Shared services on the island of Montréal

The Montréal agglomeration council oversees shared services on the island of Montréal.

The costs of these services are shared by all island of Montréal taxpayers. Shared services include:

• Property assessment
• Public transit
• Streets and roads that make up the agglomeration’s road system
• All locations or facilities used as snow deposit sites for snow removed from several municipalities
• Water treatment and purification
• Removal and development of residual materials, as well as developing and adopting a residual materials management plan
• Municipal watercourses
• The following public safety services:
  • The police, emergency preparedness and fire departments
  • 9-1-1 emergency centre
  • Developing and adopting an emergency preparedness plan and a fire safety risk coverage plan
• The municipal court
• Social housing and aid specifically for homeless people
• The following areas of economic development:
  • Promoting a municipality, including tourist promotion, when promotion is done outside the municipality.
  • Welcoming tourists to the agglomeration
  • All local development centres
  • All convention centres, ports and airports
  • All industrial ports and railway branch lines
  • All aid specifically for businesses