Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will resign the House of Commons seat he has held for roughly 10 years next June, the Quebec MP tells CBC's French-language service, Radio-Canada, paving the way for a byelection. Mulcair, first elected as a federal MP in a byelection in 2007, took the reins of the party in 2012, not long after the death of Jack Layton. "Being elected four times for the NDP in Quebec — it's still a feat if we look at the history of our party in Quebec. Another Quebec MP, and a former opponent of Singh's in the leadership race, Guy Caron, is serving as the party's parliamentary leader in the interim. A veteran member of the NDP parliamentary caucus, Charlie Angus, offered his best wishes Monday:

Source: CBC News December 18, 2017 22:58 UTC