Canadian Social Crediters - John C. Turmel, Paul Fromm, James Keegstra, Ron Gostick, John Ross Taylor, Al Overfield, Anne McBride, Wiebo Ludwig (Paperback)

Chapters: John C. Turmel, Paul Fromm, James Keegstra, Ron Gostick, John Ross Taylor, Al Overfield, Anne Mcbride, Wiebo Ludwig, Claire Foss, Joseph Thauberger, John Stachow. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John C. Turmel (born February 22, 1951, Rouyn, Quebec, Canada) is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the Guinness Book of Records holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost. As of March 2010 Turmel has contested 73 elections and lost 72. The other contest was a by-election that was pre-empted by a general election call. Turmel believes in Louis Even's Quebec social credit theory of monetary reform. He has also campaigned for the legalization of gambling, the adoption of "Local Employment Trading Systems" (LETS) which are interest-free barter arrangements, and for the legalization of marijuana. He has participated in several protests outside of Canada's major banking institutions, saying that bank interest promote poverty and starvation in the third world. Turmel, who lists his occupation as "professional gambler," was active in the Social Credit Party of Canada and the Social Credit Party of Ontario in the 1980s, and founded the Christian Credit Party in the 1980s, and the Abolitionist Party of Canada in the 1990s. He wears a trade-mark white construction helmet when campaigning, and calls himself "the Engineer." The colour of his helmet is said to not only refer to the white construction helmets worn by engineers and architects on construction sites, but also to the berets blanc (white berets), the nickname of the Pilgrims of Saint Michael, a radical monetarist faction within the Quebec social credit movement. Turmel's grandfather, Adelard Turmel, supported the Social Credit ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=56431