Peter MacKay most favoured
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Since all the economic activity is in the west yes it does make sense. History has taught us that anyone East of Winnipeg has squat all for knowledge of half the country and the ones that have come from Quebec have mostly tried to kill any western diversification or growth.
WE have long memories. Remember the Crow freight rate? FuddleDuddle? A federal marine fuel tax that only applies on the west coast. A national railway that no longer runs on Vancouver Island and in fact was never built to the contracted terminus by an eastern railway? A Montreal mayor that doesn't want Alberta oil running through Quebec to Irving refineries in the East? Want more?
You really are an idiot.But we already knew that.
The Crow rate made shipping manufacturing goods East more expensive than shipping the same goods West. All to protect Ontario manufacturing.
I find Newfies are quite friendly and down to earth- none of this lawdy dah sh*t with them!
It just flows out of his pores!
Peter MacKay was elected as PC leader then he merged the party with the Canadian Alliance and the Reformers made sure the PC wing were always in chains
So MacKay is going to try and cash in on Justin's feminist territory.........?
The previous Conservative government at one point considered working toward giving women a majority of the nine seats on the Supreme Court of Canada, said former justice minister Peter MacKay.
"I can assure you that there was very serious thought given," MacKay said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press about the new appointments process proposed by the current Liberal government.
The former cabinet minister from Nova Scotia said this was at the time leading up to the appointment of Justice Marc Nadon, a choice that was ultimately rejected by the high court on the grounds that it did not meet the constitutional requirements for a Quebec justice.
The short list of six candidates, which was later leaked to the Globe and Mail, included the names of two female candidates.
Had one of them been chosen, the Supreme Court would have had four women on the bench, resulting in gender parity at a time when there was still another vacancy.
"It was being considered as an important precedent, but also just the fact that at that moment in time the female candidates for selection were equally impressive as far as their qualification," MacKay later wrote in an email in response to a follow-up question as to whether promoting more women to the high court was a deliberate goal.
MacKay, meanwhile, is being accused of engaging in some revisionist history when it comes to the controversial choice of Nadon. The appointment culminated in an unprecedented public feud between Harper and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin after the Supreme Court nixed the appointment.
Harper ended up instead naming Justice Clement Gascon, from the Quebec Court of Appeal, in June 2014.
Former New Democrat MP Francoise Boivin, who was one of the five MPs on the selection panel that reviewed the short list, said she felt what the government really wanted at the time was to appoint Nadon, a Federal Court of Appeal judge from Quebec.
"I never felt (for) one second that their goal was really to have a woman," said Boivin.
MacKay landed in hot water in 2014 when the Toronto Star reported on comments he made to a group of lawyers that some interpreted as suggesting women were not applying to be judges because they feared the travel required by circuit-court jobs would keep them away from their children.
His office at the time said that 34 per cent of the federally appointed judges were women, arguing that was a 17-per-cent increase over the previous Liberal administration.
An analysis by The Canadian Press showed that despite this increase, the Conservative government actually appointed women judges at a lower rate.
Tories gave 'serious thought' to giving women majority on high court: MacKay | CTV News
The previous Conservative government at one point considered working toward giving women a majority of the nine seats on the Supreme Court of Canada, said former justice minister Peter MacKay.
"I can assure you that there was very serious thought given," MacKay said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press about the new appointments process proposed by the current Liberal government.
The former cabinet minister from Nova Scotia said this was at the time leading up to the appointment of Justice Marc Nadon, a choice that was ultimately rejected by the high court on the grounds that it did not meet the constitutional requirements for a Quebec justice.
The short list of six candidates, which was later leaked to the Globe and Mail, included the names of two female candidates.
Had one of them been chosen, the Supreme Court would have had four women on the bench, resulting in gender parity at a time when there was still another vacancy.
"It was being considered as an important precedent, but also just the fact that at that moment in time the female candidates for selection were equally impressive as far as their qualification," MacKay later wrote in an email in response to a follow-up question as to whether promoting more women to the high court was a deliberate goal.
MacKay, meanwhile, is being accused of engaging in some revisionist history when it comes to the controversial choice of Nadon. The appointment culminated in an unprecedented public feud between Harper and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin after the Supreme Court nixed the appointment.
Harper ended up instead naming Justice Clement Gascon, from the Quebec Court of Appeal, in June 2014.
Former New Democrat MP Francoise Boivin, who was one of the five MPs on the selection panel that reviewed the short list, said she felt what the government really wanted at the time was to appoint Nadon, a Federal Court of Appeal judge from Quebec.
"I never felt (for) one second that their goal was really to have a woman," said Boivin.
MacKay landed in hot water in 2014 when the Toronto Star reported on comments he made to a group of lawyers that some interpreted as suggesting women were not applying to be judges because they feared the travel required by circuit-court jobs would keep them away from their children.
His office at the time said that 34 per cent of the federally appointed judges were women, arguing that was a 17-per-cent increase over the previous Liberal administration.
An analysis by The Canadian Press showed that despite this increase, the Conservative government actually appointed women judges at a lower rate.
Tories gave 'serious thought' to giving women majority on high court: MacKay | CTV News
I like Micheal Chong. If I were a Conservative, I'd probably vote for him. But in reality most won't vote for him because he doesn't know French and so would hurt Conservative chances in Quebec.
I don't like Michael Chong because he would actually be a decent candidate.
Let's hope the CPC go for Leitch so they can get what they deserve.
Let's hope the CPC go for Leitch so they can get what they deserve.
So let's get this straight. You would want Leitch to become leader, maybe attract enough votes in the next federal election to give the Liberals and NDP a run for their money, and consequently put pressure on the other parties to shift towards more biggoted immigration policies themselves as they compete for votes?
I'd rather keep Canadian bigotry as marginalized as circumstances permit, thank you very much.
What worries me is that Leitch could win a Federal election. Look at the Parti Quebecois and its Quebec values charter. It lost the race, but that charter had still garnered much traction. The Conservatives lost last election too, but still many seemed to support telling a woman how to dress at a citizenship ceremony.
If you read the trend, Trump is coming to Canada faster than you seem to realise, and that worries me.