Its platform included the following proposals:[3] Its ideology was influenced by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church promoted by the priest Lionel Groulx, and the economical ideas of Esdras Minville.
While Gouin cuts ties with Duplessis, 22 of his Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) joined the new party, known as Union Nationale, which won the 1936 Quebec election.
ALN MNAs Vital Cliche, Wilfrid-Eldège Lauriault and Frederick Arthur Monk ran for re-election as Independents.
Cliche ran as an Action libérale nationale candidate in a by-election held on March 17, 1937, in his home district of Beauce.
Instead René Chaloult and Oscar Drouin, who had grown disillusioned with Duplessis after they joined the Union Nationale, ran as Liberal candidates.