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WelcomeAs Canada's first and only female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell's life has been a life of firsts. From the age of 16, when she became the first female student body president of her high school, until 30 years later, as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada at the age of 46, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. Holding audiences since the age of ten, Ms. Campbell speaks widely on issues related to leadership, international politics, democratization, climate change, gender, and Canadian/American relations all over the world. In recent years, she has addressed audiences in Kiev, Cordoba, Toronto, Prague, Brussels, Vancouver, London, Beijing, and Washington, DC among others. more FIVE FORMER PM'S WALK INTO A DINNEROver one thousand leaders from all sectors of Canadian society gathered to help celebrate the Public Policy Forum's 25th Anniversary at their Annual Testimonial Dinner on May 3rd in Toronto. Ms. Campbell was honored alongside her fellow living former Canadian prime ministers Joe Clark, John Turner, Brian Mulroney, and Paul Martin. (Also honored, but unable to attend was Jean Chretien.)
Visit the Public Policy Forum online to learn more about them and their work. REAL TIMEMs. Campbell was delighted to be invited back to Real Time with Bill Maher. Topics discussed included the "War on Women", the US economy, and the Trayvon Martin case, as well as Eric Klinenberg's new book, Going Solo. Her fellow guests were David Stockman, Matthew Continetti, Tavis Smiley, and Eric Klinenberg. Check out the web-exclusive Overtime segment. (Note, if you are outside the US, you'll need to find it on the HBO website in your country. For instance, Canadians would go to HBO Canada. If it is like the US site, then look in Videos. Search for Real Time. Then look according to date: Apr 13, 2012. Sorry for the inconvenience, we just found out that these links are country-exclusive.) GASTOWN?CBC's George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight ventured West to do some shows from Vancouver, and although Ms. Campbell wasn't there at that time, she did tape a segment for them ahead of time. In the video below, she explains how B.C.'s largest city avoided being officially named after a guy called 'Gassy Jack'. CAMPBELL IN CHICAGORecently, Former Prime Minister Campbell was in Chicago to speak at the OECD's Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers. Ms. Campbell spoke on behalf of the Club of Madrid regarding their programs on Women's Political Participation and Leadership as well as their Energy and Climate Change projects. While she was there, local new ABC7 asked her to comment on the recent rescheduling of the upcoming G8 summit from Chicago to Camp David instead. Ms. Campbell recalled when Canada hosted both the G8 and G20 summits and noted the billions it cost just for security. Visit ABC7's website to see the whole story. DIGITAL TECH FOR 21st CENTURY DEMOCRACIESThe Club of Madrid 2011 Annual Conference, Digital Technologies for 21st Century Democracy brought together reputated speakers, along with Club of Members, including Ms. Campbell, to explore the impact of technologies on democracy.
Learn more about the discussions that took place by visiting the conference website. Listen to the podcast of the panel Ms. Campbell participated in--“If We Build It, Will They Come: Why Meaningful Citizen Engagement is Hard”. Click on "Wednesday 9 November", then hit the play button beneath the title of the session. GREENBUILD NEXT 2011 On Wednesday, October 5th, Former Prime Minister Campbell joined Thomas Friedman, Cokie Roberts, and Dr. Paul Farmer for a discussion of "Resilience" during the Opening Celebration of Greenbuild NEXT 2011 in Toronto, ON. It is the world's largest green building conference and celebrates what is NEXT in green building. It is convened each year by the US Green Build Council (USGBC), a non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation.
 This year marks the first time it is being held outside of the United States and so Ms. Campbell was proud to welcome them to Canada. Ms. Campbell drew inspiration for resilience by the boat lift that took place on 9/11. It serves as an example of government [US Coast Guard] recognizing a need, putting out a call, and that call being answered by citizens who not only had the resources, but also the will to help meet the need to evacuate half a million people from the piers of lower Manhattan on 9/11.
Watch the Greenbuild Opening Plenary HERE. (Ms. Campbell's panel begins about 1hr15m into the video.)
