Tommy Douglas on Future of Medicare (1983)

Clip from his Speech to the 50th Anniversary NDP Convention.

Tommy Douglas was present at the Regina Convention that founded the CCF. At the 50th Anniversary Convention in 1983, he delivered what many consider his greatest speech. Those present cheered him for over 20 minutes.

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• douglas
• socialism
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• canada
• medicare
• public
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[neosoc]

Why can't we have such sensible politicians down here in America? I'll probably move to Canada sometime.

[Nuovaisme]

I wish politicians in Canada were still this driven and inspirational.

[MsChapman77]

@8brandenv The central bank prints money out of thin air and we pay interest on it. You are obviously clueless about the fractional reserve banking. It is fraud.

Medical costs keep going up. Surgeons do make close to a million dollars a year. Bureaucrats fix the price of operations and limit the number of doctors to keep the prices high. It is bankrupting this country. You are obviously a socialist. The Nazis were socialists. Tommy Douglas was a eugenicist. 9-11 was an inside job.

[8brandenv]

@MsChapman77

The information about the printing of money can be found on the Bank of Canada website.

[8brandenv]

@MsChapman77

.... your second point about the government printing money when it does not have enough to pay its medical bills, which I presume you are applying to the Canadian Government is also wrong. when the Government of Canada needs money to pay interest on it debts or even a debt itself, it does not print money it borrows money not increasing its money supply. I think it's about time you put down the Mises book and do some sound research. Good day..... Idiot.

[8brandenv]

@MsChapman77

Much of what you say is flawed and infantile. Your arguments are incomplete and simply wrong. You say the average salary of a Canadian surgeon is approximately $1 million dollars a year, but when looking at the publicly published payroll of medical professionals in Ontario, there are no salaries coming close to that. This can be found by searching in Google "Ontario public payroll". Those lucrative salaries you describe are found I'm the states....

[365to173repubsPWNED]

@neosoc move to vancouver, bc. its amazing

[sidartak]

This man is my hero. I have never had so much respect for a politician.

[Onslaught2k3]

@neosoc We have a pro-wilson, pro-reagan prime minister - Steven Joseph Harper. America was once a great social nation in the 1800s. However, since the victory of the second world war things have spiraled downwards to a degenerate continent filled with hatred and ignorance. He is working to bring that to Canada. However, regardless of what happens, you're welcome to visit or even move here. If things change for the better in the US, Canada will follow in suit.

[MJH505060]

@MsChapman77 Eugenics was commonly accepted science during that time period, it was practiced in provinces from coast to coast. You think Douglas was a bad person for holding that view thats your right but it was not just him who believed in it, the vast majority felt the same way. He was a man of his time, and along with that he came with the flaws of that time period also.

BTW Anyone with any knowledge at all on the subject knows that the Nazi's were socialist in name only.