This sub-series comprises 69 files arranged in alphabetical order by names of federal government departments and subject matter. The majority of the records deals with the 1990 time frame. The records dated 1985 to 1989 and 1991 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. Also filed in this sub-series are 2 files documenting his activities as National Advocate on Forestry and 4 files documenting his activities and National Advocate on Northern Development and National Advocate on Aboriginal Affairs.
Record types are: incoming correspondence and attachments; Fulton's replies; pamphlets and reports; information material; photocopies of press clippings; Fulton's speaking notes (Questions of privilege); and published Federal Government reports and private organization reports.
The issues documented are: Agriculture Land Reserve, Pitts Meadow, B.C.; irradiation of poultry; industrial milk pricing; downsizing of the Prince George experimental farm; transplant of Reindeer to Dawson Creek and detection of Brucella Suis Biotype 4 in local cattle; Bill C-15. CANADA- UNITED STATES INTER-PARLIAMENTARY GROUP: 30th meeting in Montebello, P.Q.; COMMUNICATION: Municipal Radio licence fees; Canadian Arctic Resources Committee; Copyright Act; CONSTITUENCY -SKEENA: Licensing of a seaplane base at Lakelse Lake near Terrace, B.C.; mail- service - Telegraph Creek and Iskut; export Licence Application Renew; Highway 16/Trans-Canada Highway; Kyex River Highways project; road blockades in the Hazelton Area; Smithers CNR station as a Heritage Railway Station; location sub-district fisheries office; customs coast recovery pilot project, Smithers, B.C.; five year forest management program at CFS Masset. EMPLOYMENT AND IMMIGRATION: Unemployment insurance act; professional development program; North Coast Community Futures Committee; immigration issues.
ENERGY: Hydrogen vehicles; nuclear energy; Cinola Gold Project; tug and barges on the Taku River; electricity exports from B.C.; Carbon monoxide emissions from the uses of ethanol in vehicles; vertical axis water turbine generators; proposed Brisay hydroelectric station; Canadian electricity exports and water levels; B.C. Hydro's diesel operations in your constituency; proposed site C Dam on the Peace River; hydroelectric project proposed on the Peace River; possible spill in the Vancouver Harbour; oil spill in Burnard Inlet; Fraser Valley Natural Gas Exploration; costs of decommissioning nuclear sites in Canada; Uranium mining in Canada; Telkwa Coal Project; Kincloth Power outage; power outages in the Nass Valley; equipment failure at the Darlington Nuclear facility. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Boundaries between Canada and United States regarding the Dixon Entrance; Alaska Panhandle; seizure of Canada Vessels Viscount and Fonzie; Hanford nuclear reservation; U.S. rules governing assassination in covert operations; U.S. radio and Television directed at Cuba; Nordic Council International Conference on the Pollution of the Seas; copies of correspondence of Bill Blaikie, NDP External Affairs Critic to Joe Clark, Secretary of State External Affairs; A-B Line, U.S.- Canada Maritime Boundary.
FINANCE: Free trade; Goods and Services Tax (GST); Northern residents deduction; Northern Tax allowances charges for Skeena; Task Force on the Tax Benefits for Northern and Isolated Areas; FISHERIES: Queen Charlotte City shrimp and prawn fishery; B.C. Aboriginal Peoples Fisheries Commission; aquacultural waste management; Salmon farming and threat to wild salmon stocks in B.C.; ban of aquaculture by the Alaskan government; purchases of a West-German film entitled "Eighteen years later - The North Sea Then and Today"; new halibut fishery management; implementation of the Canada/U.S. Trade Commission decision regarding Pacific Salmon and Roe Herring; CN's plans to spray herbicides along its right-of-way between Prince George and Prince Rupert; U.S. vessels were operating illegally in water around Queen Charlotte Island; drift nets fishing; interception role of Canada bound salmon by South east Alaska fishermen; commercial fishing in the Douglas Channel Chinook; observer program on the West Coast Queen Charlotte; Vision 2000 "Strategy and timetable for the privatisation of the West Coast Fishery; fisheries enhancement on the Stikine and Taku River system; Northern Chinook recreational fishery.
