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	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)

	Social Credit Party of Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The latter, in particular, caused socially conservative Albertans to flock to Social Credit.
		Social Credit was elected with a slightly reduced mandate in 1940.
		The party was rekindled under the leadership of Robert Alford from 1990 to 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta (2022 words)

	Robert N. Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He was a supporter of the Social Credit Party of Alberta from its creation but could not run as a candidate in the 1935 provincial election because he was underage.
		Alberta Premier and Social Credit Party of Alberta leader Ernest Manning saw Thompson as the ideal person to lead the national Social Credit Party of Canada and backed him in a hotly contested leadership vote against Real Caouette, the movement's leader in Quebec.
		The Social Credit Party was divided after 1962, as a majority of the caucus came from Quebec and regarded Caouette as leader.
	vb.game-host.org /en/Robert_N._Thompson.htm (669 words)

	CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Parties
		The CCF grew from a coalition of farm, labour and socialist associations and became a party in 1932.
		In 1961, it was reborn as the New Democratic Party, and was led by Grant Notley from 1968 to 1984.
		The Alberta Alliance was formed a year after the 2001 election, in response to what its founders saw as a move away from the right by the governing Conservatives.
	www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/parties (1406 words)

	THE CCF THE ORIGINAL REFORM MOVEMENT
		But the Social Credit movement too had its roots in an earlier left wing populism that gave birth to the original 'reform' party the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) the predecessor of the NDP.
		Faced with increasing hardships caused by the depression, and left wing opposition from labour and the Communist Party the UFA lost the 1935 election to the Social Credit Party.
		Social Credit was seen as the new voice of rural urban resistance to the Eastern establishment, especially the banks.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5202/ccf.htm (1170 words)

	Social Credit Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alberta Socred Premier Ernest Manning had previously told the convention that his province would never accept a francophone Catholic as the party's leader, leading to suspicions that the vote was fixed in Thompson's favour.
		Party leader Robert Thompson was frustrated by the lack of support given to the federal wing, while the provincial Social Credit parties in Alberta and British Columbia ran powerful political machines and formed the governments.
		The party failed to nominate at least fifty candidates for the 1993 election, and was deregistered by Elections Canada on September 27, 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada (2735 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.
		Aberhart disagreed, and decided to present Social Credit candidates in the 1935 provincial election, and he captured 56 of the 63 seats in the provincial legislature.
		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.
	www.michaeljournal.org /noparty.htm (1305 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Leaders and Parties
		With Robert Thompson at the helm, Social Credit won 30 seats in the 1962 election – 26 of those from Quebec where Réal Caouette began to emerge as a strong contender for leadership of the party.
		The Quebec-based spinoff of the Social Credit party, the Ralliement des Créditistes was composed mainly of Quebec nationalists and social conservatives.
		Party momentum continued through 1997 when Reform won 60 seats and became the official Opposition, but was still no more of a national party than the last Opposition, the Bloc Québécois, had been.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/leadersparties/parties/graveyard.html (1208 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)

	Welcome to Alberta Alliance Party. Party News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		If the merger proceeds, it could mean the death knell of the Alberta Social Credit party, which governed the province from 1935 to 1971 with political legends such as William (Bible Bill) Aberhart and Ernest Manning.
		While the Alliance leader said he recognizes the concerns of Social Credit members, he suggested it may be time for them to make a fresh start under a party banner that has a presence in the legislature -- the Alberta Alliance.
		Alberta needs a government courageous enough to move ahead while defending the rights and priveleges of the past.
	www.campaignsecrets.com /alliance/party_news_detail.asp?id=263 (725 words)

	LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Social Credit And Western Canadian Radicalism
		Social Credit was part of that movement of worker farmer rebellion against the Canadian mercantilist state.
		Alberta's farmers and workers opposition to the Banks and finance capitalism led them to support the Social Credit movement, but it also led them to form the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and the creation of an anti-capitalist movement in the West and to form the backbone of the Communist Party of Canada.
		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.
	plawiuk.blogspot.com /2005/10/social-credit-and-western-canadian.html (8217 words)

	How Preston Manning Missed the Wave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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 Alberta, too, the unpopularity of the Getty government suggested that Alberta's unique pattern of successive waves of one dominant party (United Farmers, Social Credit, Tories) being supplanted by another might be about to repeat itself.
	www.brook.edu /views/op-ed/weaver/19961207.htm (1143 words)

	Project Alberta - Empowering Albertans
		The Progressive Conservatives of Alberta have increased spending dramatically, increased taxes, fought access to information, refused fixed election dates, refused citizenâs initiated referenda, refused to hold free votes, refused to end the use of closure in debate and have rejected every aspect of the âAlberta Agendaâ which was an effort to increase provincial autonomy.
		These idealists will keep the Social Credit Party in existence for a few more years to come, but there will be no growth and the party will fade into much deserved obscurity as the years go by.
		The unfortunate thing however is that the party has virtually no momentum and despite running three or four candidates for the first time in almost a decade in the last election, the party made no gains of significance.
	www.projectalberta.com (5527 words)

	Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Thanks to the Social Credit in Alberta series in the 1950s, the movement and the party have received a thorough analysis from a political perspective.
		In Social Discredit, Stingel also looks at anti-Semitism from the perspective of those who were the recipients of racial slurs and accusations, by looking at the response of the Canadian Jewish Congress to Social Credit's malignity of Jews.
		Members of congress met frequently with Social Credit leaders, who would assure congress that the party was not anti-Semitic and promise to reprimand those members within its ranks who were, only to witness no changes in the party's anti-Semitic views.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/823/social23.html (561 words)

	A Concise History of the British Columbia Social Credit Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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)

	ABERHART, WILLIAM. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		About 1932 he became interested in Social Credit, which advocated direct money payments to all citizens.
		He was an organizer of the Social Credit party of Alberta and was elected (1935) to the provincial legislature with enough supporters to control it.
		Thus Aberhart became premier (1935–43) of the first Social Credit government in the world.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ab/Aberhart.html (88 words)

	How T(daft) Can You Be? \| The News is NowPublic.com
		Indeed, when you look at the past 100 years of Alberta’s existence, the province has been ruled by a handful of “dynasties”: Alberta Liberal Party, United Farmers of Alberta, Social Credit Party of Alberta and the Progressive Conservatives.
		They sing the praises of the party's current ineffectual leader, Kevin Taft, and even reject the veracity of the most recent poll that pegs the provincial Liberals at 17% at best (a drop of almost 50% since the last election in 2004).
		It was one of those times when a party totally fails to listen to the average man or woman in the street and takes matters into its own hands.
	www.nowpublic.com /how_t_daft_can_you_be (1173 words)

	AgorA -- Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Working from the Depression-era self-representations of William Aberhart's Social Credit Party of Alberta and Kroetsch's fictional rendering of the party's 1935 election campaign in The Words of My Roaring, this paper traces how the concept of scarcity comes to shape part of a broad anti-capitalist — or socialist — Canadian cultural discourse.
		The vision of the Depression that underpinned the Social Credit Party's project is outlined and Kroetsch's construction of the Depression as a set of local realities is analyzed.
		The paper also explores, using Jean Baudrillard's work on consumerism, how the discourse of Social Credit is infiltrated by a discourse of consumption that undermines (or at least complicates) any socialist challenge to the socio-economic system that creates and maintains that scarcity.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /agora/Abstracts1.cfm?ArticleNo=136 (203 words)

	Socialist History Project
		Nevertheless a clear definition of the class character of the Parti Québécois is of the utmost importance in determining the future course of development of the party and of the elements presently in sympathy with it.
		The argument here against a federated party applies against a separate party in a nation or a nationality where the struggle is directed against an oppressive state power whose essential political and economic structures encompass the oppressed nation.
		The case for a single revolutionary party based on the norms of democratic centralism is strengthened in the case of Quebec by the obvious similarity of political systems, economic structures, and the organizational links which already exist between the workers of both nations.
	www.socialisthistory.ca /Docs/1961-/Quebec/Ind-Soc-Quebec-1970.htm (9618 words)

	My Blahg » ALIENATION IN ALBERTA
		Prior to the PC’s it was the Social Credit party which was in power from 1935 - 1971 = 36 and before that was the Uniterd Farmers 1921 - 1935 = 14 and low and behold before that the liberals from 1905 - 1921 = 16.
		In most cases, that means that parties in power are often swept out thanks, in part, to a “time for a change” feeling in the electorate.
		The Alberta Liberal Party, if you look at their program, is actually a true progressive conservative party, unlike Klein’s PC, and this is why the Alberta Liberals are becoming more and more popular (and powerful) in Alberta.
	myblahg.com /?p=298 (2092 words)

	Aberhart, William - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Thus Aberhart became premier (1935-43) of the first Social Credit government in the world.
		Aberhart on Social Credit: a radio broadcast.(Willam Aberhart, premier of Alberta in 1935)(Speech)(Biography)
		From bad to worse: Calgary's housing crisis & Alberta's debt legislation 1935-1945.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-aberhart.html (222 words)

	Canadian Political Parties/Les Partis politiques du Canada
		Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Themselves And Be Their Own Politicians, POC
		Parti municipal Rive-Sud - Équipe Gladu, PMRS (Longueuil)
		Parti Municipal Énergie avec Sylvie Surpenant, PME-Surpenant (Ste-Thérèse)
	home.ican.net /~alexng/can.html (843 words)

	Amazon.ca: Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit: Books: Bob Hesketh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Social Credit movement had a broad and significant impact on the social and political history of Alberta.
		A number of authors have examined this phenomenon, usually focusing on the economic and social conditions that influenced Social Credit's rise to power.
		Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit, however, is the first work dedicated expressly to the intellectual history of the Social Credit government of the 1930s and 1940s.
	www.amazon.ca /Major-Douglas-Alberta-Social-Credit/dp/0802079946 (352 words)

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