The Yukon NDP says that a recent application to the Yukon Surface Rights Board to have an entire Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in neighbourhood moved off of their own settlement land underscores the need for modern successor resource legislation. For years, the Yukon NDP has called for the development of new mining legislation and highlighted the need to work with both First Nation governments and industry to develop modern resource legislation that would bring the territory's mining laws into the 21st century.

Yukon NDP Leader Liz Hanson has written the following letter regarding the planned knocking down of McDonald Lodge and potential alternative uses for the building: