The party's platform included support for "non-discrimination, active non-violence, co-operativism, the principle of options and non-monopoly and the human being as a central value.
[3] Renaud, running as the party's standard-bearer, received 485 votes (3.18%) for a fourth-place finish.
[1] The HP wanted to run candidates in the 1986 elections for Mayor of Montreal, but was refused on the grounds they were a provincial party.
[6] There was an attempt to re-establish the Humanist Party in Montreal in 1997 in order to field candidates at the federal level for the 1997 Canadian election.
[7] (Farrell later ran as an independent in the 1998 Quebec provincial election, possibly as an unofficial Humanist Party candidate.)