997)
  - Voting hours, Saskatchewan, Canada Election Act, changes, moved (Romanow), 1104
- Electricity
  - Rate increase, 66
  - Rural underground distribution system, cancellation, 864
- Employment, 61, 63
- Employment development, 61–63, 66
- Executive Council
  - Estimates (1997-98), 1849–1856, 1873–1874, 1876
- Floods
  - Damage
    - North Dakota and Manitoba, empathy and support, 983
  - Disaster assistance program
    - Municipalities, exemptions, moved (Gantefoer); amendment (Whitmore), 1216–1218
- Gambling
  - Expansion, social impact
    - Independent study, commissioning
      - Petitions, 1897
  - Portfolios, two, 66
- Government
  - Fees and charges, 382
  - Financial management, responsible, 61, 66
- Government expenditures
  - Debt, interest payments, 384
  - Financial plan, government as a whole, Provincial Auditor's recommendation, 382
  - Reduction, burden transfer, moved (Krawetz), 2070–2072
- Gross revenue insurance program (GRIP)
  - Changes, 66
- Health care, 67
  - Funding, 65
  - Magnetic resonance imaging, 65
- Health district boards, 65
- High schools
  - Music credits
    - Member's statement, 286
    - Ministerial statement (Atkinson), 292–293
    - Petitions, 283
- Highways and roads, 63
  - Accidents, Jaws of Life, costs, responsibility, SGI or municipalities, 800–801
  - Deterioration, 63
  - Funding
    - Fuel tax and licence registration, percentage, 63
  - Highway No. 155
    - Rebuilding, petitions, 1505
  - Pothole patrol, 63
- Home care, 65
- Hospitals
  - Closures, 61
- Housing
  - Northern Saskatchewan
    - Petitions, 1801
- Legislation
  - Estimates (1997-98), 1431
- Legislative Assembly, adjournment
  - May 21, 1997, moved (Upshall), 1939–1940
- Ministerial statements
  - High schools
    - Music credits, 292–293
  - Training programs
    - JobStart program/Future Skills program, expansion, 1283
    - Saskatchewan Training Strategy: Bridges to Employment 898
    - Youth Futures program, pilot project, Prince Albert, 1698
- Motions for supply (interim)
  - Expenses, fiscal year ending March 31, 1998, moved (MacKinnon), 531–532
- Motor vehicles, insurance
  - Rate increase, 1068–1069
- Municipalities, 65
  - Revenue sharing
    - Reduction, 64, 383
- National unity
  - Moved (Romanow), 1988–1990
- Occupational health and safety
  - Regulations, 62
- Oral question period
  - Education
    - Funding, 147–148, 258
    - Funding vs. property tax, 1281–1282
    - Special education, funding, Prince Albert, 287–288
  - Electricity
    - Rural underground distribution program, cancellation, 864
  - Highways and roads
    - Accidents, Jaws of Life, costs, responsibility, SGI or municipalities, 800–801
  - Motor vehicles, insurance
    - Rate increase, 1068–1069
  - Provincial Auditor, government support, 977–978
  - Saskatchewan Power Corporation
    - Profit vs. rate increase, 863–864
    - Reconstruction charges, recording, Provincial Auditor, opinion, 953–954
  - School boards, foundation grants, 611–612
  - School divisions, restructuring plans, 1484
  - Schools
    - Closures, Regina, 178–179
  - Teachers
    - Collective bargaining agreement, funding, 2060
    - Salaries, funding, 2030
  - Universities, funding vs. tuition fees, increase, 320–321
  - Universities, grants, operating, 516
- Patronage, 66
- Physicians/doctors
  - Shortage, 61, 65
- Points of order
  - Prorogation speech, error, 16
- Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training Department
  - Estimates (1997-98), 1014–1019, 1431–1437
  - Student support and employment programs, funding, 384–385
- Poverty, 62
- Property, 64–65
- Property tax, 383, 385
- Provincial Auditor
  - Government support, 977–978
- Recall of Members Act, 1997 (No. 240)
  - First reading, 2034
- Regulations, 61–62
  - Review, reduction and elimination, 62
- Respite care, 65
- Rural communities, 62–63
- Sales taxes
  - Reduction, 382–383
- Saskatchewan Applied Science Technologists and Technicians Act (No. 18)
  - Second reading, 1073–1074
  - Committee of the Whole Assembly, 1524–1527
- Saskatchewan Party
  - Member's statement, 1945–1946
- Saskatchewan Power Corporation
  - President and vice-president, salary increase, 66
  - Profit vs. rate increase, 863–864
  - Reconstruction charges, recording, Provincial Auditor's opinion, 953–954
- School boards
  - Costs, 385
  - Equalization factor, 386
  - Foundation grants, 385, 611–612
  - Funding, 66, 383, 385, 387
  - Grants
    - Capital, 385–386
    - Operating, 385–386
- School divisions
  - Restructuring plans, 1484
- Schools, 63–64
  - Bus transportation
    - Safety, 63
  - Closures, 64, 387
    - Regina, 178–179
  - Saskatchewan film library, long-term plan, petitions, 1943, 1973, 2055
- Service Districts Act
  - Withdrawal, 64
- Small business
  - Government policy, impact, 61
- Social assistance, 62
- Social Services Department
  - Income support, funding, 385
- Sports
  - Football
    - Saskatchewan Roughriders, support, member's statement, 177
    - Saskatchewan Roughriders, support, moved (Romanow), 184
  - Hockey
    - BIRS Raptors, provincial Pee Wee C division championship, member's statement, 297, 514
- Students
  - Tuition fees, 384–385
- Taxation, 61, 66, 382–383
  - Reduction, 61
- Teachers
  - Collective bargaining
    - Agreement, funding, 2060
  - Salaries, funding, 386–387, 2030
- Teachers' Federation Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 60)
  - Second reading, 1351–1352, 1490–1491
  - Committee of the Whole Assembly, 1671–1672, 1931–1935
- Tourism, 63
- Training programs
  - Funding, 385
  - JobStart program/Future Skills program, expansion, ministerial statement (Mitchell), 1283
  - Saskatchewan Training Strategy: Bridges to Employment 385
  - Saskatchewan Training Strategy: Bridges to Employment, ministerial statement (Mitchell), 898
  - Youth Futures program
    - Pilot project, Prince Albert, ministerial statement (Mitchell), 1698
- Transfer payments
  - Reduction, 64
- Unemployment, 61–62
- Universities
  - Funding, 385
    - Special, 384
    - Vs. tuition fees, increase, 320–321
  - Grants
    - Capital, 384, 387
    - Operating, 384, 516
  - Lecture and research information, sharing, fibre optic link, 384
  - Revitalization, (MacKay) report
    - Implementation, 384
  - Scientific and research equipment, upgrading, 384
  - Tuition fees, increase, moved (Thomson), 1056–1061
- Utilities
  - Rate increases, 382
- Victims of Crime Amendment Act, 1997 (No. 35)
  - Second reading, 963–964
- Volunteers
  - National Volunteer Week, April 14-18, 1997, member's statement, 799
- Wilderness areas
  - Dore, Smoothstone lakes area, protection, petitions, 1645
- Youth
  - Crime
    - Combatting, special task force, establishing, petitions, 1021, 1199, 1591
  - Unemployment, 61–62