Michel P. Samson (born 1972) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Cape Breton-Richmond, formerly Richmond in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1998 to 2017.
Samson articled with the Halifax law firm of Blois, Nickerson & Bryson and he was admitted to the Nova Scotia in 1998 before working as an associate at the Port Hawkesbury law firm of Macdonald, Boudrot & Doucet.
[citation needed] In 1998 Samson successfully ran for the Nova Scotia Liberal Party nomination in the riding of Richmond.
[3] At the time, he was the youngest person ever to be appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia.
[5] In March 2015, Samson was sworn-in as Minister of Energy following the resignation from cabinet of Andrew Younger.