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1929-1939
Economic devastation drove politicians to seek radical new solutions - including starting new parties.
Unemployment reached 27%. Established parties seemed helpless. New movements like Social Credit and the CCF emerged.
Agar, Progressive MLA in Saskatchewan, crossed to the governing Liberals as the Progressive movement declined on the prairies.
Thomas Alexander Crerar, the founder and first leader of the Progressive Party of Canada, had resigned the party leadership in 1922 and later sat as a United Farmers of Manitoba…
During the Great Depression, Stevens investigated big companies that were exploiting workers and farmers. His own party tried to stop him. So he left and started his own party.
Ernest Edward Perley, a Liberal MP from Saskatchewan, crossed to the Conservative Party around 1935 during the Great Depression. Like several western MPs, Perley was dissatisfie…
James Samuel Taylor, the CCF MP for Nanaimo in British Columbia, was expelled from or left the CCF caucus around 1937. Taylor was one of the CCF's earliest elected members, winn…