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From YouTube: NOVEMBER 17 2021 Question Period
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
2nd Session
42nd Parliament
A
A
A
A
C
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker,
and
nothing
is
more
important
than
making
sure
that
vulnerable
children
and
youth
across
the
province
of
british
columbia
receive
the
services
that
they
need.
They
need
to
receive
those
services
as
early
as
possible
and
they
need
to
receive
them
in
a
way
that
meets
their
needs
and
is
matched
to
their
needs
so
that
their
needs
are
met
and
they're
able
to
thrive
and
they're
able
to
be
launched
into
a
wonderful
pathway
to
fulfill
their
potential.
C
Families
with
children
with
autism
will
continue
to
receive
services,
and
they
will
continue
to
receive
services
under
the
new
framework
and,
in
addition,
honorable
speaker,
families
with
children
who
currently
don't
receive
services
but
do
have
needs
will
also
be
able
to
receive
services
and,
honourable
speaker,
families
with
children
where
there's
a
concern
that
they
might
have
autism
and
they're
waiting
for
a
diagnosis
for
autism
that
can
take
up
to
a
couple
of
years.
Those
children
youth
will
also
receive
services.
C
A
Well,
thank
you
very
much,
and
you
know.
For
weeks
now,
we've
been
asking
the
minister
the
same
questions,
and
we
hear
the
same
answer
and
we've
been
very
clear
in
our
questions
that
this
is
not
about
only
autistic
children
in
british
columbia.
It's
about
children
and
families
who
are
supporting
children
who
have
special
needs.
A
A
A
This
is
what
they
have
to
say,
and
I
quote,
our
organizations
representing
over
30
000
families
in
british
columbia
unanimously
confirm
that
we
were
not
consulted
on
these
changes.
We
continue
to
point
out
dangerous
flaws
in
the
minister's
plans,
but
she
continues
to
disregard
our
experience
and
our
expertise,
not
my
words,
not
the
words
of
the
opposition.
The
words
of
a
coalition
representing
30
000
families
in
british
columbia,
families
and
representatives
are
here
in
the
gallery
today.
A
What
they
want
this
minister
to
do
is
to
press
the
pause
button
and
engage
in
meaningful
consultation
with
thousands
of
families
who
have
not
had
the
opportunity
to
say
a
single
thing
about
changes
that
will
impact
their
children
so
to
the
minister
again,
will
she
do
the
right
thing?
Will
she
press
the
pause
button
and
engage
in
meaningful
consultation
so
that
any
changes
that
may
need
to
take
place
are
done
in
consultation,
collaboration
and
partnership
with
parents.
C
It
is
very
important
to
make
sure
that
we're
working
in
partnership
with
parents
and
in
collaboration
with
agencies,
service
providers,
experts
and
and
advocates
from
the
sector
we
value
the
experience
and
the
feedback
that
we're
receiving
receiving
and
this
process
started
back
in
2019,
where
we
did
a
large
process
of
consultation
with
over
1500
individuals
that
included
families
and
agencies
and
service
providers,
and-
and
we
were
also
listening
to
the
representative
for
children,
youth
who
has
written
numerous
reports
recommending
to
the
ministry
that
we
move
towards
a
needs-based
system
and
pointing
out
the
problems
with
the
current
system.
C
We've
heard
from
many
many
families
that
their
children
are
left
behind
and
that
services
are
locked
behind
a
diagnosis
and
it
can
take
up
to
two
years
to
receive
a
diagnosis.
What
honorable
speaker,
if
your
child
is
two
or
three,
when
you
notice
that
you
may
have
a
concern
about
their
development,
that's
a
long
time
in
that
child's
life,
where
they're
missing,
potentially
missing
milestones
and
important
stages
of
their
development.
C
We
are
now
at
this
point
in
the
journey
working
through
this
process
up
to
2025.
Honorable
speaker
and
we
are
now
establishing
sessions
where
families,
where
service
providers,
where
experts
from
the
sector
can
have
really
detailed
discussion
with
ministry
staff
and
share
feedback
and
share
concerns
and
share
discussions
about
solutions.
D
The
minister
says
it's
very
important
to
be
working
with
the
families,
but
we've
heard
over
and
over
and
over
again
that
those
families
haven't
been
consulted
or
had
discussions,
and
we
already
have
heard
that
the
1500
parents
consulted
and
the
representative
for
children
and
youth
never
discussed
the
hub
model,
that's
being
proposed
in
the
new
cysn
framework.
The
families
here
today
want
the
minister
to
meaningfully
consult
with
children
and
youth
that
will
lose
their
funding
because
of
this
clawback,
nathan
lee,
who
is
16
years
old
and
he
writes.
