The 2000 Peterborough municipal election was held in the city of Peterborough

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...

, Ontario

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, Canada

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 on November 13, 2000, to chose the mayor and city councillors to sit on the Peterborough city council

Peterborough, Ontario City Council

The Peterborough City Council is a city council that governs Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It consists of the mayor and ten councillors, who are elected in five two-member wards across the city. Each member serves on various city committees. The council meets on Monday evenings on a three-week...

. Electors in Peterborough also voted for the city's representatives on the regional public and separate school boards.

Council

• Glenn Pagett was born in Peterborough. He served on the Peterborough city council
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  The Peterborough City Council is a city council that governs Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It consists of the mayor and ten councillors, who are elected in five two-member wards across the city. Each member serves on various city committees. The council meets on Monday evenings on a three-week...
  
   from 1969 to 1972, from 1974 to 1982, and from 1985 to 1997. In 1997, he was acclaimed to a seat on the Peterborough Utilities Commission. He returned to council for a final term from 2000 to 2003 and served as chair of the public works committee. He worked for General Electric
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   in private life from 1952 to 1996 and was sixty-four years old during the 2000 election. Pagett was one of only two councillors to oppose a bailout grant to Showplace Peterborough in 2001; at the time, he argued that he did not want to pre-commit the budget. He later declined to sign a latter drafted by Mayor Sylvia Sutherland
  Sylvia Sutherland
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   that called on the federal government
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   to stay out of the American invasion of Iraq
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  ; he said that the matter was beyond his mandate as a city councillor. He also opposed Sutherland's decision to proclaim a gay pride
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   day in Peterborough in late 2003, and was quoted as saying, "I don't believe in same-sex marriage
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  . [...] Right now, I just don't condone what's happening." Pagett was a long-time council ally and personal friend of Jeff Leal, who served with him in the Otonabee Ward. After Leal was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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   in the 2003 provincial election
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  , Pagett worked part-time in Leal's constituency office for a few months. Pagett himself did not seek re-election to council in 2003. He served on a disaster relief committee in 2004, following extensive flooding in the city.

• John Duncan is a former police officer. He was first elected to the Peterborough city council in 1997. In April 2000, he introduced a motion opposing privatized prisons for Ontario. Later in the year, he initiated debate on constructing a baseball diamond in the city's north end. He was defeated in his bid for re-election in 2000 and later worked with the Peterborough Baseball Council.

Peterborough County

Peterborough County, Ontario

Peterborough County is located in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is projected to reach a population of 159,840 by 2031, according to the Ontario Ministry of Finance's Ontario Population Projections Update...

Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield

2000 Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield election, Reeve of Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Burritt Mann	4,281	66.51
Richard Doyle	2,156	33.49
Total valid votes	6,437	100.00

2000 Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield election, Deputy Reeve of Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Ron Millen	3,688	58.96
Don Boa	1,659	26.52
Ken Dunn	908	14.52
Total valid votes	6,255	100.00

2000 Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield election, Councillor, Ennismore

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Helen Young	accl.

2000 Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield election, Councillor, Smith

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Dale Cavanagh	1,663	50.12
Don Doughty	1,090	32.85
Derry Wilford	565	17.03
Total valid votes	3,318	100.00

2000 Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield election, Councillor, Lakefield

Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Mary Smith	725	54.59
Bob Helsing	603	45.41
Total valid votes	1,328	100.00

Source: Bill Hodgins, "Mann reeve of Smith, Lakefield, Ennismore," Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 2000, B5.