As leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, a social democraticpolitical party, Lloyd was responsible for implementing the universal health care plan that Douglas had introduced. Lloyd's government had to cope with the doctors strike of July 1962, in which the province's physicians, backed by the resources of the American Medical Association, withdrew service in an attempt to defeat the Medicare initiative.
Lloyd and his government refused to back down on the concept of a universal public health care system, and persuaded the doctors to settle after 23 days. While Medicare was implemented, the political turmoil did lasting damage to the Lloyd government, contributing to its defeat at the hands of Ross Thatcher's Saskatchewan Liberal Party in the 1964 provincial election. Medicare was later extended to all provinces and territories in Canada as a result of the Saskatchewan experiment.
The WoodrowLloyd Lecture Series is administered by CPRC and the Faculty of Arts in honour of the first Saskatchewan-born premier.
Lloyd laid the cornerstone in 1963 for what was to become the new campus of the University of Regina.
To honour WoodrowLloyd and his respect for the public service, Thomas Molloy (QC, Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan) spoke on his experiences as the Chief Federal Negotiator for the Nisga'a Treaty and the remarkable influence on and connections with this act of 'nation building' that the Province of Saskatchewan and her citizens have.
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd (July 16, 1913-April 7, 1972) was a Canadian politician who succeeded Tommy Douglas as Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan.
Lloyd's government had to cope with the doctors strike of July 1962, in which the province's physicians, backed by the resources of the American Medical Association, withdrew service in an attempt to defeat the Medicare initiative.
While Medicare was implemented, the political turmoil did lasting damage to the Lloyd government, contributing to its defeat at the hands of Ross Thatcher'sSaskatchewan Liberal Party in the 1964 provincial election.
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