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So in my long journey of attempting to understand Canadian politics, I learned that the (at least currently) centrist seeming (in the news media I've read that mentioned them) New Democrats were actually social democrats who sat further to the left than any other major party and that there was apparently a right wing alternative to socialism in the early 1900s called Social Credit.

The Social Credit Party had been a big deal in a way similar to how Reform was a big deal, but had begun to drop off over the course of the 60s, ending with the rest of the party being completely wiped out in parliament in 1969 (surviving on in the provinces), although they would live in as the Ralliement créditiste, a Quebec-based splinter party that would survive the main party's destruction in parliament and reunited with the SoCred in '72 (although since there were no more MPs from the SoCred it was basically just taking back the name and reuniting with provincial parties), just in time for its gradual collapse from there.

If I got all that right, I was wondering: What can be done to prevent this decline? I know a variety of leaders that succeed Réal Caouette as party leader either met tragic ends, were incompetent, or were his son.

What if that all changed? I'd prefer whatever PoD to be at least after the 1969 election and possibly beginning with the reuniting of the party with Réal Caouette as leader.

What was the party's stance on Quebecois Independence? If against, maybe they could be a Canadian Unity Party in Quebec and a right-wing equivalent to the New Democrats out West? If so, how would this happen and when would this be ideal? I've read some about Western alienation, perhaps they could run on a platform of Quebecois and Western alienation?

Could the party maybe take the role that Reform did two decades later? If so, how would this change?

And lastly, could the Social Credit Party merge with the Progressive Conservatives like Reform and the PCs? When would that be ideal? How would this party be different?

If you can answer or direct me to sources on any of these questions, that'd be a great help!
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