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	British Columbia Social Credit Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Running under the name British Columbia Social Credit League, the party won the largest number of seats in the 1952 provincial election under the interim leadership of a Reverend Haskell, who was brought in from Alberta to lead the party.
		Although the party was ostensibly the British Columbia wing of the Canadian social credit movement, Bennett cast aside the party's social credit ideology in favour of a mixture of populism and conservatism.
		Social Credit was defeated in the 1991 election, and an NDP government was formed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_Social_Credit_Party (1198 words)

	BC Liberal Party
		From 1871 to 1903, British Columbia operated with a non partisan government with party politics only being introduced in 1903 with the formation of the British Columbia Conservative Party which ruled the province until the Liberals were able to win the election of 1916 and form a government under Harlan Carey Brewster.
		Supporters of the old Liberal and Conservative parties united under the umbrella of the British Columbia Social Credit Party and were able to keep the CCF/NDP out of power until the 1990s with the exception of a three year period from 1972 to 1975 when the NDP formed a government under Dave Barrett.
		The Social Credit party began to collapse in the late 1980s under the leadership of William Vander Zalm who took the party in a social conservative direction and was forced to resign due to a conflict of interest scandal.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/bc/bc_liberal_party.html (777 words)

	British Columbia Social Credit Party leadership conventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Columbia Social Credit Party, a conservative political party in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, did not hold any leadership conventions until 1973.
		The provincial Social Credit movement was divided in its early years, and did not have a functional leadership before forming a minority government in 1952.
		All of the party's leadership conventions before 1993 were delegated, i.e., local party riding associations selected delegates to attend a convention and elect a leader by secret ballot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_Social_Credit_Party_leadership_conventions (246 words)

	British Columbia Social Credit Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing party of British Columbia for more than 30 years between 1952 and 1991, although there was a break between 1972 and 1975 while the NDP was in power.
		Though ostensibly the British Columbia wing of the Canadian social credit movement, the party with former BC Conservative MLA W.
		Bennett at the helm shed its Social Credit ideology in favour of a mixture of populism and conservatism and became a political vehicle for opponents of the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to unite and keep the CCF and its successor, the New Democratic Party out of power.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/british_columbia_social_credit_party (776 words)

	British Columbia Social Credit Party - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing party of British Columbia for more then 30 years between 1952 and 1991, although there was a break between 1972 and 1975 while the NDP was in power.
		Note that the party did not follow the Social Credit ideology - it was largely conservative in nature.
		In the 1990s the party sank into obscurity, as most members joined the BC Reform Party or the BC Unity Party.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/BC_Social_Credit_Party (119 words)

	The Social Credit Party In British Columbia, 1950-2000.
		The actual theories of Social Credit were ignored during the campaign and from then on became irrelevant to the party itself, which preached itself as a free-enterprise alternative to socialism and the CCF.
		Social Credit was reduced to seven as the NDP took office with fifty-one ad the resurgent Liberals became the official opposition with seventeen.
		In January the party was formally dissolved; its members having merged with the remnants of BC Reform, the Conservatives and the Family Coalition Party to form a small right-wing alternative to the centre-right Liberals (who are poised to form the next government) called the Unity Party.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/hinterland/wkquiz.html (3236 words)

	Social Credit
		If banks were put under social control, this under-consumption could be remedied by distributing a "cultural dividend" to all citizens, also known as a social credit, thus giving the ordinary citizen greater usable income.
		Aberhart's party swept the UFA party from provincial office in the summer of 1935, and took all Alberta seats in the fall 1935 federal election.
		The Social Credit party was decisively rejected in the 1971 Alberta election, in favour of Peter Lougheed's Conservatives.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/roots/social_credit.html (496 words)

	MSN Encarta - Kim Campbell
		With the help of Mulroney supporters and the general sense that the time was ripe for a woman to lead the party, Campbell was narrowly elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and became prime minister of Canada in June 1993.
		The Progressive Conservative Party was reduced from 155 to only 2 seats in the House of Commons, and Campbell lost her seat to a relatively unknown challenger.
		Campbell resigned as party leader shortly after her election defeat and went on to a career as a lecturer in Canadian politics, international affairs, and women’s issues.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573910/Kim_Campbell.html (658 words)

