Montréal comes together to welcome the DSR Bank

Today, the city’s businesses, institutions and leaders are uniting behind a shared goal: bringing the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSR Bank) to Montréal.

Greater Montréal has a deep culture of collaboration. It allows us to launch ambitious projects, align stakeholders and deliver on complex, high-impact initiatives.

That’s why we’re backing Montréal’s bid for the DSR Bank, an international institution dedicated to financing defence projects across NATO countries and allied nations. An opportunity that would place our city, and Canada, at the heart of critical multilateral efforts.

An institution of this scale needs a credible environment, strong economic and industrial ecosystems, and genuine collective buy-in. Montréal delivers on all three as a reliable, innovative setting, fully mobilized to launch and support the bank’s work.

A city built to support the bank’s mission

Like other major Canadian cities, Montréal performs strongly in connectivity and governance. What sets us apart is our deep experience in multilateral relations and our solid network of complementary ecosystems—directly relevant to the bank’s operations.

As Canada’s UN city, Montréal hosts 68 international organizations, several operating at the centre of global governance. The city is also home to a solid, agile financial sector, known for deploying capital quickly and rolling out innovative solutions.

Montréal’s leading financial institutions already have the tools, expertise and capacity to support rapid growth, facilitate access to targeted markets and serve an organization of the DSR Bank’s scale.

This is further strengthened by our world-class expertise in aerospace, naval industries, artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, fields directly tied to the bank’s mission. Our highly skilled, multilingual workforce is continually strengthened by world-leading universities that enrich the city’s strategic sectors.

Coordinated and committed support

The DSR Bank’s arrival in Montréal would be a major economic driver, creating high-quality jobs while boosting our international profile and Québec’s diplomatic reach.

The Government of Québec and the City of Montréal have already expressed their clear commitment to supporting this bid.

The logic is clear: the DSR Bank needs an open, innovative environment firmly rooted in multilateral relations. Montréal offers exactly that, backed by a private sector ready to provide tailored, effective support from day one.

Montréal is ready.
So are we.

