Help
How to...
- find the transcript of a debate in the House.
- find the transcript of a Legislative Committee
meeting.
- find specific words in a transcript.
- find what has been said about a topic in House
debates.
- find what has been said about a topic in Legislative
Committee meetings.
- find what an MLA has said.
- use the Hansard Index.
- How to find out how an MLA voted on an item
of business.
1. How to find the transcript of a debate in
the House:
- Go to the Debates of the Legislative Assembly
page, which covers the current session, or link to the list for
another year from the Previous Sessions
page.
- Choose the link for the appropriate sitting: morning or afternoon,
and debate in the House or in an estimates committee (e.g., Committee
A).
- Note: although estimates debates are often conducted
in a committee room, they are part of the regular legislative
sitting. The draft Blues transcripts are separate, but
the final transcript for a day's sitting includes any estimates
committee meetings held on that day.
2. How to find the transcript of a Legislative
Committee meeting:
- Go to the Committees page.
- Click on the name of the committee you are interested in (e.g.,
Public Accounts).
- A list of Transcripts of that committee will appear. Click on
the date of the meeting whose transcript you want to see.
3. How to find specific words in a transcript:
- With the transcript open, press the key combination
Ctrl+F
to activate your browser program's "Find" function.
- A search box will appear. Use it to search for keywords you
want to find: a member's name, the name of a company, or a word
or phrase — or part of one — that might have been
used in speaking about the subject you are interested in.
4. How to find what has been said about a topic
in House or estimates debates:
- Use the search box at the top of any Hansard page, or link to
the Hansard Search page. Search
from there for specific words or phrases, or use the Hansard
Index (see point 7 below).
- On the Hansard Search page, enter specific keywords for your
search in the search box. Two words together make a phrase (e.g.,
"British Columbia"); if the words you are looking for won't necessarily
occur in a phrase, separate them with "and" (without quotation
marks).
- Additional help on entering keywords can be found on the Search
Help page.
- Select the area(s) to search — the current session, a
previous session or all sessions; debate transcripts or Index.
- Click the "Search for Documents" button.
- You will be presented with a list of documents that contain
the search terms you entered.
- For each document in the list, there are two links. The first
link takes you to the formatted document; you can find your search
terms in the document by using a Ctrl+F search (see method
3 above). The second link is to an unformatted version of
the document, which has clickable links within it that take you
directly to your search terms.
5. How to find what has been said about a topic
in Legislative Committee meetings.
6. How to find what an MLA has said.
- Search for his or her last name using the search box on any
Hansard page or the Hansard Search page. From the Hansard Search
page you can search committee transcripts as well. You may add
keywords if you are looking for what an MLA has said on a particular
topic.
- Or use the Hansard Index (see below).
7. How to use the Hansard Index
- You may either consult the Index directly or search it using
the Hansard Search page.
- To consult the Index directly, go to the Hansard
Index page and select the appropriate index: (1) the skeleton
index of a session in progress, (2) the interim index of the current
session or (3) the completed index for a previous session.
- Click on the first letter of the topic or of the name you are
interested in.
- Scroll down until you find the name or topic you are interested
in, or use your browser's search function, as in point
3 above.
- Clicking on the page number beside a topic or name will take
you to the appropriate page in the appropriate Hansard transcript.
8. How to find what an MLA has said.
- Link to Recorded divisions, or standing votes, from the Index
home page. A listing called Voting Records by Member is available
from the 4th Session, 36th Parliament (2000), onward. Click on
the figure 1 preceding the alphabet for links to the corresponding
Hansard transcript to view the entire recorded vote in context.
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