BIG CITY MAYORS CAUCUS

Senator Larry Campbell is the Senate representative for the Big City Mayors Caucus, meeting with the mayors of Canada's 22 largest municipalities approximately 3 times a year to discuss issues common to large urban areas and to bring an urban perspective to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) advocacy work on municipal issues.

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) celebrated its 60th anniversary in 1997, but it was in 1901 that the first national meeting of municipal leaders was held. The first political initiative of the Union of Canadian Municipalities (UCM) was to convince the federal government to create legislation that would give municipal governments more control over the actions of utility companies within their boundaries. The UCM was formed largely to remind utility companies they could not simply assume municipal consent for tearing up public infrastructure without consideration: municipal rights-of-way had to be negotiated.

Since then, municipal governments have maintained a strong advocacy role in lobbying the federal government to include municipal concerns in policy development and national decision-making. Through their national organization, they made sure the federal government understood the full impact of their decisions on municipal governments and taxpayers. Year after year, FCM's work has benefitted each and every municipal government and taxpayer in Canada.

The members of the Big City Mayors Caucus are:

1. Vancouver, His Worship Mayor Sam Sullivan
2. Surrey, Her Worship Mayor Dianne Watts
3. Calgary, His Worship Mayor David Bronconnier
4. Edmonton, His Worship Mayor Stephen Mandel
5. Regina, His Worship Mayor Pat Fiacco
6. Saskatoon, His Worship Mayor Don Atchison
7. Winnipeg, His Worship Mayor Sam Katz
8. Brampton, Her Worship Mayor Susan Fennell
9. Hamilton, His Worship Mayor Larry Dilanni
10. Kitchener, His Worship Mayor Carl Zehr
11. London, Her Worship Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco
12. Mississauga, Her Worship Mayor Hazel McCallion
13. Ottawa, His Worship Mayor Bob Chiarelli
14. Windsor, His Worship Mayor Eddie Francis
15. Toronto, His Worship Mayor David Miller
16. Gatineau, Maire Marc Bureau
17. Montréal, Maire Gérald Tremblay
18. Laval, Maire Gilles Vaillancourt
19. Québec, Mairesse Andrée P. Boucher
20. Longueuil, Maire Claude Gladu
21. Halifax, His Worship Mayor Peter J. Kelly
22. St. John's, His Worship Mayor Andy Wells

For more information please visit www.fcm.ca