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Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
Kim Campbell

Today, Progress, High

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell

Design, Human, Problem

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.
Kim Campbell

Equality, Justice, Tolerance

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
Kim Campbell

Work, Family, Care

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
Kim Campbell

Hope, Real, False

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
Kim Campbell

Made, Economy, Attempt

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.
Kim Campbell

Care, Working, Free

For too many, to work means having less income.
Kim Campbell

Work, Means, Less

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
Kim Campbell

Government, Cannot, Private

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
Kim Campbell

Best, True, Service

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.
Kim Campbell

Leadership, Time, Able

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
Kim Campbell

Future, Cannot, Sense

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.
Kim Campbell

Around, Needs, Adapt

I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
Kim Campbell

Future, Old, Build

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.
Kim Campbell

Woman, Canada, Prime

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
Kim Campbell

Best, Economic, Admit

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.
Kim Campbell

Training, Problems, Security

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.
Kim Campbell

Government, Same, Structure

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.
Kim Campbell

Country, Spirit, Known

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
Kim Campbell

War, End, Since

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.
Kim Campbell

Time, Today, May

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.
Kim Campbell

Since, Changed, Profoundly

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.
Kim Campbell

Greater, Serve, Honour

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
Kim Campbell

Government, Give, Pride

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.
Kim Campbell

Great, Patriotic, Canadians

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Statesman

Born: March 10, 1947

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