Mike McLarnon is a

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former politician, who represented the

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Whitehorse Centre Whitehorse Centre is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon in Canada. It was created in 1992 from an amalgamation of the ridings of Whitehorse North Centre and Whitehorse South C ...

in the

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from 2000 to 2002. McLarnon was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon and operated several businesses in Whitehorse until assuming political office in the Yukon Legislature. While in office, he served as the Deputy Speaker of the Yukon Legislature and the Chair of the Committee of the Whole. He also served on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on behalf of the Yukon. He was elected as a member of the

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in the 2000 election. In that election, he beat out the incumbent MLA

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, who was the NDP candidate, and Vicky Durrant, the Yukon Party candidate, by a wide margin. However, in 2002 he was one of three MLAs, along with Wayne Jim and Don Roberts, who resigned from the Liberal Party caucus in 2002 to protest the leadership of

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, effectively reducing Duncan's government to a minority. He continued to sit as an independent until the time that the following election was called. Analysts claim that the Liberal party's newfound minority party status and subsequent pressure from the opposition is what eventually led to the end of the Liberal party's position in the legislature. In the resulting 2002 election, McLarnon ran as an independent candidate and was defeated by

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leader

. Prior to operating his own business and eventually running for political office, McLarnon pursued his higher education at

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(Ottawa) and the

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(Vancouver). While at Carleton University, McLarnon served in the House of Commons Page Program. McLarnon is married and continues to maintain residence in Whitehorse. He is a recipient of the

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for his work in representing the political interests of Yukoners.http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/index_e.asp?results=1&Firstname=&Middlename=&Lastname=McLarnon&City=&Province=YT&TypeID=jubilee&CanInt=&npp=25#results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McLarnon, Mike British Columbia Institute of Technology alumni Yukon Liberal Party MLAs Living people 1965 births Politicians from Whitehorse