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AuthorKolody, Linda
PositionLegislative Reports

Sitting Dates

The 2017 Fall Sitting of the Second Session of the 34th Legislative Assembly concluded on November 27, after 30 sitting days.

Pursuant to an October 2017 change to Standing Order 75 that provides for Spring Sittings to begin during the first week of March and Fall Sittings to begin during the first week of October, the 2018 Spring Sitting will (barring some extraordinary circumstance) begin on March 1.

Bills

By the end of the Sitting, Commissioner Doug Phillips had assented to all 11 government bills (detailed in Yukon's preceding Legislative Report) introduced during the Sitting. (No private members' bills were introduced during the Sitting.)

Among the bills assented to were Bill No. 8, Act to Amend the Workers' Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act (2017), presumptive PTSD legislation sponsored by the Minister responsible for the Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board, Jeanie Dendys. The act "establish[es] a presumption that certain emergency response workers who have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder have a work-related injury and are therefore entitled to compensation".

Bill No. 6, Public Airports Act, introduced by Richard Mostyn, Minister of Highways and Public Works, established a legislative framework for public airports. Prior to the passage of this legislation, airports had been managed and administered through a number of different acts and their regulations.

Bill No. 14, Legal Profession Act, 2017, replaced and modernized the previous version of the act regulating the legal profession. In her remarks at second reading of the bill, the Minister of Justice, Tracy-Anne McPhee, recognized the Law Society of Yukon for the extensive work it had undertaken identifying issues with the previous version of the Act and presenting to the department a document on recommended changes and on the underlying rationale for them.

Commissioner of Yukon

Mr. Phillips' term as Commissioner commenced on December 17, 2010, was extended on November 29, 2015, and concludes on January 31, 2018. For the assent ceremony on the final day of the 2017 Fall Sitting, the Commissioner was accompanied into the House by RCMP Aide-de-Camp Staff Sergeant Jane Boissonneault, and Military Aide-de-Camp Captain Kathleen Tipton (RCAF). Before leaving the Chamber, the Commissioner delivered remarks expressing his thanks to former Premier Darrell Pasloski, current Premier Sandy Silver, ML As "past and present", his...

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