About us

Background

The climate emergency and social inequalities are among the greatest challenges facing our society. They also represent an opportunity to rethink the way we live and build cities together, to make them more resilient, inclusive, prosperous and convivial. To seize this opportunity, all the driving forces of our territories must contribute through concrete actions, in keeping with the strong and long-standing tradition of mobilization of Montreal’s civil society.

Montreal has a duty to contribute fully to this process, and the process has been underway for several years. The City of Montreal’s Vision 2030 shows the extent to which the socio-ecological transition is a fundamental priority for the metropolis in the coming years.

However, for this priority to be transformed into a genuine social project, much greater, more diversified and effective participation by the city’s citizens and organizations is required. While many citizen initiatives have emerged, few have found the conditions for scaling them up. Collaboration with public administration and institutions is sometimes complex, and initiatives struggle to link up to form a truly mobilizing narrative. The challenges of transition demand that we go further collectively and accelerate the pace.

Credits: Markus Spiske

Fair of the possible in the small homeland, organized by Solon in September 2020. Credits: City of Montreal

Mission

Transition en Commun federates an alliance of citizens, civil society players and organizations, the City of Montreal and other institutions around a co-construction approach, with a dual overall objective:

(1) to generate, popularize, celebrate and mobilize around a shared vision of the socio-ecological transition
(2) to collectively give ourselves the means to implement it, notably through new commitments from the institutions concerned, first and foremost in Montreal and for the benefit of the mobilization of neighborhoods for the transition.

Our vision of the socio-ecological transition is based on..:

Neighborhoods and local life
Citizen participation, democracy and the creation of commons
Social economy and social innovation
Equity, diversity and inclusion, strengthening the link between social justice and the environment
Culture and the creation of a mobilizing collective narrative

Who are we?

We are an alliance whose governance is based on:

A partnership between the city and citizen organizations based on mutual respect and recognition.
A shared desire to examine and, where necessary, transform certain practices, both at the City of Montreal and within organizations, in order to maximize the impact of citizen participation and the power of neighborhood action on the socio-ecological transition.
Recognition of the independence of action of citizen organizations.
A shared desire to support innovations in the field and in municipal administration.

We are organized around thematic bodies, committees and working groups that have the common features of bringing together a diverse representation (institutions, civil society organizations, neighborhood and citizen groups, researchers) and investing in the challenge of co-construction.

Would you like to become a member of the alliance? Membership details will be available shortly. In the meantime, write to us at info@transitionencommun.org.

Co-chair

Bertrand Fouss

TeC Co-chairman

Dominique Ollivier

City Councillor, President of the Executive Committee

Marie-Andrée Mauger

Verdun Borough Mayor, Member of the Executive Committee, Responsible for ecological transition and the environment

Members

Anthony Faustin

Conseil jeunesse de Montréal

Anyle Côté

Conseil d'économie sociale de l'île de Montréal (CESIM)

Blaise Rémillard

Conseil régional de l'environnement de Montréal

Christophe Derrien

Regroupement des éco-quartiers, Ville en Vert

Daniel Da Silva

Bureau de la transition écologique et de la résilience, Ville de Montréal

David Kaiser

Montreal Public Health Department

Delphine Chalumeau

Partenariat Climat Montréal

Emilien Gruet

TIESS

Emmanuelle Hébert

Culture Montréal

Fatima Gabriela Salazar Gomez

Hoodstock

Francis Waddell

Demain Verdun

François Bergeron

CDC Centre Sud

Isabelle Gaudette

Montréal Urban Ecology Centre

Joakim Lemieux

Montreal Coalition of Neighborhood Tables

Jonathan Roy

CDC Pointe-aux-Trembles

Layla Belmahi

Conseil Interculturel de Montréal

Louis-Philippe Lizotte

Institut du Nouveau Monde

Marianne-Sarah Saulnier

Conseil des Montréalaises

Marie-Odile Mélançon

Service de la culture, Ville de Montréal

Mathieu Couture

David Suzuki Foundation

Pascal Grenier

Campus de la transition écologique

Sabrina Cardin Ouellette

Catalyseur Bronx Lasalle

Sylvain Lefèvre

CRISES UQAM

Thibault Camara

Service de la diversité et de l’inclusion sociale, Ville de Montréal

Thierry Sénécal

Arrondissement de Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve