Kenneth T. Burgess was a school teacher in Toronto before moving to Peterborough and was the creator of a self-help teaching service.
")[2] Burgess was later convicted of forging some of the signatures on his nomination papers when he ran for school trustee again in the 1991 municipal election.
[4] During this election, he called for the City of Peterborough to offer free land to create development and reduce business tax levels.
Ed Pokonzie is a perennial candidate for political office, having campaigned in federal, provincial and municipal elections.
He launched a $5 million lawsuit against the Government of Ontario in 1999, citing wrongful treatment over his failure to obtain compensation for workplace injuries.
[11] He was an early supporter of amalgamation, though he also called for smaller centres to retain their local identity in the new city of Greater Sudbury.
[12] Pokonzie called for the municipal administration to be restructured in 2003, arguing that there were six different agencies overseeing water quality without anyone having effective management authority.