Ottawa Metropolitan Council

The Ottawa Metropolitan Council (French: Conseil métropolitain d'Ottawa) is the highest executive body of the metropolitan (municipal) government of Ottawa, the federal capital and fourth-most populous city of Canada, which comprises 16 boroughs. The Ottawa Metropolitan Council is chaired by the popularly elected Mayor of Ottawa, and is the governing body of the Capital District Metropolitan Municipal Corporation (CDMMC), the public body in charge of maintaining and improving the federal capital and providing essential services, including roads, public transit and other transportation, power, oil, gas and water, other utilities and public services, public schools and children's care, etc.

As the capital and its sixteen boroughs comprise a jurisdiction distinct from the 13 provinces and five territories which constitute the rest of the Canadian Republic, the capital exists via its own statute passed by the Parliament of Canada, and as such the Ottawa Metropolitan Council is a devolved authority from the Canadian federal government, similar to the governments of the five territories. In practice, however, the daily workings of the five territorial governments and the Ottawa government enjoy a level of autonomy more or less equal that afforded the 13 provinces.