Scott Dutrisac

The City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates shows Scott Dutrisac’s nomination for trustee of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in Zone 9 dated May 15, 2026. The City’s open data file shows no withdrawal. The other candidates in the zone are Hilary Clauson and Sergio DeFranco. The City list gives him a campaign website and a Facebook page. The Leveller named him on July 24, 2026 among the newcomer candidates for Zone 9, and CTV News Ottawa links his site in its guide of September 9, 2026.

His campaign site says he lives in Ward 18 (Alta Vista) and is a Professional Engineer working for a technology company in Kanata. It says he started in theatre production and was technical director of a Toronto-based university theatre for a number of years, then moved to mechanical engineering at Carleton University, which led to a master’s degree where he researched the mechanics of traumatic brain injury. The site links a Carleton news item of November 16, 2020, which names Scott Dutrisac as a Master of Applied Science graduate and a recipient of a 2020 Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. In that item he describes his research on how the head and brain respond to impact, says he was elected President of the Carleton Mechanical and Aerospace Society in his third and fourth undergraduate years, and says he planned to continue at the PhD level. His site does not mention a PhD. His engineering licence and his theatre post are his own statements and were not checked.

The site states his values as support for Indigenous rights, 2SLGBTQI+ inclusion, special education and a welcoming environment for newcomers, and says he wants transparency, responsibility and inclusion. Under the headings Participate, Protect, Prepare and Parents and Families it calls for access to extracurricular activities and the arts, attention to students’ mental and physical health in well-maintained schools, teaching that builds critical thinking, and open communication with families.

In an update dated August 29, 2026 he wrote that a member of a group of similarly aligned candidates asked him to sign a shared statement of principles. He wrote that he supports its positions as he understands them, which he described as bringing voice back to local communities, ending provincial supervision, and funding for student supports, teachers and educational assistants, and that he chose to stay independent because a trustee is accountable to a local community. He linked the Ottawa Citizen article of August 27, 2026 about the group, which names eight signers. He is not among the eight it names. In an update of August 13, 2026 he wrote that the provincial takeover in 2025 reduced accountability and teacher morale, and that local voices should be heard. An update dated October 2 invited neighbours to meet him at a market in Alta Vista on October 3, from 9 am to 11 am.

The board’s page says that since June 27, 2025 the board has been under supervision by the Minister of Education, and that decisions normally made by trustees are made by the appointed Supervisor, Robert Plamondon. The sources read hold no complaint or allegation about him.