Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell Net Worth is $18 Million
Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Avril Phædra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947), PC CC OBC QC, is a Canadian politician, lawyer, university professor, diplomat, and writer. She served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 25, 1993 to November 4, 1993. Campbell was the first, and to date, only female Prime Minister of Canada, the first baby boomer to hold that office, and the only Prime Minister born in British Columbia.
As I explain to Americans, in Canada people think it's just morally unacceptable for anyone to be impoverished by illness.
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I try to be an ambassador for Canadian values and a Canadian sense of possibility. Sometimes we have to kind of blow our horn because nobody is listening: we're at the back row of the orchestra. But it's a wonderful country, full of wonderful people.
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(since January 2004) Serving as Secretary-General of the Club of Madrid, an international organization composed of former Heads of State and Heads of Government meant to help strengthen democracy around the world. [2006]
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Today Kim Campbell spends most of her time in the US and abroad engaged in issues of governance and leadership. In addition to speaking engagements all over the world, she does consulting work for businesses and NGO's and is involved in high level organizations that focus on global issues such as climate change, democracy promotion, the advancement of women and non-proliferation. [March 2010]
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Was discovered by producers searching the Vancouver schools for a plucky young reporter to host the Junior TV Club.
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At the age of 16 became the first female student body president of her high school and 30 years later became 19th Prime Minister of Canada at the age of 46.
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Was the first female Minister of National Defence-the first woman to have held such a position in any NATO country and Minister of Veterans' Affairs.
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Went to Prince of Wales Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Was the first Prime Minster to have held office at all three levels of Canadian government. She served as a Trustee for the Vancouver School Board and as a member of the British Columbia Legislature prior to entering federal politics.
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Was Canada's first female Minister of Justice and Attorney General (1990-1993).
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Led the Progressive Conservative Party to the worst electoral defeat in Candaian history during the 1993 federal election. The Progressive Conservatives went from being the governing party to being reduced to 2 seats in the House of Commons. Campbell lost her own seat in Vancouver.
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Is the first Prime Minister to hold a House seat from British Columbia (Prime Minister John Turner did not hold a seat when he was Prime Minister and was swept from office during the election that won him his British Columbian seat).
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Canada's 19th Prime Minister.
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Canada's first and thus far only female Prime Minister. Although she was voted in by the Conservative Party to replace the void left by Brian Mulroney, she was never actually elected in by the Canadian people.