We understand Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois to have had his voice broken by emotion when he presented his co-spokesperson for a few more months, during the National Council of Québec solidaire.
Regardless of the talent of her successor, Manon Massé is irreplaceable.
The one who has long been in a hurry to stop talking about her mustache has succeeded in an almost impossible task in politics: to normalize the difference.
Contradictions
How ? In an interview she gave me in 2019, Manon Massé explains that she simply learned to take responsibility for herself.
Beyond its authenticity, its power comes more, perhaps, from the contradictions that inhabit it and that it will have succeeded in reconciling.
As a theology student, she founded the first gay rights group in her faculty. Besides, she would have liked “to be a parish priest, but not a sister. »
She conquered the political game by her phlegm towards her game of chess, while displaying an unparalleled passion for what is at stake.
She embraces head-on the power to make a difference, without being consumed by the quest for it.
Already in her late fifties, she inspired young people.
To become rich
Ask Manon Massé what prosperity is, she will tell you that it is about finding balance.
And the wealth? It’s time.
By leaving her position as co-spokesperson, Manon Massé becomes, in her own way, a millionaire. She will have time to “take care of her world” in Saint-Henri-Ste-Anne.
At the end of the change of guard she will have wanted, she grasps her value, but without arrogance.
“You had more confidence in me than myself,” she told Quebec Solidarity activists on Sunday.
Finally, she reconciled the dogmas of politics with the idealism of her political commitment.
Whether or not we support her party’s solutions, Quebec needs more Manon Massé, and not just within Quebec solidaire.