Peter MacKay addresses the crowd at a federal Conservative leadership forum during the annual general meeting of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative party in Halifax on Saturday, February 8, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew VaughanOTTAWA -- Conservative leadership hopeful Peter MacKay says a government under his rule would scrap the carbon tax yet would still “try” to meet the Paris climate targets.
As for meeting the Paris Agreement – the international pact to curb global temperature rise thatCanada signed in 2015 – MacKay said his government would “try” to get there. Canada has signed on to the commitment but has received criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump about failing to meet the target to date.
Is this his official position in the upcoming leadership race?
what McKay gov't? Somebody having wet dreams. Still jacking off to Belinda?
And the transition from Peter MacKay to Jason Kenney is now complete. From popular centrist to crazy right wing wing nut.
You've lost my support, You're just another flip-flopper!
The Conservative Party climate policy can essentially be boiled down to 'wishing and hoping for a magical technological solution, provided by Lord-Knows-Who'
Seen this post about 10 times today. What, no questions for trudeau in regards to his big stand on Fri.? Inspiring more, blockades rather than discouraging them, trudeau continues to prove he is completely useless.
It’s strange to me that some citizens support extra tax. Especially one that takes away so much of our economic competitiveness
Ok, Dinosaur
Aspiring to gas reduction sounds like a good plan for Mackay...
Great - another climate denier wants to rule the world.
thankunext get your head out of your a$$. People actually care about the planet in case you haven't noticed.
Tell us what you will do, not what you wont do.
If the lefty libs were not scared of McKay they wouldn't target him.they aren't mentioning any other candidates.
Why did PeterMacKay celebrate vigilantism? Is it because he represents a human-rights abusing & murderous regime?
Unbelievable. Why would Canadians elect a PM who is living in the last century?
Keep dreaming
nowaytopetermackay
Sparse comfort in his commitment to fight climate change. Says what he will do to hinder the fight but does not say what he will do to achieve it.
That's unfortunate for Canadians looking for fiscal solutions to real life problems.
Great! We can have a polluted world that’s at war...
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Eliminate Carbon Gas. Get rid of the Canadian Media.
Wow what a man, military spending! 😮 How about Huawei, the ‘deal’ the military wants to ban from 5G? Will he back the military’s position?
Sounds like a loser to me. Hopefully his Conservative leadership bid is also 'aspirational'.
Our military is severely under funded, we need an increase badly
'Less environment, more bombs' - pretty catchy platform.
Peter.. dont tell us what your going to do... Fucking do it. Cause I am very sick of empty promises.
Same old tired conservative rhetoric tough on crime coming up . .
Just remember he’s a conservative. They do only what’s good for them not the people of Canada
PeterMacKay seems like a contrived movie politician or a cartoon. No substance, no actual knowledge of what Canada needs. Priviledge =/= understanding or ability to lead. He seems more self-serving and pandering.
Nothing to help people, we still can’t afford to eat, own homes or educate our children..with the condition of the country, seems like your thinking is pretty dated...You’re all mini Harper’s, just admit it....
petermctrump
nooooooo PETER MCKAY
Alberta here please god tell me the entire country isn’t stupid enough to fall for this...hint see our current state of politics🤦♀️🤬
I don't think so.
Just what we need....another weakling!!
I don't believe a single thing MacKay says. He flops on any issue
Thanks for the forewarning
Run on the platform to leave the UN.
How about scrap the tax, cut spending, and give that money back to the TAX PAYERS
Carbon tax is bullshit
Rinse, repeat. Time for a real leader to emerge.
So no real effort to address climate change. Douche.
I don’t believe him..he’s a liberal trying to infiltrate the Conservative party. He would never get my vote.
Sure, because Peter is known for taking a stance
Spending in the Military not the problem. Actually buying equipment in timely manner is.
LeslynLewis has my vote know matter how much you try to sell us on this Peter guy.
Snakebite350 Taking advice from Dictator Don?
Just what this country needs, a climate change denier.
He’ll buy 4 extra armed canoes
Snakebite350 Tanks and guns and troops. That’ll show the climate crisis who’s boss.
Pass
What world do you live in buddy ? Move to Florida or Texas
Bird5Ca Never Mackay.
No to Peter Mckay let me remind everyone when she referred to Belinda as .... b**ch?!!!
Someone let me help peter MacKay with his shirt choices
I could get behind that agenda.
Get lost ... you're not getting my vote at convention...
