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Montreal’s municipal election campaign is drawing to a close. It’s decision time.

Each of the two principal mayoral candidates has strengths and weaknesses; but both deserve credit for strong and civilized campaigns.

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They have spoken at length about what they would do for this city: for citizens just trying to get from one place to another by car, public transit, bike or on foot; for young families and for merchants — in sum, how they would make Montreal both more vibrant and more liveable.

Valérie Plante of Projet Montréal has succeeded, with a long string of policy announcements and an upbeat campaign, in putting herself on the political map — and, as polls suggest, perhaps even into office as mayor.

The collegial, decentralizing ethos she projects so personably is in sharp contrast to the incumbent mayor, whose imperious, centralizing and impulsive tendencies have rubbed many the wrong way.