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	Manitoba Social Credit Party
		The Social Credit Party ran 19 candidates in the provincial election of 1936, five of whom were elected.
		Social Credit MLA Norman Turnbull was sworn in as a Minister without Portfolio on November 4, 1940, and served in this capacity until February 14, 1946.
		The Social Credit Party re-emerged for the election of 1953, electing candidates William Bullmore in Dauphin and Gilbert Hutton in Minnedosa.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/m/ma/manitoba_social_credit_party.html (576 words)

	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 (998 words)

	Canadian social credit movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social Credit's first government in BC was a very small minority, but they were elected to a majority a year later.
		The Social Credit government was defeated by the NDP in the 1991 election.
		Social Credit was never able to form a provincial government in Quebec due to the near dominance of social conservative votes by the Union Nationale party from the 1930s into the 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_social_credit_movement (1370 words)

	Social Credit Party of Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Social Credit Party of Canada was originally strongest in Alberta, before developing a base in Quebec when Réal Caouette agreed to merge his Ralliement creditiste movement into the federal party.
		The BC Social Credit Party formed the government for many years in neighbouring British Columbia, although this was effectively a coalition of right wing and centrist forces in the province that had no interest in social credit monetary policies.
		Social Credit remained in the Legislature as the Official Opposition until the 1982 election, and then nearly disappeared from Alberta politics until the 1993 election.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta (921 words)

	Articles - Social Credit Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The death of the Social Credit candidate in the riding of Frontenac, Quebec, resulted in the postponement of the election in that riding to March 24, 1980.
		The party's leadership was subsequently won by the socially conservative Ontario evangelical minister Harvey Lainson, who defeated holocaust denier James Keegstra by 67 votes to 38 at a delegated convention in Toronto.
		The party failed to nominate at least fifty candidates for the 1993 election, and was dissolved by Elections Canada on September 27, 1993.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada (2134 words)

	Social Credit is not a political party
		He most certainly knew better what Social Credit meant, as far as democracy is concerned, than those little fellows of our homeland who would like to make out of Social Credit the instrument of their race to power, or at least a platform for their jigging about in search of a seat in Parliament.
		Social Credit views power redistributed to the individuals: economic power, by the guarantee of a dividend allowing each individual to order from production the goods he needs; political power, in making the State the property of the individuals, instead of the individuals the property of the State.
		Social Credit unites the citizens around common, fundamental aspirations, and invites them to unite their demands so that the governments may implement these demands, whatever the party in power.
	www.michaeljournal.org /realsc3.htm (2624 words)

	The Alberta Social Credit Party - Party History
		Social Credit, Socialism, Communism, and the Co-operative movements understood the real reasons for the social and economic problems, the burdensome, dictatorial and enslaving power and policies of the banking and business establishments, and the injustice that faced the people, but they differed in their solutions.
		Socialism and Communism pushed for the centralized authoritarianism and the degrading and dehumanizing concept of a "hand out" and the dictatorial control by the new governmental bodies, explaining that people were not intelligent enough to be free to decide anything on their own.
		The Social Credit philosophy was also dedicated to developing the very best education and education system the world had to offer and it was considered of the best in the world.
	www.socialcredit.com /history.htm (3055 words)

	QuébecPolitique.com \| Social Credit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The social credit ideology is born of the economical theories of a british engineer: Major Douglas.
		First, a social movement, the Union des électeurs (Electors Union) have been founded in 1939 by Louis Even and Gilberte Côté-Mercier and presented candidates during the 1945 and 1949 federal elections, as well as for the 1944 and 1948 general elections in Quebec, but didn't succees, however, to elect a Member of the Legislative Assembly.
		It disappeared at the end of the 1950's after an new political party was created by Réal Caouette in 1957: the Ralliement des créditistes, which presented candidates for the general elections in 1960 and 1962 and from 1970 to 1976, with some success.
	www.geniesenherbe.org /politique/partis/cs-en.html (293 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)

	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: not Socialism, not a political party
		And in 1939, a Commission of nine theologians appointed by the Bishops of Quebec found that Social Credit was not tainted with Socialism nor Communism, and was worthy of close attention.
		Social Credit did not fail in Alberta, for the simple reason that it was never tried: all the attempts to implement Social Credit policies were opposed and defeated by a centralized power.
		As Douglas said, if Social Credit was absurd and worthless as an effective answer to the Great Depression of the period, the best way to have this demonstrated would have been to permit the Government of Alberta to go ahead with a Social Credit policy.
	www.michaeljournal.org /noparty.htm (1305 words)

	Book Reviews - Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit and the Jewish Response.
		Stingel's Social Discredit is constructed as a parallel history of two organizations: the Social Credit Party in Alberta (and beyond) and the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC).
		Party leader and Premier Ernest Manning went far enough in his purge of anti-Semitism, that splinter groups accused him of "selling out to the Zionists" in a bitter factional war.
		Social Discredit is traditional organizational history in that it is based heavily in the archives of the two organizations, on the public press and on the organizations' own media.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_38_1/BRsocial_discredit.htm (977 words)

