The Premier’s Promises Aren’t Enough to Save Bill 15 – The Tyee

May 16, 2025

The infrastructure bill ignores Indigenous rights and the law. It should be shelved.

B.C. Premier David Eby has a Bill 15 problem. The new Infrastructure Projects Act, moving quickly through the legislature, would let the government eliminate the normal reviews for projects.

The government would be able to bypass environmental reviews, community consultation or First Nations’ consent for projects from mines to schools to pipelines.

If it decrees a project “provincially significant,” the government of the day will be able to push it through.