{"id":11984,"date":"2015-11-05T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=11984"},"modified":"2015-11-05T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:06:18","slug":"canadas-new-minister-of-national-defence-a-former-reservist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/canadas-new-minister-of-national-defence-a-former-reservist\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s new Minister of National Defence a former Reservist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westmount, Quebec &#8211; 05 November 2015: Minister Sajjan is\u00a0the newly-elected MP for Vancouver South and was appointed as Minister of National Defence yesterday in an Ottawa ceremony.\u00a0He\u00a0grew up in his riding\u00a0and later walked the streets of\u00a0Vancouver as a detective with the Vancouver Police Department&#8217;s Gang Crime Unit.\u00a0As a Reservist he\u00a0served one tour in Bosnia and been deployed three times\u00a0to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11986\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 225px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pm.gc.ca\/eng\/minister\/honourable-harjit-singh-sajjan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11986 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sajjan_h-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"sajjan_h\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">The Honourable Harjit Singh Sajjan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minister Sajjan\u2019s experience as an Army Reservist, a Vancouver police officer, and a community leader is especially welcome, as\u00a0a former Reservist and a past commanding officer of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught&#8217;s Own), an historic Canadian armoured regiment, Minister Sajjan brings considerable experience in military training and operations at home and abroad to this important Cabinet assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The RMR Foundation wishes Minister Sajjan the best of luck in his new challenging assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westmount, Quebec &#8211; 05 November 2015: Minister Sajjan is\u00a0the newly-elected MP for Vancouver South and was appointed as Minister of National Defence yesterday in an Ottawa ceremony.\u00a0He\u00a0grew up in his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}