Rona Ambrose

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Ronalee Chapchuk (born March 15, 1969) is a retired Canadian politician who served as both the interim leader of the Conservative Party and the Opposition leader from 2015 to 2017.

She served in the House of Commons for Sturgeon River—Parkland from 2015 to 2017 and had previously represented Edmonton—Spruce Grove from 2004 to 2015. She was the Conservative Party's Intergovernmental Affairs critic in her first term as an Opposition MP.

Ambrose also served as vice-chair of the Treasury Board and has held various cabinet positions as Canada's Health Minister, Minister of National Affairs and Government Services, and Minister of Employment and Civic Affairs, as well as Minister of Statistics and Women.

She served as President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

She is also a former communications consultant and public policy advisor for the Alberta government. On May 15, 2017, she announced her resignation from federal politics as a result of the summer.

She was named a visiting fellow by the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars the next day.

Ambrose was appointed to a 13-member NAFTA advisory council in August, 2017, Justin Trudeau's Liberal government's first female ambassador, expressing hope that she would "incite women to consider public service."

Early life and education

Ambrose was born Ronalee Chapchuk in Valleyview, Alberta, as the granddaughter of Colleen (née Clark) and James Chapchuk. She grew up in both Brazil and Parkland County, Alberta. She can also speak Portuguese and Spanish in addition to English. Ambrose has a Bachelor of Arts degree in women's and gender studies from the University of Victoria, as well as a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Alberta.

Personal life

Ambrose is married to J.P. Veitch, a private investment specialist and former rodeo bull rider. She was previously married to Bruce Ambrose from 1994 to 2011.

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Political career

In the 2004 federal election for Edmonton-Spruce Grove in west Edmonton, Ambrose was first elected to Parliament.

"Working women want to make their own choices, not need old white guys telling us what to do," she said in Parliament on February 16, 2005.

Ambrose successfully defended her position in Edmonton–Spruce Grove, winning 66 percent of the riding in 2006. She was then named Environment Minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government. Ambrose's appointment to cabinet made her the youngest woman to serve at the time.

Ambrose reported on April 7, 2006 that Canada had no chance of meeting its Kyoto Protocol goals and that it should set more ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "My governmental officials and the department heads from natural resources have confirmed that reaching Kyoto is impractical and impractical for Canada." And let me be clear. "I have been working with our international colleagues over the past month, and we are not the only country experiencing this crisis," Ambrose said.

Ambrose barred Mark Tushingham, a global warming scientist, from attending the launch of his science fiction book, Hotter than Hell, which takes place in a dystopian future caused by global warming. This was not because the book was not in accordance with the government's climate change policies, according to Tushingham's spokesperson, but Ambrose said the address was delivered from an Environment Canada scientist who was in official capacity and therefore out of place.

Ambrose, a former model for the Kyoto Protocol, declared support for the (now defunct) Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Growth and Climate as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol on April 25, 2006, because it includes China and India, two major polluting nations that are not bound by the latter treaty. The APP had voluntary emission reduction goals and was concentrated on finding innovative solutions to climate change.

Ambrose sluggish that the previous Liberal government had failed to achieve the Kyoto target the Liberals had set for in May 2006.

Opposition demonstrations over Ambrose's conduct as the environment minister prompted the NDP and Bloc Québécois to file a motion in the Commons environmental committee urging for her resignation in June 2006. Since the Conservatives announced that the motion would be a confidence vote that would result in a general election in Fall 2006, it was defeated with the support of the Liberals.

"I welcome British Columbia's pledge to protect and increase the population of Northern Spotted Owls," she said in August 2006. Given the owls' current habitats, it is my belief that the Northern Spotted Owl is in danger of extinction or recovery."

Ambrose unveiled a Clean Air Act on October 19, 2006, which aimed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions starting in 2020 and lowering them to around half of 2003 averages by 2050. She also introduced additional controls to industries and vehicles, as well as potential cooperation between the federal government and the provinces in order to develop a system that would report air pollution. In an interview with the media, Ambrose denied that the Conservative government had dropped out of the Kyoto Protocol despite the government's recent opposition to it. However, businesses will have to address emissions reductions before 2010 and 2020, and the government will not have final (and voluntary) targets ready until 2020. Oil companies will be required to minimize emissions on a per-barrel basis, rather than on a percentage basis of production.

Ambrose was in Nairobi, Kenya, for the UN Climate Change Conference in November 2006.

Just weeks before Ambrose was kicked out from the environment portfolio, she told a parliamentary committee that Canada had settled its debts under the Kyoto Protocol, only to have an Environment Canada official state that the bill was still unpaid.

In late 2006 as part of a potential Cabinet shuffle that involved moving Ambrose from her environment portfolio, news began to appear. Ambrose was appointed Environment Minister by John Baird and became Minister of Western Economic Diversification, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada as part of the cabinet shakeout on January 4, 2007.

Ambrose was named Labour Minister on October 30, 2008, after winning reelection in the 2008 election. Ambrose took over Christian Paradis and was named as the new Minister of Public Works and Government Services on January 19, 2010, "which will modernize service, increase productivity, and increase our stewardship roles in those areas." It was supposed to be the Phoenix Pay System.

