Overheard on ride home, “Oooh Mr. MacKay. Coffee, tea or … me?”
Vacations are nice for a Conservative. They’re especially nice when you can commandeer a search-and-rescue copter to take you home at the end of it in style. Impresses the ladies.
Sometimes it’s good to be Defence . . . → Read More: Peter MacKay’s expensive limo ride
Continue readingOverheard on ride home, “Oooh Mr. MacKay. Coffee, tea or … me?”Vacations are nice for a Conservative. They’re especially nice when you can commandeer a search-and-rescue copter to take you home at the end of it in style. Impresses the ladies.Sometime…
Continue readingIn 2010, defence minister Peter MacKay used a Cormorant search and rescue helicopter from 103 Search and Rescue Squadron to fly him out of a fishing lodge on the Gander River, according to CTV. "After cancelling previous efforts to demonstrate…
Continue readingDoesn’t anybody apologize or own up anymore? What happened to honour, personal responsibility and respect for the Canadian people? (Emphasis mine.)
As for the time he flew to the Caribbeanto join his family on vacation, the general said he received permission to do that from Defence Minister Peter MacKay. The flight occurred after the general had spent . . . → Read More: Natynczyk remains defiant. Blames MacKay
Continue readingDoesn’t anybody apologize or own up anymore? What happened to honour, personal responsibility and respect for the Canadian people? (Emphasis mine.)As for the time he flew to the Caribbeanto join his family on vacation, the general said he received perm…
Continue readingWhile one can argue about frauds and unkept promises, there’s certainly no greater laugh riot than listening to defence minister Pete MacKay try desperately to explain to a gang of reporters in Goose Bay why the promised hundreds of soldiers, UAV squ…
Continue reading“Harper spins a new brand of patriotism.” The Liberals embraced the Charter, the flag, peacekeeping and multiculturalism. Now, the Harper Tories are pursuing symbols and areas ignored by the Grits – the Arctic, the military, national sports and espec…
Continue readingAn open letter to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence;
The Canadian military says an error at the Department of National Defence resulted in tens of millions of dollars worth of benefit payments paid to up to 7,000 service members over the last five years.
The benefits include the Defence Department’s . . . → Read More: If you don’t stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them.
Continue readingSo it’s that time of year again, Operation Nanook is beginning in the North (see how they have that Royal thing going already in the press releases). Harper is heading up there next week. One thing that doesn’t seem to be discussed much in the Canadia…
Continue readingI see that it’s “Quebeckers, historians and anti-monarchists” who have been among the early opponents speaking out against the move to restore the Royal moniker to the Navy and Air Force. Well, they’re not alone. Count this citizen, member of none of t…
Continue readingMiscellaneous material for your long weekend.- I’ll agree with pogge that Tabatha Southey’s latest is well worth a read. But while it’s worth recognizing the differences between the respective priorities involved in managing a country as opposed to a f…
Continue readingWhooee! Well, friends an’ foes, when I seen this here pitcher of ol’ Johnny Baird eyeballin’ Petey MacKay, I figgered it was cryin’ out fer a caption contest. It ain’t much of a contest on accounta there ain’t any prizes. Here’s a couple to start it off. “Hmmmm… Why is
Continue readingWhooee! Well, friends an’ foes, when I seen this here pitcher of ol’ Johnny Baird eyeballin’ Petey MacKay, I figgered it was cryin’ out fer a caption contest. It ain’t much of a contest on accounta there ain’t any prizes. Here’s a couple to start it off. “Hmmmm… Why is
Continue readingWhooee! Well, friends an’ foes, when I seen this here pitcher of ol’ Johnny Baird eyeballin’ Petey MacKay, I figgered it was cryin’ out fer a caption contest. It ain’t much of a contest on accounta there ain’t any prizes. Here’s a couple to start …
Continue readingAbove: Afghan fighters against the British occupation in the late 19th Century. Not much has changed but the rifles. Below: Peter MacKay, Jack Layton.We’re still waiting for that apology to Opposition Leader Jack Layton from the Harper Conservatives….
Continue readingIn an convention that was seriously lacking in news (which is the way the Conservatives wanted it, incidentally) the one bit of drama was the battle (which seems to happen at each of their conventions) to re-write the rules for selecting Stephen Harper…
Continue readingAs the Conservative Convention attempts to change the rules in determining leadership, many in the media are calling the “new” party a marriage between Red Tories and the Reform/Alliance.This was not a marriage, it was an abduction. The majority of Red…
Continue readingAs promised, here’s some video of a speech Conservative Senator and former party president Don Plett gave at a hospitality suite Thursday night sponsored by MP Scott Reid, who is leading the movement to do reform the system of riding weighting for lead…
Continue reading…but can anybody else remember a case of proportional representation being used as a boogeyman outside of an actual electoral reform referendum?I ask only because Peter MacKay’s plea to keep the Cons’ party constitution as is seems to go way over the…
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File under things that might have been inflammatory during a federal election that are now being rolled out and are objectionable.
The Canadian military is in talks to establish a permanent presence in up to seven foreign…
