When considering the giants of Canadian politics, T.C. Douglas surely stands at the forefront. Tommy Douglas was a remarkable Canadian whose contributions have helped to shape our great nation. Although he is most famous as the founding father of Medicare, the most advanced health-care system in the world, Douglas’ contributions to Saskatchewan and Canada were tremendous. Douglas established democratic socialism as a mainstream in Canadian politics and his CCF government became the first socialist government in North America. A visionary who achieved his dreams, Douglas changed the face of Canadian politics. More importantly, Tommy Douglas was a politician who put the good of the people he represented first and foremost.
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Various types of health insurance were available in Canada before the CCF government assumed power. There were many doctor-sponsored plans by non-profit organizations as well as private insuring agencies, to which many Canadians subscribed. In some cases, Canadians were provided with health insurance through the terms of their employment. Thus many Canadians had some form of insurance protection. The sick and needy were admitted to hospitals as charity cases. But there were many inequities in the medical care system, as some plans covered only hospital visits or physician care but not drugs or treatment.
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The North American medical establishment tried to defy Medicare, Douglas’s top priority project, and Saskatchewan became an intense battleground. This turbulent time was marked by the doctors' strike as the physicians of the province protested socialized health care. However, the striking doctors were no match for Douglas. When the dust settled with the resolution of the strike, Medicare in Saskatchewan was born.
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Douglas showed Canada two things: that it was possible to develop and finance a universal Medicare system and that the medical profession could be confronted.
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Douglas died of cancer on February 24, 1986 at the age of 81 in Ottawa.
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Originally posted by masqua
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Couldn't have said it better myself, Johnny Canuck.
I remember when they actually got elected in Ontario and the fall-out from that still resonates. All one needs do is whisper Rae Days in a crowded place (like Toronto) and the stampede is on. No way I want a repeat of that.

Farlinger - whose priority after replacing Maurice Strong as Ontario Hydro chairman was to push the utility towards privatization - does not hope to make converts of nuclear skeptics. "I think Ontario Hydro is seen as a bad company. And it has been a bad company," he says. "Are we wasting money trying to fix nuclear? I don’t believe we are." According to Farlinger, the Hydro board, a hefty group of 18 men and women, finally awoke to the fact that the monster utility was in real trouble in April last year when Pickering discovered a flaw in its emergency safety system. All eight reactors were shut down. "I think everyone on the board knew we had real problems then," he says.

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In 1990, Strong told a reporter a fantasy scenario for the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland - where 1,000 diplomats, CEOs and politicians gather "to address global issues."

Strong, naturally, is on the board of the World Economic Forum. "What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?...

In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?"

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Maurice Strong: A Dr. Evil-style strategist. Owner of a 200,000-acre New Age Zen colony. Designer of a proposal to "consider" requiring licences to have babies.

The architect of the Kyoto Protocol.

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The IMF and the World Bank (to be discussed in future reports) work closely with the United Nations, but are not subject to its direct administrative control. One of the major recommendations of the Commission on Global Governance calls for the creation of an new Economic Security Council to oversee the operations of a new administrative department of the United Nations where all international financial mechanisms would be housed. Maurice Strong, now the Executive Coordinator for U.N. reform, said in his first report , that all 130 U.N. related agencies and organizations were being consolidated into five administrative departments, one of which would include the IMF, the World Bank and all its subsidiaries, the Global Environment Facility, and the U.N. Development Program.
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