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BMO Financial Group will announce its second quarter financial results and hold its investor community conference call on Wednesday, May 23, 2007.

� Investor Community Conference Call

- Time: 2:00pm EDT

- The conference call will be available in a listen-only mode:

- via telephone at: 1 (888) 789-0089 or (416) 695-9753 (Toronto area)

- via the Internet at: www.bmo.com/investorrelations

� Presentation material referenced during the conference call will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations

� Conference Call Rebroadcast

- A rebroadcast of the investor community presentations will be available until midnight EDT, Wednesday, June 6, 2007, by calling 1 (888) 742-2491 or (416) 641-2196 and entering passcode 7573#.

-The webcast will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations until Monday, August 27, 2007.

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