Health

- "The Greatest Canadian," Tommy Douglas' government instituted the first single-payer, universal health care program. He is the father of actor Donald Sutherland and the grandfather of actor Kiefer Sutherland.
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- Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM (20 Oct. 1904 – 24 Feb. 1986) was a Canadian politician who served as the 7th premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971.

A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan.

> His government introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program.

.. Douglas was awarded many honorary degrees, and a foundation was named for him and his political mentor M. J. Coldwell in 1971. In 1981, he was invested into the Order of Canada, and he became a member of Canada's Privy Council in 1984, 2 years before his death. -- In 2004, a CBC Television program named Tommy Douglas "The Greatest Canadian", based on a Canada-wide, viewer-supported survey...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas