Kim Campbell, Canada's WORST prime minister

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[@mishaj2647]

Another great video about a topic I would never have found interesting otherwise

[@mumbairay]

She advised Ukraine and look what happened

[@fjusposting2103]

That guy that he showed as the former president of Brazil, was Fernando Collor de Mello, the first president of Brazil to be impeached in 1992, and also, he was regarded as a one of the worst presidents in Brazilian history, inflation on the end of his term was at 1,112%, he tried to make an economic plan that was horrible, he confiscated the money of everyone and only left US$ 50, in febuary 1992, his brother after having an argument with Paulo Cesar Farias (also known as PC Farias), denouced a massive corruption scandal, that was lead by PC Farias and had involment of President Collor, in August of that same year, A CPI (in english A Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry), anouced that President Collor was guilty and they opened an impeachment process and he was removed from office, and his vice-president became President.

[@thewewguy8t88]

for me personally due to recent events i find myself more interested in canadian politics then i think i have ever been.

[@lollypoofy]

Sooooooooooooo truuuuuuuue 😭🙌🙌🙌

[@ricklazio7923]

she wasn't good. justin trudeau to me takes 1st place as worst PM.

[@zeeebooo86]

You have half of Kim Campbell's hair

[@kosukemiura1226]

except his is better

[@samiezzi6143]

Waiting for his saucy photoshoot now

[@margaritam.9118]

That basically makes them relatives.

[@AdolfStalin]

he looks like a member of A Flock Of Seagulls

[@globial5329]

@@samiezzi6143 hell yeah

[@Generik97]

I think Kim Campbell shouldn't be recognized as Canada's 19th Prime Minister... She should be officially recognized instead as Canada's 18th ½ Prime Minister...

[@dariogaelreyes7534]

That a gravity falls reference?

[@The_-_-]

Are you serious or are you suggesting this jokingly?

[@anawesomepet]

@@The_-_- is this an r/woooosh or r/madlads

[@macalister8881]

I dont even remember her , she must have been so bad i suppressed the memory

[@mr.communist3906]

john paton ok boomer

[@ReyndOut]

Liz Truss surely used her prime ministership for ideas… 😂

[@t.b.g.504]

And was over in 1/3 the time!

[@sambarrett3059]

Yeah apart from the fact that Kim didn't completely fuck the Canadian economy

[@cgt3704]

​@@sambarrett3059 Campbell : "Who are you ?" Truss: "Im you, but worse. "

[@ExploreBC79]

@@cgt3704Good one 👍😁

[@CallumRSU30]

The British Conservative Party fancying themselves two seats..!

[@doubleirishdutchsandwich4740]

Kim Campbell was terrible. She accidentally insulted her opponents disability and made an insensitive gaffe while talking about a recession. *Cries during 2020 US primary*

[@trashasaurus]

lmao, yeah when he played the clip at 8:10 I was like "wtf that was actually considered some monumental gaffe?" Trump and Biden do worse every morning as a warmup.

[@jarjarbinks6018]

As an American it’s honestly depressing to look back and see how this of all things was considered an embarrassment at the time

[@squamish4244]

@@jarjarbinks6018 It still would be in Canada now lol Less so but you still can't get away with the same shit here.

[@dallyh.2960]

"we're heading for a dark winter"

[@thunderbird1921]

Did she ever plagiarize though? Cause I know someone who did.

[@yukey2587]

When Madonna (yes, the singer) said nasty things about Kim, she retorted..."I am a strapless evening gown. She is a gownless evening strap." Great burn.

[@ghostninja5035]

Why was Madonna talking about Canadian politics, isn't she American?

[@stvnrb6270]

@@ghostninja5035 I don't know pal. All I've heard coming from Canadians everywhere the past 4 years is 'orange man bad'. Why are we talking about American politics aren't we Canadians?

[@jordanh3665]

@@stvnrb6270 probably because American politics has an extreme influence on Canadian politics, and not so much vice-versa?

[@roybatty9935]

@@ghostninja5035 I mean, she's from Michigan, but it really doesn't matter. We're neighbors. The Trudeau bullshit was all over the news down here, and folks are allowed to speak about whatever they want. I have some choice things to say about the Kim (not Campbell) family, but I'll probably never set a foot in the DPRK. On news=talking point. Plus, she's a celeb. Either she was asked in an interview or gave her opinion when no one cared like everything else celebs say.

