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Posted by Scott Tribe on September 3, 2009, at 10:36 am |
How do you “forget” that you were on the board of 2 of your father’s companies (And not just some low-level executive either)? That’s what Defence Minister Peter MacKay is claiming with the news today that he had violated conflict of interest guidelines for Cabinet Ministers:
Until Wednesday, Mr. MacKay was vice-president of Beaver Lumber and a director of Lorne Resources, both companies owned by his father, former federal minister Elmer MacKay…Peter MacKay resigned from the boards of both companies on Wednesday after he learned that he was in violation of the act. He said he had forgotten that he was an officer of either company…The Conflict of Interest [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 10, 2009, at 12:24 pm |
On the one hand, I wouldn’t mind a bit if Peter MacKay left Canada to take up a job at NATO. On the other hand, do we really want him running an outfit like NATO? He’ll need to tone down or eliminate “the Russians are coming” screeching he and the Harper government have taken up recently, if he does somehow manage to win that position, as well as stop putting his foot into his mouth on other issues, as he has managed to do in Canada. Maybe if he was out from under the thumb of Harper, he might up his performance in an international role (though I have [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 8, 2008, at 11:36 am |
Peter MacKay, current defence minister, paid a visit to Guelph yesterday to help stump for Gloria Kovach. They both did an interview with the Guelph Mercury afterwards, and the part that amused me was in the where Gloria made this statement:
“Peter is a great parliamentarian,” she said. “He’s done a lot for our country and certainly internationally as well.”
A great parliamentarian? Really? Above and beyond the Belinda Stronach breakup that caused him a minor controversy over remarks he may or may not have said about her, we also have the “stick to knitting” comment we do know he made. He had to issue an apology to Alexa [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 7, 2008, at 1:11 pm |
Interesting blogpost at the Guelph Mercury’s Guelph Votes blogsite today:
Defence Minister Peter MacKay will be going door-to-door with Conservative candidate Gloria Kovach. Mercury staff will also be meeting with Jennifer Wright, “the founder and chief environmental activist of Green Shift.”
Very interesting both of these folks appear in Guelph on the same day. I’d be interested to hear who exactly it was that invited Ms. Wright down today to the Guelph riding; was it the CPC? The NDP? The Guelph Mercury?
I’ll also be very interested to see in her talk to the Mercury how much she injects herself into the political campaign in Guelph. I hope for [...]
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