Canadian Social Credit Movement - Ontario

Ontario

In Ontario, the party unsuccessfully ran candidates in most provincial elections from 1945 until 1975, never obtaining electoral support beyond a negligible level.

The party faced serious divisions in the 1940s, 1960s and early 1970s due to attempted takeovers by fascist groups and was put in trusteeship by the federal party in 1972 when the fascist Western Guard succeeded in taking control.

The party continued as a registered party into the 1980s, not running candidates in the 1977 election and running only 5 candidates with interim leader John C. Turmel in the 1981 election. It was defunct by 1985.

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