Candidate for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee in Zone 2 who says he is retired and served 21 years as a trustee of the Durham Public Board.
Paul Crawford 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 August 11, 2026. A biography on VoteMate, a voter information website, says it was submitted by the candidate or his team. It says he has 21 years of experience as a trustee of the Durham Public Board, is retired, and wants to put his experience toward student achievement, efficient use of education money and debate between parents, the board and the government. The other candidate in the zone is the sitting trustee, Julia Fortey. The City list gives him a LinkedIn address and no website.
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Ottawa municipal electionThe City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates shows Paul Crawford’s nomination for trustee of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in Zone 2 dated August 11, 2026. The City’s open data file shows no withdrawal. The City list gives him a LinkedIn address and no website or other social media account. CTV News Ottawa lists him among the two candidates for the zone. The other candidate is Julia Fortey, who CBC News reports is one of two sitting trustees seeking re-election.
A biography on VoteMate, which the page says was submitted by the candidate or his team, says he has 21 years of experience as a trustee of the Durham Public Board and 25 years of training in parliamentary procedure, rules of order and by-laws. It says he is a business administration graduate with years in customer service and sales management, is retired, and stays involved in governance procedures and in communication between government, the Ministry of Education, the media and the public. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them with any school board, school or university.
In the section on his reason for running he says he wants to use his experience for student achievement and efficient use of education money, and to balance the views of parents, the board and the government by supporting dialogue and debate. He says debate and freedom of expression are essential for efficient governance, and he promises to respond to every communication and not to ignore any request for help. 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. His VoteMate page lists no promises. The sources voche.me read about this campaign hold no complaint or allegation about him.
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On VoteMate he says he wants to use his experience toward student achievement and the efficient use of education dollars.
VoteMate · Paul Crawford, independent for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Zone 2 (biography and reason for running submitted by the candidate or his team)He says he would support dialogue and debate to reach a proper balance between parents, the board and the government.
He writes that debate and freedom of expression are essential for efficient governance.
He promises on VoteMate to respond to every communication and not to ignore any request for assistance.
VoteMate · Paul Crawford, independent for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Zone 2 (biography and reason for running submitted by the candidate or his team)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 page on supervision, CBC News of August 24, 2026, the CTV News Ottawa list of school board candidates of September 9, 2026, and his VoteMate page with the biography and reason for running that it says the candidate or his team submitted.
Gaps. His LinkedIn page could not be opened. His claimed 21 years as a Durham Public Board trustee, his training, his education and his work are his own statements, and no source that voche.me read confirms that the Durham trustee of the same name is this candidate, so none of that trustee’s record is written. He gave no website and no 2026 news interview was found. The voche.me questionnaire has not been sent.
His VoteMate biography lists 21 years of experience as a trustee of the Durham Public Board. It gives no dates, and voche.me has not checked it with that board.
VoteMate · Paul Crawford, independent for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Zone 2 (biography and reason for running submitted by the candidate or his team)His VoteMate biography lists this training and does not name who provided it. voche.me has not checked it.
VoteMate · Paul Crawford, independent for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Zone 2 (biography and reason for running submitted by the candidate or his team)His VoteMate biography lists this education and work. It names no school or employer, and voche.me has not checked it.
VoteMate · Paul Crawford, independent for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Zone 2 (biography and reason for running submitted by the candidate or his team)Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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