Municipality (Canada)


 * Not to be confused with municipal district.

In the Canadian Republic, a municipality constitutes the lower tier of local government within a given county, the upper tier of local government within Canada's twelve provinces. Virtually all municipalities use the mayor-council form of government, wherein the municipality's voters elect a mayor, who then appoints the municipal/city council which functions as the mayor's cabinet, as opposed to the council-manager system used by counties.