He's the grandson of the creator of the Canadian health care system, Tommy Douglas, socialist Premier of Saskatchewan, who also brought Canada the following:
-the publicly owned Saskatchewan Power Corp., successor to the Saskatchewan Electrical Power Commission, which began a long program of extending electrical service to isolated farms and villages;
-Canada’s first publicly owned automobile insurance service, the Saskatchewan Government Insurance Office;
Crown Corporations, many of which competed with existing private sector interests;
-legislation that allowed the unionization of the public service;
-a program to offer free hospital care to all citizens
-passage of the Saskatchewan Bill of Rights, legislation that protected fundamental freedoms and equality rights against abuse not only by government actors but also on the part of powerful private institutions and persons.
In other words, Kiefer is, ideologically, the grandson of Barack Obama.