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From YouTube: NOVEMBER 19 2019 Question Period
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
4th Session
41st Parliament
NOVEMBER 18 2019 Question Period
B
Thank
You
mr.
speaker,
:
Scott,
is
a
heavy
equipment
operator.
He's
worked
on
the
sea
to
sky
project,
we're
all
familiar
with
on
the
port
man
bridge
on
site
sea,
on
the
new
water
main
project
in
Victoria,
on
the
water
main
project
in
Vancouver
and
is
currently
working
on.
The
expansion
of
Vancouver
Airport
he's
very
good
at
what
he
does
he's
proud
of
what
he
does
on
march,
19th
to
2016
the
previous
book
at
the
convention
of
one
of
his
favorite
unions,
one
of
the
few
local
1:15
of
the
Operating
Engineers.
B
He
told
them
that
his
plans
for
government
infrastructure
did
not
include
people
like
Colin.
He
boasted
quote
we're
going
to
do
it
with
union
labor.
You
don't
do
it
by
going
with
the
turkeys
at
clock,
that's
not
how
I
roll
that's
not
how
we
roll
end
of
quote
Colin
Scott
is
a
member
of
clack
and
Colin.
Scott
is
here
with
nearly
a
hundred
people
who
take
the
same
view,
they're
good
at
what
they
do
they're
proud
of
what
they
do.
B
They
are
citizens
of
British
Columbia
in
the
full
sense
of
the
word,
and
this
premier
decided
to
degrade
and
demean
them
in
his
comments.
Does
the
premier
stand
by
his
insulting
comments
directed
at
Colin,
Scott
and
his
colleagues,
and
is
he
prepared
to
withdraw
those
demeaning
and
assaulting
words.
A
C
Speaker
and
I
thank
the
member
for
his
question.
He
will
know
that
we
are
in
one
of
the
hottest
construction
markets.
The
province
has
ever
seen.
We
had
the
lowest
unemployment
rate
in
the
country,
I'm
delighted
to
hear
that
mr.
Scott
is
working
not
on
one
but
two
projects
at
the
present
time.
That
speaks
to
the
challenge
we
have
in
British
Columbia.
At
this
point.
That's
why
we're
trying
to
build
more
capacity?
That's
what
that's!
C
Why
we're
trying
to
build
more
capacity
in
British
Columbia
by
up
the
hundreds
of
projects
being
built
in
British
Columbia
right
now,
publicly
funded
projects.
There
are
three
community
benefit
agreements
and
those
agreements
have
just
got
underway,
we're
optimistic
and
confident
that
will
lead
to
more
apprenticeship
completions
than
the
past,
and
we're
going
to
maintain
that
project
going
forward.
But
I
say
that
mr.
Scott
and
I
say
to
the
others
who
are
here
in
the
gallery:
tenders.
I,
remember,
I,
say
so.
C
Those
in
the
gallery
here
today
that
we
value
their
work,
their
work
that
has
built
British
Columbia
as
all
construction
workers
across
the
province,
the
CBA
projects,
which
are
not
new
to
New
Democrats.
As
I
said
yesterday,
the
member
might
have
missed
it.
Waac
Bennett
had
project
labor
agreements.
The
former
government
has
project
labor
agreements
so
to
say
today
to
build
a
partisan
approach
to
construction.
British
Columbia
is
offensive
in
my
mind.
We're
gonna
build
restore
numbers.
B
Its
intrinsic
to
what
we
do
in
this
room
that
we
represent
87
different
writings
in
this
province,
representing
five
million
British
Columbians,
that's
our
job
once
you're
in
government.
Your
job
is
to
work
for
the
benefit
of
everyone
in
this
province,
because
we
all
need
to
feel
like
we
belong
here.
This
is
our
home.
B
A
B
Colin
Scott,
as
this
to
say
quote,
the
premier
has
banned
me
from
working
in
public
projects
under
the
NDP
and
written
me
and
my
colleagues
off
as
turkeys.
Why
am
I
being
treated
like
a
second-class
citizen,
unquote
in
a
nation,
a
province
and
particularly
the
party
that
prides
itself
on
a
gala,
Terry
and
behavior?
