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| | The American Thinker |
 | | Canada’s new foreign affairs minister is Peter MacKay, a Member of Parliament (MP) from Nova Scotia, and the son of a top-ranking cabinet minister, Elmer MacKay, in Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s pro-American government of 1984-93. |
 | | The younger MacKay — age 41 — is a rugby-playing, former prosecutor, with four terms in the Canadian House of Commons behind him. |
 | | After the debacle of 2000, Harper ran against him for the leadership of the Alliance, won it, and then Harper worked assiduously with MacKay, who was then leader of the splintered federal Progressive Conservative party, to merge the two parties under the new Conservative banner. |
| www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=5225 (2715 words) |
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