Norman Jaques

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Norman Jaques (born: June 29, 1880 London, England - died: January 31, 1949) was a farmer and a Canadian federal politician who represented the electorla district of Wetaskiwin in the Canadian House of Commons.

Jaques first ran for the House of Commons in the 1935 federal election as a candidate of the Social Credit Party of Canada. He defeated incumbent Member of Parliament William Irvine in a landslide victory. Jaques was re-elected to his second term in the 1940 federal election. He defeated three other candidates in the closely contested election. Jaques ran for his third and final term in office in the 1945 federal election defeating four other candidates in a landslide. He retired in 1949 at the end of his term.

During this period, the Social Credit Party gained a reputation for anti-Semitism. In 1945, the party leader, Solon Earl Low, alleged there was a conspiracy of Jewish bankers behind the world's problems^[1], and in 1947, Jaques read excerpts of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into the parliamentary Hansard^[2]. Low officially repudiated anti-Semitism in 1957^[3]