D
If
I
were
to
lose
my
funding
at
this
stage,
as
some
kids
will
under
the
new
system,
I
would
struggle
even
more
in
the
areas
I've
worked
so
hard
on
a
pro
improving
end
quote
madison
ross,
12
years
old
and
her
mla
is
the
member
from
bernabe
loheed.
She
says
quote:
please
don't
take
away
my
funding
end
quote
so.
Will
the
minister
listen
to
the
voices
of
these
youth
who
are
calling
on
her
to
end
the
claw
back,
go
back
and
change
and
reverse
the
decision.
C
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker
and
yes,
we
will
be
listening
to
children
and
youth
as
well
as
their
families.
It
is
absolutely
important
that
we
wrap
a
circle
of
care
around
children,
youth
that
is
based
on
their
needs.
They
need
the
right
services
at
the
right
times
and
as
they
grow
and
develop
and
evolve.
Those
services
need
to
change
in
consultation
and
in
partnership
with
them
as
well.
C
So
what
we
will
be
doing
as
we
move
to
the
transition
is
we'll
be
working
with
families
we'll
be
working
with
children
and
youth,
we'll
be
working
with
their
care
providers
and
their
package
of
care.
If
they're
fortunate
to
have
been
able
to
create
a
system
of
care
around
their
needs,
then
we'll
be
working
with
each
individual
family,
because
each
child
and
youth
is
unique.
They
have
their
own
needs
and
we
need
to
build
that
that
package
of
care
and
support
around
them.
But
we
do
need
to
be
needs-based.
C
The
committee
recognized
that
neurodiversity,
regardless
of
a
diagnosis,
exists
on
a
spectrum
and
as
such,
each
neurodiverse
child
is
unique
and
requires
their
own
intervention
plan,
which
best
supports
the
child
and
their
individual
needs.
That's
exactly
what
our
service
framework
will
be
delivering.
D
D
Kay
banez
is
here
today
with
her
husband,
vince.
She
says
quote
our
children,
lazarus
and
estella,
and
over
15
000
children
are
currently
enrolled
in
idl
schools.
We
are
extremely
troubled
and
distressed
about
the
changes
that
threaten
to
take
our
children
away
from
the
only
inclusive
education
environment
that
works
for
them.
Please
do
not
take
away
the
schools
that
are
shaping
our
children's
character,
values,
culture
potential
and
their
love
of
learning.
End
quote:
on
october
21st
the
education
minister
told
autism
bc.
She
was
considering
a
one-year
delay.
B
E
E
Speaker
and
thank
you
very
much
to
the
member
for
the
question.
I
know
that
we
all
share
in
this
house
a
commitment
to
ensuring
that
all
children
in
british
columbia
have
access
to
a
quality
online
program.
E
If,
if
that
is
what
what
parents
choose
and
if
that's
what
students
choose-
and
that
indeed
is
the
objective
of
the
changes
that
are
that
we
are
contemplating
to
our
online
programming
is
to
ensure
that,
as
that
program
has
developed
over
the
years,
that
we
ensure
we
have
common
standards,
common
quality
and
equal
access
across
the
entire
province
for
all
of
british
columbia
students.
And
so
we
have
been
since
for
many
years
now.
Reviewing
our
online
programming.
E
We've
been
engaged
in
in
discussions
with
families
with
organizations
who
who
are
who
advocate
for
students
who
are
enrolled
in
these
programs,
and
we
are.
We
are
certainly
looking
at
a
transition
period
that
ensures
that
all
of
the
needs
of
families
and
children's
involved
in
this
program
are
are
properly
supported,
so
that,
if
indeed
there
are
transitions
that
that
that
need
to
be
made
that
those
are
properly
supported.
E
That
will
take
care
that
will
take
place
over
the
next
two
to
two
to
three
years,
and
I
think,
as
as,
as
the
members
know
from
from
earlier
briefings
that
we
have
had
with
that
with
members,
the
changes
contemplated
for
for
the
independent
programs
have
been
extended
out
so
that
we
can
ensure
that
we're
providing
those
those
supports
for
those
transitions.
Thanks
very
much.
F
Thank
you
speaker.
The
rain
has
subsided,
but
the
impacts
of
the
climate
disaster
in
our
province
continue.
The
coquihalla
has
been
washed
away
in
multiple
sections:
highway
7,
highway,
1,
highway,
99,
highway
3
have
all
been
impacted.
The
malahat
remains
impacted,
they've,
either
been
flooded,
buried
in
slides
or
washed
away.
