Alexandre Boulerice, the Member of Parliament for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, plans to unveil his plans for his political future on Monday.
In the very brief invitation sent to the media on Sunday morning, the only remaining elected official from the “orange wave” that swept Quebec in the 2011 federal election makes no mention of either the New Democratic Party (NDP) or Québec solidaire (QS).
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According to an internal source at QS, Boulerice is expected to make the leap into Quebec politics under the banner of QS in the riding of Gouin.
The NDP is losing its only MP in Quebec. It will now have only five elected members in the House of Commons, all from western Ontario.
Boulerice is reportedly seeking to succeed the current QS MNA for Gouin, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, who announced his retirement from politics at the end of his term.
On March 28, on the eve of the election of the NDP’s new leader, Avi Lewis, Boulerice—who was present at the NDP convention—stated that his move to QS was “an option [he] was taking very, very seriously.”
Lewis, for his part, said he had urged Boulerice to remain within the NDP.
Boulerice had expressed numerous concerns about the NDP in recent weeks.
In particular, he had suggested that he was “disappointed” with the role of French in the leadership race.
Boulerice was the last remaining member in Quebec from Jack Layton’s “orange wave” in 2011, which propelled the NDP to the status of official opposition in the House of Commons with 103 members, including 59 in Quebec out of the province’s 75 seats.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