	How Preston Manning Missed the Wave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Second, Canadian political history has shown repeatedly that a protest party that does not win power somewhere fairly soon after it bursts onto the scene will not be around very long to "wait for the wave." It will soon begin to atrophy as its leaders and its supporters in the electorate get discouraged.
		Third parties have formed governments in every Canadian province west of New Brunswick, giving supporters of those parties a very tangible sign that a vote for that party is not wasted.
		In British Columbia, the Liberals have emerged as the presumptive conservative opposition to the New Democratic Party, and B.C. conservatives know that if there is more than one conservative opposition party, the vote will split, thus immeasurably strengthening the NDP.
	www.brook.edu /views/OP-ED/WEAVER/19961207.HTM (1144 words)

	Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One Parties and Elections 1903-1986
		In the 1920s operated as the Workers' Party of Canada, in the early 1930s as the United Front, and, after it was banned in 1940, as the Labour Progressive Party until 1957.
		Formed in British Columbia in 1933 by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada (B.C. section), the Reconstruction Party (formerly the League for Social Reconstruction), and affiliated organizations.
		"Labour Party" and "Labour candidate" (or "Independent Labour Party" and "Independent Labour candidate") were used both by the press and by labour organizations to designate groups and individuals campaigning on a labour platform or in the interests of labour.
	www.elections.bc.ca /elections/electoral_history/part1-4.html (1508 words)

	Social Credit by Major Clifford Hugh Douglas
		From those beginnings, the Alberta Social Credit Party was formed in 1935, with popular educator and radio preacher William Aberhart as its leader.
		Alberta's several attempts to implement some form of Douglas Social Credit failed when the Supreme Court of Canada repeatedly held that Alberta lacked the constitutional authority to implement such monetary and banking laws: those, it held, were laws that only the federal government had the authority to make.
		The memberships of the parties ratified the agreement in principle in December of 2003, and the party was registered the "Conservative Party of Canada" in January of 2004.
	www.mondopolitico.com /library/socialcredit/socialcredit.htm (964 words)

	CBC - British Columbia Votes 2005 - Features - Election Dictionary
		If the candidate wishes to be identified with a registered political party, he or she must also submit a letter of endorsement signed by two officials of that party.
		On a map, the controversial district was in the shape of a salamander.
		The British Columbia Social Credit Party was first registered in 1949 as the British Columbia Social Credit League.
	www.cbc.ca /bcvotes2005/features/dictionary.html (3914 words)

	From "La Plume de Ma Tante" to "Parlez-Vous Francais?"
		British Columbia likewise agreed in 1971 to become "a participating province” in the federal government’s summer bursary program “for immersion study of the Second Official Language" (Annual Report of the Public Schools of British Columbia, 1971-72, D53).
		Despite British Columbia's across-the-board compliance with federal requests, and the province’s obvious willingness to embrace French language instruction, Quebec was not deterred from passing its controversial “Charter of the French Language”—Bill 101—on August 26, 1977 (Granatstein et al., 1986, p.403; Riendeau, 2000, p.
		From this study, it appears that development of British Columbia’s language policy from 1945 to 1982 corresponds most closely with a "consequential" view of policy formulation in that it originated in forces outside schools and was influenced principally at the political level by such figures as Trudeau, Levesque, Gibson, Spicer, Dailly and McGeer.
	www.umanitoba.ca /publications/cjeap/articles/miscellaneousArticles/raptis.html (5847 words)

	Conservative Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Conservative Party of Canada was formed by the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance party in December 2003.
		Stephen Harper was chosen as leader of the new party on March 20, 2004 defeating former Ontario provincial Tory Cabinet minister Tony Clement and former Magna International CEO Belinda Stronach on the first ballot.
		The Saskatchewan Party was an unofficial merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and members of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, which arose after the collapse of the Progressive Conservatives following the scandal-plagued government of Grant Devine in the 1980s.
	www.indexlistus.de /keyword/Conservative_Party_of_Canada.php (1041 words)

	Social Credit Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French Parti du Crédit Social minor Canadian political party founded in 1935 by William Aberhart in Alberta and based on British economist Clifford Douglas's Social Credit theory.
		Vander Zalm, William N. (born 1934), Canadian public official, born in Noordwykerhout, Z.H. Holland; elected mayor of Surrey 1969; elected provincial legislator 1975 (Social Credit); appointed minister of human resources 1975; appointed minister of municipal affairs and minister responsible for the Urban Transit Authority 1978; appointed minister of education and minister responsible for...
		The Reform party of Canada was founded in Winnipeg, Man., in October 1987, and Preston Manning, a key organizer of the association, was elected leader of the new party.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068441 (694 words)

