The City of Ottawa’s list of elected officials for 2022 to 2026 shows Isabelle Skalski as Councillor for Ward 20 Osgoode from June 18, 2025 to the present, and shows George Darouze in the same seat from November 15, 2022 to February 27, 2025. CBC News and CTV News Ottawa report that Darouze resigned after he was elected to the Ontario legislature, and that she won the byelection that followed on June 16, 2025. CBC News reports that she received 2,115 votes, which CTV News Ottawa puts at 34.01 per cent, ahead of Doug Thompson with 1,405 votes and Colette Lacroix-Velthuis with 1,402, in a field of 11 candidates, and that turnout was 24.17 per cent, with 6,223 of 25,742 eligible voters casting ballots. The City’s list of certified candidates shows her nomination for the 2026 election dated May 20, 2026, with the same date for her registration in the Contribution Rebate Program. Bruce Anthony Faulkner is the only other candidate on the ballot.
CBC News describes her as a former public servant and president of the Greely Community Association, and CTV News Ottawa calls her the former president. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire she says she worked for 20 years in the federal public service. Her campaign biography lists work at the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and Health Canada, a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management from Carleton University in 2004, three years as president of the Greely Community Association, four years in the Greely Lions Club and ten years as a Scouts Canada leader. These are her own statements, and voche.me did not check them with the bodies named. The City’s page for her, copied on December 10, 2025, lists her as a member of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, the Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee and the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, and as a board member of the City of Ottawa Superannuation Fund, the Court of Revision, the Osgoode Care Centre and the South Nation Conservation Authority.
The Council minutes of four meetings record her votes by name. On December 10, 2025 she voted for the 2026 Ottawa Police Service budget (carried 20 to 5, with Councillors King, Menard, Johnson, Bradley and Troster against). She voted against a motion by Councillor King that would have matched a $5.4 million police reserve allocation with $5.4 million for ANCHOR (a program that sends non-police crisis teams) and community hubs (lost 9 to 16), and against the second part of that motion, which carried 17 to 8. She voted for the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee part of the budget (carried as amended 23 to 2) and for the motion that adopted the 2026 budgets (carried 21 to 4). That day she moved a motion that gives the Play Free program of free weekend sports and swimming for children and youth permanent base funding of $550,000, paid from fuel savings, and a motion asking staff to keep studying ways to give Fire Station 73 in Vars a water service, because the station now runs on hauled water. Both carried. She seconded Councillor Brown’s motion that put the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee capital program back into the budget after that committee had rejected it, and it carried. On April 22, 2026 she voted for the Safe Access to Social Infrastructure By-law (carried 20 to 4, with Councillors Menard, Devine, Bradley and Troster against), against an amendment that would have removed the by-law’s ban on demonstrations inside safe access zones (lost 6 to 18), and against an amendment that would have limited the by-law to times when a facility is used for its main purpose (lost 10 to 14). On July 15, 2026 she voted for the Development Charge Reduction Program report (carried 23 to 1, with Councillor Menard against), against Councillor Menard’s motion to refer that report to a special meeting of Council (lost 11 to 14), and for the Rental Renovation Licence By-law review (carried 20 to 5), with a recorded dissent on its third recommendation. On September 9, 2026 she voted for a motion by Councillor King that asks the federal government to extend its consultation on the Eastern Bridge Project (carried 23 to 2), and Council approved the committee’s recommendation on her motion that staff give the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee a rural maintenance plan each April 1.
Her campaign website lists results it says she delivered in her first year, including 16 road resurfacing projects, 76 culvert and drain projects, and funding for a community space in Vars and the Larry Robinson Arena in Metcalfe. For the next term it lists better roads and safer streets, rural villages, more police presence and bylaw enforcement, low taxes with less burden on local businesses, on-demand transit for rural areas, and protection of groundwater. In the CBC News questionnaire she names road resurfacing, with Bank Street and Russell Road first, as the top infrastructure need, says she would be reluctant to support tax increases above inflation, chooses fare increases to cover OC Transpo deficits, and says the police budget is appropriate while she would support more money where the Ottawa Police Service shows the need. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire she says she would increase the police budget and opposes a new infrastructure levy. These are her own statements, and voche.me did not check the project counts or funding amounts. The sources read hold no complaint against her.
