Charles Eugène Parent (18 November 1894 – 12 June 1961) was a

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and

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member of the

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. He was born in

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and became a lawyer by career. He was first elected to Parliament at the

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riding in the 1935 general election then re-elected there in

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. From 23 November 1944 until the 1949 election, Parent was not a member of the Liberal party but instead sat as an Independent Liberal. Parent and several other Quebec Liberal MPs had broken with their party as a result of the

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, quitting the Liberal caucus in order to oppose the government's decision to deploy

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conscripts overseas. Previously, conscripts had only been used for "home defence" and kept within Canada."Quebec rebuks Houde and Bracken's hidden men", ''Toronto Daily Star'', 12 June 1945 He ran and was re-elected as an "Independent Liberal" in the 1945 federal election. When the Quebec West and South riding was dissolved, Parent became the candidate at the expanded

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riding which he won as an official Liberal candidate in the 1949 election. Parent lost to J.-Wilfrid Dufresne of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1953 election. His father, Simon-Napoléon Parent, was a

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and a mayor of

. Charles Parent's brother,

Georges Parent Georges Parent (15 December 1879 – 14 December 1942) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and Speaker of the Senate of Canada from 1940 until 1942. Parent was born in Quebec City, the son of Simon-Napoléon Parent who served as Premier of ...

, was a Senator and also a member of the House of Commons.

Electoral record

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* 1894 births 1961 deaths Independent Liberal MPs in Canada Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Lawyers in Quebec Politicians from Quebec City 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Liberal-Quebec-MP-stub