Federation of Canadian Municipalities

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM, (in French) Fédération canadienne des municipalités) is an advocacy group representing over 2000 Canadian municipalities. It is an organization with no formal power but significant ability to influence debate and policy, as it is a main national lobby group of mayors, councillors and other elected municipal officials. It negotiates with the Government of Canada's departments and agencies on behalf of municipalities, and provides fund administration services for the Government of Canada's departments and agencies.

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Fédération canadienne des municipalités
Abbreviation	FCM
Formation	March 18, 1937; 88 years ago (March 18, 1937)
Merger of	Union of Canadian Municipalities Dominion Conference of Mayors
Type	Local government organization
Legal status	Non-profit corporation
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario
Region served	Canada
Membership	2,035
Official languages	English, French
Board Chair	Rebecca Bligh
CEO	Carole Saab
Website	www.fcm.ca
Formerly called	Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities

History

In 1901, the Union of Canadian Municipalities was formed to represent the interests of municipal governments. Another association, the Dominion Conference of Mayors was established in 1935.^[1] In 1937, these two associations were amalgamated into the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities which in 1976 would be renamed the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.^[2]

FCM was instrumental in negotiating the federal government's 2005 "New Deal for Cities" programme,^[3] under which Canadian federal gasoline taxes are remitted to municipalities.^[4]

Outputs

Infrastructure

• Flow-through for $2 billion of federal funds to municipalities from a Gas Tax Fund.

• Worked to address municipal infrastructure deficit. Changes in federal policy are not attributable to any specific group or campaign. "In the 2009 budget, the federal government committed more than $12 billion over two years in new and accelerated infrastructure funding to municipal priorities."

Environment

• Flow-through for federal funds to support municipal initiatives that improve air, water and soil quality, and protect the climate through the Green Municipal Fund's below-market loans, grants, education and training. This programme was established by the Chrétien government in 2001 with $100 million "to stimulate investment in innovative municipal infrastructure", and "to support municipal government action to cut pollution, reduce greenhouse gases and improve quality of life".^[2]

International development

• Flow-through for federal aid for development cooperation in more than 40 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1987.

