Sitting Councillor for Ward 4 Kanata North, appointed in 2021 and elected in 2022, running again.
Cathy Curry is the sitting Councillor for Ward 4 Kanata North, according to the City's list of elected officials, and is on the City's list of certified candidates for the same ward, with a nomination dated May 4, 2026. CBC News reported that Council appointed her in 2021, and the City's results give her 76.7 percent of the 2022 vote. Her campaign says it will protect greenspace, push for light rail and express buses to Kanata, and keep taxes low.
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The City of Ottawa's list of elected officials for 2022 to 2026 shows Cathy Curry as Councillor for Ward 4 Kanata North, and the Council minutes of September 9, 2026 list Councillor Cathy Curry as present. CBC News reported on November 10, 2021 that City Council appointed her to the seat after Jenna Sudds left for federal politics, with 12 of the 23 members voting for her in the first round. The City's published results for the October 24, 2022 election give her 8,827 of the 11,501 votes cast in Ward 4, which is 76.7 percent. The other candidates were Viorel Copil with 1,538 votes and Christine Moulaison with 1,136 votes. The City's list of certified candidates shows her 2026 nomination dated May 4, 2026.
CBC News calls her a former school board trustee, and its July 2026 report lists her among the former Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees now on Council. Her campaign website says she became a trustee in 2006, served six years and was Board Chair in 2011, that she holds three university degrees, is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers and a Registered Psychotherapist, and taught high school English in Ottawa. The website and the CTV News questionnaire also list board seats, including CHEO, Hydro Ottawa, the Ottawa Police Service Board and Invest Ottawa, and the website says she chairs the City's Audit Committee. These are her own statements, and voche.me has not checked them with the boards, the colleges or the City.
The Council minutes of January 28, 2026 record her as the mover of Motion 2026-73-28 on the Kanata Lakes Golf and Country Club lands, which affirms that development on those lands would be inconsistent with the Kanata Lakes planning framework and directs staff to explore options to protect the lands as open space. Council carried it 21 to 3. CBC News reported that the Ontario Land Tribunal had ruled against the City, that City solicitors put the legal fees at $1 million and the court costs paid to ClubLink at $300,000, and that Councillor Stéphanie Plante, who voted against, said the City has no legal basis for continuing to fight the development.
The Council minutes of December 10, 2025 record her voting for the 2026 Ottawa Police Service budget (carried 20 to 5), against an amendment to add $5.4 million from the Tax Stabilization Reserve for community-based safety programs (lost 9 to 16), and for the motion that adopted the 2026 budget reports (carried 21 to 4). The minutes of September 9, 2026 record her as the seconder of a motion from Mayor Mark Sutcliffe to create an anti-human trafficking task force, which Council carried, and as one of 23 members voting for a motion asking the federal government to extend its consultation on the Eastern Bridge Project. The sources read hold no complaint or allegation about her.
Her campaign website lists priorities that include protecting greenspace, extending light rail to Kanata, housing affordability, police and social services, roads and infrastructure, and keeping taxes low. In the CBC News questionnaire she says she would support an increase in the police budget and wants to keep taxes similarly low.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
Her campaign says it will work to preserve the Kanata Lakes golf course lands, Trillium Woods, South March Highlands, the Morgan's Grant Hydro Corridor and local trails as open greenspace.
The Council minutes of January 28, 2026 record her motion on the golf course lands, carried 21 to 3.
Her campaign says it will push to extend light rail to Kanata as soon as possible, and to add bus routes and express buses to the Tech Park and a rapid-transit bus corridor on March Road.
In the CBC News questionnaire she names the March Road bus rapid transit corridor as the top infrastructure need and says more express buses to Kanata and the Tech Park are fundamental.
Her campaign says she is proud to be on the Ottawa Police Service Board and supports the community policing model and the ANCHOR program, in which social services staff attend mental health calls.
In the CBC News questionnaire she says the police budget should be increased for the next few years. In the CTV News questionnaire she says she looks forward to the outcome of an efficiencies review, which she believes will help keep the increase as low as possible.
Her campaign says residents cannot afford more property tax, that she sat on the Service Review Working Group, which she says found over $250 million of savings, and that she will keep looking for savings.
In the CTV News questionnaire she answers no to an infrastructure levy for roads and sewers.
Her campaign says over 20,000 housing units are planned for Kanata North, that she questions whether building more houses alone makes housing affordable, and that she will press for roads, sidewalks and parks to be renewed.
In the CBC News questionnaire she gives 4 on a scale where 5 is strongly agree to the statement that intensification will be important for housing in the ward.
Evidence reviewed on October 6, 2026: the City's list of certified candidates for Ward 4, the City's list of elected officials and 2022 results, her campaign website, the CBC News and CTV News Ottawa questionnaires, CBC News reports of 2021 and 2026, and three sets of Council minutes.
Gaps. Her degrees, board seats and the Audit Committee chair are her own statements and were not checked against records. Her Facebook and LinkedIn pages could not be read. A challenger's website and questionnaire attribute votes and remarks to her. Those were not checked against committee minutes and are not repeated here. Committee minutes were not searched. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The City's list of elected officials 2022 to 2026 shows her as the Ward 4 Councillor. CBC News reported that Council appointed her in November 2021. The City's 2022 results give her 8,827 of 11,501 votes.
City of Ottawa open data · Elected Officials 2022-2026 (Ward 4 row)Her campaign website gives these dates and says she was Board Chair in 2011. CBC News calls her a former trustee. voche.me did not open the board records.
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