And the clown won’t renounce the bullshit $600 million medua hsbdiut or Defund the CBC so exactly why this JustinTrudeau Liberal LITE PeterMacKay should never win the leadership race!! Either LeslynLewis or ErinOTooleMP
Absolutely was a progressive figure in CP but now has slipped into that other mode. Would not support him now.
Increasing a pathetic military budget shouldn’t be a difficult task.
What’s the over/under that he’ll back talk this? 30 hours? 48? I better get my proline ticket for this one.
Regulating our way to reducing emissions and cooking the defence budget's books are bad ideas. CPCLeadershipRace CPC CarbonPricing cdnpoli PeterMacKay
Easy enough to say but do you have the backbone to follow thru? Just referencing your tweet deletion from last week.
I can think of a lot of places where money is needed more than the military. For one, our infrastructures. Our bridges. Our roads. Our water systems. Our vulnerable power grid. Without them the best military could not even save us.
And I’ll get my red neck buddies to scrap them barricades
He's got my vote!
If the Cons are smart they will NOT elect yesterdays man PeterMacKay He first needs to grow up and develop his Social Media skills. He can't run twitter certainly is not fit to run a government. I rarely vote CON but I would suggest the man with the plan ErinOTooleMP
Yes!!
He’s got my vote. I hope he gets the Leadership.
He's really working on his tough guy image, it's funny actually. First the deleted tweet, now this.. What next
That’s a hard no from me then eh
The man literally makes me cringe
As soon as a negative tweet or negative media story is put out he’ll melt like butter in a clothes dryer. No thanks. I like my skeletal structures to have spines.
It's like the CPC_HQ think theyre running in the 1952 election
Peter, how? You kill a tax and increase spending. How are you going to pay for it?
Just worry about offing da Trupeckerhead and his brainless supporters!!!
Pretty hard to scrap the carbon tax, Trudeau has Canada so far in debt & it is going to get worse every day that he is in power. Maybe just change the name of it & start paying down debt or at least balance the budget.
8yeargap1111 MacKay’s words are hollow & meaningless, he flip flops on a daily basis.👎🏻 NoWayMacKay
Yes, that’s exactly what we need. 🙄
And he change his name to peter trump.
Ok boomer
Only increase military spending if it goes towards making a better quality of life for our veterans. No more money to help support America’s wars around the world
If he doesn’t change his mind.
Watching Canada's slow decay as conservatives turn us into the USA.
Yeaaahhh, that makes sense. Elect Cons, so they can funnel more money to the people most likely to off-shore their wealth to avoid paying taxes... and then hit the rest of Canadians up for more military... AnAmericanStory CONSbeconning
Same boring story every conservative leader tells. Ugh can ya not come up with some new ideas.
Does he want to invest in more military helicopters?
I thought that we already rejected Stephen Harper?
Another Trump, no thanks
Oh Yes!. Cause Trump like corruption is exactly what Canada wants. 😕🙄 Conservatives are out of touch with the reality!
kill the known terrorists in our country. Assist mr Trump in the war on terror and radical people entering our country. Close the boarders to radical countries. Shut this shit down right quick. Carbon tax ? Ok do that too.
The problem is MacKay has to get conservatives to support him to win. The CPC brand is bankrupt: We can all see ‘conservatives’ are not fiscally conservative, provincial budgets do not matter, and we now see he doesn’t believe climate science. Canada needs better than this!!!
Top economists including former BOC/BOE governor say a carpon tax is the most effective way towards carbon neutral atmosphere Peter a flawed politician tell us otherwise just to hold on western base which he already has WHY? Harper’s helicopter boy needs to be more ASPIRATIONAL
In other words, he thinks fighting climate change is a lost cause and it's better to prepare for the inevitable wars over resources that will result from it. That's assuming he believes in climate change at all. Conservatives are idiots.
When can we vote?
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Another hold over from the Harper days. No thanks
All politicians have proven they say what the voting public want to hear but once they are elected they just follow their own agenda
Sad to see someone who otherwise appears normally intelligent descend into the absurdity of ideological rhetoric. I guess that's what happens when your party is fully controlled by old school energy giants.
I think after the SNC Lavelin scandal and now the poor handling of the rail blockade Trudeau has all but guaranteed a Peter MacKay victory next election
PeterMacKay must want more fishing trips.
Conservatives are self destructing again.
