Manon Massé | |
|---|---|
Massé in 2019 | |
| Co-spokesperson forQuébec 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 forSainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | |
| Assumed office 7 April 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Breton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1963-05-22)22 May 1963 (age 62) Windsor, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Québec solidaire |
| Residence(s) | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal |
Manon MasséMNA (born 22 May 1963) is a Canadian politician inQuebec and was one of co-spokespersons forQuébec solidaire from 2017 to 2023. She has representedSainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in theNational Assembly of Quebec since the2014 general election. Before her time in political office, she was a community organizer and one of the co-founders for the political movementOption citoyenne.[1][2]
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, andLGBTQ+ community issues.
Massé was born on 22 May 1963 inWindsor, 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 toBoucherville, a suburb ofMontreal.[3]
She studied atCégep Édouard-Montpetit before pursuing a major intheology at theUniversité de Montréal.[4]
Massé worked with various community organisations, social causes, and political movements, including the Comité socialCentre-Sud andFédération des femmes du Québec (trans. Women's Federation of Québec). She was also on the coordinating committees for theMarche mondiale des Femmes in 2000 and theMarche du pain et des roses [fr] in 1995.[4] In 2011, she was also part of theFreedom Flotilla II, representing Québec solidaire on the Canadian Boat for Gaza,Tahrir.[5]
Manon 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 theNational Assembly of Quebec in the2014 election, her fifth attempt and winning the party its third seat.[8][9]
Due to her narrow margin of victory overQuebec Liberal Party candidate Anna Klisko of 91 votes, a request for ajudicial 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]
Massé, along with activistGabriel 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 forPremier of Quebec in the2018 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 majorsovereigntist party,Parti Québécois.[12]
In thetrial of Catalonia independence leaders, Massé testified at theSupreme Court of Spain on 29 April 2019 due to her role as international observer in the2017 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 byÉmilise Lessard-Therrien.[15]
| 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 [fr] | 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 solidairehold | 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 solidairegain fromParti 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 Québécoishold | 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 Québécoishold | Swing | -3.04 | ||||||
| * Quebec solidaire vote is compared to the UFP vote in the 2003 election. | ||||||||
Manon Massé is a prominent feminist and social justice advocate inQuébec.[16] She shares her life with her partner, Ghislaine Goulet.[17][18]