How
on
earth
can
the
Premier's
down
in
this
gallery
today
and
face
these
people
and
say
you're
second
class.
C
C
You
out
of
the
speaker
project.
Labor
agreements
have
been
in
place
in
British
Columbia
for
decades,
under
successive
governments,
Social
Credit,
Social,
Credit,
New
Democrat,
yes,
even
DC
liberals
built
projects
with
community
benefit
agreements
now
I
appreciate
that
they
want
to
grandstand
for
those
in
the
galleries
today,
but
them
bears
to
the
matter.
Are
this
honorable
speaker,
we
have
the
hottest
construction
market.
We
have
ever
seen
in.
C
The
member
of
the
opposite
side
articulated
some
of
the
publicly
funded
projects
that
clock
members
are
working
on
continue
to
work
on.
There
are
three
projects
in
British
Columbia
that
are
using
community
benefit
agreements,
because
we
want
a
kickstart
apprenticeship,
training
of
British
Columbia
and
we're
sticking
with
that.
Honorable
speaker.
D
Thank
You
mr.
speaker,
mr.
premier,
you
are
totally
wrong.
It
is
simply
wrong
to
claim
legacy
agreements
on
odd
bonds.
Projects
that
are
awarded
through
an
open
tender
such
as
the
johnhart,
are
in
any,
where
comparable
to
this
discrimination
that
you
are
providing
here
to
the
construction
industry.
Burns
colombian.
E
E
You
very
much
mr.
speaker,
Mr
Speaker
I,
as
the
premier
has
mentioned,
it's
a
hot
construction
market,
but
we
are
using
Community
Benefit
agreements,
as
we
have
said
in
the
past,
as
I
said
yesterday,
to
build
not
just
British
Columbia
but
as
generations
have
done
before,
build
the
people
of
British
Columbia
allow
for
people
who
don't
usually
get
the
opportunity
to
work
on
construction
projects
to
do
so,
and
I'm
really
pleased
that
Carmen
has
been
working
on
construction
projects
around
the
province.
This
is
great
because
they're
Marini
about
four
percent
of
the
workforce
are
women.
D
A
D
D
Taylor
cannon
is
a
second
year
electrical
apprentice
from
maple
ridge,
and
he
says-
and
I
quote,
this
policy
is
a
fake
that
has
nothing
to
do
with
helping
workers
and,
and
why
should
I,
be
forced
to
pay
higher
union
dues
and
join
a
union
I
don't
want
to
join
unquote.
So
my
question
again
is
to
the
premier:
why
are
Taylor
and
the
other
hard-working
British
Columbians,
who
are
all
here
today
being
forced
to
join
a
union?
They
don't
want
to.
E
You
very
much
mr.
speaker,
mr.
speaker,
community
benefits
agreements,
as
the
premier
has
said,
are
at
present
being
used
in
three
publicly
funded
projects
are
TransCanada
project,
patella,
bridge
and
Broadway,
and
we're
very,
very
proud
to
be
using
them
there.
Mr.
speaker
cos
be.
We
are
building
up
the
province
of
BC.
We
have
many
other
projects
around
the
province
where
we're
not
using
them.
It's,
as
we've
said
before,
on
a
really
on
a
case
by
case
basis.
At
the
moment,
we're
dealing
with
youth
history.
E
When
they
are
working,
many
of
the
projects
both
were
under
the
BC
Liberals
under
so
creds
throughout
that
and
Mr
Speaker.
We
have
also
we're
committed
to
training.
We
know,
there's
a
skill
shortage.
The
opposition
seem
to
ignore
that
fact.
When
they're
in
government.
We
want
to
deal
with
that
and
we
know
that
building
trades
has
the
best
completion
record
for
any
apprentices.
F
Mobile
whelmed
every
time
I
hear
that
mr.
speaker,
almost
30
of
british
columbia's
52
surviving
caribou
herds.
Risk
extra
patient,
a
dozen
of
the
herds
have
fewer
than
25
animals
to
herds
in
the
Kootenai
region
were
declared
locally
extinct
earlier
this
year.
We
know
why
caribou
are
highly
sensitive
to
disruptions
to
their
natural
environment
disruptions
such
as
clear-cutting
forests,
seismic
exploration,
road-building,
oil
and
gas
development
and
land
clearing.
