When was the economic ideology that created the framework for social credit developed?
Social credit Social credit is an interdisciplinary distributive philosophy developed by C. H. Douglas (1879–1952), a British engineer, who published a book by that name in 1924. It encompasses economics, political science, history, and accounting. Its policies are designed, according to Douglas, to disperse economic and political power to individuals. Douglas wrote, "Systems were made for men, and not men for systems, and the interest of man which is self-development, is above all systems, whether theological, political or economic." Douglas said that Social Crediters want to build a new civilization based upon "absolute economic security" for the individual, where "they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid." In his words, "what we really demand of existence is not that we shall be put into somebody else's Utopia, but we shall be put in a position to construct a Utopia of our own."
Populism in Canada Populism in Canada refers to the phenomenon of populist political ideology in Canada. Populism has been a particularly strong phenomenon in Western Canada and Quebec as promoted by the provincial Social Credit parties in the West and Quebec and the Social Credit Party of Canada; and the Reform Party of Canada.