Mike Smith is the former mayor of Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Smith was born in North River, Nova Scotia.
In 1994, Smith was elected as a Colchester County councillor. Re-elected in 1997, he became Colchester County's last Warden during his second term. In 2000, Smith was elected as the county's first mayor. He was re-elected in 2004.
One of Smith's accomplishments as mayor has been the Mayor's Challenge. The Mayor's Challenge is a fitness program aimed at inactive children but has also attrected the interest of adults.
He was a candidate for the leadership of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in 2007. He placed third of four candidates on the first ballot. He dropped out and endorsed Diana Whalen, who lost on the second and final ballot to Stephen McNeil.
Smith did not reoffer for mayor in the 2008 municipal election. He also declined to run in 2009 provincial election in Colchester North, as had been widely expected.
Smith is married and has three children.
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