Yukon NDP will get Big Money out of politics; Conservative Yukon Party and Liberals received over $300,000 in donations from mining corporations
October 16, 2025
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October 16, 2025
Territories of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation, Ta’an Kwäch’än Council – Today, Leader of the Yukon NDP Kate White made her commitment to Yukoners: On day one, her team will get to work to ban corporate and union donations to political parties.
“Politics should be about people, not about the corporations bankrolling campaigns,” said White. “But after decades of back and forth between Liberal and Conservative Yukon Party governments, corporate donors like Victoria Gold have been put ahead of Yukoners. As leader, I’ve never accepted a dime from corporations or unions, because I work for Yukoners. You can count on our team to ban corporate and union donations.”
The Yukon is one of the only places in Canada without rules around who can donate to a political party. The Conservative Yukon Party and the Liberals have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from mining, oil and gas corporations while fighting against rules that would show Yukoners who they are funded by.
Since 2011, the Conservative Yukon Party has accepted $226,673.88 in donations from mining, oil and gas corporations. Victoria Gold, the corporation behind one of the worst mining disasters in the Yukon’s history, has donated a total of $33,900 to the Conservative Yukon Party over multiple years, including as recently as 2024.
The same year the party accepted cash from Victoria Gold, they fought against government intervention after the company’s heap leach spill. White pointed to this as a clear example of the Conservative Yukon Party putting their donors ahead of Yukoners.
Since 2011, the Liberals have been funded with at least $86,500 in donations from mining, oil and gas corporations. In 2018, the Liberals hid the list of their donors from Yukoners after $20,000 in unnamed donations from a private hockey fundraiser in BC was reported,
Under White’s leadership, the Yukon NDP has never accepted donations from corporations or unions. White committed to making politics work for people by:
- Banning corporate and union donations to political parties; and
- Reforming election financing rules, requiring parties to name donors to individual candidates, so Yukoners know how political parties are being funded.
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