Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon and the Speaker of the legislature paid tribute today to former cabinet minister Archie Lang, who has died. He
would have turned 73 next month.
“It is with a heavy heart that I learned of the passing of former Yukon Party MLA Archie Lang, who was a true giant of Yukon history,” Dixon said.
“Archie served the Yukon well over his two terms in office and played a key part in the Yukon Party governments elected in 2002 and 2006,
serving as a minister in three portfolios during that time,” Dixon said.
“He was also a prominent and successful businessman in several communities throughout the Yukon.”
The controversy over the government’s First Nations Procurement Policy flared up again in the legislature last Thursday, during the opening day of the spring session.
It resulted in an unusual and contentious clash between Richard Mostyn, the minister of Highways and Public Works, and the official Opposition
Leader Stacey Hassard.
During question period, Hassard said, “Last December, the minister of Highways and Public Works told this house that he had conducted
extensive consultations with the business community on the First Nation procurement policy.
“He even claimed that he had conducted one-on-one consultations with businesses before announcing the policy, yet he was unable to tell us a
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Always a leader : Vuntut Gwitchin chief remembers the late Darius Elias
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm says the death of former MLA Darius Elias last week has left a huge hole in his community.
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Vuntut Gwitchin Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm, left, and former deputy chief Darius Elias who died in 2021.(Alexandra Byers/CBC)
Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm remembers talking to the late Darius Elias in 2018, when the two men both ran for the leadership of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.
Elias was already a seasoned politician at the time he d served as MLA for the Vuntut Gwitchin riding for 10 years while Tizya-Tramm was, by comparison, relatively new to elected politics.
Former Yukon MLA Darius Elias has died
Former Yukon MLA Darius Elias has died. He served 10 years in the Yukon legislature before becoming deputy chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.
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Elias served 10 years as MLA for the Vuntut Gwitchin riding, first as a Liberal then with the Yukon Party
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Former Yukon MLA Darius Elias, who represented the Vuntut Gwitchin riding for 10 years in the territorial legislature, has died. (Alexandra Byers/CBC)
Darius Elias, a former MLA who represented Yukon s northernmost community for 10 years in the legislature, has died.