Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon at the Yukon legislative assembly in Whitehorse in March, 2023.Crystal Schick/The Canadian Press
Currie Dixon has been sworn in as the Yukon’s next premier.
Dixon’s Yukon Party won 14 of 21 seats in the territory’s legislative assembly in the Nov. 3 election, which saw the previously governing Liberals reduced to one seat.
The Yukon NDP forms the official Opposition with six seats.
Dixon is the first premier born in the Yukon.
Currie Dixon set to become Yukon’s premier as party wins majority government
The swearing-in ceremony on Saturday also saw him unveil his eight-member cabinet, which includes a combination of former ministers from the last time the Yukon Party was in power, and new faces.
Dixon will also be minister of finance.
He says in a statement that the ministers each bring deep experience and a real passion for the territory.