FORESTRY: Northern Spotted in B.C.; Federal- Provincial Forest Resources Development Agreement; Canada's Forest Inventory, 1986; Renewal of Takla/Sustut forest licences and renewal of the Canada - B.C. Forest Resources Development Agreement; South Moresby/Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve; logging activity in the Algonquin Indian community of Barriere Lake; clear cutting in B.C. FULTON, JAMES: Question of Privilege tabled in the House of Commons reference Dr. Mendoza on employee of the Defence Research Establishment Suffield; log the upper half of the Carmanah Valley; Reducing emissions of the green-house gas carbon dioxide; INTER PARLIAMENTARY: Conference on the Global Environment; global warming; C02 reduction; Valdez oil spill; FULTON, JAMES: Constituency cases; HEALTH AND WELFARE: B.C. Children Hospital; financial difficulties experienced by Smithers Hospital; CN Pension: UIC premium from Canadian Corps of Commissionaires salary; personal medical cases.
INDIAN AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS: Indian Food Permits and hunting licences in B.C.; commercial hunting by Treaty Indians in Alberta; funding cuts to native organizations and programs; Schedule of dental services for status Indians and Inuits; Lubicon on federal government: Internal political problems on many reserves; impact of the Federal budget on First Nations organization; Dease River Band; Canadian Economic Development Strategies (CAED) effects on the Silviculture Project, funding for the Haida Canoe Project; economic development for the Massett Indian Band; Nisga'a land claim negotiation; closure of Kitsumkalum Community Economic Development Project; Alcan Kemano Completion Project at Kitimat, B.C.; Dioxin and furan pollution in Kitamaat Arm.
JUSTICE: Abortion; bilingualism; Taiwanese authorities detain Canada citizens of Taiwanese origin; Canadian human rights; gun control; Bill C-301 Act to amend (Fulton Private Members Bill) to the criminal code; opposition to the new act to amend the Criminal Code; Leonard Peltier Case. MINING: Ownership of the Windy Craggy Mining Project. NATIONAL DEFENCE: Low level flights, Northwest Territories IR-920 Corridor; DND test burns and toxic effects on local residents; Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear (NPT); disposal of chemical weapons dumped into the waters off Vancouver Island in 1947; environmentally hazardous waste at Dew Line bases in the North. POLITICS - PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF CANADA: Privates Members Bills; inquiry to Ministry; government testing of substance defined as toxic; projects submitted to the environment of assessment and review process. MOTIONS: Placing a moratorium on logging in the Carmanah Valley; Parliament Hill to become an environmental model for Canada; Dr Mendoza Case. AMENDMENTS: An act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act; an Act to protect and enhance the quality of drinking water in Canada; POSTAL OFFICER: Complaints; regulations and postal service.
REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION: Financial assistance of Golden Spruce Farms Inc. And to Hazelton Wood Products; construction of the Atlin Recreation Centre, REVENUE CANADA: Tax cases. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Triumf - Koan Facility; SECRETARY STATE: Project Literacy Terrace; multiculturalism policy of Canada; Operation Beaver; deletion of Aboriginal languages in the definition of Bill C-37; R.E.A.L. women; reduction in budget of Women's Programs. SOLICITOR GENERAL: Issues and cases. TRANSPORT: Canadian Aviation Safety Board, accident Ross River, Yukon; Wapaiti Audit (Air Crash); Stewart Airport; Vancouver Int'l Airport Expansion; Canada - U.S. Air transport Services; Construction Projects at the Terrace and Smithers Airports, B.C.; Vancouver Port Corporation; Prince Rupert Airport on Digby Island; CN railway large service between Prince Rupert and other B.C. communities; Alexander MacKenzie Voyageur Route; Telkwa Museum Society; Cruise ship Sea Lion; Search and Rescue (SAR) tasking; Telkwa footbridge; Via Rail's Jasper - Prince Rupert; Eurocan docks in Kitimat; TREASURY BOARD: Fulton request - National Indigenous Program of the Public Service Commission. URBAN AFFAIRS: Canadian Mortgage Housing Corporation's Policy; and VETERANS AFFAIRS: Welfare cases.
