Peter Mackay News

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 8:31 AM Peter MacKay reaches for the eggnog 1 . Peter MacKay's very bad day.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he understands if Canadian soldiers are demoralized by revelations that some Taliban insurgents they captured and handed over to Afghan police are unaccounted for.

Richard Colvin: "According to our information, the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured...We kept hopeless records, and apparently to prevent any scrutiny, the Canadian Forces leadership concealed all this behind walls of secrecy....Instead of winning hearts and minds, we caused Kandaharis to fear the ...

Peter MacKay is heading home to Nova Scotia, he says, "for a dose of reality." The defence minister will go home to where people know him, have known him for years, trust him and would never call him a nasty name or think an unkind thought about him.

Beaten prisoner was questioned but not detained, top soldier says Chief of the Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk, middle, is flanked by Lieutenant-General Marc Lessard and Major-General Mark McQuillan as they appear at the Commons defence committee on Tuesday, Dec.

Peter MacKay is not the brightest light on Stephen Harper's front bench. Nor is he a fool.

Home : Canada : Natynczyk makes major reversal on detainee story Natynczyk makes major reversal on detainee story Viewer CTV News Channel: Tom Clark on the impact The host of CTV's Power Play says Natynczyk's testimony is a game changer and compromises the entire defense of the federal government.

Friday, December 11, 2009 8:32 AM Peter MacKay seeks 'a dose of reality' back home 1 . Peter MacKay gets back to basics.

After previously suggesting he would consider apologizing and restoring benefits to veterans who were dishonourably discharged from the military for being gay, Defence Minister Peter MacKay appears to be backtracking.

Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:47 PM Detainee questions 'spear the Canadian Forces,' opposition told Jane Taber L iberal Leader Michael Ignatieff today accused the Conservative government of bullying and intimidating witnesses involved in the Afghan detainee scandal.

" Defence Minister Peter MacKay has repeatedly misled Canadians about detainee abuse in Afghanistan and must resign, say New Democrats.

John Ibbitson MacKay may be indefensible, but his job is safe Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay appears before the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan on Parliament Hill.

Citing the rescue by Canadian soldiers of a bloodied Afghan detainee, opposition MPs on Monday accused Defence Minister Peter MacKay of "misleading" Canadians by saying there was no evidence of abuse by Afghan security forces of even one Canadian-captured detainee.

The Conservative government insisted Monday that an Afghan whom Canadian soldiers rescued from Afghan abusers had not been previously detained by Canadians, an assertion contradicted by soldiers' notes and testimony.

A collection of reassurances offered in QP over the last two and a half weeks. November 19 Peter MacKay.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay welcomes in a ceremony Saturday Lt.-Col. Dan Whittaker as the new commanding officer for the North Saskatchewan Regiment and Royal Regina Rifles army reserve units Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The StarPhoenix, The StarPhoenix Defence Minister Peter MacKay was in Saskatoon Saturday to help welcome the new commanding ...

Thursday, December 3, 2009 12:56 PM Peter MacKay offers black-marker defence D efence Minister Peter MacKay says he wasn't personally using a black-tipped felt pen, poring over documents, blacking out references to the torture of Afghan prisoners.

" New Democrats will use their opposition day motion Tuesday to initiate an immediate debate on the need for a public inquiry into the transfer of Afghan detainees.

The Scene. There was some general discussion of Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama, the Canadian Forces and the American effort, before Michael Ignatieff, with his third opportunity, narrowed in on a specific concern.

After Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was killed in 2003 while in Iranian custody, the Canadian government restricted diplomatic relations with Iran and expressed outrage at her "brutal murder." In 2006, Peter MacKay, then minister of foreign affairs, denounced the "culture of impunity that prevails in Iran." But on Wednesday, as for the ...