Ambrose's Bad Hair Day

Here's an assertion. Rona Ambrose, Federal Environment Minister, was appointed at that position not because of her environmental credentials but because the Conservatives decided that her reasonable good looks were a useful distraction from the fact that the Tories intended to do nothing for the environment, despite it being a strong value in Canadian polls.

Preceding an accurate and unflattering portrait of Conservative climate change policy, environmental groups including Greenpeace, and Climate Change Action asserted that Ms. Ambrose would be known more for her hair than her enivornmental record.