[@roybatty9935]

@@jordanh3665 yeah, dude NAFTA never happened and you guys arent literally the other half of the continent we share or anything. We should probably just pay 0 attention to what's going on up there at all. (Honestly, most people probably really don't, but most people are stupid.) Canadian opinions of the dynamic between our countries is weird.

[@cre8ive65]

As a Canadian on the left, I applaud how neutral and unbiased your videos are! I also like you adding your opinion in as well, I try an curate my feeds to add a wide variety of perspectives and I'm glad to have your views as a part of that.

[@JJMcCullough]

I think I want to do a video in the future about biases and how to avoid them, because it's something I think about a lot. It means a lot to me when people praise me for being unbiased.

[@templar19]

"I applaud how neutral and unbiased your videos are!" Tell that to half the people who watched his videos on Quebec separatism.

[@anotherrandomer]

@@JJMcCullough As a Kansan, you give me hope that there can be brilliant presenters in politics in North America which we are currently lacking, probably around the world.

[@jakepatterson1666]

That's a joke right? The guy has such contempt for french Canadians and I can barely speak french

[@LanielPhoto]

We all know what lefties are.....

[@robertguy9553]

Wow, Kim’s “aloof” answer would be considered a good, straight forward answer today

[@dallascopp4798]

TBH that's what I was thinking. I honestly couldn't really tell that was "aloof," because that seems what politicians just say. Nothing of substance and meaningless buzz words.

[@militantman]

No, she didn’t really explain much, bye she said, and I quote , "...at the turn of the century." It is a bit...stupid to say that as people want change now, not later

[@militantman]

dallas copp too true

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

@@dallascopp4798 well there are reasons for politicians to be aloof. Things can be brought up against them, they can be made a fool of and sometimes if they say something wrong, be fired

[@stsk7]

when compared to Trudeau even staying on subject is a wonderful straight forward answer lol

[@Gnomey666]

I'm convinced you are sitting on an exercise ball for every video

[@superduck6456]

He actually is sitting on an exercise ball. He showed it in video a long time ago.

[@paradoxicallystupid9665]

He is, he did a video on this a while back

[@braydenreid6542]

It’s very distracting lol

[@historyhub9211]

He does.

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

This would've been a lil too weird if he wasn't.

[@YvonTripper]

The PC party was pretty much dead by the time Kim Campbell took over. It had brought in a REALLY unpopular sales tax and botched two constitutional amendments, creating hard feelings across Canada and causing two breakaway parties to form. Plus there was a terrible recession from 1991-1993. The PCs were at about 15% support when she took over. She had no time to give it any new direction because the maximum term between elections (5 years back then) had almost expired. Yes, her campaign was mediocre but really the PCs did no worse than where they were headed anyway if Mulroney had stayed as leader. And the next two PC leaders led the party to 20 seats and 12 seats, which kind of points to the fact not so much that Kim Campbell was a terrible leader but that, after Mulroney, the PCs were a spent force.

[@inwalters]

I agree. Calling her "the worst" is unfair. It's like if a new captain took over the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. Kinda late to be able to do anything about it.

[@magnetarr4448]

Your comment is better than this guys entire video and you probably wrote that in 5 mins, but hey its easy when you have an obvious bias on things like this guy does

[@SemiPerfectDark]

I was there. I was a conservative. At the time, I would not have voted conservative no matter who was leading the party.

[@stephenolan5539]

Before the election I said that she should go after the foreign poachers. Six months after she lost big time, Tobin went after them and became a national hero. Something else Mulroney screwed up big time was to hold his ministers accountable and made them resign. All the public understood was that his ministers had to resign. Chretien bragged that none of his ministers had to resign. But that was only because he didn't make them. And he was the greenest PM in Canadian history but the results were not evident at the time.

[@clawsoon]

Agreed. It was Mulroney's rule that created the Bloc and Reform and killed the PCs. Kim Campbell had no chance.

[@Violetcas97]

God I love your channel. Do I see eye to eye with you politically? Not really, but as far as I'm concerned your channel seems to be first and foremost about being proud of canadian culture and teaching about Canadian politics and history, and that's something I can get behind fully.

[@alexteixeira8211]

Shane's Book Corner agreed J.J consistently raises points which makes me question my own political bias !!

