REFORM PARTY of British Columbia was formed in 1985 by a group of disgruntled former SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY supporters led by Ron Gamble. (The party was not formally associated with the federal Reform Party of Canada, which was not founded until 1987.) The party did poorly in the 1991 provincial election but shortly afterwards 4 Social Credit MLAs from non-urban ridings defected to Reform, giving it the third-largest contingent in the legislature. In 1995 one of the former Socreds, Jack...
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