“Communauté urbaine de Québec”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Communauté urbaine de Québec (also known as the Québec Urban Community) was a regional municipal body that existed in the area around Quebec City from 1970 to 2001.

Formation

Rationale for reorganization

In the late 1960s, the Government of Quebec saw increasing problems arising in the governance of the urban areas of Quebec City, Montreal and Hull because of the system of municipal organization in effect at that time:{{sfn|Ministère des affaires municipales|1971|pp=10{{en dash}}12}}

The current remedies involving intermunicipal agreements, amalgamation and annexation were seen as being inadequate,{{sfn|Ministère des affaires municipales|1971|pp=12{{en dash}}14}} as they were discretionary and piecemeal in nature.{{sfn|Ministère des affaires municipales|1971|pp=14{{en dash}}15}} The Province opted to establish "urban communities" in all three areas, which would possess mandatory and optional powers appropriate to each.{{sfn|Ministère des affaires municipales|1971|pp=16{{en dash}}19}} A particular concern in the Quebec area was the large presence of government agencies whose exemption from property taxes created a significant revenue shortfall to the municipalities, together with the need to strengthen intermunicipal cooperation to deal with the situation.{{sfn|Quesnel-Ouellet|1980|p=125}} This was confirmed in the debate on the implementing bill, where then Minister of Municipal Affairs Robert Lussier stated that the reform was "aimed at economies of scale through administrative centralization, and at reducing futile rivalries between municipalities."{{sfn|Quesnel-Ouellet|1980|p=127}} The move was supported by all MLAs in the Quebec area, including former Premier Jean Lesage and former Créditiste member Gaston Tremblay.{{sfn|Quesnel-Ouellet|1980|p=127}}

This was not the first consolidation effort the Province had undertaken at the local level, as local school boards had already gone through something similar in the early 1960s.{{sfn|Quesnel-Ouellet|1980|p=129}} Officials at the local level had already begun discussions as early as 1965 on possible ways to establish joint activities, but nothing concrete had emerged by the time the Province unveiled its draft bill in June 1969.{{sfn|Quesnel-Ouellet|1980|p=129}} Although Quebec City itself was favourable to the provincial proposal, there was significant opposition from the other municipalities in the area,{{sfn|Quesnel-Ouellet|1980|p=130}} but such tension tended to fade away over the five years following the CUQ's creation.{{sfn|Quesnel-Ouellet|1980|pp=131-132}}

Creation

Effective January 1, 1970, the Communauté urbaine de Québec ({{lang-en|Québec Urban Community}}){{efn|the English language name was abolished in 1977, upon the passage of the Charter of the French Language}} ("CUQ") was established,^[1] which governed the area surrounding Quebec City on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. Together with the CUQ, the Commission de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Québec ({{lang-en|Québec Urban Community Transit Commission}}) ("CTCUQ"){{efn|now part of the Réseau de transport de la Capitale}} and the Bureau d'assainissement des eaux du Québec Métropolitain ({{lang-en|Greater Québec Water Purification Board}}) ("BAEQM"){{efn|previously constituted under the {{Cite canlaw|short title =Greater Québec Water Purification Board Act|abbr =S.Q.|year =1968|chapter = 56|link= https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=104641}}}}{{efn|subsequently amalgamated with the CUQ in June 1971: {{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to amend the Québec Urban Community Act|abbr =S.Q.|year =1971|chapter = 88|section=79|link= https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=103153}}}} were also established. Each of the three covered different groups of municipalities:

Evolution

In the years following the establishing of the CUQ, various changes occurred among the constituent municipalities:

When the CUQ was created, the remaining territory of Quebec County was not affected, which included unorganized territory and the municipalities of Lac-Delage, Lac-Édouard, Saint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier and Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury. In 1981, they were divided between the new regional county municipalities of Le Haut-Saint-Maurice and La Jacques-Cartier.

Governance

Council

The CUQ was governed by its Council, which consisted of the mayor of each constituent municipality.^[13] It had a chairman and a vice-chairman, and, where a representative from Quebec City held one of the positions, the other had to be from one of the other municipalities.^[14]

Executive committee

It also had an executive committee, which had similar functions to a board of control found in Ontario.^[15] Its members were independently appointed for four-year terms{{efn|subject to retaining their elective office: S.Q. 1969, c. 83, s. 71}} by the constituent municipalities by sector:

Effective January 1, 1994, the executive committee was abolished,^[17] and the chairman, 1st vice-chairman and 2nd vice-chairman of the Council were declared to be the Mayor of Quebec, a representative from Beauport, Charlesbourg or Sainte-Foy, and a representative from the remaining municipalities (in any order).^[18]

2002 municipal reorganization

Effective January 1, 2002, the CUQ, together with its constituent municipalities, were amalgamated to form the Ville de Québec,^[19] which subsequently became part of the new Communauté métropolitaine de Québec.^[20]

Further reading

Notes

References

1. ^{{Cite canlaw|short title =Québec Urban Community Act|abbr =S.Q.|year =1969|chapter = 83|link= https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=103424}}
2. ^S.Q. 1969, c. 83, Sch. B
3. ^S.Q. 1969, c. 83, Sch. D
4. ^{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act respecting the City of Québec and the Town of Duberger|abbr =S.Q.|year =1970|chapter = 69|link= https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=103293}}
5. ^{{cite journal |author= |date= December 26, 1970|title= Letters Patent|url= http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2359798|journal= Gazette officielle du Québec|volume= 102|issue= 52|pages= 7556{{en dash}}7560}}
6. ^{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to amend the Charter of the City of Québec and respecting the amalgamation of the City of Québec and of the Town of Neufchâtel|abbr =S.Q.|year =1970|chapter = 68|link= https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=103292}}
7. ^{{cite journal |author= |date= April 21, 1973|title= City of Québec|url= http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2359941|journal= Gazette officielle du Québec|volume= 105|issue= 16|pages= 2443{{en dash}}2444}}
8. ^{{cite journal |author= |date= December 29, 1973|title= Letters Patent|url= http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2359982|journal= Gazette officielle du Québec|volume= 105|issue= 52|pages= 7675{{en dash}}7678}}
9. ^{{Coord|46.8471|-71.2197|display=inline|format=dms}}
10. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.ipir.ulaval.ca/fiche.php?id=409|title= L'Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange: principale oeuvre des Soeurs de la Charité de Québec|author= |date= |website= ipir.ulaval.ca|publisher= Le patrimoine immatériel religieux du Québec, Université Laval|language=French}}
11. ^{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to regroup certain municipalities in the region of Québec|abbr =S.Q.|year =1975|chapter = 91|link= https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=102618}}
12. ^{{cite journal |author= |date= May 28, 1983|title= Ville de Cap-Rouge|url= http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2361320|journal= Gazette officielle du Québec|volume= 115|issue= 21|page= 2477}}
13. ^S.Q. 1969, c. 83, s. 39
14. ^S.Q. 1969, c. 83, s. 47
15. ^S.Q. 1969, c. 83, ss. 23-33
16. ^¹S.Q. 1969, c. 83, Sch. A
17. ^L.Q. 1993, c. 67, s. 4
18. ^L.Q. 1993, c. 67, s. 5
19. ^{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to reform the municipal territorial organization of the metropolitan regions of Montréal, Québec and the Outaouais|abbr =L.Q.|year =2000|chapter = 56|schedule= II|link= http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2000C56A.PDF}}, s. 5
20. ^L.Q. 2000, c. 56, Sch. VI and VI-A