Boulerice to move to Québec solidaire
Alexandre Boulerice, MP for the central Montreal riding of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, and sole remaining NDP MP in Quebec, has announced he’s switching to provincial politics and joining Québec solidaire. QS had to make an exception to their rule about only women or nonbinary persons being accepted as candidates in ridings they currently hold. He’ll be running in Gouin, which more or less overlaps his federal riding, currently held by Gabriel Nadeau‑Dubois, who announced last year that he wouldn’t be running again.
Chris 17:26 on 2026-04-24 Permalink
Thus confirming that stuff is but woke virtue signaling.
Kate 17:33 on 2026-04-24 Permalink
What does that even mean, Chris?
bob 18:52 on 2026-04-24 Permalink
If the NDP does not retain the seat there will be no NDP MP east of Winnipeg.
Ian 18:53 on 2026-04-24 Permalink
I’d ask about all the Montreal conservative ridings but there are none.
bob 19:02 on 2026-04-24 Permalink
@Kate Equity rules have been dispensed with simply because they have a star candidate. There has been much discussion about this within QS and QS-adjacent circles.
Nicholas 19:06 on 2026-04-24 Permalink
Also the sole remaining NDP MP east of Manitoba, which will be the second time this has happened since the NDP’s founding, after 1993-1997.
What Chris means is that the party has firmly held principles that they stand by until it’s inconvenient.
Ian 19:44 on 2026-04-24 Permalink
Is it? He says “woke” a lot when talking about anything left of Nixon.
Kate 16:38 on 2026-04-25 Permalink
If someone claimed they were nonbinary, would there be any way of proving them wrong?
Chris 16:43 on 2026-04-25 Permalink
Nicholas, yes that’s what I meant.
Kate, what was unclear? The “that stuff” I was referring to?
Ian, I don’t decide what words mean. Many don’t like this neologism, but my usage fits with Merriam-Webster’s 1st definition: “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues; often used in contexts that suggest someone’s expressed beliefs about such matters are not backed with genuine concern or action”. We may not like it, but that’s what this word now means.
I used to vote NDP, I liked them back when they cared about class issues, instead of equity cards and the like. From the look of their seat count, I’m not alone. It’ll be interesting to see how few seats the NDP is down to by 2029.
Chris 16:47 on 2026-04-25 Permalink
Heck, if someone claimed they were a ‘woman’, would there be any way of proving them wrong? It’s not a new argument against these kinds of quotas.
Tim S. 18:33 on 2026-04-25 Permalink
Chris: you may then be interested in Avi Lewis’s press conference last week, when he flat-out refused to discuss intersectionality and insisted on focusing on algorithmic pricing, certainly a class issue for 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9YvySLuTm4
Kate 21:13 on 2026-04-25 Permalink
Chris, at the risk of opening this two-litre can of worms I’ve got here, you can test someone for whether they’re a man or a woman. You can’t test them for an attitudinal stance.
Harvey 00:43 on 2026-04-26 Permalink
Umm… forget the politics. GNP has his ass covered. Their offices were on the same floor of the same building. Obviously Soulerice’s retirement planning was not completely well thought out.
Conservative, Liberal, NDP, CAQ, BQ, PQ, Green (it would be nice if someone came up with an LGBTQ similar acronym to be inclusive of all the political parties here.)
Back to the point; they are people, they have children, they want their children to be left in a better situation then they were.
Being a politician is no longer a calling to make your territory better. It is only a way to make you and your family richer.
In the 60s, it was engineering, banking, or becoming doctor. In the 70s it was IT.
Ian 20:06 on 2026-04-26 Permalink
@Chris I get it, Alexa McDonough’s NDP pissed me off, too. But now that we are here so many decades later, I am curious – if not the NDP, what party do you think represents the interests of class equality, especially as the Overton window has shifted so far right and neoliberal?
Ian 20:09 on 2026-04-26 Permalink
@Harvey in the 70s it was still doctor/ lawyer. IT/ CS didn’t become a GOOD job until the 80s.
But let’s be real, if you just want to make money, becoming a plumber or electrician is your best bet nowadays. You never hear the Minister of Health complaining how lazy plumbers are.
Becoming a politician, well, if you;’re successful that’s still a pretty cushy job for all their complaining. The benefits package, salary, and pensions are unequalled in the civil service.