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Bill meant to speed up housing approvals passes second reading in B.C. legislature

A bill that would place greater reliance on professionals during the building approvals process has passed second reading in the B.C. legislature. The professional reliance act, brought forward as a private member’s bill by Nanaimo-Lantzville MLA George Anderson to speed up development approvals, garnered full support from the B.C. NDP in a vote on Monday,

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B.C. northern transmission line, data centre bill passes by smallest of margins

Speaker Raj Chouhan broke a tie in the B.C. legislature on Wednesday evening on a major energy bill, with the government again pushing through its agenda without the support of the NDP’s sometime partner, the B.C. Greens. Like Bills 14 and 15, the controversial energy and infrastructure bills that passed at the end of the

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