People
are
working
around
the
clock
to
get
the
highways
and
roads
cleared
to
save
people
who
are
trapped
and
to
stop
the
water
from
rising
catastrophically
in
the
fraser
valley
and
to
the
emergency
workers,
highway,
maintenance,
crews,
municipal
workers
and
good
samaritans.
F
We
say
thank
you
honorary
speaker.
I've
been
reading
the
future
of
atmospheric
rivers
and
actions
to
reduce
impacts
of
british
columbians,
a
project
delivered
in
partnership
with
the
bc
ministry
of
environment,
pacific
institute
for
climate
solutions
and
pacific
climate
impacts
consortium
in
2014.
It
identifies
that
atmospheric
rivers
will
be
more
frequent
and
more
extreme,
particularly
in
coastal
british
columbia,
and
that
the
following
impacts
were
identified
as
greatest
concern:
mortality,
isolation
of
communities
and
loss
of
critical
infrastructure.
F
G
Our
thanks
go
to
every
british
columbian,
who
has
been
part
of
that
effort.
There
are
thousands
of
volunteers
that
are
engaged
right
now
in
doing
that.
There
are
men
and
women
who
have
worked
in
heavy
rescue
teams
who
have
are
working
on
road
maintenance,
contractor
crews
that
are
working
to
restore
rail
and
highway
connectivity
and
and
it's
our
job
as
the
government
to
coordinate
every
resource
possible
emergency
response,
coordination
with
the
federal
government
working
with
engineers
with
contractors
and
others
to
restore
connectivity.
G
Highway
99
work
is
progressing
and
we
will
have
an
update
by
the
end
of
today
on
what
the
projected
opening
date
is
on
that
highway.
And,
of
course,
as
she
mentioned,
the
highway
1
malahat
is
functioning.
It's
it's
supported
now
by
additional
ferry
service
that
is
going
from
schwartz
bay
to
duke
point
to
make
sure
that
essential
goods
and
services
and
travel
can
happen
and
that
the
south
island
is
connected
to
the
to
the
mid
and
north
island.
G
The
issue
around
resiliency
of
infrastructure
is
one
that
our
government
has
worked
for
the
past
four
years
since
forming
government.
We
worked
with
her
and
her
caucus
in
the
previous
decade
to
increase
the
budget
and
resources
for
strengthen
road
networks
to
shift
towards
sustainable
transportation
topics.
It's
a
7.6
billion
dollar
infrastructure
budget
today
and,
as
I've
said
to
the
member
earlier,
as
I've
said
to
the
member
earlier,
we
will
spare
no
expense
and
and
dedicate
every
resource
possible
to
rebuild
and
recover
the
infrastructure
that
british
british
columbians
built.
F
F
The
port
of
vancouver
has
been
cut
off
from
the
rest
of
the
province,
we're
already
seeing
the
impacts
of
food
shortages,
panic
buying
in
grocery
stores,
gas
shortages,
videos
and
photos
from
last
night
show
the
desperation
and
concern
of
british
columbians
in
being
able
to
feed
their
families.
There's
a
line
of
people
wrapped
around
a
fraser
valley,
walmart
three
times
over
shelves
in
prince
rupert
kamloops
and
even
victoria
are
empty
and
gurdwaras
in
surrey
have
rented
helicopters
to
fly
food
to
those
stranded
in
hope.
F
Sumas
perry
is
flooded
near
catastrophic
levels.
According
to
the
local
government,
the
fraser
valley
produces
50
percent
of
this
province's
dairy
eggs
and
chicken,
and
tragically
many
livestock
will
not
have
survived.
This
is
devastating
for
farmers
and
for
this
province,
and
people
need
to
hear
from
this
government
what
concrete
steps
are
being
taken
to
ensure
that
there
will
be
food
available
in
the
weeks
and
months
ahead.
H
Thank
you,
mr
speaker,
and
thank
you
for
this
very,
very
important
question.
This
is
a
devastating
time
for
farmers
in
bc,
especially
those
in
the
fraser
valley.
H
We
have
spent
days
communicating
with
hundreds
of
stakeholders
around
the
situation,
and
I
can
tell
the
member
that,
as
we
reach
people,
because
this
is
still
playing
out
they're
glad
to
hear
from
us
they
they
know
we
have
their
back.
But
when
we
ask
them
what
we
can
do
in
the
immediacy,
they're
they're
lost
for
an
idea,
because
it's
still
happening
as
things
change,
especially
over
the
last
12
hours.
H
We've
seen
some
areas
dry
out,
but
there's
some
areas
that
are
under
threat
and
the
areas
that
are
under
threat
include
thousands
of
barn
or
thousands
of
poultry
in
barns,
more
dairy
cows,
all
different
types
of
of
animals
that
are
trapped
in
barns.
