{"id":75659,"date":"2022-01-03T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=75659"},"modified":"2022-01-04T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T15:42:05","slug":"queens-mla-kim-masland-reflects-on-2021-and-plans-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/queens-mla-kim-masland-reflects-on-2021-and-plans-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens MLA Kim Masland reflects on 2021 and plans for the new year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MLA for Queens sat down with reporter Ed Halverson just before Christmas to discuss a busy 2021.<\/p>\n

Kim Masland was re-elected and moved to the government side of the legislature when the PCs won a majority, was appointed Minister of Public Works and government house leader shortly afterwards and contracted COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The interview is broken into four parts.<\/p>\n

In part one, Masland discusses the quick learning curve when forming government:<\/p>\n\n

Another challenge for Masland was contracting COVID-19, discussed in the second part of the interview:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kim-Masland-EOY-2-COVID.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Healthcare and long term care were hot button topics on the doorstep during the election campaign. The PCs promised to fix the system and Masland describes how her party is working to do so:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kim-Masland-EOY-3-Healthcare-LTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

The interview wraps up with issues Masland is working to address in Queens including resolving long-standing concerns at Carter's Beach and the affordable housing crisis:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kim-Masland-EOY-4-Carters-Housing.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

E-mail:\u00a0edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
\nTwitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MLA for Queens sat down with reporter Ed Halverson just before Christmas to discuss a busy 2021. Kim Masland was re-elected and moved to the government side of the legislature when the PCs won a majority, was appointed Minister of Public Works and government house leader shortly afterwards and contracted COVID-19. The interview is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":75671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,225],"tags":[579,694,284,2398,695,462,6144],"radio":[9850],"origine":[274,279,278],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75659"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=75659"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=75659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}