Windsor municipal election, 2000
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The 2000 Windsor municipal election was held in the City of Windsor, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...

 to elect a mayor, councillors and school trustees.

Results

  • Graham Wilson was a thirty-year-old machinist at the time of the election. He was previously elected to the Greater Essex County District School Board in 1997
    Windsor municipal election, 1997
    The 1997 Windsor municipal election was held in the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario, to elect a mayor, councillors and school trustees.-Results:...

    . In early 2000, Wilson and other board members took part in a protest against demands by provincial Education Minister Janet Ecker
    Janet Ecker
    Janet Ecker is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a senior cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.-Background:...

     that the board implement austerity measures to balance its budget.
  • Lawrence Holland was a fringe candidate for mayor in 1991
    Windsor municipal election, 1991
    The 1991 Windsor municipal election was held in the City of Windsor, Ontario, Canada on November 12, 1991, to elect a mayor, ten councillors, utility commissioners and school trustees.-Council:...

    . A 23-year-old journalism student at St. Clair College, he called for Windsor-area garbage to be sent to the Detroit incinerator. After the election, he became co-owner of La Creperie Cafe and Restaurant. Holland campaigned for a council seat in Windsor's third ward in 1994, but dropped out before the election. In the 2000 campaign, he described himself as a waiter and online antique marketer. He campaigned for Ward 2 again in 2003, supporting the Detroit River Tunnel Partnership proposal. He was again defeated.
  • Frank DiPierdomenico has a Bachelor of Arts
    Bachelor of Arts
    A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

     degree in Psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

    , and is best known a blind
    Blindness
    Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...

     athlete. He was diagnosed as having a degenerative retina at age thirteen, and lost most of his sight by his mid-20s. He won a silver medal for the 400-metre dash at the 1986 World Games for the disabled, set a world record in the powerlifting category in 1989, and took a gold medal
    Gold medal
    A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

     and the Canadian Disabled Games in Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

    . He has also won gold at other events, including the 1990 United States Amateur Blind Athlete power-lifting championships, and the 1995 Ontario Winter Games. He was thirty-seven years old in 2000 and worked as a management consultant for Acclaim SBA Inc. His primary issue was community safety.
  • Bob Harper was a fifty-three-year-old salesman in 2000. He is a right-wing political activist in Windsor, and regularly criticizes the city's spending plans. He opposed plans to amalgamate Windsor with neighbouring municipalities in 2000, arguing that the smaller communities would be forced to pay for questionable urban programs. Harper also called for increased privatization of services in the 2000 campaign. He later wrote against pornography
    Pornography
    Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...

    , abortion
    Abortion
    Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...

    , and same-sex marriage
    Same-sex marriage in Canada
    On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world and the first country in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act which provided a gender-neutral marriage definition...

    , and wrote several letters-to-the-editor against the Liberal Party
    Liberal Party of Canada
    The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

     in 2005. In 2006, he wrote in support of the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

    , and against calls for an early ceasefire in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
    2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
    The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War #Other uses|Tammūz]]) and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War , was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon, northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. The principal parties were Hezbollah...

    .
  • Bowen Alkemade was a twenty-six-year-old stonemason.
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