The Yukon Liberals have unveiled their campaign platform, hoping to be re-elected on promises of a $300-million hospital expansion and a dramatic reduction in the wait-list for government housing.

Liberal Leader Mike Pemberton is the first to roll out a full campaign platform as the territory nears the halfway point of the election, set for Nov. 3.

Several key Liberal planks in its platform are similar to promises made by the New Democrats and Yukon Party during the territorial campaign.

Both the Liberals and the Yukon Party are promising an expansion of Whitehorse General Hospital for added surgical services, at a price tag Pemberton put at $300 million.

The NDP has promised to build 100 new units managed by Yukon Housing, focused on communities outside of Whitehorse to shrink the wai

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