Paul Thériault is a former Canadian politician who served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party in 1992.
[1] A school principal in Whitehorse,[2] Thériault had resided in Yukon for just eighteen months when he sought the leadership.
[1] He became leader at a time when the party was moribund, as it was entirely shut out of the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in the 1989 election and had been effectively leaderless since the resignation of Jim McLachlan following that defeat.
[2] In the election campaign, Thériault's Liberal platform included $22 million in spending cuts, the creation of a new government department of mines and energy, the splitting of the Yukon Development and Yukon Energy corporations, and a $30 million plan to improve sewage treatment.
[3] The party won just one seat in the 1992 election, that of Jack Cable in the electoral district of Riverside.