2000 Canadian federal election

The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on July 29, 2000, to elect 11 Members of Parliament of the House of Commons of Canada of the 37th Parliament of Canada. It resulted in a Conservative majority.

The election comes after four leadership elections across Canada's four highest-polling political parties following mass resignations and the dissolution of the 36th Parliament. National polling indicated that the New Democrats, led by Jamie Lambert, were expected to win a majority; this changed, however, when Lambert gave a controversial answer regarding the national debt during a debate in which she said that "the national debt doesn't matter", her popularity tanked among New Democrats and thus, polling shifted more in favor of the Liberal Party, led by Michelle Ware.

The election ultimately resulted in William Ellington becoming prime minister; he is the first prime minister to represent a Canadian territory instead of a province. This is also the first election in which Nunavut is its own separate territory, as before, it was part of the Northwest Territories.