[@jacobrosewater8811]

Also, he does not fall into that "but the us" fallacy that is so common in Canadian political thinking

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

this channel teaching you history...where did you go to university?-if you did

[@Violetcas97]

@@RobertJamesChinneryH I'm going to college for fullstack web development, I'm just personally interested in the politics and history of my country, none of which was adequately taught to me in Nova Scotia's shitty public educational system

[@garret1930]

@Kelowna Videos if you feel that way then why don't you improve it or get the fuck out and stay gone? How is it at all useful to express an opinion like this?

[@ararazul9638]

Took me a while to realise the sheer insanity of a "Progressive Conservative" Party.

[@samuelwolch1302]

Oxymoronic isn’t it?

[@Charles-gk7xx]

@@samuelwolch1302 It's not if you actually study 19th-century conservatism roots. Obviously you won't

[@RunstarHomer]

​@@Charles-gk7xxahh yes, the best way to encourage someone to learn more about your worldview: snarky condescension.

[@Charles-gk7xx]

@@RunstarHomer youre acting like they were curious when they were just insulting conservatives. If you go low, we will stay low

[@RunstarHomer]

@@Charles-gk7xx Bro you're literally the only one in this thread who insulted anyone. The other dude said "progressive conservative" was an oxymoron because in modern political parlance those two words literally describe opposite sides of the spectrum.

[@mikefromvernon]

I'm willing to give Kim Campbell the benefit of the doubt for 2 reasons 1) She only had the position for 4 months. 2) She was put in right after Mulrooney who made a real mess and made unpopular decisions. She was the PM when people realized just what Mulrooney did and therefore took the blame.

[@RobwLPOC]

Amen, she was made the captian of the titanic AFTER it had already hit the iceburg.

[@cjmhall]

Love the ‘80s VCR effect 😍

[@brokoblin6284]

10:15 The audio for his speech only coming out of one headphone is a nice touch.

[@TallCanDan02]

I thought there was just a problem with the audio, since one of my headphones is broken.

[@echarts3710]

The only thing remaining for Liz Truss becoming "British Kim Campbell" is losing her MP seat in next election

[@JJMcCullough]

Which she did!

[@dijonrayrollan2954]

​@@JJMcCullough All that is left is her trying to cash in her brief time as Prime Minister!

[@unarmedduck]

😎😎Liz Truss is doing a Kim Campbell speed run 😎😎

[@BicBoi1984]

Trudeau's trying real hard to outdo her

[@richardshort3914]

*BigBoi* In fairness: He succeeded.

[@missquark_]

@@richardshort3914 indeed

[@oilersridersbluejays]

His dad was pretty shitty too.

[@14nafster]

Spread the word J.C.

[@JollyOldCanuck]

@@oilersridersbluejays His dad was great, unfortunately Justin doesn't live up to the name.

[@chrisuminski6037]

As an American, your channel is an incredibly great way to learn about Canadian politics in an unbiased (by my standards at least) way. If I ever move to Canada, I already know who I would support.

[@manamejeffbeezos]

As a Canadian I 100 percent up until this moment, thought we've never had a female prime Minister.

[@denniswilkerson5536]

"Progressive Conservative Party"? That entire title sounds contradictory.

[@arctic_shadow578]

Now we have ppc XD

[@selahanany5645]

it was socially progressive and economicly conservative

[@Nestalgba92023]

@@selahanany5645 Still better than fiscally Neo-liberal(-ism).

[@skdncbdjsjxbdb]

@@Nestalgba92023 the pc party is neoliberal

[@h4nh90]

...isn’t that just liberals?

[@robbson2390]

This is so much like the premiership of Alec Douglas-home in the UK. He only became prime minister because it was obvious Harold Macmillan would lose and he was prime minister for under a year before being defeated in the election.

[@CFijWPG]

I've always thought Kim Campbell hardly counts as one of Canada's Prime Ministers, since she just happened to be the one to get the spotlight thrown on her when Brian Mulroney went running for the hills just as his party was about to be destroyed.

[@henryseeney4429]

Re watching this video after the fall of Liz Truss as British Prime Minister after 45 days in office. Her short tenure, characteristics and relationship with the Conservative Party immediately made me think of Campbell.

