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I have removed a sentence from this article. First of all, it was unsourced, which is sufficient reason to remove any content. Second, it was wrong in several respects:

  • The claim that Social Credit's election marked the start of a period of centre-right government in Alberta suggests that the United Farmers of Alberta government could not be described as centre-right. This is highly debateable, as the UFA's austerity-based approach to the Great Depression could probably be fairly described as "centre-right".
  • More significantly, the claim that the Social Credit League of 1935 was "centre-right" is absurd—while the Social Credit party of the 1950s and 1960s was quite conservative, the Social Credit League of 1935 was a bunch of wild-eyed radicals. I don't think it would be quite accurate to describe them as "left-wing", either (though they made a lot of common ground with the Communists, against the more mainline UFA, Liberals, and Conservatives), but describing them as "centre-right" almost literally could not be further from the truth.
  • The NDP descended in some respects from the UFA, but it is entirely inaccurate to describe it as a linear descendant of that party. See here for a directly on-point discussion. Steve Smith (talk) 22:05, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]