Manon Massé MNA (born 22 May 1963) is a Canadian politician in Quebec and was one of co-spokespersons for Québec solidaire from 2017 to 2023. She has represented Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the National Assembly of Quebec since the 2014 general election. Before her time in political office, she was a community organizer and one of the co-founders for the political movement Option citoyenne.[1][2]
Manon Massé | |
|---|---|
 Massé in 2019 | |
| Co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire | |
| In office 21 May 2017 – 26 November 2023 Serving with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois | |
| Preceded by | Françoise David |
| Succeeded by | Émilise Lessard-Therrien |
| Member of the National Assembly for Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | |
| Assumed office 7 April 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Breton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 May 1963 Windsor, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Québec solidaire |
| Residence(s) | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal |
Following the 2022 provincial election, she was chosen to lead the issues of Relations with First Nations and Inuit, Social Services for people living with an intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder, Social Solidarity and Community Action, Homelessness, and LGBTQ+ community issues.
Biography
editMassé was born on 22 May 1963 in Windsor, Quebec, to Fernande Migneault and Gilles Massé, both factory workers by profession. She spent the first seven years of her childhood in Windsor until her family moved to Boucherville, a suburb of Montreal.[3]
She studied at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit before pursuing a major in theology at the Université de Montréal.[4]
Massé worked with various community organisations, social causes, and political movements, including the Comité social Centre-Sud and Fédération des femmes du Québec (trans. Women's Federation of Québec). She was also on the coordinating committees for the Marche mondiale des Femmes in 2000 and the Marche du pain et des roses in 1995.[4] In 2011, she was also part of the Freedom Flotilla II, representing Québec solidaire on the Canadian Boat for Gaza, Tahrir.[5]
Political career
editManon Massé was the first-ever candidate to stand for political office under the Québec Solidaire banner,[6] doing so in the 2006 by-election for the Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques constituency she now represents. She received 22% of the vote.[7]
She was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election, her fifth attempt and winning the party its third seat.[8][9]
Due to her narrow margin of victory over Quebec Liberal Party candidate Anna Klisko of 91 votes, a request for a judicial recount was filed by Klisko.[9] The request was rejected by the presiding judge on 11 April, on the grounds that Klisko did not have sufficient evidence of any irregularities in the election process.[9]
Québec solidaire co-spokesperson, 2017–2023
editMassé, along with activist Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, was elected co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire at the party's conference in May 2017.[10] This is a continuation the party's tradition of allocating the role to a woman and a man to serve concurrently.
In her role, Massé was proposed by the party as their candidate for Premier of Quebec in the 2018 Quebec general election.[11] In this election, the party tripled its seat count from three members to ten, the party's best performance to date and bringing the party to third party status, ahead of the traditional major sovereigntist party, Parti Québécois.[12]
In the trial of Catalonia independence leaders, Massé testified at the Supreme Court of Spain on 29 April 2019 due to her role as international observer in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.[13]
In May 2023, Massé announced that she was stepping down from her co-spokesperson role.[14] In November 2023, she was succeeded as co-spokesperson by Émilise Lessard-Therrien.[15]
Electoral history
edit| 2022 Quebec general election: Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 10,892 | 47.69 | -1.59 | ||||
| Liberal | Christopher Baenninger | 3,621 | 15.85 | -5.30 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Phoeby Laplante | 3,362 | 14.72 | +0.73 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Aurélie Diep | 3,268 | 14.31 | +3.32 | ||||
| Conservative | Stefan Marquis | 1,138 | 4.98 | +4.46 | ||||
| Green | Hailey Roop | 450 | 1.97 | -1.52 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Linda Sullivan | 64 | 0.28 | – | ||||
