He agreed to run as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Mountain after meeting with Dufferin Roblin, who had been chosen as the party's leader the previous year.
Roblin has said of their first meeting that Boulic struck him as "a man in his forties, open-faced, well set-up, of diffident manner, but clearly a leader", adding "[h]is politics were in doubt but I got know him just the same.
Several prominent Liberal-Progressives campaigned on Clark's behalf, and senior party members were reported as being concerned with the close result.
[4] Newspaper reports indicate that Clark's support came largely from Mountain's Anglo-Saxon majority and significant Flemish community, while Boulic did well among French Canadians, who made up about one third of the electorate.
The Progressive Conservatives under Roblin won a minority government in this election, and Boulic was appointed as Provincial Secretary on June 30, 1958.