November 18, 2016 The Conservative Party's Leadership Election Organizing Committee has announced the next debate moderator and the next host city for the official leadership debates. The debate moderator for the next debate on December 6th in Moncton, New Brunswick, will be Monica Barley. Monica was raised in rural New Brunswick, and has been a prominent lawyer in the Moncton [...]
October 16, 2016 Rona Ambrose, Leader of the Official Opposition and Interim Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, today announced changes to the Shadow Cabinet. “The race for the leadership of the Conservative Party is growing, both in the number of candidates, and in excitement about their ideas for the future of our party and our country. Recently, a [...]
"When you change the rules of democracy, everyone gets to have a say." - Rona Ambrose
September 29, 2016 The Conservative Party’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) announced further details on the first leadership debate in Saskatoon, including a new date and time, the debate moderator, and ticket sales. The first debate will be an English debate moderated by Kaveri Braid. Kaveri is a principal with Earnscliffe Strategy Group, and former advisor to the Saskatchewan government. [...]
September 28, 2016 Conservative Infrastructure Critic, Dianne Watts, and Deputy Critic, Luc Berthold, today expressed their concern and frustration with the Liberal government’s decision to remove infrastructure planning from the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities’ fall agenda. They issued the following statement: “Before the House rose in June, the Committee agreed that the study of infrastructure and trade [...]
September 15, 2016 The Interim Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Rona Ambrose, along with Party President, Scott Lamb, and Conservative Party National Councillor for Nova Scotia, Rob Batherson, announced the next Conservative Party National Convention will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in August 23 to 25, 2018. The National Council of the Conservative Party ratified the choice [...]
September 12, 2016 Official Opposition Trade critics Hon. Gerry Ritz, Randy Hoback and Dave Van Kesteren issued the following statement on the Government of Canada’s Economic Impact Study of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on the Canadian economy. “This study only confirms what we have been saying all along, which is that ratifying the TPP will help grow the Canadian economy and [...]
HON. RONA AMBROSE· SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 Fifteen years ago, 3,000 innocent civilians – including 24 Canadians – were murdered in the horrific terror attacks of September 11th. These savage acts claimed the lives of regular people simply going to work in Lower Manhattan, at the Pentagon in Virginia, and travelling aboard the downed United Airlines Flight 93 in [...]
September 6, 2016 OTTAWA – The Hon. Rona Ambrose, leader of the Official Opposition and interim leader of the Conservative Party, will be joined in Halifax by members of the Conservative caucus for meetings on September 13th and 14th. Conservatives have made re-connecting with Atlantic Canada a priority. We look forward to engaging directly with community and business leaders in [...]
September 5, 2016 Barrie, ON – Official Opposition Critic for economic development in Southern Ontario, Alex Nuttall, is calling on the Liberal Government not to recognize China as a market economy, a move which would make it harder to limit illegal Chinese imports into Canada. According to the Canadian Steel Producers Association, granting China market economy status could cost Canada [...]