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Church-run hospitals
In the early 1800's the churches ran hospitals and helped mainly unfortunate poor people for free -
The Great Depression
During the Great Depression, calls for a public health system were widespread. Doctors who had long feared such an idea reconsidered hoping a government system could provide some stability as the depression had badly affected the medical community -
Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas had hoped to provide universal health care nationally, but the province did not have the money. This set the idea of universal health care into peoples head more boldly -
Saskatchewan doctors strike
The Saskatchewan doctors strike was a 23-day labour action exercised by medical doctors in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in an attempt to force the government of Saskatchewan to follow its program of universal medical insurance -
Social Union Framework Agreement
In 1999, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and most premiers reaffirmed in the Social Union Framework Agreement that they are committed to health care that has "comprehensiveness, universality, portability, public administration and accessibility.
