Editing Peter MacKay (section)

{{short description|Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1965)}}
{{for|other people with the same or similar names|Peter McKay (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| honorific-suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|KC|size=100%}}
| image               = Peter MacKay 2014.jpg
| alt                 = 
| caption             = MacKay in 2014
| office              = [[Minister of Justice (Canada)|Minister of Justice<br />Attorney General of Canada]]
| primeminister       = [[Stephen Harper]]
| term_start          = July 15, 2013
| term_end            = November 4, 2015
| predecessor         = [[Rob Nicholson]]
| successor           = [[Jody Wilson-Raybould]]
<!-- Defence -->| office1             = [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Minister of National Defence]]
| primeminister1      = [[Stephen Harper]]
| term_start1         = August 14, 2007
| term_end1           = July 15, 2013
| predecessor1        = [[Gordon O'Connor]]
| successor1          = [[Rob Nicholson]]
<!-- Foreign Affairs -->| office2             = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| primeminister2      = [[Stephen Harper]]
| term_start2         = February 6, 2006
| term_end2           = August 14, 2007
| predecessor2        = [[Pierre Pettigrew]]
| successor2          = [[Maxime Bernier]]
<!-- MOACOA -->| office3             = [[Minister for the purposes of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Act|Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency]]
| primeminister3      = [[Stephen Harper]]
| term_start3         = February 6, 2006
| term_end3           = January 19, 2010
| predecessor3        = [[Joe McGuire]]
| successor3          = [[Keith Ashfield]]
<!-- Deputy Conservative Leader -->| office4             = Deputy Leader of the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]]
| leader4             = [[Stephen Harper]]
| term_start4         = March 22, 2004
| term_end4           = November 5, 2015
| predecessor4        = ''Position established''
| successor4          = [[Denis Lebel]]
<!-- PC Leader -->| office5             = Leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]]
| term_start5         = May 31, 2003
| term_end5           = December 7, 2003
| predecessor5        = [[Joe Clark]]
| successor5          = ''Position abolished''
<!-- MP -->| riding6             = [[Central Nova]]<br />{{small|([[Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough]]; 1997–2004)}}
| parliament6         = Canadian
| term_start6         = June 2, 1997
| term_end6           = October 19, 2015
| predecessor6        = [[Roseanne Skoke]]
| successor6          = [[Sean Fraser (politician)|Sean Fraser]]
<!-- Personal Info -->| birth_name          = Peter Gordon MacKay
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1965|9|27|mf=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[New Glasgow, Nova Scotia]], Canada
| occupation          = {{hlist|Politician|[[Crown attorney]]|lawyer|diplomat}}
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Nazanin Afshin-Jam]]|January 4, 2012}}
| children            = 3
| father              = [[Elmer MacKay]]
| mother              = Macha MacKay<ref>{{cite web |title =Peter's Story |url =https://www.petermackay.ca/about |website =PeterMacKay.ca |publisher =Peter MacKay |access-date =29 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title =Eirene Violet Macha Doon MacKay (Delap) |url =https://serenityfuneralhome.ca/tribute/details/4822/Eirene-Violet-MacKay-Delap/obituary.html#content-start |website =SerenityFuneralHome.ca |publisher =Serenity Funeral Home |access-date =29 August 2020}}</ref>
| residence           = [[Pictou County]], [[Nova Scotia]]
| otherparty          = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] (1997–2003)
| party               = [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] (since 2003)
| alma_mater          = {{unbulleted list|[[Acadia University]] (transferred)|[[Carleton University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]])|[[Dalhousie University]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LL.B.]])}}
}}

'''Peter Gordon MacKay''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|KC}} (born September 27, 1965), a Canadian lawyer and politician, serveds a [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] from 1997 to 2015 and as [[Minister of Justice (Canada)|Minister of Justice and Attorney General]] (2013–2015), [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Minister of National Defence]] (2007–2013), and [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (2006–2007) in the [[Cabinet of Canada]] under [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Stephen Harper]]. MacKay became the final leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]] {{--}} he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's [[Canadian Alliance]] in 2003, forming the [[Conservative Party of Canada]] and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics.

The son of Canadian politician and Minister of Public Works [[Elmer MacKay]], MacKay received his undergraduate degree from Acadia University and his law degree from [[Dalhousie University]]. MacKay represented the [[Electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough]] from 1997 to 2004, and the riding of [[Central Nova]] from 2004 until 2015, when he decided not to run in [[2015 Canadian federal election|that year's federal election]]. With the defeat of the Conservatives in the [[2015 Canadian federal election|2015 federal election]], he was considered a potential candidate to succeed [[Stephen Harper]] as permanent leader of the party. Between 2015 and 2020, he was a partner with [[Baker McKenzie]] at their Toronto office.

On January 15, 2020, MacKay announced his candidacy for the [[2020 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election|2020 Conservative leadership race]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/PeterMacKay/status/1217527351518679042 |title=I'm in. Stay tuned. |last=MacKay |first=Peter |date=2020-01-15 |website=@PeterMacKay |language=en |access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> He was defeated by former [[Minister of Veterans Affairs (Canada)|veterans-affairs minister]] [[Erin O'Toole|Erin O’Toole]] on the third ballot of the election.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://cpcassets.conservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/24003224/6a2fd06b9518d0a.pdf |title=RCV Short Report |date=August 24, 2020 |access-date=August 24, 2020}}</ref> Following the race, he moved back to [[Nova Scotia]] and became a senior counsel with the law firm [[McInnes Cooper]] and a strategic advisor with [[Deloitte|Deloitte Canada]].