OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne had their first face-to-face in more than a year on Monday night.

That political faceoff took place at 6:15 p.m. in Toronto, less than two hours before another important faceoff: The gold medal game in the world junior hockey championship between Canada and Russia at 8 p.m.

The meeting came at a time when when the relationship between Wynne and Harper is at least as cold as the ice at the Air Canada Centre.

One might expect the Wynne-Harper relationship to be a cool one. After all, she's a Liberal and he's a Conservative.

But Conservatives in Ottawa say the premier has gone out of her way to make it even frostier. After they first met, on Dec. 5, 2013, Wynne told The Toronto Star that Harper "kind of smirked" in response to her suggestions to bolster the public retirement savings plan. That characterization was looked upon dimly by those in Harper's office, who disagreed with the comment.

And then, during last spring's Ontario general election, Wynne openly and frequently campaigned against Harper by name.

She's vowed to campaign for federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in key Ontario swing ridings the Harper Conservatives will need to retain their majority in this year's federal election.

The federal Conservatives responded by suggesting Wynne and the Ontario Liberals have mismanaged that province's economy.

Nonetheless, Wynne wrote to Harper last fall requesting a formal meeting.

Finally, after some political posturing from both sides, the two leaders got together Monday night where, the PMO said, they talked about infrastructure, the province's automotive sector, interprovincial free trade and resource development.

The summary of the meeting provided by the PMO did not say if the two talked about Ontario's new public pension scheme, the issue that sparked Wynne's "smirk" comment more than a year ago.

Neither reporters nor photographers were allowed into the meeting room but Harper's office released a photo taken by a PMO photographer that showed Harper enjoying a laugh and Wynne smiling.

Wynne is to address reporters at Queen's Park Tuesday morning about the meeting. There are no announced opportunities in the future for reporters to question Harper about his relationship with Wynne.