Short memories or cherry picking...
The opposition has always had meetings with US officials from Presidents to members of Congress.
IIRC, Preston Manning and Lucien Bouchard met with Clinton shortly before the 95 referundum to express their divergent views. I doubt anyone complaining about the NDP now would have minded Manning speaking on behalf of Canada even though he wasn't even the Leader of the Opposition or, of course, PM.
The NDP represents a substantial part of the Canadian electorate and expressing their views....that simple. Politics? Yup. Cheesy? Yup. Ineffective? Yup.
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