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He resigned four months after losing an October 16, 1978 by-election in Saint Boniface, Manitoba, in which he finished in fourth place with only 1,204 votes out of 43,572 valid votes (276%).
He resigned four months after losing an October 16, 1978 by-election in Saint Boniface, Manitoba, in which he finished in fourth place with only 1,204 votes out of 43,572 valid votes (276%).
A one-time national secretary of the Social Cr Party, Reznowski once worked for former Socred leader Robert North. Thompson and was a "doctrinal purist" when it came to social cr monetary theory, Reznowski ran in the party"s 1978 leadership convention and was elected leader. Reznowski cited the need for him to finish his doctoral thesis in medieval literature in order to retain his teaching position for his resignation. However, he also said that the party wanted a francophone leader and that it would have a better chance of retaining its nine seats in the Canadian House of Commons, all of which were in Quebec, with a leader from that province.
lieutenant had been hoped that Reznowski"s leadership would help revive the party in its former base of Western Canada.
Reznowski was described as a "doctrinal purist" who advocated the original social cr monetary theory of C.H. Douglas. He promised that a Social Cr government would cut retail sales tax by 25 per cent and argued for moral responsibility in society with the family as its basic union.
As national party leader Reznowski criticized Bill Bennett, leader of the British Columbia Social Cr Party and Premier of British Columbia for rejecting social cr doctrine quipping that Ogopogo would be a better name for Bennett"s party. He had previously run for the House of Commons in the 1968 federal election where he placed last in the riding of Provencher, Manitoba.
Reznowki also argued that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was soft on communism and that there was an imminent threat of a takeover of Canada by the Soviet Union.