More concern
Good to know that other people are also concerned about Peter MacKay's appointment to Foreign Affairs.
Ezra Levant, over at the Shotgun, clearly articulates why MacKay is a burden to the Harper administration:
There has been a lot of noise in the conservative base about the appointments to cabinet of David Emerson and Michael Fortier. Yes, those are interesting and important issues. But far more important -- and far more worrying -- is that the key post of Foreign Affairs has been frittered away on a spineless Red Tory, who not only is already contradicting party principles, but is defying his leader's clear statements.
Foreign Affairs is where the difference between a liberal, UN-centric, appeasement approach to the world, and a conservative, Anglospheric, freedom approach to the world is the clearest -- moreso than in any other cabinet portfolio, from finance to justice. MacKay has always been a weak spot in the party, from his political dalliance with Belinda Stronach to his chronic media undermining of Harper. That was one thing when it was just party business. But now it's the nation's business, and it's something that should cause Canadians, especially movment conservatives, great concern.
He also doesn't have a good understanding of his position. I remember in a media interview at the time of the unveiling of the cabinet, MacKay mused that his role as Foreign minister would help in his role as chief of ACOA (the atlantic subsidy department) since he'd be able to promote Atlantic Canada to the world. NO, YOU MORON. Your job isn't to economically promote a specific part of Canada that accounts for less than 10% of the national population! It's to promote the ENTIRE country. Harper should've kept alive the position of Deputy PM... And attached it to a portfolio that doesn't allow MacKay to do much damage. Imagine what Condi Rice and other foreign ministers will think of Harper's judgment when they sit down with MacKay? Isn't that something that Harper should have thought about? I know that he was a former leader of the party, and I admire his courage (which was mixed with desperation in the face of the seemingly unstoppable Paul Martin) in bringing the parties together, but he really, truly does not merit something as significant as Foreign Affairs. Why not Environment or Intergovernmental Affairs?
Ezra Levant, over at the Shotgun, clearly articulates why MacKay is a burden to the Harper administration:
There has been a lot of noise in the conservative base about the appointments to cabinet of David Emerson and Michael Fortier. Yes, those are interesting and important issues. But far more important -- and far more worrying -- is that the key post of Foreign Affairs has been frittered away on a spineless Red Tory, who not only is already contradicting party principles, but is defying his leader's clear statements.
Foreign Affairs is where the difference between a liberal, UN-centric, appeasement approach to the world, and a conservative, Anglospheric, freedom approach to the world is the clearest -- moreso than in any other cabinet portfolio, from finance to justice. MacKay has always been a weak spot in the party, from his political dalliance with Belinda Stronach to his chronic media undermining of Harper. That was one thing when it was just party business. But now it's the nation's business, and it's something that should cause Canadians, especially movment conservatives, great concern.
He also doesn't have a good understanding of his position. I remember in a media interview at the time of the unveiling of the cabinet, MacKay mused that his role as Foreign minister would help in his role as chief of ACOA (the atlantic subsidy department) since he'd be able to promote Atlantic Canada to the world. NO, YOU MORON. Your job isn't to economically promote a specific part of Canada that accounts for less than 10% of the national population! It's to promote the ENTIRE country. Harper should've kept alive the position of Deputy PM... And attached it to a portfolio that doesn't allow MacKay to do much damage. Imagine what Condi Rice and other foreign ministers will think of Harper's judgment when they sit down with MacKay? Isn't that something that Harper should have thought about? I know that he was a former leader of the party, and I admire his courage (which was mixed with desperation in the face of the seemingly unstoppable Paul Martin) in bringing the parties together, but he really, truly does not merit something as significant as Foreign Affairs. Why not Environment or Intergovernmental Affairs?
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