Boroughs of Ottawa

The Ottawa Capital District Municipality (French: Municipalité du district capital d'Ottawa), informally the Ottawa CDM (MDC d'Ottawa) or just Ottawa is the federal capital city of the Canadian Republic. It consists of 16 boroughs (French: arrondissements), each of which is a distinct community of Ottawa receiving its standard municipal and civic services from the Capital District Metropolitan Municipal Corporation, and which as a whole is formally and legally administratively separate from the 13 provinces and five territories which constitute the rest of the Canadian Republic. Each borough has its own local council, which consists of nine members directly elected by their borough's constituents, which after being elected proceed to elect from amongst themselves a chairperson, also known as a borough manager (secrétaire/gérant(e) de l'arrondissement), who is responsible for presiding over and moderating the deliberations and procedure of meetings of their borough council, which meets regularly to deliberate and debate upon on issues affecting the borough and its residents. Each local council comes together annually for a plenary session, officially called the Metropolitan Summit, during which the chairperson of each borough's local council acts as representative of his/her council to the other councils of the summit as well as to the Summit Parliamentarian, a summit member who is internally elected to preside over the Metropolitan Summit, including opening and closing presentations and deliberations, calling votes, overseeing their counting and announcing results, moderating debates, etc.; all members of a Metropolitan Summit are eligible to be elected to the office of Summit Parliamentarian, with the exception of members already serving as chairperson of their borough council, with no limit on the amount of times an individual may serve (consecutively or otherwise) as Summit Parliamentarian. While the 16 council chairpersons moderate and ultimately control the matters brought before the summit by their council, and the Summit Parliamentarian directs the overall flow of the summit and makes the ultimate decision in many respects, all members of a Metropolitan Summit are at least once afforded an opportunity to present and/or address concerns and issues, which are then deliberated, debated and sometimes voted upon, sometimes even leading to the introduction of new municipal legislation. A single annual Metropolitan Summit can last between two and five days, with each day beginning proceedings at 10:00 am sharp and concluding at 4:30 pm, with a 90-minute lunch break between 12:30 and 2:00 pm; each day of a Metropolitan Summit thus consists of a total of five hours of proceedings. The difference in length (in days) of different summits is caused primarily by the differing amount of matters before the summit that year; at the direction of the Summit Parliamentarian, each matter is dealt with in the proper manner, and the summit proceeds to the next matter only when the Summit Parliamentarian is satisfied with the way the previous matter was addressed.

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 sixteen boroughs of Ottawa by the Capital District Metropolitan Municipal Corporation, which is owned by the city and managed by the Department of Urban Services, an executive department subordinate to the Ottawa Metropolitan Council.

unicipal government of Ottawa (the mayor's Metropolitan Council). One such example is public security: the Metropolitan Department of Public Security, answerable to the Mayor of Ottawa, oversees all non-federal law enforcement and public safety services serving the capital, including the Metropolitan Police Service, the District Directorate of Corrections, the District Sheriff Service, and more.

List of boroughs

 * according to Dec 2020 estimate