Ex NDP leader Tom Mulcair to teach at Université de Montréal

Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will be joining the political science department at Université de Montréal later this year.

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The university said in a statement Friday that he 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.

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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.

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Mulcair, a former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, won the Montreal riding in a 2007 byelection and has held the once-Liberal stronghold since.

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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.

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Six months after the party finished a distant third in the 2015 federal election, Mulcair became the first federal leader to be rejected by his own party members in a leadership review.

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Jagmeet Singh took over as NDP leader this fall.