He received 7,600 votes (15.79%) in 2000, finishing second against Liberal incumbent Mauril Belanger. A newspaper report from the election lists him as 66 years old. He supported a bridge over the Ottawa River east of Kettle Island, and criticized the Liberal government's record on taxes and patronage (Ottawa Citizen, 18 November 2000). Gayowsky later moved to British Columbia, and was campaign manager for Conservative candidate James Lunney in the 2004 election (Victoria Times-Colonist, 17 May 2004). He remains interested in Ukrainian affairs, and was an OCSE observer for the late 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, won by Victor Yushchenko (Ottawa Citizen, 4 December 2004). Parry Sound—Muskoka: George Stripe George Stripe was thirty-seven years old during the election and worked as a supply teacher with the Near North District School Board. He received 9,569 votes (25.39%), finishing second to Liberal incumbent Andy Mitchell. Peterborough: Eric Mann Eric John Allan Mann is a beef farmer in Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield, near the city of Peterborough. He is active in the local Baptist community. A graduate of Peterborough Teachers College, he taught elementary school for six years in the 1970s. He was also a trustee on the Peterborough County Board of Education from 1985 to 1994. In 1988, he criticized an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that struck down classroom recitations of the Lord's Prayer. Mann supported the Reform Party of Canada in the 1990s and backed Stockwell Day's bid to lead the successor Canadian Alliance in 2000. He was fifty years old at the time of the 2000 election, and was president of the East Central Christian Farmers Association and chair of the Smith-Ennismore Police Services Board. He won the Alliance nomination for Peterborough in an upset over Nancy Branscombe, a prominent national organizer who had been the Reform Party's nominee in 1997. During the campaign, Mann openly disagreed with his party's position on recognizing indigenous communities simply as municipalities; he said that it would "not be appropriate to have [these communities] under the complete control of the provincial governments." He received 14,924 votes (28.54%), finishing second against Liberal incumbent Peter Adams. Mann later supported the Alliance's merger with the more moderate Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to create the Conservative Party of Canada. St. Catharines: Randy Taylor Dumont Before running for office, Randy Dumont was for many years a popular radio personality on CKTB FM in St. Catharines under the name Randy Taylor. He