Benoit Fortin appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Conseil scolaire Viamonde in Ward 2 Est. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as June 1, 2026 and no campaign website. Ward 2 Est covers City wards 6, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25.
The City of Toronto’s release of August 24, 2026 lists him among the candidates declared elected by acclamation: “Benoit Fortin, Trustee, Conseil scolaire Viamonde Ward 2”. The City Clerk’s Declaration of Acclamation of the same date names him for Ward 2. Acclamation means that no other candidate registered for the seat, so there is no vote for it on October 26.
The board’s Membres du Conseil page, read on October 4, 2026, lists him as Président du Conseil (voche.me’s translation: chair of the board) for the Toronto (East) region. The page gives no start date, so none is stated. L’Express reported on November 19, 2022 that the board chose Geneviève Oger as president and him as vice-president for 12 months at its organization meeting of November 18, 2022. Radio-Canada’s article of October 23, 2018 lists Benoit Fortin as elected in Toronto Est, and the City Clerk’s 2018 results list him first of 4 candidates in Ward 2 with 534 votes, marked elected. The City Clerk’s 2022 declaration lists him as acclaimed in Ward 2.
In an ONFR article of December 16, 2025, he is quoted as board president saying that more parents taking part in school board elections and meetings would improve the oversight of school boards, and that many seats are filled by acclamation because too few candidates register. That is voche.me’s English paraphrase of the French article. voche.me read no board minutes, so it cites no recorded vote.