As Murphy once said in 1931: "We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons- (Status of Women Internet). To many people Emily Murphy led the last suffrage battle of women, which allowed women to be eligible to run for Senate (Cochrane 45). Her involvement with the Senate Campaign helped lead her into the political atmosphere. She believed that women were eligible to do anything that they wanted to and that they were capable of anything that men were able to do. She had never, in her lengthy experience in the political field, doubted that woman were inferior to men and it showed in her involvement and leadership skills in helping with the Person's Case. .
When many people began to discriminate the female magistrates of their positions, the case was taken to the Alberta Supreme Court and Justice Scott, the judge, ruled in favour of the women and in his judgement he stated: " there is at common law no legal disqualification for holding office in the Government of this country arising from any distinction of sex- (Cochrane 46). In 1919 she became the president of the Federates Women's Institutes of Canada and their first request was to ask Prime Minister Borden to allow for women to be appointed for Senate. In 1921, the Montreal Women's Club asked him to appoint Murphy as the first female Senate; however, Borden refused stating that she was not considered a "person- under the BNA Act. .
Furious, Emily Murphy gathered four other women, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards, and together they created and sent a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada.
