Gatineau council candidate acclaimed winner after opponent withdraws

Carleton doctoral student Maude Marquis-Bissonnette says one reason she entered municipal politics was to see how things happened from the inside.
On Saturday, the 29-year-old mother of a four-year-old boy discovered things can take strange turns in politics when she was acclaimed councillor in Gatineau’s Plateau district, eight days before the Nov. 5 election.
Marquis-Bissonnette’s only opponent, Patrick Doyon, withdrew from the race Friday after media reports of alleged “inap