After Helena Guergis was voted Minister in charge of Women in April 9, 2010, Ambrose was also named Minister in Charge of the Status of Women.

In the United Nations General Assembly, Canada had officially proposed the International Day of the Girl Child as a resolution. The resolution was sponsored by Rona Ambrose, Canada's Minister of Women; a delegation of women and girls made presentations in favor of the campaign at the 55th United Nations Commission on Women's Status. The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution adopting October 11, 2012, as the inaugural International Day of the Girl Child.

Ambrose voted in favour of Motion 312, a Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth's motion that would have ordered a Commons committee to revisit the section of the Criminal Code that establishes when human life begins. Viewing the bill as an effort to reopen debate on abortion policy, Canadian pro-choice organizations and Commons opposition parties found her vote in violation of her ministerial position and prompted a call for her resignation. The motion was eventually rejected. Ambrose responded to her critics by expressing her skepticism against girls, which is made possible by sex-selection abortion. Ambrose was lauded by pro-Life activists for backing the Motion.

Rona Ambrose was named Minister of Health by Stephen Harper in July 2013 and she continued to serve as Minister of Western Economic Diversification.

Ambrose, an MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner, worked closely with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi migrant and Nobel Peace Prize winner, in insisting that the persecution of Yazidis be labeled a genocide by the House of Commons. She also led the fight for a Canadian refugee scheme to bring Yazidi women and girls who have been sexually enslaved by ISIS to freedom in Canada, which resulted in the liberation of over 1000 women and girls.

She made news when she said she was "outraged" that (in a unanimous decision) the Supreme Court of Canada widened the definition of medical marijuana to include oils, teas, brownies, etc. "Marijuana has never gone through the regulatory approval process at Health Canada, which requires rigorous safety studies and scientific trials with scientific evidence," the company said.

When asked why the testing hasn't been done when people are taking medical marijuana every day, she said, "It is not my job as Minister." If there are clinical data and a business decides to submit it to the regulatory approval process, it will be examined. That has never happened.

Stephen Harper resigned as the Conservative Party leader after the Liberals lost the 2015 election. Ambrose, a Liberal whose seat in Sturgeon River-Parkland's new riding, essentially the suburban portion of her old riding, has confirmed that she would run for the Conservative Party's interim leadership. On November 5, 2015, she was elected to the position as the third woman to hold the office.

Ambrose was Canada's third female leader of Canada's major centre-right party. Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, who led Canada's now defunct Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, was the first to be elected, and Deborah Grey, of the former Canadian Alliance, was second. After Grey and the NDP's Nycole Turmel, she is also the third woman to be Opposition Leader. Both three of them served in interim positions. She was not eligible to run for the leadership of the new Conservative Party of Canada's upcoming federal election under the party's charter, but not eligible to run for the party's leadership.

Ambrose responded to the terrorist attacks in Paris launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on November 13, 2015. "The fight against ISIS (ISIL) requires a strong humanitarian response, as well as a military response," Ambrose said. We must remain resolute and help our allies."

Ambrose supports an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous people.

When serving as a sitting MP, Ambrose introduced Private Member's Bill C-337, An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code, also known as the JUST Act. If passed, this bill will force judges in Canada to complete training on sexual harassment law, including research into rape myths, stereotypes of victims, and the effects of trauma on memory. The JUST Act gained widespread support from academic and victim advocacy organizations, and the House of Commons later passed it unanimously. However, the bill did not pass a third reading in the Senate as the Senate voted on the JUST Act in Summer 2019, resulting in the extinction of the order paper as the order paper is wiped clean for the October 2019 federal election.

Ambrose revealed in May 2017 that she would step outside federal politics at the conclusion of Parliament's spring session in June 2017, just weeks after her replacement as the Conservative leader is chosen. Dane Lloyd, who won the by-election, retained her seat for the Conservatives.

Ambrose has stated that although she supports the consolidation of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and the Wildrose Party, she would not be a candidate for Alberta's new government Conservative Party leader.

She joined the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, as a visiting fellow focusing on Canadian–American trade and leading the initiative to inform officials in both countries about the benefits of an integrated North American economy.

She was also elected a member of the NAFTA advisory council created by the Trudeau Liberal government in August 2017.

The She Leads Foundation was founded in 2018 by Rona Ambrose and Laureen Harper, the widow of former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. She Leads, a non-profit group headquartered in Alberta, focuses on assisting women in seeking office and participating in public life. Ambrose, a UN Women's representative, helped launch SHEInnovates Alberta, a movement that promotes women in search of leadership roles and creativity.

Rona Ambrose had joined the board of directors of Juul, the e-cigarette firm.

Following Andrew Scheer's resigning as a leader of the Conservative Party in the 2019 Canadian federal election, Ambrose came under fire from several leading Conservatives to run for political leader in the 2020 leadership election. During a Facebook live stream in the Alberta mountains, Ambrose confirmed that she would not run for leader in January 2020.

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