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Paul Thériault
Paul Thériault is a Canadian former politician, who was leader of the Yukon Liberal Party in 1992."Yukon Party upsets NDP: Three former Tories win as Independents". ''Vancouver Sun'', October 20, 1992. A school principal in Whitehorse,David Leyton-Brown, ''Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1992''. University of Toronto Press, 1992. . p. 267. Thériault had resided in Yukon for just eighteen months when he sought the leadership. Prior to moving to Yukon, he had been a Saskatchewan Liberal Party candidate in the 1986 provincial election in Saskatchewan. He became leader at a time when the party was moribund, as it was entirely shut out of the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in the 1989 election and had been effectively leaderless since the resignation of Jim McLachlan following that defeat. In the hopes of uniting to defeat the incumbent Yukon New Democratic Party government in the 1992 election, Thériault entered coalition negotiations with John Ostashek's Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon Liberal Party
The Yukon Liberal Party (french: Parti libéral du Yukon) is a political party in the territory of Yukon, Canada. The party is not organizationally linked to the federal Liberal Party of Canada in any official manner. Sandy Silver, MLA for Klondike, is the Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party and Premier of Yukon. History After twenty years as a minor party, the Yukon Liberal Party won the 2000 general election and formed a government under Premier Pat Duncan. The government, however, was reduced to minority government status. Duncan called a snap election for November 2002 in the hope of regaining her government's majority. The party was almost completely wiped out, however, by the Yukon Party. Duncan won the Liberals' sole seat in the Yukon Party's landslide. The Liberal Party remained in opposition until the 2016 general election where the party went from third place in the legislature to majority government with its leader, Sandy Silver, becoming Premier. Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
