Explaining Peter MacKay's fear of Russians

Published September 1, 2010

When papa Elmer MacKay put his young toddler Peter to bed back in the late 1960s, he must have invoked visions of evil Cold War Russians into his son's head to put him to sleep. How else could one explain our defence minister's phobic fear of all things Russian?

Twice now in less than a month, MacKay has alerted the national news media to the fact that Canadian fighter jets were scrambled to deter Russian...

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