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Born
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Knee surgery
IN 1914 Tommy douglasas had a bone infection in his knee. he needed a surgery but none of them were succesful and they were costing his family lots of money. Until a doctor offered to do a surgery for free so he wouldn't lose his leg, the only condition is that tommy had to let the doctors students view the surgery -
Bloody saturday
Tommy douglas viewed Blood Saturday. That is the day that there was are large Labour wages strike in winnepeg and the mayor, worried about the large amount of protesters, called the RNMP. they shot and clubbed the protesters killing two people and injuring 45 people. This is one of the many events that inspired Tommy Douglas to fight for universal healthcare. -
Tommy Douglas joins the liberal party
He Decided that the best way to accomplish his goals were to get into to politics. He was a good public speaker so he became a liberal MP -
He is elected the Premier of Sasketchewan
After 9 years as a politician he became the premier of Sasketchewan with canadas first socalist government. He had a very succesful first term passing 10 bills an reducing provincial debt by 20 million dollars -
Tommy Douglas becomes the leader of the NDP
He runs for prime minister of Canada, However only won 19 seats and lost his position as premier. This is because other provinces had already had already adobted his idea so his platform lost its lustre. -
Medical care act is passed
Lester B. Pearson passes the medical care act. Though Tommy Douglas wasn't involved in passing the bill the idea ad inspiration for it most likely started with him in Sasketchewan
