Kim Campbell, who broke one of the nation’s most difficult glass windows to shatter when she became Canada’s first-ever woman PM, announced her resignation as federal Tory leader on this date in 1993. Her decision was not a surprise as she had lost her own seat when her party suffered a crippling loss, electing only two MPs, only two months before. Still, she had made history and today remains a role model for young women and girls across the country. Campbell later served with distinction as Canada’s Consul General to the United States in Los Angeles. The former Prime Minister also taught at Harvard and remains today a respected voice on the international stage. She is also a person I am very proud to call my friend.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.