The Montreal Intercultural Council (CiM) advises, and issues opinions to, the City Council and the executive committee on all issues of interest to the cultural communities and on any another matter relating to intercultural relationships. It seeks opinions and receives and hears requests and suggestions from any person or group relating to intercultural relationship issues. It carries out or commissions studies and research that it deems useful or necessary to the exercise of its functions.
In recent years the CiM has taken an active part in many projects, such as the City’s work on racial profiling (2010), the Symposium on Interculturalism (2011), and many other projects on various issues such as equality in employment, social inclusion, the municipality’s management of minority places of worship and the Montreal development plan.
Activities:
- Training days on ethno-cultural diversity with executives and elected municipal representatives;
- Participation in colloquies, conventions and public consultations;
- Participation in events held by ethno-cultural communities;
- Municipal forum on the participation of ethno-cultural artists and communities in the cultural life of Montreal;
- Municipal forum on the problem of racial profiling in Montreal.
The Intercultural Council is run in partnership with all the departments of the Montreal city authority.
