The two-month-old baby slept through the politics.
QUEBEC — MNA Gregory Kelley brought a guest with him to the National Assembly for question period on Tuesday: his baby Gabriel.
Kelley, the MNA for the West Island riding of Jacques-Cartier, set a precedent by standing up with the two-month-old sleeping in a harness to ask a question to social solidarity minister Chantal Rouleau. Marwah Rizqy, the baby’s mother and MNA for Saint-Laurent, was in the next seat.
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The baby did not seem perturbed by the clamouring in the blue room.
Health Minister Christian Dubé congratulated the new parents. Rizqy gave birth to Gabriel on Oct. 20, two weeks after the election.
“I want to take the opportunity to congratulate two colleagues on the other side who brought with them (their baby). … Three, sorry (including the baby). Welcome.”
MNAs have brought babies into the legislature before — former Québec solidaire MNA Émilise Lessard-Therrien did so during the last legislature — but it’s the first time a father gets up in the blue room with a baby carrier and the baby’s mother nearby.