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” takes time out to celebrate the first addresses of our future Prime Ministers in Parliament. And today, it is The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, who would become our 19Prime Minister, we feature. Recently elected to the Commons in the 1988 free trade election, it was on this date in 1989 that she delivered her first-ever remarks in the Commons.
Four years later, this rookie MP would make history, becoming Canada’s first-ever female Prime Minister. During that first address, Campbell demonstrated that she was already comfortable in the Commons. She responded particularly well when one of her comments generated heckles from the Liberal opposition: “I am delighted to have awakened the opposition from their torpor,” she deadpanned. “I wish they could have done the same for me.” Nice one.Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon.
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