Michael Kram
- Born
- December 20, 1978
- Family
- Engaged to Rechel Capoquian in 2025
- Education
- Bachelor of Science degree majoring in computer science and a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in economics from the University of Regina. Studied economics at Carleton University in Ottawa.
- Career
- Worked for 20 years in the information technology sector, including a number of contract positions with the Department of National Defence. Worked for over 17 years as a programmer/analyst with Paradigm Consulting. Also worked as an extra and bit-part actor in a number of Canadian movies and TV shows.
- Political Experience
- Elected as a Conservative to represent the riding of Regina—Wascana in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Ran as the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the constituency of Regina—Wascana in the 2015 Canadian federal election.
- Notable
- Dreamed of becoming a Member of Parliament since elementary school.
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Michael Kram won with 22,072 votes (50.1%)
Total votes cast: 44,077
Mr. Speaker, we should be extracting those reserves out of the ground and exporting them to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, the Liberals have killed the northern gateway pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, the energy east pipeline, all of which could be exporting Canadian oil at $100 a barrel to the rest of the world. How much higher does the price have to go before the Liberals flip-flop [more]
Minister of Natural Resources Mr. Speaker, thepromised that Canada would “do its part” to help release oil reserves in order to stabilize the market, but Canada does not have a strategic oil reserve, in part because of Liberal energy policies that have kept Canadian oil and gas in the ground. Conservatives have proposed a strategic oil stockpile that would allow us to fuel our friends abroad, [more]
Okay.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Cormier, for joining us today. For matters such as this, it's helpful to look at what other countries do and to learn from their best practices. I've looked up what they do in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and France. They all have elections, and they all have leaders' debates, but none of them has a government-run debates [more]
It's not funded by the government, though.
Okay. Thank you. Now that this structure is in place and these best practices are in place, could this all be transitioned to a group of networks and done at no cost to the taxpayers?
Yes, and that's fair. If you've been hired to do the job, perhaps it's not your place to decide whether the job should exist in the first place, but I was wondering if you've ever studied and made recommendations to the minister about what would happen if the debates commission did not exist in the first place.
Mr. Chair, we still have Mr. McLeod with us. Okay.