Canada has only had 13 female first ministers, including former prime minister Kim Campbell. Although several won majority governments, none were re-elected to one
There’s currently only one female premier in the country, the Northwest Territories’ Caroline Cochrane. Ms. Cochrane was not available for an interview, but Northwest Territories MLA Julie Green said in a blog post that she and Ms. Cochrane were determined in the past election to increase the representation of women in the House. Women now make up nearly half of elected members in the territories.
Ms. Wynne led her party to a historic defeat in the June, 2018, election, winning only seven seats . Her personal unpopularity, tied to policies such as rising electricity costs, was integral to the loss, but she said misogyny and homophobia also played a role in the 2018 election campaign. “It is the fact that more misogyny, more xenophobia, more discrimination is with us today than maybe 20 years ago," she said.
“The change is coming, it started with people like Kathleen Wynne, but it has still got a ways to go," she said.
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