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  MacKay, Peter
MacKay graduated from Acadia University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and from Dalhousie University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Laws.
MacKay ran for federal office and on 2 June 1997 was elected Progressive Conservative MP for Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough, in northeastern Nova Scotia.
MacKay was the front-runner to succeed Clark, and on 31 May 2003 he became the Progressive Conservative's 23rd leader.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009740   (585 words)

  
  Peter MacKay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MacKay was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of PC cabinet minister and lumber businessman Elmer MacKay.His mother Macha MacKay, is a respected psychologist and peace activist, living in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where Peter grew up with his three siblings.
MacKay was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the June 2, 1997 federal election for Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough, a riding in northeastern Nova Scotia.
MacKay was re-elected in the 2000 federal election and was frequently touted by the media as a possible successor to PC Party leader Joe Clark.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_MacKay   (2518 words)

  
 Elmer MacKay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MacKay was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova through a 1971 by-election.
MacKay resigned his parliamentary seat in 1983 in order to allow newly elected PC leader Brian Mulroney to enter Parliament through a by-election in MacKay's Nova Scotia riding.
Elmer MacKay's son, Peter MacKay, entered politics several years after his father's retirement, and was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmer_MacKay   (419 words)

  
 Peter MacKay
Peter MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
MacKay was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of PC cabinet minister Elmer MacKay[?].
Mackay promised a revue of the NAFTA free=trade agreement, and also promised that no deal would be made to split up Canada between the tories and Canadian Alliance.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Peter_MacKay.html   (166 words)

  
 Elmer MacKay - Biocrawler
MacKay was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova through a 1971 by-election.
MacKay resigned his parliamentary seat in 1983 in order to allow newly elected PC leader Brian Mulroney to enter Parliament through a by-election in MacKay's Nova Scotia riding.
Elmer MacKay's son, Peter MacKay, entered politics several years after his father's retirement, and was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Elmer_MacKay   (321 words)

  
 Belinda and Peter: The Whole Story
Last January, when MacKay first publicly proclaimed his affection for Stronach, then the rookie MP for Ontario's Newmarket-Aurora riding, there was something in his use of the word "smitten" that seemed to forecast a bad ending.
Good-looking, affable and always well-pressed, the 39-year-old bachelor and rugby enthusiast from rural Nova Scotia is the son of Elmer MacKay, a long-time Tory cabinet minister and close friend of Mulroney.
MacKay's colleagues say he was very devoted, and that he'd hoped it would be a long-term romance.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M2ARTM0012776   (2435 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Peter MacKay
Peter Gordon MacKay, Conservative, QC, MP (born September 27, 1965) serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, Nova Scotia, Canada's Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
Peter MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
MacKay was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of PC cabinet minister Elmer MacKay[?].
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Peter-MacKay   (935 words)

  
 ZNet |Israel/Palestine | Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
MacKay did not address the substance of the 700 km-long barrier of sniper towers, concrete walls and deadly electronic fences snaking deep into the West Bank (80 per cent of the wall is built on UN recognized Palestinian land) in order to annex the massive settlement blocs into Israel and isolate the Palestinians into enclaves.
MacKay certainly did not visit Gaza, where 1.5 million people (one million of whom are refugees) are sealed off from the rest of the world, teetering on the edge of total social and humanitarian collapse because of the cruel and comprehensive sanctions regime that he so proudly vanguards.
MacKay boastfully declared "not a red cent to Hamas" when the movement won the Palestinian elections early last year, but failed to see what that means on the streets of Gaza.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=11996   (1311 words)

  
 David Orchard: Media Coverage
MacKay – one of the few national figures on the Conservative campaign roster, and Stephen Harper's most obvious successor – has been buffeted by issues of loyalty and betrayal his entire political career.
As the son of Mulroney-era cabinet minister Elmer MacKay, he witnessed first-hand the breakup of Mulroney's conservative coalition by western populists and Quebec separatists in the late 1980s.
Today, MacKay resolutely defends the merger, saying not only that he gained nothing personally out of the deal – he lost his leader's job and was pilloried in the media – but that the outcome was fully endorsed by the party's caucus and its members.
www.davidorchard.com /online/media-2005/halifaxdailynews-20051218.html   (839 words)

