Peter MacKay's conservatism

Lawrence Martin writes a hit piece about Peter MacKay. He suggests that MacKay is too right-wing and that the country is tilting in this direction.

As an ardent conservative I like this article, despite the obvious attempt at snark and criticism. MacKay is a true blue conservative and he's done a great job in office since 2006. The fact that the country has moved away from the left of the past is a good thing. The new centre is rightward.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/mackay-mirrors-rightward-tilt-of-the-country/article22309784/?click=sf_globefb

Guns have been much in the news recently, but you don’t see much talk, such is the tilt of the country, about the disappearance of the gun registry. The assault on Parliament might have stirred some protest. Where did Michael Zehaf-Bibeau get the rifle? Was it registered? The information might have been useful to the police. Then came the 25th anniversary of the slaughter at Montreal’s École Polytechnique. Then the massacre over the holidays in Edmonton. Through it all, hardly a whimper from gun control advocates who were so outraged when....