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Tommy Douglas has been chosen as The Greatest Canadian by the CBC. Interestingly it was J.S. Woodsworth, founder of the CCF, who got Douglas involved in politics. Woodsworth encouraged the young prairie preacher to run for a seat in the Weyburn, Saskatchewan constituency for his new party. And it was Alberta's bombastic radio preacher and newly elected premier, high school principal William Aberhart, who made a deal with the CFF that his Social Credit party would not run candidates in Saskatchewan ridings where the CCF was contesting a seat. Thus Tommy Douglas was elected to the House of Commons as the joint Candidate of the CCF and the Social Credit parties! Find out more about how these two religious figures, Aberhart and Woodsworth, shaped Canadian politics and left us the legacies of the Left and the Right we have today in Ottawa. Social Gospel and the Public Good is a documentary presentation that reveals how Christian thought during the early part of the 20th century helped to shape the social and political face of present-day Canada. VisionTV broadcasts the world television premiere on Wednesday, Dec. 1 (tonight) at 10 p.m. ET as part of its weekly series of documentaries on social justice issues. The hour-long film charts the careers of J.S. Woodsworth and William Aberhart, two of the most influential figures in Canadian public life over the last 100 years.
