News item. BC Human Resources Minister Bill Vander Zalm speaks with the press about a new welfare ruling. In order to qualify for welfare in B.C., applicants must now prove that they have resided here for the past four months. Mr. Vander Zalm says this ruling is necessary because: "We now have probably the highest rate for social assistance in North America, and we certainly don't want to create a situation whereby we encourage great numbers of people to come from the Maritimes or Quebec or Ontario. . . ."

News item. Footage shows B.C. Legislature in full session. Sound is poor (except for the desk slapping by the MLAs), photography is on the dark side but still acceptable for available light situation.

News item. BCGEU members demonstrate to show their support for the 834 government workers "displaced" by the creation of BCBC. Tempers are rising, and the union officials and commentators all seem to agree on that the workers involved are being "screwed" by the provincial government. There are actually more employees than this in Public Works. The actual number of "displaced" workers will therefore be more like 1,400. It is inconceivable that the provincial government is willing to dissolve civil service jobs and put them out to the private sector at three times the cost, says one union member.

News item. The Premier says he cannot have allegations made against his party such as those on Mr. Kelly's tapes. He tries to evade questions from the media.

The item is a video containing footage of a recording of a 1990 budget speech delivered in the BC Legislature by Minister of Finance Mel Couvelier, and the reply by the Opposition Finance critic, Glen Clark.

The item is a video of BC budget footage. Includes:
The 1988 budget speech for the Province of BC, delivered in the Legislative Assembly on March 24, 1988 by the Hon. Mel Couvelier, Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations (and MLA for Saanich and the Islands).
Reply to the 1988-1989 budget by Nanaimo MLA David D. Stupich, BC New Democrat finance critic.

Stock shots. 1. Fire alarm boxes - not in service - old service retired. 2. Shipyard. 3. Old apartment building; ancient fire alarm; windows locked shut. 4. Boycott of J.P. Stevens textile products. 5. Airlift of the killer whale "Miracle" at Sealand. 6. [Mayor of Victoria?] 7. Construction. 8. Opening of the Legislature. 9. Unidentified press conference. 10. Cabins - burned and damaged. 11. Rescue exercise at a bridge. 12. Architectural plans. 13. MacDonald's Bread. 14. Old run-down school. 15. Swearing-in of the Cabinet. 16. Tall ship [Nippon Maru from Japanese Navy?] 17. Loading up cases of beer. 18. Unidentified interview. 19. Fire! - on the waterfront [at Ogden Point?]. 20. Plans for a ferry - shipyard scenes. 21. Putting a tree in place -[Christmas?]. 22. Garbage truck in a ditch. 23. Ship at sea. 24. NORML spokesman George Baker - lobby to legalize marijuana.

Stock shots. 1. Jean Chretien and other politicians make speeches. 2. Unidentified interview. 3. Construction project. 4. Royal Jubilee Hospital -- nurses, exteriors. 5. Victoria General Hospital, Northern Component -- drawings and models. 6. Dr. D.R. Carlow -- Medical Director. 7. [Jim Nielsen?] 8. Construction site prior to start. 9. Ribbon cutting ceremony. 10. Mount Tolmie Hospital. 11. Juan de Fuca Hospital. 12. Labour unrest. 13. Premier W.R. Bennett -- cabinet swearing-in ceremony. 14. Dave Barrett. 15. W.R. Bennett in track suit, jogging at a school. 16. W.R. Bennett in office. 17. Provincial government newsletter. 18. Different shots of W.R. Bennett -- indoors and outdoors.

Stock shots. 1. BC Resources Investment Corporation (BCRIC) bearer share. 2. Unknown person. 3. Dave Barrett. 4. Premier Bill Bennett receiving BCRIC share. 5. Victoria International Airport -- construction. 6. Old building (maybe a theatre). 7. The Royal Theatre (Famous Players). 8. Architectural drawings and Salvation Army mission. 9. Wrecking ball at work -- Old Town portion of downtown Victoria. 10. Saanich water supply. 11. McPherson Theatre. 12. Gazebo. 13. Construction -- Ewing and Young Buildings, Camosun College (Lansdowne Campus). 14. Highway and Bailey bridge. 15. Townhouse development. 16. Downtown Victoria street development. 17. Tillicum Mall -- construction. 18. Blanshard Street. 19. Ribbon-cutting -- Premier Bill Bennett. 20. Downtown projects. 21. Waddling Dog Inn. 22. Synagogue. 23. Vic West community development.