They
are
injured.
H
H
B
B
H
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
My
ministry
works
every
day
on
the
issue
of
resiliency
and
sustainability.
When
it
comes
to
our
agriculture
food
system
in
bc.
I
can
tell
the
member
that
there
is
a
lot
of
enthusiastic
shopping.
That's
going
on.
We
wish
that
people
would
would
be
measured
in
their
purchases.
H
I
J
You,
honourable
speaker,
and
I
thank
the
member
for
the
question
and
as
the
member
will
know,
because
she
has
asked
before
that
this
government
has
committed
to
putting
in
place
the
use
of
the
emergency
alert
system
to
be
able
to
do
much
more
condensed,
notification
on
specific
emergencies
in
place
for
next
year,
starting
in
the
central
interior.
J
As
the
member
will
also
know,
there
are
a
variety
of
alerts
that
are
used
by
communities
in
the
province,
and
one
of
the
things
we
have
to
ensure
is
that
any
system
that
is
put
in
place
in
this
province
is
compatible
with
that
which
is
used
by
local
government
and
to
avoid
duplication,
and
we
are
working
with
those
communities
and
first
nations
to
ensure
that
we
will
have
a
system
using
that
first
alert
that
when
it's
in
place
it
works,
I'd
also
remind
the
member
this.
It
is
a
tool.
J
It
is
just
one
tool
in
terms
of
notifications
that
are
used
throughout
the
province.
It
is
not
a
silver
bullet,
and
the
member
knows
that
we
have
committed
that
one
will
be
in
place,
starting
in
the
central
interior
for
next
summer.
I
As
the
minister
will
know,
I'm
very
aware
of
a
lot
of
the
devastation
that
has
happened
in
this
province,
but
I
would
remind
the
minister
alberta
managed
to
warn
the
people
of
the
severe
weather
event
this
weekend.
So
did
washington
state
this
government
did
nothing.
They
learned
not
a
single
lesson
from
the
heat
dome
or
the
forest
fires,
and
british
columbians
are
paying
the
price
for
this
government's
incompetence.
J
You,
honorable
speaker
and
I
appreciate
the
question
from
the
member,
but
I
will
remember,
I
will
remind
the
member
of
this.
Their
significant
work
took
place
in
advance
and
during
this
storm
there
were
updates
in
terms
there
were.
J
There
were
updates
on
drive
bc
where
people
get
drive,
information
stream
flow
and
flood
warnings
in
place
and
communicated
to
local
governments,
communication
between
embc
and
local
communities.
At
the
same
time,
communication
between
myself
and
the
the
federal
government.
This
was
a
a
rain
event,
a
weather
event
of
unprecedented
unprecedented
proportions.
J
B
J
And
I
will
tell
you
something
else,
honorable
speaker,
that
when
it
comes
to
the
use
of
alert
and
the
member
talked
about
the
flooding
that's
taken
place
in
abbotsford,
this
province
was
the
embc
was
in
constant
communication
with
the
city
of
abbotsford.
I
was
in
constant
communication
with
the
mayor
of
abbotsford.
They
asked
to
be
able
to
use
an
alert
one
was
put
together
in
place.
We
were
ready
to
send
it.
J
You
know
I
find
it
really
interesting
on
a
situation
involving
flooding
and
I'm
giving
a
detailed
answer,
but
they
really
don't
want
to
listen
because
I'll
tell
you
this
honorable
speaker
when
it
comes
to
putting
in
place
when
and
how
to
use
an
alert.
I
will
always
rely
on
the
expertise
of
the
people
on
the
ground,
like
the
rescue
people
in
abbotsford,
like
the
mayor
in
haverford,.
J
H
B
K
K
K
K
J
Emergency
officials
in
communities
right
across
the
the
lower
part
of
the
province
in
the
fraser
valley
started
to
enact
emergency
plans,
resources
being
deployed
by
embc
at
the
local
level
to
deal
with
the
situation
as
it
developed.
J
J
Abs,
right
from
the
get-go
honorable
speaker,
whether
it
was
the
joint
rescue
coordination
center,
dispatching
the
the
cormorant
helicopters
to
come
and
get
people
who
are
trapped.
The
suit
between
the
the
slides
on
the
very
day
that
that
storm
started
right
through
last
night.
Getting
people
in
terms
of
the
evacuation
order.
Every
resource
is
being
deployed
and
will
continue
to
be
deployed
to
deal
with
this
situation.
And
the
idea
that
that
is
not
taking
place
is
simply.