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Events from the year2000 in Canada.

Estimated Canadian population: 30,790,834

• Monarch –Elizabeth II^[1]

• Governor General –Adrienne Clarkson^{[citation needed]}
• Prime Minister –Jean Chrétien^{[citation needed]}
• Chief Justice –Antonio Lamer (Quebec) (until January 6)^{[citation needed]} thenBeverley McLachlin (British Columbia)^{[citation needed]}
• Parliament –36th (until October 22)^{[citation needed]}

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• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta –Bud Olson (until February 10) thenLois Hole
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Garde Gardom
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –Peter Liba
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland –Arthur Maxwell House
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –James Kinley (until May 17) thenMyra Freeman
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –Hillary Weston
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Gilbert Clements
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Lise Thibault
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan –Jack Wiebe (until February 21) thenLynda Haverstock

• Premier of Alberta –Ralph Klein
• Premier of British Columbia –Dan Miller (until February 24) thenUjjal Dosanjh
• Premier of Manitoba –Gary Doer
• Premier of New Brunswick –Bernard Lord
• Premier of Newfoundland –Brian Tobin (until October 16) thenBeaton Tulk
• Premier of Nova Scotia –John Hamm
• Premier of Ontario –Mike Harris
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –Pat Binns
• Premier of Quebec –Lucien Bouchard
• Premier of Saskatchewan –Roy Romanow

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• Commissioner of Yukon –Judy Gingell (until October 1) thenJack Cable
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories –Daniel Joseph Marion (until March 31) thenGlenna Hansen
• Commissioner of Nunavut –Helen Maksagak (until April 1) thenPeter Irniq

• Premier of the Northwest Territories –Jim Antoine (until January 17) thenStephen Kakfwi
• Premier of Nunavut –Paul Okalik
• Premier of Yukon –Piers McDonald (until May 6) thenPat Duncan

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• January 1 – The magnitude 5.2Kipawa earthquake occurs inOntario andQuebec, Canada.
• January 7 –Beverley Mclachlin is sworn in as the 17thChief Justice of Canada, and first woman to be appointed to that role.
• January 15 –CTV News Channel mistakenly airs tape ofAvery Haines flubbing a line and joking about it in terms many viewers find offensive.
• January 19
  • Stephen Kakfwi becomespremier of the Northwest Territories, replacingJames Antoine.
  • HRDC scandal hits the public as a result of an internal audit.
• February 7 –Rogers Communications buys Quebec'sVidéotron.
• February 15 –Thomson Corp sells all its newspaper holdings other thanThe Globe and Mail.
• February 24 –Ujjal Dosanjh becomespremier of British Columbia, replacingDan Miller.
• March 15 – The House of Commons passes theClarity Act outlining conditions for another Quebec separation referendum.
• March 25 – TheReform Party of Canada is dissolved and replaced with theCanadian Alliance.^[2]
• April 19 –Wiebo Ludwig is found guilty of a 1998 oil well bombing.
• May 6 –Pat Duncan becomes premier of Yukon, replacingPiers McDonald.
• May 11
  • Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty - TheNisga'a Final Agreement.^[3]
  • TheAlberta legislature passes a bill allowing the private sector to play a larger role in health care.
• May 12 – TheBank of Canada withdraws the$1,000 bill from circulation to fight againstmoney laundering andorganized crime.
• May 24 –E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario. It will eventually kill nine people.
• May 25 – The remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier killed inFrance inWorld War I are brought back to Canada and buried in theTomb of the Unknown Soldier inOttawa.
• June 17 –Seagram announces plans to merge with France'sVivendi.
• June 29 – Canada passes theModernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, which extends full benefits and obligations to persons in homosexual relationships, excluding the right to marry.

• July 8 –Stockwell Day is elected the first leader of theCanadian Alliance party.
• July 12 –Matthew Coon Come is elected leader of theAssembly of First Nations.
• July 14 – Atornado nearPine Lake, Alberta, kills eleven people.
• July 31 –Conrad Black'sHollinger sells almost all its Canadian newspaper holdings toIzzy Asper'sCanWest.
• August – Theprohibition of marijuana is ruled illegal by an Ontario court.
• August 15 –Michael Cowpland resigns as CEO ofCorel.
• August 26 –Sponsorship scandal:Minister of Public WorksAlfonso Gagliano is criticized for giving contracts to a firm that employs his son.
• September 9 –Star Ray TV, apirate television station inToronto, begins broadcasting.
• September 26 – Long-serving Saskatchewan PremierRoy Romanow announces his plans to retire.
• September 28 to October 3 –Death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, former prime minister.
• October 16 –Beaton Tulk becomespremier of Newfoundland, replacingBrian Tobin.
• October 27 – TheRoyal Canadian Mounted Police arrestRipudaman Singh Malik andAjaib Singh Bagri in connection with the bombing ofAir India Flight 182.
• November 21 – Launch ofAnik F1 Canada's most powerfulcommunications satellite to date.
• November 27 – In the2000 Canadian electionJean Chrétien'sLiberals increase their majority in the House of Commons.
• November 30 –Marc Garneau returns to space for a third time.
• December – The federal government opens amarijuana growing operation in an abandoned mine inManitoba.

