[1] Scott graduated from Carleton University with a bachelor of journalism in 1966 and began her television career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at CBOT-TV in Ottawa.
[2][4] As commissioner, Scott and fellow CRTC member William Callahan opposed CRTC's 29 July 1997 granting of the last FM broadcast band in Toronto to CBC because "an Afro-Canadian music station would better serve the public interest in Canada's largest city, which has a 200,000-strong Caribbean community".
[7] On leaving the CRTC in 1998, Scott became a member of the Ontario Criminal Injuries Compensation Board until 2008.
[citation needed] In 2006, she was an independent board member of the Canadian Television Fund.
[citation needed] In 2017, Scott was granted a master's degree in theological studies at Trinity College, University of Toronto.