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The Birth of Medicare
Since Tommy Douglas helped usher in Canada's medicare system in 1967, it has earned the envy of the international community. Many Canadians see free public health care as the hallmark of what Pierre Elliott Trudeau called "The Just Society." Yet, as the medicare debate has proven, it's a system that is not without its flaws or opponents.
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National Farm Radio Forum looks at the Hall Report
Broadcast Date: Nov. 2, 1964
Justice Emmett Hall makes the case for national health care.National Farm Radio Forum looks at the Hall Report
Medium: Radio
Program: National Farm Radio Forum
Broadcast Date: Nov. 2, 1964
Guest(s): Emmett Hall, Ronald Robertson, Ted Scholfield, C.H. Shillington, George N. Watson
Duration: 29:00
Photo: Duncan Cameron / Library and Archives Canada / PA-112573
Last updated:
April 3, 2008
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Feb. 24, 1986
Stephen Lewis eulogizes Tommy Clement Douglas, the father of medicare who died today at the age of 81.
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Tommy Douglas was the most influential politician never to be elected Prime Minister. He pursued his radical ideas relentlessly until they became so mainstream rival politicians claimed them as their own...
National Farm Radio Forum looks at the Hall Report.
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Last updated: April 3, 2008.
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