and internationally under the name "Foolesque." He has also been an activist with organizations such as the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG). He joined the Green Party in 1999 and has been a Green candidate in two federal elections and one provincial election. Holland represented the Green Party at the 2003 Peterborough Pride Parade and indicated his support for same-sex marriage. He opposed election finance reforms introduced by the government of Jean Chrétien in 2003, arguing that people should be allowed to donate as much to political parties as they choose. In 2004, he described the Green Party as the most economically conservative electoral option and said he wanted to work toward Canada becoming debt-free. Holland was the campaign manager for Green Party candidate Brent Wood in the 2006 federal election. Hamilton Mountain: Jo Pavlov Pavlov is a computer technician, and worked for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board at the time of the election. She was 32 years old in 2004. While a high school student, she had a co-op placement in Sheila Copps's constituency office. Pavlov is an advocate for A Better Way To Live and is a member of the childfree movement, which argues that people without children are more likely to pursue environmentally friendly lifestyles. She received 1,378 votes, finishing fourth in a field of five candidates. The winner was Beth Phinney of the Liberal Party of Canada. Pavlov made the following comment in the 2003 Ontario election: "Forget what you think you know about the Green Party. This isn’t a party of Birkenstock-wearing tree-huggers – those old stereotypes are a thing of the past." Previous candidacies: 2003 Ontario provincial election: received 727 votes in Hamilton West as a candidate of the Green Party of Ontario (winning candidate: Judy Marsales, Liberal) Hamilton West: Anne Marie Pavlov Pavlov is a bank portfolio administrator in Hamilton, and is also a singer and guitarist. During the mid-1990s, she wrote about the difficulties that women sometimes have in being taken seriously as musicians (Hamilton Spectator, 10 April 1995). She was active in protests against the Red Hill Expressway, a project which many environmentalists in Hamilton regard as ecologically unsound (Spectator, 21 June 2004). Pavlov's sister, Jo Pavlov, has also campaigned for the Green Party (Spectator, 29 June 2004). She received 1,422 votes (3.21%), finishing fourth against New Democrat David Christopherson. Kingston and the Islands: Janina Fisher Balfour Balfour was born