currently Premier; Anglade, Beck and Notley are currently the Leader of the Official Opposition in their provinces; White, Furstenau and Chender lead third parties; and Massé is co-leader of a third party that maintains a tradition of always having both a male and a female co-leader. Seven women are currently serving as Deputy Premiers: Diane Archie in the Northwest Territories, Siobhán Coady in Newfoundland and Labrador, Darlene Compton in Prince Edward Island, Sylvia Jones in Ontario, Geneviève Guilbault in Quebec, Donna Harpauer in Saskatchewan, and Tracy-Anne McPhee in Yukon. Both of the territories often have the smallest percentages of female members of any legislature in Canada; however, both territories made significant breakthroughs for women's representation in their most recent legislative elections. In the 2017 Nunavut general election six women were elected, vaulting the territory to 27 per cent female representation in the legislature and marking the first time in the territory's history that it ranked higher than last or second-last for female representation among Canada's provinces and territories. In the Northwest Territories, a woman was not elected to any district outside of Yellowknife and Hay River, the two largest and most urbanized communities in the territory, in any election between 1995 and 2019. In the 2019 Northwest Territories general election, however, the territory went from just two female MLAs before the election, ranking dead last in all of Canada for female representation in the legislature, to electing nine women, reaching virtual gender parity in the 19-seat legislature and immediately vaulting to the highest percentage of female representation in all of Canada. On July 27, 2021, following the resignation of Jackson Lafferty and the by-election victory of Jane Weyallon Armstrong, the Legislative Assembly had a majority of women legislators— a first in Canada. Women as premiers To date, fourteen women have served or are currently serving as the premier of a province or territory in Canada. The first female premier in Canadian history was Rita Johnston, who served as Premier of British Columbia for seven months in 1991 after she won the leadership of the governing Social Credit Party, but the party was defeated in the subsequent general election. The first woman to become premier by winning a general election was Catherine Callbeck in Prince Edward Island in 1993. To date, the most common path for a woman to becoming premier or prime minister has been to win the leadership of