The Social Credit Party of Canada fielded 230 candidates in the 1962 Canadian federal election, and unexpectedly won 30 seats to become the third-largest party in the House of Commons of Canada.
Most of the party's success came in the province of Quebec, where Real Caouette led a populist campaign under the Social Credit banner.
Roger H. Poiron was a farmer,[1] and had previously been an "Independent Social Credit" candidate in a 1955 provincial by-election.
Social Credit had not planned to field a candidate on that occasion, but Poiron entered the race without consulting the party; although not technically an official candidate, he nonetheless received support from its organization.
In 1993, he expressed skepticism about provincial Agriculture Minister Harry Enns's declaration that Manitoba farm incomes would reach an all-time high that year.