#peter mackay

When the mask slips off for juuust a second

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The war of words between the campaign teams of Conservative leadership candidates Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole over a claim that MacKay's team stole confidential campaign data continues to heat up — and some party strategists are warning that the brawl threatens the Conservative brand itself.

"A sleepy leadership [race] has gotten bizarre and gone possibly to a precarious place for the Conservative Party," said Conservative strategist and pundit Tim Powers.

"There are no long-term winners when the apparent second-place candidate in the race calls the cops on the first-place candidate's team. The only one with a smile is Justin Trudeau."

O'Toole claimed on Friday evening that MacKay campaign organizer Jamie Lall was involved in the "theft of confidential O'Toole campaign data and strategy."

Lall quickly responded to the allegations on Twitter with the statement: "Not a single word of this is true." He is still a volunteer with the MacKay campaign.

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So when I was younger my Dad had a job for a higher part of the government, and every year they would send him on a trip to a luxury conference. My Dad’s boss was super cool, so every year one of my siblings or I would go with him and get to road trip down, as we’d drive all the way to Toronto. One of my years came when I was thirteen and I got to spend two weeks travelling with my Dad while missing the first weeks of school. It was fun! We had barbecues on Lake Superior and my Dad would tell me stories about the ghost ships down there and I would get to swim in the hotel swimming pools.

Anyways, the conference that year was being held at the Delta London Armouries. In case you don’t know, the Armouries is one of the most high end hotels in Canada. Everyone from politicians to movie stars stay there. So naturally, as a working class kid I felt pretty out of place. However, the hotel looked like a castle (!!!!!) and the pool looked like something out of a fairytale, with big stained glass windows and towers surrounding it.

So when we got to the hotel I saw the pool and I was like NOW but my Dad wanted us to bring our stuff up the room first. So we’re waiting for the elevator when it dings and a group comes out.

Now, my Dad? He’s like 6’5 and is built like a tree, pure Scottish Highlander muscle. And out of the elevator scuttles these rich looking folks led by a short little rodent looking man with a scowl on his face. The man was talking to his group, and my Dad was trying to calm me down because POOL! and due to the collision course the man ran right into my Dad. Barely made his chest, didn’t even move his feet. But the man was steaming.

“Watch where you’re going” the man snarled and he and his group shot us super dirty looks, like they could smell the poverty on us. Off they scuttled, and we went up to the hotel in silence. Dad said that was a politician, a Conservative. He said that the man’s name was Peter Mackay.

Didn’t like that man much, and I think that treating a kid like shit because their parents don’t commit tax fraud is wrong. Conservatives hate the working class, and they’ve hated them for quite a while now (this was in 2014). Just thought that you should know what he’s like.

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Today in headlines that aged like supply managed milk

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Conservative leadership hopeful Peter MacKay is facing blowback after posting — then deleting — a tweet that expressed support for counter-protesters who dismantled a barricade erected by supporters of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs near Edmonton on Wednesday.

"Glad to see a couple Albertans with a pickup truck can do more for our economy in an afternoon than Justin Trudeau could do in four years," the tweet read.

The tweet was a reference to Wednesday's confrontation between a group of counter-protesters and some anti-pipeline demonstrators who had set up a blockade on CN's main rail line in the western part of the provincial capital.

After a provincial court granted an injunction against the protesters, the counter-protesters removed material that was blocking the railway and dismantled a wooden makeshift barrier the anti-pipeline activists had built.

Critics quickly denounced the tweet as inappropriate because they said it appeared the former justice minister was promoting vigilantism.

Sean Carleton, a historian at the Mount Royal University in Calgary, said it's dangerous for politicians in positions of influence to support people taking the law into their own hands.

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Peter MacKay officially signalled he's ready to jump into the Conservative leadership race today with a four-word tweet: "I'm in. Stay tuned."

MacKay is expected to formally launch his campaign late next week.

The tweet (which he also sent out in French) publicly confirms work that has been going on behind the scenes for some time.

MacKay has recruited former Conservative MP Alex Nuttall as his campaign manager. Nuttall was an organizer for Maxime Bernier during the Conservative leadership race in 2017.

Michael Diamond, who ran Ontario Premier Doug Ford's PC leadership campaign in 2018, will be MacKay's director of communications.

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#dominionvoting #donaldtrump #erinotoole #petermackay

THE DOMINION VOTING MACHINES

The Us President Donald Trump is not the first one to have a problem with the Dominion voting machines and here in Canada, last August 21, 2020, Peter Mackay got defeated by Erin O'Toole and serious problems happened with the Dominion machines used for the vote as the result suddenly changed and the final count was only available two days later.

In Canada only two provinces are using the machines, Ontario and New Brunswick, but many political parties are using them.

Does that mean that Donald Trump is right about machine fraud in his 2020 US Presidential Election?

Maybe yes, maybe no, but the difficulty will be to prove the hacking, if hacking it was, as a good hacker know how to hide his manipulation of the software.

To be continued

See Canada Conservative leadership election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Conservative_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election

See Dominion voting machines

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems