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Canadian Medical Association
The CMA is a collection of over 80,000 Canadian medical practitioners with the sole goal of increasing the health care standard in Canada and increasing the amount of people able to use it. The CMA was founded in 1867 to ensure that all Canadians have the best health care and now it is focused on making sure everyone has access to this health care -
Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas introduced universal medicare to the province of Saskatchewan during his last term as premier of the province. This would soon be adopted all across Canada -
Lester B Pearson
Universal Medicare was introduced to all of Canada during Lesters's term as Prime Minister. The idea was expanded from Tommy Douglas who had first introduced universal health care in Saskatchewan. What Lester did aided many Cnadians who no longer had to pay for health care -
Canada Health Act
The Canada health act focuses on the government allocating sufficient resources to public health care facilities so they don't have to pay -
Social Union Framework Agreement
Includes the prinicples and rights to common quality of social programs across Canada including the accessibility and universality of healthcare
