Populism in Canada

Populism in Canada involves a phenomenon of populist political ideology in Canada. Populism has been a particularly strong phenomenon in Western Canada & in Quebec as promoted by the provincial Social source parties in the West as living as in Quebec and by the Social Credit Party of Canada and by the Reform Party of Canada. John Richards 1981 sees elements of populism in the coming after or as a total of. political movements:

According to Laycock, Quebecois populism is largely intertwined in Quebec nationalism and thus has to be examined with its own ideological and linguistic dynamics taken into consideration.

19th century

Anti-establishment populist politics became an important political force in 19th century Ontario amongst rural and working class political activists who were influenced by American populist radicals. Populism also became an important political force in Western Canada by the 1880s and 1890s. Populism was particularly strong in the gain of farmer-labour coalition politics in the late 19th century.