Lavern Ahlstrom
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Lavern Ahlstrom is a politician in Alberta, Canada.
He is leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party, which governed Alberta from 1935 to 1971, but is now a fringe party that holds no seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He assumed the party's leadership in February 2001, and led the party the November 2004 provincial election.
Lavern first became involved with Social Credit in the 1970s, and has run for the party in his home riding of Rocky Mountain House, the riding formerly represented by the longest-serving Socred Member of the Legislative Assembly, Alf Hooke, for 36 years from 1935 to 1971. In the last two provincial elections he has polled well in this riding, tying for second place in the 2004 polls.
[edit] Leadership of Social Credit
Ahlstrom's leadership of the Alberta Social Credit Party has been notable for the party re-embracing some elements of Social Credit economic and monetary theory. The party's poor showing in the 2001 elections followed divisions in the party surrounding the departure of leader Randy Thorsteinson (who had led the party to a revival in the 1997 polls although winning no seats). Ahlstrom himself, however, performed well in his own riding. Since then, the number of constituency associations has grown and the 2004 elections brought about an improved showing overall.
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