B.C. unveils bill to fast track major projects [Video]

B.C. Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma says new legislation will speed up major public and private projects, including mines and other natural resource enterprises.

The government of Premier David Eby has previously promised to speed up permitting to improve the provincial economy after last year’s election, then amid tariff and annexation threats from United States President Donald Trump.

Ma says in the legislature that the Infrastructure Projects Act tabled on Thursday will designate projects that are significant to the province and oversee the planning, procurement and delivery of major capital projects.

She says the legislation will give the province additional power to speed up government projects as well as other provincially significant enterprises that provide economic, environmental or social benefits to British Columbia.

Ma says …