This sub-series comprises 42 files arranged in alphabetical order by names of federal government departments and subject matter. The majority of the records deals with the 1985 time frame. The records dated 1978 and 1987 were migrated to this series by Fulton's staff in order to close issues or bring forward ongoing issues. The files document Fulton's actions, activities, role and work as NDP M.P. of Skeena, B.C., and activities with the Canada - United States Inter-Parliamentary Group.
Records types consist of incoming correspondence and attachments; Fulton's and staff replies; copies of reports; newspaper clippings; communiques issued by Government Departments; and news releases of B.C. Provincial Departments.
Issues documented are AGRICULTURE: Advance payment for Crops Act; importation of American peanuts; effects of low price imports of the B.C. potato industry; drought assistance under the Canada/B.C. Livestock Drought Assistance Program; Feed Subsidy program; CANADA - U.S. PARLIAMENTARY GROUP: 27th meeting' Committee III, Fisheries, Environment and Transboundry issues; Committee III, Energy, Defence and Multicultural issues. COMMUNICATION: National Film Board cut backs; compensation to music creators; CBC coverage of controversial issues; grant to the North western National Exhibition Centre; CBC Radio and Television programing in Atlin, B.C.; Broadcasting Act; Canada Post's plans to remove the local post office from South Hazelton; Northwestel's service; Queen Charlotte Islands to receive television signal via cable; and CONSTITUENCY OFFICES - ISSUES: Prince Rupert, Stewart, Cassiar, Atlin, Terrace, Smithers, Kitimat.
EMPLOYMENT AND IMMIGRATION: Kitimat Canada Employment Centre; Pesticides in the Watershed; Canada Drug Patent Act; Generic Drugs; Canadian Job Strategies; application in the Job Development Program submitted by Hartley Bay, Skidegate and Massett Bands; West Coast Fisheries Employment Initiative Committee (North Coast); establishment of Local Advisory Councils; Apprenticeship training; U.I. Claims; ENERGY: Blending methanol with gasoline; Mount Klappan Coal Projects; Canada/Nova Scotia Agreement on Oil Substitution and Conservation; additional quantities of Western Canadian coal in Ontario; Hydrogen as a transportation fuel; extension of electrical service to the community of Rosswood; Petro-Canada to sell gasoline blended with ethanol and methanol. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Obtaining visas to visit other countries; sovereignty over the Arctic; U.S. Icebreaker Polar Sea's voyage through Canadian territorial Waters; situation in Nicaragua and El Salvador; Contradora process; nuclear arms; opposition of use of Nanoose Bay as a testing area for nuclear weapons capable warships; Chernobyl nuclear disaster; Arctic baselines; South Africa sanctions; Alaska Panhandle Access discussions; Port Tasu in Queen Charlotte Island - accommodation of Soviet fishing vessels; Official Development Assistance (ODA) Program; Sikh refugee claimants; and U.S. protectionist legislation before the U.S. Congress reference the Canadian Softwood.
FINANCE: Federal Business Development Bank; Deregulation of Financial institutions; application of new taxation rules to deferred salary retirement plans; tax deductibility of tuition fees; protest of high gasoline prices. FISHERIES: Coded wire tagging of Copper River Chinook Fry; differences between B.C. and Alaskan gill net regulations; unprocessed salmon and herring from Canada; Sports fishery in British Columbia; LGL Report on salmon tagging; Fraser River sockeye to the troll fleet; Mackenzie River Fish study; berthage fees for commercial fisheries and recreational vessels; specialty smoked salmon processing facility, Atlin, B.C.; rights of holders of trap lines on Hawkesbury Island in Right Sound; worm infested Coho in the Kitimat River system; Aquaculture; small craft harbour; Massett Band's request to obtain a commercial razor clam licence; passage of the Gitksan Wet'Suwet'En fishing by-law; Skeena River Watershed Board; 1986 Fraser River sockeye salmon run; Kitimat Estuary Craft Harbour; and dam at Surf Inlet on Princess Royal Island.
