Peter MacKay a front-runner for the federal Conservative party leadership has deleted a tweet that praised citizens opposed to rail blockades for taking matters into their own hands.
MacKay, a former federal justice minister and attorney general, took to Twitter Wednesday to laud counter-protesters who tried to remove parts of a blockade erected on a Canadian National rail line in Edmonton.
“Glad to see a couple Albertans with a pickup truck can do more for our economy in an afternoon than Justin Trudeau could do in four years,” MacKay wrote in the deleted tweet.
As a practising lawyer and former justice minister and attorney general he should know encouraging vigilantism in an already inflammatory circumstance is down right STUPID however it is true to the brand that MacKay has worked on for his entire political career!
