retiredtraveler
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I realize the monitors may put the nix on this question as it's not an RV-related, but I'll try.
Wife and I were wondering (we travel to Canada a lot and read Canadian news and understand a lot of the political system) about representation.
Does the Yukon Territory have representation in Parliament as the provinces do? Are there elected officials? I don't know what the status of 'territory' means in Canada --- I know there is a capital of the Yukon.
That's it --- I don't want to start a political argument here that the moderators will turn off. Just want to know what the Yukon Territory actually is or is it nothing more than a geographical area of the Northwest Territories, or BC?
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Doug360
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada
This link should answer your questions.
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Kanata
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Each territory has one or more MP's (member of parliament, who act as any other MP. The territories are a product of the Federal Government. Just as cities are product of the Provinces. They do not have all the powers that the Provinces do. In the last few years more and more powers have been given to them, to the point that if it continues they will be defacto Provinces. The primary issue is the division of powers between the Provinces and the Federal Government in the Constitution. There is no mention of either the Territories or Municipal government in the British North America Act.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada
This link should answer your questions.
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Little Kopit
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That is a fair quick sketch in Wikipedia.
I rather like that animated map showing the evolution of various borders. The text also mentioned that between Labrador (of Newfoundland and Labrador) and Quebec in 1927.
Now, it goes into parliamentary government structure and names for the provinces, but it doesn't mention the idea of government by consensus. That definitely exists in Nunavut. The Territorial Premier is elected after the members of the territorial legistlature.
Nunavut doesn't have roads by land and routes by sea are limited by freeze up and thaw. But you can explore large segments of Yukon and the Northwest Territories by rv.
& I, I took the road less travelled by.
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paulj
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Yukon and Northwest Territories have been separate entities for a long time. Nunavut was split off from the rest of NWT more recently - within the last decade or two. The wiki article probably gives the details.
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sue.t
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The Yukon and much of the North and West were once owned by the Hudson Bay Company, known as Rupert's Land. The Canadian government paid £300,000 for Rupert's Land in 1870, three years after Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million.
In 1898, the Yukon Territory Act established Yukon as a separate geographical and political entity within the Canadian federation. The Government of Canada appointed the Yukon government, which was made up of a Commissioner and council of four.
In 1902, Yukoners gained the right to elect one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons.
By 1909 the territorial council was an elected (rather than appointed) body of 10.
In 1975, the Yukon was empowered to appoint one Senator to government.
Until 1979 the Commissioner had the powers of both the head of government (Premier) and the head of state (Lieutenant Governor). Yukoners now elect a Premier and the Commissioner is no longer the head of government.
The Government of Yukon now has many, but not all, the powers of a province. Many responsibilities have devolved to the Government of Yukon, the most recent being the transfer of land and resources.
In 2003 a new Yukon Act came into effect, giving the Government of Yukon direct control over a greater variety of provincial type programs, responsibilities and powers.
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Little Kopit
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For all that repetition is emphasis, Sue, Paul, all that is covered, IMO by the Wikipedia article plus.
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paulj wrote:Yukon and Northwest Territories have been separate entities for a long time. Nunavut was split off from the rest of NWT more recently - within the last decade or two.
We split off in 1995 and yes we have representation in Parliament. We became the 13th in 1999. Frobisher Bay became the Capital, now called Iqaluit. Resolute where I grew up and still make my home has barely changed in 48 years, exc we have a new Capital and are no longer part of the NWT.
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