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The Legislature of Yukon is the legislature of the territory of Yukon, Canada. The legislature is made of two elements: the Commissioner of Yukon, who represents the federal government of Canada, and the unicameral assembly Yukon Legislative Assembly. The legislature has existed since Yukon was formed out of part of the Northwest Territories in ...
The Executive Council of Yukon (French: Conseil exécutif du Yukon), more commonly known as the Cabinet of Yukon (French: Cabinet du Yukon), is the cabinet of the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is chosen by the Premier from the elected members of the governing party in the Yukon Legislative Assembly. [1]
That act established Yukon as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage. Canada Post uses the territory's internationally approved postal abbreviation of YT. [10] In 2021, territorial government policy was changed so that The Yukon would be recommended for use in official territorial government materials. [11]
Ranj Pillai (born January 1974) is a Canadian politician, who has been the tenth premier of Yukon since January 14, 2023, [2] and leader of the Yukon Liberal Party since January 9, 2023. [3] He represents the electoral district of Porter Creek South in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, to which he was first elected in the 2016 election. [4]
In October 2022, Deputy Premier Tracy-Anne McPhee, the Commissioner of Yukon Angélique Bernard presided at a ceremony naming the structure in honor of Jim Smith, the territory's longest-serving Commissioner, to recognize his contributions to the government. [3] Members of Smith's family attended the ceremony.
The commissioner of Yukon (French: Commissaire du Yukon) is the representative of the Government of Canada in the Canadian federal territory of Yukon.The commissioner is appointed by the federal government and, in contrast to the governor general of Canada or the lieutenant governors of the Canadian provinces, is not a viceroy and therefore not a direct representative of the Canadian monarch ...
Unique among Canada's three territories, the Yukon Legislative Assembly is the only territorial legislature which is organized along political party lines. In contrast, in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories , their legislative assemblies are elected on a non-partisan basis and operate on a consensus government model.
From 1898 to 1978, the legislative body in Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council. This body did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon. At the beginning it did not have law-making ability and was composed of appointed members or mixture of appointed and elected members.