From no-name policy wonk to leader of the Official Opposition: Rona Ambrose on her 13-year career in Ottawa

First published in August 2016, outgoing interim Conservative Party leader Rona Ambrose reflects on her time in politics, from becoming the youngest female member of Cabinet in 2006 to leading the Official Opposition.

'It was a huge upset and no one expected that I would win,' Rona Ambrose says of her first election to the riding of Edmonton-Spruce Grove, Alta. in 2004. The Hill Times file photo

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

May 15, 2017

From no-name policy wonk to leader of the Official Opposition, Rona Ambrose has had an impressive 13 years in Ottawa. She became the youngest female member of Cabinet in 2006 at the age of 36, and says she had the most portfolios of anyone in the Harper-era government. In a summer 2016 interview, th...

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