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Kim Campbell: British Columbia
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Christian Science Monitor 7/12/00 Kim Campbell "….But the British Methodist Church is taking the discussion to a different level. It's welcoming convicted sex offenders into its 6,500 congregations, and it's established guidelines for how to help them rebuild their lives - while protecting the children in their communities. Along with the Methodists, the Anglicans, and to some extent the Roman Catholics here have ... addressed how to deal with the presence of sex offenders.
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In January, 1989, Kim Campbell was appointed Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development. In that capacity, she initiated a process for resolving land claims in British Columbia whose lack of resolution was estimated to be costing more than $1 billion in deferred investment in the province's economy.
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Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, in 1947, Campbell studied law and political science before entering Canadian politics during the 1980s. In 1986, she was elected to the British Columbia legislature as a Conservative, and two years later she was appointed minister of Indian affairs by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. In 1988, she became the first female to hold the office of Canadian attorney general and proved instrumental in the movement to increase gun control in Canada. In 1993, Campbell was appointed minister of national defense and veterans' affairs.
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Campbell launched her political career in 1980, winning a seat as a trustee on the Vancouver School Board. From 1982 to 1984 she chaired the board and presided over its $150 million annual budget, vigorously defending high profile cost-cutting measures. Her controversial commitment to restraint in the face of labor union opposition impressed the right-of-center Social Credit premier of British Columbia, Bill Bennett. Campbell ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial legislature under the Bennett banner in 1983, and in September 1985 she left Ladner Downs to serve as executive director in the premier's office.
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At law school Campbell became active in politics. From 1980 to 1984 she served on the Vancouver School Board, and in 1984 the Social Credit Party invited her to run in the 1984 provincial election. Although she lost the seat, the following year Campbell became a policy advisor to British Columbia's Premier Bill Bennett. In 1985-86 she was Director of the office of the Premier of British Columbia and the next year she ran again for a seat in the British Columbia legislature. Once elected, she made her mark in the legislature by publicly opposing the premier's restrictive stance on abortion.
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Campbell was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia to Albert Thomas Campbell (1920-2002) and Phyllis "Lisa" Cook. Her mother left the family when Campbell was 12, leaving Kim and her sister Alix to be raised by their father. As a teenager, Avril permanently nicknamed herself Kim, perhaps for actress Kim Novak.[1]
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