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The Social Credit Party of Canada ((フランス語: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. It was the federal wing of the Canadian social credit movement. == Origins and founding: 1935–1963 == The Canadian social credit movement was largely an out-growth of the Alberta Social Credit Party, and the Social Credit Party of Canada was originally strongest in Alberta. In 1932 an evangelist named William Aberhart used his radio program to preach the values of social credit throughout the province. The party was formed in 1935 as the Western Social Credit League. It attracted voters from the Progressive Party of Canada and the United Farmers movement. The party grew out of disaffection with the status quo during the Great Depression which hit the party's western Canadian birthplace especially hard. It can be credited both for the creation of this party and the rise of a social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. In the party's first election in 1935, it only ran candidates in Western Canada. It won 17 seats, of which 15 were in Alberta and where it won over 46% of that province's popular vote.〔 John Horne Blackmore was chosen as the party's parliamentary leader. In 1939, Social Credit merged with the New Democracy movement led by former Conservative William Duncan Herridge. However, Herridge failed to win a seat in the 1940 election, and Blackmore continued as parliamentary leader. At the party's first national convention in 1944, delegates decided to abandon the name New Democracy and founded the Social Credit Association of Canada as a national party. They chose Alberta Treasurer Solon Earl Low as the party's first national leader. In its first years, the Socreds gained a reputation for anti-Semitism. It was said that Blackmore and Low "frequently gave public aid and comfort to anti-Semitism"〔http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/am-N/kanada/EncJud_juden-in-Kanada05-antisemitismus-ENGL.html〕 In 1945, Solon Low alleged there was a conspiracy of Jewish bankers behind the world's problems,〔Howard Palmer, "Politics, Religion and Anti-Semitism in Alberta, 1880-1950" in (''Anti-Semitism in Canada, History and interpretation'', Alan Davies, editor, 1992, p. 185 )〕 and in 1947, Norman Jaques, the Socred Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin, read excerpts of the ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' into the parliamentary Hansard.〔Richard Menkis, "(Antisemitism in the Evolving Nation: From New France to 1950 )", B'nai Brith Canada, 1999]〕 Low repudiated anti-Semitism in 1957〔(American Jewish Committee Archives, American Jewish Yearbook v. 64 (1963) )〕 following a trip to Israel after which he made speeches supporting the Jewish state.〔 After World War II made anti-Semitism less fashionable, the party began purging itself of anti-Semitic influences, leading Quebec social crediter Louis Even and his followers to leave the party in 1947. In 1957, for instance, Low led the party to its best performance to date, with 19 seats. However, in 1958, the Socreds were swept out of the legislature altogether as part of that year's massive Progressive Conservative landslide. Although it was not apparent at the time, this began a long-term decline for the party. For most of its existence prior to 1958, Social Credit had been either the first or second party in much of rural western Canada, particularly in its birthplace of rural Alberta. In 1957, for instance, it took 13 of Alberta's 17 seats. However, the 1958 defeat firmly established the Tories as the main right-wing party west of Ontario, and Social Credit would never seriously challenge the Tories there again. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Social Credit Party of Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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