The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

In 2003, following an international human rights ruling, the provincial Conservative government gradually introduced a tax credit over 5 years, ( when it would have been fully implemented it would have been worth up to 50 % of tuition to a maximum of $ 3, 500 at any independent school in Ontario ) in order to meet the human rights norms and expand funded choice to all interested parents.

In the following figure one can see the election results of the provincial election of 2003, 2007 and 2011 per province.

In 2003, the prime minister and the provincial premiers agreed upon priority areas for reinvestment.

The October 2003 provincial election resulted in the newly elected PC government announcing joint federal-provincial funding for a study of the concept, which was promptly derided by The Economist.

After the May 2003 provincial and local elections, followers of the local lists protested claiming the council seats corresponding to the invalid votes ( 127, 000, 10 % of the total vote in the Basque Country ).

) According to a roster developed by the Council of Tourism and Sport of Andalusia on 27 March 2003, there are officially six traditional or touristic comarcas ( provincial areas or counties ) in the Province of Cádiz:

A short time later, Lord shot down any notions that that might happen, choosing instead to remain focused on provincial politics and the 2003 New Brunswick election.

After the fall of the Taliban, the first PRT ( provincial reconstruction team ) in Afghanistan was established in Paktiā near Gardēz in early March 2003, headed by the US Army along with a US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) representative.

Trollope indicated in 2003 that " he name itself indicates a provincial cosiness, and is patronising of the readers.

In 2003, Huaneng Power International Inc. and the provincial government of Yunnan province, China, signed an agreement to build 13 dams and two reservoirs on the lower reaches of the Salween through Yunnan, some of which lie within the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site.

The frequency of First Ministers ' conferences declined significantly in the early part of the 21st century, but interprovincial cooperation has notably increased through meetings of the Council of the Federation established by the provincial premiers in 2003.

In Quebec, the same day was, since the Quiet Revolution, unofficially known as Fête de Dollard until 2003, when provincial legislation officially named the same date as Victoria Day the National Patriots ' Day.

In 2003, residents and small businesses around Borobudur organized several meetings and poetry protests, objecting to a provincial government plan to build a three-story mall complex, dubbed the ' Java World '.

her article Doxa et fama, 2003, her dissertation, or her interview for the journal Literatura in 2006 ) Taja Kramberger further identifies transfirmational discourses as the systemic feature of the longue durée provincial mental structure, unable to subdue itself to changes and open to the external / outer world.

' Erasmus Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the origins of the evolutionary worldview in British provincial scientific culture ', Isis 94 ( 2003 ), 1 – 29

During the 2003 provincial election, Hampton argued that Rae was wrong to reverse the NDP's commitment to public auto insurance.

Warm weather and the use of air conditioners pushed the Ontario hydro grid to the brink, and after the Northeast blackout of 2003, the provincial power utility was forced to buy expensive power from neighbouring producers in Quebec.

On 6 June 2003, Zeng issued an order " not to play or sing ' The Internationale ' in any provincial, city or county level party or party member meetings.

On May 13, 2003, the provincial government of British Columbia announced that the provincial Crown corporation, BC Rail ( BCR ), would be sold with the winning bidder receiving BCR's surface operating assets ( locomotives, cars, and service facilities ).

Calvert and the NDP narrowly defeated the centre-right opposition Saskatchewan Party in the 2003 provincial election.

Volunteer efforts were substantially absorbed in provincial campaigns between 2001 and 2003, and the federal party became dormant between elections, as was typical in the past.

Both his sister-in-law Deb Matthews and Tim Peterson, a third brother, were elected to the Ontario legislature in the 2003 provincial election while Deb Matthews was re elected in 2007 and 2011.

In March 2003, the Endowment and Islamic Affairs Department of the provincial government began steps to restrict what it saw as un-Islamic vices, on March 1, 2003 banning the sale and public screening of movies and the performance of music in public, and on March 5, 2003 banning the viewing of movies entirely, as well as the possession and sale of satellite dishes.

DR Congo had a transitional government in July 2003 until the election was over.

New Prime Minister Tillman Thomas formed a government after narrowly losing by one seat to Mitchell's NNP in the November 2003 election.

On November 9, 2003, Óscar Berger, a former mayor of Guatemala city, won the presidential election with 38. 8 % of the vote.

Coleman was a candidate for governor in the 2003 California recall election.

The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.

( See Japan general election, 2003 ) Likewise, that year, the LDP won the election, even though it suffered setbacks from the new opposition party, the liberal and social-democratic Democratic Party ( DPJ ).

He was Engler's running mate in the 1998 election and served from 1999 to 2003.

See 2003 Mauritania election

Mauritania's presidential election, its third since adopting the democratic process in 1992, took place on November 7, 2003.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

In May 2003 Bracks broke an election promise and announced that the proposed Scoresby Freeway in Melbourne's eastern suburbs would be a tollway rather than a freeway, as promised at the 2002 elections.

The fact that he had only recently left his position as IDF Chief of Staff prevented him from participating in the 2003 election ( by which time Mofaz had joined Sharon's Likud ).

After her narrow election victory in the first election, Halonen's approval ratings rose and reached a peak of 88 % in December 2003.

On 1 June 2011, Belgium matched the record for time taken to form a new democratic government after an election, at 353 days, held until then by Cambodia in 2003 – 2004.

After resignation of Laar, Reform Party and Estonian Centre Party formed a coalition that lasted until next parliamentary election, 2003.

In the Dutch general election of 2003 the VVD gained four seats, making a total of twenty-eight.

In the 2003 elections, Wouter Bos managed to regain almost all seats lost in the previous election, and the PvdA was once again the second largest party of the Netherlands, only slightly smaller than the CDA.

Following the 2003 election, the party was left in opposition.

In the January 2003 general election, the LPF shrank to 5. 7 % support and eight seats.

The Assembly elections of May 2003 saw the party's representation drop from 17 to 12, with the gains of the 1999 election falling again to Labour and the party's share of the vote declining to 21 %.

Ieuan Wyn Jones, who had resigned from his dual role as president and Assembly group leader following the losses in the 2003 Assembly election, was re-elected in the latter role.