Remembering the time I helped Stephen Harper with his hockey book
The prime minister certainly loosened up. At one point, when we were passing time before settling down to work on the book, he asked what I had done previously. He seemed surprised to hear that someone he knew as a sportswriter had spent 14 years working on the Hill, writing on politics for Maclean’s, the Toronto Star, Maclean’s again and the Ottawa Citizen.Summer rolled around and one day Ellen and I were invited up to Harrington Lake for lunch.
“I’ve been thinking,” I began tentatively, “that one way to make the story more compelling might be to tell large parts of it through a key character.” “There’s a book … ” the prime minister said, almost to himself. He was clearly thinking of something.Laureen and Ellen were now back from their hike. The prime minister was on the phone, ordering something up.By the time we stepped back outside, there were three large black Chevrolet Suburban SUVs idling at the side of the cottage. The windows of each van were so heavily tinted it was impossible to see inside.
The three Mountie vans had built-in police lights, and the drivers turned them on just as a silver Jeep pulled up on the crossroad. The Mountie vans were signalling that they would be taking the turns together and not, as the traffic act would have it, let the Jeep go through when it was its turn.So I did, cutting off the silver Jeep, which was already coming forward. The Jeep began tailgating us, sending a clear message as the now five-vehicle convoy hurried through the village.
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