Tommy Douglas is considered the father of universal healthcare in Canada, but which Canadian actor is his real-life grandson?

Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Canadian social democratic politician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become the Saskatchewan CCF's leader and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. His government was the first social democratic government in North America, and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program. In 1981, he was invested into the Order of Canada, and he became a member of Canada's Privy Council in 1984, two years before his death. In 2004, a CBC Television program named Tommy Douglas "The Greatest Canadian", based on a Canada-wide, viewer-supported survey.

In 1930, Douglas married Irma Dempsey. They had one daughter, actress Shirley Douglas, and later adopted a second daughter, Joan. His grandson is actor Kiefer Sutherland, son of Shirley and actor Donald Sutherland.

Kiefer Sutherland got his first leading film role in the Canadian drama "The Bay Boy" (1984). He has had a successful career, starring in "Stand by Me", "The Lost Boys", "Young Guns", "Flatliners", "A Few Good Men", "The Three Musketeers", "A Time to Kill", "Dark City", "Phone Booth", "Melancholia and Pompeii". Sutherland has been inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame and to Canada's Walk of Fame, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival.