Alexandre Boulerice

Alexandre Boulerice MP
Boulerice in September 2016
Deputy Leader of the New Democratic Party
In office March 11, 2019 – April 27, 2026 Serving with Sheri Benson (2019)
Leader	Jagmeet Singh Don Davies (interim) Avi Lewis
Preceded by	David Christopherson
Succeeded by	TBA
Other leadership positions House Leader of the New Democratic Party In office May 28, 2025 – April 10, 2026 Leader Don Davies (interim) Avi Lewis Preceded by Peter Julian Succeeded by Heather McPherson Quebec lieutenant of the New Democratic Party In office April 19, 2012 – April 27, 2026 Leader Tom Mulcair Jagmeet Singh Don Davies (interim) Avi Lewis Preceded by Tom Mulcair
Member of Parliament for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2, 2011
Preceded by	Bernard Bigras
Shadow Minister for Labour
In office April 19, 2012 – November 19, 2015
Leader	Tom Mulcair
Preceded by	Yvon Godin
Succeeded by	Gerard Deltell
Shadow Minister for the Treasury Board
In office May 26, 2011 – April 18, 2012
Leader	Jack Layton Nycole Turmel
Preceded by	Siobhan Coady
Succeeded by	Mathieu Ravignat
Personal details
Born	(1973-06-18) June 18, 1973 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
Party	Québec solidaire (provincial) Independent (since 2026, federal)
Other political affiliations	New Democratic (until 2026, federal) Union des forces progressistes (until 2006, provincial)
Spouse	Lisa Djevahirdjian
Children	4
Alma mater	Université de Montréal McGill University
Profession	Communications adviser community activist journalist
Website	www.boulerice.org

Alexandre Boulerice MP (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ(ə) bulʁis]; born June 18, 1973) is a Canadian politician who has represented the riding of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie in the House of Commons of Canada since 2011. Elected in as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the 2011 election, he became an Independent in April 2026 after announcing his candidacy with Québec solidaire (QS) in the upcoming 2026 Quebec general election.^[1]

Boulerice was the NDP's deputy leader from 2019 to 2026 and formerly served as its Quebec lieutenant. On April 27, 2026, he confirmed that he will be resigning from Parliament later in the year to run for the National Assembly of Quebec in the electoral district of Gouin and will sit as an Independent MP for the remainder of his time in the House of Commons.

Alexandre Boulerice was born June 18, 1973,^[2] in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. He started working at age 15 as a lifeguard for the municipality and then went on to become pool manager. After his CEGEP years, he studied sociology at the Université de Montréal and completed graduate coursework in political science at McGill University, though he did not earn a master's degree.

Subsequently, he worked as a TV journalist (LCN, TVA), while being involved in his local union as vice-president of local 687 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). He has also worked for a community group, l'Union des travailleurs et travailleuses accidentés de Montréal (UTTAM). He then became a communications consultant for CUPE.^[3]

Boulerice had been active in the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) since the late 1990s. He first ran in the 2008 federal election and finished in third with 16.26 percent of the vote, well behind Bloc Québécois incumbent Bernard Bigras. He then became the vice president of communications for the Quebec section of the NDP, under the presidency of Françoise Boivin.

In the 2011 federal election, the NDP received 30.6 percent of the vote nationally, which translated into 103 seats in the House of Commons, of which more than half (fifty-nine) were from Quebec. This result allowed the NDP to form the Official Opposition in the House of Commons for the first time in Canadian history. This electoral breakthrough is now known as "la vague orange" (Orange Wave). One of those seats belonged to Boulerice, who won a decisive victory with 50.8 percent of the vote, finishing 9,700 votes ahead of Bigras.^[4] The NDP had never finished higher than third in the riding or its predecessors before.

