Editing Unity (Canada) (section)

===United Reform in Saskatoon===
The '''United Reform Movement''' or '''United Reform''' was an attempt in [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|Saskatoon]], [[Saskatchewan]], Canada, to create a left wing farmer-labour coalition. It was part of an effort in [[Saskatchewan]] and [[Alberta]] by the [[Communist Party of Canada]] to create a [[united front]] bringing together the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]], Communists, other leftists and even the populist [[Social Credit Party of Canada|Social Credit]] movement against the Liberals and Conservatives. While the movement was opposed and denounced by the leadership of the CCF it succeeded in some areas to bring local CCF activists on board.

Clergyman [[Walter George Brown]] won election to the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]] as a United Reform Movement candidate in a 1939 by-election in the [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Saskatoon City (federal electoral district)|Saskatoon City]], and was re-elected in the [[1940 Canadian federal election|1940 general election]] with the endorsement of the [[National Government (Canada)|National Government]] party (as the Tories were called in 1940). He died on April 1, 1940, five days after being re-elected.

The URM recruited [[Agnes Macphail]], a longtime [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) who had been defeated in the 1940 election to run in the by-election to fill Brown's vacancy. MacPhail had been an MP since 1921, first as a representative for the [[Progressive Party of Canada]] and since 1930 as a [[United Farmers of Ontario]]-[[Labour Party of Canada|Labour]] MP, although she was active with the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]]. In deference to her nominators, she ran as a "United Reform" candidate in the August 1940 by-election, but was defeated by the Conservative candidate.

There was also a "United Reform" candidate in the Saskatchewan riding of [[Weyburn (federal electoral district)|Weyburn]] who ran in the 1940 general election against [[Tommy Douglas]] of the CCF.