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{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Wendy Bisaro
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| birth_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]
| residence = [[Yellowknife]], [[Northwest Territories]]
| office = [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories|Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]] 
| constituency = [[Frame Lake (electoral district)|Frame Lake]]
| term_start = October 1, 2007
| term_end = 2015
| predecessor = [[Charles Dent (politician)|Charles Dent]]
| successor = [[Kevin O'Reilly (politician)|Kevin O'Reilly]]
| party = non-partisan<br />[[consensus government]]
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'''Wendy Bisaro''' is a Canadian politician who represented [[Frame Lake (electoral district)|Frame Lake]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]] from 2007 to 2015.

==Early life and education==
Bisaro was born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], and in 1968 earned a bachelor of education degree from [[McGill University]] with a specialty in physical education.<ref name=bio>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=171924 "Bisaro, Wendy"], Our Campaigns, December 29, 2007, retrieved November 25, 2020.</ref>

==Career==
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]].<ref name=bio/>

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.<ref name=bio/>

==Political career==
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.<ref name=bio/><ref name=Assembly>[https://www.ntassembly.ca/documents-proceedings/news-releases/news-may-28b-2013 "MLA for Frame Lake Elected Chair of the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning"], Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, May 28, 2013, retrieved November 25, 2020.</ref>

In the [[2007 Northwest Territories general election|2007 provincial election]] she was elected [[Member of the Legislative Assembly#Canada|MLA]] for Frame Lake, succeeding [[Charles Dent (politician)|Charles Dent]], who did not run for reelection. She defeated two other candidates with 56% of the vote. Voter turnout was low at 45%.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080411063925/http://www.electionsnwt.ca/pdf/VotingResultsfortheGeneralElection2007Eng.pdf "Election of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories: Official Voting Results"], Elections NWT, November 23, 2007, p.&nbsp;3. Archived from [http://www.electionsnwt.ca/pdf/VotingResultsfortheGeneralElection2007Eng.pdf the original] on April 11, 2008.</ref><ref>Jack Danylchuk, [https://archive.nnsl.com/2011-09/sep7_11e.html "Frame Lake a race to watch"], Northern News Services, September 7, 2011, retrieved November 25, 2020.</ref><ref name=CBC>[https://www.cbc.ca/news2/canada/nwtvotes2011/ridings/013/ Yellowknife: Frame Lake], Northwest Territories Votes 2011, CBC, retrieved November 25, 2020.</ref> In [[2011 Northwest Territories general election|2011]] she won reelection with 55% of the vote against two other candidates.<ref name=CBC/> Turnout was 30%.<ref>[https://www.electionsnwt.ca/sites/electionsnwt/files/official_voting_results_2011.pdf "Official Voting Results 2011"], Elections NWT, November 21, 2011, pp.&nbsp;7, 21.</ref> She was elected chairperson of the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning in May 2013.<ref name=Assembly/> She declined to run for a third term in [[2015 Northwest Territories general election|2015]].<ref>[https://ca.news.yahoo.com/n-w-t-votes-2015-132719044.html "Frame Lake: Roy Erasmus, Kevin O'Reilly, Jan Fullerton, David Wasylciw"], CBC News, via Yahoo! News, November 5, 2015, retrieved November 25, 2020.</ref><ref>Mark Rendell, [https://edgenorth.ca/article/exit-interview-wendy-bisaro-speaks-her-mind "Exit Interview: Wendy Bisaro Speaks Her Mind"], ''Edge North'', October 9, 2015, retrieved November 25, 2020.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.facebook.com/Wendy-Bisaro-Retired-MLA-Frame-Lake-228736387173991/ Wendy Bisaro on Facebook]

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[[Category:McGill University Faculty of Education alumni]]
[[Category:Women MLAs in the Northwest Territories]] <!-- Special case re: category duplication, as the government of NWT does not use political parties. -->
[[Category:Yellowknife city councillors]]
[[Category:Politicians from Montreal]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Women municipal councillors in Canada]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian women politicians]]