Peter MacKay

Like his father before him, MacKay showed how deferring to one’s superiors is a fantastic way of gaining and retaining power

Charlie Gillis on the risks and rewards of time spent on the sidelines

His romantic escapades captured the national imagination—yet his time in office was shadowed by a larger ’women problem’, writes Anne Kingston

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

The PC story may be drawing to a close, but that of the federal Conservatives is still being written, writes Aaron Wherry

He helped form the modern Conservative Party. He leaves a slim legacy. Paul Wells writes from Ottawa.

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

While they’re not as famous (nor successful) as in the U.S., there is no shortage of political families in Canada

Are our politicians unfit to oversee national security?

For years, Canada bungled the infamous case of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh. Then he travelled to Nepal where he was promptly charged, tried and convicted.