2000 in Canada

See also: 1999 in Canada, other events of 2000, 2001 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Incumbents

• Head of State – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
  • Governor General – Adrienne Clarkson
• Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien

• Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
• Premier of British Columbia – Dan Miller then Ujjal Dosanjh
• Premier of Manitoba – Gary Doer
• Premier of New Brunswick – Bernard Lord
• Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Tobin then Beaton 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

See also: 2000 Canadian incumbents

Estimated Canadian population: 30,790,834

Events

• January 15 – CTV Newsnet mistakenly airs tape of Avery Haines flubbing a line and joking about it in terms many viewers find offensive
• January 19 – Stephen Kakfwi becomes premier of the Northwest Territories, replacing James Antoine
• February 7 – Rogers Communications buys Quebec's Vidéotron
• February 15 – Thomson Corp sells all its newspaper holdings other than the Globe and Mail.
• February 24 – Ujjal Dosanjh becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Dan Miller
• March 15 – The House of Commons passes the Clarity Act outlining conditions for another Quebec separation referendum
• March 25 – The Reform Party of Canada is dissolved and replaced with the Canadian Alliance
• April 17 – Chris Jericho Wins WWF World Title only to have it stripped away 15 minutes later
• April 19 – Wiebo Ludwig is found guilty of a 1998 oil well bombing
• May 11 – The Alberta legislature passes a bill allowing the private sector to play a larger role in health care
• May 6 – Pat Duncan becomes premier of Yukon, replacing Piers McDonald
• May 24 – An E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario, it will eventually kill nine people.
• May 25 – The remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier, who died in France in World War I, are brought back to Canada and buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa
• June 17 – Seagram announces plans to merge with France's Vivendi
• July 8 – Stockwell Day is elected the first leader of the Canadian Alliance party.
• July 12 – Matthew Coon Come is elected leader of the Assembly of First Nations
• July 14 – A tornado near Pine Lake, Alberta, kills eleven
• July 31 – Conrad Black's Hollinger sells almost all of its Canadian newspaper holdings to Izzy Asper's CanWest
• August – The prohibition of Marijuana is ruled illegal by an Ontario court
• August 15 – Michael Cowpland resigns as CEO of Corel
• August 26 – Sponsorship scandal: Minister of Public Works Alfonso Gagliano is criticized for giving contracts to a firm that employs his son
• September 26 – Long-serving Saskatchewan Premier Roy 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 becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Brian Tobin
• October 27 – The RCMP arrests Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in connection with the bombing of Air India flight 182
• November 21 – launch of Anik F1 Canada's most powerful Communications satellite to date
• November 27 – In the 2000 Canadian election Jean Chrétien's Liberal increases its majority in the House of Commons
• November 30 – Marc Garneau returns to space for a third time
• December – the federal government opens a marijuana growing operation in an abandoned mine in Manitoba
• Canada passes Bill C-23 which extends full benefits and obligations to persons in homosexual relationships, excluding the right to marry.
• Grey Cup: B.C. Lions win 28–26 over the Montreal Alouettes
• Vanier Cup: Ottawa Gee Gees win 42–39 over the Regina Rams

Arts and literature

New Books

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

New Plays

• Elizabeth Rex – Timothy Findley

Awards

• Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
• Michael Ondaatje wins the Prix Médicis for Anil's Ghost
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje – Anil's Ghost and David Adams Richards – Mercy Among the Children
• See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• 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 and Sheldon 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

Television

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

Births

Deaths

• January 22 – Anne Hébert, writer
• January 26 – A. E. van Vogt, author
• February 7 – Sid Abel, hockey player
• February 7 – Doug Henning, magician
• February 7 – Wilfred Cantwell Smith, scholar
• March 3 – Sandra Schmirler, curler
• March 5 – Daniel Yanofsky, chess player
• March 16 – Michael Starr, politician
• March 20 – Gene Eugene, actor
• May 22 – E. Davie Fulton, politician and jurist
• May 27 – Maurice Richard, hockey player
• August 1 – Hugh Hood, author
• September 10 – Ben Wicks, cartoonist
• September 21 – Jacques Flynn, politician
• September 24 – Marcel Lambert, politician
• September 28 – Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister
• October 4 – Michael Smith, chemist