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Ten o’clock a.m.
Prayers and Reflections by Kristina Loewen.
The House proceeded to “Orders of the Day.”
Order called for “Private Members’ Statements.”
The House resumed the adjourned debate on the motion for second reading of Bill (No. M 213) intituled Drug Use Prevention Education in Schools Act.
Pursuant to Standing Order 25, division on the motion for second reading of Bill (No. M 213) was deferred until 30 minutes prior to the ordinary time fixed for adjournment.
On the motion for second reading of Bill (No. M 216) intituled Professional Reliance Act, a debate arose.
On the motion of Amna Shah, the debate was adjourned to the next sitting of the House.
And then the House adjourned at 11.56 a.m.
One-thirty o’clock p.m.
Order called for “Members’ Statements.”
Order called for “Oral Questions by Members.”
The House proceeded to “Orders of the Day.”
The Hon. Mike Farnworth moved —
That, notwithstanding Standing Order 2 (1), the adjournment time of the sitting of the House commencing at 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, be modified to 4.15 p.m.; and,
That this modified time of adjournment extend to the application of Standing Order 3 and to the interpretation of the ordinary time fixed for adjournment of the House in Motion 20, adopted by the House on April 30, 2025, establishing the Sessional Order for certain proceedings of the House to be undertaken in three sections.
Motion agreed to.
On the motion for third reading of Bill (No. 17) intituled Intimate Images Protection Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, a debate arose.
Bill (No. 17) read a third time and passed.
Pursuant to Sessional Order, order called for Section A of Committee of the Whole.
The House resumed the adjourned debate on the motion for second reading of Bill (No. 31) intituled Energy Statutes Amendment Act, 2025.
The debate continued.
On the motion of Hon Chan, the debate was adjourned to later today.
(In Committee — Section A)
Bill (No. 19) intituled School Amendment Act, 2025, was committed.
A proposed amendment by Heather Maahs to clause 1 of Bill (No. 19) was ruled out of order.
Clause 1 and clause 2 of Bill (No. 19) passed.
Scott McInnis moved a proposed amendment to add clause 2.1 to Bill (No. 19) which was defeated on the following division:
| Nays — 6 | |||
| Routledge Osborne |
Sunner Beare |
Phillip |
Valeriote |
| Yeas — 3 | |||
| Kooner |
Mok |
Williams |
|
Clause 3 and the title of Bill (No. 19) passed.
Section A of Committee of the Whole reported Bill (No. 19) intituled School Amendment Act, 2025, complete without amendment.
On the motion for third reading of Bill (No. 19) the House divided.
Motion agreed to nemine contradicente on the following division:
| Yeas — 90 | |||
| Lore G. Anderson Blatherwick Routledge Chant Toporowski B. Anderson Neill Osborne Brar Krieger Davidson Parmar Sunner Beare Chandra Herbert Wickens Kang Sandhu Begg Higginson Phillip Lajeunesse |
Choi Rotchford Elmore Morissette Popham Dix Sharma Farnworth Eby Bailey Kahlon Greene Whiteside Boyle Ma Yung Malcolmson Gibson Glumac Arora Shah Chow Dhir |
Wilson Kindy Milobar Warbus Rustad Banman Wat Kooner Halford Hartwell L. Neufeld Van Popta Dew Clare K. Neufeld Bhangu Paton Gasper Chan Toor Hepner Giddens |
Rattée Davis McInnis Bird McCall Stamer Day Tepper Mok Maahs Williams Loewen Dhaliwal Doerkson Luck Block Valeriote Botterell Brodie Armstrong Kealy Boultbee |
Bill (No. 19) read a third time and passed.
Pursuant to Sessional Order, order called for Section A of Committee of the Whole.
The House resumed the adjourned debate on the motion for second reading of Bill (No. 31) intituled Energy Statutes Amendment Act, 2025.
On the motion of Bruce Banman, the debate was adjourned to the next sitting of the House.
Pursuant to Standing Order 25, in consideration of second reading of Bill (No. M 213) intituled Drug Use Prevention Education in Schools Act, the House divided.
Motion negatived on the following division:
| Nays — 48 | |||
| Lore G. Anderson Blatherwick Routledge Chant Toporowski B. Anderson Neill Osborne Brar Krieger Davidson |
Parmar Sunner Beare Chandra Herbert Wickens Kang Sandhu Begg Higginson Phillip Lajeunesse Choi |
Rotchford Elmore Morissette Popham Dix Sharma Farnworth Eby Bailey Kahlon Greene Whiteside |
Boyle Ma Yung Malcolmson Gibson Glumac Arora Shah Chow Dhir Valeriote Botterell |
| Yeas — 43 | |||
| Wilson Kindy Milobar Warbus Rustad Banman Wat Kooner Halford Hartwell L. Neufeld |
Van Popta Dew Clare K. Neufeld Bhangu Paton Gasper Chan Toor Hepner Giddens |
Rattée Davis McInnis Bird McCall Stamer Day Tepper Mok Maahs Williams |
Loewen Dhaliwal Doerkson Luck Block Brodie Armstrong Kealy Sturko Boultbee |
(In Committee — Section A)
Bill (No. 20) intituled Construction Prompt Payment Act was committed.
On clause 1 of Bill (No. 20).
Section A of Committee of the Whole reported progress on Bill (No. 20) intituled Construction Prompt Payment Act and asked leave to sit again.
Bill to be considered at the next sitting.
Committee to sit again at the next sitting.
And then the House adjourned at 6.16 p.m.
HON. RAJ CHOUHAN, Speaker
Tuesday, October 28
Hon Chan to introduce a Bill intituled Mobility Affordability Act, 2025.
Wednesday, October 29
Dallas Brodie to introduce a Bill intituled Property Rights Protection Act.
Tuesday, October 28
7 Heather Maahs to ask the Hon. Minister of Education and Child Care the following questions: —
1. What is the Ministry’s estimate of the number of additional child care spaces expected to be created through the expansion of child care on school grounds beyond the changes made under the Education Statutes Amendment Act, 2020?
2. How many new child care spaces were created through the New Spaces Fund and the Start-Up Grant program using Government of Canada Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CW‑ELCC) funding during the 2022/23 fiscal year?
3. How many new child care spaces were created through the New Spaces Fund and the Start-Up Grant program using Government of Canada Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CW‑ELCC) funding during the 2023/24 fiscal year?
4. How many new child care spaces were created through the New Spaces Fund and the Start-Up Grant program using Government of Canada Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CW‑ELCC) funding during the 2024/25 fiscal year?
5. Since the signing of the Canada-British Columbia Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in 2021, how many Action Plans — including all formal, draft, interim, amended, supplemental or otherwise unplanned or ad hoc submissions — have been submitted by the province to the government of Canada; and of these, how many were approved, how many were rejected and how many were amended at the request of either party?
6. What were the dates of submission, approval, amendment or rejection for each Action Plan or related submission described in question 5?
7. Section 5.1 of the Canada-British Columbia Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement requires the province to publicly release its Action Plans. Why have the Action Plans for fiscal years 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 not been publicly released, and when will each be made public?
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