MONTREAL—Former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair will be joining the political science department at Université de Montréal later this year. The university announced Friday the longtime federal and Quebec politician will be joining the department as a visiting professor starting this summer and will retire from politics at the end of the current parliamentary session. In December, the party confirmed that Mulcair was expected to resign as MP for Outremont in the new year and leave politics after the spring session. Mulcair, a former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, won the Montreal riding in a 2007 byelection and has held the once-Liberal stronghold ever since. He became NDP leader in 2012 following the sudden death of Jack Layton, who’d led the party to official Opposition status for the first time in its history.

Source: thestar February 02, 2018 23:15 UTC