Meet Marci Surkes, the PMO’s air traffic controller

Since arriving on the Hill in 2007, Ms. Surkes’ career has run the gamut, from legislative assistant to PMO policy head, opposition to government, majority to minority.

Marci Surkes, pictured in 2017 during her time as chief of staff to then-public safety minister Ralph Goodale. The Hill Times photograph by Laura Ryckewaert

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

May 26, 2021

Marci Surkes, now executive director of policy and cabinet affairs to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has seen a lot over her 14 years on the Hill—spanning five Parliaments and four Liberal leaders—but nothing like the challenges, and pressures, wrought by the outbreak of COVID-19. “Everyone i...

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