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In 1993 Kim Campbell won the Tory leadership and became Canada's nineteenth prime minister. Two and a half months later she led the Progressive Conservatives to the biggest defeat of any major political party in Canadian history. Not only did they concede to the Liberals, they also lost their standing as an official party.
Kim Campbell Through the Looking Glass provides unprecedented insight into the first female prime minister of Canada, as she dared to take the poisoned chalice from Brian Mulroney. Campbell represented the future of her party: she was young, from a different part of the country, untainted by the backroom politics associated with her predecessor and of the opposite gender. Was she too different?
The film features frank interviews with Campbell, her family, colleagues and journalists, who reflect on the problem-plagued campaign and on what brought a hopeful candidacy to such an astounding defeat.
2000, 70 min 30 s
