Peter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013-2015), Minister of National Defense (2007-2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006-2007) in the Canadian Cabinet under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the last leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party), and he agreed to merge the party with Canadian Alliance Stephen Harper in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada.
MacKay represented a Pictou - Antigonish - Guysborough riding from 1997 to 2004, and rode in Central Nova from 2004 to 2015, when he decided not to run in federal elections that year. With the Conservative defeat in the 2015 election, MacKay is considered a potential candidate to replace Harper as the party's permanent leader.
MacKay is married to Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian-Canadian model, singer, and human rights activist, and former Miss World Canada. MacKay and his family live in The Beaches area of ​​Toronto.
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Early life and career
MacKay was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. His father, Elmer MacKay, is a former PC cabinet minister, timber businessman, and lawyer. His mother, Eirene Macha MacKay (nÃÆ' Â © e Delap), is a psychologist and peace activist; through him, MacKay is derived from James Alexander, the 3rd Earl of Caledon and James Grimston, the 1st Earl of Verulam. MacKay grew up in Wolfville, Nova Scotia with three siblings. He graduated from Horton High School in Greenwich, Nova Scotia, and then continued with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Acadia University/Carleton University in 1987. MacKay then studied Law at Dalhousie University and was summoned to the Nova Scotia Bar in June 1991. He worked for Thyssen Henschel, steel producers, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in DÃÆ'¼sseldorf and Kassel, Germany.
In 1993, MacKay accepted the appointment as the Attorney General for the Central Region of Nova Scotia. It prosecutes cases at all levels, including youth and provincial courts and the Supreme Court of Canada. MacKay has publicly stated that the primary impetus for entry into federal politics is its frustration with the shortcomings in the judicial system, especially its perception that the court is unconcerned about the impact of crimes against victims.
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Member of Parliament
MacKay was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada on June 2, 1997 of the federal election for Pictou - Antigonish - Guysborough, which boarded in Nova Scotia northeast. He is one of a handful of newly elected PC MPs "Young Turk" (including John Herron, AndrÃÆ' © Bachand and Scott Brison), who was under 35 when elected and considered a future leadership material that may return the Tories sick. their glorious days. In his first term, MacKay served as Judge Critic and House Leader for a conservative Conservative parliamentary caucus. MacKay is a PC member of the Internal Economy Council and the Permanent Committee on Justice and Human Rights. He also acts as an associate member of the Establishment Committee at the Canadian Heritage, Finance and subcommittee on Sports Studies.
MacKay was re-elected in the 2000 federal election and is often cited by the media as a possible replacement for PC Party leader Joe Clark. Many supporters initially refer to his strong appearance in the House of Commons and magnetism as a key attribute that will make him a popular leader. MacKay has been voted "the hottest male MP in the House of Commons" by the Hill Times (a Parliament Hill newspaper) for six consecutive years. When asked in a 2001 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary about the rise of the PC Party if he would consider running for PC leadership, MacKay quipped, "If there's one thing I've learned in politics, it never says never." Jean Charest taught me that. "
In August 2001, he was one of several PC MPs to engage in open-air cooperation talks with disgruntled Canadian Alliance MPs in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Finally a union was created between the PC and the newly formed Caucus Democratic Representative (DRC). MacKay was appointed Chairman of the Parliament of the new PC-DR Coalition Parliamentary Coalition when officially recognized as a political body on September 10, 2001. The PC-DR Initiative collapsed in April 2002, raising questions about Clark's leadership. Clark announced his resignation as party leader at the PC Party's biennial convention held in Edmonton, Alberta in August 2002. The MacKay name was one of the first to be raised as a candidate for leadership leadership.
2003 leadership race
MacKay is largely seen as the race winner who assumed the start of the leadership contest. In the end, his candidacy was aided by the absence of so-called "dream candidates" such as Progressive conservative senior presidents Bernard Lord, Mike Harris and Ralph Klein who did not run for office. MacKay officially launched its leadership campaign in his hometown of New Glasgow in January 2003. Since the start of the campaign, MacKay has insisted that its ultimate goal after taking the lead is to rebuild a cracking conservative movement from inside the PC tent. For most races, MacKay is a clear front runner. Some opponents, including former PC Party Treasurer Jim Prentice, social conservative candidate Craig Chandler, and Red Tory Nova Scotia member Scott Brison paint MacKay as a candidate for status quo or "founding" that can effectively question Prime Minister.