F
These
are
the
conditions
that
allow
wolves
to
thrive,
hunting
families,
hunting
in
families.
Sztyc
ayah
is
a
proficient
predator
with
highly
developed
relationships
and
an
exceptional
capacity
to
work
together.
The
vegetation
that
once
offered
protection
for
the
caribou
and
their
food
with
rapid
changes
to
the
land
base,
the
caribou
have
been
exposed,
exploration,
corridors
trails
and
roads
service,
predator
highways
and
caribou
have
had
little
time
to
evolve
new
food
sources,
skills
or
tactics
to
protect
themselves.
The
provincial
response
has
been
in
part
to
shoot
wolves
from
helicopters
as
a
predator
management
strategy.
F
G
Thank
you,
Thank
You,
honorable
speaker,
and
thank
you
to
the
member
for
the
question.
We
as
a
government
take
care
of
will
recovery
and
BC
very
seriously,
and
that's
why
we
rely
on
a
range
of
approaches.
Honourable
speaker,
in
supporting
these
populations
when
it
comes
to
making
decisions
about
wolf
management
in
BC,
for
instance,
we
rely
on
expert
research
and
the
science.
The
research
shows
that
wolves
are
the
principal
predator
of
caribou
and
BC
and
in
fact,
in
May
of
2018
the
federal
government
under
the
species
at
risk.
G
Act
said
the
terrible
populations
in
BC
were
under
imminent
threat,
not
due
to
habitat
loss
but
due
to
predators.
So
predator
control
is
one
of
the
tools
we
use
and
especially
when
herds
are
reduced
in
numbers
to
critical
levels,
but
we
also
use
other
methods
such
as
habitat
protection,
habitat
restoration,
maturity,
deepening
and
supplemental
feeding,
and
this
honorable
speaker
is
because
caribou
are
an
iconic
species
to
BC
and
Canada
and
we're
taking
measures
to
stabilize
their
populations
and
grow
their
numbers.
F
You,
mr.
speaker
and
I
think
the
Minister
for
the
response.
The
real
issue
here
is
actually
habitat
destruction
and
it's
on
track
to
get
worse.
This
government
continues
the
massive
taxpayer-funded
subsidies
of
foreign
corporations
to
expand,
LNG
and
thus
increase
fracking
and
habbit
caribou
habitat.
We
know
calling
wolves
to
reduce
the
pressures
on
caribou
is
just
a
band-aid
solution
to
a
human-made
problem.
F
F
Apparently,
this
government
is
okay
with
the
short
term
status
quo
approach
to
managing
the
decline
to
zero
on
a
long
enough
trajectory
that
no
one
will
notice.
My
question
again
is
to
the
minister:
is
he
comfortable
knowingly
committing
a
species
to
extinction
by
shying
away
from
the
responsible
ecosystem
habitat
we
need,
while
spending
millions
of
dollars
to
shoot
hundreds
of
wolves?
So
this
government
can
continue
on
sustainable
logging
practices
and
to
increase
fracking
registro.
G
Thank
You,
honourable
speaker,
well,
I
agree
with
the
member
in
that
we
had
to
take
drastic
emergency
measures
to
protect
the
populations
of
caribou
that
are
left
in
this
province
and
that's
because
the
inadequate
patchwork
of
actions
taken
by
the
previous
government
and
let
that
led
to
the
threat
of
an
imminent
order,
stop
work
order
under
the
species
at
risk
act
around
habitat
protection,
so
we're
determined
to
take
this
on.
Honourable
speaker.
We
know
land-use
decisions,
impact
caribou,
habitat
and
populations.
We've
provided
47
million
dollars
for
our
caribou
recovery
strategy.
G
That
involves
a
whole
suite
of
actions
that
I
outlined
earlier.
We
also
took
the
unprecedented
step
of
putting
in
place
an
interim
moratorium
on
new
industrial
activities
on
seven
hundred
and
thirty,
four
thousand
four
hundred
and
ten
hectares
of
land
in
the
northeast
of
the
province
until
we
can
finalize
a
partnership
agreement
with
the
federal
government
with
First
Nations
in
the
area
to
address
caribou
populations
and
stability.
