Zündel. He lost by 67 votes to 38 to Harvey Lainson, an evangelical minister from Ontario. Keegstra was elected as the party's acting leader on July 27, 1987, after the party's national executive ousted Lainson over his call to rename the party "Christian Freedom". Lainson refused to relinquish the leadership and Keegstra was expelled from the Social Credit Party and its successor the Christian Freedom Social Credit Party in September. In popular culture The 1988 American television movie Evil in Clear River was based on the Keegstra case. The movie depicted a teacher and mayor of a small Canadian town who taught anti-Semitic ideas to his students, the efforts of the mother of one of his students to stop him, and the teacher's termination and prosecution. Randy Quaid played the character that was based on Keegstra, and Lindsay Wagner played the mother. See also Doug Christie (lawyer) – Keegstra's lawyer, a late political figure Malcolm Ross (school teacher) – Canadian teacher found liable under human rights legislation for discriminating against Jewish students References Keegstra: The Trial, The Issues, The Consequences. Book Review Echoes of Auschwitz News Report on Holocaust Education Lee, Robert Mason. "Keegstra's Children". Saturday Night 100 (May 1985): 38–46. 1934 births 2014 deaths Alberta candidates for Member of Parliament Canadian conspiracy theorists Canadian people of Dutch descent Canadian schoolteachers Canadian Holocaust deniers Mayors of places in Alberta People from Vulcan County Social Credit Party of Canada candidates in the 1972 Canadian federal election Social Credit Party of Canada leaders Canadian politicians convicted of crimes