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Janice Laking née McCuaig is a retired Canadian politician who served as mayor of Barrie Ontario from 1988 to 2000. The daughter of former Simcoe North federal Member of Parliament Duncan Fletcher McCuaig Laking was first elected to Barrie City Council in 1972. She mounted an unsuccessful run for the mayoralty in 1978 but was reelected to a council seat in 1980 and served for another eight years before being elected mayor in 1988.