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Cathy Wong est la conseillère de ville du district de Peter-McGill dans la ville de Montréal, Québec, Canada. Elle a été élue dans le district de Peter is a municipal politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has served on Montreal City Council as councillor for the Peter-McGill district since 2017, and is the speaker of Montreal City Council.[1] Thirty years old at her election, she is the council's first female speaker, and was also the first opposition party member to sit in the chair. She replaces Frantz Benjamin, the first black speaker of the council.[2]

As part of her role, Wong is mandated to raise citizens' access to city hall and municipal democracy, especially for women, youth, ethnic minorities, new residents, and Indigenous people, key targets in mayor Valérie Plante's election campaign. A Montreal diversity and inclusion advisory panel was a move by mayor Plante, with a one-year deadline to recommend necessary changes at city hall and related bodies.[3]

Also under Wong's presidency, Montreal planned to rescind an historical but uncodified regulation which required male councilors to wear ties at council meetings. A city council commission supervising procedural rules and conduct, which she leads, decided to drop the rule to modernize City Hall.[4]

Wong was a member of the Équipe Denis Coderre party (before its post-election reconstitution as Ensemble Montréal) in the municipal elections of November 2017.[5] On October 2, 2019, she joined the governing Projet Montréal party, citing its social values.[6]