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Implement reintegration measures aimed at the homeless:

• through increased funding to organizations providing support for the homeless;
• by establishing a mechanism allowing for cooperation between the police and these organizations;
• by ensuring stable funding for these organizations;
• by creating a program to form a reintegration task force;
• by protecting and renovating boarding houses accessible to the homeless population.

Uphold the residential status that allows small tourist inns to thrive, on three conditions:

• The tourist inn must be recognized by the Ministère du Tourisme du Québec;
• The inn must include at least five units;
• The owner must physically occupy the premises (live-in owner).

Providing these three conditions are respected, the inns will be classified as residential buildings. This exception makes it possible for these small neighbourhood tourist lodgings to exist. They reinforce the friendly character of Montreal and add to the variety of lodging available. Inns in buildings that do not respect the above-mentioned criteria will be classified as commercial.

Actively promote Montreal's status as a capital of new media. With its Cité du Multimédia and a panoply of events relating to new media, Montreal is a major player in the virtual world. The City of Montreal will initiate a contest that creates a real-time link between some of the world's cultural metropolises, such as Barcelona, Paris, London, Venice, Berlin or New York.

Advertise and promote the New Environmental Branding of Montreal and its excellent quality of life to attract top-notch businesses from all over the world, as well as to strengthen its recreational tourism industry.

The new bidding system for City of Montréal contracts will favour businesses situated in and around Montréal. The powerful economic leverage of the City of Montreal and its boroughs will be used to invest in the local economy through contracts for the provision of goods and services.

Encourage competition and stimulate small- to medium-sized and not-for-profit businesses by splitting up calls for tenders. While this will entail some short-term increases to management expenses for the City, it will prevent the creation of monopolies that financially strangle small players. Make the City an exemplary business partner by respecting the normal payment deadlines of 30 or 60 days, as negotiated in the contracts.

Adopt a hiring policy for all City of Montreal job positions in accordance with the following goals:

• Achieving parity between women and men, with positive action of 60% in favour of women until parity is reached;
• Achieving representation in proportion to the size of Montreal’s ethnic and cultural communities, with positive action 60% in favour of under-represented communities, until proportional representation is reached.

Adopt continuous education programs and review the criteria for promotion from within the municipal administration, so that persons from under-represented groups have a chance to progress to management positions.

In order to enhance St-Paul and Ste-Catherine streets and McGill College and Mont- Royal avenues as pedestrian arteries, develop an annual program of artistic and cultural activities in collaboration with both cultural representatives and neighbouring residents, and promote these walkways as crossroads of expression. These activities would extend Montreal’s touristic potential beyond the summer season.

Every year, one thousand cultural associations organize five thousand cultural events on the island of Montreal. Projet Montréal recognizes the dynamism of Montreal’s cultural associations, numbering three hundred folk-dance groups, one hundred traditional music and dance associations, over two thousand musicians, six ecomuseums and four hundred public-access festivals, and pledges the following:

• To support cultural associations in their endeavour to preserve and sustain our cultural heritage;
• To encourage access to intercultural activities as a means of building and humanizing our city and gearing it to the future;
• To improve accessibility for artists and craftspeople in the field of cultural expression to existing places of cultural diffusion, such as the Maisons de la culture;
• To acquire professional expertise in order to respond constructively to the needs of those who foster cultural expression in our city.

Impose a moratorium on the conversion into residential properties of structures currently serving as studios for artists, craftspeople and other creative enterprises. These are often situated in or near industrial sites; for example, along the CP rail lines or the Lachine Canal. The conversion of these sites into residential units threatens a vital source of Montreal’s artistic wealth – the existence on its territory of affordable, multifunctional spaces in the midst of, and in step with, other forms of urban creativity. In the interest of ensuring the survival of artistic creation in the center and post-industrial areas elsewhere in the city, draw up a policy to regulate on a city-wide basis the use of Montreal’s disused industrial structures as well as the zoning changes now made borough-by-borough that adversely affect the artistic community.