MacKay's campaigns are largely based on leadership skills and national organizations rather than new policies or directions. MacKay is mostly seen by political analysts as Red Tory. The Honorable Peter MacKay chose to support same-sex marriage in 2006.
PC leadership convention
MacKay entered the first vote of the PC leadership convention held on May 31, 2003 with about 41% of the delegates supporting it. However, at the second vote, MacKay's support fell to 39%. In the third vote, MacKay's support reached 45% but many supporters believe that he has reached his popular peak. Some analysts noted that third-place challenger removed, David Orchard, attracted 25% of most of his delegation's supporters mostly from western grassland provinces. Orchard is ready to talk to MacKay or Prentice to determine whether agreement can be made on some of the issues he raised during the leadership campaign. As a result of the so-called third vote, MacKay's campaign manager, PC Senator No Kinsella, hastily arranged a backroom meeting between MacKay, Orchard, and their campaign adviser. During the meeting, MacKay reached agreement with his rival, and Orchard emerged from the room urging his delegates to support MacKay. Officials urged immediately to ask to find out what inspired Orchard's surprise move. Orchard repeatedly refers to the "men's deal" made between her and MacKay that has led to her quality support.
MacKay won the final vote with nearly 65% ​​of the delegates backing it. Over the next few weeks, the specific details of the "Orchard deal" remain unclear: the secret between MacKay, Orchard and their advisors. However, it was finally revealed that the "Orchard deal" promised a PC Party policy review of the North American Free Trade Agreement, no merger or joint candidate with the Canadian Alliance, and a promise to redouble efforts to rebuild the national status of the Progressive Conservative Party. The agreement also includes a review of PC Party policy on government subsidies for national railways and environmental conservation. The agreement also called on MacKay to "clean up" party headquarters and specifically requested that the National Party Director be dismissed. Further evidence then reveals Scott Brison's mobile phone number written on the edge of the record for some unexplained reason. In an attempt to heal internal divisions after the convention, MacKay edits the number. After Brison defected to the Liberal party, however, MacKay revealed the original copy. The agreement prompted much of the anger and controversy among United Alternative supporters and was roughly referred to by CA MP Jason Kenney as "deal with the Devil".
At first, MacKay seemed willing to abide by the deal. In June, several personnel appointed by Clark were released from the party's main office and MacKay appointed new experienced staff whose loyalties were more closely tied to him and former Prime Minister and PC Party leader Brian Mulroney. MacKay also appoints several low-level staff workers who have supported David Orchard's leadership offer. In July, MacKay created a "Blue Ribbon PC Policy Review Panel", consisting of conservative MPs, Senators, and Orchards themselves, to be led by MP Bill Casey, to re-examine the party's policy on NAFTA. The committee is scheduled to hold talks across the country and make a report to the leader in January 2004.
In mid-July, political opponents and fellow Tory began attacking MacKay over the "Orchard deal." MacKay's conservative rival Stephen Harper suggested that the PC Party has reached its lowest point when its policy and direction will be tied to the "prairie socialist". The secret nature of the deal also causes concerns from within party headquarters and constituent associations. David Orchard was seen by many as an "outsider" trying to turn the Progressive Conservative Party into a "Prairie Cooperative Party". Some like Rex Murphy, clearly noted below, feel that MacKay's credibility and leadership is undermined by the deal and low electoral expectations for the upcoming election are expected to take place in less than a year. Rex Murphy noted in the Globe and Mail column that MacKay's leadership came "stillbirth" and that, perhaps for the first time in recent memory, a party soon emerged from a weakened and even less united leadership convention from when entering the convention.
Conservative party merger
The public reflection that the divided PC will be marginalized in future elections between a relatively stable CA in the west under Stephen Harper and the widely popular Paul Martin Liberal (though Jean Chrà ©  © tien remained the Liberal leader until November 2003 he has announced no longer running), MacKay encouraged talks between well-known members of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives.
On 15 October 2003, the merger talks culminated in MacKay and Alliance leader Stephen Harper signed the Agreement on Principles concerning the creation of the Conservative Party of Canada, where the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance will join to form the new Conservative Party of Canada.. While MacKay was heavily criticized in several Tory Red circles for allowing unions under its supervision, MacKay's attempts to sell the merger to PC membership were successful: 90.4% of the party's elected delegates supported a vote-of-vote agreement on December 6, 2003.
