Premier Philippe Couillard says he had ordered his whip to speak with every one of his male MNAs about a potentially damaging allegation levelled by a young woman on Wednesday evening.
The woman claims she was sexually assaulted by the unnamed MNA back in 2014, and that police tried to discourage her from reporting the incident.
She spoke before about 500 people at Laval University, at a rally in support of several women who claimed they had been sexually assaulted over the weekend at a campus residence.
"This man, who I will not name but who presently sits as an MNA in the National Assembly, seemingly found me to be his taste," she told the crowd. "This man sexually assaulted me, at my workplace. And today, he is still making decisions. He not only hurt me physically, but psychologically, for the rest of the my life."
One of the people in the crowd was CAQ MNA Nathalie Roy, who says her heart sank when she heard that about the assault — and that a politician was involved.
"That's unacceptable," Roy told CJAD News. "Nobody is above the law. And what was most troubling for me is [that she was told] not to report, because that person was an important person, and that would break his career. Who told that woman such a thing?"
Back at the National Assembly, Couillard pledged to get to the bottom of the story.
"I want to find out who it is, but I'm not an investigator," he said. "We're going to wait for the police to do their job."