As 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, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. She served at all three levels of government in Canada. After leaving politics, she served as the Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles, then taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, after which she became an international leader of leaders with organizations such as the International Women’s Forum and the Club de Madrid. Drawing on her extraordinary experience as an academic and a leader, she served as the Founding Principal of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta from 2014-2018.

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, addressing audiences in places such as Kyiv, Dubai, Cordoba, Toronto, Berlin, Ulaanbaata, Prague, Brussels, Paris, Vancouver, London, Beijing, Seoul, Washington, DC and Ottawa.

SET IN STONE

SET IN STONE Kim Campbell inspires…not only as the first female Prime Minister of Canada but as an example of a practitioner of a leadership style often termed “interactive.” Her statue titled, “Could I have a moment”, on the Castle Kilbride Prime Ministers Path, brings that style to mind. The arms of the life-sized bronze likeness are open as if to welcome one into a conversation. Perhaps it re-enacts so many of the discussions key to Campbell passing a record amount of legislation as Justice Minister. The artists, Darren Byers and Fred Harrison, took pains to sculpt the features accurately as well. At the unveiling in Wilmot Township on June 28, 2018, Harrison brought a clay replica of the statue’s head to explain more about their process. At the event, a greeting from Campbell, who was unable to attend in person, complimented the work and touted the project as “ambitious” and a “wonderful contribution to the arts and the artistic landscape” of the area. She went on to predict that it would help observers to consider the democratic values of Canada, and she shared her wish that it “inspire many conversations with the imaginative ways” the artists “rendered the subjects.”

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT. The Right Honourable Kim Campbell was honoured to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from UBC’s Peter A Allard (School of Law) Alumni Association.

WOMAN OF VISION. Ms. Campbell also received the Global Woman of Vision Lifetime Achievement Award. Learn more about the awards and the other remarkable women honoured at this annual event by visiting the global Woman of Vision website.

Inspired Senior Living Magazine features Ms. Campbell on their April 2017 cover. In the article, Campbell explains more about her political career, her work founding the Peter Lougheed Leadership College, and her thoughts on the subject of leadership.

“When I was in Parliament, one of my colleagues said, “Oh, I think you are a born leader.” I don’t know whether it was that I was born with particular skills of leadership or whether I always just felt a sense of responsibility. If there was some work that needed doing, and nobody else seemed to want to do it, I would always say, ‘Well, I’ll do it.’ I would just step forward and make it happen.”

DAUGHTERS OF THE VOTE. On March 8, 2017, International Women’s Day, Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell delivered the keynote speech to Equal Voices’s Daughters of the Vote, an historic event which brought young women, from every province, to fill all the seats in the House of Commons. Following Ms. Campbell’s speech, the delegates made brief impassioned speeches about the issues that concern them.

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Kim Campbell’s service as Canada’s first female Prime Minister marks only one of the many firsts that make up her dynamic career spanning media, academia, law, government and world leadership. Since leaving politics, she has moved onto the international stage, but in this candid, revealing memoir, Kim Campbell takes you through her exciting and extraordinary political career, the challenges she met, the issues she tackled. You meet the politicians who were her friends, her enemies, and sometimes both, as she forged her way in the rough-and-tumble world of politics at all three levels of Canadian government.

How did the hardworking, intensely shy woman become a political phenomenon who broke ground for a generation of women? This remarkable portrait provides an important look at the unique experience of one woman in the political arena, the price Kim Campbell paid, and the rewards she reaped for her principles, her vision and her achievements.