Jessica Bradley

The City of Ottawa’s list of elected officials for 2022 to 2026 shows Jessica Bradley as Councillor for Ward 10 Gloucester-Southgate. The City’s list of certified candidates shows her nomination dated May 8, 2026, with the same date for her registration in the Contribution Rebate Program. The City’s published results for the October 24, 2022 election give her 4,927 of the 11,663 votes cast in Ward 10, which is 42.2 percent, in a race of six candidates. CBC News says she took the seat after her former boss, the late Diane Deans. The City’s page for her, read as an Internet Archive copy of November 19, 2025, lists her as Vice-Chair of the Community Services Committee and a member of the Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, the Ottawa Board of Health and the Ottawa Public Library Board.

The City’s page for her, which her office wrote, says she studied political science at the University of Western Ontario, worked on the 2010 municipal election for the City of Brantford, moved to Ottawa in 2011, worked for more than a decade in the office of the Gloucester-Southgate councillor, and was a field manager for the 2011, 2016 and 2021 census with Statistics Canada. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire she says she was a political staffer to former Councillor Diane Deans and has more than 14 years of political and community experience. These are her own statements, and voche.me has not checked them with those employers.

The Council minutes of December 10, 2025 record her voting against the 2026 Ottawa Police Service budget (carried 20 to 5) and for an amendment that would have added $5.4 million from the Tax Stabilization Reserve, a City fund kept for tax stability, to community-based safety and crisis response (lost 9 to 16). The same minutes record her voting for the Transit Committee part of the 2026 budget as amended (carried 20 to 4), with a recorded dissent on recommendation 1 of item 25.1, and for the motion that adopted the 2026 budget reports (carried 21 to 4). Ottawa Lookout reported that she was one of five councillors who voiced dissent to the transit fare increase.

The minutes of April 22, 2026 record her voting against the Safe Access to Social Infrastructure By-law, which creates safe access zones around schools, places of worship, hospitals and care facilities and bans demonstrations inside them (carried 20 to 4). They also record her seconding Councillor Devine’s motion to discuss the by-law’s legal advice in private (lost 7 to 17) and his amendment to remove the ban on demonstrations (lost 6 to 18), and moving Motion 2026-78-05, which would limit the by-law’s prohibitions to the times when a facility is used for its main purpose (lost 10 to 14).

The minutes of July 15, 2026 record her voting for the Development Charge Reduction Program report, which would cut by 54 percent the fees the City charges builders of new homes once a funding agreement is signed (carried 23 to 1), and for referring that report to a special Council meeting (lost 11 to 14). They also record her voting for the Rental Renovation Licence By-law (carried 20 to 5). The minutes of September 9, 2026 record her among the 23 members voting for the motion asking the federal government to extend its consultation on the Eastern Bridge Project (carried 23 to 2).

In the CBC News questionnaire she names transit and affordability as the biggest challenge, calls the police budget appropriate, and chooses a transit levy (a separate property tax charge for transit) to cover OC Transpo deficits. She gives 5 on a scale where 5 is strongly agree to the statement that building more homes in built-up areas will be important for housing in the ward. She gives no figure for a 2027 tax limit and says she would want to see the full budget first. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire she says she has brought forward motions to freeze or limit transit fare increases and pushed back on steep increases to senior and youth fares this term. These are her own statements, and voche.me has not checked them against the minutes of every meeting.

Two challengers have made claims about her. Ahmed Rashid wrote in his CBC News questionnaire that she voted for the 2026 fare increase after saying she would freeze fares. The minutes record her vote for the Transit Committee budget item as amended with a dissent on one recommendation of it, and voche.me has not matched that recommendation to the fare increase. John Redins wrote on Bluesky on October 1, 2026 that he asked her to stand with him against what he called divisive harassment of a local candidate, and that she first said she would look into it and did not get back to him. His posts do not name the candidate, and voche.me found no reply from her. Both are claims by challengers, and voche.me has confirmed neither.