Topic - The Right Honourable Kim Campbell

Topic - The Right Honourable Kim Campbell

Kim Campbell was the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. She was born Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell on March 10, 1947, but was not particularly fond of any of her given names, and consequently adopted the first name Kim in her teens. Campbell married Nathan Divinsky in 1972. Campbell and Divinsky were divorced in 1983, and Campbell married Howard Eddy in 1986. Also in 1993, Campbell and Eddy were divorced, although the divorce was finalized before she became Prime Minister.
Campbell's quick rise to fame from a relatively unknown cabinet member to Prime Minister of Canada came as a bit of a shock to many Canadians. The fact that she was a woman, the first to become Prime Minister, initially made her very popular. However, Campbell's initial popularity soon wore off.
In the 1993 election, all but two of the Conservative party's candidates lost their seats to a massive Liberal landslide, and Campbell herself failed to hold onto her Vancouver riding. Although many pundits saw the unprecedented scope of her defeat as a reflection of the unpopularity of her predecessor Mulroney nevertheless she quickly resigned her position as party leader.
She is also a member of the Club of Madrid, an independent organization whose main purpose and priority is to contribute to the strengthening of democracy in the world. She continues as a Lecturer of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University to this day, She continues as a Lecturer of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University to this day.