Michel P. Samson is a Canadian politician, sitting in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998 as a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party and representing the electoral district of Cape Breton-Richmond, formerly Richmond.Samson attended Isle Madame District High School and graduated with a B.A. from Dalhousie University in 1994 and a LL.B. from Dalhousie Law School in 1997. 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.In 2004 Samson married Halifax lawyer Claudine Bardsley.