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The Parti Québécois is seeking to shut down a website that pretends to be linked to the political party and highlights past quotes made by its leader and a controversial candidate in Monday’s election.

In a request for an injunction filed at the Montreal courthouse earlier this week, the PQ also called for the Directeur général des élections du Québec to investigate the source of the website serieusement.fun as its origins are currently cloaked in anonymity.

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The PQ points out that the website uses its logo and a layout similar to its own including the familiar shade of blue associated with the party for years.

“What is more, the statements posted by the Internet site ‘serieusement.fun’ constitute defamatory, racist and false statements that the Parti Québécois cannot accept and should denounce,” the party stated in its request.

“We have a trademark, I’m all for parodies and satire but when you use our trademark without changing it, people might think it’s real. There’s a line between parody and using our logo without modifying it,” PQ leader Jean-François Lisée said on Friday while campaigning in the election. “They can do all the parodies they want but the PQ logo belongs to the PQ. You can laugh at us all you want, go for it, we love humour.”