Heit played Junior 'C' OHA hockey in Toronto, and attended the Ontario College of Art on tuitional scholarship.
Heit ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada nomination in Russell ahead of the 1962 Canadian federal election, but lost to hotelier Leo Kelly on the third ballot, 233 votes to 215.
[15] Heit ran for re-election in Gloucester Ward in the 1962 Ottawa municipal election, campaigning on better roads and recreation facilities.
[20] Heit announced on September 14, 1964, his intentions to run for the city's Board of Control in the 1964 municipal election, and got bit by a dog on the same day while campaigning.
[21] During the campaign, he supported improving recreational facilities, building a children's hospital, a "stepped-up program" for more public housing and to see the city's water fluoridated.
Elsewhere, Heit was responsible for implementing efficiency reforms at the police department, and also successfully proposed the architectural design at the centre of Lansdowne Park.
[25] Heit won the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada nomination in Ottawa Centre ahead of the 1968 Canadian federal election, defeating housewife Gwendoline Bower-Binns.
[26][27] During the campaign he indicated the "shortage of housing" in the riding as a major issue, suggesting the National Capital Commission should turn over 600 acres of proposed industrial land.
[30] Heit attributed his loss to "the winds of change are blowing through the city", suggesting that the adoption of a regional government had "stimulated" voters to want a younger, and newer faces on the board.
He returned to Ottawa in 1971, opening a practise on Metcalfe St.[33] He later became a dog breeder, travelling around North America showing his boston terriers Rogue of Royal York and Duke.
[36] Heit moved away from Ottawa in the early 1980s to join a group dental practice in Mississauga, citing a "need for a change of scenery".