Darrell Pasloski believes the best way to "build a better Yukon” is by building a strong team.

"I think Yukon's been headed in the right direction,” he said in an interview Thursday.

"We need to build on the successes that have occurred and maintain that momentum that we have. And I think we can do it through a team approach.”

That team could include some high-profile faces.

Cabinet ministers Glenn Hart, the MLA for Riverdale South, and Marian Horne, who represents Pelly-Nisutlin, threw their support behind Pasloski last Friday afternoon.

They joined independent Lake Laberge MLA Brad Cathers and former Pelly-Nisutlin MLA Dean Hassard.

Craig Tuton, a longtime campaign fixer for the federal Conservative and Yukon Party, also lent his support to Pasloski's leadership bid earlier this month.

Pasloski, a pharmacist and businessman, said having experience on his team is essential but is not the only element.

"We'd combine (current MLAs) with some new people,” he said.

"This would be a group of people that comes from different backgrounds who are all great people and are bringing different skill sets to the table.”

Pasloski unsuccessfully ran for the Yukon's seat in Parliament under the Conservative flag in the 2008 election.

He said his interest in politics comes from wanting to help a community which has supported him over the years.

"The community of Whitehorse, the community of Yukon has always been really good to me and to my family,” he said.

"It's has been a great experience for our family, to live here. Now I've got the time; now is the opportunity to give back at that larger scale.”

Giving back includes focusing on issues like land development, health care funding, education and relationships with First Nations, said Pasloski.

One issue that has been discussed at length during the leadership campaign is the feasibility of tying into the B.C. electrical grid, which Pasloski said he is "absolutely” in support of.

"I just want to make sure that everybody knows that this isn't a two-year project. This is a project that we need to start talking about now so that it can be a reality in 10 or 12 years of however long it would take.

"It certainly is a project that we would need the support of the federal government with.”

Pasloski believes the relationships he's built over the years would help him run the Yukon Party — and the territory — especially when it comes to projects such as tying into the grid.

"The prime minister (Stephen Harper) has said to me on many occasions that investing in the North is about building our nation,” said Pasloski. "Those are powerful words and encouraging to me.”

Encouraging investment in the Yukon is one thing Pasloski said the previous government has done an outstanding job of, and he is looking forward to

building upon that work.

"It's attracted investment, it's attracted more people,” he said.

"And that's what I've talked about, that we have been going down a really good path and we need to continue down that path, continue to invest in capital, in infrastructure because that helps the quality of life. There's a lot of things that we need to continue to roll along.”

If elected tomorrow, Pasloski said, his first priority would be developing a team to work on a party platform for the yet-to-be-called election.

"I've always believed that you get a group of people that all provide input into issues and situations and you come up with the best answer,” he said.

"I would be one of the voices that would be in there, discussing those issues, but to be successful and to move forward, we need to get a strong group of people together.”