Montreal election 2025

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal is vowing to build more homes faster by scrapping the city's current 20-20-20 housing bylaw and replacing it with financial incentives and establishing a partnership with real estate developers to build more affordable and social housing quicker.

The party also wants to publish an inventory of all vacant buildings in Montreal that are suitable for residential housing projects.

The party would accelerate the development of sectors like Namur-Hippodrome, Bridge-Bonaventure, Lachine, East, Louvain East, East Montreal.

Ensemble Montréal has also pledged to ban commercial short-term rentals by registered businesses throughout Montreal and to limit short-term rentals for residents' primary residences to no more than 90 days per year.

It would also hire 50 inspectors over the next two years to enforce those regulations.

Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal wants to revamp the 20-20-20 housing bylaw within the first 100 days and replace it with "more predictable regulations" that will require any new project with more than 200 housing units to include at least 20 per cent off-market housing.

The party also wants to speed up the permit process for developers to speed up housing construction and to transform unused parking lots into housing projects.

Projet Montréal would create a $100 million fund to serve as a bank guarantee to help not-for-profit organizations build affordable housing.

It would limit short-term rentals to the summer season in order to discourage year-round tourist rentals.

The party would tax vacant housing to increase the rent supply and create a support system for tenants who are evicted from their homes.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal would create the paramunicipal corporation Bâtir Montréal to build public and community housing faster with non-profits and housing cooperatives.

The party would create a $10-million rent assistance fund for a public rent registry.

The party would also legalize and supervise rooming houses and simplify the permit process to co-ops and non-profits.

It would densify housing near public transit.

Transition Montréal said it would also create the Montreal Housing Innovation Lab to create a "modern and transparent governance structure to centralize housing support programs and permits."

Action Montréal

Action Montréal is committing to introducing a 3 per cent tax on corporate homeowners who leave housing vacant for more than six months, with the expectation of generating $10 million in new revenue per year, and to audit the status of vacant housing using public data and on-site visits.

It would reassess the current 20-20-20 housing bylaw, citing high costs for developers, and instead would simplify the zoning process to speed up the construction of family homes, condos, and affordable apartments with tax incentives.

It has vowed to support organizations, such as UTILE, Bâtir son quartier, and housing co-ops to facilitate access to affordable housing projects and reimburse the welcome tax on the purchase of a first property in Montreal.

It would allow tenants to request an inspector visit from the city to prevent renovictions and would simplify zoning regulations in certain boroughs. Within the first 100 days, it would put a moratorium on short-term tourist rentals. Action Montréal would speed up permits for 5,000 family units in four years with non-profits.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal would replace the 20-20-20 housing bylaw with other measures, including a tax on luxury housing, working with developers who turn vacant buildings into affordable housing, and developing a new program for reviewing and approving permits for multi-storey residential projects.

It would take a use-it-or-lose-it approach toward lots left vacant for extended periods and initiate the expropriation process to transform them into affordable housing, cooperatives, green spaces, or community buildings.

The party would transfer responsibility to the Société d’Habitation et d’Immobilier Social (SIS) of planning and management of social housing projects. It would help students find housing by inviting landlords to lease one or more units at a predetermined rent.

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal has promised to conduct an audit of all bike lanes in Montreal to see which ones to keep and which ones to scrap due to safety issues.

It would complete an inventory of all construction sites within 100 days to pinpoint areas of conflict and to optimize coordination.

It would also work with Quebec to accelerate public transit projects, such as the East tramway project, the construction of two new REM stations in the Sud-Ouest borough (Griffintown-Bernard-Landry and Bridge-Bonaventure), and the extension of the orange Metro line.

The party would also increase Metro frequency, which it says would be possible at no additional cost through revenue generated by increased ridership.

It would also increase the number of on-street parking spaces for car-sharing vehicles in certain neighbourhoods.

Ensemble Montréal would maintain car access on Camilien-Houde Way.

Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal has promised to create Réseau express bus, a rapid bus network that it says will bring "the efficiency of the Metro to the surface" with buses that run in designated lanes that stop less frequently, during the day and night, on major routes, including Sherbrooke, Henri-Bourassa, Notre-Dame/René-Lévesque, Newman/Dollard, Papineau/De Lorimier, and others.

