This article examines how local public institutions, especially municipal administrations, have adapted their structures and actual practices to respond to new regionalist and metropolitan challenges. We want to assess if, and how much, governmental institutions are really adopting new ways to plan, supervise, and implement metropolitan policies. More precisely, we analyze 35 American and Canadian urban agglomerations that rank as regional capitals or mid-sized urban areas. The emphasis is on the transformation of metropolitan institutions and on metropolitan area taxation strategies. The analysis pinpoints a number of findings regarding the nature and impact of recent institutional reforms. These findings involve: 1) the return in force of the unicity in Canada, 2) the slow development in the organization of the local public sector and the adoption of institutional solutions favoring voluntary associations in the US, 3) the discrepancy between discourse and practice in terms of the objectives targeted by fiscal measures, and 4) the growing role of state and provincial governments in metropolitan institutional and fiscal reforms.

Pouvoir local et crise économique Volume 9, numéro 2, 1985 URI : id.erudit.org/iderudit/006267ar

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La mise en place des Comités de transition C'est à l'occasion du dépôt du projet de loi 170, en novembre 2000, qu'apparaît la formule d'un comité de transition composé de personnes extérieures aux municipalités regroupées. Le projet de loi 124 déposé et adopté

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