Yukon premier endorses Conservative candidate
The Hon Dennis Fentie (at right), Premier of Yukon, backs the Conservative candidate in the federal election.
Premier Dennis Fentie waded into the federal election fray today by throwing his support behind Yukon Conservative election candidate Darrell Pasloski – but not before lambasting the Liberals and incumbent MP Larry Bagnell.
“This misguided approach by (federal Liberal Leader Stephane) Dion and the Liberals and Mr. Bagnell to address climate change, then try and spin it to give us income tax breaks, is simply not going to cut it,” Fentie told the Star in an interview late this morning.
“A carbon tax would be very damaging to this territory and the North and indeed our economy and our cost of living.”
The premier says he has a Conservative sign in his yard.
Mr Fentie heads the territory’s Yukon Party government. The Yukon Party used to be the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party, but changed its name during the dark days when Brian Mulroney was Canada’s exceedingly unpopular prime minister.