Baird asked to meet Heyman before he’d formally presented his credentials to the Governor General and pushed the envoy on Keystone. “The meeting never happened,” Heyman writes. “In the days that followed, I noticed that all meetings scheduled with various ministers, for one reason or another, were cancelled,” Heyman writes. “The embassy watched the Ping-Pong match while declining the many media requests for clarity,” Heyman writes. “The ice was beginning to melt.”Finally, the Heymans and Harpers broke bread together, in July 2015 at the prime minister’s 24 Sussex Drive residence.

Source: National Post May 03, 2019 14:37 UTC