‘I did what I was supposed to do here’: ex-NDP MP Boulerice leaving Ottawa to ‘fight the right’ in Quebec City

After 15 years as an NDP MP and just a few months as an Independent, Boulerice—the last pillar of late NDP leader Jack Layton’s 2011 monumental 'Orange Wave'—is leaving Ottawa.
Former NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice, pictured in his office in Wellington Building, sat down with The Hill Times to talk about his career on the Hill, as he leaves Ottawa for a provincial run with Québec Solidaire.

Alexandre Boulerice—once the lone “Orange Wave” MP left standing—sits in his barren office in Ottawa’s Wellington Building after leaving his federal NDP family of 15 years to set his sights on a different legislature: Quebec's National Assembly.

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