Friday, November 19, 2010

Is There a Rift in the Harper Cabinet Re-Peter Mackay?

Well,this should put that rumor to bed.  Check out David Akin's blog, On The Hill.
Some pundits have taken Peter MacKay's less-than-subtle signals that he was unhappy with the decision made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and others in cabinet to deny landing rights airlines from the United Arab Emirates and, in doing so, forego the free use of the Camp Mirage staging base near Dubai, as a sign that he is preparing to leave the cabinet and perhaps even quit politics. My sources close to MacKay say he's going nowhere but who knows? Stranger things have happened.
In any event, here at the NATO summit in Lisbon, if there is a rift between MacKay and Harper over the UAE decision, the two are putting on a first-class job of hiding it. The body language between the two men -- at four photo ops I saw today as well as the opening of the NATO summit -- told me those two are getting along like gangbusters. I couldn't hear what they were saying in the summit room but whatever it was, they were making each other laugh and smile a lot. And, as you can see in the picture above, MacKay was Harper's wingman all day while Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon had the backseat.
Seems to me just another faux scandal the MSM have dreamed up again to make it look like trouble in the Tory family.  Kudos to David Akin for this report!

4 comments:

  1. The MSM would love there to be discord within the CPC. It would distract for a while from the constant internal issues with the LPC. :D

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  2. The MSM would love there to be discord within the CPC. It would distract for a while from the constant internal issues with the LPC. :D

    Exactly! Another diversion to turn the attention away from the divisions within in the Liberal party. The latest is the discontent within the party vs leadership regarding the Afghan mission.

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  3. Any conservative considering leaving the party because PM Harper would not give in to the Islamic UAE demands I believe is in the wrong party to start with. With an attitude like that they would be a much better fit with "Taliban Jack" Layton over at the NDP.

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  4. Harper is obviously right on this. Why the heck do we need to give the UAE time of day. The less traffic between Canada and the Middle East, the better. They can take their petro dollars and shove them up their misogynistic a$$.

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