Peter MacKay Dog Don't Hunt

Peter MacKay, supposedly a grown up who is charged with deriving and implementing Canada’s foreign policy, is a petulant little boy who fell into a Liberal baited trap yesterday in the House of Commons:

The barely audible exchange was caught on an audio tape, with one MP asking “what about your dog?” and someone responding: “You have her.” (Canadian Press, The Star Stronach demands apology

Some might feel sorry for MacKay, but I am not one of them. This is not the first example of poor behaviour displayed by MacKay in parliament, nor is he the only guilty one, nor is the other side of the house innocent in this regard. But this story is about MacKay.

MacKay ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party claiming that “I am not the merger candidate”, asserting that he was there to build UP the PC Party, not tear it apart.

I for one did not believe him nor did I vote for him, quite the contrary. I saw MacKay’s ties to the old establishment within the PC Party – Mulroney and others – as being dangerous to the life of the party.

Say one thing, do exactly the opposite.

Within weeks of MacKay’s election as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, he was in secret merger discussions with Stephen Harper and the Canadian Alliance party which quickly led to the destruction of the PC Party. Historical note: Stronach played a role in the initial move to merge, too. As I recall, she even funded some of MacKay’s leadership campaign expenses. Curious, n’est-ce pas?

MacKay and David Emerson have a lot in common. Both sold themselves to their electorate on false promises and then immediately after the votes were counted, went on to break those promises, showing utter contempt for Canadians in the process.