The Liberals have a free ride right now to do whatever they please without scrutiny. Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is missing in action.

If the 5 million-plus Canadians who voted Conservative in October don't see any leadership from the party soon, they'll have to put interim leader Rona Ambrose's face on milk cartons.

Conservatives on social media are demanding to know her whereabouts and caucus members are looking for direction.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna approved the Montreal sewage dump and is already in Paris to talk climate change. These issues cry out for comment for the opposition, but so far there's been nothing.

The Liberal plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada in little more than six weeks will clearly be rife with blunders Tories need to go through it with a fine tooth comb. Yet they're absent on the file.

The Liberals used Remembrance Day as an opportunity to send out an e-blast to identify supporters - which will inevitably be used to raise funds. It was more than inappropriate.

A Canadian Press story on the move includes strong reaction from the NDP veteran affairs critic but not Conservatives. The third party is doing a better of opposing than the opposition.

There are many excuses to justify this lack of action. But that's all they are - excuses.

Perhaps, some will say, Ambrose is letting these issues slide because she wants to bring about a new tone for the Conservatives.

In one of the few media appearances Ambrose has made as leader she told Global News: "I feel that we can be strong without being nasty, and I think that we can be very substantive. And I do not support pettiness in politics."

Fair enough. But a lack of pettiness does not mean a lack of presence.

Maybe they're too busy worrying about rebuilding the party to quibble with the day-to-day minutiae of government? Nonsense. Yes, the leadership process is important and rebuilding for the next election is about the long game.

But they weren't elected to play caucus inside baseball. The caucus and staff aren't paid to rebuild the party. They're in opposition to represent their constituents and provide respectable opposition from Day 1 onwards.

It could also be because the opposition leader's office isn't properly set up yet, which it isn't. But then how does that explain what the Liberals are doing?

They haven't hired much of their staff yet either and they're already out there front and centre, framing the narrative. Trudeau burst out of the gate strong with minimal resources.

It's also not like this is all new to them. The Conservatives governed for years and were in opposition before that. They should more easily be on top of these files.

Ambrose did not respond to requests for an interview. One of the few Twitter posts she's put up since becoming leader is a picture of a little girl in football attire with the caption "tackle it one day at time."

Clearly she hasn't embraced the advice.