Back Social Credit Party of Canada German Partido del Crédito Social de Canadá Spanish Parti Crédit social du Canada French Partido Crédito Social do Canadá Portuguese Social Credit-partiet i Kanada Swedish
Social Credit Party of Canada Parti Crédit social du Canada | |
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| Former federal party | |
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| Leader | John Horne Blackmore Solon Earl Low Robert N. Thompson Réal Caouette Fabien Roy |
| Founder | William Aberhart |
| Founded | October 14, 1935 |
| Dissolved | September 27, 1993 |
| Ideology | Social credit[1] Distributism Syncretism[2] Agrarianism Christian right Social conservatism Populism |
| Colours | Green |
| Most MPs (1962) | 30 / 265
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The Social Credit Party of Canada (French: Parti Crédit social du Canada), colloquially known as the Socreds,[3] was a populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform. It was the federal wing of the Canadian social credit movement.
- ^ "Social Credit". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica (March 4, 2004). "Social Credit Party (Socred)". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ^ "Social Credit Party (Socred)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 2015-06-11.