Some members of the PC caucus refused to accept the merger: old MPs and former Prime Minister Joe Clark continued to sit as "Progressive Conservatives" for the rest of Parliament, as did MPs John Herron and Andrà ©  © Bachand, while Scott Brison left the new party to join with the Liberal Party in December 2003. In January 2004, several Senators left the party to sit as independent or "Progressive Conservatives". MacKay announced on January 13, 2004, that he would not run for the new Conservative Party leadership. On March 22, he was appointed as the new party leader's representative by elected leader Stephen Harper. He was easily re-elected in the 28 June 2004 general election in a new drive in Central Nova.
On September 29, 2005, Nova Scotia Prime Minister John Hamm announced his intention to resign. There is speculation that MacKay will return to the province to pursue provincial politics and enter the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Association to become Premier. MacKay will be considered the foremost in the race; However, he decided to stay with the Federal Conservatives. The Liberal Government lost a no-confidence vote on November 28, 2005. In the January 2006 elections, the Conservative Party was elected by a minority government. He retained his seat with a comfortable margin against NDP candidate Alexis MacDonald.
Government
Minister for Foreign Affairs
After the Conservative victory in the 2006 elections, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was named MacKay as Foreign Minister and Minister for the Atlantic Canadian Executing Agency; he was also charged with being a political minister for his native province, and for the nearby Prince Edward island, exactly as his father Elmer did between 1988 and 1993.
During the first mandate, the biggest problem was the Lebanon-Israel-Hezbollah crisis that occurred in July 2006. The government decided to evacuate thousands of Canadians from Lebanon to safer locations and return to Canada a lot. MacKay responded to critics who said that the process was slow, that ships (used for evacuation) had limited capacity. MacKay's statement supporting Israel during the 2006 Lebanon-Lebanon conflict created a national debate in Canada, particularly among Canadian and Arab Muslims opposing MacKay's position. During this period MacKay and the Conservative Party of Canada joined the Bush Administration against the UN call for a ceasefire. It was also during this period that MacKay made a controversial statement in which he referred to Hezbollah as "cancer" in Lebanon. Hizbullah is officially recognized by the Canadian government as a terrorist organization.
On October 19, 2006, during the debate over the Conservative Party's clean air plan, MP Mark Holland said that a Liberal colleague, David McGuinty asked MacKay about the impact of pollution on humans and animals by asking, "What about your dog?" This refers to MacKay who posed for photographs on a farm with his neighbor's dog after breaking up with Belinda Stronach. MacKay then pointed to Stronach's empty chair and replied, "You already have it." Holland filed a complaint with the General Speaker and requested an apology from MacKay. Stronach said the comment did not respect both him and Canadian women, and asked him to apologize. MacKay refused to call Stronach a "dog". Comments allegedly not heard by House Speaker Peter Milliken and it was not recorded at Hansard's official office. Afterwards, Milliken and his staff said they could not hear the statement on the tape.
Secretary of National Defense
On August 14, 2007, Stephen Harper scrambled MacKay from Overseas into Defense, replacing Gordon O'Connor. On November 6, 2007, while attending a meeting at Forward Wilson Forward Operation Base, 20 kilometers west of Kandahar City, Mackay was not injured because two rockets hit the base at about 11am local time. Mackay described the incident: "There was an explosion, a loud bang," MacKay said. "When it happened, we heard the explosion, we heard the whistle above, we were told to go down and we did it." The incident occurred on the same day a suicide bomber blew up an explosion in Baghlan in the northeast of the country that killed at least 35 people including several politicians. While Taliban insurgents are suspected of being behind the bombing, it is not believed to be linked to the attacks on Kandahar.
In 2008, MacKay announced an exhausting and extremely costly program to upgrade Canadian military equipment, spending more than $ 400 billion over 25 years. Unlike any previous expenditure announcements of its kind, there is no "white paper" or detailed details of this number available and no one claimed to exist. This led to widespread speculation that elections would come. Stephen Harper did declare Parliament "dysfunctional" in August 2008 and asked the Canadian Governor General MichaÃÆ' Â © Jean to dissolve parliament for 2008 federal elections.
