Tommy Douglas is often considered one of the greatest Canadains that has ever lived. He advocated for equality and safety for all people and used civilized methods to achieve it. This can be attributed to his liberal positions on the change spectrum and the government spectrum, as well as his want for equality in economics. Douglas believed that in order to better the people of Saskatchewan there should have been a major change in government policies though civilized means. He fought for pensions minimum wages and pensions for the people in his province which was very different from the policies put in place by the liberal party at the time. He wanted more government intervention in order to grow the economy and allow lower class citizens the chance to obtain health care for free. …show more content…
This is because he thought that people would make the right decisions for themselves and it would them benefit everyone else in society. Milton Friedman wanted equal opportunity for every citizen and believed that in a truly free market it did not matter a persons race or religion because people would just want to do what was best for them which would be to buy and sell goods. He was right wing on the equal opportunity spectrum because within a free market there will always be differences between the wealth of the people. Friedman had very similar ideologies to that of Adam Smith which meant that he was a conservative on the government spectrum and also a conservative on the change spectrum. He was a conservative on the change spectrum because he believed that the governments of the people he worked for, such as Margret Thatcher in the UK, should move back to a time where there was less government control. He also thought that economies would crow and thrive if they were privatized and left for the public to manage without the government. Milton