There were a number of reasons, including the request for full school management, meaning the ability to make the selections when hiring teachers, managing the buses, and so on. It was about having full management of the school.
There were also some difficulties in transfers with bilateral education agreements. Some sums of money that were supposed to be used for French as a first language had been transferred to French as a second language. There were a number of little things like that.
There was also the matter of giving the Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon the right to decide who could be admitted to the school. There were a number of constitutional questions.