List of FCM Presidents

No.[5]	Year[a]	Name	Office	Community	Province
1	1937	Edward Joseph Cragg	Mayor	Halifax	Nova Scotia
2	1938	J. E. Stanley Lewis	Mayor	Ottawa	Ontario
3	1943	Adhémar Raynault	Mayor	Montreal	Quebec
4	1944	Frederick J. Conboy	Mayor	Toronto	Ontario
5	1945[b]	Robert Hood Saunders	Mayor	Toronto	Ontario
6	1945	Jonathan Webster Cornett	Mayor	Vancouver	British Columbia
7	1946	Garnet Coulter	Mayor	Winnipeg	Manitoba
8	1947	Ray T. Forbes	Mayor	Fredericton	New Brunswick
9	1948	Lucien-Hubert Borne	Mayor	Quebec City	Quebec
10	1949	George C. MacLean	Mayor	Saint Boniface	Manitoba
11	1950	Pierre-Horace Boivin	Mayor	Granby	Quebec
12	1951	Percy E. George	Mayor	Victoria	British Columbia
13	1951[c]	G. C. Miller	Alderman	Victoria	British Columbia
14	1952	Archibald J. Mason	Mayor	Springhill	Nova Scotia
15	1952[d]	Joseph-Omer Asselin	Councillor	Montreal	Quebec
16	1953[e]	Donald Hugh Mackay	Mayor	Calgary	Alberta
17	1955	J. David Stewart	Mayor	Charlottetown	Prince Edward Island
18	1956	William Hawrelak	Mayor	Edmonton	Alberta
19	1957	Lloyd Douglas Jackson	Mayor	Hamilton	Ontario
20	1958	Harry Mews	Mayor	St. John's	Newfoundland and Labrador
21	1959	Robert Simpson	Mayor	Arnprior	Ontario
22	1960	Sidney Buckwold	Mayor	Saskatoon	Saskatchewan
23	1961	Percy B. Scurrah	Mayor	Victoria	British Columbia
24 (1 of 2)	1961[f]	Chaim Kushner	Mayor	West Kildonan	Manitoba
25	1962	Joseph-Alfred Mongrain	Mayor	Trois-Rivières	Quebec
26	1963	Irvin William Akerley	Mayor	Dartmouth	Nova Scotia
27	1963[g]	Beth Woods	Mayor	New Westminster	British Columbia
24 (2 of 2)	1963[h]	Chaim Kushner	Mayor	West Kildonan	Manitoba
28	1964	Charles Augustus Vaughan	Mayor	Halifax	Nova Scotia
29	1965	Victor Copps	Mayor	Hamilton	Ontario
30	1966	William Rathie	Mayor	Vancouver	British Columbia
31	1966[i]	Reginald Dawson	Mayor	Mount Royal	Quebec
32	1967	Vincent Dantzer	Mayor	Edmonton	Alberta
33	1968	Albert Campbell	Mayor	Scarborough	Ontario
34	1969	Allan O'Brien	Mayor	Halifax	Nova Scotia
35	1970	Ivor Dent	Mayor	Edmonton	Alberta
36	1971	Marcel D'Amour	Mayor	Hull	Quebec
37	1972	Bud Bird	Mayor	Fredericton	New Brunswick
38	1973	Bernie Wolfe	Councillor	Winnipeg	Manitoba
39	1974	Paul Godfrey	Chairman	Metropolitan Toronto	Ontario
40	1975	Dan Munroe	Mayor	Glace Bay	Nova Scotia
41	1976	Jack Volrich	Mayor	Vancouver	British Columbia
42	1978	Paul-Olivier Trépanier	Mayor	Granby	Quebec
43	1979	Cec Purves	Mayor	Edmonton	Alberta
44	1980	Dennis Flynn	Mayor	Etobicoke	Ontario
45	1981	Daniel Brownlow	Mayor	Dartmouth	Nova Scotia
46	1982	Jean Pelletier	Mayor	Quebec City	Quebec
47	1983	Ted Brady	Mayor	Carlyle	Saskatchewan
48	1984	Doreen Lawson	Alderman	Burnaby	British Columbia
49	1985	Ron Cromwell	Alderman	Halifax	Nova Scotia
50	1986	Richard Gilbert	Councillor	Toronto	Ontario
51	1987	Jean Corbeil	Mayor	Anjou	Quebec
52	1988	George Cuff	Mayor	Spruce Grove	Alberta
53	1989	George Ferguson	Mayor	Abbotsford	British Columbia
54	1990	Ray O'Neill	Councillor	St. John's	Newfoundland and Labrador
55	1991	Doreen Quirk	Councillor	Markham	Ontario
56	1992	Margaret Delisle	Mayor	Sillery	Quebec
57	1993	Ron Hayter	Mayor	Edmonton	Alberta
58	1994	Laurence Mawhinney	Mayor	Lunenburg	Nova Scotia
59	1995	John Les	Mayor	Chilliwack	British Columbia
60	1996	Bryon Wilfert	Councillor	Richmond Hill	Ontario
61	1997	Jae Eadie	Deputy Mayor	Winnipeg	Manitoba
61	1998	Claude Cantin	Deputy Mayor	Quebec City	Quebec
62	1999	Sam Synard	Deputy Mayor	Marystown	Newfoundland and Labrador
63	2000	Joanne Monaghan	Councillor	Kitimat	British Columbia
64	2001	Jack Layton	Councillor	Toronto	Ontario
65	2002	John Schmal	Alderman	Calgary	Alberta
66	2003	Yves Ducharme	Mayor	Gatineau	Quebec
67	2004	Ann MacLean	Mayor	New Glasgow	Nova Scotia
68	2005	Michael Coleman	Mayor	Duncan	British Columbia
69	2005[j]	Gloria Kovach	Councillor	Guelph	Ontario
70	2006[k]	Gord Steeves	Councillor	Winnipeg	Manitoba
71	2008	Jean Perrault	Mayor	Sherbrooke	Quebec
72	2009	Basil Stewart	Mayor	Summerside	Prince Edward Island
73	2010	Hans Cunningham	Director	Central Kootenay	British Columbia
74	2011	Berry Vrbanovic	Councillor	Kitchener	Ontario
75	2012	Karen Leibovici	Councillor	Edmonton	Alberta
76	2013	Claude Dauphin	Mayor	Lachine	Quebec
77	2014	Brad Woodside	Mayor	Fredericton	New Brunswick
77	2015	Raymond Louie	Councillor	Vancouver	British Columbia
77	2016	Clark Somerville	Regional Councillor	Halton Hills	Ontario
77	2017	Jenny Gerbasi	Councillor	Winnipeg	Manitoba
77	2018	Vicki-May Hamm	Mayor	Magog	Quebec
78	2019	Bill Karsten	Councillor	Halifax	Nova Scotia
79	2020	Garth Frizzell	Councillor	Prince George	British Columbia
80	2021	Joanne Vanderheyden	Mayor	Strathroy-Caradoc	Ontario
81	2022	Taneen Rudyk	Councillor	Vegreville	Alberta
82	2023	Scott Pearce	Mayor	Gore	Quebec
83	2024	Rebecca Bligh	Councillor	Vancouver	British Columbia

See also

• List of local government organizations

Notes

1. Year elected or appointed.
2. Appointed to replace Frederick J. Conboy in 1944 or 1945.
3. Appointed to replace Percy E. George in 1951 or 1952.
4. Appointed to replace Archibald J. Mason in 1952 or 1953. Went on to be elected to his own term in 1953.
5. Appointed to replace Joseph-Omer Asselin in 1953 or 1954. Went on to be elected to his own term in 1954.
6. Appointed to replace Percy B. Scurrah in 1961 or 1962.
7. Appointed to replace Irvin William Akerley in 1963 or 1964.
8. Appointed to replace Beth Woods in 1963 or 1964.
9. Appointed to replace William Rathie in 1966 or 1967.
10. Appointed to replace Michael Coleman in 2005 or 2006.
11. Appointed to replace Gloria Kovach in 2006 or 2007. Went on to be elected to his own term in 2007.