It promoted social credit theories of monetary reform, and acted as an outlet for the expression of rural discontent.

It was a successor to an earlier social credit party in Quebec, the Union des électeurs which ran candidates in the 1940s.

At its 1963 annual convention in Hull, the Ralliement des créditistes, the Quebec wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada, split from the national organization.

In the April 29, 1970 elections, the créditistes benefited from the decline of the conservative Union Nationale party and made a modest breakthrough, winning 12 seats in the National Assembly and 11.2% of the vote.

On February 4, 1973, Yvon Dupuis was elected leader of the Ralliement créditiste du Québec over Samson.

Dupuis failed to win a by-election to enter the National Assembly, and was pressured to quit the leadership of the party.

Samson's strong oratorical ability and sense of humour pleased the crowds who attended his rallies, and the party spent $150,000 on 15-minute television advertisements that aired almost every day",[7] but his inability to get along with his colleagues had decimated Creditiste ranks over the years, and left the party largely composed of his own supporters who had followed him “through thick and thin”.

The Ralliement créditiste du Québec was dissolved as Camil Samson founded a new party, Les Démocrates, on November 12, 1978.

[10] Samson’s partner in establishing the new party was Pierre Sévigny, a federal cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative government of John Diefenbaker.

Sévigny had resigned from the federal cabinet in disgrace because of his relationship with Gerda Munsinger, who was later revealed to be a spy for East Germany.