Background
Alexandre Boulerice was born June 18, 1973 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
Alexandre Boulerice was born June 18, 1973 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
After his cégep years, he studied sociology at the Université de Montréal, and then studied political science at McGill University. 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.
He is current the NDP"s Quebec lieutenant and Ethics critic. He started working at age 15 as a lifeguard for the municipality and then went on to become pool manager. Subsequently, he worked as a television journalist (LCN, Tennessee Valley Authority), 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.
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" (Orange Crush).
The NDP had never finished higher than third in the riding or its predecessors before. On 26 May 2011, Boulerice was appointed as opposition critic for the Treasury Board of Canada. In April 2012, he was appointed as Labour critic.
On December 11, 2012, he became deputy spokesman of ethics.
This bill was intended to allow all workers to receive a reassignment under the provisions in force in their respective provinces. Quebec workers covered by the Labour Code of Quebec can receive benefits from the Workplace Health and Safety (OSH) in the program, "Foreign safe motherhood." This bill was intended to allow workers covered by the Labour Code of Canada receive the same benefits and not be penalized during their pregnancy.
This bill was rejected with 169 votes against and 108 votes. After the 2015 election, Boulerice was appointed the NDP"s Quebec lieutenant, as well as its critic for Ethics and deputy critic for Democratic Reform in the 42nd Canadian Parliament.
On April 10, 2007, Boulerice wrote on a Quebec left-wing politics blog, Presse-Toi A Gauche, praising those who objected to and actively resisted Canada"s participation in the First World War stating it was "a purely capitalist war on the backs of the workers and peasants".
Boulerice further criticised the Harper Conservative Government"s celebration of the Battle of Vimy Ridge saying that "thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.
He represents the electoral district of Rosemont—Louisiana Petite-Patrie as a member of the New Democratic Party.