The Montreal Executive Committee (french: Comité exécutif de Montréal) is the executive branch of the municipal government of

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. The committee reports directly to city hall and is responsible for generating documents such as budgets and by-laws, which are then sent to the Montreal City Council for approval. As of 2017, the committee consists of the

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, twelve members, and five associate members. After the 2009 municipal election, mayor

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broke with a longstanding tradition and appointed two members of opposition parties to the committee."Opposition gets seats on Montreal executive committee"

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, November 17, 2009, accessed May 26, 2011. Tremblay also broke with precedent in naming himself as chair of the committee. Following Tremblay's resignation in November 2012, interim mayor Michael Applebaum also took a cross-partisan approach, naming a

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committee with representatives from all three party caucuses as well as the bloc of

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councillors. When Laurent Blanchard, the chair of the executive committee under Applebaum, succeeded Applebaum as mayor in June 2012, he made only minor changes to the executive committee, adding one new member to fill the vacant seat. Following an offer made during the 2017 election, Mayor

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named one opposition member to the council, Verdun borough mayor Jean-François Parenteau of Équipe Coderre. However, he chose to leave the party and sit as an independent.

Members

There are fifteen members of the executive committee, including the mayor, and five associate councillors.

2013-2017 Executive Council

Council under mayor

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from November 14, 2013 – November 16, 2017.

References

{{reflist Municipal government of Montreal