[@juanchoresultay2704]

Kim Campbell probably lasted longer than Truss though 😂

[@farhanatashiga3721]

@@juanchoresultay2704 well 4 months consists of more than 45 days

[@Milnoc]

I remember the 1993 election night very well. I couldn't believe that the Progressive Conservatives could fall so low, and that the Bloc Québecois won enough seats to become the official opposition! I wouldn't call Kim Campbell the worst prime minister we've ever had because she didn't have the job long enough to actually do any serious damage to the country. Three months being the PM, then one month being the head of a caretaker government (i.e. no real power) during the election campaign. That's it! Not even enough time to unpack the moving boxes at 24 Sussex Drive!

[@mrs.mcnamara1669]

François Caron I remember the skit from this Hour has 22 minutes. Kim crying in the bathroom begging for Prozac.

[@stephenolan5539]

Who was it that called the election? I think when Kathleen Winn was in pretty much the same situation provincially she knew history and did not call her first election until she was well established.

[@ajshdhenskaka]

They deserved it. Decide if you want to be a liberal or conservative, nobody wants a shitty version of both.

[@bobwinters5572]

@@stephenolan5539 The 5 year term was coming to an end, so there was no way to delay.

[@t.b.g.504]

​@@stephenolan5539It was Campbell. She dissolved parliament at the beginning of September.

[@HistoryNerd808]

I really enjoy these history videos. I'm a history nut but I'm also American so I obviously don't know much about Canadian history

[@JJMcCullough]

I enjoy making them!

[@dodovomitory3496]

Michael Hill american education is pretty trash yea

[@HistoryNerd808]

@@dodovomitory3496 It's more or less accurate but that's not what I'm saying. Canadian history doesn't really influence world history that much since they basically went along with what the British did on foreign policy for so long

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

@@dodovomitory3496 No it isn't, you fucking idiot.

[@mrhilla1438]

I have never related more to a comment in my life

[@martingonzalez3948]

Here bc of the UK election constantly compared to possibly being Canada 93s

[@johnedwards1968]

To pass the blame on to Kim Campbell seems highly misguided. Brian Mulroney was easily the worst PM in Canadian history, and almost single handedly destroyed the national PC party. If you wanted to argue that Kim Campbell was irrelevant, might be a stronger position.

[@rodneynicholauson2333]

Since she served 4 months as PM, her term shouldn't be ranked as a term under a yr isn't enough time to do anything.

[@SenorMeinKrafter]

She wasn't able to do any harm to Canada, so she's immediately better than those ones.

[@markboucher5776]

How long were you Prime Minister? Sit down.

[@CertifiedDeadMemes]

Insert Justin Trudeau joke here

[@ethanmarks8960]

Certified Dead Memes so just Justin Trudeau

[@hellothere4485]

Um

[@no2party]

The second female PM and also terrible.

[@chedsalvia6270]

is she a drama teacher as well?

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Good lord the hyperbole

[@harrywood6502]

"Why Is This Woman Smiling?" What a great headline

[@code_kanga5390]

Is there a book about Canada's worst haircuts?

[@JeremyRatzlaff]

These videos are incredible - I’d be okay with you covering *every* prime minister in this way.

[@TomJohnson67]

That would be a great series.

[@DarrylSmith1968]

yes start with the 1st and work your way put to date.

[@bobshoe8426]

"Steven Harper..." hey I know that guy!

[@ethanomcbride]

His last name was Tory? Did he even pick his own party or did they just sort him on automatic?

[@marsupialmole3926]

In Australia, when our second longest running prime minister finally lost an election, he also lost his seat in the same election

[@haroldlawson8771]

Now it look like a pm will make though a term

[@mcmillan20101]

At least Theresa May is doing better than someone

[@sandernista6499]

@@nolimitarmani what makes Merkel so bad? If you say immigration, then you're insane. I'm no fan of her way of governing but you cant deny that Germany is in a much better place now than it was back when she got elected.

[@SenorMeinKrafter]

@@sandernista6499 She's Hitler's child. She is the leader of the 4th Reich known as the European Union.

[@Clay3613]

@@SenorMeinKrafter Stop spreading your flat out bullshit and lies.

[@SNN788]

She's doing better than Captain Bonespurs.

[@capybara2450]

@@sandernista6499 illegal immigration has ruined Germany. She did great for the economy but has changed the country. The culture has changed and crime has gone up. She Put migrants first and Germans last. What about poor Germans or Germans that need help? Can't wait till she goes

[@LeRoiJojo]

So, if I get your point correctly, Campbell is canadian history's worst prime because she's been thrown in an unwinnable election and then lost so badly that it destroyed her party, which was already going to lose. What's bad for a political party isn't necessarily what's bad for a country, and I would rather judge a prime minister on the policies he\she takes rather than his\her ability to get elected or his\her failure to be the smooth-talking-Jesus-figure of an already dying party. Kim Campbell may have been the worst politician to get the top job, be she can't be Canada's worst ever prime minister: she's not much more than a pesky footnote!

