Harvey Lainson

Harvey Lainson

Harvey George Lainson (born ca. 1935 - February 28 2005) was a Christian evangelical minister based in the Cambridge, Ontario region and was leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada from 1986 to 1990 during which time he led a successful effort to expel an anti-Semitic faction from the party led by Jim Keegstra.SOCIAL CREDIT BECOMES ``THE PARTY OF RENAISSANCE CANADA" REV. KEN CAMPBELL NAMED NATIONAL LEADER (press release), Canada NewsWire, February 16, 1990]

Lainson won the party's leadership in June 1986 defeated Keegstra at the party's national convention by a margin of 67 vote to 38. cite news
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accessdate = ] Lainson hoped to rename the party "Christian Freedom" since he thought people mistook the name "social credit" for socialist and rebuild the party with the support of Christian fundamentalists He faced resistance from the onset of his leadership with Keegstra's supporters insisting that Lainson was part of a conspiracy and pledging to obstruct him. "We're going to stonewall this guy. There's no way we're going to do business with him. As far as we're concerned, this bunch is part of the conspiracy," said one Keegstra supporter. and was temporarily deposed as party leader in 1987 in favour of Keegstra. [cite news
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Lainson led the party through the 1988 federal election in which the depleted party ran only nine candidates. Lainson did not contest a parliamentary seat. He resigned as party leader in 1990 for unspecified "personal reasons" and was succeeded by another evangelical minister, Ken Campbell.

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