Low expectations always work

After watching Peter MacKay's press conference with Condi Rice late last week, I have to say that it wasn't so bad. Not as bad as I thought it'd be at least. He'll certainly be far better than Lloyd Axworthy, the worst Foreign Affairs Minister Canada's probably ever had. Axworthy wouldn't even be able to hold a press conference with Secretary Rice if he were still the Minister, considering his past remarks.

When he was appointed Foreign Minister, I was fairly disappointed since changes in government have the ability to effect a nation's foreign policy almost immediately and having a cliche-speaking (and probably cliche-thinking) novice like MacKay in the job didn't seem too promising, but with the tight control that the PMO seems to be imposing on him, things might not turn out too bad. Because of the direction from up top, MacKay will also surely be better than the pointless (though not amoral in the way Axworthy was) Foreign ministers of the later Liberal years such as Manley, Graham and Pettigrew.