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- 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.
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Jan 13, 2022 · OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper is once again going to bat for Peter MacKay in a bid to help him pay off his debt from the 2020 Conservative party leadership race.
Dec 18, 2023 · Three years later, in order to “unite the right” and defeat the federal Liberals, the leaders of the Canadian Alliance (Stephen Harper) and the federal PC party (Peter MacKay) merged their respective parties. They founded the new Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) on Dec. 7, 2003.
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Aug 27, 2016 · Upon forming government as PM in 2006 his singular focus on reining in waste and corruption in the aftermath of the Liberal sponsorship scandal set us on a clear course. Smaller, more efficient...
May 29, 2015 · With the loss of Peter MacKay, Stephen Harper’s task of leading his party to a fourth mandate this fall has become more daunting.
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MacKay said he believed that clinching the win required what would be needed to win a general election. So his team focused on selling memberships to disaffected Liberals and to lapsed Tories in ridings where the party hasn't been strong before. In some areas, this paid off: membership growth was strong in the Atlantic provinces and in some urban c...
That team was a mix of loyalists from his days with the PCs, newer recruits to the cause under Harper's leadership and a handful of slick campaign operatives credited with delivering victories for conservatives elsewhere in the country. Tensions within the team led to some missteps, MacKay acknowledged. He downplayed those errors, though they were ...
Still, that his campaign managed to raise $3 million — though does have a debt of about $1 million — is proof that he succeeded on some fronts, he said. But, of the three other candidates, two — Derek Sloan and Leslyn Lewis — came from the well-organized, well-funded and highly motivated social conservative wing of the party. Even before the race h...
Social conservatives are on their way to making up a majority of the party's base, MacKay said, and whether and how the party can evade or redirect the line of attack that ultimately sank former leader Andrew Scheer rests on O'Toole. "The next election, if it comes soon, this is a penetrating statement of the obvious, but there isn't going to be a ...
May 29, 2015 · OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper flew in for Peter MacKay’s “farewell, not goodbye” speech, to praise his partner in forming the modern federal Conservative party and to publicly send a...
Aug 25, 2023 · It took the better part of three years, myriad fundraising events and help from former prime ministers — and at least one country singer — but Peter MacKay says he has finally paid off the $1.7...
