of using its majority to name a Conservative as Ontario's environment commissioner. Miller was subsequently re-appointed twice by two successive parliaments headed by Liberal governments, whom he sharply criticized. Politics Miller was, in addition to a former federal and provincial PC candidate, the president of the federal Conservative riding association in Nipissing, home riding of then-Premier Mike Harris. On May 19, 2015, Miller sought the Green Party of Canada nomination for the seat of Guelph in the upcoming Canadian federal election, and on June 8, 2015, he was selected to run. He had gone to university there in 1977-79 and helped found the Ontario Public Interest Research Group in Guelph. Miller had also previously run for provincial Progressive Conservatives in 1995 and in 1997 for Jean Charest's federal Progressive Conservatives. He said the 2015 Conservative Party of Canada "is not like and doesn't represent the points of view" of those parties: "We thought we were uniting the right, instead we united the wrong". Miller was considered a star candidate by local media. From his first public appearance he sharply criticized all the other parties for "committing to pursuing an economy based on bitumen from Alberta that we'll never be able to extract", echoing former Bank of Canada head Mark Carney's formal raising of this issue at the Financial Stability Board and Bank of England in 2014. Miller also accused the government of "silencing" scientists and called Bill C-51 "a terrible piece of legislation." Electoral record Federal Provincial See also Environmental Bill of Rights References External links Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Gord Miller's MP campaign page for Guelph 1953 births 20th-century Canadian civil servants 21st-century Canadian civil servants Canadian biologists Green Party of Canada candidates in the 2015 Canadian federal election Green Party of Canada candidates in the 2019 Canadian federal election Living people University of Guelph alumni