In July 2010, MacKay was accused of improper use of public funds when he combined the use of Canadian Cormorant military helicopters for search and rescue demonstrations, and to transport ministers from a private fishing camp in Newfoundland to Gander Airport. This fee for taxpayers is about $ 16,000. MacKay, then the National Defense Minister, defended his use of a military helicopter stating, "Three days after my visit participated in a search and rescue demonstration with 103 Wing Gander squadrons 9 I shortened my stay one day to take part in the demonstration.
On June 5, 2012, it was revealed that a widely publicized press conference in 2010 that announced the Conservative plan to buy 65 F-35 Stealth Fighters cost $ 47,000. Documents provided to parliament by Peter Mackay show that Lockheed Martin has delivered the F-35 mockets used in photo-op for free, and that it is primarily for services to support press conferences and a hundred invited guests.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
On July 15, 2013, the cabinet shuffled, and Mackay became Canada's Justice Minister and Attorney General, replacing Rob Nicholson, who took over the defense portfolio.
On March 5, 2014, MacKay caused controversy when, in response to opposition Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux, he threw a document claiming to be concerned about the missing and murdered Aboriginal women's issue on the floor of the House of Commons. The following week, he apologized to the Commons for his outburst.
Get out of politics
On May 29, 2015, MacKay announced that he would not be a candidate in the 2015 federal election. After the Conservative defeat in the 2015 election, MacKay was considered a potential candidate to replace former Prime Minister Stephen Harper as permanent leader of the Conservative Party. On 12 September 2016, MacKay announced he would not seek a Conservative party leader.
In February 2016, MacKay joined Baker McKenzie's law firm as a partner. The MacKay family now live in The Beaches area of ​​Toronto.
On November 17, 2017, MacKay has not ruled out the possibility of running the leadership of Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative Party.
Personal life
MacKay was voted 'The Sexiest Male MP' by The Hill Times from 1999-2007 and 2009, second in 2008 for Maxime Bernier. His former girlfriend is Lisa Michelle Merrithew, the daughter of former Mulroney cabinet minister Gerald Merrithew. They reportedly ended their relationship in 2004. She was then romantically linked to fellow lawmaker Belinda Stronach in a published report. In an interview on the Toronto Star on January 8, 2005, Stronach confirmed that he and MacKay were dating. Stronach, elected Conservative in the 2004 elections, crossed the floor to the Liberal Party on May 17, 2005. On May 18, 2005, MacKay told CBC that his relationship with Stronach was indeed over, and it came as a shock to him that he had crossed the floor. According to Don Martin, the columnist of the National Post who wrote his biography Belinda: Political and Personal Life Belinda Stronach in September 2006, MacKay reacted "with volcanic rage" when he learned about his defection.
On November 26, 2005, the National Post revealed that Mackay and Sophie Desmarais from the family of billionaire Power Corporation are dating.
In September 2006, MacKay's romantic life re-appeared in the newspaper, with The New York Times reporting gossip about his involvement with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The New York Times describes it as "Tall, athletic, young, blond", and has a "brown and build someone who spends his time on a rugby field, not reading the B-8 communique."
MacKay has been seen on a public date Jana Juginovic, program director on CTV News Channel, after keeping their relationship private for months. They attend the annual Black & amp; White Opera SoirÃÆ' Â © e was together at the National Arts Center in Ottawa on February 21, 2009. MacKay's engagement with Juginovic was announced on November 1, 2009. MacKay and Juginovic subsequently canceled the engagement in June 2010.
On January 4, 2012, MacKay married Nazanin Afshin-Jam, a former Iranian-born beauty queen, in a ceremony in Mexico. Afshin-Jam has degrees in international relations and political science. He is co-founder and president of Stop Child Executions, a human rights group dedicated to focusing the world's attention on the suffering of young people in death prisons in Iran. The couple has one son, Kian Alexander MacKay, born April 1, 2013, and one daughter, Valentia Makaja MacKay, born September 30, 2015.
In his spare time, MacKay has served in many volunteers including New Leaf and Tearmann House. He is also active in Big Brothers Big Sisters, Pictaw County Senior Rugby Club and YMCA. As a sports fan, MacKay is active on local rugby, baseball, football and hockey teams in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. He plays for the Nova Scotia Keltics rugby club.
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References
External links
- Official website
- Campaign site
- Profile in Canadian Parliament
- Peter MacKay - Canadian parliamentary biography
- Speeches, sounds, and activities in OpenParliament.ca
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