The Yukon Court of Appeal heard arguments this week over decisions that doled out liability and damages over the 2014 replacement of the Whitehorse airport’s concrete apron, which began cracking shortly after it was finished. 

Lawyers for contractor Norcope Enterprises Ltd., project bond-holder Intact Insurance Company, and the Yukon government spent Monday and Tuesday arguing that their respective parties held zero responsibility for what happened. 

Norcope and Intact Insurance say they don’t owe the government anything, while the government argues Norcope owes it more than three-and-a-half times the money originally awarded.

The Yukon government originally took Norcope to court in 2017, about three years after the company was awarded a multi-million dollar contract to replace the concrete apron —  the area where planes park, also informally known as the tarmac — at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport. 

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