The Government of Yukon sought public input about the possibility of declaring National Aboriginal Day a statutory holiday in Yukon. The engagement took place from May 16 to July 16, 2017.

It's important that the government website works for you. This survey was intended to help us find out what information Yukoners need, as well as the tasks they expect to accomplish on a government website.

The Government of Yukon wishes to amend the Legal Profession Act, with the goal of tabling a bill during the fall legislative session.

The current Act has not kept up with changes to the way the legal profession is regulated in other Canadian jurisdictions, and needs flexibility to deal with the way the legal profession has changed over the last 20 years.

The government is seeking the views of lawyers, legal organizations and the business community. Members of the general public are also encouraged to submit their opinions.

We are conducting an online survey to gather feedback from Yukoners on the school calendar. Our goal is to set school calendar dates for the next four years so that all school communities can more easily plan for school and holidays. 

We want to know your thoughts on:

• when school should start and end;
• the dates for Christmas and March break; and
• the length of the school day, school year and summer break. 

The Government of Yukon is modernizing the regulatory structure under which societies operate to better meet present and future needs. We are providing you with an opportunity to review proposed key policy directions for the new societies legislation.   

This engagement was to inform school communities and to gather feedback on the Government of Yukon's proposed changes to student assessment and the way that schools communicate to students and parents about student learning progress. 

The Public Airports Act was passed in November 2017. The second phase of engagement about regulations will open in 2018 and dates and event locations will be posted here once they are known.

The Public Airports Act establishes the government’s legal authority to manage airports and airport lands.  It complements federal legislation and provides the legal authority to manage day-to-day airport operations.

Airports in Yukon have been operating using various pieces of legislation including the Lands Act, the Territorial Lands (Yukon) Act, the Motor Vehicles Act, the Financial Administration Act since the mid-1990s. This piecemeal approach was only intended to be temporary.

The Government of Yukon modelled the new airports Act after the NWT’s Public Airports Act.  Details to the Act will follow in regulations, which we will develop over the next 6 to 12 months.

We invited aviation stakeholders and industry representatives to provide feedback on the proposed Act. We asked them what they would like to see in the Act, and what, if anything, they thought was missing.  

The Liquor Act is 40 years old and parts of the legislation are no longer relevant. The Yukon Liquor Corporation wants Yukon citizens to help guide the drafting of an updated Act. An updated Act will reflect best practices, meet modern-day realities and future needs. It will also allow us to balance social responsibilities and local economic opportunities.

The Government of Yukon committed to amending the Workers’ Compensation Act to include a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presumption for emergency response workers. On behalf of the government, Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board (YWCHSB) recently conducted a public consultation to collect public input on the following two issues:

1. The Workers’ Compensation Act will be amended in 2017 to provide a PTSD presumption for emergency response workers which will apply to firefighters, paramedics and police officers. The government wants to know what other occupations the public thinks should be considered in the future.
2. The government also wants to know if the public would support amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act to promote the development of regulations aimed at preventing mental injuries at work.

We are modernizing Yukon’s recycling system by amending the Designated Materials Regulation. The changes will apply surcharges on electronic and electrical products at the point of purchase. The surcharges you already pay on new tires will change and new tire categories will be added. The goal of these changes is to encourage people to take their old tires, electronics and electrical items to the landfill or recycling depot and keep these items out of Yukon’s wild spaces, while also balancing the needs of retailers and businesses.

We want to hear your views on which products should be included, how much surcharges should be, and when these changes should come into effect.