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The 2003 Brantford municipal election was held on November 10, 2003, to elect a mayor, city councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario.

Results

Randy Tooke was thirty-one years old during the election and owned a café in Brantford. He focused his campaign around a call for downtown revitalization to benefit small-business owners.^[2]

Wally Lucente was born and raised in Brantford.^[3] He first ran for the Brantford City Council in 1985 with support from the Brantford and District Labour Council; he was thirty years old at the time and worked for the provincial labour ministry.^[4] Defeated on that occasion, he was elected in 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, and 2000. During his time on council, he chaired Brantford's police services board; waterfront advisory committee; Mohawk Lake committee; and engineering, public works and community services committee.^[5] In 2001, he raised the option of a combined municipal police force for Brantford and neighbouring Brant County.^[6] While he often had poor relations with his fellow ward councillor Marguerite Ceschi-Smith, he nonetheless supported her downtown brownfield rehabilitation program in 2002.^[7] When Lucente ran for re-election in 2003, he said that he wanted to see the Brantford Southern Access Road through to completion.^[8] During the 2003 election, local journalist Tim Philp described him as a "good councillor" who "carries out his duties but contributes little useful to council discussions."^[9] After his defeat, he continued working for the provincial labour ministry and chaired the Brant County Police Services Board as a citizen member.^[10]

Charles "Skip" Pennell is best known as a tourism supporter in Brantford. He was active with the Pine Tree Native Centre in the 1990s and early 2000s and was the project coordinator for Kanata, a replica seventeenth-century Iroquois village that opened in 2000.^[11] The village won an award for Best New Tourism Attraction in Ontario and was runner-up for Best New Attraction of Canada.^[12] Pennell has also chaired Brantford's tourism advisory board.^[13] He was fifty-one years old when he ran for council; he said that he respected incumbent councillors Marguerite Ceschi-Smith and Wally Lucente and was running to offer another voice.^[14]

Source: Vincent Ball, "Council table shake up: Four new faces elected by Brantford voters wanting change,"

, 11 November 2003, A3.

References

1. ^"Hancock can relax after time expires for recount," Brantford Expositor, 11 December 2003, A3.
2. ^Michael-Allan Marion, "Mayoral candidate, Tooke, wants to offer more help to downtown businesses," Brantford Expositor, 9 October 2003, A4; Richard Beales, "Youth an asset for mayor's job," Brantford Expositor, 1 November 2003, A10.
3. ^Michael-Allan Marion, "Seven candidates running in Ward 5," Brantford Expositor, 4 November 2003, C7.
4. ^Brantford Expositor, 13 November 1985, p. 4.
5. ^Ross Marowits, "City sets committees," Brantford Expositor, 7 January 1999, A3; Ross Marowits, "City wants chance to police county," Brantford Expositor, 9 February 1999, A1; Heather Ibbotson, "Littell new chairwoman of police services board." Brantford Expositor, 19 January 2000, A4; Ross Marowits, "Environment comes to the forefront in Ward 5," Brantford Expositor, 21 October 2000, p. 13; Michael-Allan Marion, "Police board at full strength," Brantford Expositor, 31 July 2002, A4.
6. ^Michael-Allan Marion, "Councillor urges talks with Brant on policing," Brantford Expositor, 19 June 2001, A1.
7. ^David Sharpe, "Council forced to address brownfield issue," Brantford Expositor, 30 September 2002, A10; Michael-Allan Marion, "Councillor fails in bid to divide downtown fund," Brantford Expositor, 9 October 2002, A3.
8. ^"Lucente running for re-election in Ward 5," Brantford Expositor, 11 September 2003, A3.
9. ^Tim Philp, "My choices for city council," Brantford Expositor, 8 November 2003, A13.
10. ^Wall of Recognition: Wally Lucente, City of Brantford, 2006, accessed 28 January 2011; Public Appointments Secretariat, Government of Ontario, 3 November 2009, accessed 28 January 2011; "Ceremony marks Day of Mourning," Brantford Expositor, 26 April 2005, A4.
11. ^Elizabeth Yates, "Village helps restore native pride," Brantford Expositor, 22 April 1999, A4; Isobel Barron, "It's been a Grand Experience," Brantford Expositor, 27 April 1999, A4; Richard Beales, "Kanata: Award-winning 17th Century Iroquois Village opening soon," Brantford Expositor, 4 May 2000, C1; Colleen Toms, "Kanata Village is attracting people from around the globe," Brantford Expositor, 24 July 2002, p. 2.
12. ^Vincent Ball, "Kanata Village opens its doors in grand style," Brantford Expositor, 15 May 2000, A4.
13. ^Ross Marowits, "City appointments questioned after candidates passed over," Brantford Expositor, 16 January 2001, A4.
14. ^Michael-Allan Marion, "City voters will have choices for council," Brantford Expositor, 26 September 2003, A6.

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