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(Solved): 4. In Alberta, the Social Credit party won the election of 1935 in the middle of the Depression by ...
4. In Alberta, the Social Credit party won the election of 1935 in the middle of the Depression by promising to give every citizen \( \$ 25 \) a month in the form of paper notes called "prosperity certificates". The party promised that this policy would revise the battered Albertan economy, but the plan never worked. (A, 3 marks) a. Why do you think Albertans voted for this policy? b. What problems would the "prosperity certificates" have when people tried to spend them? c. After 1935, why could the federal government rule these paper notes illegal?