Turmel founded the Abolitionist Party in 1993 with a similar program to that of the Christian Credit Party. The Abolitionist Party nominated 80 candidates in the 1993 federal election, who collected only 9,141 votes between them. The Abolitionist Party subsequently reverted to being a personal vehicle for Turmel. After 1996, Turmel appears to stopped using the party name.
In 2003, Turmel attempted to organize a new party using the name of the defunct Libertarian Party of Canada, but was foiled by old members of the Libertarian Party who registered the name.
Party Program
According to Mr. Turmel: "Quebec Social Credit first argued for a national LETS currency. But Canada Social Credit didn't agree and threw me out and changed their policy from prohibition of interest rates to 6%. So I founded the Christian Credit thinking that credit could only be Christian and friendly if there was no interest. This is the way I explained then what are the Abolitionist Party programs of today:
THE CHRISTIAN CREDIT PROGRAMS:
The abolition of interest rates;
The establishment of a government dividend;
The establishment of no-premium fire and auto insurance."
In 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.
Socialist Party of Canada (in Manitoba) 1904-1922, 1932, 1945
From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT.
Party founder John C. Turmel holds the Guinness Book of Records record for having contested the greatest number of elections.
Arguably anti-bank, the party leader is designated to be John C. Turmel, who calls himself "the engineer" (thus his trademark "the engineer" helmet, in which he is depicted above).
Indeed, the Christian bible speaks out against "usury" and, equating the charging of interest with "usury", the AbolitionistParty itself refers to the practice of charging interest as "usury" (for a time, at least, the party's phone number was "1-800-NO-USURY").
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