Part 1. Technocracy promised Depression-weary Canadians an end to their hardship. But the offer came with a catch. The lecture introduced the young man to a radical new doctrine that seemed to satisfy his yearning for a scientific solution to the world’s problems. Technocracy’s adherents claimed it would eliminate want by putting power in the hands of a capable few — not politicians, but an elite group of engineers and technicians, known as the Technocrats. https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-last-utopians