A political party or an individual advocating social credit.
〈加〉社会信贷党;社会信贷运动的支持者
as modifierthe heart of Socred country
many federal Liberals had become closet Socreds
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The new system, (which is the same one used by the Socreds over a decade ago) will purportedly broaden the democratic process.
A new book reveals that Heinlein, at least early in his life, was a Socred, a believer in the Social Credit movement that came to power in Alberta in 1935.
In the Day family, Stock's father, Stockwell Day Sr., ran for the federal Socreds against the New Democrat Party's Tommy Douglas in Vancouver in 1972.
Now, a decade after the 1991 election, the Socreds are not represented in the Legislature.
The Socreds took 7% of votes in last spring's provincial election, twice that in 1993, and leader Randy Thorsteinson has expressed strong interest in some form of merger.
While the Socreds and Republicans alike possessed firmly-held beliefs, especially on economic and fiscal matters, each party none the less showed remarkable flexibility on potentially-divisive social policy questions.