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John Baird, the Foreign Minister, was pelted with eggs and shoes thrown by angry protesters as he left a meeting at the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ramallah on Sunday.

He was unhurt, and managed to get into a vehicle as an egg splattered on the roof, with another striking a wall behind him. No shoe came close, but the embarrassing episode, which lasted a few seconds as security minders realized they were being egged and quickly drove off, punctuated the cold reception the Canadian delegation has received from the Palestinian Authority during its brief visit.

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Mr. Baird laughed it off. “I was in Mike Harris’ cabinet for four years, I’ve had rougher,” he later told reporters, referring to the former Progressive Conservative Ontario premier, whose spending cuts Mr. Baird helped enact. But Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, hinted at a grander significance to the insult, saying in a statement that Canada was on “the wrong side of history by blindly supporting the Israeli occupation and its apartheid policies.”