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...government more or less regularly between the Conservatives, who took over after Confederation in 1867, and the Liberals, who have ruled the country since 1935. With a general election set for June 10. the two major parties now face a bumptious challenge from Western Canada. From their stronghold in Alberta and British Columbia, the Social Credit Party's high command swept into Toronto last week for a national convention launching their first serious bid for national influence...
Heading the invasion were the Big Three leaders of Social Credit: Alberta or British Columbia) in the last House of Commons...
...socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation has shrunk in an era of contentment and prosperity, seems unlikely to add many seats to the 22 it held in the last Parliament. The Social Credit party, a depression-born agrarian movement that turned right with prosperity, now controls the governments of Alberta and British Columbia, plans a major push in Eastern Canada this year to build up its Parliamentary bloc of 15. All of the opposition is encouraged by one Canadian political trend. Of the six provincial governments controlled by the Liberals as recently as 1944, four have been unseated...
...province's debt to $90 million, financed large-scale grants to local schools and municipalities, and has built up a $347 million surplus. Some of the bonus money will also go to enrich the federal government, since tax authorities in Ottawa were prompt to rule that Alberta citizens will have to declare and pay federal income taxes on the money from Edmonton...
...crashing majority last year. Premier William Bennett moved ahead with his own giveaway. With no flood of oil revenue to draw upon, he had to content himself with a more modest scheme: rebating $28 of taxes to every homeowner in his province. Both British Columbia's Bennett and Alberta's Manning, having built solid political bases at home, are now planning a drive to add to the 15 seats that Social Crediters occupy in the federal Parliament at Ottawa. With a national election probable for this spring or summer, they will soon have a chance to test...