15 Senator Larry Campbell
Bruce Hutchison Memorial Lecture
Larry Campbell has seen the effects of drug addiction from several
perspectives. As a drug squad cop and then as BC’s Chief Coroner he
witnessed daily the death and human degradation caused by drugs. As Mayor
of Vancouver he sought solutions to a problem that was badly tarnishing
the reputation of his city. As a Liberal senator he has fought to save the
safe injection site he helped to establish in Vancouver’s downtown
eastside. Campbell is also co-author, with criminologist Neil Boyd and
journalist Lori Culbert, of A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown
Eastside And The Fight For Its Future (Greystone), a finalist for the
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. He is equally well known as the
inspiration for coroner Domenic DaVinci, the central character of CBC
television’s DaVinci’s Inquest. Naturally, when Campbell became
Mayor of Vancouver, so did DaVinci in DaVinci’s City Hall. We are
still waiting for DaVinci’s Senate.
Larry Campbell is opinionated, controversial, witty and, we have no
doubt, a very entertaining speaker.
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