Today in Canada’s Political History: Happy 30th anniversary Kim Campbell!
Canada changed forever on this date in 1993 with the swearing-in of Kim Campbell as our nation’s first female Prime Minister. Finally, the toughest glass ceiling in the country had been shattered.
Many years later, when her portrait was unveiled on Parliament Hill, she described her feelings at being the first woman PM. “It gives me great pleasure that I get messages often from young women saying, in school we’re doing a program on the Prime Ministership and I’m writing about you because you’re the only woman. It was an honour, and it is an honour that I will always hold dear to my heart.”
I have known Madam Campbell for a number of years, so it is a great personal and professional honour to extend congratulations to the 19is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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