{"id":13112,"date":"2019-12-16T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=13112"},"modified":"2019-12-16T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T01:18:00","slug":"samson-given-parliamentary-roles-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=13112","title":{"rendered":"Samson given Parliamentary roles in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>Darrell\n Samson heads into his second term as the MP representing \nSackville-Preston-Chezzetcook, and his schedule is going to busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samson,\n a Fall River resident, was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau \nas Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and \nAssociate Minister of National Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliamentary secretaries \nprovide an important link between ministers and Parliament, working \nclosely with their colleagues to deliver real, positive results for all \nCanadians. They will help advance government legislation, engage \ndirectly with Canadians on key government initiatives, and represent the\n government in Canada and international issues. They are not members of \nCabinet and do not play a formal role in the Cabinet decision-making \nprocess. They support their ministers, but overall responsibility and \naccountability remains with the minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow Nova Scotia \nLiberal MPs Sean Fraser, Andy Fillmore, and Darren Fisher were also \ngiven Parliamentary Secretary roles in PM Justin Trudeau\u2019s government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: Darrell Samson heads into his second term as the MP representing Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook, and his schedule is going to busy. Samson, a Fall River resident, was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence. Parliamentary secretaries provide an important link between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,2],"class_list":["post-13112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-darrell-samson","tag-fall-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}