Like the other two territories in Canada, Yukon has only one seat. The debates for this riding are therefore provincial. Foremost among these are the cost of groceries and the shortage of on-reserve housing.
This is the observation that emerges from the coverage of the campaign by the Whitehorse Star and in particular a debate between four of the five candidates (the conservative was not there) at the end of September. Perishable goods cost twice as much in the Yukon as in the ten provinces.
Liberal Larry Bagnell has been a member since 2000, except between 2011 and 2015, when the Conservatives narrowly won the riding. Bagnell thrilled the NDP constituency – former NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin was elected to the Yukon from 1989 to 1997.
The Yukon is also fertile ground for the strategy of some Aboriginal leaders to increase voter turnout on reserves. Nearly one-quarter of Yukoners are Aboriginal, a proportion only exceeded by Nunavut. But just 60% of Yukon's aboriginal people voted in 2015, despite the launch of a national campaign to get the vote out of First Nations. That's 20 points less than non-aboriginal people.
All candidates had gone to a debate on Aboriginal issues last Wednesday in Whitehorse, where the on-reserve housing crisis was on the rise. According to Whitehorse Star, the conservative candidate has been hit hard on the issue.
At the beginning of October, columnist Keith Halliday of the Yukon News site lamented that none of the chiefs made a stop in the territory of 36,000 (Andrew Scheer went there in … July). "The last time a federal campaign talked about the North was in 1958 with Diefenbarker," wrote Halliday, whose nickname is Yukonomist.
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