CIGI CELEBRATESIn September of 2011, experts in governance as well as hip hop star K’Naan came together to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI). To mark the occasion CIGI also convened a conference titled, “Can Think Tanks Make a Difference?” Former Prime Minister Campbell was the lead speaker of the session, “Do Governments Care More About Politics than Policy?” While she was at CIGI for the events, Ms. Campbell took a moment to discuss the differences between the politics and policy development, and the value of think tanks in engaging the public in each sphere in the video below. EQUAL VOICEOn June 2nd, Former [Conservative] Prime Minister Campbell, along with Former [Liberal] Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, and Former Ontario [NDP] Cabinet Minister Frances Lankin were featured in a panel discussion about the slow progress in electing more women to the Canadian House of Commons. The discussion was organized by Equal Voice and the Women's Legal Action and Education Fund (LEAF) and was held at Massey College. Equal Voice, a national volunteer group dedicated to the election of more women, was created 10 years ago, and has spent the last decade pressuring political leaders to nominate and elect more women. Now Equal Voice’s volunteers, having tried every nice way, want to mark their 10th anniversary by upping the ante. LEAF, long the champion of women’s rights, shares the frustration that discriminatory barriers are preventing Canadian women from being equal partners with men in making the laws and running the country. As Equal Voice advisory board member, Kim Campbell, says, “It is time to stop asking, and start demanding our rights.”
Despite some gains in the last federal election, Canada is falling behind other modern democracies in terms of female representation where it really counts—in the corridors of power. Over the past decade, women’s 52 percent of the population has held only about a fifth of the seats in the House. All
 Canadians would benefit if the doors were opened to more talented women, making sure female perspectives inform foreign policy, social programs, economic and environmental tradeoffs.Equal Voice and LEAF recognized that this event was a chance to hear from three women, who broke into the male club of politics, explain why asking politely for parity for women in politics just isn’t working. It was a chance to cross the usual partisan lines, as these three former politicians have done--to explore common bonds, and hopefully create a community of support for changing the face of politics in Canada.
Watch a video of the panel discussion on CPAC’s Video on Demand.
TO THE CONTRARYRecently Former Prime Minister Campbell was in Washington, DC for meetings and events. She was happy to also make a return appearance on PBS's To the Contrary while she was there. Featured topics of the episode were:
NEXT BEST THINGWhile she was unable to personally attend, Former Prime Minister Campbell addressed, by video, the Opening of the third Oxford Model Ukraine Conference at St. Antony’s College and New College at the University of Oxford. The conference was held April 6-8, and was sponsored and organized by the alumni of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP), and the Oxford University Ukrainian Society, in cooperation with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Center. Ms. Campbell encountered the work of CUPP through her role as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Foundation for Effective Governance in Kyiv. Watch the video below.
AS SEEN ON TVRecently, Kim Campbell returned to HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
Her fellow guests were Will Cain, Rep Jack Kingston (R-GA), DL Hughley, and Frmr RNC Chair, Michael Steele. The lively discussion included subjects like Climate Change and Evolution. Happy 200th Episode Real Time! Check out the web-exclusive OVERTIME SEGEMENT. (Note, if you are outside the US, you'll need to find it on the HBO website in your country. For instance, Canadians would go to HBO Canada. If it is like the US site, then look in videos. Search for Real Time. Then look according to date: Jan 28, 2011. Sorry for the inconvenience, we just found out that these links are country-exclusive.) CANDID CAMPBELL
Check out the video below, or listen to the podcast on UBC Alumni Affairs site.
STUDYING RADICALISATIONFormer Prime Minister Campbell is proud to be one of the founding Trustees of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which recently held the ICSR Peace and Security Summit at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City June 30th and July 1st. The most important event of its kind in 2010, the Summit brought together 400 leading policymakers, diplomats, senior officials and experts from across the globe, encouraging them to share their experiences and approaches in a number of working groups and high-level panels such as Nine Years After 9/11: Are We Safer?. The Summit explored the greatest security challenges of our time, ranging from domestic radicalization and violent extremism to ongoing conflicts and the struggle for peace in places such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, and the Middle East. Learn more about ICSR from their new video: |
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Kim Campbell’s quick wit and candor have delighted audiences all over the world, and if her recent appearance at her alma mater, 
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