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Canada (French:
Parti Crédit
social du Canada),
colloquially known as the
Socreds, was a
populist political party in
Canada that
promoted social credit theories...
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Social credit is a
distributive philosophy of
political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by C. H. Douglas.
Douglas attributed economic downturns...
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federal Socreds,
their relationship was
tenuous at best. Finally, in 1971, the BC
Socreds formally severed their ties to the
federal Socreds in order...
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Socreds had
expected to win the election.[citation needed] Indeed, they hadn't even
named a
leader during the campaign.[citation needed] The
Socreds now...
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federal election, this
election marked an
important breakthrough for the
Socreds, who were able to
capitalise on the newly-formed
Social Credit provincial...
- NDP
member and a
Socred (Kim Campbell,
later a
Canadian prime minister), were elected. All
other districts elected either two
Socreds (12 districts) or...
- in the 1958 election.
While leader Robert N.
Thompson and
three other Socreds were
elected in the party's
traditional base in
western Canada, the party's...
- each
province has a "right to
choose its own
destiny within Canada." The
Socreds'
support from the
Parti Québécois was not
welcome by everyone; for instance...
-
Legislative ****embly of
Alberta as a
Social Credit MLA from Calgary. The
Socreds won an
unexpected landslide victory in that
election by
winning 56 of the...
- seat himself. The
Socreds persuaded Tom Uphill, a
Labour member of the
Legislature (MLA), to
support the party, and so the
Socreds were able to form a...
