1. Case Ootes was born on 1941 and is a retired Canadian politician who was the deputy mayor of Toronto from 1998 to 2003.
16 Facts About Case Ootes
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Case Ootes was first elected in the 1990s and served on council through the 1998 amalgamation until 2010.
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Case Ootes was born in a village northwest of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and he and his family immigrated to Canada in 1952 when he was eleven.
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Case Ootes obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from York University, and served several years as an executive with Imperial Oil.
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In 2005, Case Ootes was named executive-in-residence in the Centre for Financial Services of Seneca College, Newnham Campus.
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Case Ootes now serves on the board of governors at Seneca.
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Case Ootes's brother Jake Ootes is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Northwest Territories.
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Johnson was elected mayor of East York, and in 1988, he convinced Case Ootes to run for city council.
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In 1992, Case Ootes retired from Imperial Oil to become a full-time politician.
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Case Ootes was widely considered one of the likely candidates to succeed Lastman.
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Since then, Case Ootes has served as the unofficial head of the councillors opposed to Miller's left-leaning initiatives.
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Case Ootes ran in the 2006 municipal election with the slogan "Proven Leadership", defeating Diane Alexopoulos by twenty votes.
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On July 16,2007, Case Ootes voted with a majority of councillors to defer voting on mayor Miller's proposed vehicle registration tax and land transfer tax until after the October 2007 provincial election.
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Case Ootes said this was a wakeup call to the city that citizens want more control of city spending.
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Case Ootes argued that while his side lost the final vote, they had won the public opinion debate.
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Case Ootes announced in January 2010 that he would not run for re-election after his term ending.