Peter MacKay

Peter MacKay
MacKay in 2014
Minister of Justice
Attorney General of Canada
In office
July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byRob Nicholson
Succeeded byJody Wilson-Raybould
Minister of National Defence
In office
August 14, 2007 – July 15, 2013
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byGordon O'Connor
Succeeded byRob Nicholson
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
February 6, 2006 – August 14, 2007
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byPierre Pettigrew
Succeeded byMaxime Bernier
Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
In office
February 6, 2006 – January 19, 2010
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byJoe McGuire
Succeeded byKeith Ashfield
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
In office
March 22, 2004 – November 5, 2015
LeaderStephen Harper
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byDenis Lebel
Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party
In office
May 31, 2003 – December 7, 2003
Preceded byJoe Clark
Succeeded byJohn Lynch-Staunton
(as interim leader)
Member of Parliament
for Central Nova
(Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough; 1997–2004)
In office
June 2, 1997 – October 19, 2015
Preceded byRoseanne Skoke
Succeeded bySean Fraser
Personal details
Born
Peter Gordon MacKay

(1965-09-27) September 27, 1965 (age 58)
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada
Political partyConservative (since 2003)
Other political
affiliations
Progressive Conservative (1997–2003)
Spouse
(m. 2012)
Children3
Parents
Residence(s)Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Alma mater
Occupation

Peter Gordon MacKay PC KC (born September 27, 1965) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. 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.

The son of Canadian politician and Minister of Public Works Elmer MacKay, MacKay received his undergraduate degree from Acadia University and his law degree from Dalhousie University. MacKay represented the riding of Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough from 1997 to 2004, and the riding of Central Nova from 2004 until 2015, when he decided not to run in that year's federal election. With the defeat of the Conservatives in the 2015 federal election, he was considered a potential candidate to succeed Stephen Harper as permanent leader of the party. Between 2015 and 2020, he was a partner with Baker McKenzie at their Toronto office.

On January 15, 2020, MacKay announced his candidacy for the 2020 Conservative leadership race.[3] He was defeated by former veterans affairs minister Erin O’Toole on the third ballot of the leadership vote.[4] Since the race, he moved back to Nova Scotia and is now a senior counsel with the law firm McInnes Cooper, and a strategic advisor with Deloitte Canada.

  1. ^ "Peter's Story". PeterMacKay.ca. Peter MacKay. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  2. ^ "Eirene Violet Macha Doon MacKay (Delap)". SerenityFuneralHome.ca. Serenity Funeral Home. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  3. ^ MacKay, Peter (January 15, 2020). "I'm in. Stay tuned". @PeterMacKay. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  4. ^ "RCV Short Report" (PDF). August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.

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