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Pictured above: DARRELL PASLOSKI
Pasloski seeks re-election
Darrell Pasloski, MLA for Mountainview, leader of the Yukon Party and current Premier, will be seeking re-election in the riding of Mountainview.
Darrell Pasloski, MLA for Mountainview, leader of the Yukon Party and current Premier, will be seeking re-election in the riding of Mountainview.
“The Yukon Party believes that government should focus on creating jobs, growing the economy, and making life more affordable for Yukon families by keeping taxes low. We need to make sure that, no matter what the issue, we find solutions that make sense in the North,” said Pasloski.
Over the last five years, the Yukon Party has made changes including reducing taxes to the point that the average family of four will save up to $777 on their annual tax bill and implementing a 25 per cent reduction in the small business tax rate, the party said in a statement issued today.
Last year, 74 per cent of government contracts went to local companies, the statement added.
This year, the Yukon Party has started a revamp of the procurement directive to try to secure more local benefits.
The Yukon Party has also created an investment attraction strategy for the Yukon mining industry, intended to guide current investment attraction initiatives in conjunction with First Nations, development corporations, and other industry and business stakeholders.
“Life is tougher north of 60 and policies made down south aren’t always practical here. We need a made-in-Yukon approach that protects our resource industry, grows small businesses, invests in schools and health care, and protects our Yukon way of life. Yukoners do not need a carbon tax that will only increase the cost of everything, including everyday expenses such as gas, groceries and diapers,” Pasloski said.
In addition to serving as Yukon’s Premier, Pasloski has been the MLA for Mountainview since the territorial election of 2011.
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Comments (22)
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moe on Aug 31, 2016 at 12:35 pm
PSG - I have read your posts about how tourism and trophy hunters should be paying real dollars for the use of pristine wilderness, and I agree.
Turning a place into a park sounds like it would make it permanently protected. However, lots of activities in actuality happen in parks that might surprise people. Algonquin in Ontario allows industrial scale logging, trapping, guided tours, canoe rentals etc. I don't know if it's the same in the Yukon that licenses can be given out for mining, oil and gas, logging, tourism, trapping etc inside parks. Obviously it's a different deal with the FN, they have rights and no matter what those rights are theirs.
Basically I support whatever will protect the area as pristine wilderness and I think the Peel Plan is the best chance of that happening. The world is getting eaten up by industrialization and I value wilderness for its own sake.
I realize that the plan actually only protects 55%, or something close to that, with an additional 25% or so set aside for 10 years so people at that time can decide what they want to do with it.
Back to the park, I do not think we should be allowing commercial use in parks, or even in the Yukon, without reimbursement to the Yukon for preserving the area in more or less a wilderness state. Guides and outfitters should have to pay fees equal to campground fees in Algonquin Park, per person, for using this area. I'm talking in the range of $25 to $35 per day per person. It's peanuts but it's more than we get from a placer operation (18 cents per ounce or something), and they wreck the place. But as with mining, tourism done right with the right kind of tourists does support other business and creates other economic activity in the Yukon besides just their fees. With the bonus that they are not destroying the place or taking anything away (assuming no forest fires and with a caveat against trophy hunting to some extent because they are in fact killing animals.)
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Connor on Aug 30, 2016 at 4:11 pm
The Yukon has just not been doing well under the current regime.
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ProScience Greenie on Aug 30, 2016 at 12:51 pm
The YP messed up with mining by chasing and bending over backwards for the almighty Chinese
mega-project mining dollar rather than giving support to established Canadian junior miners with good properties. And running the TFW program at full throttle with zero oversight instead of ensuring decent wages for Yukoners made it worse.
The NDP's solution to the resource industry boom or bust cycle is to throw away the boom and keep the bust. That is classic champagne socialism.
Hard to say what the Libs will be like with mining but guessing they will do whatever Trudeau tells them to do. Hope I'm wrong on that and they put the Yukon's interests ahead of Ottawa's.
Do you support a park in the Peel moe? With no park on the table there will be no true protection.
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Don't believe the facts on Aug 30, 2016 at 11:05 am
Every area of economy is growing except for mining and it is making its way back. We are not the third worse economy in Canada. There are five provinces and territories worse than the Yukon if you look at it in the terms of economic growth.
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ProScience Greenie on Aug 29, 2016 at 7:01 pm
The only way to protect the Peel is to make it a big park. To date no party proposes doing that so they are all guilty of exploitation of that watershed. Announce the creation of a park Paz and you may get some votes out of it.
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moe on Aug 29, 2016 at 4:14 pm
Time to show the old cronies at the Yukon Party the door. And that includes the same old geezers who have been running the show behind the scenes for decades. Archie Lang giving Mountain View golf course hundreds of thousands of dollars in a sneak manouvre and sticking the bill to the people buying lots in Whistlebend is just one small example of the garbage I'm sick of.
Much more important is the fact that the YP represents mining companies and the oil and gas industry much more than they care about Yukoners and the Yukon. Mining can be good, but not when there is no net benefit for the Yukon, which is what I am seeing with for instance the antics at the Wolverine Mine. Secondly, resource extraction is boom and bust and we end up paying for the clean up and living with the damage when the value is gone. Time to light new candles.
