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Social Credit Party of Canada leadership elections

Index Social Credit Party of Canada leadership elections

The Canadian social credit movement first contested the 1935 federal election in order to capitalize from the Alberta Social Credit League's surprise victory in Alberta's August 1935 provincial election. [1]

78 relations: Alberta general election, 1935, Alberta Social Credit Party, Alexander Bell Patterson, André-Gilles Fortin, Antisemitism, British Columbia, British Columbia Social Credit Party, Burnaby—Kingsway, By-election, Calgary, Calgary West, Cambridge, Ontario, Canadian Bill of Rights, Canadian federal election, 1935, Canadian federal election, 1940, Canadian federal election, 1962, Canadian federal election, 1963, Canadian federal election, 1968, Canadian federal election, 1979, Canadian federal election, 1980, Canadian federal election, 1984, Canadian federal election, 1988, Canadian social credit movement, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Champlain (electoral district), Collingwood, Ontario, Confederation of Regions Party of Canada, Crossing the floor, Don Andrews, Edmonton, Elections Canada, Ernest George Hansell, Ernest Manning, Ernst Zündel, Ethiopian Air Force, Fabien Roy, Fairmont Royal York, Frontenac (Quebec electoral district), George Hahn (politician), Gilles Caouette, Harvey Lainson, Hate speech, Holocaust denial, Hull, Quebec, James Keegstra, Joe Clark, John H. Long (political candidate), John Horne Blackmore, Ken Campbell (evangelist), Ken Sweigard, ..., Lorne Reznowski, Lotbinière (electoral district), Martin Hattersley, Minority government, Montreal, National Assembly of Quebec, Nationalist Party of Canada, New Democracy (Canada), Perennial candidate, Phil Gaglardi, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Provincial Treasurer, Ralliement créditiste, Réal Caouette, René Matte, Robert N. Thompson, Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, Saskatoon, Social credit, Social Credit Party of Canada, Solon Earl Low, Svend Robinson, TD Place Arena, Victor Quelch, W. A. C. Bennett, White supremacy, William Aberhart, William Duncan Herridge. Expand index (28 more) »

Alberta general election, 1935

The Alberta general election of 1935 was the eighth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada.

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Alberta Social Credit Party

The Alberta Social Credit Party was a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on social credit monetary policy put forward by Clifford Hugh Douglas and on conservative Christian social values.

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Alexander Bell Patterson

Alexander Bell (A.B.) Patterson (April 22, 1911 – April 2, 1993) was a long time Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) and was briefly leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada.

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André-Gilles Fortin

André-Gilles Fortin (November 13, 1943 – June 24, 1977) was a Canadian politician in the 1970s.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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British Columbia Social Credit Party

The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for all but three years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election.

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Burnaby—Kingsway

Burnaby—Kingsway was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997.

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By-election

By-elections, also spelled bye-elections (known as special elections in the United States, and bypolls in India), are used to fill elected offices that have become vacant between general elections.

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Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Calgary West

Calgary West was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1953, and from 1979 to 2015.

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Cambridge, Ontario

Cambridge (2016 population 129,920) is a city located in Southern Ontario at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Canadian Bill of Rights

The Canadian Bill of Rights (Déclaration canadienne des droits) is a federal statute and bill of rights enacted by Parliament of Canada on August 10, 1960.

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Canadian federal election, 1935

The Canadian federal election of 1935 was held on October 14, 1935 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 18th Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1940

The Canadian federal election of 1940 was the 19th general election in Canadian history.

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Canadian federal election, 1962

The Canadian federal election of 1962 was held on June 18, 1962 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 25th Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1963

The Canadian federal election of 1963 was held on April 8 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 26th Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1968

The Canadian federal election of 1968 was held on June 25, 1968, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 28th Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1979

The Canadian federal election of 1979 was held on May 22, 1979, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 31st Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1980

The Canadian federal election of 1980 was held on February 18, 1980, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 32nd Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1984

The Canadian federal election of 1984 was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 33rd Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1988

The Canadian federal election of 1988 was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 34th Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian social credit movement

The Canadian social credit movement is a Canadian political movement originally based on the Social Credit theory of Major C. H. Douglas.

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Cap-de-la-Madeleine

Cap-de-la-Madeleine is a former city in Quebec, Canada at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River and the St. Lawrence River.

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Champlain (electoral district)

Champlain was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 2004.

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Collingwood, Ontario

Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

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Confederation of Regions Party of Canada

The Confederation of Regions Party (CoR) was a right-wing Canadian political party founded in 1984 by Elmer Knutson.

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Crossing the floor

In politics, crossing the floor is when a politician changes their allegiance or votes against their party in a Westminster system parliament.

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Don Andrews

Donald Clarke "Don" Andrews (born Vilim Zlomislić; April 20, 1942) is a Canadian white supremacist.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Elections Canada

Elections Canada (Élections Canada) is an independent, non-partisan agency reporting directly to the Parliament of Canada.

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Ernest George Hansell

Rev.

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Ernest Manning

Ernest Charles Manning, (September 20, 1908 – February 19, 1996), a Canadian politician, was the eighth premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta.

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Ernst Zündel

Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (April 24, 1939 – August 5, 2017) was a German publisher and pamphleteer known for promoting Holocaust denial.

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Ethiopian Air Force

The Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ አየር ሃይል, Ye Ithopya Ayer Hayl) is the air arm of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces and is tasked with protecting the national air space, providing support to ground forces, as well as assisting civil operations during national emergencies.

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Fabien Roy

Fabien Roy (born April 17, 1928) was a politician in Quebec, Canada, in the 1970s.

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Fairmont Royal York

The Fairmont Royal York, formerly and commonly known as the Royal York, is a large historic hotel in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 100 Front Street West.

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Frontenac (Quebec electoral district)

Frontenac was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1997.

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George Hahn (politician)

Frederick George Jacob Hahn (3 November 1911 – 5 February 1963) was a Social Credit party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

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Gilles Caouette

Gilles Caouette (February 16, 1940 – August 13, 2009) was a Canadian politician and Member of Parliament.

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Harvey Lainson

Harvey George Lainson (ca. 1935 – February 28, 2005) was a Christian evangelical minister based in the Cambridge, Ontario, region and was leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada from 1986 to 1990 during which time he led a successful effort to expel an anti-Semitic faction from the party led by Jim Keegstra.

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Hate speech

Hate speech is speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust during World War II.

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Hull, Quebec

Hull is the central district and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

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James Keegstra

James "Jim" Keegstra (March 30, 1934 – June 2, 2014) was a former public school teacher and mayor in Eckville, Alberta, Canada, who was charged and convicted of hate speech in 1984.

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Joe Clark

Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian elder statesman, businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979 to March 3, 1980.

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John H. Long (political candidate)

John H. Long is a Canadian political figure.

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John Horne Blackmore

John Horne Blackmore (March 27, 1890 – May 2, 1971), a school teacher and principal by training, was the first leader of what became the Social Credit Party of Canada, a political party in Canada that promoted the social credit theories of monetary reform.

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Ken Campbell (evangelist)

Kenneth Livingstone (Ken) Campbell (January 15, 1934 – August 28, 2006) was a Canadian fundamentalist Baptist evangelist and political figure.

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Ken Sweigard

Kenneth Sweigard (September 21, 1919 – July 11, 2005) was a Pentecostal evangelist from Grande Prairie, Alberta, and politician who led the Social Credit Party of Canada from 1983 to 1986.

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Lorne Reznowski

Lorne Reznowski (1929 – November 9, 2011) was a professor of English at the University of Manitoba and leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada.

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Lotbinière (electoral district)

Lotbinière (later known as Lotbinière—L'Érable) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 2004.

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Martin Hattersley

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Minority government

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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National Assembly of Quebec

The National Assembly of Quebec (Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada.

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Nationalist Party of Canada

The Nationalist Party of Canada is an unregistered Canadian political party that was founded in 1977 by Don Andrews (born Vilim Zlomislic), who continues as leader of the party.

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New Democracy (Canada)

New Democracy (French: Nouvelle démocratie) was a political party in Canada founded by William Duncan Herridge in 1939.

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Perennial candidate

A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for an elected office but seldom wins.

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Phil Gaglardi

Philip Arthur Gaglardi (January 13, 1913 – September 23, 1995), sometimes known as Flying Phil was a politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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Provincial Treasurer

In Canadian politics the Provincial Treasurer is a senior portfolio in the Executive Council (or cabinet) of provincial governments.

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Ralliement créditiste

Historically in Quebec, Canada, there was a number of political parties that were part of the Canadian social credit movement.

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Réal Caouette

David Réal Caouette (September 26, 1917 – December 16, 1976) was a Canadian politician from Quebec.

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René Matte

René Matte (born February 11, 1935 in Saint-Casimir, Quebec; died February 2016 at Chambly, Quebec) was a Canadian politician and a Member of the House of Commons.

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Robert N. Thompson

Robert Norman Thompson (May 17, 1914 – November 16, 1997) was a Canadian politician, chiropractor, and educator.

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Saint Boniface—Saint Vital

Saint Boniface—Saint Vital (Saint-Boniface—Saint-Vital; formerly Saint Boniface) is a federal electoral district in Winnipeg, Manitoba that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1925.

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Saskatoon

Saskatoon is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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Social credit

Social credit is an interdisciplinary distributive philosophy developed by C. H. Douglas (1879–1952), a British engineer who published a book by that name in 1924.

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Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada (Parti Crédit social du Canada), colloquially known as the Socreds, was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform.

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Solon Earl Low

Solon Earl Low (January 8, 1900 – December 22, 1962) was a Canadian politician in the 20th century.

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Svend Robinson

Svend Robinson (born March 4, 1952) is a Canadian former politician.

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TD Place Arena

TD Place Arena, originally the Ottawa Civic Centre, is an indoor arena located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, seating 10,000.

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Victor Quelch

Victor Quelch (December 13, 1891 – September 2, 1975) was a farmer, a soldier in the Canadian Army, and was also a long serving Canadian federal politician.

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W. A. C. Bennett

William Andrew Cecil Bennett (September 6, 1900February 23, 1979) was a Canadian politician.

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White supremacy

White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.

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William Aberhart

William Aberhart (December 30, 1878 – May 23, 1943), also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta (1935 to his death in 1943).

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William Duncan Herridge

William Duncan Herridge, (September 18, 1887 – September 21, 1961) was a Canadian politician and diplomat.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada_leadership_elections

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