It would also construct modern tramway lines serving the areas of: a) Pointe-aux-Trembles and Rivière-des-Prairies via Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Saint-Léonard, and Montréal-Nord; b) the Projet du grand Sud-Ouest de Montréal to connect Lachine and Lasalle to downtown; c) a loop between Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, Jean-Talon Street, and Avenue du Parc, passing through downtown.

Projet Montréal said the party intends to upgrade aging bike paths, including the one on De la commune, adding a rapid transit bike network (Réseau express vélo) on Lacordaire and Lévesque boulevards, and use artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize traffic lights to make travelling safer and free up police officers to focus on other priorities.

The party is promising to double the number of Bixi stations across the island and to deploy the first-ever baby seats on the Bixi network.

Projet Montréal would postpone previously announced plans to revamp Camilien-Houde Way and is promising "safe travel for everyone by the end of the term" and would add shuttle service from the bottom of the mountain to the summit.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal would extend the orange line to the Bois-Franc REM station and extend the green line to LaSalle and Lachine, integrating into the Grand Sud-Ouest structuring project. It also supports the Eastern Tramway project to link Montréal-Nord to Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles.

It would expand the Réseau express vélo (REV) network across the island and upgrade existing bike lanes, with new ones on Lacordaire and René-Lévesque boulevards.

The party also wants to develop a streetcar network with rapid transit corridors and reserved lanes for Parc Avenue from the Old Port to Bordeaux-Cartierville, Rosemont Boulevard between Saint-Denis and Langelier, and Saint-Michel Boulevard from Notre-Dame to Henri-Bourassa.

Transition Montréal would introduce a kilometre-based tax on vehicles to finance road maintenance.

The party would also create a social transit fare for people based on their after-tax annual income, allowing people who earn less than $47,500 per year to buy a monthly transit pass at $62.75 per month, instead of $104.50. The party also is vowing to reach 40 per cent of trips through active or public transportation by 2030.

Action Montréal

Action Montréal vows to invest in underground and multi-level parking spaces in high-demand areas and to consult residents and businesses in planning for parking and bike lane management, and to assess bike lanes that disrupt traffic or eliminate essential parking spaces.

It would also remove all Bixi bike stations from Dec. 1 to March 15 to free up public space.

The party also promises to cap parking meter rates at $2 per hour from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., make parking meters free from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m., and to eliminate meters in sports centre parking lots.

It said it would also enhance the frequency of public transit and extend the green line Honoré-Beaugrand to Georges-Vanier with three stations at a cost of $2.5 billion over five years.

It would repair 100 kilometres of reads by 2027 with an internal unit made up of blue- and white-collar workers.

Action Montréal said it would maintain car access on Camilien-Houde Way and add shared lanes for cyclists and pedestrians and clear signage.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal would purchase more made-in-Quebec electric buses and deploy reserved bus lanes to separate them from regular traffic, and is promising a high-frequency bus network first in major, busy arteries.

It also vows to freeze bus fares for four years.

On bike lanes, the party would permanently freeze construction of bike lanes on commercial roads, limit the creation of new bike lanes to strategic areas, and secure existing bike lanes.

The party also promised to build parking towers in urban centres and commercial arteries, prioritizing places like Old Montreal and downtown, with space for bikes and bus service.

It is also vowing to test a pilot project to operate the Metro system for 24 hours per day on select lines and weekends to evaluate nighttime ridership and economic impact.

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal would work with Montreal police to make downtown safer by determining the number of street cameras to be added to monitor public spaces, doubling the number of multidisciplinary teams (police officers and social workers) to respond to certain situations, and increasing police presence in various neighbourhoods.

Ensemble Montréal says it will also equip Montreal police with body cameras with financial support from the Government of Quebec and provide recurring funding to community organizations working with young people.

The party would also hire more constables in the STM network and increase the number of school crossing guards.

It also is promising to increase funding for projects to combat youth violence to $60 million over four years, ensure firefighters have proper equipment with a $12.5-million investment in 2026 and then $3 million thereafter.

Projet Montréal

If re-elected, Projet Montréal would equip Montreal police officers with body cameras and increase mixed teams to better respond to calls with vulnerable people.

It would also maintain Montreal police's specialized domestic violence team and support women's shelters to ensure victims of domestic violence receive support.

The party said it would ensure that all firefighters have access to proper equipment.

