Gilbert Rondeau

Gilbert Rondeau, a Créditiste/Social Credit MP from Quebec, was expelled from the Social Credit caucus around 1977 during the death throes of the Social Credit movement in federal politics. The party, which had once held 26 seats, was reduced to a handful of feuding Quebec MPs by the mid-1970s. Rondeau's expulsion — reportedly followed by reinstatement and then expulsion again — reflected the chaotic internal politics of a party in its final collapse.

Rondeau sat as an Independent for the remainder of his term. The Social Credit Party of Canada effectively ceased to exist as a parliamentary force after the 1980 election, when it won zero seats. Its Quebec wing, the Ralliement des créditistes, had already disappeared. The party's implosion scattered its populist Quebec base, which would later be partially reconstituted by the Bloc Québécois.