  
 Print Story - canada.com network
Today MacKay resolutely defends the merger, saying not only that he gained nothing personally out of the deal he lost his leader's job and was pilloried in the media but that the outcome was fully endorsed by the party's caucus and its members.
MacKay denies he is angling for either job, and says he has no leadership machinery or war chest waiting in the wings.
MacKay would be facing an easier campaign this winter had he accepted the many calls to come home to Nova Scotia and enter the leadership race now underway to replace retiring Premier John Hamm.
www.canada.com /components/print.aspx?id=e22c314a-869b-4da6-a395-206ad7d73d1b   (1318 words)

  
 MacKay denies 'deal with the devil'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
MacKay defended his actions against charges from some delegates he had made a "deal with the devil," although he refused to make public the "gentlemen's agreement" that secured him a fourth-ballot win.
MacKay, 37, portrayed the Saskatchewan farmer as somebody who has earned a place in the party by running twice for the Conservative leadership and trying to win a seat in the Commons, and called on the party to let the healing begin so the Tories can focus on getting ready to fight the next election.
MacKay, a former Crown prosecutor and the son of Elmer MacKay, a cabinet minister in Brian Mulroney's government.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/921719/posts   (2441 words)

  
 Pseudo Conservatism and Genuine Socialism Not a Good Mix for Canadians
MacKay went into the PC leadership convention as the frontrunner; some had predicted that he would win the leadership on the first ballot.
Now, with MacKay's sell out of Tory ideals, it might just come to be that the Alliance will siphon off Tory members to the extent that MacKay, with his socialist anti-conservative sidekick, David Orchard, will be the leader of a ghost party based mainly in Atlantic Canada.
MacKay is from Nova Scotia and is the son of former Progressive Conservative cabinet member, Elmer MacKay.
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 CBC News: MacKay and Nova Scotia: Signals hard to read
MacKay is pure wool Nova Scotian, the son of former federal cabinet minister Elmer MacKay.
So when Peter MacKay says his commitment to the federal scene is "uncategorical" he may have meant that it is "categorical" and when he said he'll run in the next election for the "Conservative" party, he may or may not be ruling out the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
MacKay paid a generous tribute to Premier Hamm, saying his greatest accomplishment was the recent lucrative offshore royalty agreement between Nova Scotia and Ottawa.
cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/09/30/MacKay20050930.html?ref=rss   (1123 words)

  
 Tory-Leadership, 3rd Writethru ###REUSE THE CUSTOM STORY ID FOR WRITE-THRUS!!!!###   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nova Scotia MP Peter MacKay sports a smile as he attends a breakfast to announce his intention to run for the federal PC leadership, in Stellarton, N.S., Thursday.
Nova Scotia MP Peter MacKay and Calgary lawyer Jim Prentice announced their candidacies after a long autumn in which most of the Tory news involved potential candidates who backed off.
MacKay, the 37-year-old son of former Tory cabinet minister Elmer MacKay, has long been touted as a potential heir to Clark and, in the narrow field, becomes the person to beat.
www.cp.org /english/online/full/National/030116/n011668A.html   (729 words)

  
 MacKay under pressure over deal
MacKay acknowledged the existence of hurt feelings and said that issue has to be addressed for the Tories to have a shot at forming a government.
Meanwhile, the new leader's dad, Elmer MacKay, a former Clark/Mulroney cabinet minister, said he was proud of what his son has been able to accomplish and said he didn't think the convention was all that rough.
MacKay said his son should have no trouble growing into the job with the attributes he brings to the table.
www.notacolony.ca /orchardsbigdeal/MacKayunderpressureoverdeal.htm   (760 words)

  
 Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty by Harvey Mackay
Elmer was such a factor in their success that when he died, a couple of those builders and an architect who worked for them almost went out of business.
Mackay goes on to show that to build a personal network you can draw upon demands you, yourself, be a valuable resource to other people in your network.
Mackay also suggests, since politicians are the best networkers of all, that you volunteer politically to learn schmoozing from the best.
www.bainvestor.com /DigYourWell.html   (608 words)

