This sub-series comprises 69 files arranged in alphabetical order by names of federal government departments. Integrated are files bearing the title: British Columbia - Riding. They deal with specific issues concerning towns within the Skeena riding. The sub-series documents James Fulton's activities and role as an NDP Member of Parliament; Chairman of the Caucus Sub-Committee on Resource Maximization; NDP Environment Critic; and member of the Fisheries, Environmental and Multilateral Issues Committee III of Canada - United States Interparliamentary Group.
Record type consists of incoming correspondence with attachments; replies; telegrams; press clippings; notes taken during phone conversations; reports from barristers and solicitors; excerpts of Hansards; Library of Parliament research report; communiqués from Federal Government Departments; NDP news releases; constituency cases cover sheets and notes; Fulton's reports to constituents; and Fulton's statement to the National Energy Board.
Issues documented in the series are: AGRICULTURE: Seed Patent legislation; agriculture in Quebec and in Canada; AMAX OF CANADA LTD: dumping permit: dumping in Alice Arm from their mine at Kitsault; Alice Arm trailings Project North; Alice Arm-Climax Molybdenum; COMMUNICATION: Direct dialing difficulty; B.C. Telephone; B.C. Telephone and the telecommunications Workers Union; CBC British Columbia; U.S. satellite television signals; VHF Communications on marine frequencies at Cape St-James. CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMISSION HEARING: Satellite television reception in Skeena Riding; cable vision service in Kitimat; satellite T.V. System; Northern Broadcasting. BRITISH COLUMBIA RIDINGS: Queen Charlotte Islands: Smithers; South Moresby; Kemano; Terrace; West Skeena; Prince Rupert; Atlin; Lakelse Hot Springs. CANADA-UNITED STATES INTER-PARLIAMENTARY GROUP - CANADIAN DELEGATION CONFERENCE: Fisheries boundaries and environmental issues. CONSUMER AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS: Native People and the Constitution; native rights and the Constitution.
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT: Constituents bring forward jobs issues, securing unemployment insurance cheques and benefits. ENERGY: Methanol production and export, seismic activity in the area of the Whitehorse Dam on the Yukon River. Conservation: Canadian Oil Substitution Program; photo-voltaic cells. Forestry: Reforestry program. Training of forestry crew persons. Mining: Implications to fisheries of water use developments in the Yukon. Esso's Kutcho Creek Mining Prospect; Fisheries Leduc River. Canada Wide Mine Ltd., Stewart B.C. Nuclear: Operation Dismantle. Health risks to air cargo workers from handling radioactive materials. Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station. Port Hope Environmental Group. Wreck Cove Hydro Electric Project. Oil and Gas: Canadian exports of various petroleum by-products. Low Point oil terminal. Pipelines: Environmental assessment of the Transmountain Pipeline proposal; United States determination to build the Aleyeska pipeline; Alaska Highway Natural Gas Pipeline Project. Plans to build a pipeline from Norman Wells down the Mackenzie Valley. Acid Rain: Industrial emissions of sulphur dioxide. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform; Imprisonment of Alberto Altesor Gonzales; Proposed Migratory Caribou Agreement with the United States; RIMPAC bombardment of Kaho'olawe Island; Canadian assistance to Nicaragua; Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); admission of white Rhodesians to Canada; acts of piracy committed against refugees in the Gulf of Thailand; and opening of regional passport offices.
FINANCE: Involvement of Banks in Automobile Leasing; R.R.S.P.; Bill C-44 to amend the Small Loans Act; FISHERIES: Alaska fishing boundaries; U.S.-Canada fisheries treaty; Haisla fishery on the Gardiner Canal and Douglas Channel; Hartley Bay Harbour; Fisheries licence case; Stikine Taku River. FOREIGN OWNERSHIP: Acquisition and control of the Atlin Inn Limited. HARBOURS: Port policy for Port of Prince Rupert; Canada/British Columbia Marine Terminal Facilities Study; wharf facilities used by Eurocan Pulp and Paper Company in Kitimat, B.C.; Masset Harbour; West Coast marine transport; Charlotte seaplane float; Fairview Floats; Search and Rescue Helicopter Capability Update Project (SARCUP). HEALTH AND WELFARE: Terry Fox's run through Masset B.C.; old age pension cases; availability of services at the Stewart General Hospital; Nursing homes; Regional Hospital District/Hospital Funding; ground water radiation monitoring and Control in British Columbia; B.C., Native Amateur Sport and Recreation Federation; financial support for a Canadian team to attend the Chess Olympics.
IMMIGRATION: Immigration cases in Skeena. INDIAN AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS DEVELOPMENT: Implication of the B.C. Hydro proposal to dam the Stikine; plans for a new school at Iskut; mining activities in the Baker Lake area and the rights of the Inuit; Gitskan-Carrier Tribal Council; Indian Economic Development Loan Fund; Capital works project in respect of the Bands in the Skeena riding; Northern Development Council; sedimentation in the reservoir behind the Whitehorse Rapids Dam; Yukon Conservation Society's request for funding; Native vote for NDP; National Office, Ottawa of the Native Women's Association of Canada; INDUSTRY TRADE AND COMMERCE: Proposed NDP support for assistance to the troubled Chrysler Canada; Metric Commission; Secondary processing of aluminium in British Columbia. JUSTICE: Svend Robinson's private member's Bill to amend the Criminal Code; prostitution; Fulton's opposition to Section 281 of the Criminal Code, Abortion; Capital punishment; Atlantic seal hunt; experiments on Polar bears; leg-hold traps; international Whaling Commission in Brighton; legal aid; citizen complaints against the RCMP; LABOUR AND UNION: Picketing and strike breaking in Canada; dispute between B.C. Telephone Company and Telecommunications Workers' Union; Bill C-22. NATIONAL DEFENCE: Unification of the Canadian Forces; Sea Cadet training at HMCS Quadra; POLITICS AND RESOLUTIONS: Fulton's correspondence with various NDP Members; POST OFFICE: Service in various B.C. ridings; Closings. REGIONAL ECONOMIC EXPANSION: Kitwanga shopping centre proposal; Completion of the road to the Refuge Basin; Project Rediscovery; Canada-British Columbia Industrial Commissions Program; North East Coal development; funding approval for the Skeena riding.
RESOURCES MAXIMIZATION, CAUCUS SUB-COMMITTEE: Fulton's work as Chairman, REVENUE CANADA: Taxation cases, Skeena. SECRETARY OF STATE: Grants for artists; awards received by constituents; SMALL BUSINESS: Exports to OPEC Countries; Canadian Federation of Independent Business; SOLICITOR GENERAL: Queen Charlotte Island Rediscovery Programme. TRANSPORTATION: Search and rescue, Coast guard; removal of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) vessel Kitimat II; Lighting of Kitwanga River Bridge # 2551; Railway Abandonment in downtown Prince Rupert. URBAN AFFAIRS: Canadian Home Insulation Program; housing problems in Skeena; Disability pensions. WOMEN: Daycare; program for children.
