Michael Doody is a Canadian

Canada

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 politician, who served as mayor of Timmins

Timmins

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, Ontario

Ontario

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 from 1977 to 1980.

He was subsequently re-elected to Timmins City Council in the 2006 municipal election

Ontario municipal elections, 2006

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, and retained this office in the 2010 municipal election

Cochrane District municipal elections, 2010

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Doody was the Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

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 candidate for Timmins—James Bay

Timmins—James Bay (provincial electoral district)

Timmins—James Bay is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999...

 in the 2003 provincial election

Ontario general election, 2003

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, but lost to incumbent MPP Gilles Bisson

Gilles Bisson

Gilles Bisson is a Franco-Ontarian Canadian politician who has represented the northern riding of Timmins—James Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990...

. He has also served on the boards of the Association of Ontario Municipalities and the Downtown Timmins Business Improvement Association.