Her new position was announced in an email sent to Juul staff on Friday, citing her work on reducing smoking rates while federal health minister, which included introducing a cigarette tax, regulations to combat marketing flavoured tobacco products, and regulations around e-cigarettes aimed at preventing underage use.
“Rona’s unique public health and regulatory background will provide oversight and expertise as we continue to reset the vapor category and work to earn the trust of our stakeholders,” said JUUL Labs’ CEO K.C. Crosthwaite in the email, going on to say she will be a key asset in aiding the company with establishing a license to operate and build their “product advantage.”
Ambrose has previously advised the company, which is one of the larger e-cigarette brands on the market, in an industry that’s faced serious criticism over product safety and health risks.In a statement provided by Juul, Ambrose — who was an MP for more than a decade and had been mulling a recent federal Conservative leadership bid — said that “supporting the potential of harm reduction for adult smokers is an important goal.
Citing smoking as the leading cause of preventable death, Ambrose said that there is a need for businesses and regulators to work together to combat underage use and eradicate cigarettes.aimed at deterring the use and promotion of e-cigarettes, especially among youth, citing the serious health risks. Among the changes was mandatory health warnings on packaging and limits on nicotine content.
Too bad !!! She would have been a great Prime Minister.
Politicians, like many people, will often do anything for money.
Could be an oxyMORON Ambrose
And we sell vehicles of war to saudi Arabia to crush Yemen and continue a food shortage that's starving their children 😏🍷 but Ambrose btfo
OMG 😱
When are you going to report on the coup in China
Money only!
Another one all about the money. Ridiculous
Always so overrated ....
Yeah so. Our government sells the real thing and weed to boot.
Like she’s the first politician to jump on a big pay check after leaving office! They all do it!
Would like to hear reasoning for them offering the position and more importantly why she would accept it.
Sad day Rona, a sad day indeed 😐
Ms Rona should pick a new name considering ...
aka 'Lobbyist', dah
This movie keeps getting weirder but we already know the ending...so why are we still in the theatre?
Financial gain while claiming bankruptcy on morals I think I just described a politician
Wow that’s such a BC move
DenisLapointe14 It's Shame that Public Sercants like RonaAmbrose (former health minister) from CPC_HQ joins DISGRACED Company called JUULvapor an e-cigarette manufacturer on it's BOARD for Money knowing that this Product is Harmful for anyone & should be BANNED in canada & rest of the World.
Hypocrite
Unmmm whaaaat? Isn’t that vape company making people die? Go figure 🙄
Same shit you have been reporting all day.
pretty un ethical but legal money rules
Makes sense she’d join a company that produces and pushes products that are geared to addicting teens.
You can't make this shit up.
Chase the old mighty dollar $$$$
Just when you thought she was a smarter person then that.
Isn’t this the same government which campaigned on the dangers of legalizing weed? Now she’s profiting off a company which targets younger audiences and has had a huge issue with under age teen use and nicotine addiction...Huh
Unless RonaAmbrose is on a mission to make sure that e-cigarettes are only used by and targeted to people that are trying to quit smoking, I think this is a shameful move. SmokingKills
Typical Conservative , will take any money even if it kills people.
'frick this, I'm switching teams'
Shame!
The definition of the kind of person that makes people disgusted with politicians....ethics change depending on who is paying them!!!What a disgrace!! How to you go from being the health minister to accepting a position on the board of a cigarette company.
Yes we know. And we know again, and again.
What is the big deal?
Thank you for smoking
Where is our PM this weekend? He wouldn’t be taking a non-essential trip to his cottage? But hey, , don’t look into that because JustinTrudeau might take back some of your $600M.
SaveRayYeates
Lost all respect! What money does to politicians, eh? And to think that she would be a decent leader in Canada! No, different than Trudeau.
Unfucknbelievable
Rona..... good grief
And?
Seriously?! I shake my head every time I read about this.
Fascinating. Now, could hear more about how former Liberal PM Jean Chretien now has business relationships with China, and tried to block Meng’s extradition?
This has to be the 10th time CTV posted this today. We get it CTV you hate conservatives and you want us all to say “Rona is a bad person”.
RonaAmbrose Stupid
This is not right.....
