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.