Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Back in May 2006, Dan Mathieson found himself sitting in the front row of the Southwest Economic Assembly in Stratford, Ont., beside David Johnston, who was then president of the University of Waterloo and is now Canada’s Governor General.
Over lunch that day, Johnston asked Mathieson what he hoped would come out of the day’s talks. As Stratford’s mayor and the event host, Mathieson was not one to waste an opportunity.