Candidate for Councillor in Ward 17 Capital, a Carleton University student who has worked at community centres.
Jaac Doduck is on the City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 17 Capital, with a nomination dated August 5, 2026. CBC News describes him as a Carleton University student and CTV News Ottawa says he has worked at the Glebe Community Centre. His campaign website, which the City list gives, names five themes: community, public transit, streets, housing and City Hall. In his answers to CBC News and CTV News Ottawa he says he would never vote to raise OC Transpo fares, supports a secondary suite program with tax credits of up to $10,000, and supports an infrastructure levy. He has held no public role that voche.me found, and the sources read hold no complaint against him.
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The City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates shows Jaac Doduck’s nomination for Councillor in Ward 17 Capital dated August 5, 2026, and shows no registration in the Contribution Rebate Program. It gives a website, an X account and an Instagram account for him. He is one of three candidates in the ward, with the sitting Councillor Shawn Menard and Farah Gulzar. CBC News describes him as a Carleton University student. CTV News Ottawa says he has worked at the Glebe Community Centre.
His campaign website says that after moving to Ottawa for school he served as a councillor for the student union and twice as vice-president of finance for his program’s student society, and presided over Carleton’s yearly Model Parliament. It says he has worked in community spaces “for nearly a decade”, first with the Jewish Community Centre in Toronto and Ottawa and later at the Glebe Community Centre. In the CBC News questionnaire he says he has worked in community centres in Toronto and Ottawa for the past decade and has studied Public Affairs and Policy Management at Carleton. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire he says he has worked “for nearly 6 years” at various community centres in Toronto and Ottawa, including 2 years at the Glebe Community Centre. The three accounts give different lengths of time. In the CBC News questionnaire he says he may lack specific professional experience and points to his experience as a student, a renter and a user of OC Transpo.
His campaign page lists plans for a pilot Secondary Suite Incentive Program of up to $10,000 for homeowners who build a secondary suite, a rent bank, bus lanes on Carling Avenue, night bus service to Carleton University, a bike share pilot, a more people-first Bank Street redesign, better snow clearing of sidewalks and bike lanes, and a requirement that all City Council votes be recorded and published. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire he says he promises never to vote to increase OC Transpo fares, does not support increasing the police budget, and supports an infrastructure levy. In the CBC News questionnaire he chooses a transit levy for OC Transpo deficits beyond money from other levels of government, answers that the police budget is appropriate, and says the focus should be on a community safety system in which police are not the main responders to issues they are not trained for. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them with the centres or the student bodies he names. No public role is on record in the profile. The sources read hold no complaint against him.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
His campaign page lists supplying City public buildings with water bottles to give out in summer, stopping approval of hostile architecture designs (street furniture made to discourage people from resting) and pushing for their removal, making Lansdowne a true community place, and continuing Ottawa’s renaming of roads and places with the Kitigan Zibi and Pikwàkanagàn communities.
Jaac Doduck campaign · My PrioritiesHis campaign page lists using existing plans for bus lanes and transit signal priority on Carling Avenue from Bronson to Lincoln Fields, more funding to make all Ottawa bus stops meet accessibility standards, and night service routes to Carleton University.
In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire he promises never to vote to increase OC Transpo fares and says the City needs more revenue sources instead of placing the burden on riders. In the CBC News questionnaire he chooses a transit levy.
His campaign page lists a bike share pilot in the downtown core and surrounding neighbourhoods, a more community and people-first Bank Street redesign, a more complete snow-clearing system that does not treat sidewalks and bike lanes as low priority, and replacing driveway slopes in the Glebe and Old Ottawa South that are hard to cross.
Jaac Doduck campaign · My PrioritiesHis campaign page lists a pilot Secondary Suite Incentive Program of up to $10,000 towards a safe secondary suite, a rent bank to prevent homelessness and support low-income students, and seminars to help students understand their rights as tenants.
In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire he names a shortage of housing as the biggest issue in the ward and says growth should be carried out by communities and not imposed on them.
His campaign page says all City Council votes should be recorded, published and summarized, and that the City should work with the province for additional revenue tools that ease the load on user fees such as OC Transpo fares.
In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire he supports an infrastructure levy. In the CBC News questionnaire he says property taxes have to keep up with inflation and that the City needs sustainable funding outside property taxes and user fees.
Evidence reviewed on October 6, 2026: the City’s list of certified candidates for Ward 17 (an Internet Archive copy) and its open data file, his campaign website (home, About Me, My Priorities), CBC News of August 25, 2026 and his CBC News questionnaire, and CTV News Ottawa of September 2026.
Gaps. His X, Instagram and Facebook pages and a LinkedIn profile showed no posts or content to a visitor who is not logged in. His work at the community centres and in student government rests on his own statements, which give different lengths of time for the centre work (“nearly a decade” on his website, “the past decade” for CBC News, “nearly 6 years” for CTV News Ottawa), and voche.me did not check them with the bodies named. No news report beyond the ward pages was found. The voche.me questionnaire has not been sent.
His campaign page says he worked with the Jewish Community Centre in Toronto and Ottawa and at the Glebe Community Centre. CTV News Ottawa says he has worked at the Glebe Community Centre. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire he says he worked “for nearly 6 years” at community centres, including 2 years at the Glebe Community Centre. voche.me has not checked this with the centres.
Jaac Doduck campaign · About MeHis campaign page says he served as councillor for the student union, twice as vice-president of finance for his program’s student society, and presided over Carleton’s yearly Model Parliament. voche.me has not checked this with the university or the student bodies.
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