Stock shots. 1. Fire on the dock. Shots of burnt shipyard. 2. Police & victim at Tolmie Apartments; gunshot? 3. Bank of Montreal vandalism. 4. Air Canada balloon in front of the Empress Hotel. 5. The tall ship "Eagle" enters the Inner Harbour. 6. Projectionist at the Odeon Theatre. 7. Visit by Prince Philip. 8. Police in action - dusting for fingerprints. 9. Fire at an older building, near the Salvation Army building. 10. Cedar Hill Community Centre - police investigating in the fields. 11. Brentwood College School - fire damage. 12. Inflatable roof. 13. Miniature submarine "Pisces IV" being sent to Ottawa. 14. Experimental aircraft. 15. Fire damage at a school. 16. Night shots of fire at Gorge Vale Apartments; daytime survey of damage. 17. Sooke Lake reservoir. 18. Unidentified state visit - military parade. 19. Airport arrival. 20. Fire at sea. Rescue operations. The freighter "G.B. Church". 21. Caterpillar munching away - aerial shots of forest. 22. Prince Charles welcomed by Premier Bill Bennett. Colour Guard. 23. Prince Charles giving speech and departing. 24. Sidney Fire Department pumper.

Stock shots. 1. Outdoor speech - Pierre Trudeau. 2. Joe Clark. 3. Ship in harbour - the "Chavez". 4. Small freighter "Samarkanda" being unloaded. Police boat; gunny sacks. 5. Naval vessel. 6. Colour Guard at the Legislature. Lieutenant-Governor [presumably Bell-Irving] reviewing troops. Demonstrations re: Rock Creek, Cheekye-Dunsmuir power line. Premier Bill Bennett and cabinet ministers. 7. Demonstration at Harbour Square re: BC Buildings Corporation. 8. Colonist newspaper headline re: Sandanista victory. 9. Harmac strike banner - PPWC Local 8. 10. Pickets in front of the Empress Hotel. 11. Evangelical baptisms - field service. 12. Water bombing - blazing forests. 13. Interior of cathedral interior - unidentified dignitary. 14. BC Ferry aground on the rocks. Damage review. 15. Forest fire and water bombers. 16. Craigdarroch Castle. 17. Victoria Conservatory of Music. 18. Sketch of masked person. 19. BC Ferry & Marine Workers Union - on strike. 20. Submarine. 21. Fire - unidentified location. 22. The Raeside cartoon of "Vander Zalm picking the wings off a fly". 23. Flag raising outside Legislature. 24. James Bay Lodge. 25. Royal Trust Building. Police and military personnel. [A bomb or hostage taking incident?]

Stock shots. Footage of political personalities from Victoria and Vancouver Island. 1. Robin Blencoe - NDP MLA, re: use of pesticide. 2. Gretchen Brewin - Mayor of Victoria. 3. Brian Smith - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 4. [Unidentified - scratched?]. 5. Ron Cheffins - University of Victoria law professor. 6. Allan McKinnon - federal Conservative MP for Victoria. 7. Scott Wallace - former Conservative & Social Credit MLA (Oak Bay). 8. William Vander Zalm - probably when he was Minister of Municipal Affairs. 9. Charles Barber - NDP MLA (Victoria), re: convention centre. 10. Mike Young - Mayor of Victoria, re: convention centre. 11. John Cooper - Victoria alderman. 12. Bob McClelland - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister, re: energy. 13. Vic Stephens (sp?) - former provincial Progressive Conservative leader resigns leadership. 14. Robin Blencoe - NDP MLA (Victoria), re: transit. 15. Bill Tindall - Mayor of Victoria, re: public hearings. 16. Mel Couvelier - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 17. Mel Couvelier - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 18. Scott Wallace - MLA (Oak Bay) & Progressive Conservative leader. 19. Evan Wolfe - Social Credit MLA & cabinet minister. 20. Vic Stephens (sp?) - Progressive Conservative leader. 21. Bill Tindall - Victoria mayor. 22. Larry Ryan - Victoria alderman. 23. Mike Young - Victoria mayor. 24. Murray Glazier - Victoria alderman. 25. Bill Tindall - Victoria mayor. 26. Frank Ney - Social Credit MLA and Mayor of Nanaimo. 27. Scott Wallace - Social Credit/Conservative MLA (Oak Bay). 28. Donald Munro - Progressive Conservative MP (Esquimalt-Saanich), re: international fisheries. 29. Frank Mitchell - NDP MLA for (Esquimalt).

