As he tries to build a movement for universal health care in the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders’s much-anticipated trip to Toronto this weekend is meant to be a fact-finding mission on Canada’s health-care system.
The most popular politician in the U.S., according to a new poll released this summer, Sanders arrives in Toronto Saturday for a whirlwind trip of roundtable discussions, meetings with patients, visits to health-care facilities and this weekend’s hottest ticket – a talk on Sunday at University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall.
Professor Gregory Marchildon of U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health said Sanders’s appeal – especially for millennials on both sides of the border – lies in his populist message.
Full article at: U of T News