Social Credit Party of Canada

Social Credit Party of Canada
Parti Crédit social du Canada
Former federal party
LeaderJohn Horne Blackmore
Solon Earl Low
Robert N. Thompson
Réal Caouette
Fabien Roy
FounderWilliam Aberhart
FoundedOctober 14, 1935 (October 14, 1935)
DissolvedSeptember 27, 1993 (September 27, 1993)
IdeologySocial credit[1]
Distributism
Syncretism[2]
Agrarianism
Christian right
Social conservatism
Populism
ColoursGreen
Most MPs (1962)
30 / 265

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.

  1. ^ "Social Credit". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica (March 4, 2004). "Social Credit Party (Socred)". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  3. ^ "Social Credit Party (Socred)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 2015-06-11.