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The voice of a pioneering Canadian woman was first heard in the House of Commons on this date in 1963. Pauline Jewett had just been elected as a Liberal MP when she took to her feet in the Commons on May 17, 1963. She was participating in the debate on the new Pearson government’s Speech from the Throne. In doing so, she heaped praise on her party’s leader, Lester B. Pearson.
“I do feel, and feel very strongly, that in this party we have in our leader, the new Prime Minister of Canada, the kinds of qualities of leadership that we need today,” she told the House. “He is himself a man with purpose, a man who has a sense of direction. Perhaps a sense of purpose, a sense of direction, is as important as anything else.
Jewitt, who would go on to become the first Canadian woman to head a university , served only one term as a Liberal MP before her defeat in the 1965 election. She later quit the Liberal party after Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act in 1970 and joined the NDP. In 1979 she was elected a NDP MP and was re-elected in 1984 and 1988. She was later invested a member of the Order of Canada. In 1992, Jewett was named to the Privy Council by Tory PM Brian Mulroney.
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