iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Mar 17, 2021 6:02am Peter Mackay (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Today’s Morning Brief is brought to you by SkyAlyne. A partnership between CAE and KF Aerospace, SkyAlyne is bringing the men and women of the Royal Canadian Air Force innovative, world-leading, and the ONLY #TrulyCanadianTraining solution for the RCAF’s Future Aircrew Training (FAcT) program. Learn more. ____________________ — MacKay to skip Conservative convention: Peter MacKay, the former Conservative leadership candidate and longtime Tory party “stalwart,” is citing work and family as reasons for his absence from this week’s policy convention. The Canadian Press has more. — Kady O’Malley looks ahead to the rest of the day in politics with iPolitics AM: Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet will offer his — and his party’s — perspective on the state of the economy during a mid-afternoon press conference with his finance critic, Gabriel Ste-Marie, and regional development critic Sébastien Lemire. The House finance committee, meanwhile, will continue going over the fine print of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s omnibus legislative bid to implement measures during back-to-back panel discussions with representatives from the tourism, arts and cultural sectors.