Tourisme vert à Montréal

10. Sustainable development in Québec
10.1. Fairtrade towns and municipalities
• A community in which people, organizations, businesses and local governments use their
everyday choices to increase sales of fairtrade products and bring about positive change
for farmers and workers in developing countries.
• Although each fairtrade town is different, each one commits to setting goals with respect to disseminating
information about trade and development issues and increasing sales of fairtrade products.
• Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
– 26 retail merchants and 13 restaurants or cafés offer at least 2 fairtrade products, i.e., at least one
store per 10,000 inhabitants and at least one restaurant per 20,000 inhabitants.
• The City of Montréal also has a fairtrade campaign underway.
• Other fairtrade Québec jurisdictions:
– La Pêche
– Neuville
– St. Anne de Bellevue
– Sherbrooke
Source:
− - Ville Équitable, “Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve,” n.d. Jun. 2011.
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