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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Anyone else remember that time when Peter MacKay called in a military helicopter to pick him up from a fishing trip in Newfoundland and then took a government Challenger jet to a lobster festival in Nova Scotia? I don't recall any Conservative supporters here calling on him to resign or even suggesting he should be compelled to pay back the estimated $150,000 his personal travel cost the taxpayers. I'm sure there must be a totally valid reason why MacKay's wasteful misuse of government transport was a-ok but Redford's wasteful misuse of government transport was so heinous that it forced her resignation, though.
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I think the difference is that for McKay, so far as I know, that was an incident. For Redfordit was a
habit. If she had only done it once or twice, she'd still be premier.