{"id":9959,"date":"2019-03-24T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2019-03-24T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:30:41","slug":"samson-embarrassed-at-conservative-partys-antics-on-budget-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9959","title":{"rendered":"Samson \u201cembarrassed\u201d at Conservative Party\u2019s jeers on Budget Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>OTTAWA, ONT.: <\/strong>The actions of the Conservative Party party during the reading of the federal budget in the House of Commons on March 19 has left one Liberal MP \u201cembarrassed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In speaking with<em> The Laker<\/em>, Samson the MP for Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook, was asked for his reaction to the drowning out of Finance Minister Bill Morneau as he read the budget in Ottawa. Members of the Conservatives were heard chanting \u201cLet her speak\u201d referring to Jody Wilson-Raybould having been muted from speaking further at the Justice Committee, and banging on their desks loudly.<\/p>\n<p>Samson was on a short break from being in Parliament where a marathon of voting continued into almost the 40th hour on Thursday afternoon March 21. Samson said he had but a couple hours sleep since the voting began as a result of the Andrew Scheer-led Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed at what they did,\u201d said Samson. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said when he was growing up, his dad would have the Budget on the TV and he would join him in watching it. The other MPs in what he recollected were respectful as the Finance Minister of the time would speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember us watching every year the budget being shared with Canadians on TV,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very special moment for many in their homes, business community or wherever they\u2019re at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a precious moment where you see the vision, the investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was anything but the case on March 19 as Morneau spoke, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not respecting, in my opinion, Canadians and the protocol of the House,\u201d Samson said of the other MPs yelling and speaking so it made it hard to hear Morneau.\u201dI was disappointed to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, ONT.: The actions of the Conservative Party party during the reading of the federal budget in the House of Commons on March 19 has left one Liberal MP \u201cembarrassed.\u201d In speaking with The Laker, Samson the MP for Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook, was asked for his reaction to the drowning out of Finance Minister Bill Morneau as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[408,93,409,2,383,116,25],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-conservative-party","tag-darrell-samson","tag-embarrassed","tag-fall-river","tag-federal-budget","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-sackville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","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=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/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=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}