The
Social Credit Party of Canada
The Social Credit Party of Canada (french: Parti Crédit social du Canada), colloquially known as the Socreds, was a populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform. It was the federal wing of the Can ...
won six seats in the
1979 federal election, all in the province of
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...
. It also fielded candidates in other provinces. Some of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
Manitoba
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Peter Stevens (
Winnipeg—Assiniboine
Winnipeg—Assiniboine was a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988.
This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Portage, Winnipeg South and Winnipeg South Cen ...
)
Stevens was previously a candidate of the
Social Credit Party of Manitoba
The Manitoba Social Credit Party (originally the Manitoba Social Credit League) was a political party in the Canadian province of Manitoba. In its early years, it espoused the monetary reform theories of social credit.
It was formed in the 1935� ...
in the
1977 provincial election. He listed himself as a manufacture
See also
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Social Credit Party candidates, 1984 Canadian federal election
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Candidates in the 1979 Canadian federal election
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