Cabinet minister to chair Yukon Party election campaign
MLA Currie Dixon is not running for re-election this fall, but he will be running the governing party's campaign.
MLA Currie Dixon won't be running for re-election, but he will be running a campaign
MLA Currie Dixon won't be stepping away from Yukon territorial politics after all — at least, not yet.
The community services minister announced in June that he would not seek re-election this fall. But on Wednesday, the Yukon Party named him chair of the party's upcoming campaign.
The election is expected to be called anytime in the coming days.
"This election is an incredibly important one for Yukon families," Dixon says in a Yukon Party news release. He says his party will create jobs and fight against a carbon tax.
Dixon was named minister of the environment and minister of economic development in 2011, becoming the youngest cabinet minister in Yukon history at the age of 26. He took over the community services portfolio last year.