Adrien Denys Pouliot was raised in Sainte-Foy (Québec), where his family moved when he was 3 months old.

[citation needed] He was also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Montreal.

[8] He was President of the Ligue des contribuables, an organization founded in 2006 that is designed to inform taxpayers about how their tax dollars are spent by governments.

[11] Disappointed with the merger, Adrien Pouliot did not join the Coalition Avenir Québec and declared himself publicly as "political orphan".

[12] Following the Quebec general election of 2012, where the party obtained 0.18% of the votes cast, Luc Harvey resigned as leader[13] and a leadership race was organized.