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The Honourable
Peter MacKay
PC KC
MacKay in 2014
Minister of Justice Attorney General of Canada
In office July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015
Prime Minister
Stephen Harper
Preceded by
Rob Nicholson
Succeeded by
Jody Wilson-Raybould
Minister of National Defence
In office August 14, 2007 – July 15, 2013
Prime Minister
Stephen Harper
Preceded by
Gordon O'Connor
Succeeded by
Rob Nicholson
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office February 6, 2006 – August 14, 2007
Prime Minister
Stephen Harper
Preceded by
Pierre Pettigrew
Succeeded by
Maxime Bernier
Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
In office February 6, 2006 – January 19, 2010
Prime Minister
Stephen Harper
Preceded by
Joe McGuire
Succeeded by
Keith Ashfield
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
In office March 22, 2004 – November 5, 2015
Leader
Stephen Harper
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Denis Lebel
Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party
In office May 31, 2003 – December 7, 2003
Preceded by
Joe Clark
Succeeded by
John Lynch-Staunton (as interim leader)
Member of Parliament for Central Nova (Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough; 1997–2004)
In office June 2, 1997 – October 19, 2015
Preceded by
Roseanne Skoke
Succeeded by
Sean Fraser
Personal details
Born
Peter Gordon MacKay
(1965-09-27) September 27, 1965 (age 58) New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada
Political party
Conservative (since 2003)
Other political affiliations
Progressive Conservative (1997–2003)
Spouse
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
(m. 2012)
Children
3
Parents
Elmer MacKay (father)
Macha MacKay[1][2] (mother)
Residence(s)
Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Alma mater
Acadia University (transferred)
Carleton University (B.A.)
Dalhousie University (LL.B.)
Occupation
Politician
Crown attorney
lawyer
diplomat
Peter Gordon MacKayPC KC (born September 27, 1965) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics.
The son of Canadian politician and Minister of Public Works Elmer MacKay, MacKay received his undergraduate degree from Acadia University and his law degree from Dalhousie University. MacKay represented the riding of Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough from 1997 to 2004, and the riding of Central Nova from 2004 until 2015, when he decided not to run in that year's federal election. With the defeat of the Conservatives in the 2015 federal election, he was considered a potential candidate to succeed Stephen Harper as permanent leader of the party. Between 2015 and 2020, he was a partner with Baker McKenzie at their Toronto office.
On January 15, 2020, MacKay announced his candidacy for the 2020 Conservative leadership race.[3] He was defeated by former veterans affairs minister Erin O’Toole on the third ballot of the leadership vote.[4] Since the race, he moved back to Nova Scotia and is now a senior counsel with the law firm McInnes Cooper, and a strategic advisor with Deloitte Canada.
^"Peter's Story". PeterMacKay.ca. Peter MacKay. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
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to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. PeterMacKay was elected as leader to replace former Prime Minister Joe Clark, who...
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ground in Ontario, and resigned on August 6, 2002. On May 31, 2003, PeterMacKay won the party leadership after securing the endorsement of controversial...
the highest casualty rates per province." Canadian Defence Minister PeterMacKay called on Fox to apologize for the comments and described the remarks...
have been Stronach. She was among many who had called for PC leader PeterMacKay and Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper to undertake the merger talks...
General PeterMacKay described a kind of fatigue currently present in democratic societies, due to the losses in recent years. As for Canada, MacKay declared...
2007, Bernier was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing PeterMacKay, who became the Minister of National Defence. During the beginning of...
opposition. Thus, the race was mostly between Conservative candidate PeterMacKay and May. May's support was concentrated in the community of Antigonish...
Scotia Member of Parliament (MP) PeterMacKay and Calgary lawyer Jim Prentice. Orchard decided to support PeterMacKay over Jim Prentice due to the latter's...
Alliance under Stephen Harper and the Progressive Conservatives under PeterMacKay merged, creating the Conservative Party of Canada. The new party, led...
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, June 2016. Willies, ghillies and horny Highlanders: Scottish Gaelic writing has a filthy past by PeterMacKay, University...
a transferred Taliban prisoner by Canadian forces", Defence Minister PeterMacKay said in the House of Commons, with his parliamentary secretary suggesting...
Mediterranean, off the coast of Libya. Canadian National Defence Minister PeterMacKay stated that "[w]e are there for all inevitabilities. And NATO is looking...
party increased after PeterMackay was elected Progressive Conservative leader in May 2003. On October 16, 2003, Harper and Mackay agreed to merge the two...
intersection of 39 Dufferin and Mackay at the southwest corner of the Rideau Hall estate. MacKay's present minister is Reverend Peter Woods. The church was founded...
Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party (under its new leader PeterMacKay) announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conservative...
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