Challenger

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More fun with math

Steven Chase explains the discrepancy between the reported purpose of Peter MacKay’s flights and the Prime Minister’s version of events.

The Commons: Whatever Peter MacKay did, he supports the troops

Tony Clement could use a gazebo-loving veteran right about now

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On a jet plane

Our national crisis of official air travel protocol reaches the two-week mark with news of Peter MacKay’s Challenger usage.

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Planes and accountability

The latest development in our national crisis of official air travel protocol involves the Defence Minister using a Challenger jet to fly to a lobster-related celebration (the Pictou Lobster Carnival perhaps?) in his riding. Peter MacKay continued to take questions from the opposition this morning in regards to the use of a search-and-rescue helicopter to pick him up from a fishing trip, but questions about the lobster festival were handled by House leader Peter Van Loan. Mr. Van Loan’s first response to the NDP’s Christine Moore was as follows.