Isabel Metcalfe
Isabel Metcalfe (born 1952) is a successful business woman with a record of community involvement. A champion for women in public life, she has experience at the municipal, provincial and federal levels of government in Canada. Born in Almonte, Ontario, she is married to Herb Metcalfe and is the mother of three children. She currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Work history and education[edit]
Metcalfe started her career as a tour guide on Parliament Hill, moving on to work for former Canadian Prime Ministers Pierre Elliott Trudeau, John Turner and Jean Chrétien.
Working with the faith, business and voluntary sector, she developed an expertise in partnership development as the NGO Coordinator for The Spicer Commission (a Citizen’s Form on Canada’s Future) from 1990-1991. In 1992, she also served as a community advisor for Canada 125/ParticipACTION and was the National Programs Coordinator for the Canada Committee for the International Year of the Family. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) from Carleton University in 1994. Since that time, she has been a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Ottawa’s School of Management on the topic of lobbying and advocacy.
She now provides public affairs counsel to national, not-for-profit organizations. Her fields of expertise include aboriginal issues, Canada’s film and television industry and the renewable energy sector having worked with the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, the Canadian Solar Industries Association, the Writers Guild of Canada and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
In the fall of 2010, Ottawa Magazine referred to her as “A skilled advocate and government relations consultant... [who has] an extensive track record in the Ottawa region providing strategic advice to national organizations dealing with government.”[1]
Community Involvement[edit]
She entered public life in the 2006 federal election as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of Carleton—Mississippi Mills.[2] This was followed by a bid for city council in Ottawa’s Capital Ward (Ward 17) in the Ottawa Municipal Election, 2010.[3]
For the past six years, she has served on the board of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and is currently on the board of the Aboriginal Media Education Fund and the Weengushk Film Institute. She has also served on the boards of The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, The Ottawa Hospital, the National Screen Institute and the Judy LaMarsh Fund.
She is also well known for her promotion of women in public life. In 1997, she founded the Famous 5 Foundation, which succeeded in getting the Women Are Persons! monument on Parliament Hill and honouring Canadian women on the $50 bank note.[4][5] She currently chairs the Ottawa Famous 5 Committee, honouring women as Nation Builders.
Since 2001, she has been a volunteer International Election Observer for both the Government of Canada and the National Democratic Institute, she has helped advance democracy and foster the role of women in public life in Ukraine, Lebanon, Albania and Azerbaijan. She was also the national co-chair for the Liberal Party of Canada’s female candidate recruitment strategy to increase the number of women running in the 2008 election to 33 per cent.[6]
In 2002, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and was named a Judy Lamarsh Woman of Distinction. In 2010 she was again honored with the Leading Women Building Communities Award from the Province of Ontario and the Ontario Volunteer Service Award.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Municipal Election 2010", Ottawa Life Magazine, Fall 2010
- ↑ "Canada Votes, 2006", as published by CBC.ca
- ↑ "Survey: Isabel Metcalfe, Capital Ward", as published in the Ottawa Citizen, September 29, 2010
- ↑ "More than Tokens," by the Toronto Star, re-published by the Centre for Voting and Democracy, May 22, 2004
- ↑ "State of women's equality in Canada still sometimes very discouraging," by Sheila Copps, as published in the Hill Times, August 17, 2009
- ↑ "Dion's candidate quota on course," by Carol Goar as published in the Toronto Star, Jan 21, 2008
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