Parent and several other Quebec Liberal MPs had broken with their party as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1944, quitting the Liberal caucus in order to oppose the government's decision to deploy National Resources Mobilization Act conscripts overseas.
[2] He ran and was re-elected as an "Independent Liberal" in the 1945 federal election.
When the Quebec West and South riding was dissolved, Parent became the candidate at the expanded Quebec West riding which he won as an official Liberal candidate in the 1949 election.
Parent lost to J.-Wilfrid Dufresne of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1953 election.
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