As November 5 approaches the campaign promises are coming fast and furious.
One day after debating her rival Denis Coderre (if you missed the debate you can watch it here), Projet Montreal's Valerie Plante spent part of the day Tuesday talking social and affordable housing.
Plante said if elected, she and her team would modify current housing laws so that 40 per cent of units in new projects are set aside for social and affordable housing.
"Over the last four years, the City has missed many opportunities to build affordable housing for Montrealers" Plante said. "For Montrealers to be able to enjoy quality and affordable housing, the City must get involved in housing development and stop being a spectator of the city's development."
The law would apply to developers with projects with five or more units; however some projects would be allowed to pay into the Social Housing Inclusion Fund if the law is deemed too costly or complicated to implement.
"The by-law we will adopt will better meet the demands for affordable housing and eliminate the favouritism that seems to have increased with the outgoing administration, which has deprived the most vulnerable Montrealers." said Richard Ryan, Projet Montreal's spokesperson for housing.
Plante said the measures would create 12,000 social and affordable units in four years, helping the 25,000 people currently on waiting lists for social housing.
Her opponent said the numbers and plan are unrealistic.
"I don't think we need to put so many numbers like that" Denis Coderre told CTV Montreal. "Just saying that the promoters if they just have 60 per cent of profits that's enough, that's not the way, that's not the kind of partnership we want to build on."
He said such measures would irritate developers and scare them away from the city.
Team Denis Coderre spent part of the day talking about global warming, and how the administration plans to continue fighting the change in climate at the local level.
Among the measures planned to help reduce the city's carbon footprint: creating more parks and green alleyways, continuing to reduce the amount of drinking water wasted, and moving forward with the ban on wood-burning stoves.
Team Coderre said it will team with industry partners to reduce the number of single-use plastic bags and containers. The party said Montreal would take the initiative to reduce the number of containers at the source and work to eliminate those that are not biodegradable.
Team Denis Coderre's Lionel Perez and Projet Montreal's Alex Norris joined CJAD 800's Leslie Roberts on Tuesday for the latest issues debate.
This time the pair was talking about your tax dollars and how the city should be spending them.
Norris brought up a number of large projects associated with Montreal's 375th birthday that mostly produced headaches for taxpayers, while Perez countered saying those big money projects have helped bring a record number of tourists to the city, helping local businesses.
Perez and Norris also clashed over public transit and Projet Montreal's Pink Metro line, road work and even Formula E.
You can listen to the full debate below.
While the many races in and around Montreal have seen some fireworks, they have been your typical electoral campaigns.
A report by Radio-Canada reveals one municipal candidate is facing criminal charges, three candidates have left their party and the party leader is seeking monetary damages against those who have left.
Candidate for Team Isabelle Daviau for the Golf district, Bobby Dagenais, is currently facing criminal harassment charges. Isabelle Daviau told the public broadcaster that Dagenais has been a paramedic for 10 years, has shown good behaviour, loves the city and is taking his candidacy seriously, and therefore was deemed an asset to the team.
Elsewhere in the City of Two Mountains, three candidates, formerly of Mouvement Citoyen Deux-Montagnes, are accusing the head of the party, Didier Maletto-Rock, of intimidation.
Nathalie Chayer told Rad-Can she left the party after questioning Maletto-Rock about some of the party's finances and lack of promotional items.
Canadidate Virginie Mairet said the Mouvement Citoyen leader showed up at her house one night after she questioned a donation.
The third candidate, Marie Edwine Pierre, said she left after some party members paid her a visit. She told the public broadcaster they left her traumatized and her children were scared.
For his part Maletto-Rock vehemently denies the alleged behaviour.
The report said he has also sent formal notice asking the three former party members to stop conveying false and defamatory information.