	Social Credit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Social Credit is an economic theory and a social movement which started in the early 1920s.
		One such country was New Zealand, where the Social Credit Party (New Zealand) 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.infothis.com /find/Social_Credit (1256 words)

	British Columbia Social Credit Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The party won the largest number of seats in the British Columbia general election, 19521952 provincial election under the interim leadership of a Reverend Haskell, who was brought in from Alberta to lead the party.
		Social Credit was defeated in the British Columbia general election, 19911991 election, and an NDP government was formed.
		In the British Columbia general election, 19961996 provincial election/, Social Credit lost all of its remaining seats in the legislature, and received only 0.4% of the vote.
	www.infothis.com /find/British_Columbia_Social_Credit_Party (924 words)

	Social Credit Party - The Women of Aspenland
		He abandoned many of the party's social credit policies, purged the party of the "Douglasites" (many of whom were starting to express anti-Semitic leanings) and transformed it into a more right-wing party.
		In line with his Social Credit theories, he argued that the patriarchal system had failed to protect women and their private sphere and, therefore, women had the right, and even the duty, to enter the public sphere and fight for a more caring, maternal world.
		When Manning purged the party of most of the Douglasites, many of these women, like Wood, managed to stay on; however, their power was severely diminished as Manning had no patience for those who still promoted Social Credit theory.
	www.albertasource.ca /aspenland/eng/society/activism_politics_socred.html (1227 words)

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		An Alberta Social Credit Government would determine the inclusions in the provincial constitution through a process of a constituent assembly of elected participants, the results of which would be brought to the people of Alberta in a binding referendum f or their approval.
		The Alberta Social Credit Party supports the concept that an elected member of the legislature is first and foremost responsible to his or her constituents.
		The Alberta Social Credit Party supports the right of the individual to be helped by society in such times and cases as he or she is incapable of helping themselves.
	www2.kpr.edu.on.ca /phhs/web/intranet/SOCRED2.HTM (3767 words)

	A Concise History of the British Columbia Social Credit Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The British Columbia Social Credit Party was first registered as the British Columbia Social Credit League in 1949 after several stormy years of discussion over the need to become politically active.
		The Social Credit Government had its first session in January 1953 and was defeated on the “Rolston Formula” a bill concerning Education.
		Social Credit aspires to prove that honest, hard-working and dedicated people can bring their province back to its previous heights under Social Credit Leadership.
	www.bcsocialcredit.bc.ca /resources/socredhistory.html (467 words)

	Calgary & Southern Alberta - William Aberhart’s Social Credit Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Calgary and Southern Alberta - William Aberhart’s Social Credit Party
		Converted to Social Credit in 1932, "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached social credit on his radio show as a way to end the Depression.
		Aberhart remained the leader of the Social Credit Party until his death in 1943.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/calgary/wasoccr.html (131 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?tocId=9068441 (743 words)

	Party politics in Canada, 1963-2000
		This is the case in Alberta where the Social Credit Party, which has never received more than twelve percent of the popular vote in a national election, was in control of the government for 36 consecutive years.
		A left leaning, social democratic party, the NDP was formed in 1932 as the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.
		The Social Credit Party formed in 1933 as a result of the political protests arising from the depression.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/0-AngloAmerica/04-Canada/Canada63-00.htm (1747 words)

	The Alberta Social Credit Party - Our Leader
		Lavern was appointed Leader of the Social Credit Party in February of 2001.
		In three years, Lavern has guided the party to sixty constituency associations, given over sixty newspaper, radio, and television interviews, overseen the creation of a unified, active, and youthful board, and has contributed to the party's rapid increase in membership.
		Lavern is committed to rebuilding the party to where it can once again provide Albertans with the type of government they enjoyed for 36 years under the previous Social Credit era.
	www.socialcredit.com /leader.htm (463 words)

	Articles - Social Credit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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.
		In England, the Kibbo Kift, a small breakaway from the Boy Scout movement, transformed itself into the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, a political uniform-wearing paramilitary mass-movement, that marched, demonstrated and agitated in the 1930s for the introduction of a Social Credit system.
		Social Credit was originally an economic theory developed by Scottish engineer Major C.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Social_Credit (1070 words)

	Social Credit Party Of Alberta - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)
		The Liberal Party in Alberta (Social Credit in Alberta)
		The Progressive Party in Canada, (Social credit in Alberta; its background and development)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /social_credit_party_of_alberta.htm (78 words)

	Social Credit Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties.
		Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Credit_Party (96 words)

	The Honourable William Aberhart, 1935-43
		A Social Credit Government would supplement individuals' purchasing power through direct grants."* Between the years 1932 and 1935, William Aberhart and the Social Credit League tried to persuade the United Farmers of Alberta Government to adopt some social credit policy.
		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)

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