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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 to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them.
This article lists Wikipedia articles about members of the Social Credit Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada 1935 17 MPs elected (15 Alberta, 2 Saskatchewan) John Horne Blackmore - Lethbridge, Alberta, party leader (1935–1944) elected 1935-1940 re-elected as New Democracy , re-elected as SC 1945-1949-1953-1957, def 1958
The Canadian social credit movement is a political movement originally based on the Social Credit theory of Major C. H. Douglas. Its supporters were colloquially known as Socreds in English and créditistes in French.
The organisation was led by John Hargrave, who gradually turned the movement into a paramilitary movement for social credit.With its supporters wearing a political uniform of green shirts, in 1932 it became known as the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit and in 1935 it took its final name, the Social Credit Party. [1]
The name Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties. In Canada: ... Canadian social credit movement This page was last edited on 7 ...
Although founded as part of the Canadian social credit movement, promoting social credit policies of monetary reform, the BC Social Credit Party later discarded the ideology and became a political vehicle for fiscal conservatives and later social conservatives in British Columbia. The party collapsed within one term of its 1991 defeat.
The Canadian social credit movement was largely an out-growth of the Alberta Social Credit Party, and the Social Credit Party of Canada was strongest in Alberta during this period. In 1932, Baptist evangelist William Aberhart used his radio program to preach the values of social credit throughout the province. [ 4 ]
In the 1965 election, Caouette's Ralliement won nine seats, while Social Credit led by Thompson won five seats. In the 1968 election, Caouette's party won 14 seats while Social Credit won none. The two parties were reunited under Caouette's leadership for the 1972 election. The reunited Socreds won 15 seats in that election, all in Québec.