Cullen joins a growing list of NDP MPs who have announced they are not going to be running again in October’s federal election
Nathan Cullen, the long-serving NDP Member of Parliament for Skeena-Bulkley Valley, announced Friday that he will not be seeking re-election.
Cullen, who was first elected in 2004, currently serves as the NDP’s democratic reform and ethics critic. He joins a growing list of NDP MPs who have announced they are not going to be running again in October’s federal election. The list includes Victoria MP Murray Rankin, Port Moody-Coquitlam MP Fin Donnelly, Alberta MP Linda Duncan, Ontario MPs Irene Mathyssen and David Christopherson, Quebec’s Helene Laverdiere, Romeo Saganash, Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet and Anne Minh-Thu Quach.
Former MPs Kennedy Stewart and Sheila Malcolmson also left their jobs. Stewart is now Vancouver’s mayor and Malcolmson is MLA for Nanaimo.Former Quebec MP and leader Tom Mulcair also quit politics to work as a visiting professor at Universite de Montreal.
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