Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was something many Albertans had muttered when the Bill of Rights was passed by the provincial legislature last spring (TIME, April 1). But the Social Credit government, which decided to have the court pass on the bill before it was put into effect, waved the rumblings aside: the people should not concern themselves with the means but with...
...paper, the end looked wonderful. Alberta's Bill of Rights guaranteed the fundamental rights of worship, speech, lawful assembly, and a few more. Among the added starters: 1) a minimum income of $600 a year to every adult Albertan, 2) a pension for all from 19 to 60 years who were unemployed or unemployable; 3) all the necessaries of life and education for those under 19; and 4) retirement benefits for folks over...
With such provisions Alberta's Supreme Court found no inherent fault, although Justice Harvey found some parts of the bill incomprehensible. But Premier Manning and his Social Creditors came a. legal cropper on their means of financing the benefits. They proposed to set up a five-man Board of Credit Commissioners to estimate the value of all the "assets" of the province (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), developed or undeveloped. All this blue-sky calculation would add up, Premier Manning and friends reckoned, to the grand sum of $231 billion. To this figure they proposed to add the "capitalized productive...
...next clause in the Bill added the final touch in the legislation story of Alice in Bankerland. By this provision all credit institutions (except the Bank of Canada, trust and insurance and mortgage companies) would have to get a provincial license to do business in the province. That did it. The court ruled: provinces cannot infringe on control of banking...
Spare, intense Premier Manning took the court's decision in silence. Eleven years after the late William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart swept into power on a pledge of $25-a-month-credit-to-every-Albertan, the provincial government was still Social Credit in name only...