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Bright Future
Ep. 03: Minister Ranj Pillai on Yukon’s response and recovery from COVID-19
The territories face special challenges when it comes to dealing with an outbreak. Many communities are remote or isolated, and emergency health care is often far away.
On this episode of Bright Future, The Honourable Ranj Pillai, Deputy Premier of Yukon, shares his personal experience with COVID-19 and how it helped shape the territory’s response. He talks about the territory’s labour shortage before and during the pandemic, tourism, the economic outlook for the region, and Northern entrepreneurship.
Find Minister Pillai on Twitter, @RanjPillai1, and Facebook, facebook.com/ranjpillailiberal.
Learn about Yukon’s COVID relief efforts here:
- A path forward: Yukon’s plan for lifting restrictions
- Yukon Business Relief Program
- Paid sick leave rebate
- Essential workers income support program
Find Conference Board research on Northern and Indigenous communities at conferenceboard.ca/focus-areas/indigenous-northern-communities.
Read our commentary on Indigenous communities responding to COVID-19 here.
Listen to our other podcasts at conferenceboard.ca/insights/podcasts.
You can find all of our research here: conferenceboard.ca.