The City of Ottawa’s list of elected officials for 2022 to 2026 shows Marty Carr as Councillor for Ward 18 Alta Vista. The City’s list of certified candidates shows her nomination for the same ward dated May 28, 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 6,088 of the 12,919 votes cast in Ward 18, which is 47.1 percent, the most votes in a race of 4 candidates (Carolyn Kropp received 4,107, Bob Perkins 2,453 and Angelo Gino Scaffidi 271). CBC News describes her as a former public servant and Alta Vista Community Association president who won the open seat in 2022, and CTV News Ottawa reports that she is seeking a second term. Her four challengers are Muhyadin Omar Barkhat, Tressy El-Hawi, Derek McSweeney and Elsa Niyongabo.
The Ottawa Police Service Board’s media releases say that she was elected its Vice Chair in January 2024 and re-elected on January 26, 2026, and describe her as a City Councillor first elected in October 2022 after a career of more than 20 years in the federal government. The 2024 release lists her community service as school council roles, three years on the Blair Court Community House Board, four years on the Heron Gate Steering Committee and five years on the Alta Vista Community Association, three and a half of them as president. Her Councillor website lists, for her 2022 to 2026 term, the Audit Committee, the City of Ottawa Superannuation Fund, the Community Services Committee, the Environment and Climate Change Committee, the Ottawa Board of Health, the Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, the Police Services Board and the Transit Commission. voche.me did not check these committee roles against committee minutes.
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), 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 for the motion that adopted the 2026 budgets (carried 21 to 4). 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 for an amendment that would have limited the by-law to times when a facility is used for its main purpose (lost 10 to 14). The minutes list no vote from her on the motion to go in camera before that debate. That day she moved a motion asking staff to report by the end of the second quarter of 2027 on a municipal food strategy, and a motion to rename Faircrest Heights Park as Claude Bennett Park. Both carried. CBC News reports that Council passed the food motion unanimously after she moved a mention of city-owned grocery stores into the explanatory clauses. On July 15, 2026 she voted for the Development Charge Reduction Program report (carried 23 to 1), for a motion by Councillor Menard 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). 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).
Her campaign website says that in her first term she worked on traffic calming, community safety town halls, ending the use of community centres as shelters, community gardens, a municipal food strategy and reporting of City leadership travel. It also says she served on the Service Review Working Group, and as a member of the Police Board moved a motion that led to Auditor General audits of the Ottawa Police Service. For a second term it lists a four-year traffic plan, a plan to redevelop at least one legacy fieldhouse, housing and services at 1245 Kilborn, more funding for road renewal and active transportation, work with OC Transpo on routes that miss reliability targets, and continued work on Council’s Service Review Working Group and Audit Committee. The platform page of her campaign site showed unfilled placeholder text on October 6, 2026. In the CBC News questionnaire she names transit as the biggest challenge, says she does not expect to support budgets that exceed an average of 3 percent a year over the term, gave no answer on the transit levy question, and said she would answer the police budget question after the City’s long range financial plan and efficiencies review. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire she answers yes to increasing the police budget and no to an infrastructure levy. These are her own statements, and voche.me checked only the votes and motions described above. The sources read hold no complaint against her.
