With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

Medicare () is the unofficial name for Canada's publicly funded universal health insurance system.

Nonetheless, Canada's Medicare system covered the health care costs of those mothers affected.

Many of the most important elements of Canada's welfare state were coming on line, such as Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan ( CPP ).

* July 1 – The laws creating Canada's Medicare system come into effect

Lloyd is best remembered as the man who piloted Canada's first Medicare program from legislation to implementation in 1962, and overcoming that summer's doctors ' strike to enable it to continue.

Under Lester Pearson's Liberal party of Canada | Liberal government, Canada's health care was expanded through the Medical Care Act, or Medicare ( Canada ) | Medicare, to provide near universal coverage to all Canadians ' according to their need for such services and irrespective of their ability to pay '.

Canada's provincially based Medicare systems are cost-effective partly because of their administrative simplicity.

MacEachen ran on a strongly left wing platform defending Canada's new Medicare system.

Examples include the United Kingdom's National Health Service, Australia's Medicare, Canada's Medicare, and Taiwan's National Health Insurance.

The budget also pledged to open Canada's first Collaborative Emergency Centres as a way of keeping emergency health services in rural Nova Scotia, reduce the price of prescription drugs for people on Medicare, provide tax relief by increasing the Basic Personal Amount, and give more money to people living on income assistance.

British Columbia's provincial parks system is the second largest parks system in Canada ( the largest is Canada's National Parks system ).

Canada's system, described below, avoids regional variability of federal law by giving national jurisdiction to both layers of appellate courts.

The largest class action suit to date in Canada was settled in 2005 after Nora Bernard initiated efforts that led to an estimated 79, 000 survivors of Canada's residential school system suing the Canadian government.

The constitution outlines Canada's system of government, as well as the civil rights of all Canadian citizens and those in Canada.

It outlined Canada's system of government, which combines Britain's Westminster model of parliamentary government with division of sovereignty ( federalism ).

As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister ( PMO ), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3, 100 other positions.

** GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.

The primary reason for Canada's relatively low standing rests on the relatively high educational level of its population, particularly as compared to France, rather than on any features of its health system.

Canada's health system is ranked 30th in the world, suggesting the logic of the doctor shortage defies the statistics.

* Barbara Wierzbicki, " Icon: Canada's system for schools ", InfoWorld, Volume 5 Number 45 ( 7 November 1983 ), pg.

These powers are greater than what was typical under the common law and under a system of government that, influenced by Canada's mother country the United Kingdom, was based upon Parliamentary supremacy.

Among the awards of the Canadian honours system, the Order of Canada comes second only to membership in the Order of Merit, which is within the personal gift of Canada's monarch.

It is one of 42 in Canada's system of national parks.

The Reform Party suggested that Canada's government-funded universal health insurance system be replaced by a two-tier private and public health insurance system.

This convention makes Quebec, with about one-quarter of Canada's population, overrepresented on the Supreme Court, but is needed because Quebec uses civil law rather than the common law used in the rest of Canada, and it is thus necessary to have enough judges who have worked in the civil law system on the Supreme Court to allow panels to be created to judge cases arising from that system of law.

The Fathers of Confederation viewed the system of constitutional monarchy as a bulwark against any potential fracturing of the Canadian federation, and the Crown remains central to Canada's federalism.

Thus legislation which destroyed the citizen's ability to debate, to assemble or to associate freely would be contrary to Canada's democratic parliamentary system of government.

Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of the primary sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important.

Canadian Government policies such as ; publicly funded health care, higher and more progressive taxation, outlawing capital punishment, strong efforts to eliminate poverty, an emphasis on cultural diversity, and most recently legalizing same-sex marriage – are social indicators of Canada's political and cultural values.

Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of the primary sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important.

Saint John, New Brunswick, claims the distinction of being Canada's most Irish city, according to census records.

Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake.

Nova Scotia ( pronounced ; ; ) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province of the four in Atlantic Canada.

The province is Canada's most linguistically homogenous, and 97. 6 % of residents reported English as their mother tongue in the 2006 census ; however, this is the unique local dialect, Newfoundland English.

It is Canada's most populous province or territory and fourth largest in total area.

* Haunted Ontario – Founded in 1996 by Bob Milne, Haunted Ontario chronicles the ghosts, spirits, spooks, and poltergeists said to haunt Canada's most populated province.

Not outlined in any constitutional document, the office exists only as per long-established convention originating in Canada's former colonial power, the United Kingdom, which stipulates that the monarch's representative, the governor general, must select as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the elected House of Commons ; this individual is typically the leader of the political party that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.

Because the prime minister is, in practice, the most politically powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canada's head of state, when, in fact, that post is held by the Canadian monarch, represented by the governor general.

One of the most highly regarded SFU alumni and one of Canada's most treasured sons is the late Terry Fox.

The Calgary Region is Canada's most suburban census metropolitan area | metropolitan region, with 67 % of the population living in low-density neighborhoods in 2001.

Its main designer was Frederick Todd, a protégé of the junior Olmsted and Canada's most prominent landscape architect of the early 20th century.

* July 21 – The Saguenay Flood, one of Canada's most costly natural disasters, is caused by flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec.

It registered as a Richter magnitude 7. 2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, broke 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggered a tsunami that destroyed many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28 ( as of 1997, Canada's most lethal earthquake ).

The Vimy Memorial commemorates the Battle of Vimy Ridge and is Canada's most important memorial to its fallen soldiers.

At, Vancouver Island is the largest Pacific island east of New Zealand, the largest island on the western side of North America, the world's 43rd largest island, Canada's 11th largest island, and Canada's second most populous island after the Island of Montreal.

Out of Canada's three most prominent political parties, neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party is officially in favour of abolishing the monarchy ( though the latter makes support for constitutional monarchy a founding principle in its policy declaration ) and the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has no official position on the role of the Crown.

She stated that she had chosen to attend the event because the city has been home to one of Canada's most ambitious environmental reclamation programs: " When people ask if there's hope ( for the environment ), I say, if Sudbury can do it, so can you.

Since their creation in 1937, the Governor General's Literary Awards have become one of Canada's most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature ( one each for text and illustration ), and translation.