| Climat Québec | Jency Mercier | 46 | 0.20 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 22,841 | 99.11 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 205 | 0.89 | -0.15 | |||||
| Turnout | 23,046 | 56.23 | -3.19 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 40,988 | – | – | |||||
| 2018 Quebec general election: Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 12,429 | 49.28 | +18.68 | ||||
| Liberal | Louis Charron | 5,335 | 21.15 | -9.12 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jennifer Drouin | 3,528 | 13.99 | -13.62 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Anna Klisko | 2,773 | 10.99 | +2.42 | ||||
| Green | Anna Calderon | 881 | 3.49 | +1.43 | ||||
| Conservative | Don Ivanski | 130 | 0.52 | – | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Henri Ladouceur | 73 | 0.29 | -0.30 | ||||
| Citoyens au pouvoir | Alexis Cossette-Trudel | 72 | 0.29 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 25,221 | 98.96 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 266 | 1.04 | ||||||
| Turnout | 25,487 | 59.42 | -6.54 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 42,894 | |||||||
| Québec solidaire hold | Swing | +13.90 | ||||||
| 2014 Quebec general election: Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 8,437 | 30.60 | +5.17 | ||||
| Liberal | Anna Klisko | 8,346 | 30.27 | +10.96 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Daniel Breton | 7,612 | 27.61 | -8.07 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Patrick Thauvette | 2,364 | 8.57 | -6.21 | ||||
| Green | Stewart Wiseman | 393 | 1.43 | – | ||||
| Option nationale | Nic Payne | 210 | 0.76 | -2.33 | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Marc Bissonnette | 164 | 0.59 | – | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Serge Lachapelle | 47 | 0.17 | -0.04 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 27,573 | 98.86 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 318 | 1.14 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 27,891 | 65.96 | -2.22 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 42,287 | – | – | |||||
| Québec solidaire gain from Parti Québécois | Swing | |||||||
| 2012 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Daniel Breton | 10,199 | 35.76 | -10.86 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 7,253 | 25.43 | +10.03 | ||||
| Liberal | Étienne Collins | 5,531 | 19.39 | -8.83 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Cédrick Beauregard | 4,216 | 14.78 | +10.76* | ||||
| Option nationale | Denis Monière | 880 | 3.09 | – | ||||
| Middle Class | Louis Provencher | 143 | 0.50 | – | ||||
| Independent | Jean-Marc Labrèche | 123 | 0.43 | – | ||||
| Quebec Citizens' Union | Edson Emilio | 87 | 0.31 | – | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Serge Lachapelle | 60 | 0.21 | -0.17 | ||||
| Independent | Dimitri Mourkes | 31 | 0.11 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,523 | 98.94 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 305 | 1.06 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 28,828 | 68.18 | +20.94 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 42,283 | – | – | |||||
| Parti Québécois hold | Swing | -10.45 | ||||||
| * Coalition avenir vote is compared to the Action démocratique vote in the 2008 election. | ||||||||
| 2008 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Martin Lemay | 9,236 | 46.62 | +5.28 | ||||
| Liberal | Éric Prud'homme | 5,590 | 28.22 | +4.52 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 3,051 | 15.40 | +1.24 | ||||
| Green | Annie Morel | 1,062 | 5.36 | -4.32 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Dominic Boisvert | 796 | 4.02 | -6.74 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Serge Lachapelle | 76 | 0.38 | +0.02 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 19,811 | 98.60 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 282 | 1.40 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 20,093 | 47.24 | -13.62 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 42,530 | – | – | |||||
| 2007 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Martin Lemay | 10,501 | 41.34 | +0.13 | ||||
| Liberal | Denise Dussault | 6,021 | 23.70 | -4.21 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 3,596 | 14.16 | -8.04 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Jean-Stéphane Dupervil | 2,733 | 10.76 | +8.82 | ||||
| Green | Corinne Ardon | 2,460 | 9.68 | +3.53 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Serge Lachapelle | 92 | 0.36 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 25,403 | 99.02 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 251 | 0.98 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 25,654 | 60.86 | +29.39 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 42,150 | – | – | |||||
