Tight vote Monday: Yukon election issues will sound familiar to rest of Canada
WHITEHORSE — Issues facing Yukon voters as they head to the polls Monday in a tight territorial election will sound familiar to every Canadian.
Reconciliation with First Nations. Climate change. Expanding a resource-based economy when commodity prices are low and without damaging the environment.
“It’s always a teeter-totter between the economy and the environment,” said Donna Larsen of Datapath Systems, which has been polling in Yukon for more than a decade.
“We were hearing a lot of words like, ‘We need balance.’ Balance. Balance. Balance,” she said. “That was, historically, a key theme.