Action liberale nationale

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Action liberale nationale
founding 1934
resolution 1939
Alignment Progressivism
Political Catholicism
Corporatism
Quebec Nationalism

The Action libérale nationale ( ALN ) was a short-lived political party in the Canadian province of Québec that existed from 1934 to 1939. It was founded by dissidents of the Parti libéral du Québec and became part of the Union nationale .

history

Various members of the Parti libéral du Québec , who no longer agreed with Prime Minister Louis-Alexandre Taschereau's policies in view of the effects of the global economic crisis , founded the Action libérale nationale in June 1934. They elected Paul Gouin , the son of former Prime Minister Lomer Gouin, as their chairman . The ALN called for social, economic and political reforms. She campaigned for corporatism , the nationalization of the electricity industry , the break-up of monopolies to promote small and medium-sized enterprises, the electrification of rural regions and the strengthening of agriculture. The ALN was influenced by the nationalist and conservative ideas of Lionel Groulx , as well as by Christian social teaching .

With regard to the elections for the National Assembly of Québec on November 25, 1935, the ALN entered into an alliance with the Parti conservateur du Québec . Both parties made an agreement not to compete against each other in the individual constituencies. This tactic is not quite enough to oust the Parti libéral from power: the ALN won 25 seats and the Parti conservateur 17, while the Liberals still had the majority with 47 seats. Maurice Duplessis , the party leader of the Conservatives, urged Gouin to unite the two parties the following year. While Gouin turned away from Duplessis, 22 ALN MPs defected to the newly established Union nationale . For the elections of August 17, 1936, Gouin did not stand again, the three remaining ALN MPs ran unsuccessfully as independents.

Some of the ALN MPs who defected to the Union fell out with Duplessis because he consistently refused to nationalize the electricity industry (which was one of their main demands). Gouin tried to revive the party. But in the elections on October 25, 1939, it only got 4.5% of the vote and not a single candidate was elected, whereupon the ALN finally disbanded.

Election results

Results of the National Assembly elections:

choice seats
total 		candidates
data 		Weighted
seats 		proportion of
1935 89 57 25th 29.57%
1936 no candidacy
1939 86 56 0 4.53%

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Élections générales. Le directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed on April 14, 2014 (French).