In view of the determined fight being waged by Social Crediters in Quebec Province against mounting taxation, and the great Social Credit Congress being held in Quebec City early next month, this is an appropriate time to give a little background on the Social Credit Movement in Quebec, substantial sections of New Brunswick and Ontario, and French-speaking areas of other provinces.
Vers Demain, the official organ of the Union of Electors, published by the Institute of Political Action twice monthly, carried on June 15, 1941, the following account of its raison d'être and inspiration:
... it is the reading and meditation of page 288 of Jacques Maritain's Humanisme Intégral, or rather the whole chapter of which this page is part, which has inspired the foundation and guided the development of the Institute of Political Action...
It is not a question of forming a new party, for it is order that we are seeking in politics, and order is not division.
Jacques Maritain recommended the formation of a new kind of political associations, of political brotherhoods which should be, as it were, secular orders of Christian inspiration, pursuing specialized ends in the temporal domain, just as the religious orders pursue specialized ends in the spiritual domain.
Every religious order has a two-fold objective: the improvement of one's self, and service to one's neighbour. This latter objective takes on different forms according to the order — teaching, preaching, penance, service of the sick, missions, and so on.
Similarly, the Institute of Political Action pursues the political education of one's self and the political education of one's neighbour. It then proceeds to organization in order to realize the objective which its studies have shown to be good and desirable.
The Institute of Political Action consists neither of dilettantes nor of dreamers. Some seek to present Social Crediters as Utopians. It so happens that Social Crediters are the greatest realists in the secular domain...
An organization for political education, the Institute of Political Action is also, as we have said, a concrete political organization for getting things done.
It is not an organization like the political parties, because it is not a matter of imitating what has been done, but of building where the parties have destroyed.
The parties are organized from above and hold their members by means of money and other material rewards.
Our Institute is formed from below and seeks to develop its members by education and the building of an apostolic spirit.
The parties work only around power — to seize power or retain power.
Our Institute works upon the people, upon the multitude — to change the people, instead of changing only the men in the government.
None of the big political parties has sought to effect the political education of the people: to capture votes is their sole concern.
New parties, from time to time, have denounced the two major parties, have presented, rather elaborate programmes and said to the people: Put us in power and we will give you this and that.
Our Institute of Political Action goes much deeper. It does not produce political leaders who go to the people and say: Put us in power and we will do better than the others. It produces educators who say to the people: Study your political affairs and see that you are served...
The Institute of Political Action now sets out upon a new strategy or line of policy which VERS DEMAIN, June 1, 1955, describes as "From Propaganda to Occupation". This new policy is explained in a letter dated May 3rd, last, written by Mme. Gilberte Cote-Mercier, Directress of the Institute, to the Assistant Directors:
We are advancing with giant strides in our work.
We are passing from the period of propaganda into the period of occupation.
Propaganda will, nevertheless, continue for those places where we are not yet solidly established.
We are setting about the occupation of all the parishes of New-France.
The subscribers of the same parish are henceforth invited to form themselves into a social credit council in the parish. The most active of the subscribers in the parish will automatically provide the inspiration of the social credit council.
I believe that we can have a minimum of 1000 social credit councils organized in this way by the time of the Congress next September.
(Note: This will be the main point of the program to be proclaimed at the Congress for the next 12 months. - L. Even)
The parish, which is often the village municipality plus the parish municipality, is that human agglomeration which lies nearest to the families. It is through this local unity that we will recover our powers, as from below. It is the antithesis of centralization.
Let us, therefore, occupy all our parishes for Social Credit and then a Social Credit policy and economy will prevail.
We can, in this way, occupy the whole Province of Quebec and a good part of New Brunswick and
Ontario during the year...
The policy of such councils would be, 'inter alia':
To attend to the VERS DEMAIN subscriptions in the parish.
To oppose any new tax and any increase of an existing tax.
To oppose borrowing, which places those who produce in debt to those who do not produce, and which necessitates new taxes for repayments swollen with interest.
To get the municipal council and other local associations to pass resolutions demanding that money shall be placed at the service of families and of persons, the doubling of family allowances by the federal government, the setting up of Social Credit by the provincial government.
To denounce any local injustice done to persons or families, and to demand redress.
To bring cases of distress to the attention of the authorities.
To create and develop a Social Credit atmosphere in the parish; to placard it with social credit posters.
To bring the mayor, councillors, and other local public men, to the Social Credit Congress next September...
VERS DEMAIN, June 15th last, in reporting the record collection of 6,456 yearly subscriptions to that journal collected during the single week ending May 25th, publishes a Roll of Honour of the names of some 600 Social Credit missionaries whose efforts, chiefly by door-to-door visitation, had been largely responsible for the result. This total is more than double the present average weekly subscription rate, which is sufficient to maintain the paper's circulation at around 100,000 copies weekly.
The probable effect of the proposed Social Credit Councils and the increased circulation of VERS DEMAIN may be gauged by an article by Louis Even, the editor of the paper, written on the Douglas text: "Modern taxation is legalized robbery", in which the simple truth is expounded and enlarged upon: "To prevent a people's obtaining that which it has produced, is certainly to rob it. Similarly, to place a people in debt for that which it has itself produced is to rob it a second time."
The social credit 'army' is growing in Quebec Province. A spirit of apostolic zeal and devotion permeates the movement. This spirit is contagious, and is reflecting itself in a steadily growing confidence and authority throughout the movement.
Quebec is moving. Social Crediters are rising. They are on the march. As more and more Quebeckers will tell you:
"Social Credit Is Coming".
In this special issue of the journal, MICHAEL, the reader will discover who are the true rulers of the world. We discuss that the current monetary system is a mechanism to control populations. The reader will come to understand that "crises" are created and that when governments attempt to get out of the grip of financial tyranny wars are waged.
An Efficient Financial System, written by Louis Even, is for the reader who has some understanding of the Douglas Social Credit monetary reform principles. Technical aspects and applications are discussed in short chapters dedicated to the three propositions, how equilibrium between prices and purchasing power can be achieved, the financing of private and public production, how a Social Dividend would be financed, and, finally, what would become of taxes under a Douglas Social Credit economy. Study this publication to better grasp the practical application of Douglas' work. 
Reflections of African bishops and priests after our weeks of study in Rougemont, Canada, on Economic Democracy, 2008-2018
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Economic Democracy is a book to explain Social Credit in lessons presented in logical order so it may be easier to the reader to grab the main principles of Social Credit rapidly and somehow easily.
In This Age of Plenty deals with Social Credit, but it does not exhaust the topic. Social Credit principles address social and political matters, as well as, or even more so, than economics and will put civilization on a new course.
From Debt to Prosperity outlines briefly the economic analysis and constructive proposals known as Social Credit.
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