On May 26, 2011, NDP leader Jack Layton appointed Boulerice to the Shadow Cabinet as opposition critic for the Treasury Board of Canada. In April 2012, new leader Tom Mulcair reassigned him to be Labour critic, and then as deputy Ethics and Access to Information critic.^[5]

In the 2012 leadership election, he supported Brian Topp.^[6]

After the 2015 election, in which the NDP fell back to third place in the federal seat count and the Liberal Party won a majority government, Mulcair appointed Boulerice to be the NDP's Quebec lieutenant, as well as its critic for Ethics and deputy critic for Democratic Reform in the 42nd Canadian Parliament.^[7] He also served as one of two New Democrats on the Special Committee on Electoral Reform.

Following the 2016 federal NDP convention's non-confidence vote in Tom Mulcair's leadership, various media outlets mentioned Boulerice as a potential candidate in the leadership election, including The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and columnists such as Lysiane Gagon. CBC TV quoted him a few days after the convention as saying it was "too early" to decide whether to run. He eventually supported Peter Julian's candidacy^[8] and did not back any of the remaining candidates (Charlie Angus, Niki Ashton, Guy Caron, or eventual victor Jagmeet Singh) after Julian withdrew^[9] from the race.

In early 2017, Boulerice was named finance critic for the NDP. He was re-elected in the 2019, 2021, and 2025 federal elections. From 2019 until 2026, Boulerice was the only NDP MP from Quebec, and from 2025, was the only NDP MP from east of Winnipeg.

In fall 2011, Boulerice tabled Bill C-307, a private member's bill "For the reassignment of pregnant and lactating women",^[10] to protect the rights of pregnant and lactating women who must leave their jobs to protect their health or the health of their child. This bill was intended to allow all workers to receive a reassignment under the provisions in force in their respective provinces. Quebec workers covered by the Labour Code of Quebec can receive benefits from the Workplace Health and Safety (OSH) in the program, "For safe motherhood." This bill was intended to allow workers covered by the Labour Code of Canada receive the same benefits and not be penalized during their pregnancy.

This bill was rejected with 169 votes against and 108 votes in favour in May 2012.

In December 2013, Canada Post's board of directors announced that it would be gradually putting an end to door-to-door mail delivery, leading to the elimination of 6,000 to 8,000 jobs.^[11] Boulerice was one of the first to oppose the cuts by promptly launching a petition^[12] to inform citizens of the consequences of such a decision. Bolstered by broad public mobilization and mounting political reactions, he collaborated with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to tour Quebec in order to explain the changes and to garner support against the decision.^[13] He ended his campaign by submitting a brief before the Commission sur le développement social et la diversité of the City of Montreal, which studied the impacts of ending door-to-door mail delivery on the installation of community mailboxes in densely populated areas, and on the quality of life of seniors and disabled people.

On April 10, 2007, Boulerice wrote on a Quebec left-wing politics blog, Presse-Toi A Gauche,^[14] praising those who objected to and actively resisted Canada's participation in the First World War, which he described as "a purely capitalist war on the backs of the workers and peasants". Boulerice further criticised the celebration of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, led by the Conservative government under then Prime Minister Stephen Harper, saying that "thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill."^[15]

In the 2003 Quebec general election, Boulerice ran as a Union des forces progressistes candidate in Saint-Jean, receiving 1.48% of the vote.^[16]

In February 2026, it was reported that Boulerice was seeking to be the Québec solidaire candidate in Gouin, which largely overlaps Boulerice's federal riding, in the fall 2026 Quebec provincial election.^[17] He had previously mulled a run for the leadership of Projet Montréal ahead of the 2025 Montreal municipal election.^[18]

However, the party's rules stipulate that the candidate in that constituency must be a woman or non-binary, automatically disqualifying Boulerice. The QS executive proposed an amendment to create an exception to the rule for the constituency of Gouin.^[19][20] An exception to the party's rules, to allow Boulerice to run in Gouin, was approved on February 21, 2026 with 74 per cent of delegates voting in favour.^[21] On April 27, 2026, Boulerice confirmed that he will be resigning his House of Commons set to run provincially for Québec solidaire. He will remain in parliament until the fall as an Independent MP.^[22][23][24]

• Official website
• Alexandre Boulerice – Parliament of Canada biography