Stéphanie Plante (born July 1979) is a Canadian politician. She is currently the city councillor for

Rideau-Vanier Ward Rideau-Vanier Ward is a ward in the city of Ottawa, designated as Ward 12 and represented on Ottawa City Council. It was originally created in 1994 as a Ward on Regional Council. Prior to Ottawa's amalgamation in 2001, the Ward was partly in the ...

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. She was first elected in the

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Early life

Plante was born in Tecumseh, Ontario, the daughter of a Swiss mother and a Quebecois father. Plante attended the University of Windsor, where she received a bachelors and masters degree in political science. While attending the university, she did an internship with Liberal Member of Parliament Herb Gray, resulting in a move to Ottawa in 2004, first settling in Vanier. After moving to Ottawa, she worked for Elections Canada, and taught municipal governance at the University of Ottawa. In 2020, as a member of the Sandy Hill Community Association, Plante began a successful campaign to re-name a neighbourhood park after local artist Annie Pootoogook who had drowned in 2016. In 2017, she was a gestational surrogate for a gay couple, who now live in Spain.

Career

's councillor

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announced he was not running for re-election in the

, leaving the seat open. Plante decided to run for the seat, citing working for "every level of government, einga volunteer in the community, and nowingthe issues and how the system works". In the campaign, Plante won the endorsement of former Liberal MPP Madeleine Meilleur and former mayor Jacquelin Holzman. Her main priorities in the election were improving health-care options and attracting new doctors to the ward, by having the city consult with physicians to see how to make the community attractive, opposing more homeless shelters, promotion and protection of the ByWard Market, more affordable housing and making the ward's neighbourhoods safer. In the election, Plante won the ward by just 323 votes, or 37% of the vote, defeating fellow University of Ottawa professor Laura Shantz. Following her election, Plante was named Vice-Chair of the Built Heritage Committee and was named to the Community Services Committee, the Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee, to the Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, and the Shaw Centre Board of Directors.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Plante, Stephanie Living people 1979 births Ottawa city councillors Women municipal councillors in Canada 21st-century Canadian women politicians University of Windsor alumni People from Essex County, Ontario Franco-Ontarian people University of Ottawa faculty Canadian people of Swiss-French descent