Fentie opposes Yukon Senate election
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | 10:57 AM CT
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The Yukon's lone Senate seat should be filled quickly by appointment rather than by election, Premier Dennis Fentie says.
The seat will become vacant at the end of December when Ione Christensen retires from the position she's held for the past seven years.
Christensen handed in her resignation last week, a day after Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced he'd like all future senators to be elected.
Fentie says Senate elections may be fine in principle but it is not practical for the Yukon at this time.
"I'm more concerned about Yukon representation in the upper chamber, that's in the immediate, and that's what I'd like to address first," he told CBC News Monday.
Fentie says he's going to urge Harper to see the Yukon's situation is special, since it only has one seat.
He also wants input as to who the next senator will be.
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