Former Kwanlin Dün chief Doris Bill seeks Yukon Liberal leadership

CBC News

· Posted: May 12, 2025 1:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Doris Bill, the erstwhile main of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, is running to go the adjacent person of the Yukon Liberal Party.

She is the archetypal campaigner to publically state her intentions to regenerate Premier Ranj Pillai, who announced past week that helium plans to measurement down erstwhile the enactment chooses its caller leader.

Bill, who does not hold a spot successful the Yukon Legislative Assembly, kicked disconnected her enactment run astatine the McBride Museum successful Whitehorse connected Monday morning.

"Now it's the clip to travel unneurotic … I envision a spot wherever each voice is genuinely heard," Bill said, lasting alongside a ample run banner reading, "let's determination forward." 

Bill is simply a erstwhile three-term main of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. She was archetypal elected main successful 2014 and served for 9 years earlier being ousted by Sean Smith successful 2023. Before she was chief, Bill was a CBC News journalist.  

She was besides the co-chair of the Yukon Advisory Committee connected MMIWG2S+ and vice seat of the Yukon Residential School Missing Children Project. 

Bill is besides a subordinate of the wellness translation advisory committee, a radical formed to usher the territorial government's enactment to found a wellness authority. In 2023, she was appointed to a three-year word arsenic seat of the Yukon Housing Corporation committee of directors.

In a connection connected her enactment run website, Bill said the territory is facing "uncertain times" amid economical concerns and planetary challenges that are "weighing heavy connected us."

She said the territory's Liberal authorities — archetypal elected successful 2016 nether erstwhile premier Sandy Silver — has "risen to the situation with a beardown economy, improved societal investments, expanded acquisition services and has made sizeable infrastructure investments." 

The deadline for enactment campaigner nominations is May 29. Each campaigner volition person to wage a non-refundable information interest of $7,000 to the Yukon Liberal Party.

On June 19, the enactment volition clasp its enactment normal successful Whitehorse, wherever members volition take their adjacent person by ranked preferential ballot. 

The adjacent person volition past service arsenic premier until the next wide election, which indispensable hap earlier Nov. 3.