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collapsed, leaving many families penniless and it led to the first discussion of social credit in Canada. Information on their investigation is available in the Irvine/DLP book
Purchasing power and the world problem: Social control of credit (1924).
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who wanted it to remain an agrarian pressure group. Direct politics was endorsed following a series of public debates between Irvine and Wood at UFA meetings. Wood was successful in restricting the UFA's membership to farmers.
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