Gail Scott

Gail Mary Scott (25 June 1943 – 26 November 2025) was a Canadian journalist, television personality, and educator, best known as a co-host of Canada AM from 1978 to 1981.

Born in Ottawa to Dorothy and Claude J. Scott,

In 1972, she married Graham W. S. Scott, a lawyer then working as the executive assistant for Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield. As commissioner, Scott and fellow CRTC member William Callahan opposed CRTC's 29 July 1997 granting of the last FM broadcast band frequency 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".

She was part of the board of directors of the Michener Awards Foundation from 1986 to 1994, and its president from 1991 to 1993. On leaving the CRTC in 1998, Scott became a member of the Ontario Criminal Injuries Compensation Board until 2008. She also spent two years on the board of the Canadian Television Fund.

Scott died of lung cancer on 26 November 2025.