[@crystalwolcott4744]

She didn't shatter the glass ceiling they threw her off a glass cliff

[@ideasnotideology1101]

Yes, Brian Mulroney had a lot to do with her loss.

[@exie4678]

Throwing a party leader under the bus by electing them/forcing them into it. By such logic Alec Douglas-Home would be the worst PM in British History during to his year-ish long which is complete rubbish given the existence of John Major or Gordon Brown (the latter perhaps may be another example, but his Premiership was more than a year). She does seem the Canadian equivilent to Theresa May, in which she took over a liberal conservative before showing the Party to be a liberal and nebulous mess at the election she contested. The only thing keeping May in power that couldn't help Campbell was two-fold: state of the main opposition (In Britain's case being a committed socialist) and Party loyalties running strong (but still failing to guarantee her that 'assured landslide').

[@militantman]

@@exie4678 Alec Douglas-home would be considered quite a good Conservative leader, this is because he was able to rise up in the polls, Labour was expected to win that election by a landslide but they barely won a majority. In fact, if 900 more people in 18 constituencies voted conservative, Home would've won with a workable minority. By the way, I agree with everything you have said

[@exie4678]

@@militantman A Workable Minority as in Confidence & Supply or as in a potential Coalition with the Liberals? I am not 100% on the specifics of the 1963 General Election.

[@Sophie-mv7bd]

Being British this is giving Liz truss vibes but even Liz truss lasted less longer in office than Kim cambell

[@louisalectube]

As an American, hearing a Canadian openly speak about people making new political parties is so damn refreshing!

[@Cambrandreth]

Excellent video. I attended a lecture given by Kim Campbell about a year ago in Toronto. She is a highly intelligent woman. I think that we would certainly have been no worse off if she had continued in office beyond 1993 as opposed to the Chretien Liberals. The Liberal governments' policies ended up not being radically different from those proposed by the P.C's in the campaign of 93 in any case. Mr. McCullough, I would not be opposed to a whole series on the Prime Minister's of Canada in a similar style to this video.

[@MrRaulstrnad]

actually she isnt quite intelligent-she is very stupid

[@rvss5270]

A Brazilian learning about Canadian politics and history. Yeah, that's me :)

[@NoCareBearsGiven]

you shouldnt learn from him. He talks about Canada from a very americanized point and he even fakes his accent in a way to attract more Americans and sounds like he is mocking it.

[@Lance11116]

This correlates so much to current British politics

[@insertnamehere5809]

Sunak's going down the same path.

[@fuferito]

I had turned 18 just in time to vote for Kim Campbell ironically. It was pretty historic.

[@Megacooltommydee]

Truss has resigned after only a month and a half. Claim your spot if you came back after hearing the news.

[@matthewepshtein9026]

Done

[@michaelmalloy8396]

My day is always made when I get a notification that J.J made a new video

[@spacewalker7721]

Liz truss sees the four months of prime ministership of Kim Campbell and laughs

[@joezegers]

So the Canadian version of Andrew Johnson who served about as much time as William Henry Harrison.

[@wilverbal]

Harrison was president for a month. Johnson was president for three years, ten months, and change.

[@sisbrawny]

As bad as Campbell was, I would say Justin Trudeau takes her place now.

[@BRockandriffs]

sisbrawny On what basis?

[@ethanmarks8960]

BRockandriffs all of them

[@BRockandriffs]

Ethan Marks That’s incredibly unhelpful. I was asking a genuine question as a non-Canadian.

[@BRockandriffs]

sobantuy -It’s my understanding that Omar Khadr sued the Canadian government and settled, which is not the same thing as your framing at all. Also Guantanamo Bay is an extrajudicial torture facility, so any conclusions drawn from it are dubious at best. -if the motion was purely symbolic, then it doesn’t seem to be overly consequential, especially given Trudeau’s willingness to condemn the likes of Saudi Arabia over journalistic treatment. -to what extent where these people not vetted and do you have a source for the rough number of people. Almost all of these examples seem to be gaffes that do not necessarily affect Canada in a wider context. Do you have any examples of horrible things he has done that has had a tangible effect on the Canadian people at large?

