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