Cabinet minister to chair Yukon Party election campaign

MLA CurrieDixon won't be stepping away from Yukon territorial politics after all at least, not yet.

The community services minister announced in June that he would not seek re-election this fall. But on Wednesday, the Yukon Partynamed himchair of the party'supcoming campaign.

• Yukon cabinet minister Currie Dixon won't seek re-election

The election is expected to be called anytime in the coming days.

"This election is an incredibly important one for Yukon families," Dixon says in a Yukon Party news release. He says his party will create jobs and fight against a carbon tax.

Dixon was namedminister of the environment and minister of economic development in 2011, becoming the youngest cabinet minister in Yukon history at the age of 26. He took over the community services portfolio last year.