Blaine Calkins
- Born
- December 25, 1968 — Lacombe, Alberta area
- Education
- Bachelor of Science with specialization in zoology, University of Alberta, 1992
- Career
- Tenured faculty member at Red Deer College. Member of the Lacombe Town Council
- Political Experience
- Member of Parliament for Ponoka—Didsbury; previously represented the riding of Red Deer—Lacombe from 2015-2025, and Wetaskiwin, from 2006-2015.
- Notable
- Served as the chair for the Alberta caucus of the Conservative Party of Canada in both the 41st and 42nd Parliament. Chair of the Conservative Hunting and Angling Caucus.
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Blaine Calkins won with 56,106 votes (81.8%)
Total votes cast: 68,579
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for the hard work he has done on this. I know the folks in my riding of Ponoka—Didsbury certainly appreciate his efforts and the efforts of the Conservative team. Mount Royal We heard a little while ago from the member for, who cited a whole bunch of examples of why this piece of legislation is needed, yet when we look at the Criminal Code, section 264 [more]
Mr. Speaker, Conservatives would like to reserve the privilege of responding to the parliamentary secretary's point of order.
Mr. Speaker, that feels like censorship, but it is not. I know we are just going to run out of time. I want to thank all of my colleagues in the House today for this very passionate debate on an issue that I think many Canadians are paying attention to. C-9 I would like to start with a quote from someone who is considered to be a great Liberal prime minister. Sir Wilfrid Laurier once said, [more]
Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise today on behalf of the 157,057 Canadians who have signed the historic charter of health freedom petition, one of the largest paper petitions in Canadian history, initiated by the Natural Health Product Protection Association. Parliament has a duty to respond to a petition of this magnitude, one driven by grassroots, everyday people who want rights that [more]
Thank you, Chair. I want to thank the witnesses for being here. I have a couple of questions. Mr. Geist, you've been very outspoken in the last decade or so about a lot of things dealing with the Internet, censorship and what's perceived as censorship. You've also been very vocal about the Online Streaming Act. You haven't really mentioned it a whole lot right now. Do you have any concerns [more]
Is there a public audience at the debate? I don't see what's behind the camera in the other direction. I see only what the camera is pointing at.
It's basically just your staff, the leaders, the political staff with the leaders, and the press. Along with the technical people delivering it, that's who is in the room—that's it.
You pay $200,000 a year for accounting services for an expenditure of $700,000...?
This is the government paying other government agencies. It just sounds like a shell game of money to me, but I'm not here to criticize you. I'm guessing that this is how government works. It seems odd to me. In the time I have left, I do want to move over to this debate commission. In response to a question from Mr. Van Popta, you talked about “peripheral issues”. I got the sense, when you [more]
Okay, so that's you. In previous testimony, when you were here in December, you said you only work a couple of days a week. Of course, the salary reflects the fact that you work 0.4, or whatever that happens to be. The other person who works is a full-time equivalent. Is that correct?
That leaves a significant amount of money—I'm guessing it's around a half a million dollars—for other contracts, as you've described them, to do.... What is it? Is it to produce reports? Could you give us a brief summary of exactly what you have to provide by law? Are these reports to the Treasury Board? What exactly is the other half a million dollars paying for?