Quebec election: Lisée continues to stand by controversial candidate Michelle Blanc

ALMA — Jean-François Lisée continued to defend candidate Michelle Blanc on Monday amid mounting criticism about her past comments, specifically a 2011 tweet that she “forgot to celebrate Adolph Hitler’s birthday.”
Campaigning in Quebec City, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard said that he wasn’t going to tell Lisée what to do, but jokes about Hitler cross the line of acceptable comment.
“We have a society of freedom and one of our