Bennett and Mackenzie King who offered their solutions to this situation. Many others had their own ideas. In the western part of Canada, two parties have emerged as the main political force. These were the Social Credit Party in Alberta and the Commonwealth Co-operative Socialist Federation in Saskatchewan. William Aberhart, leader of the Social Credit Party, believed that the cause of the Great Depression was because people did not have enough money to purchase goods and services. His solution was to give twenty-five dollars a month to every citizen. Furthermore, JS Woodsworth, leader of the Commonwealth Co-operative Socialist Federation, believed that capitalism had failed people during the Great Depression and that the government needed to take more action than that. His solution was to implement policies such as free medical care, unemployment insurance, and old-age pensions. In Quebec, the Great Depression also added another nationalist outlook, as business was dominated by English speakers, while the wage earners were French. This problem of unemployment in Quebec also became a cultural problem, and in 1936, the Depression would bring the Union Nationale and its leader Maurice Duplessis to power. He attributed the Great Depression to the fact that Quebec's industries were owned by Americans and English-speaking Canadians. And so, when he was elected Quebec's sixteenth premier, he took more control over their government