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New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair plans on leaving politics before the next federal election.

In an interview with La Presse, the Member of Parliament for Outremont said he has no intention to run for office again.

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Though his party lost the status of official Opposition after last year’s federal election, Mulcair says the NDP helped take the Conservative Party of Canada out of power.

NDP delegates voted to replace Mulcair as party leader at their national convention in Edmonton last month.