Jeff Balys is on the City of Ottawa's list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 3 Barrhaven West, with a nomination dated August 20, 2026. CBC News describes him as a real estate agent, and says it sent its questionnaire to the email address he gave the City and had no reply by the deadline. In the CTV News questionnaire he says he has no formal political experience.
His campaign website says he began in financial services with Investors Group and later Edward Jones, co-founded NetWealth Realty Inc. in 2001, which it says Centum Canada acquired in 2006, and moved into real estate full-time in 2012, where it says he has led teams as a team leader, coach and trainer. In the CTV News questionnaire he says he studied economics and business finance at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, has lived in Ottawa almost his whole life, and has coached and mentored young people. The website says he has volunteered and coached football, baseball and soccer in Barrhaven and served a term as General Manager of the Ottawa Sooners. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them with an employer, a school or a club.
His campaign website sets out a plan with ten points. It includes an express transit connection between Barrhaven and downtown, property tax increases kept as close to zero as realistically possible, weekly garbage collection from May 1 to October 1, growth tied to roads and services, a Ward 3 construction coordination process, youth and food security programs, community safety measures and flexibility for government employees to work from home. In the CTV News questionnaire he says he supports a larger police budget, wants lower transit fares, and does not support an infrastructure levy.
In the CTV News questionnaire he says the Ottawa Police South Facility on Prince of Wales Drive had a budget of $109 million in the 2020 capital budget and that its budget authority is now approaching $188 million, and he asks the City to explain the increase. These figures are his own and voche.me has not checked them against City budget documents. The sources read hold no complaint or allegation about him.
