By David Baxter and Craig Lord The federal government’s contentious legislation to speed up major projects and reduce the number of labour disruptions is scheduled to come up for its first vote in the House of Commons Thursday. The vote will decide if Bill C-39 moves forward for further study at a House of Commons committee. The Liberals now have a majority of seats so the bill is expected to pass. Bill C-39 proposes to expand the government’s one-project, one-review, within one-year approach for major infrastructure plans to other projects across the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said his party would pass the legislation on to committee study to propose amendments to the “weak, watered-down, long-delayed” bill. NDP Leader Avi Lewis says Canadians did not vote for the “wholesale rewriting”…
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