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 Minister. Actually, it’s always good to be Defence Minister. Especially if you’re part of a political power drunk of majority power. Ask Tony Clement. Ask what’s-his-name Dechert. And so on.
You have to understand the helicopter is part of being Defence Minister. You have to demonstrate its capabilities like Sun News North uses backdrops. Besides, Natynczyk does it.
I wonder if they boarded the entitled Mr. MacKay on a stretcher, with Martinis through an IV and female attendants applying the latest search-and-rescue therapeutic massage techniques? Because the elite minister really, really needs to “see the search-and-rescue capabilities for himself”.