Party Leadership: Peter MacKay

Peter MacKay: In an interview, the defence minister described his exasperation with a passionate debate on party leadership rules that turns up like clockwork at the party's conventions, which are held every two years, according to CBC. When MacKay and Stephen Harper agreed to merge the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties in 2003, the PCs insisted that each riding would have an equal say in a leadership vote and Peter MacKay says he's getting a bad case of deja vu heading into this month's Conservative convention. "There's a bit of a refusal to accept the strong will of the party by bringing this forward time and time again," MacKay said in an interview from Brussels. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.