sentences:  Previously, conscripts had only been used for "home defence" and kept within Canada.He ran and was re-elected as an "Independent Liberal" in 1945 defeating his only opponent, a Social Credit candidate.Bourget reconciled with the Liberal Party in the post-war period and was again elected as a Liberal in 1949 and was re-elected in subsequent elections until his defeat in 1962 due to an upsurge in support for the Social Credit party.