Populism in Canada

According to Laycock, Quebecois populism is largely intertwined in Quebec nationalism and thus has to be examined with its own ideological and linguistic dynamics taken into consideration.

[2][3] Richards identified four "types of populist experience"—agrarian protest populist movements in the United States and Canada; the 19th century traditional, communal values, peasant populism admired by Russian intellectuals; authoritarian populism of regimes such Peronism in Argentina; and contemporary populism adopted by political leaders and parties to appeal to the "shared interests of the people" in contrast to those of the "powerfully organized 'vested interests' and traditional 'old-line' politicians.

[8] The 1986 book Citizen Action said that in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, American conservatism became "imbued with right-wing populism".

Bennett [12] At the federal level Social Credit and its breakaway Quebec wing (Ralliement des créditistes du Canada) were represented in Parliament until 1980.

[12] In 1933, William Aberhart, also known as Bible Bill, formed the Social Credit Party of Alberta (nicknamed the Socreds).

[13][14] Social Credit governed the province continuously from 1935 until the 1971 election, when the party lost to Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives.

[16] In 1932, in response to the hardships of the Great Depression, a coalition of labour, socialists, and progressives in Calgary, Alberta founded the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).

[21][22] Its leader, Maxime Bernier, refers to it as "smart populism", which is based on principles of freedom, responsibility, fairness, and respect, that speak for "all Canadians" and which do not appease special interest groups.