Communauté métropolitaine de Québec
The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec (CMQ) is a regional special-purpose association in the Canadian province of Québec , consisting of municipalities in the metropolitan area of the provincial capital Québec . It was created on January 1, 2002 by a law passed by the National Assembly of Québec . The CMQ comprises 28 municipalities with a total of 765,706 inhabitants (as of 2011), which corresponds to around a tenth of the province's population.
tasks
The council of the CMQ consists of 17 members. Five of these form the executive council (conseil exécutif) .
The CMQ has planning, coordination and financing skills in the following areas:
- Spatial planning
- Economic development
- Art and culture funding
- tourism
- Infrastructure financing
- Waste disposal
- natural reserve
- Local public transport
Member municipalities
Web links
- Communauté urbaine de Québec (French)