Baird visits Bartholomew, highlights commitment to religious freedoms

Former International Trade minister Peter Van Loan led a mission to Istanbul and Ankara late last year and didn't pay a courtesy call to the Patriarchate. But Foreign Affairs Minister John of Baird visited the archbishop of Constantinople last month.

TORONTO—I write following my recent column "Time to put Conservative campaign rhetoric to the test" (The Hill Times, July 18, p. 2) to applaud Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird for visiting the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

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