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Many of the party's supporters were members of the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform , and later joined the Canadian Action Party. Some had previously been active in the Canadian social credit movement, which shared similar views on monetary reform.
The party was founded by Joseph Thauberger, who had been an unsuccessful Social Credit Party of Canada candidate in the 1972 Canadian election. Saskatchewan and British Columbia were the main sources of the party's membership. The first national meeting was held in Toronto a few weeks before the 1993 election. The party won 7,506 votes in the 1993 election.
In 1994, Thauberger stepped down, and was replaced by Claire Foss at a meeting in Winnipeg. In the run-up to the 1997 election, the party's board voted to support Paul Hellyer's Canadian Action Party because of that party's support for monetary reform. Foss ran as a CAP candidate in Okanagan-Shuswap (BC), and gained the largest number of votes of any CAP candidate. Foss was also a CAP candidate in the 2004 Canadian electionA Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election was held on June 28, 2004. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority, but was able to form a minority government after the elections. The main opposition pa.
See also: List of political parties in CanadaIn contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names. Political parties with representation in the Canadian