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• The Blind Assassin:Margaret Atwood
• Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond:Michael Ignatieff
• Star-Spangled Canadians:Jeffrey Simpson
• Island:Alistair MacLeod
• The Farfarers, Before the Norse:Farley Mowat
• No Logo:Naomi Klein
• City of Glass:Douglas Coupland
• Before You're a Stranger:Raymond Fraser

• Elizabeth Rex –Timothy Findley

• Margaret Atwood wins theBooker Prize forThe Blind Assassin
• Michael Ondaatje wins thePrix Médicis forAnil's Ghost
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction:Michael Ondaatje:Anil's Ghost andDavid Adams Richards:Mercy Among the Children
• See2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nega Mezlekia's non-fiction win forNotes from the Hyena's Belly becomes a subject of controversy when poetAnne Stone alleges that sheghostwrote the majority of the book. Stone was subsequently sued for defamation by Mezlekia, who stated that Stone's role in the book's publication was strictly that of acopy editor.
• Books in Canada First Novel Award:Arthur Black,Black Tie and Tales
• Gerald Lampert Award:Shawna Lemay,All the God-Sized Fruit
• Griffin Poetry Prize:Margaret Avison,Concrete and Wild Carrot
• Marian Engel Award:Anita Rau Badami
• Norma Fleck Award:Simon Tookoome andSheldon Oberman,The Shaman's Nephew: A Life in the Far North
• Pat Lowther Award:Esta Spalding,Lost August
• Stephen Leacock Award:Arthur Black,Black Tie and Tales
• Trillium Book Award English:Don Coles,Kurgan
• Trillium Book Award French:Didier Leclair,Toronto, je t'aime
• Vicky Metcalf Award:Sheree Fitch

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Canadian Edition shows for two episodes

• Barenaked Ladies,Maroon
• Nelly Furtado,Whoa, Nelly!
• Sarah Harmer,You Were Here
• King Cobb Steelie,Mayday
• The Tragically Hip,Music at Work
• The Weakerthans,Left and Leaving

• May 28 –Rimouski Océanic wins their firstMemorial Cup by defeating theBarrie Colts 6 to 2. The entire tournament is played atHalifax Metro Centre inHalifax, Nova Scotia
• June 10 –Kitchener, Ontario'sScott Stevens of theNew Jersey Devils is awarded theConn Smythe Trophy
• November 26 –BC Lions win their fourthGrey Cup by defeating theMontreal Alouettes 28 to 26 in the88th Grey Cup played atMcMahon Stadium inCalgary.Vancouver'sSean Millington is awarded the game'sMost Valuable Canadian
• December 2 –Ottawa Gee-Gees win their secondVanier Cup by defeating theRegina Rams 42 to 39 in the36th Vanier Cup played atSkydome in Toronto

• February –Erika Nordby
• February 23 –Christian Martyn, actor^[4]
• February 25 –Daniel Benoit,Canadian-American son ofChris Benoit (died2007)
• March 27 –Sophie Nélisse, actress
• May 18 –Addison Holley, actress^[5]
• May 23 –Evan Bird, actor
• June 13 –Penny Oleksiak, swimmer^[6]
• June 14 –RJ Barrett, Canadian basketball player
• June 16 –Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player^[7]
• July 15 –Victoria Stafford, murder victim (died2009)
• July 17 –Maria Aragon, singer
• August 8 –Félix Auger-Aliassime, tennis player
• August 26 –Noah Ryan Scott, actor
• September 1 –Jacob Ewaniuk, actor
• November 2 –Alphonso Davies, football player
• November 21 –Megan Roberts, artistic gymnast
• December 17 –Twomad, Youtuber (died2024)

• January 15 –Georges-Henri Lévesque,Dominican priest and sociologist (b.1903)
• January 22 –Anne Hébert, author and poet (b.1916)
• January 26 –A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author (b.1912)
• February 5 –Barbara Pentland, composer (b.1912)
• February 7
  • Sid Abel, ice hockey player and coach (b.1918)
  • Doug Henning, magician, illusionist and escape artist (b.1947)
  • Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of comparative religion (b.1916)
• February 11 –Wilfred Sénéchal, lawyer, a decoratedWorld War II soldier, and politician (b.1918)
• February 18 –Sheldon Turcott, journalist (b.1936)
• February 21 –Violet Archer, composer, teacher, pianist, organist and percussionist (b.1913)
• March 3 –Sandra Schmirler, curler, Olympic gold medallist and World Champion (b.1962)
• March 5 –Daniel Yanofsky, chess player, Canada's first chess grandmaster (b.1925)
• March 6 –John Colicos, actor (b.1928)^[8]
• March 9 –Jean Coulthard, composer and academic (b.1908)
• March 16 –Michael Starr, politician and firstCanadian cabinet minister ofUkrainian descent (b.1910)
• March 20 –Gene Eugene, actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician (b.1961)

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• April 23 –Al Purdy, poet (b.1918)
• May 22 –Davie Fulton, politician and judge (b.1916)
• May 27 –Maurice Richard, ice hockey player (b.1921)
• June 21 –Claude Bissell, author and educator (b.1916)

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• July 12 –Charles Merritt, recipient of theVictoria Cross and Member of Parliament (b.1908)
• July 21 –Frank Miller, politician and 19thPremier of Ontario (b.1927)
• August 1 –Hugh Hood, novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor (b.1928)
• September 10 –Ben Wicks, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author (b.1926)
• September 21 –Jacques Flynn, politician and Senator (b.1915)
• September 24 –Marcel Lambert, politician andSpeaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.1919)
• September 28 –Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15thPrime Minister of Canada (b.1919)
• September 29 –Myles Ferguson, actor (b.1981)
• October 4 –Michael Smith, biochemist, 1993Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b.1932)
• October 27 –Tim Ralfe, journalist (b.1938)

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