Many Yukoners are asking why the Yukon Party government appears to be governing much like the Liberals. This seems to be a central concern for many people regarding the current direction of the government. The party was elected on a campaign platform that promised to address the issues many believed were harming the Yukon way of life. However, since taking office, it appears that much of that platform has been set aside.

Many Yukoners are increasingly asking why the Yukon Party government is governing in a manner that looks more like it favors special interest groups rather then focusing on all Yukon residents. This has become a serious concern for residents who voted for change based on campaign promises that appeared to offer a clear break from the policies they believed were undermining the Yukon way of life. Here is a couple of the Yukon party platform promises

Focus on Rural Yukon and Municipalities

October 12, 2025

The Yukon Party is announcing its plans to support municipal governments and local advisory councils, as well as revitalize the services available to rural Yukoners throughout Yukon communities.

From closing rural transfer stations and shuttering highway rest stops to prolonged closures of rural health centres and ever-declining highways and roads, new legislation and regulations have most often been imposed without consulting communities.

The Yukon Party will amplify rural Yukoners’ voices and revive services within communities by:

• Launching a robust recruitment campaign to attract teachers, health care workers and trades professionals to rural Yukon and offer incentives for them to establish roots and access education and health care locally.

• Empowering public servants to live and work in rural Yukon; leveraging lessons learned from remote workers, identifying eligible territorial government positions and encouraging public servants to relocate to rural Yukon where appropriate.

• Strengthening municipal governments by working more closely on infrastructure planning and development, and modernization of the Comprehensive Municipal Grant to ensure communities are adequately resourced to deliver essential services which underpin economic and housing goals.

• Empowering Local Advisory Councils by initiating discussions to expand their responsibilities and input into decisions which affect unincorporated communities, ensuring all Yukoners have a voice through their elected representatives.

• Mandating community impact analysis within the territorial government’s legislative, regulatory and policy development processes; ensuring communities are engaged early and their needs and priorities are considered.

• Advocating for changes to the Gas Tax funding program (Canada Community Building Fund), including to the limits on stacking for increased flexibility and to enable these funds to address infrastructure deficits more effectively.

• Adjust the Community Recreation Assistance Grant to account for inflation and index it to inflation going forward.

“The Yukon Party recognizes that local governments best understand their needs and priorities. To that end, we will establish an infrastructure fund for the territory’s seven unincorporated rural municipalities, mirroring the federal Gas Tax Fund’s flexible criteria,” continued Dixon, who is also the Yukon Party candidate for Copperbelt North. “This fund would be shared equally among these communities to maintain and upgrade critical infrastructure such as water systems and roads.”

Similarly, recognizing Whitehorse’s critical role as the territory’s capital, main service hub, and primary recipient of the Yukon’s population growth, the Yukon Party will create an annual fund for critical infrastructure repair, maintenance and development to meet the city’s needs and ensure reliable services.

Focus on the Public Service

October 19, 2025

The Yukon Party's commitment to respectful, transparent and collaborative governance in the territory.

The Yukon Party will help to restore trust in how decisions are made to ensure government works for all Yukoners by:

• Empowering the public service to develop and further deliver advice, options and critical thinking to inform sound decision-making.

• Setting focused and clear policy priorities which form the Yukon Party’s vision for the territory.

• Fostering a climate of collaboration and respect; recognizing the depth of experience and continuity the Yukon’s public service provides.

• Maintaining a clear separation of political leaders and the territorial government’s hiring process.

• Upholding the independence of public servants by enabling them to remain neutral and non-partisan.

• Supporting, inspiring, and rewarding public service careers through professional development, opportunities and training.

• Learning from past challenges by listening openly to ideas and solutions from public servants.

As previously announced, a Yukon Party government will also uphold and respect strong government-to-government relations with Yukon First Nations and municipalities.

Focus on Democratic Reform

October 26, 2025

The Yukon Party will increase government transparency to instill greater public confidence in the legislative process.

The Yukon Party will improve regulatory oversight and public scrutiny by:

• Ensuring that regulations are able to be scrutinized to promote transparency and accountability.

• Allowing for more input through public consultation on legislation and regulations.

• Focusing regulations on what they are intended to achieve and addressing the unintended consequences of the growing regulatory burden.

• Conducting a review of existing regulations to reveal redundant, overly-expensive, outdated or burdensome rules which are contributing to the administrative red tape currently hampering economic opportunities.

A Yukon Party government will promote a strong democracy by:

• Working with all political parties in the Yukon Legislative Assembly to reform campaign, election and political financing rules.

• Revisiting the fixed election date.

• Recognizing the flawed process for the development of the plebiscite for changing the territory’s voting system.

Instead of delivering on its commitments, the government seems to be continuing many of the same policies it criticized before the election. There is growing concern that, rather than correcting the problems facing the territory, the current government is simply carrying them forward. Many residents feel the government is fast-tracking decisions that could further weaken the Yukon’s future, while claiming fiscal restraint in the face of serious economic challenges and a growing deficit.

The answer, in my opinion, is that it's the front line bureaucrats who keep putting a monkey wrench in the wheels of progress no matter which party is elected. As the union contracts are now resurfacing for negotiations, there will be a hard charging on more money and benefits as the Yukon party government claims it has no money.

Currie Dixon has merged departments and claims it will lower cost of big government but hiring more out of territory workers which it can afford. Shrinking departments means not hiring more workers .

I don't see the logic but what do we know we are just bank machines in a large corporation that is flying by the seat of its pants.

Instead of delivering on those commitments, the government now appears to be abandoning much of its own platform and continuing down the same path it once criticized. To many Yukoners, it seems less like a new direction and more like a continuation of the same political approach under a different banner.

At a time when the territory is facing major economic pressure and growing deficit concerns, there is increasing frustration that the government is fast-tracking decisions without adequately addressing the long-term consequences for Yukon communities, families, and local control. Many now believe the Yukon Party is acting less like a principled conservative government and more like a Liberal administration in practice.

At one time the Yukon was promoting a slogan that it was larger than life, but in 2026 it's now the government that's larger then life in Yukon leaving it starving for life that it can not afford.