Resolve modelling questions for Montreal City Council

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Montreal City Council is two layered. It has boroughs and districts. In terms of elected representatives, the council is made up of a Mayor, Borough Mayors and Councillors. Borough Mayors represent a borough. Councillors may either represent a district, or in some cases a borough. Not every district has a councillor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_City_Council#Current_members is the best source for getting a grip on this.

This raises questions about how we model the council in both Wikidata, and the Democratic Commons and Facebook data format.

The municipal electoral district of Montreal Wikidata item currently has instances for every district that has a councillor specifically allocated to it, and for the boroughs that have councillors generally allocated to them, but not for the boroughs that only send a borough mayor to the council.

The borough of Montreal currently has instance for every borough.

The build process for this repo currently has warnings of the form:

WARNING: the district Q1714436 wasn't found in the boundary data for position Q45414411
I think because some representatives e.g. Manon Barbe have been modelled in wikidata as holding positions as both a Borough Mayor and a Councillor.

The way the boundary areas for districts and boroughs are modelled in this repo at the moment mean that the possibility of a councillor representing a whole borough (e.g. Anjou, Lachine) are not covered.

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Resolve modelling questions for Montreal City Council