Rona Ambrose

Conservative leadership race: While the Conservatives' election result wasn't awful — the party started the election with 32 per cent of support and ended with 32 per cent of the vote, Ambrose said the Liberals got "quite a bit more votes" and her party "lost touch" with young people and with women. "That not acceptable." Rona Ambrose speaks in Stornoway. Ambrose hopes the upcoming Conservative leadership race will provide a new injection of ideas and an opportunity to expand the Tory base."I want to see us grow, according to Huffington Post Canada. I want to see us expand our reach. In a wide-ranging year-end interview with The Huffington Post Canada, Ambrose, who was elected interim leader last month after the Tories lost the federal election and Stephen Harper resigned, said the Tories need to expand their voter base and reach out to youth, women, and families. I think that we have a lot of work to do in certain communities across the country."When you look at … the core policies of our party, things like individual liberties and things like self-sufficiency are the things that really should be resonating with young people and with, of course, women, writ large, whether they are women in their careers or women that stay home with their kids."Lots of young people care about civil liberties and the new sharing economy, she said."Uber, you know, everything different now. But it the way that young people are starting to live. The new digital economy and the new sharing economy is not something we're even talking about in Parliament. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.