Grandpa was a technocrat.
Not just any technocrat, not like the EU or World Bank technocrats with their perfect pitches and disastrous results.
No, grandpa was research director for Technocracy, Inc. of Canada, and national chairman of the Social Credit Party during the second world war.
Bears a resemblance to someone who's been in the news recently.
That's via the library of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of health. Here's the introduction to "Joshua N Haldeman, DC: the Canadian Years, 1926-1950"
Born in 1902 to the earliest chiropractor known to practice in Canada, Joshua Norman Haldeman would develop national and international stature as a political economist, provincial and national professional leader, and sportsman/adventurer.
A 1926 graduate of the Palmer School of Chiropractic, he would maintain a lifelong friendship with B.J. Palmer, and served in the late 1940s as Canada's representative to the Board of Control of the International Chiropractors' Association.
Yet, he would also maintain strong alliances with broad-scope leaders in Canada and the United States, including the administrators of the National and Lincoln chiropractic schools. Haldeman, who would practice chiropractic in Regina for at least 15 years, was instrumental in obtaining, and is credited with composing the wording of, Saskatchewan's 1943 Chiropractic Act.
He served on the province's first board of examiners and the provincial society's first executive board. The following year Dr. Haldeman represented Saskatchewan in the deliberations organized by Walter Sturdy, D.C. that gave rise to the Dominion Council of Canadian Chiropractors, forerunner of today's Canadian Chiropractic Association. As a member of the Dominion Couincil he fought for inclusion of chiropractors as commissioned officers during World War II, and participated in the formation of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, which he subsequently served as a member of the first board of directors.
Dr. Haldeman also earned a place in the political history of Canada, owing to his service as research director for Technocracy, Inc. of Canada, his national chairmanship of the Social Credit Party during the second world war, and his unsuccessful bidfor the national parliament. His vocal opposition to Communism during the war briefly landed him in jail.
His 1950 relocation of his family and practice to Pretoria, South Africa would open a new page in his career: once again as professional pioneer, but also as aviator and explorer. Although he died in 1974, the values he instilled in his son, Scott Haldeman, D.C., Ph.D., M.D. continue to influence the profession. (JCCA 1995; 39(3):172-186)....
That's from the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association so you understand the focus on chiro.
The technocracy days begin on page 4 of the 15 page PDF.
And here is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on June 28, 2021:
Back in the first half of the 20th century, a group called Technocracy Incorporated wanted to reorganize society by putting scientists in charge. The movement flamed out, but its underlying message still appeals to many in Silicon Valley.
On Oct. 13, 1940, a Regina chiropractor named Joshua Haldeman appeared in city court to face two charges under the Defence of Canada Act.
His alleged offence was belonging to Technocracy Incorporated, an organization that had been banned by the Canadian government several months earlier as part of a larger sweep of groups it considered subversive to the war effort.
Technocracy Incorporated was not a political movement – in fact, politicians or members of political parties were not allowed to join. It was founded in New York City in 1933 as an educational and research organization promoting a radical restructuring of political, social and economic life in Canada and the United States, with science as its central operating principle....
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Previously: "The Education Of Elon Musk: The Ontario Years"
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