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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Being the Minister of Advanced Education isn\u2019t taking away from representing those who voted him in, said Brian Wong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The MLA for Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank was asked that question during a one-on-one interview recently with The Laker News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne of the things I didn\u2019t know coming in was we do have to find the balance,\u201d he said. “One of the things that helps with that is having a great staff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Danielle Deveau was his Constituency Assistant, staying on in the role after MLA Bill Horne retired. Now she has retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think it\u2019s having great people support you when you\u2019re not here,\u201d he said, responding to the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe thing is I work a lot at night, I do a lot of phone calls, meet people in person, I like to go to their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said his Minister days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays, leaving Monday, Fridays, weekends, and evenings for his constituency work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m fortunate to be a local Minister so I can have a meeting in the morning before I have to go in for Cabinet, or I can go back out in the evening,\u201d said Wong. \u2018I think I\u2019ve found a good balance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wong said he isn\u2019t able to get to everything he absolutely wants to but does his best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI try to spread myself out and really get to more events, like wing nights,\u201d he said. \u201cI need to get to more of those.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the best part on being an MLA and being a Minister is he\u2019s a people person , and he loves helping people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was an educator because I liked helping people,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a very familiar job only in a different context.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wong said he is passionate about his job and wants to make things better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI absolutely love it,\u201d said Wong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”93″] FALL RIVER: Being the Minister of Advanced Education isn\u2019t taking away from representing those who voted him in, said Brian Wong. The MLA for Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank was asked that question during a one-on-one interview recently with The Laker News. \u201cOne of the things I didn\u2019t know coming in was we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2803,10,2245,2,50,4708,16],"class_list":["post-34836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-advanced-education-minister-brian-wong","tag-beaver-bank","tag-brian-wong","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax","tag-mla","tag-waverley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836","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=34836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}