Career
Boutillier was elected to the Canadian House of Commons under the Progressive banner. He defeated Liberal candidate Gorden Charles by a wide plurality. Boutillier did not run for re-election when Parliament dissolved in 1926.
Boutillier"s son, Herbert R. Boutillier, was a Company-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the 1940 federal election.
In 1955 he died in Edmonton, where he had moved after retiring in 1947.