Boroughs of Ottawa

The Ottawa Capital District Municipality, the federal capital city of Canada, consists of 16 boroughs (French: arrondissements), each of which is a distinct community administered by the Capital District Metropolitan Municipal Corporation separately from the 13 provinces and five territories of the Canadian Republic. Each borough has its own local council, which meets regularly to deliberate on issues affecting the borough and its residents. Each local council comes together for a plenary meeting annually (the Metropolitan Summit, during which the speaker of each borough's local council has an opportunity to present and/or address concerns and issues, which are then debated and voted upon, to the elected Ottawa Metropolitan Council chaired by the Mayor of Ottawa, with deliberation continuing until the summit agrees upon all issues present).

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 by the common municipal 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 within the capital, including the contracting of regular municipal policing to RCMP "M" Division.

List of boroughs

 * according to Dec 2020 estimate