Shirley Douglas was famous for many things and proud of them all.Movies. TV. Awards.Mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland, the product of a marriage to legendary star Donald Sutherland.She was also proud to be from Saskatchewan.But when the topic came around to the legacy that her father, Tommy Douglas, former premier of Saskatchewan and federal NDP leader, left for Canada with universal health care, she burst with pride.“It has helped so many people,” she once told me. “It meant everybody from all walks of life could get proper medical care.”That was a game changer for Canada.
Needless to say, Canadians agreed with her assessment and in 2004, her father was voted in a CBC poll as the Greatest Canadian of all time.She was pretty proud of that,