- MacKay, Hopefully we'll be saying "adieu to you too, Pete" sooner, rather than later

Posted: 10:40 AM on November 6, 2010 Globe and Mail
MacKay bids Prentice adieu – but won’t follow him out door, Steven Chase, Globe and Mail, Friday, November 5, 2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/mackay-bids-prentice-adieu-but-wont-follow-him-out-door/article1787339/

Peter MacKay a 'red tory'???

I'm not sure what 'red tory' means. But if 'red' refers to moderate, middle of the road, liberal values, MacKay is anything but 'red', as his right-wing, extremist, 'hawkish' stance on the purchase of the 65 F-35's at the cost of $16 billions, and counting, very clearly demonstrates.

MacKay has put our Canadian military's interests above the good of all Canadians. He has abdicated responsible government so as to "have associated myself with the military". The procurement of the F-35's is not moderate, it's a right-wing extremist position.

If 'Tory' refers to the old PC tradition in Canada then he is certainly not a 'tory'. After all it was MacKay that sold out the PC Party for Harper and his right-wing extremists.

(Peter MacKay won the leadership of the PC Party as a result of a back-room deal with David Orchard. According to Wikipedia "it was eventually revealed that the infamous 'Orchard deal' promised . . . no merger or joint candidates with the Canadian Alliance, and a promise to redouble efforts to rebuild the national status of the Progressive Conservative Party' (31 May '03)

On 15 Oct.'03 MacKay and the PC announce they will form a new party with the Alliance. Wikipedia)

Peter MacKay may have started out as a 'red tory' but he sold his soul to the devi . . . sorry, Harper, in pursuit of personal power.

If 'red tory' instils trust based on a long history nation building keep in mind that with Harper and the Con's their history is neither long and anything but nation building.

If you ask yourself is Peter MacKay a straight shooter, keep in mind: if it isn't in Hansard, did it happen (is this the 'honourable path' that is in the best military tradition).

excerpt: Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html