Saturday, April 04, 2009

NATO to Peter MacKay: We're just not that into you

Up until just a few hours ago it looked to the adoring Canadian right wing press like he still had a shot, but now NATO has invited Peter MacKay to seek other opportunities and chosen Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to head NATO.

April 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM EDT

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish Prime Minister, was selected the next secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in a surprise reversal of an awkward political deadlock Saturday afternoon.

“We all agree and are unanimous in this nomination,” said Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the current secretary-general.

Hopefully he's used to rejection by now...
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2 comments:

  1. A readerApr 4, 2009, 10:59:00 a.m.

    What's interesting about this development is the choice now facing Elizabeth May.

    She would have loved to run in a by-election in Central Nova, but now the only one available is in New Westminster-Coquitlam, BC. Her comments to the Halifax Chronicle-Herald of the other week that running out west was not "as palatable" to her, elicited a bit of a bad reaction out there, so she's going to figure out whether to break her promise to run in a by-election, or pick up stakes and move across the country.

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  2. CliffApr 4, 2009, 12:23:00 p.m.

    Elizabeth May: 14 minutes and counting.

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