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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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British Columbia New
Democratic Party governed.
Party members were
known as
Socreds.
Although founded as part of the
Canadian social credit movement, promoting...
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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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March 9, 1987. The
governing British Columbia Social Credit Party (
Socreds) had seen a
leadership change just
months before the election, with Bill...
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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...
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Bible Bill,
formed the
Social Credit Party of
Alberta (nicknamed the
Socreds).
Social Credit governed the
province continuously from 1935
until the...
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establishment largely dismissed this prospect,
seeing the west as CCF and
Socred territory. All the while, the
party generally polled better than it had...
- Canada. The
party at this
stage was
filled to a
large extent with
former Socreds along with some
former PC
supporters disaffected at the
perceived lack...
- 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...
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parties to run 50
candidates at a cost of $1,000 per riding.
Unlike the
Socreds, however, the
Rhinos would eventually reform in 2006, once the 50-candidate...