	Hansard -- Wednesday, July 6, 1983 -- Morning Sitting
		In the northwest comer of British Columbia, the $290-million Ridley Island port development will handle millions of dollars of exports each year, linking the rich farmland of Canada's western provinces with the forest, petro-chemical and resource sector of British Columbia's northern regions and the vital markets of the Pacific Rim.
		They were determined to make British Columbia strong and free, to overcome its hazards and its hardships, to deal with the enemies that threatened from within and without.
		Social workers are closing cases because they cannot get funds from legal aid to take whoever to court to protect those children.
	www.legis.gov.bc.ca /Hansard/33rd1st/33p_01s_830706a.htm (12635 words)

	The Honourable William Aberhart, 1935-43
		These broadcasts eventually had a large listening audience in the Provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and the adjacent states of the U.S.A. As a consequence of the hardships wrought by the Great Economic Depression, in the early 1930's, William Aberhart became interested in the monetary theories of Major C.H. Douglas, a British engineer.
		Although he had not presented himself as a candidate at the 1935 provincial election, because he was Leader of the Social Credit Party, effective September 3, 1935, William Aberhart was appointed Premier of the Province of Alberta by Lieutenant-Governor William L. Walsh.
		The Social Credit Party was reelected at the provincial general election of 1940 and, subsequently, it made changes to Alberta's educational system and labour laws and established oil and gas conservation and provincial marketing boards.
	www.assembly.ab.ca /lao/library/PREMIERS/aberhart.htm (725 words)

	Social Credit - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The Canadian social credit movement was by far the most notable, but the ideas also gained some lesser success in other countries.
		One such country was New Zealand, where the Social Credit Party gained several seats in the national parliament, with 21% of the total votes at one election.
		Social Credit theory proposes that because the amount of money available under capitalism is necessarily lower than the total cost of goods produced, there will always be insufficient money to pay a realistic, sustainable price.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Social_credit (1034 words)

	CBC - British Columbia Votes 2005 - Parties and Leaders - BIO
		Social Credit was a coalition of its own, and it managed a remarkable 20-year stretch in power under Bennett's leadership – while the Liberals were reduced to minor party status.
		But by 1972, Social Credit was running out of steam, and the Liberals and Conservatives had new young leaders.
		Things got worse for the party in 1979 when it was completely shut out, and it was the same story in the 1983 and 1986 provincial elections.
	www.cbc.ca /bcvotes2005/parties/liberals.html (710 words)

	Social Credit. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The program became highly influential in Alberta during the depression years, and the Social Credit party, led by William Aberhart, won a resounding victory in the provincial elections of 1935.
		Nevertheless, the party remained in power in Alberta until defeated in 1971.
		The Social Credit party that continues in British Columbia diverged from the doctrines of the original party early on.
	www.bartleby.com /65/so/SocialCr.html (262 words)

	Grassroots Politicians: Party Activists in British Columbia. by David Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Grassroots Politicians is actually a series of studies based primarily on a survey of the opinions of delegates attending the provincial leadership conventions of the Social Credit, NDP, and Liberal parties in 1986 and 1987.
		The reason offered for the failure of the province's parties to converge towards the political centre is that they are constrained by the attitudes of their activists.
		British Columbia's Social Credit Party is portrayed as a party of social and economic elites who exhibit homogeneity on some issues, divisions on many others, and possess clear linkages to the federal Progressive Conservative Party.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/744/politicians12.html (879 words)

	Shared Vision: Four To Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		British Columbia Marijuana Party website In the 2001 election, the BCMP became the first party to run a full slate of candidates in its first provincial election and captured three per cent of the provincial vote.
		Work Less Party of British Columbia website The party that believes that “we are proudly working and sacrificing endless hours of our own personal well-being to make things that are having a detrimental impact on the planet” will field more than 10 candidates.
		Party Of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Themselves And Be Their Own Politicians website The name pretty much says it all.
	www.shared-vision.com /2005/sv1804/fourtowatch1804.html (1886 words)

	H. H. STEVENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		To Stevens, China was a foreign and crowded country, whose emigrating citizens could undermine the British heritage that was the bedrock of society in British Columbia.
		The Reconstruction Party was largely an act of political desperation; it had no ideological base to compare with that of the CCF, Canada's socialist party, or even the Social Credit Party.
		The Liberal vote was 2,076,394, the Conservatives 1,308,688, and that for the Reconstruction Party 389,708; while the CCF and the Social Credit parties garnered 386,484 and 187,045 votes respectively.
	www.canadafirst.net /our_heritage/h-h_stevens (3357 words)

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