The world’s first bike-powered helicopter takes flight
Asked this afternoon about his helicopter ride, the Defence Minister reverted to his original explanation—the one the government had seemingly abandoned.
On Thursday, the NDP pressed Julian Fantino with specific questions about Peter MacKay’s helicopter ride. Mr. Fantino wandered off script just long enough to say that the Defence Minister’s ride was “a very routine endeavour.”
The Defence Minister is apparently considering legal action.
A retired major claims the Defence Minister’s helicopter ride was part of a training exercise.
The PM rejects the ‘so-called facts’ used against his government
The government has decided it will no longer try to explain Peter MacKay’s helicopter ride
The Globe further complicates Peter MacKay’s complicated explanation for his helicopter ride in July 2010.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay apparently had one of Newfoundland’s three search-and-rescue helicopters dispatched to pick him up from a fishing trip.