This
is
all
part
of
an
effort.
Honourable
speaker.
That
includes
includes
making
sure
that
we
protect
this
iconic
species.
G
H
H
John
rubella
rubella
is
a
proud
British
Columbia
and
someone
who
regularly
speaks
and
works
in
high
schools,
encouraging
women
in
the
trades
she's
accomplished
and
she's
highly
qualified
Don
has
a
message
for
the
premier
today
and
I
quote
for
26
years.
I've
helped
build
this
province
from
working
on
major
mining
projects
to
the
site.
Sedum
I'm,
proud
of
my
skills
and
I,
feel
insulted
and
disrespected
by
the
premiers
comments
that
somehow
I'm
unqualified
to
do
my
job
because
he
thinks
the
Clack
members
like
me
are
turkeys.
H
Why
is
the
premier
discriminating
against
me?
End
quote
those
are
the
words
of
this
premier.
It
is
time
for
him
to
stand
up
in
this
legislature
today
to
look
Don,
Rabello
and
her
colleagues
in
the
eye
and
explain
exactly
why
she
should
not
be
able
to
work
on
every
project
in
British,
Columbia,
she's
accomplished
qualified
it's
time
for
the
premier
to
answer
that
tough
question.
E
You
very
much
mr.
speaker,
mr.
speaker,
I'm,
really
I'm
very
pleased
that
the
Opposition
in
their
invitation
list
have
had
at
least
two
women
who
are
working
the
trades.
It's
terrific
I've
got
to
admit
that
you
know
this
is
something
that
we
are
absolutely
committed
in.
We
are
one
of
the
ways
we're
working
through
community
benefits.
Agreement
is
to
invest
in
women
who
will
be
getting
strays
and
getting
a
full
apprenticeship.
E
1.8
million
dollars
was
put
towards
supporting
women
in
the
trades
on
International
Women's
Day
by
the
premier.
This
is
something
we
are
absolutely
committed
to
mr.
speaker,
so
I'm
really
pleased
to
see
that
it
is
actually
taking
a
fit
and
people
can
people
the
community
benefit.
Agreement.
Projects
are
open
to
anyone
to
any
skill
trade
we
want
to.
We
we
we
want
to
ensure
that
we
build
up.
The
work
was
so
that
dawn
and
Carmen
are
not
on
their
own
Mr
Speaker.
E
We
want
to
ensure
that
we
are
in
training
people
for
the
future,
so
we
don't
face
the
skill
shortage
we
are
facing
now
that
we
deal
with
the
aging
demographic
that
we
have.
So
we
get
people
trained
mr.
speaker,
so
Mr
Speaker
I
know
that
we've
had
a
couple
of
women
cited,
but
there
are
a
lot
of
women
who
are
extremely
pleased
about
our
community
benefits
agreements,
including
Ashley
Duncan,
who's,
an
insulator
from
Coquitlam
who
says
when
your
construction
apprentice.
E
It
can
be
difficult
to
find
a
job,
and
it's
even
worse,
with
men
for
women
apprentices.
That's
one
of
the
reasons
we
have
trouble
reaching
retaining
women
in
the
trades
in
speaker.
A
community
benefits
agreement
is
a
game
changer.
Mr.
speaker,
we've
changed
the
game.
We're
gonna
make
sure
that
every.
H
You
very
much
well,
finally,
an
accurate
answer
from
this.
Minister
cos
guess
what
it's
a
game-changer,
all
right
for
the
men
and
women
in
this
gallery
today
who
are
not
permitted
to
work
on
a
project
new
ministers.
The
members
think
that
these
these
workers
think
that's
that
that
answer
is
laughable.
They
can
only
work
on
those
projects
if
they
abandon
the
union
of
their
choice,
enjoy
a
select
number
of
unions.
H
That
is
blatant
discrimination.
Now,
let's
be
clear,
Rob
main
is
a
heavy
equipment
operator
who
helped
to
build
the
Surrey
Hospital
redevelopment
and
expansion
Rob's.
Also
here
today,
and
he
says,
and
I
quote:
why
has
the
Prima
decided
that
I'm
no
longer
good
enough
to
work
on
public
projects?
