Parent was a Canadian politician who was Liberal-Labour MPP for Essex North from 1945 to 1948.
[1] Parent was president of United Auto Workers Local 195 in Windsor, Ontario in the 1940s,[2] and a supporter of the Communist Party of Canada, which at the time was known as the Labor-Progressive Party.
All three were jointly nominated by the Communist Labor-Progressive Party and the Ontario Liberal Party and ran as Liberal-Labour candidates[4] and targeted ridings held by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
[5][3] Parent was elected, and initially caucused with the Liberal Party but quit the Liberal caucus in January 1946, denouncing the Liberals as "reactionary", in order to sit as a "straight Labor representative", caucusing with Labor-Progressive MPPs J.B. Salsberg and A.
[8] Parent did not run in the 1948 Ontario general election, and his riding was re-taken by the CCF.