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HOUSE BUSINESS TO RESUME – Yukon MLAs will return to the legislature March 5, it was announced Tuesday. Above: the house is seen on Oct. 8, 2019, during the legislators’ fall sitting.
Legislature will be reconvened March 5
Yukon MLAs will return to the legislature on the afternoon of March 5.
Yukon MLAs will return to the legislature on the afternoon of March 5.
Today, Speaker Nils Clarke issued formal notice of the reconvening of the 19-seat house.
The spring sitting will include the tabling of the 2020-21 fiscal year budget.
Last March, Sandy Silver, the premier and finance minister, tabled a budget worth $1.5 billion for the current 2019-20 fiscal year, which will end March 31.
The Liberal majority government is just over three years into the five-year mandate it won in November 2016.
The coming sitting will be the final one of Stacey Hassard’s interim leadership of the official Opposition Yukon Party.
The party will choose a successor to former leader Darrell Pasloski on May 23.
Longtime MLA Brad Cathers and former MLA Currie Dixon are the two declared candidates.
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Joe on Jan 9, 2020 at 8:59 pm
High paid part time jobs = little relevance and we should consider eliminating them. When someone is important it is full time. Let's start looking at a modern government to replace bloated expensive very inefficient current system.
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Miles Epanhauser on Jan 8, 2020 at 4:20 pm
Seriously, we have so much going on and they have an incredibly large break.
The house should be in session?