Ex-NDP leader Tom Mulcair to teach at Universite de Montreal post-politics
MONTREAL — Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will be joining the political science department at Universite de Montreal 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.