It would add more lighting in public spaces and would revise municipal regulations that may lead to racial profiling.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal would invest $25 million annually for crime-prevention programs and would create a civilian crisis response service staffed 24 hours a day by health and social services professionals to respond to non-criminal emergency calls (social distress, mental health or homelessness-related crises), allowing police officers to devote more time on investigations and responding to criminal matters.

The party would also put an end to arbitrary police stops, calling the measure "discriminatory," and would install removable barriers and woonerfs in school zones to make it safer for kids to get to school.

Action Montréal

Action Montréal would increase police patrols in high-risk areas and install surveillance cameras in certain areas to deter crime.

It would also promote community watch programs with merchants and residents.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal would introduce new tools for Montreal police officers, including body cameras, add more day and evening patrols, and work with police to create a specialized task force to combat violence and drug trafficking in downtown Montreal.

It would purchase a modern fleet of fire trucks and maintain funding to replace old firefighting equipment.

The party would replace single turnstile Metro entrances with full-height turnstiles, similar to the ones used in New York City's subway system, and increase the number of security cameras on Metro platforms.

It would also add more security officers in the Metro at night.

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal is vowing to establish a tactical response team for homelessness and draft a protocol for homeless encampments, with a promise to end them outright in the party's first term in office.

It will also increase the homelessness budget and create a $10 million matching fund with the private sector to combat the homelessness crisis.

If elected, the party will also develop at least 2,000 transitional and permanent housing units with psychological support and triple the city's budget to $30 million per year to combat the homelessness crisis.

The party's leader says she will increase funding by $1 million for community organizations that support vulnerable people in the field, including Maison du Père and Mission Bon Accueil, and invest $100 million in small emergency shelter buildings across the island.

Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal is promising to end homelessness in Montreal by 2030 and aims to achieve this in part by doubling funding for community organizations that work with vulnerable populations and guaranteeing it for three years.

It will also deploy 500 modular units to provide immediate housing and support the creation of 500 transitional social housing units with support services "by acquiring or constructing suitable buildings to provide a sustainable solution for people in vulnerable situations."

The party also says, if re-elected, that it would buy back rooming houses and entrust their management to the Société d'habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) to address the homelessness crisis.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal would end forced evictions of homeless encampments, as recommended by Montreal’s office of public consultation (OCPM), and implement a plan for encampments with more than 10 tents.

It would work with community organizations to refer those living in them to relevant resources and coordinate their needs for sanitation.

The party would triple the financial assistance for community organizations that work directly with the homeless population through the introduction of a new tax on homeowners whose properties are valued at more than $3.5 million.

It also plans to create a civilian crisis response service staffed 24 hours a day by health and social services professionals to respond to homelessness-related crises.

Action Montréal

Action Montréal says it would create a roundtable with relevant community organizations, such as shelters, to consolidate their resources to address homelessness and would invite mosques, churches and other places of worship to voluntarily open their doors as temporary shelters with support from the city.

The party would, within two years, create transition centres equipped with tents, sanitation and medical services for certain people facing economic hardship, those with addictions, and those with mental health challenges.

Inspired by a program in New York, the party would use some of the 80 vacant buildings under the authority of the Office Municipal D'Habitation De Montréal (OMHM) to minimize construction costs.

It would offer personalized detox, training and volunteering programs with follow-up by social workers through regular assessments to track progress toward individual autonomy.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal would consolidate the budgets of more than 60 community organizations addressing homelessness, and coordinate their intervention efforts under a new agency, the Social Intervention Service (SIS).

It would create collaboration with Montreal police officers to establish a single point of contact for their services in intervention cases, and set up a social intervention hotline for citizens to reduce the number of calls to 911.

Futur Montréal would create a new 411 hotline for residents to call when witnessing people in social distress or crisis situations. It would launch a pilot project to repurpose unused industrial buildings to provide transition housing to people who need it.

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal said it would support local businesses by consulting them in a systematic way on any construction project and set up an emergency fund to help them if they are affected by long-term construction projects.

It would apply differentiated property taxation to lessen the burden on small businesses and restaurants in areas undergoing revitalization projects and expand the number of locations dedicated to year-round food trucks. It would actively promote local purchasing and beautify commercial streets.

The party aims to promote development in the city's east end with a $25-million land revitalization project to speed up land development in the area and to create a $5-million fund over four years to stimulate the growth of cultural and recreational tourism activities.

Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal would give a boost to merchants by expanding eligibility for financial assistance due to construction from six months to two months, freeze municipal taxes for small commercial buildings valued at $1 million or less for over four years, and create a one-stop shop office for local entrepreneurs in each borough to facilitate their dealings with the city for permits, construction and other services.

The party would also create a program to mentor young people who want to open a small- and medium-sized business and would ensure one-third of the new hires at the City of Montreal would be under 35.

Projet Montréal also promises to invest $5 million to create an East Revitalization Fund to develop the city's east end and create a university hub in that part of the city.

The party, if re-elected, would adopt Montreal's first social economic policy and create a new program to repurpose heritage religious buildings for the social economy.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal is promising to remove as many commercial properties as possible from the speculative market in a bid to curb gentrification and would increase funding for the Société d'habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) so that it can acquire commercial properties in areas most at risk of gentrification.

The party would fund programs aimed at attracting talent from the United States, with francization support from the provincial government.

Action Montréal

Action Montréal would create a Green Zone in Pointe-de-l’Île, which would generate 500 jobs.

It would preserve vehicle access for large sections of Sainte-Catherine Street, including between Peel and Saint-Marc streets, "to support commercial vitality."

The party would allow summer closures of the street in agreement with merchants and residents for festive events that boost the local economy, while avoiding a permanent closure that could harm businesses.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal would create interregional economic missions to promote Montreal products, services and innovations to other regions, and would mandate the city's economic development department to work closely with Montreal's tech startup industry.

The party would develop a four-season events strategy to support the local economy all year long.

It would create new commercial and cultural hubs in the east and west ends of the city and create a local "collaborative project fund" for commercial streets to finance local events, cultural projects and temporary street closures.

Additionally, the party has committed to increasing funding to allow youth employment centres (Centre Jeunesse Emploi) to expand their services.

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal says if it wins the election, it would review the mandate of the nightlife commissioner, who is responsible for developing a vision for the city's cultural identity and nightlife.

It would coordinate a special unit dedicated to handling noise complaints.

The party would increase the city's contributions to the Conseil des arts to reach $30 million in 2028 beginning in 2026, allocate an additional $10 million to Montreal libraries and cultural centres, and provide $1.55 million to maintain and develop neighbourhood festivals.

If elected, it would simplify procedures for the film and television industry to secure more filming and digital production opportunities.

Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal is vowing to accelerate the designation of nightlife establishments and hubs, and to adopt noise regulations that are consistent with the Nightlife Policy.

It also wants to fund a non-profit organization that would work on dedicated mediation for nightlife establishments and limit the number of police interventions for noise complaints.

The party also has promised it would create a $1 million social trust fund to support the collective acquisition of independent venues, create a fund for smaller festivals, and increase the budget for the Conseil des arts to $30 million in 2030.

Projet Montréal would also use revenue from a new tax on large billboards to fund local cultural initiatives in neighbourhoods.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal said it takes issue with the noise bylaw recently proposed and that governance of the city's nightlife industry needs to be reviewed.

The party would appoint a night mayor and a night council to serve as an intermediary between organizations and nightlife businesses and establish protected cultural zones in order to protect bars and other venues with "transparent, consistent, and predictable regulations."

To protect bars and live music venues from noise complaints, it would maintain the city's soundproofing assistance program, and it would limit Montreal police intervention to safety and emergency interventions, requiring mediation between parties before a fine is issued.

Transition Montréal would revise the criteria for access to municipal subsidies to support emerging venues and events, and would protect Montreal's cultural scene from commercial gentrification.

Action Montréal

Action Montréal vows to create a one-stop for filming permits approved within 48 hours.

It would offer rebates for local and foreign productions.

The party vows to also provide grants for Quebec filmmakers and offer training and scholarships for technicians.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal would create a municipal fund for festivals and cultural events and facilitate access to "public spaces and modular venues for creators, artists, and event organizers to reduce logistical costs."

It would promote Montreal festivals to boost tourism and create a support program for Montreal's merchants' associations that organize street closures to promote "economic, social, and cultural vitality."

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal would spend $20 million through the RénoPlex program to help homeowners protect themselves from flooding, create a climate emergency reserve fund of up to $10 million per year to help boroughs respond to extreme weather events, and build sponge parks and retention reservoirs.

It would deploy more electric vehicle charging stations, prioritizing residential neighbourhoods and public transit hubs.

Ensemble Montréal would also construct all new municipal buildings to be carbon neutral by 2030 and renovate existing buildings to optimize efficiency.

