{"id":495165,"date":"2026-02-24T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495165\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:34:08","slug":"ndps-lone-quebec-mp-says-hes-considering-jump-to-provincial-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495165\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP’s lone Quebec MP says he’s considering jump to provincial politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quebec NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice said Monday that he’s seriously considering running for Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire in this year’s provincial election.<\/p>\n

French-language media had first reported last week that Boulerice was looking into running for the progressive sovereignist party this fall.<\/p>\n

“Right now I have a mandate. I am a federal member of Parliament, I’m going to do my job. But everything is open. I am thinking about it,” Boulerice said when asked by reporters on Parliament Hill if he was considering a provincial bid.<\/p>\n

Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire was founded 20 years ago when several progressive provincial parties merged \u2014 some of them whose roots trace back to a disbanded Quebec wing of the NDP. <\/p>\n

If Boulerice makes the leap it would leave the NDP without a seat in Quebec.<\/p>\n

Last ripple of the ‘Orange Wave’?<\/p>\n

First elected in 2011, Boulerice is the last remaining MP from the “Orange Wave” that swept the province under former leader Jack Layton in that year’s federal election.<\/p>\n

B.C. NDP MP Gord Johns told reporters that Boulerice would be a big loss for the party if he decided to leave federal politics.<\/p>\n

“Alex has just been a tremendous MP. It would be a huge hit to our party,” Johns said.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Are NDP leadership hopefuls running to be PM?\"\"<\/p>\n

Are NDP leadership candidates running to rebuild their party, or to be prime minister?<\/p>\n

In the final NDP leadership debate on Thursday night, moderator Hannah Thibedeau pressed the candidates to state their primary goal for leadership: become Canada’s next prime minister or rebuild the New Democratic Party. All but one candidate said their objective is to rebuild. (Video credit: NDP)<\/p>\n

If Boulerice does try his hand at provincial politics, his resignation would likely leave an opening for the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois or Liberals to pick up the Montreal riding in a byelection. The Bloc held the riding prior to 2011 and the Liberals are currently polling well nationally.<\/p>\n

The NDP, on the other hand, hasn’t had a strong presence in Quebec in years.<\/p>\n

Boulerice is the NDP’s only representative east of Manitoba after the party’s dismal election result in April.<\/p>\n

The NDP only re-elected seven MPs and former leader Jagmeet Singh lost his seat. The party is currently running a leadership contest to replace Singh.<\/p>\n

The party held a debate in November that was billed as a French-language event. But much of the discussion was in English since most of the candidates are not fluently bilingual.<\/p>\n

Delegates from Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire voted Saturday in favour of an exception to their own rules to allow a man to run in the Montreal riding of Gouin. The party had previously set a rule that reserved ridings for women or non-binary candidates.<\/p>\n

Gouin, which overlaps Boulerice’s riding of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, is currently represented by Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire MNA Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois who is not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n

The party currently has 11 MNAs in the provincial legislature but some surveys predict that it will lose seats this fall.<\/p>\n

A L\u00e9ger poll conducted in October estimates that six per cent of voters will choose Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire, down from around 15 per cent in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-495165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}