Final NDP Quebec orange wave MP plans to announce his political future on Monday

NDP MP for Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie Alexandre Boulerice rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Friday, April 17, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Alexandre Boulerice, the MP for Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, plans to unveil his plans regarding his political future on Monday.

In the very brief invitation sent to the media on Sunday morning, the only remaining MP from the “orange wave” that swept through Quebec in the 2011 federal election made no mention of either the New Democratic Party or Quebec Solidaire.

According to an internal source at QS, Boulerice is set to make the leap into Quebec politics under the QS banner in the Gouin riding.

The NDP is, thus, losing its only MP in Quebec. It will now have just five MPs in the House of Commons, all from western Ontario.

Boulerice is reportedly seeking to succeed the current QS Gouin MNA, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, who has announced his retirement from politics at the end of his term.

On March 28, on the eve of the election of the new NDP leader Avi Lewis, Boulerice, who was attending the NDP convention, stated that his move to QS was “an option that was taken very, very seriously.”

Lewis, for his part, said he urged Boulerice to remain within the New Democratic Party.

Boulerice had expressed numerous concerns about the NDP in recent weeks.

In particular, he had suggested that he was disappointed with the place of French in the leadership race.

Boulerice was the last survivor in Quebec of Jack Layton’s orange wave in 2011, which propelled the NDP to the status of official opposition in the House of Commons with 103 MPs, including 59 in Quebec out of the 75 seats in the province.

With information from Patrice Bergeron.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on April 26, 2026.