Rémi Paul

Rémi Paul, a Progressive Conservative MP from Quebec, left the PC caucus around 1965 as part of the broader Quebec Conservative revolt against John Diefenbaker's leadership. Like Léon Balcer, Paul felt the Conservative Party under Diefenbaker was insufficiently attentive to Quebec's unique concerns, particularly as the Quiet Revolution was transforming the province's political culture. The departure of multiple Quebec PCs in this period weakened the party's already tenuous presence in French Canada.

Paul sat as an Independent and eventually moved to provincial politics, serving as a Union Nationale MNA in the Quebec National Assembly. His trajectory illustrated the desperate search by Quebec conservative nationalists for a political home during the turbulent 1960s.