With Boulerice eyeing Quebec politics, NDP’s Orange Wave becomes drought

National Post: His departure would be a big blow to the federal NDP as Boulerice is the party’s sole MP in Quebec, where the party elected more than 50 MPs during the Orange Wave under leader Jack Layton.

But over his 15 years with the NDP, Boulerice has watched the party’s numbers in the House of Commons dwindle from more than 100 to only seven since last spring.

Quebec Solidaire is in a similar position, seeing its support fall to just seven per cent in a recent Leger survey with Quebecers ready to head to provincial polls this fall…