Wendy Bisaro | |
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Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories | |
In office October 1, 2007 –2015 | |
Preceded by | Charles Dent |
Succeeded by | Kevin O'Reilly |
Constituency | Frame Lake |
Personal details | |
Born | Montreal,Quebec |
Political party | non-partisan consensus government |
Residence | Yellowknife,Northwest Territories |
Wendy Bisaro is a Canadian politician who represented Frame Lake in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 2007 to 2015.
Bisaro was born in Montreal,Quebec,and in 1968 earned a bachelor of education degree from McGill University with a specialty in physical education. [1]
After teaching high school in Montreal,she moved to Yellowknife in 1971 and taught at Sir John Franklin High School. From 1985 to its closure in 2004,she worked at Mack Travel;she then became an adult instructor for Canadian North. [1]
In sport,she played for,coached,and was an organizer in the Yellowknife Basketball Association and the Yellowknife Ladies Softball Association and was a co-founder of Sport North,where she served as vice president from 1984 to 1988. She competed,coached,and was a member of the mission staff for the Canada Games,competed in the Arctic Winter Games and was Northwest Territories Chef de Mission for the 1984 games and a director of the Host Society for the 1988 games and vice president of the Host Society for the 2008 games. [1]
Bisaro was elected in 1988 to the board of trustees for Yellowknife Education District #1,and served four terms,for five years as board chair,until 2000,when she successfully ran for election to Yellowknife City Council. She was re-elected in 2003 to a second term,during which she was chosen to be deputy mayor. [1] [2]
In the 2007 provincial election she was elected MLA for Frame Lake,succeeding Charles Dent,who did not run for reelection. She defeated two other candidates with 56% of the vote. Voter turnout was low at 45%. [3] [4] [5] In 2011 she won reelection with 55% of the vote against two other candidates. [5] Turnout was 30%. [6] She was elected chairperson of the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning in May 2013. [2] She declined to run for a third term in 2015. [7] [8]
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