MacKay compares Scheer election loss to missing an open net on a breakaway

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s 2019 election loss “was like having a breakaway on an open net and missing the net,” according to his former colleague Peter MacKay. The former Conservative cabinet minister is someone whose name has been brought up as a potential challenger for Scheer’s job depending on the outcome of the April leadership review. While participating in a Wilson Centre panel in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, MacKay was asked what he thoug