Themes, tags, keywords and great projects

Aim to create living environments where elderly people, single people, and young families have access to housing through a diversity of options (social housing, affordable housing, market-rate rental, individual ownership and housing cooperatives). Create socially and generationally diverse neighbourhoods by ensuring that the supply of housing reflects the income of households.

Adopt a hiring policy for all City of Montreal job positions in accordance with the following goals:

• Achieving parity between women and men, with positive action of 60% in favour of women until parity is reached;
• Achieving representation in proportion to the size of Montreal’s ethnic and cultural communities, with positive action 60% in favour of under-represented communities, until proportional representation is reached.

Adopt continuous education programs and review the criteria for promotion from within the municipal administration, so that persons from under-represented groups have a chance to progress to management positions.

Issue a real passport to cultural education, healthful leisure and urban mobility by creating the CAMC card: Carte Autobus+Métro+Culture. This card will offer a preferential tariff to Montreal residents for public transit and free access to cultural centers, libraries, museums, sporting venues and green and blue spaces, as well as to the Botanical Gardens, the Planetarium and the Biodome. Offer tourists a version of the CAMC card for 1-, 3- or 7- day access to facilities.

Consolidate the network of cultural venues in our boroughs to ensure accessibility to the greatest number and integrate all neighbourhood facilities into an interconnected grid that favours cultural activity, learning and creativity. To make this possible:

• Encourage the emergence of new places of artistic and cultural diffusion;
• Centralize and make available on a single portal all the information essential to their emergence: regulation, legal information and counseling, available financing (subsidies, prizes and competitions, tax benefits), organizations and resource
  people, a complete list of artistic associations, calendar of events (festivals, etc.);
• Recognize and promote private initiative in this sphere of activity;
• Lend support to borough associations that bring together actors in the field of culture with a view to upholding the interests specific to each area of the city.

Further Montreal’s involvement with and active contribution to international networks and cultural heritage alliances: World Historical Cities, Creative Cities, United Cities and Local Governments, etc.