Your annual, year-end gift of aimless speculation on next Liberal leader

Unlike most of his cabinet contemporaries, Marc Miller rarely appears to be speaking from a script. This makes him interesting, which is hardly ever the case with senior ministers.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller’s leadership ambitions, if they even exist, exist primarily in the realm of idle speculation, particularly since Trudeau’s successor has already been anointed by many Liberals and media: Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

December 20, 2021

CHELSEA, QUE.—If he wasn’t another straight, white man from Montreal—red-headed, even! —Marc Miller, minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, could be a leading contender to replace his friend Justin Trudeau one day. Not that the prime minister is going anywhere. Miller is 50 years old, from...

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