[@snikrsniks8250]

​@@BRockandriffs Hes taken bribes lets anyone pay him 15000 and he will have a private dinner together with them to discuss anything, there is some reports of 2 million dollars in bribes there He appropriated the Indian culture in India He's violated our right to free speech He cancelled a very important oil pipeline that would have boosted the economy He was suppose to have the budget balanced by 2020 now that wont happen till 2041 He has no political background that made him qualified for prime minister

[@johnnyjakesman8305]

Your videos are fascinating. You would make a brilliant history / politics teacher 🇨🇦🇬🇧

[@whutteretbrock2181]

Justin Trudeau's name immediately comes to mind when mentioning Canada's worst PM

[@aksekhiddelll8900]

its hard to beat Blackface in that category, in fact blackface may the worst leader of any commonwealth country ever.

[@quizkitten9641]

But he's dreamy.

[@aksekhiddelll8900]

@@quizkitten9641 he is a a homosexual so grow up

[@warlordtitan5633]

Theresa May really should've been taking notes on this one...

[@dylanwilliams4459]

Outstanding video JJ! It's amazing how you can explain Canadian history, politics, and culture so spectacularly!

[@leighsa4647]

honest question, do you feel that way because you learn from him and are being educated, or is it because hes within your echo chamber and his opinions make you feel connected.

[@PierreaSweedieCat]

JJ Nailed this one. I was watching that debacle at the time.

[@ms-vq1os]

Québec Maple Syrup Mafia/Cartel. You have to make a video about it! 😄

[@Julia-sj4od]

ms14 Wait what the hell

[@Julia-sj4od]

It’s a REAL THING?

[@Talliwa123]

Julia Michaelis Absolutely! My grandparents have a small « érablière » that is for personal consumption but if ever we had a few extra gallons of maple syrup and tried selling it at a farmers market we could get into big trouble.

[@Julia-sj4od]

Alicia R Wow, Canada never fails to amaze me

[@fredklein3829]

Just look at the Canadian flag

[@timpage6007]

I'm really glad I found your channel J.J.!!!! You help learning about "boring Canadian politics" actually interesting!!!!!

[@Floki-D.]

The canadian Liz Truss

[@funfairs__uk]

Literally

[@isacnascimento897]

She remind me our first woman president here im Brazil, not only for the appearance but also by the incompetence.

[@mohamedabdourahman9845]

She wasn't as incompetent as Dilma but she probably would have after the election.

[@_rafael_fr]

It's really hard to beat Dilma.

[@Dualbladedscorpion7737]

@Ekonomen Nothing else though

[@paulstenberg3915]

@@AL-sd7uz wtf

[@AL-sd7uz]

@@paulstenberg3915 It's true though, you don't see many women who are ready to put their hands in mud to achieve their ambitions, they're taught that weakness is strength and that they're equal to men which is not true.

[@corbamilk6412]

I’ve always been curious about her after almost running into her at the Vancouver Indycar race. I was an official, pushing my way through the crowd and saw open space around a blonde haired woman, so I went for it. A hand grabbed my arm and a sunglass wearing, radio toting guy in a suit pointed at her and said “the Prime Minister “. I was surprised at getting so close, 3ft, to the head of large country. I’m American and typically ignorant about Canadian politics. I had to ask about to find out who I had almost run into.

[@StoriesByDrew]

I'm learning way more about Canadian politics from this one channel than in my entire 12 years in the public school system.

[@literally-just-a-leaf]

I feel like Liz Truss is well on her way to becoming the British Kim Campbell (albeit with a longer political carreer preceding her premiership)

[@Thecognoscenti_1]

Great content as usual. You should do a video about Bonar Law, the only Canadian-born British Prime Minister, and the only PM to be born outside the British Isles.

[@Glaedrik]

Love hearing about all this! It would be interesting to see you cover today’s politics in Canada!

[@harrygeiser2989]

15:51 This reminds me a bit of William Henry Harrison. Although he died one month into his presidency, he's still respected as a president (at least here in Ohio) for being essentially the founding father of the midwest, and I think people often see his earlier achievements as justifying him as a president, even if he hardly was one.

[@Da1Dez]

Liz Truss just followed in Kim's shoes for the UK.

[@watching.everything]

You're better with the monocle.

