JimLad, Peter Mackay is my MP. He has paid absolutely no attention to his own riding, and has simply followed Harper's every directive without considering in the least its effects on Atlantic Canada. Harper dislikes Atlantic Canada and has made it obvious since before he was even elected. I think he must been taunted by a Bluenose as a child or something.

MacKay's behaviour wrt Belinda Stronach was laughable, even pretending his neighbour's dog was his own in order to gain sympathy. He has betrayed people (remember Orchard?) all the way to the top. I wouldn't trust him for a minute.

Of course I don't actually wish he'd been shot, but I wish the experience of a close call would also be a wake-up call for him, because wrt to Afghanistan and the Canadian government's relationship to the present US gov't, I think the Conservatives are in over their heads and taking the rest of us with them.