The Conservative party has confirmed a Quebec man is “no longer a candidate,” after comments he made on a newspaper website about gender relations circulated online.

Gilles Guibord wrote in French in the comments section of a Journal de Montreal article that “forces predating religion” have left “the man stronger than the woman, because the woman is placed under protection,” due to her “pregnancies.”

“To be fair, it would be better to speak of the man’s authority over the woman, rather than superiority,” he wrote in the Feb. 13, 2014 comment.

He also posed the question, “don’t you think relationships of authority by one over the other exist among homosexual couples?”

The comment was under a short article by columnist Sophie Durocher, where she linked to a story about a protest by Orthodox Jews opposed to Natalie Portman bearing her arms near a synagogue and asked, “is there a religion that’s not obsessed with the female body?”

Guibord was running in the Montreal riding of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie against NDP candidate Alexandre Boulerice, who took the riding in 2011 with 51 per cent of the vote. The Conservatives finished in fourth place, with four per cent.