Stéphanie's Bio

Stéphanie Plante is serving her first term as City Councillor for Rideau-Vanier and Deputy Mayor of Ottawa. Since being elected in 2022, she has built a reputation as a collaborative and determined leader who delivers practical results for neighbourhoods. Whether advocating for affordable housing, safer streets, better access to health care, or more vibrant public spaces, Stéphanie believes local government should improve everyday life for the people who call Ottawa home.

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Over the past four years, Stéphanie has championed initiatives that are making a lasting difference across Ward 12 and beyond: She led Ottawa's first School Street to make it safer for children to walk to school, brought forward the City's first Primary Care Strategy to help recruit more family doctors, and spearheaded Canada's first municipal wastewater surveillance strategy to detect emerging toxic drugs before they claim more lives.

She secured Ottawa's first sponge park at Carillon Park to help protect neighbourhoods from flooding, championed the planting of three tiny forests, supported the expansion of the ANCHOR program into Ottawa's east end, and helped transform the former Shepherds of Good Hope emergency shelter into a vision for permanent supportive housing. She also worked to bring the Ottawa Humane Society's veterinary services to Vanier, advocated for new commemorative spaces including Mary Papatsie Park and Herbert and Estelle Brown Park, and has consistently fought for investments that strengthen the health, safety, and quality of life of residents.

A proud francophone, Stéphanie has called Ward 12 home since moving to Ottawa in 2004. She lives in Sandy Hill with her family and their beloved dog, Diego and her angelfish, Swim Shady. Stéphanie remains committed to building safe, inclusive, and welcoming communities where families can thrive, local businesses can succeed, and every resident feels they have a voice at City Hall. Stéphanie was a surrogate for a gay couple in 2017 and believes that LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights.

In her spare time, Stéphanie is a basketball referee with the Ottawa Valley Board of Approved Basketball Officials and is a member of the Women in Basketball Officiating Collective (WiBOC) and the Officials Institute, which aims to recruit more women in officiating in all sports. She loves coffee, audiobooks, reality TV and is a season ticketholder with the Ottawa Blackjacks.

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I am incredibly humbled and grateful. Thank you, Rideau-Vanier, for your trust and support. ❤️ It has been the privilege of my life to serve this community, and I can’t wait to see what we can accomplish together over the next four years.🚀

Je suis profondément touchée et reconnaissante. Merci du fond du cœur, Rideau-Vanier, pour votre confiance! ❤️

C’est un immense honneur de vous représenter et j’ai tellement hâte de poursuivre le travail avec vous pendant les quatre prochaines année 🚀
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32 lives lost on Ottawa’s roads in 2026. The highest fatality numbers in a decade.

“We want our city leadership to commit to zero deaths, it’s the only defensible number and anything else is planning for it.”

VZO’s Chris Hircock on CBC All In A Day. Can’t post the link but easy to find!
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Check out this FUNdraiser for the Vanier Co-operative Childcare Centre today at the Vanier HUB / HUB Vanier!

Déguisez-vous pour une bonne cause! 🎃 Venez participer à la collecte de fonds de la Garderie coopérative de Vanier aujourd’hui au HUB Vanier! 👻
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Check out this FUNdr