Joke about the moustache of Manon Massé: Québec solidaire passes the sponge

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The member of parliament for Québec solidaire, Manon Massé

Patrick Bellerose

Monday, February 5, 2018 10:41

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Québec solidaire takes note of the apologies of Jean-François Lisée, after his joke of a controversial mustache Manon Massé.

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“The joke, I didn’t found it very funny. I find that this is not very 21st century as the comment”, said, however, the male spokesperson training, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.

Even the sound of a bell at the side of his colleague, Amir Khadir. “Me, I heard apology and mrs. Massé will surely comment on when she will return,” said the member of parliament for Mercier.

The main concerned was absent on Monday morning, since she was at the bedside of his mother.

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois noted, however, that this will be to Manon Massé to say whether or not it accepts the apologies of Jean-François Lisée. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in beginning to work with Manon, it is that he should not speak in his name,” said the mp.

During an appearance on the show The evening is still young, the leader of the parti québecois has touted its new vice-chief, Véronique Hivon, adding: “In addition, Véronique Hivon, unlike Manon, has no mustache”.

He subsequently apologized via a post on Facebook stating that it was a joke.

“I am allowed to do it, because I know very well that Manon assumes perfectly his appearance and has already said that it was sort of a “statement” that she did. […] It is because I knew that she — with whom I have served, particularly in a committee where we, together, gave more rights to transgender people — did not see his mustache as a taboo, but a statement, that I am allowed to address it”, he wrote.

He also added that it was not “appropriate surely for a political leader, to evoke a physical trait that can be perceived as offensive,” said Jean-François Lisée.

“It is not me there will resume,” he promised.