Cuz, like, mo money is better than no money, bitches
Someone should photoshop this photo so she has a juul in her hand a some vapour coming out of her mouth
Lmaooooooooooooooooooo
A former health minister and a company whose product is typically used to quit smoking is a good fit
she belongs in a criminal org
The CTV continuing taking pot shots at former conservative leaders, you would think that the CPC_HQ was having a leadership race coming up and you were getting warmed up.
Sell out
Oxymoron.
Money is money is money
Former health Minister, go figure!!!!
Money money money
Always thought she was smokin. 😁
That’s sad.
There ya go! No convictions or morals
Disappointing. Thought she was a decent conservative.
I sure wish you would have ran for conservative leadership. You and only you would have got me to change my mind about conservatives. But the moronic idiots you have running for conservative leader of the party is one big joke. Andrew Scheer NO Peter MacKay No Erin O’Toole NOT.
Business VS. PublicSafety. This is☝️ a bad news for Canadians. She will now use all her political influence & contacts to promote vaping business & culture in Canada & that's a shame. Canada must not follow US when it comes to corporate lobbying. cdnpoli vanpoli topoli
All about the money eh Rona?
Doesn’t get much more hypocritical than that. She should take lobby money for tobacco companies too while she is at it. The chemicals that flavour those e cigs are just as harmful.
wtf. really, tired of Politicians launching themselves to teh Boards of this companies.... cdnpoli should we have a law dealing with this conflicts...
e-cigaretts are now safe, and healthy, and will help with the coronavirus also
Need dope to re-run another election👎👎👎👎
Of course.
disappointing
That’s just weird!
Why is this news, everyone needs a job, she is qualified
Comedy on high.
Ironic or just a hypocrite or both!!
I saw this today and it goes without having to say too much, the party she worked for was and is dirty. I work with teens that at 100% hooked on e-cigs and she should be ashamed of herself. nomoremorals
WHAT
I remember when smokes were cheeper and everybody was happier when she was health minister. How is this a bad thing. Ohh the liberals will cry hypocrite. What politician isn't? Suck on it. LiberalLogic
Lol.. as if she’s the first🙄
Backstabber
.RonaAmbrose still supporting the con in conservative and enforcing the conservative motto profit over everything, even from cancer and respiratory disease victims.
Does anyone actually believe that politicians are morally superior to the citizens they serve? That their interests are altruistic while in office and then benign at worst afterwards? Of course she’s going to do this. Politicians. They’re just like us.
Ummmm...conflict of interest
Is this a joke ? ? ?
This one again. Mother of Canadian Opiod hysteria when it was all counterfeit to begin with 🙄
Anything for fame
She was pretty much a liberal anyway, this just proves it.
Parasite
Good
Shall we look at the career of Bill Blair or Morneau? Cause that would be a laugher in comparison.
If you can't beat them, join them.
Shame
The Conservative Party is the lackey of the firearms/oil/tobacco, etc. lobbies who support of their own basely self-serving mercantile aims. Enticing the less fortunate with derisive tax cuts leading to partisan service cuts, impoverishing them to enrich the neo-aristocrats.
The company would continue to exist without her presence on the board. Ms. Ambrose is smarter than the average Conservative and may make a positive impact in this company. Assuming she acts instead of messages like her excolleagues.
hypocrite alert. In my career in this field quite a few of these 'health bureaucrats' went on and joined the same companies they were terrorizing prior with unfair laws. Just shows that many can be bought RonaAmbrose included.
And the CPC_HQ wonders why voters don’t trust them.
Canadian political figures are so disappointing and depressing!
Kinda like Billblair opening medical cannabis clinics. Hypocrites CP24 JustinTrudeau PeterMacKay PierrePoilievre
Stinky.
for the profit I believe.
Typically for a CPC_HQ member. But the right wing will just tweet a meme of Trudeau and ignore this because it's written by CTV. Cons are a joke.
The inglorious end to a not so glorious carrier in politics
That does not sound good
“Rona’s unique public health and regulatory background will provide oversight and expertise as we continue to reset the vapor category and work to earn the trust of our stakeholders,” said JUUL Labs’ CEO K.C. Crosthwaite in the email,
What a joke
As I said before CPC_HQ RonaAmbrose will sell their soul for 💰
Vaping safer than cigarettes.
Is that a crime? Was Scheers citizenship a crime? Whenever I see these distractions I wonder what has Trudeau done now that the media is covering for.