Stock shots. Footage of political personalities from Victoria and Vancouver Island. 1. Vic Stephens - BC Progressive Conservative leader, re: Conservative party. 2. Same as above - in a garden. 3. Dave Barrett - NDP Leader of Opposition. 4. Chief Dan George - re: young people and acting. 5. Jack Davis - federal Minister of Fisheries. 6. Catholic bishop (Remi De Roo?) - outdoors. 7. Same as above - indoors, ca. 1978. 8. John Diefenbaker - former Prime Minister makes dinner speech. 9. Don Munro - Conservative MP (Saanich-Esquimalt). 10. [Unknown federal politician] - probably a cabinet minister. 11. Eric Simmons - Victoria alderman, re: Fire Department. 12. Bill Tindall - Victoria mayor, re: tunnel inside. 13. Same as above - outside City Hall. 14. Same as above - inside. 15. Mike Young - Victoria Mayor, in office. 16. Same as above. 17. Scott Wallace - outdoors, re: health care costs. 18. Same as above.

Stock shots. Footage of political personalities from Victoria and Vancouver Island. 1. Lieutenant-governor & Premier W.R. Bennett at Legislature opening. 2. [Lord Mountbatten?] 3. Lieutenant-Governor Walter Owen. 4. Sam Bawlf - Social Credit cabinet minister) and Victoria MLA. 5. [Unity Task Force Member?] 6. Charles Barber - NDP MLA (Victoria). 7. Same as above - outside Legislature. 8. Joe Clark - leader of Conservative party, with local MPs Don Munro and Alex MacKinnon. 9. Bill Vander Zalm - Social Credit Minister of Municipal Affairs. 10. Dave Barrett - NDP Leader of Opposition. 11. Pat McGeer - Social Credit Minister of Education, re: tunnel. 12. [Federal Minister of Small Business?] 13. [Political pollster?] 14. Dave Barrett - NDP Leader of Opposition - bashing Socreds, calls for election. 15. Same as #13 above. 16. Governor-General Ed Schreyer. 17. Ed Broadbent - federal NDP leader. 18. Jean Chretien - Liberal MP and cabinet minister. 19. Pierre Trudeau - Prime Minister (1978 election?). 20. Joe Clark - at Victoria Airport.

Stock shots. Footage of strikes and demonstrations in Victoria and vicinity. 1. Camosun College support staff - CUPE Local 2081 - picketer. 2. Picket line at Administrative Centre, Greater Victoria School Board. CUPE Local 2081, Camosun College. 3. Pickets - re: Bill 46, labour rally. 4. Handicapped people demonstrating at Legislature. 5. Anti-Trident protesters on zodiacs in the Inner Harbour. Colour Guard. 6. "Save the whales - foil the hydrofoil." 7. Anti-nuclear demonstration. 8. "ICBC rates unfair." 9. Anti-sealing demonstration. 10. Demonstration against use of 2,4-D. 11. Boaters demonstrating re: moorage rates. 12. "Save Youth Services" demonstration. 13. Premier W.R. Bennett with protesters and media. 14. Rally protesting Ministry of Health [Bob McClelland?]. 15. Pro-choice rally. 16. Pro-life rally. 17. Environmentalists rally. 18. Demonstration against sewage dumping. 19. Pro-lifers. 20. Unemployed rally. 21. "Kids want a bus" rally. 22. Demonstration against Raven Lumber. 23. Pro-life demonstration. 24. Native rights/housing march and demonstration. 25. Rally against Bill 15.

