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Sep 27, 1955 68 years old
Canadian psychologist
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- Thomas Joseph Mulcair (born October 24, 1954) is a retired Canadian politician from Quebec who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 2012 to 2017.
- A Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Outremont in Quebec from 2007 to 2018, he was selected as the leader of the NDP at a leadership election on March 24, 2012, on the fourth ballot.
- He then served as Leader of the Official Opposition until the NDP lost just over half of its seats in the 2015 federal election and resumed third-place status.
- During a leadership review vote, held at the 2016 federal NDP convention, 52% of the delegates voted to hold a leadership election.
- Mulcair stated he would remain leader until the party chooses a replacement.
- Convention delegates, in an emergency motion, voted to give the party up to two years to choose a new head.
- Mulcair later announced in May 2016 that he would retire from politics, and would not contest his riding in the next federal election.
- He resigned his seat on August 3, 2018 in order to accept a position in the political science department of the University of Montreal.
- He has also been hired as an on-air political analyst for CJAD, CTV News Channel, and TVA.A lawyer by profession, Mulcair joined the federal NDP in 1974.
- He was the provincial Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Chomedey in Laval from 1994 to 2007, holding the seat for the Liberal Party of Quebec.
- He served as the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks from 2003 until 2006, in the Liberal government of Premier Jean Charest.
- Elected MP for Outremont in a by-election in 2007, he was named co-Deputy Leader of the NDP shortly afterwards, and won re-election to his seat three times. On May 26, 2011, he was named the New Democratic Party's Opposition House Leader and also served as the NDP's Quebec lieutenant, a post he held until being named party leader.
- Prior to entering politics, Mulcair was a senior civil servant in the Quebec provincial government, ran a private law practice, and taught law at the university level.