I'm
proud
of
the
work
I've
done
as
a
member
of
the
clack
union
for
16
years?
What
right
does
he
have
to
call
me
a
turkey
and
ban
me
from
public
projects,
so
he
can
pay
off
his
friends.
E
E
Even
under
their
watch,
even
under
even
under
the
16
years,
even
under
16
years
that
they
will
government
mr.
speaker
that
they
used
project
labor
agreements,
they
had
the
same
list
of
unions,
mr.
speaker,
whether
it
was
on
a
John
Hunter
or
the
Juanita
there.
They
had
the
same
list
of
unions,
mr.
speaker,
so
Mr
Speaker.
We
are
rebuilding
our
province.
We
are
investing
in
people,
we're
investing
in
indigenous
people,
look
in
women
and
people
who
live
close
to
the
projects.
That's
the
base
looking
to
benefit
agreement
and
anyone.
A
What
this
government,
what
this
Minister,
what
this
primeiro
doing,
our
discriminating
against
these
workers,
these
workers
that
are
here
who
want
to
work
on
projects
public
projects
here
in
the
gallery
today
is
28
year
old,
heavy
equipment
operator,
Brian
Stoker
and
he
says
quote:
I-
am
a
proud
british
columbian
with
the
skills
necessary
to
help
build
this
province.
How
is
it
fair
to
ban
me
from
working
on
public
projects
unless
I
join
an
NDP
endorsed,
Union
end
quote.
A
E
E
As
we
have
seen,
as
we
have
said,
as
we
have
said
mr.
speaker
from
the
very
beginning
when
we
introduced
community
benefits
agreements,
community
benefits
agreements
are
based
on
rebuilding
the
province
on
investing
in
people
in
the
province
and
anyone.
Anyone
can
work
on
a
community
benefits
agreement
project,
mr.
speaker,
and
if
people
in
the
gallery
I
hope
that
they
are
appreciating
this
discussion.
It
is
a
healthy
debate,
but
I
hope
that
they
can
listen
through
the
misconceptions
that
the
opposition
have.
Let
have
been
throwing
around
today.
I
Well,
I'm,
quite
frankly,
I'm
surprised,
I
I
actually
thought
mr.
speaker,
confronted
by
100-plus,
British
Columbians,
who
genuinely
and
understandably
feel
insulted
that
the
premier
at
a
minimum
at
a
minimum
would
have
stood
up
and
apologized
to
them
for
what
he
said.
No
people
like
Ed
Lane
are
here.
25
years
operating
heavy
equipment
pays
his
taxes.
He'd
like
to
have
the
opportunity
to
work
on
projects
belong
to
the
Union
of
his
choice.
I
I
But
but
but
he
has
never,
he
has
never
been
insulted
by
the
premier
of
the
province
of
British
Columbia
and
at
a
minimum
at
a
minimum.
The
premier
knows
our
views
on
these
agreements.
He
knows
that
we
are
opposed
to
the
discrimination
that
they
represent
for
workers
across
British
Columbia,
but
at
a
minimum
on
a
day
when
these
British
Columbians
are
in
the
gallery,
will
he
stand
up
and
apologize
for
insulting
them
so
blatantly.
C
C
A
C
Shall
hear
the
response
to
turkey's
was
to
mr.
phil
Hochstein,
who
was
appointed?
I
guess
he
wasn't
busy
enough
was
appointed
by
that
government
to
head
the
turkey
Marketing
Board
political
rhetoric
as
you've
seen
today
rose
in
the
gallery.
Political
rhetoric
is
part
and
parcel
of
question
period.
That
was
where
the
content,
the
concept
came
from.
The
concept
of
community
benefit
agreement
is
not
an
NDP
idea.
It
was
an
idea
that
was
hatched
by
a
guy
named
waz
Bennett,
and
it
has
built.
C
News
News
project
labor
agreements
throughout
their
time
in
government,
so
to
bring
people
here
today,
members
can
participate
in
the
democratic
process
is
a
good
thing
and
we
can
disagree.
We
can
disagree
about
policies,
particularly
in
this
place.
We
can
paint
honorable
speaker,
we
we
campaigned
on
community
benefits
agreements
and
we
have.