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Two days after Calgary Liberal candidate Ala Buzreba stepped down due to distasteful online posts, a Quebec Conservative has halted his campaign for the exact same reason.

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“To be fair, instead of speaking of superiority, it would be better to speak of the authority of men over women,” read a 2014 web comment by Gilles Guibord below a story in the Journal de Montreal.

The story was about how major religions seem to be obsessed with the female body. Guibord’s comment, in turn, was in response to another commenter who had been criticizing the idea that “the nature of human beings is that one sex necessarily has to be superior to the other.”

“I don’t think male-female relations were determined by religion, but by forces that came long before religion,” wrote Guibord.

“Men were stronger than women, women were placed under their protection. Because of the effects of pregnancy, women were often in a fragile or insecure state, thus men guaranteed and assured their safety.”

On Thursday, the Conservative Party confirmed to Quebec media that Guibord had been asked to resign after the comments became public.

The “men were stronger than women” comment, along with many others, were painstakingly dug up by a Montreal politics blog.