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Overheard on ride home, “Oooh Mr. MacKay. Coffee, tea or … me?”
Vacations are nice for a Conservative. They’re especially nice when you can commandeer a search-and-rescue copter to take you home at the end of it in style. Impresses the ladies.
Sometimes it’s good to be Defence Minister. Actually, it’s always good to be Defence Minister. Especially if you’re part of a political power drunk of majority power. Ask Tony Clement. Ask what’s-his-name Dechert. And so on.
You have to understand this helicopter episode is just part of being Defence Minister. You have to demonstrate its capabilities like Sun News North uses backdrops. Besides, Natynczyk does it.
I wonder if they boarded the entitled Mr. MacKay on a stretcher, with Martinis through an IV and female attendants applying the latest search-and-rescue therapeutic massage techniques? Because an elite minister really, really needs to “see the search-and-rescue capabilities for himself”.
UPDATE: EvilScientist observes in the Comments:
“Expense aside, while ferrying Mr. MacKay around, this helicopter was unavailable for it’s S&R duties, itself something to think about.”
UPDATE II: Tweet of the day candidate.
UPDATE III: My favourite press blurb of the day, from the CBC:
Defence Minister Peter MacKay defended his use of a federal military search and rescue helicopter, saying it was for work, rather than for personal use, while vacationing in central Newfoundland.
Expense aside, while ferrying Mr. MacKay around, this helicopter was unavailable for it’s S&R duties, itself something to think about.
This deep recession is, for the people only. There is no recession for politicians. They pretty much live for free, on our tax dollars. Government workers don’t even have to pay taxes on their restaurant meals. They have outrageous expense accounts, that are totally abused. Politicians are parasites and bottomless pits of greed.
Canada has become, a very corrupt country. This country’s good name has been fouled and dirtied. P.M. Harper had a many time convicted felon working for him. This criminal Carson and his ex prostitute girlfriend, were guests in the Harper’s home. Harper was in contempt of the House. The $50 million dollars, is still missing from Harper’s 2006 campaign.
Harper’s best friend Campbell, was given the appointment as, High Commissioner to England. Campbell has the most foul and dirty political record, in Canadian history. Harper has embarrassed Canadians far too many times, this last stunt Harper has pulled, is the worst and most corrupt of all.
In Canada, there are very few politicians, worth the powder to blow them to hell.
Lots of things to wonder about this story. For example was he at the HW Bush camp? Who leaked the two stories, is the PMO going after Airshow?