2006 MONTRÉAL PROFILE
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MONTR?AL PROFILE
Profile of Montr?al
MONTR?AL FACTS AND FIGURES
Political organization
105 elected officials: the city's mayor, 19 borough mayors, 45 city councillors and 40 borough councillors.
31 councillors and mayors on the Urban Agglomeration Council as at January 1, 2006.
Within the city limits
16 cities make up the Montr?al Urban Agglomeration. They consist of Montr?al and its 19 boroughs, along with 15 reconstituted municipalities.
482.8 square kilometres: the area of the Island of Montr?al and 10 smaller islands. The Island of Montr?al is 50 km long and up to 16 km wide.
5,617 kilometres of roads and 883 km of rails throughout the Island of Montr?al.
33 kilometres of underground pedestrian corridors, with 178 access points, making Montr?al one of the world's leaders in subsurface networks of this type. Some 500,000 people go about their business in these corridors each day, protected from the elements.
2006 Budget
$3,854.9 million: The 2006 city budget for urban agglomeration services that are provided throughout the Island of Montr?al and for local services that are dispensed within Montr?al itself.
$133.6 billion: total value of property throughout the Island of Montr?al ($106.6 billion in Montr?al and $27 billion in the 15 reconstituted municipalities).
21,724: City employees, in person-years.
Population
1,862,608 residents of the Island of Montr?al. Of this number, 1,626.373 live in the city (87.3% of the island's population) and 236,235 (12.7%) inhabit the 15 reconstituted municipalities. This cultural mosaic includes members of some 100 ethnic communities.
Education and research
4 universities (two French- and two English language), which are associated with such renowned institutions as the ?cole des hautes ?tudes commerciales (HEC), the ?cole polytechnique, the ?cole nationale d'administration publique, the ?cole de technologie sup?rieure and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique.
450 university and private research centres, making Montr?al a key centre for innovation. The city is Canada's capital for academic research.
Healthcare
33 hospitals, which form the heart of a health-care system that also includes 300 CLSCs (community centres).
Economic activity
260 companies operating in the aerospace industry. Sixty percent of all Canadian activity in this economic sector is concentrated in Greater Montr?al and provides jobs to some 40,000 people.
23,636,763 metric tonnes of goods transited through the Port of Montr?al in 2004, the largest port on North America's East Coast.
88 major corporations have head offices in Montr?al. The city is also home to 71 international organizations, 60 consulates and 112 finance centres.
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2006 Budget
Tourism 307,104 conventioneers attended events in Montr?al during 2004. The city ranks third in North America for its annual number of international conventions. 14,400,000 visitors to the metropolitan region in 2004. Tourists spent some $2.3 billion. 40 international festivals and events are presented each year. They contribute to Montr?al's cultural wealth and place the city on a par with such other leading centres as London, Paris and New York.
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Ville de Montr?al Administrative organization
January 12, 2006
Borough councils
CITY COUNCIL
AGGLOMERATION COUNCIL
Executive Committee
DIRECTION G?N?RALE Robert Abdallah Director general
Commission des services ?lectriques
(Electrical services commission)
Serge Boileau Chairman
Service des infrastructures, transport et environnement
Yves Provost Assistant Director General
Service de la mise en valeur du territoire et du patrimoine
Marc Tremblay Assistant Director General
Service du d?veloppement culturel, de la qualit? du milieu de vie et de
la diversit? ethnoculturelle
Rachel Laperri?re Assistant Director General
Service de police
Yvan Delorme Director
Service de la s?curit? incendie de Montr?al
Serge Tremblay Director
Anjou Borough Jacques Rioux
Director
C?te-des-Neiges?NotreDame-de-Gr?ce Borough
Ga?tan Rainville Director
Service des affaires corporatives
Robert Cassius de Linval Senior Director
Service du capital humain
Pierre Reid Senior Director
Service des finances
Robert Lamontagne Senior Director and Treasurer
East boroughs
Service des services administratifs
Robert Cassius de Linval Senior Director
Mercier?HochelagaMaisonneuve Borough Michel Archambault
Director
LaSalle Borough Gervais Lemay
Director
Ahuntsic-Cartierville Borough
?ric Lachapelle Director
Montr?al-Nord Borough
Daniel L'?cuyer Director
Rivi?re-des-Prairies?Pointeaux-Trembles Borough
Pierre Santamaria Director
Central boroughs
Rosemont? La Petite-Patrie Borough
Paul Bourret Director
Outremont Borough
Yves Mailhot Director
Plateau-Mont-Royal Borough
Johanne Falcon Director
West boroughs
Sud-Ouest Borough
Gilles Rainville Director
L'?le-Bizard?SainteGenevi?ve Borough
Jean-Paul Collinge Director
Lachine Borough
Pierre Bernardin Director
Pierrefonds-Roxboro Borough
Jacques Chan Director
Saint-L?onard Borough Claude Brunelle Director
Ville-Marie Borough Guy H?bert
Assistant Director General
Saint-Laurent Borough Serge Lamontagne Director
Villeray?Saint-Michel? Parc-Extension Borough
?rick Santana Director
Verdun Borough Gilles Baril Director
Political bodies
Organizations
Municipal departments
Boroughs
2006 Budget
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