[@tiggurai]

i would watch an 18 minute video about his monocle

[@reagansmith5288]

She kinda looks like that British PM during Falklands War

[@davidgareau2319]

Margaret Thatcher

[@billrobertjoe]

Margaret Thatcher, you could've just said Margaret Thatcher

[@reagansmith5288]

@@davidgareau2319 Thank you

[@sandernista6499]

He didnt want to get his fingers dirty by typing her name...

[@reagansmith5288]

@@sandernista6499 lmao

[@fredklein3829]

Don't forget John Turner was also from British Columbia. Though born in UK of Canadian parents, his main province was BC.

[@MrRaulstrnad]

but he was based in Ontario and he ran his businesses there

[@fredklein3829]

@@MrRaulstrnad At other times, he was a lawyer based in Quebec and an MP from Montreal's St.George's riding. In his youth, he was a track star at UBC in BC and was also in the Bar of the NWT.

[@carolsimpson4422]

I still have a tshirt from her party election campaign. She threw a legitimately fun shindig I attended as the friend of youth delegates. All the boys were really cute and nice. That's all I remember, the cute boys lol Good times :)

[@nhprman]

I always learn so much from your videos! I knew some basics about Kim Campbell, but not much. Keep going on this series on PMs of Canada, please!

[@billrobertjoe]

Are you sitting on a yoga ball?

[@FroyourFilms]

@@complainingperson2883 He actually does use a yoga ball

[@JJMcCullough]

This question needs to go in the JJ FAQ.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Yes, he's said so in many videos.

[@billrobertjoe]

@@mirzaahmed6589 ok

[@UriyahYasharal]

Oh, so that's why he bounces non-stop.

[@CephaloG0D]

Made plenty of firearms illegal by the most arbitrary way possible. She went through a firearms catalogue and circled all the "scary guns" and handed it to the RCMP to criminalize. I don't "hate" our gun laws in Canada but they're far too arbitrary. It should be action-based, not "spooky scary"-based. We've recently had a bunch of semi-automatic rifles banned for similarly arbitrary reasons. Where does it end?

[@WanukeX]

12:12 - And now John Tory has resigned as Toronto mayor in disgrace due to a sex scandal, so I guess the one success story from Campbell's PMship has now also crashed and burned.

[@jlue7501]

I love the retro eighties style this video kinda has

[@thekidfromiowa]

V A P O R W A V E A E S T H E T I C

[@NewPaulActs17]

needs more betamax and synthpop

[@arcofspira]

Thanks for the video. I always look forward to your vidoes and I've been reading your cartoons and articles for close to ten years. Please keep making more videos!

[@B3arAbl3]

Canadians everywhere disagree with Kim Campbell.

[@Marshal_Dunnik]

15:37 On her lapel is the badge of the Order of Canada, the highest civilian award in the country: she earned it by simple virtue of being the PM. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who will display an award they didn't really earn, and those who will not.

[@mlkdf30]

Someone needs to make a Canadian spin-off of Veep about her life

[@reillyfake8947]

I live in the state of Maine, I live closer to Canada than any other american state. I'm glad that someone is here to teach me about your government

[@iainmacdonald4849]

Where the hell is this guy from? Minnesota? I’ve never heard a Canadian pronounce “a boot” like this.

[@Cnut_the_grape]

I've met a few people from Ontario who sound like this but not quite as extreme, more like "abot"

[@harrycooper5231]

He sounds like a far right American, and knows very little about Canada.

[@stubbman5383]

I've heard more easties use it but this guys from BC I think

[@liamo7045]

He sounds like a south park character

[@harrycooper5231]

@@liamo7045 Yep. Claims he lives in Vancouver....NOBODY talks like that in Vancouver, absolutely nobody...except JJ apparently.

[@michaelroy6630]

1:25 "I would just like to acknowledge..." Really? He's gonna do a land acknowledgement in a youtube video? "... that today's video is brought to you by Skillshare" Oh

[@seriousbees]

I would like to acknowledge that we are now on the ancestral lands of Tay Zonday, Star Wars Kid, and David after dentist

[@firefightergoggie]

Campbell was bad, but Justin Trudeau is definitely working hard to out do her.

