Tommy Douglas voted Greatest Canadian

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Tonight was the finale of CBC’s Greatest Canadian. When all was said and done, Canadians voted Tommy Douglas as the greatest Canadian of all, fitting I guess considering so many elections these days focus around health care. Some interesting numbers:

A total of 1.1 million votes were cast by the Canadian public via telephone, e-mail or text messaging. Since Saturday, more than 342,000 ballots were turned in before the Sunday midnight voting deadline, according to a CBC spokesperson. The only change triggered by Sunday night’s impassioned TV debate was that both Pearson and Trudeau enjoyed 37 per cent increases in their tallies, the official said

Only 3.6% (roughly) of the population voted?! Probably less with multiple votes (I am not entirely sure of the rules here). Maybe that’s why Don Cherry beat Wayne Gretzky. What’s up with that? A travesty I say. My pick for #1, Sir Frederick Banting, came fourth overall.

Read: Canada.com

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6 thoughts on “Tommy Douglas voted Greatest Canadian”

  1. apparently the NDP e-mailed all their supporters getting them to vote repeatedly and with different e-mail accounts

    I dunno, it was something I read in the paper, if that’s for real, that’s just sick, Tommy Douglas was an NDP and it was a ploy to increase awareness for the NDP…pretty lame in my opinion…personally, sure, health care, but do I know him like Wayne Gretzky? Trudeau? Pearson? Nope. I didn’t vote, so I shouldn’t bitch, but I think this contest was retarded lol.

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  2. Tommy Douglas gave us universal health care. And he worked to create fair labour laws. So how about check the facts before you bash someone. And it wasn’t a ploy to increase the profile of the NDP, anymore than having Trudeau there was a ploy to increase the profile of the liberals.

    I personally think it was a ploy to get people to watch CBC, since there’s no hockey. Fuckers…

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  4. this is the dumbest site ive ever been to and whoever made this site is gay as in my last comment. if u are reading this i am in high school doing a project and i came on this gay site. tommy dougles can lick my left nut and if he doesnt like that enough he can lick my right if hes not satisfied!!!!!!!baaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!

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