Peter MacKay

Peter MacKay: Trying to keep his lies in order.

Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | yesterday

What did Belinda Stronach see in that pathological liar ?

Al Jazeera in Canada? Elmer Fudd & Peter MacKay need to re-aim at the waskewy wabbit instead of Fox!

ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

What with his job of having to monitor Fox News Channel and all the others and now Al Jazeera ? Wow! He’ll have to hire more staff and possibly more fantastic “spokesmen” like his Dan Dugas . LET’S RECAP! In March, the last time we heard from the Minister of What We Watch On TV, (and Defense Minister) Peter MacKay about the proper TV-watching paradigms for good Canadian behavior,...

Al Jazeera in Canada? Elmer Fudd and Peter MacKay should shoot at the waskewy wabbit instead of Fox!

ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

What with his job of having to monitor Fox News Channel and all the others and now Al Jazeera ? Wow! He’ll have to hire more staff and possibly more fantastic “spokesmen” like his Dan Dugas . LET’S RECAP! In March, the last time we heard from the Minister of What We Watch On TV, (and Defense Minister) Peter MacKay about the proper TV-watching paradigms for good Canadian behavior,...

Conservative Afghan Story 3.0

Far and Wide (Free subscription) | yesterday

If you listen to all the Conservative apologists, and their media minions, this was apparently the week where Colvin's "account" was completely refuted. All the heavyweights at Committee, offering the sober counter, which rendered Colvin a lone wolf, a flawed source. When sifting through diametrically opposed "accounts", trying to determine who is really credible, one very TELLING...

• Tories learned of Afghan prison conditions in 2006: MacKay - atHome Top Story

The United States National Republican Party and "the Harperites"

Truth to Power (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Republicanization of Canadian political culture by Murray Dobbin As originally posted on: Murray Dobbin's Blog November 25, 2009 Watching the sickening performances of the Harperites in the House of Commons this week – out right lying, bullying, slander, contempt for the public and parliament, and a stunning disregard for the public good – brings home a hard reality: we are witnessing...

Afghan prison concerns known in 2006: MacKay

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

The Conservative government was aware of concerns about the state of prisons in Afghanistan in early 2006, prompting it to negotiate a new prisoner transfer agreement, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.

• Tories learned of Afghan prison conditions in 2006: MacKay - atHome Top Story

Mike makes a good point.

Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Peter MacKay shouldn't have to resign. He should go to prison . Or the Hague. Either one works for me.

Fizzle on HST, government position on torture allegations shifts yet again

Impolitical (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

A few big developments today... First, it will apparently have to be something else in the way of distraction for the strategists in the PMO: "Flaherty Wins Bloc Support to Merge Sales Taxes With Provinces." Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty won the support of the opposition Bloc Quebecois for a bill that would allow provinces such as Ontario and British Columbia to merge local sales...

Minister of National Defence Responds to Concern for Gay Veterans

Gay News Bits (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Several month’s back I wrote to the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence for Canada. In my email I expressed concern that members of the Canadian Forces who had been discharged for being homosexual, prior to Canada striking that law from the books, still faced that blemish on their records and weren’t eligible for [...]

Gates within gates

Dawg's Blawg (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Torturegate has now morphed into Docugate. There is clear evidence at this point that the Conservative government has colluded with witnesses before the parliamentary committee looking at allegations of torture in Afghanistan, by furnishing them with crucial documents that it continues to withhold from the committee. These documents include the numerous emails that Richard Colvin sent in 2006, warning...

How's that CBC poll on Colvin's credibility doing?

Creekside (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Hmmm ... 94% to 6% in favour of Colvin's testimony on an unfreepable one-vote-per-IP poll. Ok, just checking. I was wondering how that parade of generals appearing before the Afghan parliamentary committee was going over. Everyone impressed the generals had access to Richard Colvin's reports but the committee members doing the investigation are denied the same access? Hell, it's just one more Con puppet-head...

Mulroney Contradicts MacKay

liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Ever since Peter MacKay has been under fire about allegations of torture in Afghanistan during the period of 2006-2007, he has repeatedly said in the house that the transfer agreement was changed once the government had credible evidence to back up those claims . From November 25, 2009, Hansard : Hon. Peter MacKay (Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, CPC): Mr. Speaker,...

I Have No Idea

They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

In a just world, it would be Peter MacKay's political epitaph . In the Harper government however, it is just business as usual.

Retired generals accessed secret government documents to prepare for testimony…

Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

…and Peter MacKay has no idea how that happened. And pigs can fly. Video supplied by CBC.

Dragging the goalposts right off the field

Creekside (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

Then : October 29, 2009 MacKay seeks answers on torture memos "MacKay said Monday that neither he nor his deputy minister ever saw diplomat Richard Colvin's reports, which were circulated widely within the Foreign Affairs and National Defence departments, as well as among senior military commanders." October 23, 2009 MacKay denies seeing Afghan torture reports "Defence Minister Peter...