Talk:Bill Bennett

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Contents 1 No Solidarity Crisis? No 1983 election? 2 Order of Canada 3 William Richards Bennett 4 Securities Charges 5 B.C.Social Credit League vs. British Columbia Social Credit Party 6 Photo 7 Resignation

[edit] No Solidarity Crisis? No 1983 election?

I came looking for the election date and the budget date for the Canada in 1983 update; which also didn't mention the Solidarity Crisis; I've begun the framework but I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for the dates (on the web). Intent is also to write a Solidarity (British Columbia) article; so far I've written about the April 1-5 interregnum and the election (think it was the 30th of the same month, April). Full story of election results and methods, behaviour by and attitudes towards Bennett that spring, the booby-trap of "governing with restraint"; there's obviously a parallel Restraint Budget to be writtten, as well as Kelowna Accord (whatever that was, and nobody still knows). I can't believe that someone could write a bio of Bennett and not HAVE to include the Solidarity Summer and the April 1 interregnum (a major constitutional action by an L-G, by the way). Anyway, further input sought.Skookum1 06:05, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Order of Canada

This "Order of Canada Citation", which was provided as a source for an erroneous claim that Bill Bennett was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, actually refers to his father, W.A.C. Bennett. — ABCXYZ (talk) 03:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Richards Bennett

Is there a reason this article is not at William Richards Bennett? There are many people called Bill Bennett. Vegaswikian 07:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Securities Charges

This article is incomplete without references to Mr Bennett's acquittal on insider trading criminal charges and the investigation of the securities commission which penalized him for using insider information involving Doman Industries in his stock transactions. KenWalker | Talk 04:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] B.C.Social Credit League vs. British Columbia Social Credit Party

The official name of the party was "League" from its founding ca. 1949 until the 1974 convention when the name was officially changed, so perhaps capital-L League would be better in reference to 1973.Chris. Fulker 15:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

I can't remember how and when the decision was made, but in the Cdn Elections Wikiproject when we built the colour-coding for the tables on the various riding and elections pages, the colours for the old Social Credit League and other Socred precurosr organizations were all given the same code as Social Credit as such; I raised the nomenclature issue becuase pre-1952 and post-1952 mean such different things in terms of who and what the party was; but as you point out one of the Socred-fringe groups names survived as the main party name until 1973. I'm not sure what to do about that either, partly because of the importance of 1952 (the Bennett Socreds, vs the original fringe Socreds) and the technical/formal blip in 1973 (which, it should also be pointed out, was also the new element in the party breaking some of its ties with the old true-blue Socreds to prep for the advent of Miniwac two years later). Anyway, I'm open to suggestions; I never did like the vagueness of the old lumped-together codes; but now that the 1973 name-change thing has been pointed out it complicates matters even futher.....19:13, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

Are there no free photos ? -- Beardo (talk) 21:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Resignation

Wht did he resign in 1986 ? That seems quite a young age. -- Beardo (talk) 21:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)