Alexandre Boulerice
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Alexandre Boulerice MP |
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| Shadow Minister for Labour | |
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In office April 19, 2012 – November 19, 2015 |
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| Leader | Thomas Mulcair |
| Preceded by | Yvon Godin |
| Succeeded by | Gerard Deltell |
| Shadow Minister for the Treasury Board | |
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In office May 26, 2011 – April 18, 2012 |
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| Leader |
Jack Layton Nycole Turmel |
| Preceded by | Siobhan Coady |
| Succeeded by | Mathieu Ravignat |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie |
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Assumed office May 30, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Bernard Bigras |
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June 18, 1973 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Djevahirdjian |
| Profession | Communications adviser, community activist, journalist |
| Website | www.boulerice.org |
Alexandre Boulerice (born June 18, 1973 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie as a member of the New Democratic Party. He is currently the NDP's Quebec lieutenant and Ethics critic.
Alexandre Boulerice was born June 18, 1973 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 cégep years, he studied sociology at the Université de Montréal, and then studied political science at McGill University.
Subsequently, he worked as a TV journalist (LCN, TVA), while being involved in his local union as vice-president of CUPE 687. 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 the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
Alexandre Boulerice has been active in the New Democratic Party since the late 1990s. He first ran in the 2008 federal election and finished a distant third with 16.26 percent of the vote, well behind Bloc Québécois incumbent Bernard Bigras.
In the May 2, 2011 federal election, the NDP received 30.6% of the votes, which translated into 103 seats in the House of Commons, of which more than half were from Quebec. This result allowed the NDP to form the Official Opposition in the House of Commons for the first time in history. This electoral breakthrough is now known as "la vague orange" (). One of those seats belonged to Boulerice, who won a decisive victory with 50.8% of the vote, finishing 9,700 votes ahead of Bigras. The NDP had never finished higher than third in the riding or its predecessors before.
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