Author: Stephen Taylor

This one just off the wire:

Peter MacKay will stay in federal politics rather than run for the leadership of the Nova Scotia Progressive conservative Party, a highly-placed source says.

Mr. MacKay, deputy leader of the federal Conservatives, told Conservative Leader Stephen Harper that he was staying and has always told Mr. Harper that was his preference, the source says.

His decision will be announced Wednesday to the Conservative caucus meeting before it is announced publicly.

Well this may end a few news cycles of speculation. It seemed that MacKay was always leaning towards staying, however, the uncertainty brought him a lot of attention and positive press. If this report is true, MacKay has spoiled the forcasts of a few pundits who predicted his departure including Greg Weston of Sun media and Craig Oliver of CTV.

I’ve been playing around with some video capturing and video editing software lately. Inspired by BBS’s recent great work, I put together a video on Liberal minister John McCallum’s dithering and claims of some sort of law that owes Liberal cronies a severance payment once they quit after being caught in the act of corruption (alleged). Never heard of that law? Don’t worry, nobody else has either.

You can download the video here. Share it with your friends by emailing them a link to this blog entry.

Comments welcome.

Recently, I was sent a note from Monte Solberg’s office regarding Ralph Goodale’s recent move on income trusts. Thousands of seniors and Canadians saving for their retirement lost a significant part of their personal savings when Goodale tossed in some uncertainty. Monte and Dean Allison have drafted a petition to help Canadians stand up for seniors.

You can download the petition here:
Income trust petition
Pass it along to your friends and neighbours and mail it back to Allison’s office free of charge.

You can also read the news release

You can also read more from Monte on this topic on his blog