Gatineau picks a mayor: The election that couldn't make up its mind

For Gatineau voters, this fall has been the election campaign that couldn’t pick an issue.
Taxes? Culture? Floods? Paving sidestreets? Condo towers? Economic growth? Pick any. They have all floated in and out of debates and headlines, even the $79-million decision to build a new hockey arena, long after that decision was supposedly in the bag.
But none of them became a big, standout issue that dominated debates or public discussion.
In the absence of a big issue, incumbent Maxime Pedneaud-