Chris Durrant

The City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates shows Chris Durrant’s nomination for trustee of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in Zone 6 dated July 22, 2026. The City’s open data file shows no withdrawal. The other candidates in the zone are Jennifer Moroziuk, Scott Walker and Dean Rusland. The City list gives him a campaign website. The Ottawa Citizen prints his first name as Christopher.

His website says he grew up in Lennoxville, Quebec, was diagnosed with dyslexia and dysgraphia in Grade 10, and received support that changed his experience of school. It says he spent five summers as a counsellor at overnight camps for teenagers with intellectual and physical disabilities, studied at Mount Allison University, earned a law degree from McGill University and a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa, and has lived in the Vanier and Rideau area since 2019. It says he works for the Government of Canada negotiating self-government agreements with Indigenous communities, and that earlier he worked for the Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario, a private law firm and the Canadian Museum of Nature. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them with the schools or his employers.

His website lists three commitments. Better support for students with learning disabilities, including timely psychoeducational assessments, evidence-based reading instruction and appropriate accommodations. Putting students first in budget decisions, which he describes as asking tough questions about where money is spent, examining proposed cuts and working to protect programs, classroom supports and specialized professionals. Responsible, accountable local leadership, working with fellow trustees and the Province while helping the board regain the trust needed to return to local governance. On the Learning Disabilities page he says he supports the board’s approach of giving help as soon as a need is identified, without waiting for a formal diagnosis, and that families still face long waits for assessments.

The Ottawa Lookout reported on August 12, 2026 that he said that, if elected, his priority would be to urge the province to restore full governing powers to trustees. The rest of that article is for members, and voche.me read only its public opening. His website reproduces excerpts of the article in which he is quoted criticizing the Supervisor’s claim of $15 million in deficit savings and saying “it’s far more complex”. Those excerpts are his campaign’s selection and were not checked against the full article.

CBC News reported on August 27, 2026 that he is one of eight candidates, each in a different zone, who signed a shared statement of principles calling for an immediate end to the board’s provincial supervision. The Ottawa Citizen lists the same eight. His Shared Values page reproduces the statement, which also commits the signers to student support, to working against hate in schools and to co-operation among trustees.

The board’s page says that since June 27, 2025 the board has been under supervision by the Minister of Education, and that decisions normally made by trustees are made by the appointed Supervisor, Robert Plamondon. He holds no public office on the record voche.me read. The sources read hold no complaint or allegation about him.