She won the position for Kitchissippi Ward councillor in the 2006 Ottawa municipal election on 13 November 2006 after incumbent Shawn Little dropped out of the race.
[4] Before being elected to city council she was executive director of the Westboro Business Improvement Area for 14 years.
She worked on the board of the community paper Newswest for a decade prior to its merger with Kitchissippi Times.
[5] She was opposed to the original O-Train North-South light rail project proposal that would have run from downtown to Barrhaven starting in 2009.
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