The biggest thing for me was their trickery with the Peel Plan. That was when I said, 'That's it. Finished.'
Long, long overdue for a change of diapers.
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Harvey on Aug 29, 2016 at 2:49 pm
I would like to ask Premier Pasloski why the Yukon achieved the second worst economic growth of all the provinces for the last 3 years running? How is B.C. doing so well while we are not even though we have many of the same industries? If he can give me plausible answers to these questions I will vote for the Yukon Party but, if not then I'm ready to let someone else try.
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DP on Aug 29, 2016 at 2:22 pm
Would you buy a used car from this guy?
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Richard Ablanalp on Aug 27, 2016 at 12:50 pm
HEY - DARRELL - PROTECT THE PEEL
how many times do we have to tell you ?
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Alex Franklin on Aug 26, 2016 at 4:41 pm
I'm tired of Pasloski's intransigence and lawsuits
the Yukon REALLY needs some new political blood at the top.
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Josey Wales on Aug 25, 2016 at 11:02 pm
So he seeks re-election does he?
Whilst it is always possible I feel very, very unlikely.
Speaking as a former blue team supporter, there are many reasons why I do not anymore.
Flooding the country with TFW's for but one reason.
I always thought importing peasant cultures was a Liberal value, clearly I was wrong.
Given that so, so many folks desire the Liberal leadership offers, and we are stocked full these days of idiots, cursed either way really.
Blue team...he stays
Red team...study the Koran and condition yourself for capitulation.
Orange team...see above but a hybrid of sorts between revisiting the 7th century and the good Ol' days of Stalin.
So yes folks holding a belief that an election ensure some sense of western values and democracy...your voice?
Is an absolute fantasy, Darrell is but one player in a game we are the pawns of.
Post election here the busiest place in town will be the liquor store.
Drowning sorrows from the change in colours for some, celebration from the criminals, victims of alleged injustices (pick a cause...there are many)' virtually everyone that partake swill hit it hard no matter how it goes.
Did ya'll notice no team green scenario?
...before I asked?
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my vote on Aug 25, 2016 at 10:06 pm
My Vote is for Liberal! Need a new voice in there who will work for the People!
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CJ on Aug 25, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Call the election already. The way these guys are milking their exposure in the last gasp of their government is just wrong.
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Please just go away on Aug 25, 2016 at 9:30 pm
The emperor that has no clothes is Darrell Pasloski. The Yukon Party will not win this election and the Paz's ego will not permit him to stick around as the leader of the opposition so why waste our time Darrell?
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Jack Colby on Aug 25, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Pasloski for pharmacist
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Mountainview Constituent on Aug 25, 2016 at 8:35 pm
Way to go Darrell, you'll have my vote!
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Tim on Aug 25, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Please Mr Priemer tell Yukoners just how and what you did to reduce taxes and save the average Yukon family of four $777. If you don't mind tells Yukoners how many new small businesses were created by your reduction in small business tax?
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Joe and jane on Aug 25, 2016 at 4:13 pm
Too late, we remember Peel, Darius, Northern housing trust, f/n lawsuits, bill whatever it was amendments lies, buddies getting key jobs and on and on..... And FYI, life is not tougher in the north we just have different challenges.
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June Jackson on Aug 25, 2016 at 4:06 pm
"policies made down south aren’t always practical here. We need a made-in-Yukon approach that protects our resource industry, grows small businesses, invests in schools and health care, and protects our Yukon way of life. Yukoners do not need a carbon tax that will only increase the cost of everything, including everyday expenses such as gas, groceries and diapers,” Pasloski said.
He didn't do that his first term..no reason to think he's suddenly changed his stripes... and I sure as hell don't want to see him getting a gold plated pension for having cut the Pioneer grant in half for widows and alone seniors, failed to put drugs on the formulary that many have to pay for now, ticked me off with his heavy handedness over Whistle Bend, cut funding to various Health and Social and Education programs, took himself and his wife all over the world and he wasn't staying in B n'Bs either, allowed his Ministers to pick up DUI charges with impunity, then there is the golf course.. I could go on for quite a while.. YP has been rife with scandals. Practically one a week.
In 2014 the Yukon News said.. "Premier Darrell Pasloski must think that most Yukoners are rubes and dim-wits. How else to explain his ongoing reliance on staying mum when the latest political scandal detonates". And that about sums up the relationship with me and the YP. I hope they never ever see the light of political day in my lifetime.
At the end of the month, I get to decide... do I want to eat? do I want a roof? or do I want my medicine? I am, unfortunately not the only senior I know looking at those choices.. Thanks Darryl... I hope Karma is looking straight at you.
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Yukonersfirst on Aug 25, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Not this time. Time for a fresh voice I think.
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Great to see a politicians with a positive outlook for the Yukon on Aug 25, 2016 at 2:53 pm
Yukoners are tired of the blame and fault game that other politician can only talk about.
There is results in his statements, which needs to continue for all Yukoners needs and interest.
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no carbon/weather tax on Aug 25, 2016 at 2:48 pm
You have my support. The only party to come out in support of common sense. Carbon pricing is nothing more than a tax scam and a wealth redistribution scheme. I applaud your courage Darrell to say that "the emperor has no clothes"