This sub-series comprises 30 files arranged in alphabetical order by names of federal government departments and subject matter. The majority of the records deals with the 1993 time frame. The records dated 1990 to 1992 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: incoming correspondence and attachments; Fulton's and staff replies; clippings and photocopies of clippings; reports from private organizations; and transcript of court cases.
Issues documented: AGRICULTURE: Testing of Transgenetic corn at the University of Western Ontario; transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to humans. COMMUNICATION: Kincloth road to connect to other Nass Valley communities; America ferry "Aurora" and customs issues; snow clearing at the Stewart Airport; Craig River Valley/Bradfield Canal Road and Powerline proposed; Iskut Road project and environment of evolution; Gwaii Trust; illegal hunting in the Tlell area; Smithers customs facility; Tree Plan Canada. ENERGY: Tatshenshini designated as a Wilderness Park; tailing spills at the Royal Oak gold mine Yellowknife; operation of the Cominco hovercraft on the Stikine River; uranium tailing sites at Elliot Lake; sale of two Candu reactors to South Korean; motor vehicle fuel consumption standards act. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: A-B Line (International Land and Marine Boundary between the Canada - U.S.; nuclear American submarine travel in the Dixon Entrance; and B.C. Legislature declares B.C. as a member of the nuclear Free zone.
FISHERIES: Providing greater access to the fisheries for aboriginal people; North Coast sea urchin fishery; Great Glacier Salmon Ltd fish processing plant site; fisheries improvement Loans Act; closure of the B.C. Abalone Fishery; North Atlantic Fisheries Organization; Pacific Salmon Treaty; Sandsit harbour; participation of the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en Houses in the Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy. Queen Charlotte City Small Craft Harbour. FORESTRY: Clayoquot Sound of region for logging to MacMillan Blodel and International Forest Products; model forest program; Terrace Branch of Pacific technologies Incorporated; "Share Group" situation. FULTON, JAMES: Skeena constituency; row logs; significance of being a Canadian; living forests of Clayquot Sound; and Terrace to Kitimat Railway Line.
INDIAN AFFAIRS AND NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT: Gitsegukla Band; Gitwangak Indian Band's intention to reopen the Kitwanga Sawmill; Northern Native Fishing Corporation; "Accrete" marine blasting experiments in Dixon Entrance And Portland Canal; Council of the Hiada Nation's reaction about the implication of the federal budget on social housing; gravesite erosion at the old Kitamaat Village site on Entrance Point Peninsula; Oolicahn Prospects of Haisla Nation; Paril River Report; Eurocan Pulp and Paper Company correct tainting problem; Kemano River and Tainting of eulachon in the Kitimat River; Nisga'a House of Learning; JUSTICE: Leonard Peltier Case; application for Firearms Acquisition Certificate; and LABOUR: Royal Oak Mines, Yellowknife.
NATIONAL DEFENCE: CH-113 Labrador Helicopters safety and operational considerations; New EH-101 helicopter; ocean drilling program off Vancouver Island near a sunken ammo dump. POLITICS: Issue with an election returning officer; PUBLIC WORKS: Northumberland Strait Crossing project. SOLICITOR GENERAL: Kemano II Project; Fulton's request for an RCMP investigation into alleged criminal improprieties between the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Alcan Aluminium Ltd. TRANSPORT: Sandpit Harbour and Queen Charlotte City Harbour: Customs service at Smithers Airport; replace the services of the Coast Guard SARS S-61 helicopter at Prince Rupert in B.C.; Automated barometric pressures (Search and Rescue); and sewage disposal on Via Rail passenger cars.
