This sub-series comprises 25 files arranged in alphabetical order by names of federal government departments and subject matter. The majority of the records deals with the 1992 time frame. The records dated 1985 to 1991 and 1993 were migrated to this sub-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.
Record types are: incoming correspondence and attachments; Fulton's and staff replies; clippings and photocopies of clippings; reports from private organizations; Band Council resolutions; and Hansards.
Issues documented are: AGRICULTURE: Mad Cow disease; transgenic corn trial at the University of Western Ontario; game farming; cattle waste as a livestock feed. CANADA - UNITED STATES INTER - PARLIAMENTARY -GROUP: Meeting at Boca Raton, Florida, April 9-13, 1997; COMMUNICATIONS: CBC staff cuts in Prince Rupert. HEALTH AND WELFARE: environmental evolution for nuclear submarines traversing the Dixon Entrance and the Federal Nuclear Emergency Response Plan. ENERGY: B.C. Hydro's application for an export permit; environmental Impact of Electric Exports to U.S. by B.C. Hydro; Green Plan Initiatives; car makers' voluntary compliance on auto-emission; Vertical Axis Water Turbine; Environmental Innovation Program; Northeast Coal; Tatshenshini parkland; Alsek-Tatshenshini region; Windy Craggy Mine Proposal;
FISHERIES: Hatchery for Gold River Steelhead; Pacific Salmon Treaty issues; Tsimshian and Gitksan, control of food fishery permits; Deep Creek Salmonid enhancement facility; Cheslatta Graveyard desecration. FORESTRY: Share Groups in British Columbia; old-growth forest management in Caren Range Uplands on the Sechlt Peninsula; Green Gold Grants in Skeena. INDIAN AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS: Industry, Science and Technology (ISTC) for Aboriginal participation in the Cooperative Study Tour to Mondragan, Spain; Carrier Sekani Tribal Council and Alcan Kemano Completion Project; Gitwinksihlkw bridge at Canyon City; closure of sawmill at Kitwanga; closure of Cassiar Royal Canadian Mounted Police Detachment; Helipad for Good Hope Lake; closure of the asbestos operation at Cassiar, B.C.; National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program; Haisla Support Centre; Acquisition of surplus military land for the Old Massett Village Council; closure of the Cassiar Mine; Tahlton Tribal Council's Transboundry claim in Yukon; Toxaphene contamination of Fish from Atlin Lake and impact on the Taku River Tlingit First Nation. LABOUR: Cassiar mining Corporation; closure of the Cassiar Asbestos Mine;
NATIONAL DEFENCE: Canadian Rangers; West Coast helicopters; crash of Search and Rescue helicopter, near Bella Coda, B.C.; preferential treatment given to Francophones in the Armed Forces; Comox based SAR helicopters; U.S. Trident Nuclear Submarines in Dixon Entrance; Canadian Forces aircraft was involved in the accidental spraying of Saltspring Island residents; Helicopter proposed purchased
