2022 Year in Review

2022 Priorities and Advocacy

(Advocacy delivered primarily in collaboration with the Chamber’s Sector Committees)

-          Electrical rates, regulatory processes and simplifying bills

-          Independent Power Producer regulations

-          Wood permits and supply

-          Our Clean Future – review and assessment of the strategy (ongoing, we have a have member sitting on the Yukon Climate Leadership Council)

-          Extended Producer Responsibility Advisory Committee

-          Yukon Housing Action Plan Committee- (Housing is a high impact focus for the territory and greatly contributes to issues relating to labour shortage) 

-          Liquor pricing relief during COVID

-          Advocating for private sector participation in Cannabis retail

-          Port development in Skagway, Haines and Stewart

-          Yukon First Nations Procurement Policy – Working Group & Monitor and Review Committee

-          Yukon Government Procurement – Procurement Business Committee and Yukon Business Definition Working Group

-          Regulatory Affairs Committee – development permits and reducing red tape

-          Labor Market Development and Challenges – Yukon Recruitment and Retention Task Force, meetings with Premier Silver and Minister Pillai, raising the immigration cap for Yukon

-          Buy Yukon- Local Gift Card program to support local businesses and encourage a robust local            economy

-          Minimum wage increases- addressed changes and impacts to small business

-          Rent cap legislation

-          Enhanced cooperation and collaboration with the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce

-          Enhanced Digital and IT integration in YCC operations

-          Office of the Employer Advisor – continued to work on behalf of employers (new EA as of Nov 2022)

-          Monitoring WSCB funding reserves and rebating over target earnings to Employers