The Honourable Peter MacKay

Peter MacKay served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015) in the Cabinet of Stephen Harper, capping 18 years as a Member of Parliament for Nova Scotia (1997–2015). The final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he negotiated its 2003 merger with the Canadian Alliance to form the modern Conservative Party. Called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1991, he worked as a Crown Attorney before entering politics, and spent 2015 to 2020 as a partner at Baker McKenzie in Toronto. He is now Senior Counsel at the Halifax law firm McInnes Cooper and a strategic advisor to Deloitte Canada, where his work centres on defence, justice reform and economic policy.