With the help of Ottawa and Quebec City, the party would offer financial incentives toward the decarbonization of city buildings.

The party says it would develop a citywide network of biodiversity corridors to connect natural environments and promote wildlife movement.

Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal is vowing to double the annual investments in sponge parks, from $15 million to $30 million, to prevent flooding, and to convert more non-porous surfaces into green spaces and increase tree planting to prevent heat islands and improve air quality.

It would also help boroughs acquire more green spaces and transform Camilien-House Way into a green walking path.

The party would launch a $5-million per year program to help homeowners adapt their residences to flood risks and other extreme weather events, with priority given to vulnerable homes due to their location or history of flooding.

Projet Montréal also said it would continue maintaining and modernizing the sewer system and accelerate the restoration of wetlands in large parks, such as the ones south of the Technoparc.

The party would deploy 11,000 electric charging stations by 2030, prioritizing off-street parking through partnerships with private individuals, institutions, and businesses.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal would introduce a kilometre-based tax on vehicles, rather than on gasoline, to incentivize greener modes of transportation and implement extensions to the Metro network to take more vehicles off the roads.

The party is promising large scale renovation of public buildings to achieve carbon neutrality and to install solar panels on municipal buildings, with incentives for residential solar projects.

It would create sponge parks and other green infrastructure to prevent flooding, plant more trees, and a zero-waste objective through widespread composting.

It would create "green participatory budgets" and "local ecological councils" to co-design neighbourhood projects, publish annual city environmental reports for transparency and accountability purposes and launch a "citizen resilience education program" to promote sustainable living and climate adaptation.

Action Montréal

Action Montréal would plant 10,000 trees through the federal “2 Billion Trees” program for an estimated $40 million to reduce the number of heat islands.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal would purchase more electric buses that are built in Quebec.

The party would launch a citywide program called Transformation-Énergi-MTL that would, in part, offer subsidies for various types of residential buildings to integrate renewable energy generation and storage systems and support local businesses that manufacture, install, or maintain clean energy solutions for residential and commercial use.

It would expand the electric charging network for cars, buses, and e-bikes across the city and test streetlamp-based car chargers in residential neighbourhoods.

Ensemble Montréal

Ensemble Montréal aims to make City Hall work more efficiently with several measures, including eliminating 1,000 city positions that do not provide front-line service to citizens and freezing the hiring for certain job categories.

It also wants to limit tax increases to inflation and establish a new Mayors' Table to "better coordinate, evaluate, and improve direct services to the population."

The party also says it will adopt a plan to use AI to simplify procedures, reduce delays and improve service to residents using municipal services.

Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal has not announced details about the issue of governance at City Hall in its platform.

Transition Montréal

Transition Montréal would create a new municipal task force called Infra-MTL that would be responsible for overseeing public works projects in-house, such as sidewalk work, speed bumps, and paving bike paths, rather than relying on the private sector to complete them.

The party is making promises on electoral reform, by introducing a preferential ballot for the election of Mayor of Montreal and borough mayors to rank candidates in order of preference and vowing to adopt the proportional single transferable vote ballot for other elected positions.

The party also said it would allow Ville-Marie residents to choose their own mayor.

Action Montréal

Action Montréal says having 19 borough mayors and 84 city councillors is excessive and is vowing to reduce the number of elected officials at City Hall.

It promises to also reduce the municipal debt by dedicating 20 per cent of the savings achieved through "rigorous and efficient management" directly to debt repayment.

It would eliminate wasteful spending by "reviewing costly, poorly planned projects, such as impromptu initiatives or misdirected subsidies" and would ensure transparency on the city's finances with accessible annual reports for residents.

It would promise no increases in the residential water tax until the city's water network reduces its leak rate to a maximum of 20 per cent of the total volume of water distributed.

Futur Montréal

Futur Montréal has vowed to revamp the City of Montreal's Urban Innovation Lab (LIUM) to use digital technology to make city operations and services more efficient and to apply AI solutions for city operations.

It would modernize the city's procurement process to facilitate the launch of small-scale pilot projects using emerging technologies.

The party says it would conduct an evaluation of the existing budget equalization program to assess how boroughs are funded and where disparities exist.

Futur Montréal promises to allow residents and businesses to schedule online meetings with human agents to discuss permits, authorizations, and administrative requests, reducing the need for in-person visits.