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Thomas Joseph "Tom" Mulcair (born October 24, 1954) is a Canadian politician and the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. A Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Outremont in Quebec since 2007, he was selected as the leader of the NDP at a leadership election on March 24, 2012, on the fourth ballot. He then served as Leader of the Official Opposition until the NDP lost just over half of its seats in the 2015 federal election and resumed third-place status. A lawyer by profession, Mulcair joined the federal NDP in 1974.〔"NDP Leadership: Thomas Mulcair draws on experience as Quebec environment minister" by Joanna Smith, ''Toronto Star'', March 16, 2012. http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2012/03/16/ndp_leadership_thomas_mulcair_draws_on_experience_as_quebec_environment_minister.html〕 He was the provincial Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Chomedey in Laval from 1994 to 2007, holding the seat for the Liberal Party of Quebec. He served as the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks from 2003 until 2006, in the Liberal government of Premier Jean Charest. Elected MP for Outremont in a by-election in 2007, he was named co-Deputy Leader of the NDP shortly afterwards, and has won re-election to his seat, three times. On May 26, 2011, he was named the New Democratic Party's Opposition House Leader and also served as the NDP's Quebec lieutenant, a post he held until named party leader. Prior to entering politics, Mulcair was a senior civil servant in the Quebec provincial government, ran a private law practice, and taught law at university level.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=NDP Official Website )〕 ==Early life, family, and education== Mulcair was born in 1954 at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. He is the son of Jeanne (née Hurtubise), a school teacher, and Harry Donnelly Mulcair, who worked in insurance.〔http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/10/thomas-mulcair-family-personal-life_n_3054311.html〕 He is the second-oldest of the couple's ten children, and grew up bilingual. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of French-Canadian, and more distant Irish, ancestry.〔https://books.google.ca/books?id=_fN1CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&dq=%22the+first+to+take+office+after+Confederation:+Pierre-Joseph-Olivier+Chauveau%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAGoVChMIj6rW9cylxwIVg_MeCh1W-QJw〕 His maternal great-great-grandfather was the 9th Premier of Quebec, Honoré Mercier, and through his mother, Mulcair is also a three times great-grandson of the 1st post-Confederation Quebec premier, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau.〔 Mulcair was raised in the Wrightville district of Hull (now Gatineau) and in Laval, just north of Montreal. He graduated from Laval Catholic High School, and in Social Sciences from CEGEP Vanier College. When Mulcair started law school at 18, he had to borrow money from his sister to buy textbooks. He paid his way through school by working construction jobs, tarring and graveling roofs.〔http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/review-mulcairs-strength-of-conviction-tells-story-of-a-man-who-could-make-history/article25798622/)〕 Mulcair graduated from McGill University in 1977 with degrees in common law and civil law. During his penultimate year, he was elected president of the McGill Law Students Association, and sat on the council of the McGill Student Union. He has been married to Catherine Pinhas since 1976; she is a psychologist who was born in France to a Sephardic Jewish family from Turkey. The couple have two sons; the oldest, Matt, is a sergeant in the Quebec provincial police and married to Jasmyne Côté, an elementary school teacher, and have two children, Juliette and Raphaël. Their second son, Greg, is an aerospace engineer who teaches physics and engineering technologies full time at John Abbott College on the Island of Montreal.〔http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2012/04/09/thomas_mulcairs_wife_catherine_a_psychologist_and_political_confidante.html〕〔http://www.ndp.ca/tom〕 Mulcair has dual Canadian and French citizenship, and is fluently bilingual in English and French. Mulcair may have acquired the latter through his marriage to his French-born wife, as French nationality law allows the spouse of a French citizen to apply for French citizenship after being married for five years, providing the applicant has sufficient knowledge of French.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nationalité )〕 He calls himself "Tom" in English and "Thomas" in French. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Mulcair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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