2000 Peterborough municipal election

Mayor

Council

• Glenn Pagett was born in Peterborough.^[1] He served on the Peterborough city council 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.^[2] He returned to council for a final term from 2000 to 2003 and served as chair of the public works committee.^[3] He worked for General Electric in private life from 1952 to 1996 and was sixty-four years old during the 2000 election.^[4] 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.^[5] He later declined to sign a latter drafted by Mayor Sylvia Sutherland that called on the federal government to stay out of the American invasion of Iraq; he said that the matter was beyond his mandate as a city councillor.^[6] He also opposed Sutherland's decision to proclaim a gay pride day in Peterborough in late 2003, and was quoted as saying, "I don't believe in same-sex marriage. [...] Right now, I just don't condone what's happening."^[7] Pagett was a long-time council ally and personal friend of Jeff Leal, who served with him in the Otonabee Ward.^[8] After Leal was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2003 provincial election, Pagett worked part-time in Leal's constituency office for a few months.^[9] 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.^[10]

• John Duncan is a former police officer.^[11] He was first elected to the Peterborough city council in 1997.^[12] In April 2000, he introduced a motion opposing privatized prisons for Ontario.^[13] Later in the year, he initiated debate on constructing a baseball diamond in the city's north end.^[14] He was defeated in his bid for re-election in 2000 and later worked with the Peterborough Baseball Council.^[15]