Quebec Premier Jean Charest called Hérouxville's measures "exaggerated" after Town Councillor André Drouin appeared on a popular Quebec television show called Tout le monde en parle and said the reasonable accommodation situation had reached a state of emergency in Quebec.
At the beginning of his priesthood, Maxime Masson was vicar of the parish of Saint-Justin (1894–1899), at Saint-Léon (1902), at Saint-Timothée of Hérouxville (1902–1903), before being assigned as pastor to Sainte-Thècle, on February 6, 1903.