Peter MacKay
Peter MacKay
Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, QCis a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of National Defence, and Minister of Foreign Affairsin the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 September 1965
CountryCanada
There's a few people who are discontented -- this happens even in governing parties,
We're going to go after the Hells Angels, not Ducks Unlimited. This idea that you can somehow create an atmosphere around people who are already respectful of the law and superimpose this blanket (handgun) ban as a solution -- a one size fits all, cookie-cutter approach -- is an absolute abysmal failure. It's publicly misleading and it doesn't drill down into the real problem.
The people who are involved in these type of shootings are not the type of individuals who are going to adhere to a gun ban or ever register a gun, period. The Liberal party has proven time and time again that they're more concerned with the optics than the practicalities of these issues.
We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.
They appear to be consistently crossing the line step by step and becoming less and less communicative.
I would never make a decision like this without speaking to Mr. Harper and others, and I would certainly have that discussion with the leader.
I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.
We know that there is an undeniable and unstoppable sentiment for change in the country. A change towards a new, clean, constructive attitude that will exist within a Conservative government.
From the cozy confines of 24 Sussex, the Prime Minister continues to dither on tax relief for Canadians,
It's political blame, that's what is important here. Canadians will get their ultimate say and they will be the ones who will render a final judgment on Mr. Martin and the Liberal party. There's no separating the two.
It's a clear signal that I'll be staying in federal politics supporting a man who I consider to be very honest and intelligent,
There's a very small window of opportunity and I think the government is going to take that opportunity away by ensuring that we don't have anything that would possibly trigger a vote of confidence or could be construed as such.
There's a lot of possibility that there could be a motion (on Thursday) that could be tantamount to confidence.