why Tommy won

"Hopefully, though, as new generations learn about the life and legacy of the CCF and NDP leader, Tommy Douglas is not reduced to a harmless icon of Canadiana, a prop out of context to be bandied about by NDP and even Liberal politicians as they strive to get elected. Our “greatest Canadian” was a democratic socialist, and by today’s standards his ideology – for all its limitations – points an accusing finger at not only the Liberal federal government, but also at many of the social democratic provincial regimes that have moved to the centre and accommodated themselves to neo-liberalism."