The Montreal Metropolitan Commission (known in French as the Commission métropolitaine de Montréal) was an authority that was involved in municipal affairs affecting the urbanized part of the Island of Montreal.
[1] Montreal, then experiencing a budgetary crisis arising from its annexation of Maisonneuve in 1918, refused to consider this request, unless it annexed the more wealthy municipalities on the Island of Montreal at the same time.
[1][2] As a compromise, the Quebec government established the Island of Montreal Metropolitan Commission in 1921,[3] which was renamed as the Montreal Metropolitan Commission in the following year.
[1] The Commission existed until 1959, when it was replaced by the Montreal Metropolitan Corporation (in French, Corporation du Montréal métropolitain),[5][6] which was abolished in 1969 on the creation of the Montreal Urban Community.
[12] In 1935, the City of Montreal acquired the power to impose sales tax and income tax in the City as well as in the other municipalities under the control of the Commission,[13] and bylaws came into effect on 1 May 1935 for: The amounts raised (net of administrative costs) were shared pro rata with the other municipalities within the Commission's territory.