Stock shots. 1. 20th Anniversary of BC Ferries. 2. Liquor Store temporarily closed. 3. Ferries. 4. Speech - remember the pension rule. ( Indoors.) 5. Outside the Legislature. Big crowd. 6. Pickets in front of the Empress re: BC Tel dispute. 7. Bank of BC protesters (BC Tel pickets). 8. BC Tel pickets at ferry terminal. 9. Picket parade in parliamentary precinct. 10. CUPW pickets - Legislature lawn. 11. Postal pickets at processing plant. Posties with signs. 12. Picket in front of Labatt's - brewery workers. 13. Street full of protesters. 14. Teamsters on strike - Local 213 at Air West. 15. United Fisherman & Allied Workers Union strikers. 16. Labour rally - inside auditorium. 17. Demonstrators in front of Legislature. Premier Bill Bennett on steps. 18. Public Service Alliance - pickets. 19. 2-4-D protest. 20. BCGEU pickets. 21. Retail clerks on strike against Woodward's. 22. BCTV strikers (NABET). 23. Construction workers protesting. 24. Large parade of protesters - Inner Harbour. 25. Yarrows Ltd. - flying pickets re: BC Tel hot equipment. 26. Pickets in front of the Empress.

Stock shots. 1. Lunar eclipse. 2. Train -- seen from the engine. 3. Hostel -- biking and back-packing. 4. Weather station. 5. Pipe organ repairs. 6. Harbour scene and architectural plans for development. [Brentwood Bay?] 7. Log booms. 8. Vehicle inspection station. 9. Beautiful British Columbia Magazine -- building, crates, foreign language issues. 10. Tall ship with four-masts. 11. Mushroom picking. 12. Rock carving -- petroglyphs. 13. "Resolution 13" to Premier W.R. Bennett. 14. Moving a piano. 15. Blessing the fleet [?]. Mass performed at the Inner Harbour. 16. Ticketing cars downtown -- upset meter man. 17. Fox Theatre -- Quadra Theatre [later the Roxy]. 18. Submarine. 19. Good Shepherd animal shelter -- animals. 20. Police and photographer in jewelry store. 21. Scenic cottage. 22. Shipyard -- dry-dock; "Adriatik"; " Pierre Radisson". 23. Submarine interiors -- H.M.S. "Conqueror". 24. Newspaper office -- "The Victorian." 25. People in historical costume -- "Princess Marguerite" [maybe inaugural run?] -- Queen Victoria, Captain Cook, etc. "Princess Marguerite" at sea. 26. Unidentified politician; Clive Jackson. 27. Letter re: "Princess Marguerite". 28. Unidentified politician. 29. Premier Bill Bennett with petition (or some other rolled-up paper).

News item. Charles Barber explains the value of his constituency office. He is a liaison between the NDP and the voters.

News item. Company preseident Frank Mitchell has just announced that the BC government has decided to take the "Princess Marguerite" off the Victoria-Seattle run. The "Queen of Prince Rupert" will replace her but this ship will carry less than 800 people. Mr. Mitchell feels the Social Credit governement has done this to eliminate all "NDP skeletons", as the CHEK reporter puts it. Mr. Mitchell says that local business people will press BC government to add the jetfoil trips to ferry sailings, and to subsidize them.

News item. The GAIN welfare program does not give people who are handicapped and/or chronically unemployed enough money to live on their own, even if they could or wanted to do this. Demonstration at the Legislature has the support of MLAs Rosemary Brown (NDP) and Dr. Scott Wallace (Conservative).

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Handicapped demonstration RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-02-28 SUMMARY: Demonstration by handicapped persons at the provincial legislature, 28 February 1977.;

News item. All hospital union members, except those in essential services, are on strike at Royal Jubilee. A union spokesman says the situation has been brought about by the Health Labour Relations Association and the employer, the Social Credit government. The Hospital Employees Union had accepted a collective agreement, but the employer rejected it. Discussions with the MLA, Dr. Scott Wallace, who believes that hospital workers should not have the right to strike.

News item. ICBC protest rally outside B.C. Legislature. Speaker Jack Heinrich condemns Socred government's action of raising insurance rates by 130-200 percent, when the Socreds themselves had criticized the NDP for raising the rates by 19 perecent. Slogans include: "Free enterprise is very expensive"; "Stick it in your ear McGeer"; and "The new ICBC blues -- Record by Cameron Molloy on sale here!"

News item. BC's industry minister, Don Phillips, talks with press about Trident, the jetfoil and the B.C. Development Corporation. He says: "We loan millions and millions of dollars to people who want to make the economy of British Columbia tick, and it IS ticking".

News item. In an interview, Mr. Kelly says he had always planned to have his own business eventually, but the "events" of last year (his dismissal from the Socred caucus) speeded up his decision. Now he has gone into the brass rubbing business, and he is also preparing a book about his political life. Some of the Socreds he worked for (or with) were "excellent people", he says, and they should not be totally maligned.

News item. Interview with BCGEU's John Fryer about the British Columbia Building Corporation (BCBC) and the restructuring of the Dept. of Public Works. 800 employees are to be laid off. The Socreds, he says, decided to set up BCBC without consulting with the BCGEU. The BCGEU has just had a meeting with the consulting firm hired by the government; the firm's attititude towards present employees is very poor. Consequently, a joint committee will be set up by the BCGEU to deal with the transition from the Dept. of Public Works to the Crown Corporation, and the adjustment processes for all employees. A detailed program will be started by BCGEU to find alternative employment opportunities, for re-training people and relocating people, and for other options like severence pay. Each BCGEU member involved in this shake-up will get the full support of the union, says Mr. Fryer.

News item. A mock funeral procession is held at the Legislature to mark the "death" of the B.C. Land Commission. Before the "funeral", an unidentified woman says that farm land will now be put into the "political arena", both at the provincial and the regional level. After the "last rites", there is archival footage of another demonstration at the Legislature against Bill 42, and of W.A.C. Bennett speaking to demonstrators from the Legislature steps.

News item. More scenes of the mock funeral for the B.C. Land Commission, as a full eulogy is given by a "Minister of God." There are more picket signs which, in this instance, indicate solid support for the Social Credit government's move.

News item. Premier Bill Bennett: "We have a basic economy now that does generate some employment." Chronically ill children are to get a better breakdown on medication costs. It's the philosophy of this government," says Bennett, "to provide some equity to all the citizens, and not just special interest groups." A lengthy discussion of tourism follows, in which Bennett blames the 1975 drop in tourism on the NDP Minister of Highways. Bennett says he will encourage more people to hold their conventions in Victoria. NDP MLA Dave Barrett also has a "philosophy" of government. He chastises the Premier for putting more emphasis on generating tourist traffic in the Okanagan, rather than on Vancouver Island. He comments on the Throne Speech and predicts that government aid for Ocean Falls and Cancel will dry up. Premier Bennett predicts economic growth and a gradual move away from a "boom and bust" economy. Conservation MLA Scott Wallace comments on the Throne Speech. Barrett says that B.C.'s economic problems are "getting worse" and forecasts a threat to crown corporations competing in the forest industry.

News item. Premier Bennett with the press. He says: "Running for the Legislature isn't coming down and passing laws to restrict every other group in our society". On restraint: "The MLAs in our party, and we as a government, are prepared to do more than talk about it. -- we are prepared to exhibit leadership . . . in both private and public sectors." NDP MLAs comment: "Promise of vague things to come . . . There is the theme of restraint running through it . . . ." Socreds using the financial situation as "justification" to erode the opposition. Promise of increased assistance for people between ages of 55 and 59 under the Guaranteed Annual Income for Need Act. King on need: "It's the kind of mentality that has politicians playing God in terms of determining whether or not people are in need." Conservative MLA, Scott Wallace, is fairly positive, but says: "It doesn't have any specific advisers". The whole speech, he says, is concerned with the financial difficulties and "the restraint that must be exercised." He doubts the wisdom of "taking the tax off property for people over 65, regardless of their income."