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🗓️ 29 April 2021
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0:00.0 | Okay. But what I wanted to ask you about is there's the Democratic Farmer Labor Party in the 1930s, and there's also maybe a little later, but around the same general time zone, you know, the NDP, which is still around the Democratic Party. How did that come about? |
0:22.8 | So in Saskatchewan, oh sorry, yes, a boot. |
0:26.5 | In Saskatchewan, which is, this is going to be a weird story, |
0:29.5 | because Saskatchewan right now is incredibly conservative as a province. |
0:32.3 | But Saskatchewan back in the 1940s was just a burgeoning area for socialist ideas, worker cooperatives, |
0:40.3 | you know, a communist literature, stuff of that nature. It was incredibly left wing, |
0:44.3 | and they elect the first socialist government in North America, known as the CCF, with the leader being |
0:50.3 | Tommy Douglas. Tommy Douglas is known now as the grandfather of public health care in Canada. |
0:57.0 | And just so all you all know how important this person is, we did this poll a couple |
1:02.5 | years ago where they had to say who was the greatest Canadian of all time. |
1:05.6 | I heard about this. |
1:06.8 | Yeah, some of the people you'd expect, right, Wayne Gretzky, I think considered one of the greatest |
1:10.8 | athletes in human history. |
1:12.3 | He comes in at, like, number eight. |
1:14.3 | Where was Neil Young? |
1:15.9 | I think, I don't even know if Neil Young made the top ten. |
1:18.6 | Wow. |
1:18.9 | I mean, I want to correct myself on that. |
1:22.2 | But anyways, someone is right now saying I'm losing my Canadian stripes. |
1:26.8 | You know, our first... How high did Drake get? |
1:31.9 | One below the bebs. |
1:34.2 | But yeah, number one, number one was Tommy Douglas. |
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