OTTAWA, April 1 (UPI) -- Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay and his wife, Iranian-born activist Nazanin Afshin-Jam, announced the birth of their son Monday.
"Welcome to the world Kian Alexander MacKay. We are overjoyed with our baby boy," MacKay announced on his Twitter account.
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The boy, born Monday morning in Ottawa, weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, said Paloma Aguilar, MacKay's press secretary.
MacKay and Afshin-Jam were married in January 2012, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail said.