Sitting Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee for Zone 2 since her appointment in October 2024, seeking election to the seat in 2026.
Julia Fortey is on the City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee in Zone 2, which covers City Wards 4 and 23, with a nomination dated May 29, 2026. The board’s own releases say its trustees chose her at a special meeting on October 15, 2024 to fill the seat left by Alysha Aziz, with a term ending November 14, 2026. CBC News reports that she is one of two sitting trustees seeking re-election. The board has been under provincial supervision since June 27, 2025, so decisions that trustees would make are made by a Supervisor. The City list gives her no website or social media account, and voche.me found no 2026 campaign statement from her.
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The City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates shows Julia Fortey’s nomination for trustee of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in Zone 2 dated May 29, 2026. The City’s open data file shows no withdrawal. The City list gives no website or social media account for her. The other candidate in the zone is Paul Crawford. CBC News reported on August 24, 2026 that she is one of only two current trustees seeking re-election, and that four other current trustees are running for City Council.
The board’s releases say that its trustees selected her at a special meeting on October 15, 2024 after eight candidates presented their qualifications, that she was sworn in on October 29, 2024, and that she replaced Alysha Aziz, who resigned in July 2024. Her term ends on November 14, 2026. CBC News reported that Aziz resigned for personal reasons. A board document of November 12, 2024 lists her on the Audit Committee for a two-year term to 2026, the Policy Review Committee and the Advocacy Strategy Committee.
CBC News reported that on June 11, 2025, after two nights of discussion as a committee of the whole, seven trustees voted in favour of the 2025-2026 budget as staff had presented it, and that Fortey was among them. The budget included $18.1 million in cuts. The CBC update says the board approved the budget on June 17, 2025 with six votes in favour, three against and one abstention, and it does not name who voted each way, so voche.me does not attribute that vote to her. The board’s page says that since June 27, 2025 the board has been under supervision by the Minister of Education, so that decisions normally made by trustees are made by the appointed Supervisor.
The board’s release says she holds a Master’s in Education from the University of Prince Edward Island, a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Carleton University and an Architectural Technologist diploma from Algonquin College, has more than twelve years of experience at Algonquin College where she is an Academic Administrator, and is a parent and community member in Zone 2. The release says she sits on Algonquin College’s Board of Governors, and the college’s approved minutes of October 27, 2025 list a Julia Fortey as present among the governors. voche.me did not check her degrees or her job with the schools or the college. The sources read hold no complaint or allegation about her.
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The board’s release describes her vision for education as safe, inclusive learning spaces that support personal growth and academic achievement. It does not give a 2026 platform.
At her selection she said she was eager to contribute to the board’s mission of a learning community where every student can excel.
Evidence reviewed on October 7, 2026: the City’s list of certified candidates for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (an Internet Archive copy) and its open data file of nominations, the board’s releases of October 16 and October 30, 2024, its document of November 12, 2024 and its page on supervision, CBC News of June 24, 2025, June 17, 2025 and August 24, 2026, The Leveller of July 24, 2026, the CTV News Ottawa list of school board candidates of September 9, 2026, the approved Algonquin College Board of Governors minutes of October 27, 2025, and the VoteMate page for this candidate.
Gaps. She gave the City no website or social media account, and no 2026 platform or campaign statement from her was found, so the priority shown is the board’s description of her vision from 2024. Board minutes could not be opened (the meeting site refused the request), so only the budget vote that CBC News reports is described, and her other votes and motions are not covered. Her degrees, her job, and her college board seat are the board’s statements and were not checked with the schools or the college, apart from the college minutes. The voche.me questionnaire has not been sent.
The board says its trustees selected her on October 15, 2024 and swore her in on October 29, 2024 for a term ending November 14, 2026. The board’s page says decisions normally made by trustees have been made by the appointed Supervisor since June 27, 2025.
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Julia Fortey sworn in as OCDSB’s Kanata North/Kanata South (Zone 2) Trustee, October 30, 2024A board document of November 12, 2024 lists her on the Audit Committee for a two-year term to 2026, and on the Policy Review and Advocacy Strategy committees.
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Board Organizational Meeting, November 12, 2024, positions for 2024-2025The board’s release says she has more than twelve years at the college and is an Academic Administrator. voche.me did not check this with the college.
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Julia Fortey sworn in as OCDSB’s Kanata North/Kanata South (Zone 2) Trustee, October 30, 2024The board’s release says she is a member. The college’s approved minutes of October 27, 2025 list a Julia Fortey as present among the governors.
Algonquin College · Board of Governors approved minutes, October 27, 2025Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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