... in the Persons Case, Agnes Macphail and the struggles she had as Canada's first female to be elected into Parliament and the career of Kim Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister of Canada. Their actions have helped women in Canada take steps towards becoming equals. The Persons Case was ... dissatisfied with the little that she had accomplished, the Conservatives suffered an extraordinary loss and was left with only two seats. At the time Campbell had lost her own Vancouver seat and she retired from politics all together. She returned to her studies and later accepted a fellowshi...

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... , the Liberal Party as a whole seems more publicly supportive of women's suffrage than its leaders during this time period: Galdstone did not support the amendment to the 1884 Reform Act, Campbell-Bannerman too publicly opposed women's suffrage and Asquith was consistently stubborn. Asquith finally mellowed to allow parliamentary time for the Conciliation Bills due to the divisions between members of his ... ...

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