HEALTH AND WELFARE: Prime Minister cuts to the Planned Parenthood Federation; delay in funding women's groups; possible legalization of depro-proven; Dr. Steels's request for free space to practice at the Red Cross Outpost Hospital in Atlin; Navidi Forward - Looking strategies for the Advancements of Women (FLS) adopted at the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women; GAIN for Handicapped Program; Canada Pension Plan disability pension; de-indexing of Canadian Forces pensions; Academic Program at Northwest College; nursing program initialled by the Nisha Tribal Council at the Northwest Community College in Terrace, B.C.; immigration cases, Skeena; new refugee determination procedure for proposed legislation. JUSTICE: Capital punishment; definition of pornography in Bill C-114; divorce law; and protection of Women and children from violent crime; discrimination based on sexual orientation, Bill C-277.
LABOUR: Obtaining workmen's compensation; disability assistance. NATIONAL DEFENCE: Chemical, nuclear and biological weapons; low-level flying over North Shore and Labrador; U.S. gunnery firing range on the uninhabited and Federally controlled Island of Kahoolawe by Canadian naval vessels; U.S. troop movements through Prince Rupert, B.C. May 1986. POLITICS - FULTON, MEMBER OF BILL STUDY GROUPS: Bill C-264, An Act to declare Canada a nuclear weapons free zone; Bill C-265, Canada Elections, sales of liquor; Bill C-266, Quality of drinking water in Canada; Bill C-267, Political Freedom for Federal Employment; Bill C- 268, Nuclear liability, Limitation periods; Bill C-269, Criminal Code, gun control; Bill C-270, International Land Boundary between Canada and the State of Alaska; Private member Bill Alaska Boundary (A-B Line); and PUBLIC WORKS: Privatization of Dredging work on the Fraser River.
POST OFFICE: Service; tender notices in local Post Offices; Priority Post Service; complaints. REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION: Automotive and parts manufactures to construct plants in Canada Northwestern, B.C. REVENUE CANADA: Rights of taxpayer; tax benefits for residents of northern and isolated post; establishments of a duty free shop at Fraser, B.C.; Federal fuel tax rebate; SECRETARY OF STATE: Cultural initiative programs; Parliamentary Committee on Equal Rights; Queen Charlotte Island Health Care Society. SMALL BUSINESS: Proposal of a golf course in Southern Ontario; Nisibilada Enterprise - Seafood Specialty Plant; SOLICITOR GENERAL: Closure of the MacKenzie House Community Residential Centre (CRC); conduct of the RCMP outside the Zeidler Forest Industries Ltd; appearance of Ms. Anne Smith's before the Standing Committee on Fishery and Forestry in Digby, Nova Scotia; establishment of a "For Profit" prison camp; and operational and reviews conducted by the Correctional Services of Canada (CSC).
STATISTICS CANADA: Preparing personnel and filling positions for the 1986 Census. TRANSPORT -AIR: Prince Rupert grain terminal #1; availability of Search and Rescue (SAR) equipment on the West Coast; medical night evacuation; acquisition of a Zodiac rescue craft; repeater station for a Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) radio located in the Kitimat area; application of Terrace Air Ltd; for Class 3 commercial air service authority; railway position in Prince Rupert; proposed National Rail Passenger Transportation Act; Via Rail Supercontinental Service; deregulation of the Transportation Industry and rail safety; Caboose less Train; Transport of Northern and North Western B.C. Coal by rail to Ontario on the existing rail lines; shipment of dangerous goods on the West Coast; amendments to the Canada Shipping Act; upgrading to the airports facility at Stewart; Seal Cove Seaplane Base; Queen Charlotte Islands Hospital Heliport; landing aids at Terrace Airport; effects of heavy traffic on paved highways; Excel Trucking operations at Smithers; new one dollar coins. URBAN AFFAIRS: Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program (RRAP); VETERANS AFFAIRS: Government of Canada Remembrance Day Wreath; George Derby Centre; disability pension; and the Canadian Pension Commission.
