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The Social Credit MLA for Okotoks-High River, William Morrison, resigned to give Aberhart a chance to get a seat, per standard practice in the Westminster system when a leader or cabinet minister does not have a seat.
William Aberhart's first cabinet, pictured with him in 1935, remained intact until late in 1936.By August 1937, four of its eight members had resigned or been fired. The 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt took place from March to June 1937 in the Canadian province of Alberta.
From 1932 to 1935, Aberhart tried to get the governing United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) to adopt social credit. [2] However, the 1935 UFA convention voted against adopting social credit and UFA Premier Richard Reid rejected the proposals as being outside the province's constitutional powers, so Aberhart entered Social Credit candidates in that year's provincial election.
The Canadian social credit movement was largely an out-growth of the Alberta Social Credit Party, and the Social Credit Party of Canada was strongest in Alberta during this period. In 1932, Baptist evangelist William Aberhart used his radio program to preach the values of social credit throughout the province. [ 4 ]
William Aberhart's Social Credit League won a substantial victory in the 1935 Alberta provincial election on the strength of its promise to implement social credit, an economic theory proposed by British engineer C. H. Douglas. [1]
The Canadian social credit movement is a political movement originally based on the Social Credit ... The ideology was embraced by the Reverend William Aberhart ...
In 1935, the world's first [citation needed] Social Credit government was elected in Alberta, Canada led by William Aberhart. [ 42 ] : 127 A book by Maurice Colbourne, entitled The Meaning of Social Credit , had convinced Aberhart that the theories of Major Douglas would facilitate for Alberta's recovery from the Great Depression .
The Social Credit backbenchers' revolt was a rebellion against Premier William Aberhart by a group of backbench (not part of the cabinet) members of the Legislative Assembly from his Social Credit League during the third session.