[@allenmax8995]

certainy... but...I will never forget the two stupidest things I have ever heard from a PM....''an election is no place to discuss the issues'' and... AND ''we have to learn to live with 10% unemployment'' PM Kim Campbell 1993.....ok Jihad Castro's ''peoplekind' scolding is right up there...yeah right up there

[@LinA-it9vd]

allen max Trudeau is the worst Prime Minister hands down.

[@krieger7173]

allen max The budget will balance itself

[@daerdevvyl4314]

allen max Actually, the unemployment rate thing was just telling the truth. It WAS close to 2000 before it started to improve. People took it to mean that she didn’t care about it, but that’s not true. And Paul Martin said basically the same thing a few days after the election. I also thought the backlash about the Chretien ad was stupid. The PC party had run virtually the same ad against John Turner and it was effective, so they were trying to duplicate that success. But Chretien dived to the ground like a European soccer player, crying about how the ad was making fun of his facial paralysis. And unfortunately the referee (Canadian voters) fell for it and threw Campbell out of the game.

[@moola9755]

allen max jihad Castro????

[@robbicu]

Considerate and insightful, as always, good job!

[@ComedyJakob]

And yet she still served longer than Liz Truss

[@AndrewDonegan9]

that john tory thing didn't age well...

[@drvelocci]

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[@flamedestroyer6]

Please do more videos on the history of Canada. I'm British and I find it so interesting to find out about Canadian politics. Do a video on Brian Mulroney!

[@tomgun96]

I would love to see more videos about Brian Mulroney, Pieree Trudeau, and other prime ministers because I feel like not a lot is known about them unless you're from Canada.

[@diaz5292]

Justin Trudeau was Canada's first former assistant substitute drama teacher ever elected Prime Minister...lol

[@arlosmith2784]

Sounds like Kim Campbell was a Liz Truss. However Truss had serious prior government experience as foreign secretary, while Campbell had limited governmental and electoral experience.

[@Arb5125]

12:05 “Prime Minister of Quebec” - do you mean Premier of Quebec? Separatism didn’t quite win out :)

[@TheTroyc1982]

it's prime minister in Quebec

[@raphaelperspective9393]

Anglophones say Premier but here in Quebec we do say Prime Minister.

[@user-xg8yy7yl1d]

In French the premier of quebec is prime minister because they dont really have a word for premier Premier and Prime Minister mean the same thing (premier meaning the premier minister of government) and technically its not incorrect to call a premier the prime minister of their province its just weve taken to calling them premier in english to have a clear verbal distinction between provincial leaders and the federal one.

[@haroldlawson8771]

Raphaël Perspective decide if u want to stay or leave already!

[@kent4833]

@@user-xg8yy7yl1d premier is a french word.

[@TheLoughDuck55]

Justin Trudeau reads title* Trudeau: Hold my drink

[@burkean]

The title of worst prime minister hinges on semantics: least good: Kim Campbell most bad: Pierre Trudeau

[@aznguy876]

JJ, can you please do a video on Canadian politics in the 90's? From what I hear, politics in the 90's were a weird time and I have a hard time understanding why. There's so many things that went on in this era. Love you videos!

[@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

Watch the Paul Vincent videos

[@sturgeon2888]

The way he describes Campbell... I could swear he was describing Hillary Clinton.

[@daedulus7203]

Just because she was the first women prime minister, doesn't make her good

[@trerio6815]

No one said that.

[@daedulus7203]

@@trerio6815 That's how bad she was lol.

[@waynemclaughlin96]

Well Justin Trudeau just notched Kim Campbell one up as he is now the worst Prime Minister of Canada in Canada's history. And I don't effing care what that book says it doesn't speak for me I speak for myself...

[@robson1566]

I actually never thought there could be a country in which the worst leader would be the least relevant. Generally the worst leaders are among those who matter the most.

[@KDArchive]

This is on a playlist called "Apple Magic Accessories" by DetroitBORG. Wasn't expecting that.

[@erichatch912]

Thanks for helping me understand Canadian politics!

[@rbzbsb]

Another excellent and informative video. Thanks. When I watched yours on Laurier, I was yet to become a Canadian Citizen. Happy to report I am watching this one already as a Citizen. By the way that could be an interesting topic for a video - many curiosities and there were a few quirks in my Oath ceremony too. Happy to send some information your way if you are interested.

[@kamalindsey]

She looks like Eric Cartman in that one picture.

[@ajgnexus]

ok on that Womens magazine with Kim on the cover I read "And Justice For All" and thought it was about the Metallica album, given that this was the late 80s.