The five-year health services plan for the Yukon was developed in accordance with the transfer of health and hospital programs from the federal to the territorial level. When these transfers occurred, in 1993 and 1997, the agreement did not include any linguistic clauses. That gave the territorial governments a pretext for not providing health services in French, whereas in fact this is an obligation to all Canadians, regardless of whether they live in a territory or province.
At that time, we met with the government, which then assigned a resource person to work with us, and we prepared a plan to determine the minimum level of services in French that would be acceptable for francophones in the Yukon.
Prior to that, in 2002, we had done a study on health care needs for francophones in the Yukon.