{"id":9570,"date":"2019-01-24T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2019-01-24T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T23:30:21","slug":"samson-wishes-brison-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9570","title":{"rendered":"Samson wishes Brison the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>The Liberal MP for Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook had nothing but good words to say about Kings-Hants Liberal MP Scott Brison upon learning he would not be re-offering and resigning from his role as the Treasury Board.<\/p>\n<p>Brison announced recently that after 22 years representing Kings-Hants\u2014as both a Conservative when he first started before switching to the Liberals\u2014he would be stepping away from politics. He said he is doing so to spend more time with his family, which includes two young girls.<\/p>\n<p>Darrell Samson called Brison a friend who helped him learn the ropes of Parliament Hill in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think being a politician is not an easy career, it\u2019s a seven day job,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re in Ottawa when Parliament is sitting, and you\u2019re in the riding when you\u2019re not, attending various events and meeting constituents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScott has had 22 years, it\u2019s quite amazing. He was in with two different party\u2019s so we know he had a great relationship with his constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samson said it\u2019s evident the people of Kings-Hants voted for the person given that he got in as both a Conservative before crossing the floor and becoming a Liberal, and winning elections with them too.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was time for Brison, with a young family, to focus on those back at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA change is always good,\u201d he said. \u201cI think he will have a new challenge in the near future. I wish him the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: The Liberal MP for Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook had nothing but good words to say about Kings-Hants Liberal MP Scott Brison upon learning he would not be re-offering and resigning from his role as the Treasury Board. Brison announced recently that after 22 years representing Kings-Hants\u2014as both a Conservative when he first started before switching to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,2,248,94,249],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-darrell-samson","tag-fall-river","tag-kings-hants-mp-scott-brison","tag-liberals","tag-pm-justin-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","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=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/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=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}