The race in Pierrefonds-Roxboro is focused on dealing with past and future flood response, transit, and local development vs protecting greenspace.
Each borough mayor candidate approaching the issues from a different perspective.
"We have a voice in Montreal," says incumbant borough mayor Jim Beis with Equipe Denis Coderre. "I sit on the executive in charge of 3 major files, and that to me is a benefit to our community."
He says his clout at city hall has helped move along building a new library in the neighborhood and now a new pool.
Justine McIntyre, the Vrai Changement pour Montreal candidate, decided not too run for Coderre's spot, vying for the Pierrefonds mayoralty instead.
"We're running local teams and focusing on local issues," she says. "What people really want is better service and good financial managment — they don't want big shiny projects."
She says the library that was torn down was functional and well used by residents.
The most slippery issue in the borough is flood response, how it went and how it's going.
McIntyre says it's a scandal that people didn't get sandbags in time, and many still aren't in their homes.
"The way the city dealt with the floods in the spring was catastrophic" she said.
Beis says they did the best with what they had.
"I don't blame people for being dissatisfied with the response at any level really of government if still five months later they're going through a crisis" he said.
He says they've reinforced high risk areas and are still working to help those who's homes were damaged by connecting them to the myriad of services to help with insurance and repairs.
Projet Montreal's borough mayor candidate Hélène Dupont wouldn't speak with CJAD 800 in English, but a representative says they'd push for an expedited post-mortem on the floods.