With just a handful of days until Election Day, mayoral candidates are trying to convince undecided voters that their vision for the future is the right one.
Montreal mayor Denis Coderre wants to keep his message simple, look at his record and stay the course.
"We have to think about the past. Look at what happened four years ago, and look at all the improvements that we've been putting forward" Coderre told CTV Montreal in his weekly one-on-one interview. "We have an experienced team, and you cannot just improvise and change the tune every day for the next four years."
"You cannot just start from scratch."
He insists before Montrealers head to the polls on Sunday to remember to the days before his administration, when he said City Hall was rife with corruption and our roads were falling apart.
Coderre admits the job to repair those roads has not been perfect, and there's always room for improvement, but at the improvements are being done.
"Sometimes you have to take the heat for it and say listen, we neglected all our infrastructure in the last 30 years and now that we are making sure we are doing that thing, it has an impact on people's lives of course" he said.
"It's short term pain for long term gain, but we have to do it."
Coderre's main opponent, Projet Montreal leader Valerie Plante was also talking roadwork Monday.
Plante sat down with the Montreal Gazette to talk about her vision for the city's future.
Her main goal is to get Montrealers moving, by getting them out of traffic jams and on to additional buses and metros.
Plante reiterated her plans to the newspaper, saying Projet Montreal would add 300 hybrid buses to the current public transit fleet, create a dedicated traffic squad that can help to quickly relieve smaller issues (broken down cars, vehicles illegally parked) backing up roads, and bring in a team of experts made up of engineers, city workers and police to find better solutions for co-ordinating road work and detours.
Plante added she'd like to help new families by pledging to reimburse part of the "welcome tax" on newly purchased homes. The rebate would only be available one time, is up to $5,000 and is only available to couples with at least one child.
She admits that her opponent Denis Coderre is right; the city is in much better shape than it was prior to his taking office. However, Plante added the bar was set pretty low.
In Brossard there's a controversy surrounding one of the mayoral candidates and where he keeps his toothbrush.
A report this month said that Renouveau Brossard mayoral candidate Jean-Marc Pelletier doesn't live in the city, and calls an apartment on de Maisonneuve Blvd. in the Ville-Marie borough home.
"The law says you have to be a resident in the city for at least 12 months," Pelletier told CTV Montreal. "I've been a resident since July 2016."
When first questioned about the city he calls home by La Presse earlier this month Pelletier mentioned he has been renting an apartment on Marie-Victorin Blvd. since July of last year, but added he's only there overnight from time to time and sometimes forgets his toothbrush in Montreal.
His opponents are casting doubt on his claims of truly living in Brossard.
"I think you have to have a connection, you have to be legitimate. If people are asking questions, that's a problem… It's unfortunate that at this stage of the elections, we're still asking some questions" said mayoral candidate Hoang Mai.
Pelletier, who served as mayor of Brossard between 2006 and 2009, said he is in the process of moving full-time back to the city.
If he won the election on Sunday the results could be challenged in court.
For now the former mayor is continuing to convince undecided voters by promising to lower taxes.