That sounds all good Pete, but JT is giving away that carbon tax before it was raised, don’t worry about learning the French language, if your truly a Canadian English is our official language!!
Are we at war again?
He sounds more like Trump every day!!
drivermorr What he says and what he can do are 2 different things .
Here we go again... sigh...
How will increasing military spending boost the economy in any way?
So out of touch ...
Dude, learn French. You will never be PM without it. Don’t waste your chance.
Increase military spending? Is that for all the wars the Americans keep dragging us into?
Free helicopter rides
So what's Mmmkay gonna cut? Health care? Education?
Of course he will
When will any politician get it PeterMacKay ? We want our money to look after fellow Canadians. Not military to fight needless wars. Not foreign aid for countries that we are not likely to ever visit Not PM visits/holidays Just reinvest our tax dollars in Us the people.
Ugh. Sing a different tune for once. So tiresome.
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Conservative talking points are easy: Copy the USA/Republicans.
Go back to hill billy town
Until there's some backlash, then he won't!
That what conservatives do. Get rid of access taxes put on by liberals, and care for our military. Then when they get voted out, liberals give us new taxes and tell military they ask for too much.
If you increase Military spending....what is getting cut?
Red and Blue, doing less than nothing for climate. Canada is a climate villain on the world stage.
Sincerely hope this never happens on all counts.
Increase Military spending and buy some more old worn out U.K. Submarines...and buy more helicopters to go fishing in with your Banker Buddies....
Let’s hope he doesn’t get elected than.
Follow ColonelAngus17
Ah no thank you
1995 is calling
And we thought he was smarter than the rest. Just another regressive thinking imbecile.... and wearing that shirt and tie combination shows a distinct lack of wisdom.
This BS never ends with this party.
FRUMP 2.0
Peter Mackay is a lying sack of CCRAP.
Exactly what we don’t need. Peter go back to Nevernever land
And if you disagree with him, he has 5 goond in an pick up truck who he can send to explain his new policies to you. Thanks Helicopter Pete, we dont need any more of your has been wanna be advise.
Money doesn't stop carbon....personal change is the only thing that will stop carbon...the 'Carbon Tax' is a feel good phrase(or hated phrase). Question: Some discovery's being aired on ,say, the History channel showing historical development 'under water'[the ocean]..THINK !!!!
Reading most of the comments - no wonder Canada is going nowhere fast. Getting close to being embarrassed to be Canadian.
Just do both. Just say you are going to spend on the military. Why beat around the bush. SPEND THE MONEY
The carbon tax is just a punishing tax anyway. It isn't high enough to change people's behavior. If it was high enough it would cripple the economy. It certainly won't affect climate change.
A dimwit to think that’s what we need. Tone deaf.
And this is good Why?
Right. Just what this country needs someone who doesn’t care about the environment and who wants to wage war. No thanks PeterMacKay
Time to meet our NATO obligations.
Increase military spending, that is exactly what will improve the economy, and help the environment. When the world going forward, his plan is to set us back.
Related to trump?
Don’t worry Peter you won’t be prime minister
How about reduce tuition fees for post secondary education and helping the poor to get by daily?
Redneck alert!!!!!
Great and great
F35. Yes
What a donkey,
I wonder if he even realized that the PC's LOST the last election?
*sighs* runs forehead. Down the shitter full speed ahead.
A start! But I would like to know his stand on getting Canada out of the United Nations and stopping the money drain to this antiquated world disgrace.
Haven't we heard this before?
He can move to the US if he wants to act like that
This one is just as bad as the last idiot from the CPC_HQ.. the party likes standing in quicksand!!
Scrap the Carbon Tax and increase Military spending? He going to also turn water into wine?
On a vu cela avec des applaudissements à Judtice soi- même.Gaz et répression quel changement!
Conservatives saying no new taxes and increased military spending? How predictable.
We don’t need an increase on military spending
What about Paris climate agreement
Cowards.
But will he remove the rail barricades or sit in a corner with his thumb up his ass like Jt!
STILL no truth, just obfuscation...tell the TRUTH, 'climate change' is NOT man made, CO2 is imperative for a green and oxygenated Earth, the 'tax' component is directly from club of rome whitepaper eugenics based agendas and we should NOT be part of any rockerfeller UN NATO army
Then we can start wars!
Ok see ya later boomer
I'm all for the increase in military funding. I have been wanting to see that. But a carbon tax is a must.
He’s really bucking to be the tRump of the North
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