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Signature. Avril Phaedra Douglas " Kim " Campbell PC CC OBC KC (born March 10, 1947) is a former Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative ...
A total of fifteen women have served as the first minister of a Canadian government. Of these, one was prime minister of the country, ten were premiers of a province and four were premiers of a territory. The only woman first minister in Canada as of 8 December 2023 is Danielle Smith, 19th Premier of Alberta, who assumed office on 11 October 2022.
This article is the Electoral history of Kim Campbell, the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada . A Progressive Conservative, Campbell was the first woman to serve as prime minister. She served one short term in 1993. She succeeded Brian Mulroney as prime minister and then led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the general election ...
The prime minister of Canada is an official who serves as the primary minister of the Crown, chair of the Cabinet, and thus head of government of Canada. Twenty-three people (twenty-two men and one woman) have served as prime ministers. Officially, the prime minister is appointed by the governor general of Canada, but by constitutional ...
The prime minister of Canada (French: premier ministre du Canada) [note 1] is the head of government of Canada. Not outlined in any constitutional document, the office exists only per long-established convention. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority of the elected House of Commons; as such ...
Liberal. First Afghan-Canadian women elected to Parliament. President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada; Minister of Democratic Institutions (2015–2017) Minister of International Development (2019) Minister for the Status of Women/Women and Gender Equality (2017–2021) Minister of Rural Economic Development (2019–2021) Eva Nassif.
Sheila Copps becomes Canada's first female Deputy Prime Minister. 1994 – Delia Opekokew becomes the first woman to run for the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations. 2000 – Beverley McLachlin becomes Canada's first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Deborah Grey becomes Canada's first female Leader of the Opposition in the ...
Awards. Rhodes Scholarship (1993) Christina Alexandra Freeland PC MP (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian politician serving as the tenth and current deputy prime minister of Canada since 2019 and the minister of finance since 2020. A member of the Liberal Party, Freeland represents the Toronto riding of University—Rosedale in the House of ...