Supported by

• Jean Laurin, Principal and Vice-Chairman, Avison Young Québec
• Yves Beauchamp, CEO, ADM Aéroports de Montréal
• Mélanie Lussier, CEO, Aéro Montréal
• Frédéric Parent, Executive Director, Aerospace Technology Center
• Justin Erbacci, Director General, Airports Council International World
• Nectarios Economakis, Partner, Amiral Ventures
• Andrew Molson, Chairman of the Board, AVENIR GLOBAL
• Jeffrey Greenberg, Partner, Baker Tilly Montréal
• Mirko Bibic, President and CEO, BCE et Bell Canada
• David Jarry, Partner, Tax, Québec, BDO Canada
• Michael Nault, General Manager, Bell Textron Canada
• Grégoire Baillargeon, President, BMO
• Matthew Bromberg, President and CEO, CAE
• Marc Parent, Former CEO, CAE
• Martin Corbo, Managing Director of the Montréal Office, Cain-Lamarre
• Véronique Tougas, President, Cambli
• Julie White, CEO, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters
• Louis Karam, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, CBRE
• Isabelle Dessureault, President & CEO, Montréal Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
• Stephen Bronfman, Executive Chairman, Claridge
• Frédéric Martel, President & CEO, Claridge
• Graham Carr, President and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University
• Michelle LLambias Meunier, President & CEO, Conseil du patronat du Québec
• Guillaume Côté, CEO, Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Québec
• Amine Smires, CEO, CS Group – Canada
• Pascal Fortin, CEO, Cybereco
• Jean-Charles Raillat, CEO, DCM Group
• Julie Ethier, Head leader, DEL
• Marc Perron, Member of the Board and Vice-Chair, Deloitte Canada et Chili
• Christian Létourneau, Managing Partner, Dentons Canada
• Denis Dubois, President & CEO, Desjardins Group
• Sébastien Bérubé, President, Dynajet Aviation
• Kathy Baig, Director general and Chief Executive Officer, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
• Hélène Bailleu, Executive Director, École nationale d’aérotechnique (ÉNA)
• Benoit Morin, Vice-president, Sales and Business Development, Ekkinox-TLS
• Komlan Sedzro, Dean, ESG UQAM
• Pascal Désilets, Executive Director, Espace Aéro
• Frank Pons, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration – Université Laval
• Éric Bédard, Chairman of the Board of Montréal International, Fasken
• Olivier Cuilleret, President, Fauve
• Véronique Proulx, CEO, FCCQ
• Eric Parent, CEO, FDC Aero Composite
• Jacques Deforges, Executive Director, Finance Montréal
• Janie C. Béïque, President & CEO, Fonds de solidarité FTQ
• Martin Cloutier, Managing Partner, Forvis Mazars Canada
• Pierre Pilote, Department Chair Specialized Practices, Gowling WLG
• Geoff Molson, Owner, President and Chief Executive Officer Groupe CH
• Normand Lebeau, President & Chief Guardian of the Mandrake Experience Groupe Mandrake
• Federico Pasin, Director, HEC Montréal
• Claudine Bouchard, President & CEO, Hydro-Québec
• Simon Ahdoot, Chief Executive Officer, Hypertec
• Eliot Ahdoot, President Hypertec Construction, Hypertec
• André Lamarre, Executive Vice President, Hypertec
• Denis Ricard, President & CEO, iA Financial Groupe
• Éric Rancourt, Canadian Special Representative, IAM Union Canada
• Isabelle Melançon, CEO, Institut de développement urbain du Québec
• Francis Desjardins, CEO, Incendia Canada
• Bicha Ngo, CEO, Investissement Québec
• Hélène Desmarais, Co-founder, Chairwoman and Co-CEO, IVADO Labs
• François Létourneau, SVP & Managing Director, Montréal Office & Industrial Jones Lang LaSalle Services Immobiliers
• Sébastien Hylands, President, Kevric
• Jason Larocque, CEO, Kontron Canada
• Charles Emond, President & CEO, La Caisse
• Édith Jacques, Partner, Chair of the Board of Directors, Lavery
• Bernard Lette, Partner, Lette LLP
• Mario Iacobelli, COO, Mannarino Systems & Software Inc. (Scalian Group)
• Vincent Trudel, President & CEO, Marmen
• Pierre Boivin, Chancellor, McGill University
• Deep Saini, President and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University
• Hugue Meloche, CEO, Meloche Group
• Yanic Roy, CEO MET, Montréal metropolitan airport
• Stéphane Garneau, President & CEO, Micrologic
• Valérie Pisano, President & CEO, MILA
• Kyle Matthews, Executive Director, Montréal Institute for Global Security
• Stéphane Paquet, President & CEO, Montréal International
• Dan Blondal, CEO, Nano One Materials Corp.
• Laurent Ferreira, President & CEO, National Bank of Canada
• Alexandre Normandin-Lussier, Managing Partner, Nault Avocats inc.
• Sylvie Laporte, Executive Director, Naval Québec
• Stéphane Turcotte, CEO, Netur
• Antoine De Tilly, Director of Economic Development, NexDev – Développement économique Haut Richelieu
• Raymond Bachand, Strategic Advisor and Former Quebec Minister of Finance, Norton Rose Fulbright
• Anabelle Blondeau, President & CEO, Optimum Financial Group
• Emmanuelle Legault, CEO, Palais des congrès de Montréal
• Maud Cohen, President, Polytechnique Montréal
• Pierre Pomerleau, Executive Chair of the Board, Pomerleau
• Alexis Laprés Paradis, CEO, Propulsion Québec
• Emmanuelle Toussaint, CEO, Québec Mining Association
• Richard Chénier, Executive Director, Québec Tech
• Pierre Karl Péladeau, President & CEO, Owner of the Montréal Alouettes, Québecor
• Patrick Poulin, CEO, Randstad Canada
• Nathalie Boyer, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
• Bachar Elzein, CEO, Reaction Dynamics
• Julien Billot, CEO, Scale AI
• Vincent Aimez, Vice President, Partnerships and Knowledge Transfer, Université de Sherbrooke
• Brigitte Labelle, President & CEO, Shockform Aéronautique Inc.
• David Da Costa, Partner & COO, Sourcinc
• Richard Blanchet, CEO, STIQ
• Manon Genest, CEO, Founder and Associate, Tact
• Manon Duclos, CEO, Technum Québec
• Julie Gascon, CEO, The Port of Montréal
• Xavier Kauza, Sales Director, THERMETCO
• Jean Sébastien Lemire, CEO, Thermetco Inc.
• Frédéric Loiselle, Co Founder & Partner, Thrust Capital Partners
• Yves Lalumière, President & CEO, Tourisme Montréal
• Stéphane Pallage, Rector, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
• Daniel Jutras, Rector, Université de Montréal
• William De Keiser, CEO, Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
• Alain Lemieux, CEO, Vallée de la transition énergétique
• Justin Zipkin, Co Founder & CEO, Volta Space Technologies Inc.
• Marc André Plouffe, Vice President, North America, Wipro Lauak
• Olivier Joyal, Executive Vice President, Québec and Canadian Client Program Leader, WSP