Edited sentence: Accordingly, when Bennett decided to strike a royal commission to examine the government's role in economic and monetary management, he asked Brownlee to serve on it as a representative of western and unorthodox views.Though he was concerned that the commission's other two Canadian members, Beaudry Leman and William Thomas White, were involved in the banking industry, Brownlee agreed to the appointment.While within Alberta Brownlee was viewed as an orthodox conservative in his approach to economic matters, elsewhere in Canada he was still regarded as the leader of the country's radical farmer movement