Election campaign comes to a head

It's fitting, perhaps, that an election dominated by the issue of corruption takes place on All Saints Day.

On Sunday, Montrealers will get to pick a mayor from a trio of candidates who are now virtually tied in the polls.

A poll out Friday gives Vision Montreal's Louise Harel 34 percent support, Richard Bergeron from Projet Montreal 32 percent, and incumbent mayor Gerald Tremblay is now at 30 percent.

On Saturday, three candidates, one from each party, joined Anne Lagace Dowson on CJAD to debate the issues. And, as it has these last couple of weeks, the issue of ethics, once again, reared its ugly head, in spite of executive committee member and St. Laurent borough mayor Alan DeSousa's efforts to bring the conversation back to mayor Tremblay's accomplishments in office.

Alex Norris, a Projet Montreal candidate in the Mile End district, says the city doesn't work, and offered up a theory as to why.

"We don't get value for our services, and that's because there's systemic overcharging for the services that we get, and that's because of the type of relationship between the mayor's party and various contractors that do business with the city."

And David Hanna, a council candidate for Vision Montreal in the NDG district, vigorously defended against charges that his boss, Louise Harel, has dirty hands, too. "Louise Harel has a 26-year-career. She's a person of great integtity, she's been accused of nothing. When she came to Vision, she actually cleaned the party up...it's a small contribution party now. She cleaned all that up."

And join us on CJAD Sunday night for our special election night coverage, beginning at 8.