Boroughs of Ottawa

The Capital District Municipality of Ottawa, the federal capital city of the Canadian Republic, consists of eight boroughs, each of which is administered by the Capital District Municipality separate from the 12 provinces and 6 territories of Canada. Each borough has its own community council, which meets regularly to deliberate on issues affecting the borough and its residents. The eight borough councils come together for a plenary meeting annually (the Metropolitan Summit, during which the speaker of each borough's community council has an opportunity to present and/or address concerns and issues, which are then debated and voted upon, with the deliberation continuing until the summit agrees on all pertinent policy. The final responsibility of the Metropolitan Summit is to elect the Capital District Municipal Council (CDMC), which acts as the top policymaking body of Ottawa between plenary summits. Following a summit, the newly elected/confirmed CDMC appoints an outside individual as District Manager, the highest executive office between summits. As there is no limit on the number of consecutive terms a district manager may serve, it is relatively common for an already-sitting district manager to be re-elected following a metropolitan summit, especially if the district manager's political party has a majority of seats in a majority of the boroughs' community councils.

While several aspects of local services are funded and coordinated by the borough councils, especially social and charity services, the majority of standard urban services are provided to all eight boroughs by the common municipal government of Ottawa (the CDMC). One such example is the Metropolitan Police Department, which is responsible for policing within and across all eight boroughs of the capital, and which answers to the CDMC's Department of Public Security.

List of boroughs

 * Population according to 2016 census