  
 Welcome to Key Porter Books
It recounts the humiliating defeat of the PC party, the rise of the reform, and a decade-long sojourn in the political wilderness.
MacKay leader of the PCs — and behind the scenes in the talks that eventually led to the merger of the Tories and the Canadian Alliance.
MacKay at the 2003 convention, when they were bitter rivals for the Tory crown.
www.keyporter.com /book_detail.aspx?BookISBN=1552638553   (771 words)

  
 ACOA Website - About Us - People in Charge
Minister MacKay is also the Cabinet Minister responsible for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and represents the Nova Scotia constituency of Central Nova as Member of Parliament.
Minister MacKay serves as the chair of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of Cabinet, and is a member of the Priorities and Planning Committee and Treasury Board.
Minister MacKay was educated in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and graduated from Acadia University in 1987 with an arts degree.
www.acoa.ca /e/about/people.shtml   (1770 words)

  
 edmontonsun.com - Canada - Harper defends MacKay
MacKay, who is travelling on government business in Hungary, stands accused of alluding to Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, his former paramour, as a dog during heated heckling last week in the House of Commons.
The prime minister dismissed the slur allegations, citing a ruling by the Speaker that the comments were not clearly audible and not included in Hansard, the official transcript of House proceedings.
Guergis also cited MacKay’s upbringing as “a man who was raised by a single mother, who has a number of sisters.” She did not add that MacKay is the son of former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Elmer MacKay and remains close to both parents, by all accounts.
www.edmontonsun.com /News/Canada/2006/10/23/2105960.html   (424 words)

  
 CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf
MacKay's dad, Elmer, was a fierce Mulroney loyalist and supporter.
Elmer understood that Orchard or no Orchard common sense called for what Mulroney the godfather was dishing out to the faithful at the leadership podium.
Peter MacKay, influenced by his father, listened long and hard as Mulroney explained to him how much the Tories loved Free Trade and how little was the significance of Orchard's opposition to it.
www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20031020.html   (1426 words)

  
 Jon Elmer | From Occupied Palestine
In a thirteen-minute in-studio interview, Jon Elmer and Karen Mackintosh discuss the ongoing protests against Israel's barrier in the West Bank village of Bil'in and the politics of the occupation on Co-op Radio 102.7 FM in Vancouver.
Elmer: Journalist brings reports of Gaza to campus
In 2003, the Toronto-born Elmer spent four months in Jenin, in the West Bank, and six months in the Gaza Strip from June to December 2005.
www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org /taxonomy/term/59   (491 words)

  
 Father Of Peter MacKay Endorses Belinda Stronach For Leader
Most notable, Elmer MacKay, father of Peter MacKay, former Progressive Conservative leader, and one of the architects of the conservative merger.
We need Belinda to take on the Martin-Chretien gang in the next election", said Elmer MacKay.
Elmer MacKay served served as solicitor general in Brian Mulroney's Tory government during the mid-eighties.
www.halifaxlive.com /stronach_belinda_03162004_672.php   (184 words)

  
 CNEW: Politics - MacKay to explore leadership run   (Site not responding. Last check: )
OTTAWA (CP) - Conservative Peter MacKay has given up his duties as House leader in the Commons to explore running for the leadership of his party.
The Nova Scotia MP said Wednesday he asked to be replaced so he can travel and speak to people about his leadership ambitions.
MacKay, son of former federal cabinet minister Elmer MacKay, says he'll know by Christmas whether he'll make a bid to become Tory leader.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Politics/2002/10/30/2936.html   (92 words)

  
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Elmer MacKay slipped in the occasional zinger without being called to order.
Elmer also managed to slip the word "tampion" in Hansard.
He referred to the cabinet as a "tampion in the path of progress" and nobody challenged him.
ottawasun.com /News/Columnists/MacAdam_Pat/2005/08/06/pf-1162416.html   (968 words)

  
 Mackay Family
Children of William and Margaret Armstrong nee MacKay:
Children of Elmer and Ellen Iverson nee Milne:-
, son of Elmer and Ellen Iverson nee Milne, married Bonnie Gail Tycholis.
users.tpg.com.au /butlerj/Mackay_1.htm   (756 words)

  
 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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