Culture Minister Marc Miller ahead of a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday.

New cabinet minister Marc Miller says his colleagues must meet face-to-face with Indigenous communities to discuss the prospects of a new pipeline – and that work is already behind schedule.

“If everyone thought Thursday was difficult, that was probably the easiest day in the life of that pipeline,” Mr. Miller told reporters Tuesday on his way into his first cabinet meeting since being sworn in as Culture Minister the day before.

Thursday was the day Ottawa and Alberta announced a sweeping new energy accord that, among other things, lays the groundwork for a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast.

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