Peter MacKay | |
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 MacKay in 2014 | |
| Minister of Justice Attorney General of Canada | |
| In office July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Rob Nicholson |
| Succeeded by | Jody Wilson-Raybould |
| Minister of National Defence | |
| In office August 14, 2007 – July 15, 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Gordon O'Connor |
| Succeeded by | Rob Nicholson |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office February 6, 2006 – August 14, 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Pierre Pettigrew |
| Succeeded by | Maxime Bernier |
| Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | |
| In office February 6, 2006 – January 19, 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Joe McGuire |
| Succeeded by | Keith Ashfield |
| Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party | |
| In office March 22, 2004 – November 5, 2015 | |
| Leader | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Denis Lebel |
| Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party | |
| In office May 31, 2003 – December 7, 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Joe Clark |
| Succeeded by | John 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 by | Roseanne Skoke |
| Succeeded by | Sean Fraser |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Peter Gordon MacKay September 27, 1965 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative (since 2003) |
| Other political affiliations | Progressive Conservative (1997–2003) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents |
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| Residence(s) | Pictou County, Nova Scotia |
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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.
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- ^ "RCV Short Report" (PDF). August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.