In regard to Peter MacKay's recent junket to Afghanistan - during his Christmas Holidays no less and once again needlessly employing DND Assets to ferry himself there.
We all remember the recent hullabaloo over his calling in a S & R Helicopter to extricate him from his fishing hole during an earlier holiday. Why you'd have thought the guy had committed high treason.
And now he is so thick - he's done it again - this time during his Christmas holidays - indeed on Christmas Day itself. Does he never learn?
And does he not realize that Christmas is a time for family - surrounded by a roaring fire with one's favourite drink?
Not good enough for MacKay obviously - he wants to spend his well deserved holiday with his troops in a god forsaken desert. What's wrong with the guy.
If he could only have walked there - all this might be excusable, but his taking Military Aircraft is simply inexcusable.
The above is of course tongue in cheek - but is meant to support my thesis that the Minister of Defence is on duty 365 days a year (366 in a Leap Yr) 24 hours per day.
This is the same Peter MacKay who took his precious time to undergo Military Boot Camp Training so he could better understand our military.
As a student of history and no youngster myself, I cannot recall a better Minister of Defence in Canada's History.
As I see it...
'K. D. Galagher'
