WHITEHORSE – Yukon Party Health and Social Services Critic Brad Cathers reiterated outstanding questions from businesses and employees with the announcement of a new Yukon Dental Program. The delayed program also confirms the leader of the NDP’s claim that the territorial Liberals’ are doing the ‘bare minimum’ to fulfill commitments under the 2021 Confidence and Supply Agreement (CASA).
WHITEHORSE – The Yukon Party Official Opposition is again raising concerns about the territorial Liberal energy strategy that relies heavily on rented diesel generators for peaking electrical generation.
WHITEHORSE – Yukon Party Official Opposition Leader Currie Dixon announced his support of Canada’s Premiers request for a meeting to secure a fair health care funding deal for the territories and provinces from Ottawa.
WHITEHORSE – During a public hearing of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, government officials confirmed that the territorial Liberal government struggles to manage capital projects and left $94 million unspent. The committee heard the territorial Liberals budgeted a total of $437.3 million for capital projects in the 2021-2022 fiscal year. The actual amount spent during the fiscal year was $343.3 million, far below the “record setting” capital budget that was promised.
WHITEHORSE – Officials from the Department of Finance confirmed during a public hearing of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts the Liberal government has left millions of dollars on the table, exposing the unreliability of the Minister of Community Services claims that the Liberals were spending ‘record amounts’ on lot development.
Since Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn announced the startling decision that the Yukon would be pulling its bid to host the 2027 Canada Winter Games, Yukoners have been left scratching their heads about how we got here.
WHITEHORSE – The deadline for submitting a bid to the Canada Games Council has come and gone with no bid from the Yukon. This failure falls squarely at the feet of Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn and the territorial Liberal government.
WHITEHORSE – The Yukon Party Official Opposition is calling on all candidates in the territorial Liberal leadership election to reject the divisive approach taken by the Trudeau Liberals regarding firearms and speak up against the amendments to Bill C-21 that will target law-abiding gun owners in the Yukon.
WHITEHORSE – The Yukon Party Official Opposition is calling on the territorial Liberal government to help the Yukon’s tourism and hospitality sector by supporting a Yukon Party request for the federal government to suspend the Alcohol Escalator Tax.
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