Justice Minister Marian Horne has stated what her conflict of interest is on the Carmacks-to-Stewart Crossing transmission line project.

However, her explanation has left Liberal justice critic Don Inverarity with more questions.

During question period Wednesday, Inverarity continued queries that began with Liberal MLA Gary McRobb the day before, when Horne referred questions on Yukon Energy to acting minister Elaine Taylor due to the conflict.

Horne later stated her conflict is with the transmission line, not Yukon Energy.

The rookie minister was asked by Inverarity to disclose the nature of the conflict and table advice she said she received from the territory's conflict commissioner.

Horne told the legislature her brother, Roland Bailey, is the executive vice-president of Ballard Construction. That company was awarded the contract for the line in a partnership with the Northern Tutchone First Nation and Arctic Power.

Under the Public Utilities Act, the Justice minister is responsible for issuing project certificates on the transmission line project, she said.

'I have not signed the certificate, and in order to avoid the perception of a conflict even though it is not a member of my household, nor a dependent I have stepped aside from the involvement in matters related to the Carmacks-to-Stewart Crossing transmission line,' she later said as Inverarity continued to question her about not stating the conflict, as required, before it came out through a question in the legislature.

Following question period, Horne would not speak to reporters on the issue.

Cabinet spokesman Albert Petersen told the media she had said everything she wanted to say on the subject during question period.

As Inverarity pointed out, though, the minister had not gone through her full disclosure before she was cut off by Speaker Ted Staffen.

'So I'm not 100-per-cent sure of what the conflict is,' he said.

While he said it's a good thing the minister is erring on the side that there is a perceived conflict, Inverarity said he's disappointed it's taken so long for Horne to publicly state it.

She would have had more time to state the nature of the conflict had she declared it through a ministerial statement or by tabling any documents on it, he noted.

'Conflicts as a general rule are complex in nature,' Inverarity said. 'With only two minutes to respond in question period, it's difficult to do that.'

The Justice critic also remains curious about whether the minister may have other conflicts of interest after having to 'drag these things out.'

'If there's others, I'd like to see them. There's nothing on record that I can see,' Inverarity said.

This issue goes back to disclosure in general for the Yukon government, he argued, pointing to the $36.5 million the government invested but haven't been able to get back at its maturity date.

'We had to drag that out of them,' Inverarity said.

Information from the government needs to come faster, he suggested.

In this case, there's a contract the Justice minister may have had influence over, but that remains unknown.

'I'm hoping that she will give us a written statement,' Inverarity said, adding he'd also like to see the comments made by Conflicts Commissioner David Jones on the issue.

'If it's not forthcoming, I'm going to continue to press for it,' he continued.

McRobb sent a letter to Jones on Tuesday asking for the advice that was given to Horne on the issue.