| Quebec provincial by-election, April 10, 2006: Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Martin Lemay | 5,462 | 41.21 | -8.63 | ||||
| Liberal | Nathalie Malépart | 3,700 | 27.91 | -2.56 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Massé | 2,943 | 22.20 | +15.72* | ||||
| Green | Jean-Christophe Mortreux | 815 | 6.15 | +3.52 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Catherine Goyer | 257 | 1.94 | −6.39 | ||||
| Independent | Jocelyne Leduc | 50 | 0.38 | – | ||||
| Independent | Régent Millette | 28 | 0.21 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 13,255 | 99.24 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 101 | 0.76 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 13,356 | 31.47 | -30.04 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 42,437 | – | – | |||||
| Parti Québécois hold | Swing | -3.04 | ||||||
| * Quebec solidaire vote is compared to the UFP vote in the 2003 election. | ||||||||
Personal life
editManon Massé is a prominent feminist and social justice advocate in Québec.[16] She shares her life with her partner, Ghislaine Goulet.[17][18]
References
edit- ^ Lussier, Judith (7 August 2012). "Manon Massé : par-delà la moustache" [Manon Massé: Beyond the mustache]. URBANIA (in French). Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Durocher, Sophie (5 February 2018). "La moustache de Manon" [Manon's mustache]. Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Larochelle, Luc (9 March 2018). "Les racines de Manon Massé à Windsor" [Manon Massé's Windsor roots]. Le Soleil (in French). Archived from the original on 28 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ a b "Manon Massé". National Assembly of Quebec. Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Des Québécois en route vers Gaza pour briser le blocus israélien" [Quebecers en route towards Gaza to break the Israeli blockade]. Radio-Canada (in French). 20 June 2011 [19 June 2011]. Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Député.e.s – Manon Massé". Québec solidaire. Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Résultats de l'élection partielle du 10 avril 2006" [10 April 2006 by-election results] (in French). Élections Québec. 6 December 2021. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Manon Massé narrowly wins third seat for Québec Solidaire". CBC News. 8 April 2014. Archived from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ a b c "Manon Masse officially wins seat for Quebec solidaire". CTV News. 11 April 2014. Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Fragasso-Marquis, Vicky (21 May 2017). "Manon Massé et GND nommés porte-paroles de QS" [Manon Massé and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois named Québec solidaire co-spokespersons]. Le Soleil (in French). La Presse Canadienne. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Morasse, Marie-Eve (26 February 2018). "Manon Massé sera l'aspirante première ministre pour QS" [Manon Massé named Québec solidaire's candidate for premier]. La Presse (in French). Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Lalonde, Michelle (2 October 2018). "Quebec election: Québec solidaire triples its caucus". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ López de Miguel, Alejandro (29 April 2019). "Una diputada de Quebec, la primera que se reivindica como observadora internacional en el 'procés', aunque corrió con sus gastos" [Quebec MNA, the first international observer for the procés, paid her own way]. Público (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Jonas, Sabrina (16 May 2023). "Manon Massé to step down as Québec Solidaire co-spokesperson". CBC News. Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Émilise Lessard-Therrien devient la nouvelle co-porte-parole de Québec solidaire" [Émilise Lessard-Therrien becomes Québec solidaire's new co-spokesperson]. Radio-Canada (in French). 26 November 2023. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ Vaillancourt, Julie (December 2009). "Intervues avec... Manon Massé" [Interviews with... Manon Massé]. Fugues (in French). Vol. 26, no. 9. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Éditions Nitram. pp. 110–111. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Québec Solidaire wants to fight homophobia". CBC News. 6 March 2007. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ Labranche, Michaël (2 October 2018). "Un cliché de Manon Massé et de sa conjointe qui s'embrassent émeut le Web" [A photo of Manon Massé and her partner kissing moves the internet]. Le Journal de Québec (in French). Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.