The amazingly malleable MacKay
Like his father before him, MacKay showed how deferring to one’s superiors is a fantastic way of gaining and retaining power
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Peter MacKay
Will Peter MacKay return? Can he?
Charlie Gillis on the risks and rewards of time spent on the sidelines
Peter MacKay’s private life on the public stage
His romantic escapades captured the national imagination—yet his time in office was shadowed by a larger ’women problem’, writes Anne Kingston
Hugh Segal on the importance of Peter MacKay
With his roots in the hard-scrabble of rural Nova Scotia politics, he was key in creating a Conservative party with Red Tory voices intact
Peter MacKay and the waning Progressive Conservatives
The PC story may be drawing to a close, but that of the federal Conservatives is still being written, writes Aaron Wherry
Exit Peter MacKay, stage centre-right
He helped form the modern Conservative Party. He leaves a slim legacy. Paul Wells writes from Ottawa.
The many battle scars of Peter MacKay
What to make of the MP’s 18-year career? Here’s Ottawa bureau chief John Geddes on the impact player on the PM’s roster
In all thy kids command: Canada’s political families
While they’re not as famous (nor successful) as in the U.S., there is no shortage of political families in Canada
On national security, does Peter MacKay trust himself?
Are our politicians unfit to oversee national security?
How Canada came to export a sex offender
For years, Canada bungled the infamous case of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh. Then he travelled to Nepal where he was promptly charged, tried and convicted.